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Israel: Obama’s end-of-the-year deadline to Iran has been moved up to September

dandelion salad | 17.08.2009 17:45 | Anti-militarism | Other Press | Terror War | World

President Obama's ultimatum to Iran on a BBC interview ten days before Iran's presidential elections went largely unnoticed by the world media.

Yesterday, the Israeli ambassador to US announced that Obama's end-of-the-year deadline has now been brought forward to September.

As the US/UK/Israeli war lobby is paving the ground for yet another imperialist invasion, "anti-war" initiatives across Europe and North America show signs of total capitulation...





[propaganda alert]


1) Israeli ambassador to US: Obama’s end-of-the-year deadline to Iran has been moved up to September (16 August 2009)
2) Israeli ambassador to US: Iranian nuke could wipe off Israel in seconds (4 July 2009)
3) Israeli army to train overseas for Iran strike operation (5 July 2009)

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 http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0908/16/fzgps.01.html

excerpt from: Interview With Israeli Ambassador to United States

CNN web site, 16 August 2009


[W]e were greatly comforted during the [Israeli] prime minister’s visit here in May, when the [US] president told the [Israeli] prime minister that there would be a serious reassessment of the engagement policy before the end of the year.

And we are further reassured now that that end-of-the-year deadline has been moved up to September. We actually have a date when it’s going to occur.

We are comforted by the fact that the [Obama] administration, in the aftermath of recent events in Iran, has exhibited greater willingness to consider formulating a package of serious sanctions against Iran, even now in advance of the reassessment.

[Israeli ambassador to the United States Michael Oren, CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" interview, 16 August 2009]



video link:

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/fareed-zakaria-talks-about-iran-with-israeli-ambassador/

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www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097673.html

excerpt from: ‘Iran nuke could wipe Israel off map in seconds’

Haaretz, 4 July 2009


Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, on Friday warned that an Iranian atomic bomb could “wipe Israel off the map in a matter of seconds,” and that the Iranians could “accomplish in a matter of seconds what they denied Hitler did, and kill 6 million Jews, literally.”

Oren made his comments in a conversation with journalist Jeffrey Goldberg at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Colorado.

The newly appointed ambassador warned, “There are clocks ticking all around,” with regard to the Iranian nuclear issue. “One of those clocks is the uranium enrichment clock, which will show that by a certain date the Iranians will have sufficient, highly enriched uranium materials to create a bomb that could literally wipe Israel off the map in a matter of seconds.”



video link:


In Conversation with Michael Oren (part 2)

Aspen Ideas Festival website, 3 July 2009

 http://www.aifestival.org/audio-video-library.php?menu=3&title=515&action=full_info&qclip=1

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 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443724418&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

excerpts from: IAF to train overseas for Iran strike op

by Yaakov Katz and AP, Jerusalem Post, 5 July 2009


[…] The Jerusalem Post learned that the IAF [Israeli Air Force] plans to participate in aerial exercises in the US and Europe in the coming months with the aim of training its pilots for long-range flights. […]

IAF planes will take part this year in a joint aerial exercise with a NATO-member state that cannot be identified.

In addition, later this month, the air force will send F-16C fighter jets to participate in the Red Flag exercise at the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada. At the same time, several of the IAF’s C-130 Hercules transport aircraft will participate in the Rodeo 2009 competition at the McChord Air Force Base in Washington state.

Defense officials said the overseas exercises would be used to drill long-range manoeuvres. […] Israel has a number of defense pacts with countries under which the air force is allowed to fly in foreign airspace. […]

Last summer, more than 100 IAF jets flew over Greece in what was viewed as a test-run for a potential strike on Iranian nuclear facilities. […]

In May [this year], the French newsweekly L’Express reported that the IAF had staged military exercises over Gibraltar […] [in which] 83 jets drilled live bombing runs under a simulated surface-to-air threat environment.

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related links:


Biden: US won’t stop Israel attack on Iran (5 July 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/biden-us-wont-stop-israel-attack-on-iran/


Obama: The clock is ticking (26 June 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/obama-the-clock-is-ticking/


Brookings Institution: Options for a new American strategy toward Iran (23 June 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/obama-the-clock-is-ticking/


Netanyahu: 75% of the Iranians want regime change (23 June 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/netanyahu-75-of-the-iranians-want-regime-change/


Clinton threatens to attack Iran ‘the way that we did’ Iraq (7 June 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/clinton-we-hope-the-outcome-reflects-the-genuine-will-and-desire-of-the-iranian-people/


Obama & Merkel visit Buchenwald concentration camp: We will do everything we can so that something like this never happens again (5 June 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/obama-merkel-visit-buchenwald-concentration-camp-elie-wiesel-after-touring-concentration-camp/


Israel holds drill simulating all-out war (21 May 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/israel-holds-drill-simulating-all-out-war/


Obama: I understand why Israel considers Iran an existential threat (17 May 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/obama-i-understand-why-israel-considers-iran-an-existential-threat/


Netanyahu: We will not allow Holocaust deniers to carry out another Jewish Holocaust (20 April 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/04/21/israeli-prime-minister-we-will-not-allow-holocaust-deniers-to-carry-out-another-jewish-holocaust/


Obama: Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile activity poses a real threat to its neighbor (5 April 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/obama-irans-nuclear-and-ballistic-missile-activity-poses-a-real-threat-to-its-neighbors/


CSIS report: Turkey would be the optimum route for a possible Israeli attack on Iran (16 March 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/csis-report-turkey-would-be-the-optimum-route-for-a- possible-israeli-attack-on-iran/

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dandelion salad
- Homepage: http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/israeli-ambassador-to-us-iranian-nuke-could-wipe-off-israel-in-seconds/

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Ahmadinejad: Some neighboring countries are serving Zionism in the name of Islam

18.08.2009 12:46

possible routes for an Israeli bombardment of Iran (Sunday Times, 13 July 2008)
possible routes for an Israeli bombardment of Iran (Sunday Times, 13 July 2008)



1) Iran Lambasts Policies of Certain Neighboring States (16 August 2009)
2) Tenth ‘Reliant Mermaid’ Joint Naval Exercise (11 August 2009)
3) [from the archives] Turkey and Israel Strategize (Winter 2002)

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 http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8805251405

excerpt from: Iran Lambasts Policies of Certain Neighboring States

Fars News Agency, 16 August 2009


We are sorry for those countries around us and those neighbors which are at the service of the Zionists in the name of Islam and are providing means of their hegemony over the world. They don’t understand so they provide the Zionists with their possibilities, we hope that they wake up.

[Iran’s President Ahmadinejad, speech to commemorate the World Mosques Day, Tehran, 16 August 2009]

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 http://dover.idf.il/IDF/English/updates/09/08/1101.htm

excerpt from: Tenth ‘Reliant Mermaid’ Joint Naval Exercise

Israel Defense Forces web site, 11 August 2009


Reliant Mermaid X, which is a live, Combined/Joint Search and Rescue exercise, will be conducted by the participant elements of Israeli, Turkish and United States Naval and Air Forces between 17-21 August 2009. Turkey is the host country of the event and the exercise will take place in the Turkish Search and Rescue area in the Eastern Mediterranean.

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from the archives:


 http://www.meforum.org/128/turkey-and-israel-strategize

excerpts from: Turkey and Israel Strategize

by Mustafa Kibaroglu, Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2002


Turkish air space borders that of Iran, Iraq, and Syria. Were any of these countries preparing to launch missiles against Israel, Israel might come to Turkey with a request to fly through Turkish air space to deliver pre-emptive or preventive strikes against ballistic missile launching sites. […]

Israel might call on Turkish space for another purpose. Because Israel is so small, it needs off-shore strategic depth to sustain a credible and secure second-strike capability. In the event of a crisis, it will need foreign safe havens for its submarines and surface ships—and Turkey is perfectly positioned to provide them.

The basis for this kind of cooperation has already been laid. According to the 1996 agreement of military cooperation, each country can deploy or temporarily station its land, air and naval force units in the other country’s territory. For that purpose, they can use one another’s air space, airports and naval ports.

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related links:


Israeli Air Force to train overseas for Iran strike operation (5 July 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/israeli-ambassador-to-us-iranian-nuke-could-wipe-off-israel-in-seconds/


Obama: Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile activity poses a real threat to its neighbors (6 April 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/us-ambassador-iran%e2%80%99s-pursuit-of-nuclear-weapons-is-a-great-danger-to-turkey/


CSIS report: Turkey would be the optimum route for a possible Israeli attack on Iran (16 March 2009)

 http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/csis-report-turkey-would-be-the-optimum-route-for-a-possible-israeli-attack-on-iran/

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dandelion salad
- Homepage: http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/ahmadinejad-some-neighbouring-countries-are-at-the-service-of-zionism-in-the-name-of-islam/


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