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DUBAI, June 16 (Reuters) - Iran does not intend to develop nuclear weapons but will pursue its right to nuclear energy and research, President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday, reiterating Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's religious edict against weapons of mass destruction.

Netanyahu is an amazing spokesman Live: PM Netanyahu Addresses UN General Assembly | WATCH. Israeli PM Netanyahu addresses the UN amid the Gaza war and rising global pressure. He sends a direct message to Hamas, defends against genocide claims, rebukes recognition of a Palestinian state, and reaffirms threats from Iran. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered an address to the United Nations General Assembly today, focusing on Israel's ongoing war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip and mounting international pressure, including a wave of Western nations recognizing a Palestinian state. Key Moments from the Speech Direct Message to Gaza and Hamas...

Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu lashed out Wednesday at the UN Human Rights Council, accusing it of granting "legitimacy to terror organizations" by investigating Israel for alleged war crimes in Gaza. "UNHRC gives legitimacy to murderous terror organizations like Hamas and Daash (Islamic State)," he said, accusing the rights body of overlooking "massacres" committed elsewhere in the Middle East in favor of investigating Israel for defending itself against rocket attacks from Gaza. The UNHRC has selected Prof. William Schabas to head an investigation into Operation Protective Edge. Speaking in a 2013 panel, Schabas clearly revealed his great eagerness to bring...

President Barack Obama has notified Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that his administration will soon start the partial and gradual easing of economic sanctions against Iran, debkafile reports exclusively from its Washington and Jerusalem sources. The reduction would apply to “non-significant” yet “substantial” sanctions, the message said.

Senior US diplomatic sources have confirmed that the media blackout and shroud of secrecy surrounding Monday's meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Barack Obama was the result of strained relations between the two leaders. Speaking to Israel's Army Radio on Wednesday morning, one unnamed US diplomat said the Obama Administration had become unhappy with what is viewed as Netanyahu's efforts to manipulate its policies during press briefings, and imposed the media blackout on Monday's meeting as a means of bringing the Israeli leader back in line. The official also accused Netanyahu of indirectly pressuring Obama via...

In an interview conducted shortly before he is sworn in, new prime minister says Iranian nukes are a global threat, Israel expects Obama administration to stop Tehran from acquiring atomic bomb. 'How you achieve this goal is less important than achieving it,' he tells The Atlantic magazine. The US president's challenge is to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview conducted shortly before he was sworn in as prime minister and published Tuesday by US magazine The Atlantic. "The Obama presidency has two great missions: Fixing the economy, and preventing Iran from gaining nuclear weapons,”...

'The intifada has come to America. And the anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish rhetoric is becoming too shrill' Forum on Netanyahu's speech: David ShtulmanSunday, September 29, 2002 On Tuesday evening, former Israeli Prime Minister Benajmin Netanyahu will speak at Heinz Hall as a guest of the Robert Morris University Lecture Series. As often happens when Netanyahu or other prominent Israelis are invited to speak, the appearance will be accompanied by what promises to be hundreds of anti-Israel demonstrators who plan to perform mock Palestinian funerals and attempt to force passers-by through mock Israeli checkpoints while portraying Israelis as Nazis and mass murderers....