Benny Avni

1 week ago | nysun.com | Benny Avni

As Iran’s foreign minister met with counterparts from Britain, France, and Germany at Geneva Friday in the hope of preventing American involvement in its war, Tehran officials issued harsh anti-American statements and made tough demands of the talks.     American representatives were conspicuously absent from Friday’s session at Geneva, where the Iranian, Abbas Araghchi, met with foreign ministers of the three European members of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, known as the E-3.

1 week ago | nysun.com | Benny Avni

As Washington debates whether Iran was close enough to a nuclear bomb to justify Israel acting militarily, and as President Trump delays a decision on joining the battle, Prime Minister Netanyahu says the Tehran threat was so acute that he decided to launch Operation Rising Lion last week even after last-minute snags almost aborted it.

1 week ago | nysun.com | Benny Avni

President Trump’s public statements, Israeli assessments, and the shifting of military assets are indicating America will soon join the Iran war and assist Israel in ending the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program and other military capabilities. Mr. Trump and members of his top security team convened at the Situation Room at the White House Tuesday after the president’s abrupt early exit from a meeting of world leaders in Canada on Monday.

1 week ago | nysun.com | Benny Avni

The organizers of a highly coveted expo for weapons sellers, the Paris Air Show, blocked Israeli participants on Monday even as their army’s successes in Iran are raising interest in their military wares. Is competition in the global arms market the real reason France is barring a major competitor?   Amid the much-scrutinized Israel Defense Force performance in Iran, “there are many new queries about purchasing arms from us,” a security source tells the Sun.

2 weeks ago | nysun.com | Benny Avni

Following Friday’s spectacular opening act in Israel’s “Rising Lion” operation against Iran’s eliminationist weapons, will Israel and America push the Islamic Republic to collapse under its own weight? “Certain Iranian hardliners spoke bravely, but they didn’t know what was about to happen. They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!” President Trump wrote on Truth Social early Friday.