David Isaac

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(June 23, 2025 / JNS)European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told press in Brussels on Monday that the Foreign Affairs Council, composed of the foreign ministers from all E.U. member states, was fearful about the prospect of a closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran. The Iranian parliament on Sunday agreed to close the strait, a key shipping lane for oil and gas, in response to the U.S. bombing of the country’s nuclear sites on Saturday.

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(June 18, 2025 / JNS)Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar shot back at Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a social-media post on Wednesday for comments the latter made comparing Israel’s premier to Hitler and describing the campaign against Iran as “state terrorism.”“The sultan, in his own eyes, in yet another inflammatory speech, continues to incite against Israel and against the Israeli prime minister,” Sa’ar said.

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(June 17, 2025 / JNS)Israel had “pulled off some surprises” during its ongoing campaign against Iran that make September 2024’s so-called “Operation Beeper” against Hezbollah in Lebanon appear “simple,” Israeli Ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter said on Monday. Leiter made the remarks in an interview with cable channel MeritTV, founded by Phil McGraw (longtime host of CBS‘s “Dr. Phil”) in November 2023. “We’ve pulled off a number of surprises.

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(June 15, 2025 / JNS)Israeli opposition leaders have unanimously backed “Operation Rising Lion,” Israel’s military effort to destroy Iran’s nuclear project. Opposition Leader Yair Lapid of the Yesh Atid Party posted to X at the war’s outset, “I send strength to our security forces in their mission tonight to protect the people of Israel.”I send strength to our security forces in their mission tonight to protect the people of Israel. Am Yisrael Chai ????????

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(June 14, 2025 / JNS)Senior Iranian leaders convinced themselves that an Israeli strike wouldn’t come in the middle of diplomatic talks between the Islamic Republic and the U.S., the next round of which was scheduled for June 15 in Oman. Iran’s leaders had been preparing for more than a week for a potential Israeli strike, but due to that “one enormous miscalculation,” they dismissed warnings of an impending attack, The New York Times reported on Friday.