The American commentator warned about the “incestuous marriage” of Israel and the Congress, which serves Tel Aviv’s interests „first“ whenever there is conflict between the regime and Washington.

Press TV has conducted an interview with Issa Amro, a peace activist based in al-Khalil (Hebron), to discuss Israel’s boycotting of the UN Human Rights Council.

Furthermore, the Al Jazeera television network released a secret Mossad cable last month which revealed that Israel has been aware that Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful and does not include “the activity necessary to produce weapons.”

Total Information Awareness (TIA) was a program of the US Information Awareness Office. It was operated from February until May 2003, before being renamed as the Terrorism Information Awareness Program.

Based on the concept of predictive policing, TIA aimed to gather detailed information about individuals in order to anticipate and prevent crimes before they are committed. As part of efforts to win the War on Terror, the program searched for all sorts of personal information in the hunt for terrorists around the globe.

(17.März) They have an operational command center not located in New York, where it is reviewed by a trained technician. And that trained technician, usually within 30 seconds, is able to determine – is this a true positive? Is this gunshots that are being fired? Or is this an engine backfiring, firecrackers, whatever? And in the examples of true positives, they forward that alert into the NYPD’s Domain Awareness System. This is very important for us because in 2011, we piloted similar technology – it was a gunshot detection system. Actually, the technology was different, but it was a gunshot detection system. And there, the pilot was unsuccessful ultimately, because we had so many examples of false positives that the whole system just because, for lack of a better word, noise. The other key difference between this system and the system that we piloted back in 2011 is that to trigger an alert here, you have to have three sensors that pick up the sound of the gunshots. In the old system, all they required was one sensor to pick up the sound of the gunshots.

Die Nebenwirkung ist, dass man jetzt in New York nicht mehr auf der Straße reden kann, ohne das Gefühl haben zu müssen, dass das aufgezeichnet wird.

Die Zeitung berichtete, Mitarbeiter im Weißen Haus hätten kurz nach dem Beginn der jüngsten Gesprächsrunde mit Teheran im vergangenen Jahr bemerkt, dass Israel die Verhandlungen hinter verschlossenen Türen abhöre. Israel habe auch in Europa Informationen aus geheimen Besprechungen von US-Vertretern durch Informanten und diplomatische Kontakte erhalten.

Informationen sollen an US-Parlamentarier weitergegeben worden sein. Ziel der Aktion soll gewesen sein, die Gespräche mit Iran scheitern zu lassen.
Die USA entdeckten die Spionage-Aktion angeblich nur, weil sie selbst israelische Behörden-Korrespondenz abfingen.

Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Lausanne, Switzerland, to meet with Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif on March 26 as part of the ongoing EU-coordinated P5+1 nuclear negotiations.

US-Außenminister John Kerry kommt am Donnerstag zu den womöglich entscheidenden Gesprächen mit seinem iranischen Kollegen Mohammed Jawad Zarif über ein Atomabkommen zusammen. Kerry werde zu erneuten Verhandlungen ins schweizerische Lausanne reisen, teilte das Außenministerium in Washington am Montag mit.

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Prince al-Faisal made the statement during a joint press conference with visiting British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond in Riyadh.

The Saudi top diplomat said Iran was conducting “aggressive policies, and interfering in the countries of the region and [seeking to] acquire a nuclear weapon that threatens regional and international security.”

(18.März)

(22.März) The Conservative government has taken a hard stance on Iran in recent years, after closing its embassy in Tehran and expelling Iranian diplomats from Canada in 2012.

Speaking in Riyadh after talks with Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal, Hammond told reporters that while significant progress had been made in talks between Iran and major powers in recent weeks, reaching a deal would be extremely challenging.

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman holds talks with UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond in Riyadh.

In addition to eavesdropping on closed-door talks, the report said, Israel “acquired information from confidential U.S. briefings, informants and diplomatic contacts in Europe.”

The White House discovered the operation when U.S. intelligence agencies spying on Israel „intercepted communications among Israeli officials that carried details the U.S. believed could have come only from access to the confidential talks.”

Soon after the U.S. and other major powers entered negotiations last year to curtail Iran’s nuclear program, senior White House officials learned Israel was spying on the closed-door talks.

The spying operation was part of a broader campaign by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to penetrate the negotiations and then help build a case against the emerging terms of the deal, current and former U.S. officials said

Der darf übrigens immer noch nicht das Land verlassen, im Internet chatten und muss vor dem Kommunizieren mit Ausländern um Erlaubnis bitten.

Yemen‘s top factions are squaring off for battle after months of skirmishes, turning respectively to neighboring Saudi Arabia and its regional rival Iran for help in what may become all-out war.