Tehran’s intercession in the Korean crisis on the side of its ally in Pyongyang was predictable, even while the US preferred to ignore their close interrelations.  And so, on Friday, April 5, Deputy Chief of Iran's Armed Forces Brig. Gen. Masoud Jazayeri stepped forward to point the finger at the US, saying: “The time for Washington’s bullying and extortion is long past.” His words came at the very moment that Iranian intransigence brought  the latest six-power meeting on its nuclear program to its customary dead end.

President Barack Obama confirmed the radical shift in US Middle East policies Tuesday, April 14, by commenting that conflicts like the one in the Middle East ended up "costing significantly in terms of both blood and treasure" - an echo of the words of Gen. David Petraeus.
His comment fueled his public feud with Israel, in which prominent American Jewish leaders have weighed in protesting that his tough new demands of Israel would deny it defensible borders and jeopardize its security

Behind the Jerusalem impasse, US president Barack Obama is pushing the Middle East hard into another sweeping territorial redesign as the cure-all for all its troubles. The unpublished details of Obama's super-plan were revealed in DEBKA-Net-Weekly's latest issue out last Friday - together with the reasons why Israelis and Palestinians will reject it.

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At the core of the new peace proposal would be a letter signed by the US presidential underwriting an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord based on pre-1967 borders with adjustments to accommodate demographic changes, limited territorial swaps and support for East Jerusalem as capital of a future Palestinian state.