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Jonathan Pollard, Cold War Spy Who Spent 30 Years In U.S. Prison, Arrives In Israel
By Daniel Estrin
December 30, 2020
Updated at 4:10 a.m. ET
Jonathan Pollard, the former U.S. Navy analyst who spent three decades in prison after pleading guilty to spying for the Israelis, has arrived in Israel a month after the U.S. Justice Department declined to extend his parole.
Pollard and his wife, Esther, landed early Wednesday at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv aboard a private jet owned by Sheldon Adelson, a major backer of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Iran Denies Role in US Embassy in Iraq Attack, Says Trump Acting Out of Fear
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Iran has denied U.S. allegations that it played any role in recent attacks targeting Washington s embassy in Baghdad, accusing President Donald Trump of instilling further instability in Iraq with increased military movements at a crucial time for all three nations.
While rocket strikes near U.S. facilities in the Iraqi capital have become a somewhat regular occurrence over the past year and a half of heightened tensions between U.S. troops and Iraqi militias supportive of Iran, the latest barrage last week drew an ominous warning from the president himself, who claimed there was chatter of additional attacks against Americans in Iraq,
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FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2020 file photo, an Israeli border police officer stands guard next to the U.S. ambassador s official residence in the central Israeli city of Herzliya, An official record shows that the United States sold the ambassadorâs residence in Israel for more than $67 million in July. The State Department confirmed the sale in September but refused to identify the buyer or disclose the sale price of the sprawling beachfront compound in the upscale Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File) December 29, 2020 - 5:15 AM
JERUSALEM - The United States sold the ambassadorâs residence in Israel for more than $67 million in July, according to an official Israeli record of the sale that shines new light on a transaction that has been shrouded in secrecy.