June 10, 2012 | 2:37 am

June 10, 2012

Posted by Shmuel Rosner

Thousands pack a Tel Aviv street during the city's annual Gay Pride Parade, June 8, 2012. (Photo: Reuters)

Noteworthy
Iran prepares for Moscow
Kaveh L Afrasiabi of Asia Times Online speaks to Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, about his country’s nuclear program.

Neither the Stuxnet nor Flame [the latest cyber attack] nor other acts of sabotage or attacks on our scientists, etc, will have any effect on our determination to pursue our nuclear rights within the framework of NPT [the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty]. In fact, such illegal actions against Iran increase our determination to continue the path of Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.

The Case Against Intervention in Syria

Fareed Zakaria of Time outlines ‎his reasons for believing that ‎military intervention in Syria is ‎doomed to fail.‎

‎nlike Libya, Syria is not a vast country with huge tracts of land where rebels can retreat, hide and be ‎resupplied. Syria is roughly one-tenth the size of Libya but has three times as many people. Partly for ‎this reason, the Syrian rebellion has not been able to take control of any significant part of the country. ‎Nearly half of all Syrians live in or around two cities, Damascus and Aleppo, both of which seem to ‎remain under the regime’s grip.‎