The calendar brought the people of Jerusalem to a potential crash, and there was no one wise enough to avoid it. The first day of Eid Al Ahda fell on Sunday, August 11, which also coincided with what is considered to be the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, Tisha B’av. While top Jewish rabbis have ruled since 1967 that it is “forbidden for Jews to go up to the ...
![Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif insists on Iran's right to enrich. [AFP]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/450549401.jpg?itok=fAVsKP9f "Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif insists on Iran's right to enrich. [AFP]")
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![US Senator Bob Corker, R-Tennessee, talks with reporters at the White House after a meeting on Iran with President Obama in Washington, DC, November 19, 2013. [JIM WATSON/Getty Images]](/sites/default/files/styles/d08_traditional/public/im/Syria2/450566753.jpg?itok=-spEO9WX "US Senator Bob Corker, R-Tennessee, talks with reporters at the White House after a meeting on Iran with President Obama in Washington, DC, November 19, 2013. [JIM WATSON/Getty Images]")
