Tehran: Iran's Supreme Leader says his country will assist any nation or group that "confronts" Israel, describing it as a "cancer”.

His speech came a day after Israel’s top political and military leadership issued a series of warnings to the Islamic Republic - including one from Israel’s Defense minister Ehud Barak who declared that  “If sanctions don’t achieve the desired goal of stopping [Iran’s] military nuclear program, there will be a need to consider taking action.”

Iran could hit five continents.
Israeli Vice PM: Tehran is targeting U.S., not Israel.
Israeli intel chief: Iran has enough materiel for four nuclear bombs.  

Iran is trying to develop missiles with a range of 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles) that would bring New York into its crosshairs, according to Israeli Vice-Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon.

Should Iran attain such delivery capabilities, cities on five continents would be in Tehran’s reach, including Moscow, Beijing, Perth (Australia), Johannesburg and Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil).

Iran should allow full access to nuclear sites by IAEA.
Israel must protect itself; potential strike would be aimed only at nuclear targets.
Crippling sanctions may still preclude need for strike.  

Iran could avert a strike on its nuclear facilities by emulating Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi who renounced nuclear weapons in 2003 and granted full access to international inspectors, said Ronen Bergman, an Iran expert who authored the Sunday (Jan. 29) New York Times Magazine cover story, “Will Israel Attack Iran?”

Iran is taking several steps to help Syria’s beleaguered President Bashar Assad, assassinate opposition figures and attack Israeli and American interests worldwide, sources have confirmed.

After the recent assassination of Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, deputy director of the first uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, ordered retaliation.