The State Department says Pompeo will discuss the “need to counter the Iranian regime’s destabilizing behavior in the region.” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is to visit Israel on Friday as part of a regional tour aimed at ending the crisis over Turkey’s military campaign against the Kurds in Syria after President Donald Trump decided to pull [...]
Such work would advance the Iranians toward the capability to construct a nuclear bomb. Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani warned on Monday that Tehran will continue to scale back its commitments to the 2015 nuclear accord until the European Union fulfills promises that it made under the terms of the deal. Rouhani, speaking on state television, said [...]
Malign behavior in the world today seems largely to be the result of people who have the power to correct what is wrong willfully looking the other way: hypocrisy. Currently, one of the biggest beneficiaries — along with China, North Korea, Venezuela, Russia, Turkey and Cuba — is the Islamic Republic of Iran. Among other lawlessness, Iran, [...]
“If Israel makes a strategic mistake, it has to collect bits and pieces of Tel Aviv from the lower depths of the Mediterranean Sea,” said an Iranian commander. Abbas Nilforoushan, deputy commander of operations of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has said that Israel is not in a position to threaten Iran, and nothing will [...]
“Iran won’t have a nuclear weapon on our watch,” Pompeo said on Sunday. “President Trump has been very clear. Iran won’t have a nuclear weapon on our watch. We’ll stop it,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Fox News on Sunday in an interview with host Chris Wallace. “Is the threat of a nuclear Iran increasing?” Wallace [...]
If, for any reason, the Israeli government ever issued a declaration, about destroying Iran "in half an hour," as Iran recently said about Israel, we would probably never hear the end of the criticism from all parts of the world. The European Union would likely take even more measures to counter Israel. There would doubtless be [...]
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps' ground forces kicked off a "massive" set of war drills Thursday as the country unveiled its own homemade version of Russia's advanced S-300 missile defense system in yet another showing of Tehran's growing readiness for a possible war. Iranian military leaders said the war games will mix with actual fighting as [...]
America and Russia have agreed to let Israel attack targets in Iraq, an Arabic news site says. The U.S. and Russia have reached “understandings” allowing Israel to attack Iranian military targets based in Iraq, Asharq Al-Awsat reported Wednesday, citing unnamed Western diplomats. No official sources have confirmed the report. According to the sources, the two superpowers agreed to [...]
JNS.org – Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps naval commander Alireza Tangsiri warned Sunday that “any illegitimate presence by the Zionists in the waters of the Persian Gulf could spark a war,” after Israel announced that it was taking part in a US-led mission to secure the Strait of Hormuz. “Whenever our commanders wish to, they are able to [...]
Hamas in Gaza is reportedly receiving $ 30 million a month from Iran and this money is going in its entirety to the military build-up of both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) according to Israeli TV Channel 12. In exchange for the sharp increase in financial assistance, Iran wants accurate intelligence from Hamas on the places where Israel [...]
