Syrian opposition documents Iranian missile caches in country – report

Israel has warned Tehran against stockpiling weapons in Syria, says its a red line. Anna Ahronheim June 10, 2019 12:43 Iran displays its arsenal of missiles. (photo credit: Courtesy) Syrian opposition officers have documented the site of several Iranian missile caches in the country including in areas Israel has demanded that Iran vacate. According to […]

Zarif: Israel is the one with nuclear arms, the one threatening Iran

Published:  06.10.19 , 12:37 Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif says that Israel is one who has nuclear weapons and the one threatening his country.   Speaking Monday alongside visiting German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, Zarif warns that “whoever starts a war with us will not be the one who finishes it.”

Germany: EU plan to bypass U.S. sanctions on Iran soon operational

German FM Maas to meet Rouhani, Zarif in Tehran as Berlin, London and Paris move to salvage nuclear deal; Iran wants Europeans to do more to protect trade, declines to discuss missile program TEHRAN – All the formal requirements for a European payment system for barter-based trade with Iran designed to circumvent U.S. sanctions are […]

KURDISTAN REGION GETS NEW PRESIDENT

By SETH J. FRANTZMAN Iraqi Kurds wave flags of Iraqi Kurdistan during a demonstration. (photo credit:” SAFIN HAMED / AFP) Nechirvan Barzani has been a central figure in the region since the late 1990s and is credited with its economic success. The autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government in northern Iraq has a new president: Nechirvan Barzani […]

UK exposed Hezbollah explosives in London in 2015, with Mossad intel

Hezbollah is an Islamist and militant group based in Lebanon. JERUSALEM POST STAFF June 10, 2019 12:02 Radicals linked to Iranian-backed Hezbollah were caught stashing tonnes of explosive materials in north-west London in a secret British bomb factory, M15 and Metropolitan Police officers discovered in 2015, a matter of months after the UK signed up […]

Iran won’t talk missiles, only nuke deal as officials visit

TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s Foreign Ministry says nothing else but the country’s landmark 2015 nuclear deal with world powers will be discussed during high-stakes diplomacy meetings in Tehran this week. Iranian state television quotes spokesman, Abbas Mousavi, as saying that visiting “European officials are not in a position to comment on Iran’s issues beyond the […]

Iran welcomes German FM to pressure Europe on Iran deal

Iranian media appears suspicious that Germany can actually preserve the deal. By Seth J. Frantzman June 10, 2019 11:06   Iran welcomed German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas today in a bid to pressure the Germans to help them get what they want out of the remains of the Iran Deal. Maas has said that he […]

The Danger of a Hardening Heart

Hebrews 3:7 – 3:11 7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in [their] heart; and they have not known my ways.11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) The Hebrews who left Egypt had concrete proof of God’s existence and commitment to them. Yet …

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Turkey rejects Idlib ceasefire terms after Russia asks Ankara to handover Jabal Shashabo: report

BEIRUT, LEBANON (6:30 A.M.) – Turkey and Russia have failed to reach an agreement on a ceasefire inside the Idlib Governorate of northwestern Syria, the Syria-based Al-Watan newspaper reported on Monday morning. Citing opposition sources, Al-Watan said the negotiations stalled between Turkey and Russia after the latter asked Ankara to hand over the Jabal Shashabo […]

38 years later, pilots recall how Iran inadvertently enabled Osiraq reactor raid

Surviving participants in Israeli airstrike that destroyed Saddam’s nuclear site gather to retrace mission that ‘remade the Middle East’ By TOI STAFFToday, 2:32 am The Israeli Air Force F-16A Netz 243 flown by Colonel Ilan Ramon in the Operation Opera bombing of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor at Osirak in 1981 (KGyST/Wikipedia) Thirty-eight years after Operation Opera — the […]

The air defense system Iran unveiled is limited

The brand-new homemade Khordad 15 air defense missile system presented by Iran’s defense minister Brig. Gen. Amir Hatami on Sunday is not brand-new, DEBKAfile’s military sources report; it was developed from an older system. Neither is it capable of shooting down “enemy jets,” as the minister claimed. With a range of 120 km, the Khordad […]

IDF thwarts terrorist attempt to smuggle rockets into Gaza Strip

Joint IDF-Shin Bet security agency operation intercepts rocket-manufacturing materials en route to Gaza through Egypt’s Sinai coast. Four suspects arrested, face charges of conspiracy to commit an act of terror, membership in a terrorist organization, and aiding in terrorist activities. by  i24NEWS , Israel Hayom Staff  Published on  2019-06-10 09:44 Last modified: 2019-06-10 10:46 Members of the Izzedine […]

Jordan: Abbas rejects solution to financial crisis

A senior Jordanian source said a proposal to solve the economic crisis was rejected by Abbas and that he forbade senior Palestinian officials to meet with Israeli officials. ALEX WINSTON June 10, 2019 09:31 Jordanian officials are reportedly furious at the head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, claiming that his conduct regarding the economic […]

German FM, Japanese PM to meet Iran’s Rouhani

Netanyahu speaks to Shinzo Abe before trip. REUTERS, Herb Keinon June 10, 2019 10:08 German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas will meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran on Monday, a German diplomatic source said, as part of a concerted European effort to preserve Iran’s nuclear pact with world powers and defuse rising US-Iranian tensions. Germany, […]