Month: October 2021

Iran’s supreme leader urges reversal of Arab states’ normalization with Israel

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Today, 3:31 pm Arab nations that normalized ties with Israel last year have “sinned” and should reverse those moves, Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei says. The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco all said in 2020 they would normalize ties with Israel, as Washington under the administration of then-US president Donald Trump made Arab-Israeli […]

Top Iran official says if Israel attacks, response will cost trillions to repair

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Today, 2:18 pm Edit   One of Iran’s most senior leaders threatens that if Israel attacks, Tehran’s response will require the Jewish state to spend “tens of thousands of billion dollars” to reconstruct the country. Tweeting in English, Hebrew, Arabic and Persian, Ali Shamkhani, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, comments […]

The US Must Stop Falling Prey to Iranian Extortion

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by Joseph Frager / JNS.org JNS.org – Ever since Nov. 4, 1979, when Iran took 52 American diplomats and citizens hostage, the regime in Tehran has used hostage-taking as a means of extracting huge sums of money and political capital from the United States. President Jimmy Carter lost the 1980 election to Ronald Reagan because […]

Will the Real US Policy on Iran Please Stand Up?

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by Sarah N. Stern / JNS.org   JNS.org – At a summit on Oct. 13 with Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid and Emirati Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayid, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressed frustration with Iran regarding the unlikelihood that it will return to diplomacy, and said “we will look at every […]

IAEA chief: Monitoring ‘no longer intact’ at Iran site allegedly hit by Israel

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Tehran reportedly refusing to allow replacing of UN watchdog cameras damaged in alleged Israeli drone attack on nuclear site in Karaj in June By TOI staff and Agencies Today, 11:01 am The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said the watchdog’s monitoring program in Iran is no longer “intact” after Tehran refused requests to […]

Advanced air/sea Russian hardware for Iran amid Putin’s warm welcome for Bennett at Sochi

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Oct 24, 2021 @ 9:42 At Sochi, President Vladimir Putin prolonged his talks with visiting Prime Minister Naftali Bennett from two to five hours on Friday, Oct. 22 as they strolled through his Black Sea estate and private residence at Sochi. Bennett failed to elicit from his host supports on the Iranian nuclear issue. Their […]

Turkish president orders removal of U.S. ambassador

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Kierra Frazier   Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he’s declared U.S. Ambassador David Satterfield, along with nine other foreign envoys, personae non gratae after they issued a joint statement earlier this week calling for the release of jailed philanthropist Osman Kavala, AP reports. Driving the news: The embassies of the United States, […]

US concerned about Israeli plans for 3,000 settler homes

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The announcement about settler housing plans comes amid media reports that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is under extra US pressure to freeze such plans. TOVAH LAZAROFF OMRI NAHMIAS OCTOBER 23, 2021 22:59 The US is “concerned” by the IDF’s intention to advance plans for 3,000 settler West Bank homes, including for the legalization of two […]

Israel, Iran holding separate large scale aerial drills

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Blue Flag 2021 is seeing the participation of seven countries while Iran’s Modafe’an Aseman-e Velayat 1400 is aimed at testing the capabilities of its Air Force. ANNA AHRONHEIM OCTOBER 21, 2021 18:21 As tensions continue to rise between Iran and Israel, both countries are holding large-scale aerial exercises. Israel and seven nations – Germany, Italy, […]

Nasrallah warns Israel against searching for gas in disputed maritime region

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Hezbollah chief says ‘resistance will act’ if Israel green lights exploration in contested zone before an agreement is reached between Jerusalem and Beirut TOI staff23 October 2021, 12:31 am Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Friday warned Israel against unilaterally searching for natural gas in a disputed maritime region before any agreement between Lebanon and Israel […]

Israel says Russia agreed to not hamper IDF air campaign over Syria

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Ze’ev Elkin, who was present in meeting, says Putin and Bennett will preserve so-called deconfliction mechanism allowing Israel to carry out attacks without Moscow responding TOI staffToday, 10:54 pm Syrian air defenses respond to alleged Israeli missiles targeting south of the capital Damascus, on July 20, 2020. (AFP) Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Russian President […]

Israeli ‘terror’ designation of Palestinian NGOs sparks furious backlash

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In Washington, progressive members of Congress condemn decision, while PA slams ‘libelous slander’; UN and EU question Israeli claim that civil society groups were fronts for PFLP By Aaron Boxerman Today, 9:23 pm Edit An Israeli decision to label six Palestinian rights groups and civil society movements as “terror organizations” elicited a swift and fierce […]