WAR Regional conflict brewing in the Mediterranean

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This is all good information; but I think I am losing the ability to keep track of all the wars and rumors of war. Who is making all this war material? It seems like all the world is interested in is war. Oh, the misery!
 
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BREAKING: Turkish Armed Forces to release evidence of Greece using its S-300’s against Turkish F-16’s. There are reports that we possess satellite imagery & video footage of S300PMU radars AND radar evidence from the F-16’s itself.
 
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Report: Hezbollah leader meets with Hamas official​

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August 28, 2022 at 08:00 AM​

Hezbollah Media Relations Office, via APHezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, right, meeting with Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, in Beirut, Lebanon, on June 29, 2021.
It comes only days after Hassan Nasrallah met with the Gaza-based terrorist group Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah met with a delegation of Hamas officials in Beirut on Sunday, according to the Lebanon-based Akhbar Al Yawm news agency.

Nasrallah met with key decision-makers from the Gaza-based terrorist organization, including Sheikh Saleh al-Arouri, deputy head of the group's political bureau, and senior officials Khalil al-Hayya and Osama Hamdan.
During their meeting, Nasrallah and Hamas officials reviewed "the latest political and practical developments in Palestine, Lebanon and the region, including recent tensions in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and Jerusalem,” Hezbollah said in a statement after the meeting.
The meeting comes days after Nasrallah discussed regional developments with Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ziyad Nakhaleh.

Lebanese Hezbollah-affiliated Al Mayadeen reported that potential cooperation between Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad was discussed at the meeting, stressing that the two men discussed "the expected roles of different parts of the axis of resistance during the next stage."
However, the report did not specify it further.
The two meetings come as tensions between Israel and Hezbollah recently increased after repeated threats from Nasrallah over offshore fields believed to contain natural gas deposits.
It raised concerns in Israel about further violence with its neighboring country to the north.

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Israeli PM Lapid, unable to get Biden on phone, pushes for meeting to discuss Iran: report​


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Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid is hoping to talk to President Biden about the new Iran nuclear deal that appears to be nearing fruition, but lately, he has not had much luck, according to reports.
According to The Jerusalem Post, Lapid has been unable to get Biden on the phone, with the White House first blaming the president's recent vacation — which ended on Wednesday. With both men set to speak at the United Nations General Assembly in September, Lapid is hoping for an in-person meeting.

Israel has been pessimistic about recent developments with the Iran nuclear deal, as Iran and P5+1 nations go back and forth in an attempt to finalize terms. Still, Lapid has been hopeful that the communications his administration has had with White House officials have been impactful.
"This is a bad deal," Lapid said at a meeting of the Yesh Atid party, while recognizing that as the U.S. responded to recent demands from Tehran, "[t]he Americans accepted a large part of what we wanted them to put into the draft and that is a welcome change."

ISRAELI SPY CHIEF REPORTEDLY SLAMS IRAN DEAL AS ‘STRATEGIC DISASTER’
Lapid and Biden met during the president's trip to Israel in July, and the two men held a joint press conference, but that was before the European Union offered its "final" proposal for the Iran deal. Since then, the Israeli prime minister has had conversations with the leaders of Germany and France, who are part of the negotiations along with the U.S., United Kingdom, Russia, and China.
Following his talk with French President Emmanuel Macron, Lapid tweeted that they "discussed the importance of preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon."

ISRAELI PM TO FOX: ‘WE WELCOME THE US STRIKES AGAINST THE IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS IN SYRIA’
Macron has acknowledged that the present state of the deal does not address certain issues, including Iran's ballistic missile program. Still, he claimed that the deal as it stands would be "useful and is better than no agreement," the Post reported.
In recent days, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Ganz met with White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan.
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The Defense Ministry told the Post that Ganz pushed for increasing Israel's capabilities of taking on Iran, stressing "the importance of maintaining and advancing operation capabilities for both defensive and offensive purposes in [the] face of Iran’s nuclear program as well as its regional aggression."
 
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Baghdad’s Green Zone; from safe-haven to battleground​




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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - All it took was one retirement announcement on Monday afternoon for what was once considered the “safest place” in Iraq, Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, to become a deadly lawless battleground, revealing the reality of what Iraq has turned into; a country where religious figures and militias have more authority than the government.

Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Monday afternoon announced his “definitive” retirement from politics, shortly after a close aide to his father and uncle retired from his role as a Marja’ (Shiite religious authority) in Iran’s religious epicenter of Qom.
The retirement letter submitted by Grand Ayatollah Kadhim al-Haeri was perceived by Sadr as a move forced upon him by Iran.

Haeri’s call on his followers to now follow the rulings of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was the final nail in the coffin for Sadr, expressing his complete loss of hope in the Iraqi political system.
Sadr had suddenly set loose thousands of his supporters in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone, the country’s once safe haven where government buildings and international missions have resided since the US invasion of Iraq 19 years ago.
By late afternoon, thousands of his supporters had already stormed into different government buildings, including the one where the Iraqi Council of Ministers were holding their meeting.

Sadrist protests soon spread to other provinces. People by the thousands flocked onto the streets of Basra, Dhi Qar, and Maysan, blocking roads and taking over government buildings.
The Iraqi government announced a curfew across all Iraqi provinces in a bid to contain them, but their decision was to no avail.
With no Sadr to hold them down, protestors were chanting to topple the regime.
“I swear to Abbas, we will not back down,” one young Sadrist follower said, swearing on the son of Imam Ali, Prophet Mohammed’s son-in-law and a central figure to Shiite Muslims.
Reports of clashes spread all over the internet on Monday evening, and soon it had become clear that Iran-backed militias had taken matter into their own hands, using live ammunition against the Sadrists.
Sadrists had to respond.

On Monday night, Saraya al-Salam militia, a militia founded by Sadr himself in 2014 and considered as a revived version of Sadr’s Mahdi army, militants who fought the Americans following their invasion in 2003, flowed into the capital.
The once fortified Green Zone was no longer fortified, nor safe.
The sound of heavy machine guns, RPGs, and sub-machine guns filled the air. It was a deadly showdown between Saraya al-Salam and Iran-backed militants.
Sadr-affiliated Saraya al-Salam militia shown firing an RPG towards Iran-backed militias inside Baghdad's Green Zone as clashes have continued for several hours in the Iraqi capital
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— Rudaw English (@RudawEnglish) August 29, 2022
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What happened in Baghdad showed the world Iraq’s fragility. It became evident that in Iraq, the government and security forces lack authority. Instead, it was religious and tribal leaders who had thousands of militants ready to take orders.
By 2am on Tuesday, the death toll had reached at least 15 people, with dozens of others injured in the conflict, and it was still not clear when the clashes were going to end. Iraq had entered the first dangerous stages of what could swiftly descend into a civil war, except this time, it was an intra-Shiite war.
A senior member of the Sadrist Movement on Monday announced that Sadr had commenced a hunger strike following the violent escalations, but hell had already been unleashed on the capital, what a strike would achieve remained questionable.

For over a year, Sadr had reiterated his calls against the existence of militant groups outside the Iraqi army, preaching for the “returning of arms into the hand of the state” as part of his election campaign, but willingly or not, he had already unleashed hundreds of his loyalists into the streets of Iraq, engaging in a heavy armed conflict with the Iran-backed militants.
Typically viewed as a supporter of the people and a public favorite, his sudden resort to violence that had only been seen when fighting the Americans following 2003, is perceived as a sign of weakness by some.
“This is the extent of weakness both in the eyes of the Iraqi people and in the eyes of his opponents,” Wagner Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Bilal Wahab told Rudaw.
But despite the violent outcomes of his retirement, Sadr remains a master of withdrawals.

Master of withdrawals
On July 15, 2022, Sadr announced that he would withdraw from the election race. Sadr went on to win the October elections with 73 seats.
On June 6, 2022, he told his MPs to prepare their resignation letters as he had booked his party a one-way ticket out of the Iraqi parliament.
Sadr later ordered all of his MPs to resign, offering the pro-Iran Coordination Framework the chance to form a government. He then summoned his followers to the streets, halting the government formation process for yet another two months.
Sadr’s retirement, like every other of his withdrawals from the political scene, seems to be part of a bigger plan as well.
“When Muqtada Al-Sadr claimed he is resigning from politics, he’s merely distancing himself from the responsibility of chaos and also trying to allow the Sadrist protests to transition from political to popular protests,” Hamzeh Hadad, Visiting Fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, told Rudaw English via Whatsapp.

When Iraqis from across the country took to the streets in October 2019, which later became more popular as the Tishreen (Arabic for October) protests, Sadr chose to play on the ropes. One minute he would support the protestors, the next he would withdraw his support, leaving him as an unreliable ally of the movement.
“They are not the same as Tishreen, but Sadr would like to market them as such,” Hadad said, while adding that “Iraqis are well aware who is protesting and what is driving them to protest.”
The record low turnout of the October elections made one thing clear, and it was that neither Sadr, nor the Coordination Framework have the support of the Iraqi public, but rather only a group of their loyalists.
However with the people supporting neither side, a violent conflict of such scale will perhaps only end with the mediation of one man.

The wise man in black
Since protests started to escalate earlier on Monday, several politicians and diplomatic missions called on both parties to de-escalate.
The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) urged maximum restraint and called on protestors to leave the Green Zone and governmental building.
Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said in a statement late Monday that Guterres urges all Iraqi relevant actors "to take immediate steps to de-escalate the situation and avoid any violence."
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi even took to Sadr himself, urging him to call on protestors to withdraw from government institutions in a statement after suspending cabinet sessions, but none seem to work.
This leaves Iraq’s highest Shiite authority, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, as the last resort.

Iraqis raise pictures of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani during a demonstration in Baghdad’s poor neighborhood of Sadr City on December 14, 2005. Photo: AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP
"The only person who can really speak with authority at the moment is Grand Ayatollah Sistani, and he will step in for instance if these protests move to Najaf,” Michael Knights, an analyst and fellow at The Washington Institute told Rudaw.
Hadad also echoed similar remarks stating that Sistani intervening in the conflict as mediator is the best case scenario.
“Grand Ayatollah Sistani historically has intervened during instability and the prospect of blood being spilt. This has already happened with reports of many falling in today’s clashes,” Hadad said, defining the worst case scenario as an escalation into civil war.

However, while the pro-Iran factions do listen to Sistani, Sadr does not have the reputation of always doing so. Sadrists have for years not considered the Iraqi Marja’ as their spiritual leader and have often criticized him and his predecessors for often being quiet in times of conflict.
Sistani, who is yet to say anything about the conflict, also has a lot at stake in case he intervenes.
“There is a big uncertainty with the Sadrists if Sistani did intervene, as it would hurt his credibility if any side does not listen, even if it is the Sadrists who do not follow him as their spiritual leader, as ignoring a Grand Ayatollah like Sistani would be a bold move, especially if it were an unbiased call to all sides and depending on how he would phrase it,” Hadad said.

With clashes ongoing in the Iraqi capital for hours without a break, not much seems to be certain for Iraq’s political future, but the one thing that is clear is the fact that in Iraq, the government has no control over loyalist militias, and in such decisive moments, it is tribal and religious loyalty that runs the country, not a democratic government.

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Iraq: The sighted convoy of Peace Brigade (Sarayat al Salam) with some vehicles fitted with heavy weapons arrives at the Green Zone.

Iraq: Reports via Shafaq media that the Peace Brigades are patrolling the streets in full gear in Basra, Maysan, and Dhi Qar.

raq: Fast air reported over Baiji is likely just the routine coalition CAPs. USAF F16s should be up from Al Dhafra. Their USAF E11 A BACN is up pinging on ADS-B over wadi Therthar where ISIS continues to be active.


Database: Identifiers of Designated Islamic Terrorist Organizations​


Saraya al-Salam​


Not yet designated terrorist by a Western country
Base of operations: Iraq
Background: Report by Jacob Siegel


Saraya al-Salam ("the Peace Brigades") is the revitalized form of Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army in the face of the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq. In light of Muqtada al-Sadr's tensions with Iran in his refusal to support sending Shi'a militiamen to Syria, Saraya al-Salam needs to be understood as a competitor to Iranian proxies like Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq and Kata'ib Hezbollah. Saraya al-Salam has claimed operations in a variety of localities in Iraq including Samarra (as part of the centrality of Shi'a militia narrative of defending the al-Askari shrines in the city) and Jurf al-Sakhr (Sunni Arab majority area in Babil province south of Baghdad and a once long-standing Islamic State hotspot).

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Interesting piece about a call btwn #Hezbollah's secretary-general & Sadr in #Iraq. It's consistent with Nasrallah's increasingly active regional role post-Soleimani. Before becoming prime minister, Kadhimi reportedly interviewed with Nasrallah in Beirut.

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Exclusive: How a call from Beirut averted all-out Shiite civil war in Baghdad​

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Iraqi Shiite cleric and politician Muqtada Al-Sadr with Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon on Apr. 15, 2016. (Photo via Rajanews)
Iraqi Shiite cleric and politician Muqtada Al-Sadr’s sudden demand that his supporters must end clashes with Shiite rivals and vacate Baghdad’s Green Zone followed a phone call from Beirut, Amwaj.media has learned. Speaking on condition of anonymity, informed sources in the capitals of Iraq and Lebanon have both asserted that the Lebanese Hezbollah movement has in past days played a crucial role in containing the eruption of an all-out Shiite civil war in Iraq.
The Lebanese mediation particularly stands out because of the circumstances in which it emerged, sending an important message about the state of the region more than two years after the US assassination of Qasem Soleimani, the former commander of Iran’s Quds Force, and the deputy head of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis...

rest is behind paywall, but wouldn't mind reading it, or similar fact based info on subject. . .
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Exclusive: How a call from Beirut averted all-out Shiite civil war in Baghdad

Iraqi Shiite cleric and politician Muqtada Al-Sadr’s sudden demand that his supporters must end clashes with Shiite rivals and vacate Baghdad’s Green Zone followed a phone call from Beirut, Amwaj.media has learned. Speaking on condition of anonymity, informed sources in the capitals of Iraq and...
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“Israel targeted Aleppo airport to prevent an Iranian plane from landing. The plane changed course to Damascus. The Israeli aircraft returned and bombed Damascus airport,” Sabereen News, a channel close to Iran-backed forces in Syria, reported tonight shortly after Aleppo blasts.
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Initial reports: Aleppo airport in Syria bombed, local sources say Israel carried out attack; Iranian cargo plane heading to airport turns back according to unconfirmed info.
 
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Analysis / Syria Shootout in 2022? Israel vs. Iran Axis​


Israel Radar

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IDF tank in Golan (Archive: IDF/CC)
Israel is set to intensify its military strikes in Syria in 2022, but this time defense officials see a high risk of Iranian retaliation. While Tehran and Jerusalem face off on several fronts, the Syrian arena could be the most explosive and tense in the coming year.
Iran maintains about 20,000 loyal militia forces and multiple assets in Syria despite ongoing Israeli strikes, Yediot Aharonot daily reports.
The Iranians concentrate their activity in the Damascus suburbs, where they set up an array of arms depots and other military sites. The IDF regularly bombs the area and still has many targets on its list, the report says.
In parallel, Israel is engaged in a secret campaign against Hezbollah and other Iranian proxies in the Golan, journalist Alex Fishman revealed in the article. IDF forces carried out numerous operations in recent years, including precise missile strikes and covert ground ops in the Syria border zone, he wrote.
The army is set to intensify the assaults in 2022, while also hitting more Syrian targets that benefit Iran, Fishman said.

Will Iran strike back?​

Notably, Syria could be the most convenient battlefront for Israeli and Iranian military planners.
The IDF continues to prepare for a broad assault on Tehran’s nuclear program but needs more time to build an effective attack plan. The army is also engaged in serious preparations for a war in Lebanon, but Israel and Hezbollah likely prefer to avoid a large conflict for now.
However, in the Syrian theater both sides may feel that they can dial up their military actions without triggering an all-out war.
However, Israel expects the Iran axis to respond to ongoing IDF strikes, possibly soon. The Iranians are very close to reaching the point where they decide to retaliate, defense officials told Israel Hayom daily.
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Analysis / Syria Shootout in 2022? Israel vs. Iran Axis

Israel is set to intensify its military strikes in Syria in 2022, but this time defense officials see a high risk of Iranian...
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Russia Calls on Iran to Evacuate Military Positions in Central, Western Syria​

Friday, 2 September, 2022 - 06:15






Russia has demanded Iranian militias withdraw from military positions west of Syria’s Hama province as well as from positions in central and western Syria, Syrian regime sources revealed.
The order stems from desire to avoid the militias being targeted by Israeli raids, which have stepped up in recent days.
Regime loyalists have accused Russia of being a weak ally over its inability to break its silence on repeated Israeli violations of Syrian sovereignty.
Russia’s demand was made during a meeting that included three Russian officers and their Iranian counterparts at the Hama Military Airport in central Syria on Wednesday.

“Russian officers informed the Iranian side of the need to evacuate Iranian military headquarters near the site of Regiment 49, which belongs to the Syrian regime forces,” a source told Asharq Al-Awsat.
The Regiment 49 site is one of the most important military sites in western Hama because it houses long-range S-200 missiles and other Russian-made military equipment.
“The Russian officers also demanded that the Iranians evacuate a second Iranian military site in the Hamidiya area, south of Tartus governorate on the Syrian coast,” the source added.
The order to evacuate the military locations came so that Iranian militias could avoid Israeli air strikes, confirmed the source.

Moreover, the Russians are seeking to maintain stability in western Syria, and to deprive Israelis of excuses or pretexts to continue the bombing this important part of the country.
Recent Israeli air raids had targeted the Military Scientific Research Center and other camps near the city of Masyaf, 40 kilometers west of the center of Hama governorate.
Iranian militias were using the targeted sites to manufacture and develop weapons, including short-range missiles.
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Russia Calls on Iran to Evacuate Military Positions in Central, Western Syria

Russia has demanded Iranian militias withdraw from military positions west of Syria’s Hama province as well as from positions in central and western Syria, Syrian regime sources revealed. The order stems from desire to avoid the militias being targ
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Baghdad - Asharq Al-Awsat

Calm returned to Iraqi streets on Wednesday, with the Green Zone breathing a sigh of relief after concrete barriers were removed from its surroundings, allowing for all traffic to pass without exception.
A day earlier, bloody clashes had swept the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Comprehensive conflict had erupted between followers of the Sadrist Movement and the Coordination Framework.
Baghdad’s Republic Bridge and Suspension Bridge witnessed the return of normal movement, which facilitated the crossing between the two sides of the Iraqi capital.
During the clashes, Sadrists assumed control of the Republic Bridge while the Coordination Framework followers overran the Suspension Bridge.

Iraq’s Green Zone Breathes a Sigh of Relief as ‘Anxious’ Calm Returns to Baghdad​




Thursday, 1 September, 2022 - 08:00
Taking note of the ongoing dispute between Sadrist Movement leader Muqtada al-Sadr and Coordination Framework leaders, observers described the calm that has returned to the capital as “anxious.”
Coordination Framework leaders, except for Hadi al-Amiri and Haider al-Abadi, did not confront Sadr’s decision to stop the violence with support. Instead, the group released a controversial statement that claims victory over the Sadrist Movement.

For his part, Sadr moved from exclusively accusing armed factions of insolence to casting the accusation against the entirety of the Coordination Framework and the government it intends to form.
At a time when the Iraqi President Barham Salih urged the Coordination Framework to communicate with Sadr, to prepare for early elections, Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi threatened to vacate his position as prime minister.
The situation remains open to all possibilities, and attention is turning to what will be issued by the Federal Supreme Court regarding the requests to dissolve the Parliament.
The court had decided to postpone consideration of the case to dissolve Parliament until Thursday.
On Tuesday, the Federal Supreme Court had postponed hearing the case for dissolving Parliament against the background of a general curfew and disruption of state institutions.
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Iraq’s Green Zone Breathes a Sigh of Relief as ‘Anxious’ Calm Returns to Baghdad

Calm returned to Iraqi streets on Wednesday, with the Green Zone breathing a sigh of relief after concrete barriers were removed from its surroundings, allowing for all traffic to pass without exception. A day earlier, bloody clashes had swept the Ir
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gotta appreciate a man who can use his words and speak with clarity, but, o my, Mo War isn't what the world needs now.



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Update: Turkish President Erdogan threatens Greece "implicitly" with military action in response to the violation of Turkey's airspace in the Aegean Sea.
 
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Israel's Channel 12: Israel's Foreign Ministry has assessed in a report that despite the American position that the views of the Islamic Republic on the text of the JCPOA revival agreement are unconstructive, Iran and the United States will reach an agreement in the coming weeks.
 
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The Israeli military authorized @IranIntl_E’s team to film and report at an Iron Dome base, making it the first Persian-language channel inside the defense system. The @IDF 's move has been described by @ynetnewsas "a message to Iran."
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Mashregh News, a website affiliated with Iran’s IRGC, reported on this development, harshly attacking
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US-Israel Missile Defense Plan Tested in War Exercise​


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Israel-US military cooperation (Archive: IDF/CC)
Israeli and US forces recently tested their joint air defenses in a drill simulating a massive missile assault on Israel. The exercise was held at the end of July but was only cleared for publication now.
During the drill, Israel tested its entire defensive array against rockets and ballistic missiles. In parallel, the American side tested its Patriot, AEGIS, and THAAD systems.
The simulation was held in a unique testing facility to provide real-time data and enable in-depth debriefing, the Defense Ministry said.
The exercise is a message to regional enemies that Israel and America are strong and ready to face any challenge, Defense Minister Benny Gantz said. The US and Israel will activate their joint missile defense plan in case of a full-scale war with Iran and its proxies.
Notably, The IDF and US military held a war game in June to simulate a conflict on multiple fronts.
 
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We might see something weird happen in Iraq in the upcoming days
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If you are referring to the return of MPs (nice title, eh?) It's not so weird. If something else.. dont keep us in the suspence man!
 
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deal watch​


Iran negotiations in flux as Western negotiators temper expectations​



Josep Borell, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy speaks during a joint press conference at Iran’s foreign ministry headquarters in Tehran on June 25, 2022. (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)
Efforts to reach a new nuclear agreement with Iran hit a new impasse over the weekend, after Tehran voiced discontent with the most recent draft submitted by E.U. negotiators. Josep Borrell, the E.U.’s top diplomat, said on Monday that the odds of reaching a new agreement were diminishing and suggested that observers should not expect an imminent agreement between the parties, while a U.S. official toldPolitico that Iran’s response to the proposal was “not at all encouraging.” Meanwhile, a newly released 80-page Swedish intelligence report warned that Tehran had attempted to purchase nuclear technology from the Scandinavian nation as recently as last year.
Transatlantic talk: A bipartisan group of legislators visiting Israel this week — Sens. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Marcia Blackburn (R-TN), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) and Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) — addressed the current state of negotiations as well as conversations between Israeli and U.S. officials at a press briefing in Jerusalem on Monday afternoon. Menendez, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told reporters that the administration has committed to submitting any agreement it reaches with Iran for congressional review, but added that he was “unsure” if there would be sufficient votes in the Senate to block the agreement — 60 are needed for the initial vote, and two-thirds would be needed to override a presidential veto.
Free rein: U.S. Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides, who met with the delegation as well as Mossad chief David Barnea on Monday, said afterward that President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid last week that the U.S. “will not tie Israel’s hands” if it chooses to act against Iran.
D.C.-bound: Barnea is now headed to Washington for meetings with U.S. officials including CIA Director Bill Burns. Barnea is also expected to meet with members of the Senate Intelligence Committee; the committee is scheduled to meet on Wednesday “to receive a closed briefing to examine certain intelligence matters.”
On air: Amid heightened tensions in the region, the U.S. military sent a pair of B-52 bombers with nuclear capabilities on a Middle East flyover, a move that a top Air Force official said demonstrated the U.S. “ability to combine forces to deter and, if necessary, defeat our adversaries.”
Save the date: Special Envoy for Iran Rob Malley will brief members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Sept. 14.
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Daily Kickoff: Negotiators suggest Iran deal not imminent + Arnold Roth joins JI’s podcast

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Alleged Israeli airstrikes target Syrian airports twice in one week​


By TZVI JOFFRE

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Last week, alleged Israeli airstrikes hit Damascus and Aleppo airport within an hour.​

Published: SEPTEMBER 6, 2022 20:36
Updated: SEPTEMBER 6, 2022 21:06

Illustrative image of an airstrike.
(photo credit: ABED RAHIM KHATIB/FLASH90)
Alleged Israeli airstrikes targeted the Aleppo and Deir al Zor airports in northern Syria on Tuesday night, according to Syrian state news agency SANA.
The strikes come less than a week after alleged Israeli airstrikes targeted the international airport in Aleppo in northern Syria and sites near Damascus, including the international airport in the city.
Those airstrikes came less than a week after alleged Israeli airstrikes targeted the Syrian Scientific Studies and Research Center (SSRC) in Masyaf, located southwest of Aleppo. Two civilians were reportedly injured in the strikes and material damage was caused. The strikes sparked a number of fires.

Last week's airstrikes​

Satellite imagery from Planet showed large areas around the SSRC in Masyaf damaged by fires. According to Syrian reports, secondary explosions continued for hours after the strikes along with blazes caused by the strikes. Local residents were reportedly instructed to shelter in place until the fires were brought under control.
Smoke rises from shelling on the road to Aleppo international airport, Syria October 28, 2016. (credit: REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah)
While a number of alleged Israeli airstrikes have targeted sites near Aleppo in recent years, the last alleged Israeli airstrike that targeted the airport before the strike last week was reported in 2019.
Earlier this year, after alleged Israeli airstrikes destroyed runways at the Damascus International Airport, Iranian airlines suspected of smuggling weapons and equipment to Iran-backed militias in Syria and Lebanon reportedly began landing in Aleppo instead of Damascus
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TurkishFacts4u
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Turkish Officials: “France does not deter us. We will continue to pursue our State interests in East Med. France sees Turkiye as a competitor in Africa & is seeking to use Greece as a means of pressuring Turkiye. We merely laugh at such endeavours as they cannot challenge us”
 
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