Iran - The Trump Decision

Evening Update on May 8:.................. War is On (May 8-9 further down !) US president Donald Trump declares US withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Iran's president Rouhani condemns US president Trump's decision, at the same time declaring that Iran would stick to the treaty as long as it benefits Iran. European leaders from France, Germany and Great Britain, as well as the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, regret Trump's decision. The United Nations UN Secretary General delivered a similar statement. - War is On - About two hours after Trump and Rouhani delivered their speeches, Arab sources from the region reported about "increased missile activity" in Syria. Here an article first published by Middle East Online ميدل ايست اونلاين in London on May 8: اسرائيل تتوعد بتدمير لبنان اذا هاجمها حزب الله Israel threatens with the annihilation of Lebanon when being attacked by Hezbollah. وزير التعليم الاسرائيلي يعلن أن المواجهة أصبحت مع إيران وليس أذرعها فقط ملوحا بتحويل سوريا إلى فيتنام بالنسبة للإيرانيين.ـ Israel's minister of education announced that the confrontation with Iran [in the morning] was not only an advance but as well threatening Syria with a transformation into [another] Vietnam with Iranian connections. 以色列：无需美国帮助也能独自把伊朗炸回石器时代 Israel - It doesn't need America's help, but could as well bomb Iran by itself back to the Stone Age. 最后，不得不说以色列最后的杀手锏了。根据最近曝光 的美国前国务卿鲍威尔的相关邮件，“中东一霸”以色列 拥有至少250余枚核弹。 Finally one cannot avoid mentioning Israel's ultimate "killing mace". Relying on recently exposed interrelated mail of former Secretary of of State [Colin] Powell, "Middle Eastern hegemonist" Israel should be in the possession of at least more than 250 nuclear bombs. [SoHu 搜狐 on May 9, 2018]

Latest news by Reuters press agency:
U.S. President Donald Trump will announce on Tuesday whether he will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. Tehran signed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, with China, France, Germany, Russia, Britain and the United States in 2015.

Iran agreed to curbs on its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of some sanctions. But the withdrawal of the United States would probably sink the deal. If that happens, Iran could retaliate by undermining the interests of Washington and its allies in the Middle East.

Here are some possible scenarios: What could Iran do if Trump pulls out of nuclear deal?


British foreign minister Boris Johnson warns Trump on skipping the nuclear treaty with Iran.





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Iran - Armageddon to Come ?

مجلة: حرب نهاية العالم "هرمجدون" تبدأ خلال أيام

Magazine: The War Ending the World "Armageddon" will Start in Some Days.

This is yesterday's headline (i.e. May 6) of the Russian news center Sputnik quoting the reputed US magazine National Interest. The US article Toward Armageddon: Israel, Iran and the United States Could End up in a War is referring to May 12, the date for President Trump to make a decision on whether the United States will withdraw from the nuclear treaty with Iran.

Yesterday news were spread in the international program of Al-Jazeera TV that Iran's president Rouhani warned of skipping the nuclear deal achieved with support of the Obama administration. Rouhani is quoted as saying that "Iran has its plans ready for such case".

"The Iranian regime, if pushed to the wall as a consequence of repeated attacks on Iranian targets in Syria, may lash out against Israel regardless of the consequences."
[National Interest on May 5, 2018]


Background information on the quoted US source:
The "National Interest", a US magazine on foreign politics founded in 1985, can be seen as an independent source that presents its main goal as follows:
The National Interest seeks to promote, as far as possible, a fresh debate about the course of American foreign policy by featuring a variety of leading authors from government, journalism, and academia, many of whom may at times disagree with each other. But it is only out of such disagreements that dogmas can be dispelled and clarity about America’s proper aims achieved.




نظام طهران في دائرة النار

Tehran Regime in the Circle of Fire.

Another article published today by the influential Arabic daily Asharq Al-Awsat الشرق الأوسط (The Middle East), comes with an evaluation of the tense situation between Iran, Israel and the US by Syrian journalist and writer Fayez Sarah.

The author comes to the conclusion that "the mullahs' regime has put itself in the circle of fire, and it is difficult to get out of it properly, and it will not be able to get the least losses."

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Israel - Approaching War on Iran

العالم الان - إسرائيل تدق طبول الحرب مع إيران

Israel is beating the drums of war.

[Paris Newsشبكة باريس نيوز, Arabic language source, on 5 May 2018]




يبرمان بشأن الحرب مع إيران: أي ثمن ندفعه حاليا أقل بكثير مما سندفعه مستقبلا

Lieberman about war on Iran: [Whatever] price for us to pay at present
is much less than what we have to pay in the future.

The article is referring to Israel's minister of defense Avigdor Lieberman.

[Almadenah News المدينة, Amman / Jordan, on 5 May 2018]


An interesting view on the Middle Eastern conflict was offered by Christian Science Monitor on 4 May. Here are some quotations from their article and which is concentrating on Russia's position in the conflict:

“The roots of the conflict are much deeper than issues over the Iran nuclear deal,” says Vladimir Sotnikov, an independent Middle East expert. “Iran views itself as an ancient civilization, the inheritor of the Persian Empire that once dominated the entire region. The present enmity between Iran and the Arab states of the Gulf, Saudi Arabia in the first place, is just the latest incarnation of a very old feud. Iran sees Israel as just a proxy for the US.”

“For its part, Israel fears that Iran wants to become the regional hegemon, and any force that might block Israeli goals is something it will not tolerate,” Mr. Sotnikov adds. “All this animosity is now unfolding on the Syrian battlefield, with Russia caught in between.”

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“The standoff between Israel and Iran is one of the most complicated problems Russian diplomacy faces today,” says Fyodor Lukyanov, editor of Russia in Global Affairs, a leading Moscow foreign policy journal. “Russia's relationship with Iran is made necessary by their cooperation in Syria. They need each other. But there is also good understanding with Israel. Until recently, Russia managed to keep some balance between those two, but now it's becoming impossible.”

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Russian hopes for solving the long-running Syrian crisis on its terms will depend on keeping Iran and Israel apart in the coming weeks.

“Putin is a pragmatist, and he understands that Israel has a point when it complains about Iranian military presence near its borders,” says Lukyanov. “But he also cannot allow the achievements Russia has made in Syria to be destroyed. He needs to maintain the alliance with Iran, so he will also need to show Israel that there are certain limits that Israel should not exceed. Russia would never clash directly with Israel, but will probably enforce its will by strengthening Syrian air defenses in ways that restrain Israel's field of action.”

The Alleged Israeli-Saudi Connection

Last Update: 5 May

Saudi-Arabia, the home of an especially strict Sunni-Islam, seems to enjoy secret ties with Zionist Israel as both countries have a common enemy who is posing a threat to their bid for supremacy in the region. Iran, traditionally dominated by Shia-Islam, has become the competitor of, both, Riyadh and Tel Aviv .

No wonder allegations are spreading that both adversaries might secretly unite to fight the Islamic Republic of Iran. While Saudi- Arabia finds Iran in support of Houthi forces in Yemen and who are endangering Riyadh's control on their Arabic neighbour that has always been an important source of cheap working power for the Saudi economy, Israel is fearing Iranian influence on militant Arab organizations like Hezbollah and who are traditionally hostile to the Jewish state. As the chaotic situation in Syria is providing the base for pro-Iranian activity, Israel is now facing a realistic danger to its very existence and which had not been the case to such extent during the last decades when the Jewish state concentrated on keeping the Palestinian Arabs, their Semitic brethren, in a state of apartheid and national uncertainty.

What makes things even more difficult is the fact that Israel and Saudi-Arabia are both connected with the United States in manifold ways. That makes up for a dangerous triangle of power which could blow up all of the Middle East, especially with an unpredictable president Trump heading the dominant position of that constellation.

Here an Iranian publication by Press TV from yesterday 2nd May:




Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's Committee on National Security and Foreign Policy Alaeddin Boroujerdi (center) speaks at a press conference in Damascus, Syria, May 1, 2018.

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Le journal saoudien Okaz : «La guerre avec l’Iran est imminente»

The Saudi journal Okaz: "War with Iran is looming".

Le journal saoudien Okaz prédit que le Moyen-Orient sera bientôt témoin d’une guerre contre l’Iran en Syrie, ajoutant que celle-ci deviendrait plus tard une guerre directe entre Israël et l’Iran. Et, officiellement, cette guerre aurait pour objectif de détruire les capacités militaires et surtout nucléaires de l’Iran. «Un scénario se profile à l’horizon. Une guerre contre la présence iranienne en Syrie sera bientôt menée avec le soutien de l’Occident», observe la même source, qui insiste aussi sur l’idée que le Moyen- Orient va entrer dans une zone de turbulences.

The Saudi-Arabian journal "Okaz" predicts that the Middle East will soon witness a war against Iran in Syria, adding that this one would turn, much later, into a direct war between Israel and Iran. And, officially, this war would have as a goal the destruction of Iran's military and, above all, nuclear capacities. "Some scenario is depicting itself on the horizon: A war against the Iranian presence in Syria will soon be realized with Western support", remarks the same source and insists, as well, on the idea that the Middle East is going to enter into a zone of turbulences.

Le journal a souligné que l’hypothèse d’une guerre imminente entre Israël et l’Iran est renforcée par les déclarations hostiles de Washington et Tel-Aviv contre Téhéran. Cette semaine encore, le ministre israélien de la Défense, Avigdor Liberman, a annoncé que «le régime iranien vit ses derniers jours et a promis que son pays allait neutraliser le nucléaire iranien». «On pense que les principaux pays occidentaux soutiennent Israël contre l’Iran, mais de nombreux experts estiment que l’affrontement imminent nécessite une réflexion approfondie en raison des risques qu’elle peut poser dans la région et dans le monde», a, cependant, conclu Okaz.

The journal underlined that the assumption of a looming war between Israel and Iran is being supported by hostile declarations against Tehran coming from Washington and Tel Aviv. This week, as well, Israel's minister of defense, Avigdor Liberman, announced that "the Iranian regime is experiencing its last days and promised that his country is going to neutralize Iran's nuclear [capacity]". "It is believed that [all] important Western countries would support Israel against Iran, but numerous experts consider that an imminent confrontation would need profound reflection regarding the risks it would pose for, both, the region and the world", concluded Okaz.

[Algérie Patriotique, Algier, quoting the Saudi-Arabian journal Okaz on 4 May 2018]

Israel's Nuclear Weapons Program

Important Updates added on 2nd / 3rd May !



The history of Israel's nuclear weapons program.




The BBC film that exposed Israel's secret illegal nuclear weapons (FULL Documentary)




Israels illegal Dimona Nuclear Weapons Factory In 3D




New York Times article published on 2nd May 2018




Israel on the Brink of War [Haaretz, Israel, on 30 April 2018]




Photo: Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) stationed near Kiryat Shmona in the north.

The north is unprepared for an escalation with Iran, should it occur, said MK Amir Peretz (Zionist Union), who served as minister of defense during the Second Lebanon War, on Tuesday. Israel's main problem, he added, is Iran trying to "incite threats in Syrian territory." [MK = Member of Knesset, Israel's parliament]

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"A central point is that in the North, we are not prepared from the perspective of defending the home front, we have a lot to do," he told Army Radio. "We have to invest close to NIS 2 billion so that we will be prepared on the northern front."

In March, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman made similar comments, saying, “If we want fortifications in the North, there must be a multi-year plan of one billion shekels a year. This is the minimum to bring the north to the level of the south.”

[Quotations from the Jerusalem Post on 1st May 2018]



Latest news about Israel's currency on 1st May 2018.




Photo: Air defense units.

إسرائيل تستعد للحرب على إيران.. وتطلب الدعم الأميركي

Israel prepares for the war on Iran ..... calling for support from America.

[Hakaek Online الحقائق أون لاين, Tunis, on 1st May 2018]




Israel Sees Iran War Looming as Mideast Tinderbox Awaits a Spark.
[Bloomberg on 30 April 2018]

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Netanyahu - The Great Theft

Tonight, only two hours ago, Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a great show in a life broadcast to the world when he presented lots and lots of documents belonging to an Iranian nuclear program named "Project Amad". These documents, having become obsolete after Iran signed the denuclearization treaty, were recently relocated and stored in a shabby hut in the outskirts of Tehran. From there they must have been stolen by Israeli agents.

But first some words about Israel's own nuclear weapons. Their existence had much earlier been indicated by some cryptic answer given by deputy-defense minister and later president Peres to former US president Kennedy when Kennedy had inquired into Israel's nuclear ambitions: "I can assure you that we won't be the first to apply nuclear weapons". You should keep this in mind before you turn to Netanyahu's "breaking exposure" of an Iranian nuclear program.





The Grand Theft.



Netanyahu playing into the hands of US president Trump.

And by the way, I still remember that Saddam Hussein's administration in Iraq kept some similar feasibility study for a nuclear weapon and which was abandoned after Israel had bombed Saddam's secret research reactor into a ruin. That study became known only by chance when the Bush administration published masses of unchecked documents on the internet, in the hope US patriots would volunteer with their Arabic language skills to participate in the translation which surpassed government capacity. When some reader sounded the alarm, the web portal was closed in a hurry.

Syria - Israel Started the War

In a news flash, [Syrian] state television said the missile attacks took place at 10:30 p.m.

“Syria is being exposed to a new aggression with some military bases in rural Hama and Aleppo hit with enemy rockets,” an army source was quoted as saying without elaborating.

Earlier, state television said successive blasts were heard in rural Hama province and that authorities were investigating the cause.

An opposition source said one of the locations hit was an army base known as Brigade 47 near Hama city, widely known as a recruitment center for Iranian-backed Shi’ite militias who fight alongside President Bashar al-Assad’s forces.

An intelligence source who closely follows Syria said it appeared that multiple missile strikes hit several command centers for Iranian-backed militias and there were dozens of injuries and deaths.

The strikes hit weapons warehouses, and further explosions were heard, the source who requested anonymity said.

[Reuters press agency on 30 April 2018]




وحدة مراقبة إسرائيلية ترصد كل حركة على الأرض السورية تحسباً من ثأر إيراني

مسؤول: الرصد على الحدود مع سوريا أصعب من الجبهات الأخرى

Israeli control unit monitoring every movement on Syria's territory
counting on an Iranian revenge.

Official: The reserve at the Syrian border is the most difficult
[in comparison with] other fronts.

[Asharq Al-Awsat الشرق الأوسط on 30 April 2018]




هذا ما قاله مصدر عسكري سوري عن استهداف إيرانيين في هجمات ريف حماة وحلب

This is what the Syrian military source said about targeting Iranians
in Hamaa and Aleppo countryside attacks.

قال مصدر عسكري سوري، إنه لا صحة حتى الآن، لما أثير بشأن مقتل عسكريين إيرانيين في القصف الصاروخي الذي استهداف ريف حماة وحلب ليل أمس الأحد.ـ

A Syrian military source said there is no certitude up to now about the killing of Iranian soldiers in the missile attack which targeted the region of Hamaa and Aleppo last Sunday night.

كما أفاد مصدر ميداني لوكالة "سبوتنيك"، أن الضربات التي استهدفت مستودع للذخيرة بريف حماة التابع للواء 47 بالجيش السوري قد أسفرت عن مقتل 12 جندي وإصابة عدد كبير من الجنود في الموقع.ـ

As a source ["from the battle ground"] told the office of [Russia's news center] "Sputnik", the blows had been targeting an ammunition depot in the region of Hamaa belonging to "brigade 47" of the Syrian army and had resulted in the death of 12 soldiers and a big number of wounded in the garrison.

[Addiyar الديار, Beirut, on 30 April 2018]

Editor's Note: As published numbers of the dead and wounded after the above described Israeli attacks are steadily rising, I decided to refrain from any "bodycount update".

Korea - Peace, Joy and Cookies

Last Update: 29 April





Last week North Korea announced it will cease all nuclear testing and will be shutting down its main testing facility at Mount Mantap. Although some believe the decision came because of easing tensions between the country and the world, others think Mount Mantap may have come down with a bad case of "tired mountain syndrome."

But what exactly is tired mountain syndrome, and how does a mountain "catch" it?

It turns out that repeated nuclear blasts can weaken the rock around underground nuclear test sites, eventually making them unsafe or unusable — which may just have happened with North Korea's preferred testing grounds. [Quotations from Live Science on 27 April 2018]


Editor's Note:

This is how international pressure (combined with geological pressure) can turn a "rogue state" leader into a "nice guy" ! His country might even turn from a "rogue state" into the "paradise of a fallen angel", at least in the eyes of a global community. But be sure that some sinister characters are already busy to define another "rogue state" that could serve as a substitute:




[Press TV, Iranian news service on 27 April 2018]

Quotations from the Iranian article:

[Iran's ambassador to the United Nations] Khoshroo criticized the United States and other members of the [UN security] council for granting Israel a sense of "exceptionalism" that has allowed Tel Aviv to constantly undermine peace in the region without ever having to worry about the consequences.

"The impunity this regime has enjoyed for so long wouldn’t have been possible without the help it receives from the US and certain interest groups," he added.




[Bloomberg News on 29 April 2018]

Quotations from the Bloomberg article:

Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz said Iran is even more vulnerable to such pressure than North Korea because it doesn’t yet have nuclear weapons, while its people are less cowed by their leaders and wouldn’t passively accept tighter economic sanctions.

“If it happens in North Korea, it’s proof that this way works and will work with Iran,” Katz said in an interview in New York. “Whether through fixing the nuclear agreement or nixing it, such a policy could even lead to the fall of the regime. Now is the time to be very tough against Iran.”


Related News:

Israel’s army said on Sunday that it had briefly held a Lebanese woman who crossed the border and then repatriated her, a detention Beirut denounced as an abduction.

The Lebanese army said that the woman, Nohad Dali, was taken on Saturday evening from Shebaa, a small disputed area that Israel regards as part of the Golan Heights, which it captured from Syria in 1967, but which Beirut says is Lebanese territory.

“An Israeli enemy patrol carried out the abduction of Nohad Dali,” a Lebanese army statement said.

The Israeli military said two shepherds had crossed the U.N.-demarcated border with Lebanon and that one of them was taken into custody by its troops.

[Reuters on 29 April 2018]




بين «حزب الله» و«إسرائيل».. حرب وشيكة تلوح في الأفق

Between Hezbollah and Israel - An Imminent War is Looming on the Horizon.

[Masralarabia مسر العربية, Kairo, on 29 April 2018]

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April 30, 1975, when the capital of South Vietnam fell into the hands of the pro-communist
guerillas, the Vietkong. That day marked the end of the Vietnamese War and, as well, a
most serious defeat for the United States.




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Israel - Iran - Conflict News

Last Update: 26 April in the evening.

Quotation from an article published by The National in the Emirates on 26 April:

A military confrontation between Israel and Iran in Syria is becoming increasing likely, US Defence Secretary James Mattis warned on Thursday [26 April] as his Israeli counterpart was visiting Washington to discuss the threat.

Mr Mattis delivered his warning of yet another military conflict in the Middle East at a hearing in Congress. Asked if Israel and Iran were edging toward military confrontation, he said: “I can see how it might start, but I am not sure when or where.”

"I think that it's very likely in Syria because Iran continues to do its proxy work there through Hezbollah.”

He accused Iran of not only expanding and strengthening its presence in Syria but also “bringing advanced weapons for Hezbollah through Syria”.

Israel, he said “will not wait to see those missiles in the air and we hope Iran would pull back”.

The Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who met US national security adviser John Bolton and Mr Mattis on Thursday, also warned of a confrontation with Iran.

"Any site in which we see an Iranian attempt to achieve a military foothold in Syria will be struck. We won't let that happen, regardless of the price," he told the [Saudi owned] Arabic news website Elaph.

Israel said it carried out air strikes against Iranian and Syrian targets in Syria in February after one its F16 fighter jets was downed near the Syrian border.







صاعد حرب الظل بين إيران وإسرائيل.. الحرس الثوري مستمر يواصل
تعزيز تواجده بسوريا.. تل أبيب: ما تفعله طهران "خط أحمر"ـ

Proxi-war between Iran and Israel looming.

The Revolutionary Guards are permanently
consolidating their presence in Syria.

Tel Aviv: Tehran [must not cross] the "Red Line".




روسيا: الدفاع الجوي التابع لقاعدة "حميميم" أسقطت أهدافًا مجهولة الهوية

Russia: Air defense of Hamimim base downed unidentified [propelled] targets.

علنت وزارة الدفاع الروسية، أن وسائل الدفاع الجوي التابعة لقاعدة حميميم أسقطت
أهدافًا جوية صغيرة الحجم مجهولة الهوية، دون وقوع إصابات أو أضرار مادية.ـ

Russia's ministry of defense announced that its air defense at Hamimim base downed small sized propelled targets without [suffering] human or material damage.

[Editor's Note: According to the Arab source this news should have been spread today, 25 April, by Russia Today TV. A Russian news broadcast tonight showed missile parts that should belong to intercepted missiles used by the joint US-British-French attack on Syrian facilities allegedly related to chemical weapons production and deployment.]

[Al-Bawaba البوابة, with main offices in Amman and Dubai, on 24/25 April 2018]


Additional Information:

In an interview with the Jerusalem Post the former chief of Mossad, Danny Yatom, spoke about the "Iranian Threat". That interview was published some days ago on 15 April.

One special point mentioned here is the Iranian drone which had entered into Israel and had been destroyed by Israeli forces.

As Yatom puts it, the unmanned object was armed with explosives and was an almost identical replica of some US drone that had fallen into the hands of Iranian military much earlier. If such drone had exploded in Israel, it would have been difficult to directly relate the attack to Iran or its ally Hezbollah.

An interesting quotation from that interview:

“We were alone in the battle.... The [US-British-French] attack on the weekend was purely symbolic and a drop in the ocean. The strike should have hit Assad’s palace in order to truly scare him.”




Russia plans to deliver an anti-aircraft missile system, known as the S-300, to Syria in the near future, Russian Defense Ministry’s Colonel General Sergei Rudskoi told reporters on Wednesday [25 April].

"Russian experts will continue to train Syrian military servicemen, particularly teaching them to use the new missile defense systems that are planned to be delivered to Syria in the near future," he said, according to the Russian news agency TASS.

Russia's sale and pending delivery of these weapons to the Syrian government has been a source of tension between Moscow and Jerusalem. Israel fears the S-300 would hamper its ability to attack military sites in Syria that are dangerous to the Jewish State and would therefore allow Iran to strengthen its military foothold in that country.

"This is by far the most advanced weapons system in air defense in Syrian hands so far," said Brig. Gen. (res.) Assaf Orion, "so theoretically it is an entrenchment to the apparent freedom of action that the Israeli air force enjoys over Syria’s sky.”

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[Russia's ambassador to Israel] Shein said the idea of the S-300 delivery - on which Russia has yet to decide - was a result of the punitive April 14 missile strikes by US, British and French forces on Syria.

[Quotations from the Jerusalem Post on 25 April 2018]

Editor's Note: An earlier blogspot of "blueprint news" already reported about Russian plannings to support Syria with the installation of a missile production near some Russian base.




محللون‭: ‬سوء‭ ‬فهم‭ ‬النيات‭ ‬بين‭ ‬ايران‭ ‬وخصومها‭ ‬قد‭ ‬تؤدي‭ ‬الى‭ ‬حرب‭ ‬واسعة‭ ‬واسرائيل‭ ‬الأكثر‭ ‬استنفاراً

Analysts: A misunderstanding of intentions between Iran and its adversaries
could lead to an extended war and Israel's biggest mobilization.

[Azzaman الزمان, Iraqi newspaper published in London, Baghdad and Beirut, on 25 April 2018]

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Israel's Poisoned Anniversary

While Israel is officially celebrating the 70th anniversary of its existence, a debate is rising on the failure of former Israeli governments to come to terms with Israel's Palestinian neighbours. The blame is being put especially on the actual administration of prime minister Netanyahu who is furthermore accused of turning the eyes of the public away from his own corruption scandal to an immediate danger from Iran.

An Arabic broadcast by Al-Jazeera in Qatar two days ago reminded of King Hussein of Jordan who had become a reliable friend to Israel's former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin during their negotiations when both politicians had tried to solve the regional problems between Jews and Palestinians. This, however, ended with the assassination of Rabin in 1995, committed by an ultranational Jew with relations to the environment of Israel's secret service Mossad and who therefore succeeded to come close enough to his victim. During the lifetime of Rabin the militant confrontation between Palestinian citizens and Israeli soldiers came to a halt. I still remember some German TV report from that time where Palestinians declared that even their children had stopped throwing stones at soldiers and which had become a traditional amusement since the foundation of the Jewish state.

Now, some former chiefs of Mossad are speaking out against the long-standing failure of Israeli politicians to come to terms with the Palestinians, saying that Israel is the only nation in the world whose borders are not defined ......




This is a must read !

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Israeli F-15 Ordered Home amid Tensions with Iran

The Israeli Air Force has decided to scale back its participation in the Red Flag exercise in Alaska amid increasing tensions on Israel’s northern border.

“In light of the situational assessment by the Air Force it was decided to adjust the planes’ participation in the exercise,” read a statement by the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, stressing that nonetheless, “Israel’s first participation in the Red Flag exercise in Alaska will take place as planned.” [IDF = Israel Defense Forces]

According to a statement by Air Force public affairs officer Kitsana Dounglomchan, Israel’s Air Force decided not to send F-15 fighter jets to the two-week-long drill, which will run between April 26 - May 11, out of Eielson Air Force base in Fairbanks and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.

[Quotation from Jerusalem Post on 22 April, 2018, at 16:04 local time]

Israeli Navy names new SA'AR 6 warships arriving from Germany.

On Sunday, Israeli Navy Commander Maj.-Gen. Eli Sharvit announced that the four ships would be named "Magen," "Oz," "Independence" and "Triumph". The decision on the names was determined by a forum headed by the Navy, led by Sharvit.

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Israel is highly dependent on the sea, with over 90% of Israel’s imports arriving via the sea, and while the country’s navy is relatively small compared to other IDF corps, it has a significant amount of territory to protect since the expansion of the country’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) from 40 miles to 150 miles from shore years ago.

While there is no hermetic protection on the sea, due to the threat posed by Hezbollah’s arsenal of Grad rockets and other longer-range projectiles, the navy has upgraded its weapons and defensive systems on its entire combat fleet.

“You can how see the ships are taking shape these days,” Sharvit said. “The arrival of the ships is expected to significantly change the face of the Navy."

“The Navy will employ tools with new capabilities that we do not possess today with excellent and precise defense and attack capabilities for their mission, headed by the defense of the strategic assets of the State of Israel at sea,” he continued.

The construction of the four “Sa'ar-6” class warships was agreed to in a 430 million euro deal between Israel and the German company ThyssenKrupp in 2015.

The first ship is expected to arrive at the end of 2019 with the last by 2021.

Existing Sa’ar-5 and Sa’ar 4.5 ships are being upgraded with the integration of new radars and electronic warfare systems, Israel is set to receive new Dolphin-class submarines and new Sa’ar-6 Corvettes in coming years which are set to be operational by 2021. The Sa’ar 6 will have a crew of 70 sailors, a range of 2500 miles, and advanced capabilities able to deal with a wide range of threats including Iron Dome short range defense missile launchers and Barak-8 long-range surface-to-air missile naval defense system.

They are set to defend Israel’s offshore natural gas reserves as well as other strategic maritime assets.

“The bread and butter of the Sa’ar 6 are its defense and offensive capabilities,” a senior officer stated in February. “I wish we could have this ship on our waters, right now.”




..... and some submarines in addition.

[Quotation from Jerusalem Post on 22 April, 2018, at 17:02 local time]




صحيفة تتوقع أن يكون الرد الإيراني على "إسرائيل" في 15 مايو

Some journal predicts the Iranian response to "Israel" for May 15.

Photo above: Iranian Revolutionary Guards

[Palestine Today فلسطين اليوم on 22 April 2018]

Israel - Iranian Attack Imminent ?

Important Update included on April 19



صحيفة نيويورك تايمز: ضربات إيرانية وشيكة على إسرائيل

New York Times : Iranian blows on Israel are imminent.

كشف مصدر أمني عن عملية وشيكة تحضر لها إيران للهجوم على إسرائيل بواسطة طائرات دون طيار

Some security source revealed an imminent operation that presents itself as an Iranian attack on Israel by unmanned aircraft.

ونقلت صحيفة "يديعوت أحرونوت" الإسرائيلية، عن المصدر الذي لم تذكر اسمه، تحذيره من أن "إسرائيل سترد بقوة على أي عملية انتقام إيرانية ضدها تنفذ من الأراضي السورية"، مشيراً إلى أنه من الممكن أن توجه إيران ضربات داخل إسرائيل عن طريق طائرات دون طيار

The newspaper quoted the Israeli " Yediot Aharonot " as saying that the source which did not mention its name is warning that " Israel will respond strongly to any Iranian retaliation operation against it from Syrian territory ", indicating the possibility that Iran went inside Israel to strike with unmanned aircraft.

[Addyar الزيار, Lebanon, late evening news on 17 April 2018]

There are other Arabic news centers that published similar information at about the same time. But remember: This news is of Israeli origin and has not been confirmed by independent sources so far.

Shortly after that, the Lebanese source published further information on their Facebook site:



روسيا تقترح ردا على الاسد اقامة معمل الصواريخ قرب قاعدة العسكرية الروسية على الساحل

Russia proposes to support al-Assad in the installation of a missile production site near Russia's military base in the coastal area.


Quotation from an article published by Asharq Al-Awsat (The Middle East) on 17 April 2018:

Israel struck an Iran-operated air base in Syria, a senior Israeli military official confirmed on Monday, as Israeli sources reported that Israel sent a clear message to Russia that the sale of the advanced S-300 missile defense system to the Syrian regime will cross a red line. Meanwhile, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said his country will sooner or later respond to the recent crime and aggression of Israel.

It was the first time we attacked live Iranian targets in Syria, both facilities and people, the Israeli military source admitted to New York Times.

This is the first time an Israeli official admits to directly targeting Iranian forces in Syria, given that Israel usually refrains from commenting on any reports about targets.

The official indicated that Israel targeted the Iranian drone command center at the T4 air base in Syria on Monday, in response to an Iranian drone entering Israeli airspace earlier in Febraury.

During the attack, Israel killed 14 people, seven of which were Iranian advisers, including a Colonel who led the drone unit operating out of T4, east of Homs.

That's the attack "blueprint news" already referred to in an earlier blogspot. It should have taken place on Monday 9 April 2018.

The official noted that the armed Iranian drone that entered Israeli airspace "opened a new period," saying that “this is the first time we saw Iran do something against Israel, not by proxy."

This was the second time T4 was targeted. Round one occurred on February 10, when an Iranian drone launched by a Revolutionary Guards Force operating out of Syria’s T4 air base was shot down with a missile from an Israeli Apache helicopter that was following it after it penetrated Israeli airspace.

Reports stated that the drone’s flight path and Israel’s “intelligence and operational analysis of the parts of the Iranian unmanned vehicle” indicated that “the aircraft was carrying explosives” and that its mission was “an act of sabotage in Israeli territory.”

Israeli Media outlets discussed that Israel's admission to the nature of the drone's mission brings the Israeli-Iranian conflict out into public.




The above photo is showing armed Syrian police
on a truck in the town of Douma, Damascus area.

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London visitor interested in Iran.

Syria - US Shelling Damascus

This morning US, British and French forces launched an attack on military bases operated by the Syrian national army of president Basher Assad. Three attacks were intended to disable Syria's capability to apply chemical weapons.




A composite map of Syrian military bases related to chemical weapons
research or storage and which were targeted by a joint US-British-French
airstrike. The US Pentagon claimed the destruction of all targets and said
allied forces applied 103 cruise missiles. Russia claimed the interception
of 71 missiles and which is rejected by the alliance. However, a total of
$ 164 million for the cruise missiles only was burnt within one single hour
in a country already devastated and divided between different militias and
regular troops.




US president Donald Trump announcing airstrikes on Syrian military bases.
Notification made by Syrian army spokesman on a Damascus TV channel.
Damascus TV shows demonstration of regime supporters. [AFP, Paris]




US airstrike on Syrian base in the outskirts of Damascus. Gunfire and detonations.
[Al-Hadath الحدث, news channel of Al-Arabiya العربية in Dubai]


تركيا: أمريكا لم تستخدم قاعدة إنجريليك في ضربات سوريا

Turkey: America didn't use Incirlik [air] base to hit Syria.

الحرس الثوري الإيراني: على واشنطن أن تترقب تبعات عدوانها على سوريا

Iran's Revolutionary Guard: Washington has to await
the consequences for its aggressions towards Syria.

[Sputnik, Arabic language service of the Russian news center on 14 April 2018]


سرائيل: الضربات بقيادة أمريكا في سوريا فرضت الخط الأحمر في سوريا

Israel: The blows in Syria [on behalf of] the US
leadership are imposing a " red line " on Syria.

[Euronews, Arabic language service on 14 April 2018]

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