In the United States, discussions of Iran have for the last few years been mostly about the JCPOA—the nuclear deal negotiated by President Obama. In the Middle East, things are different.
This is because while we have been debating, Iran has been acting. And Israel has been reacting. Israel has struck sites in Syria one hundred times in the last five years, bombing when it saw an Iranian effort to move high-tech materiel to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Last month Israel bombed the so-called Scientific Studies and Researchers Center in Masyaf, a city in central Syria, a military site where chemical weapons and precision bombs were said to be produced. Now, there are reports (such as this column by the top Israeli military analyst, Alex Fishman, in the newspaper Yediot Achronot) that Iran is planning to build a military airfield near Damascus, where the IRGC (Revolutionary Guards) could build up their presence and operate. And that Iran and the Assad regime are negotiating over giving Iran its own naval pier in the port of Tartus. And that Iran may actually deploy a division of soldiers in Syria.
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WNU Editor: While the debate on Iran's nuclear deal intensifies in Washington, coupled with warnings from other countries like Russia on what may happen if the U.S. pulls out of the deal .... 'Negative consequences' if Trump quits Iran deal: Kremlin (AFP), Elliott Abrams is right that the situation on the ground in the Middle East is an entirely different story. Iran and Israel are facing each other in Syria .... a face-off that will intensify when the wars in Syria and Iraq have subsided, and Iran can then focus on Israel and elsewhere. In this environment .... where another Israeli war may occur but this time with Iran .... talk about Iran's nuclear deal may become moot.
Update: More threats from Iran directed at the U.S. .... Iran promises 'crushing' response if U.S. designates Guards a terrorist group (Reuters).
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President Trump will look into this issue as soon as he finishes moving the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, as promised
Maybe Netanyahu went to Moscow twice to see what kind of deal he needed to make with Putin, so Israel would not have to go to war with Iran. That is Netanyahu is not a warmonger like the 'lil Eichman ayatollahs that have never wore a military uniform.
Israel might not want to start a war and the trip was exploring how to avoid one.
Netanyahu did this, because you cannot rely on America. To wit Democrats get elected every 4 to 12 years.
We all know that Obama treated Netanyahu like a dog.
"Obama snubbed Netanyahu for dinner with Michelle and the girls, Israelis claim"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/7521220/Obama-snubbed-Netanyahu-for-dinner-with-Michelle-and-the-girls-Israelis-claim.html
JacPac will claim otherwise, but then why did the Israelis snub Obama in 2016 to get back at him?
Besides it is in-line with Obama habitually acting petulant & stupidly.
"the Cambridge police acted stupidly " - Obama
Then Barackkk backtracked and held a beer summit.
There you go again! A specific issue is raised and you quickly move to your one and only thing: The Democrats & Obama...This post has Nothing to do with Obama; it deals with the reality of today.
Clearly you learned little in English 101 classes, or, if you did, you dismiss that in order to repeat, over and over, a sure sign of a bore, the same old nonsense that is tedious and out of place in this commnet on this post.
"There you go again! A specific issue is raised ..."
Yes, whether Israel will exist.
If you are Israel, the chances of survival might be better by relying on Putin than Obama, which is a very cutting condemnation of the Democrat party.
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BTW, how come more liberal than Jewish Debbie Blabbermouth Shultz does not want prosecutors looking at her laptop? It has been seized but the Justice Department is following the law and have not looked not it.
1) National security breaches galore
2) The inner workings of The Beast, errrmm The Machine, uhmmmm the Democrat Party, which will show how the Demo-elite jacked Bernie out of the nomination
3) Routine incompetence, fraud and theft.
That is what is on her laptop.
Maybe just porn?
Poor Debbie...but let us not note the pesonal servers used by Trump family!
AS is as always ranting, tiresome, badmouthing and of course wandering as though drunk with his hate and fully unable to deal with an issue and stay with it...clearly no better than a C writer in basic freshman English.
Fred, what is a 'pesonal' server?
www.snopes.com/trump-server-tied-to-russian-bank/
Meanwhile we know for a fact that Hillary broke multiple laws.
We have all heard of jury nullification.
What Obama, AG Lynch, & Comey did was prosecutorial nullification.
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