Iran vows 'Death to Israel' as it unveils its latest missiles during National Army Day parade - Gareth Davies - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4421410/Iran-vows-Death-Israel-unveils-latest-missiles.html
Iran held a huge military parade this morning which featured a missile in front of a sign reading 'Death to Israel' as well as a number of other deadly weapons.
The ceremony was held in the capital Tehran and troops from all units took part to mark National Army Day in the country, but some of the weapons looked a lot like a North Korean missile which critics said was a fake.
President Hassan Rouhani delivered a speech as a conveyor belt of military might was displayed to the gathered high-ranking officials and commanders.
The parade included missiles, tanks, armored vehicles, rifles, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), fighter jets, radar systems and air defense missile systems as well as soldiers in the latest camouflage gear.
National Army Day parades are used to celebrate the military's latest achievements and despite insisting no threat is posed to regional countries, the intimidating missile with the Israel banner raised questions.
The ceremony passed near the mausoleum of the late founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Imam Khomeini, and representatives from Ground Force, Navy, Air Force and Air Defense Force were on the march.
According to Tasnim News, Army Commander Major General Ataollah Salehi, Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri, Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan, Army Ground Force Commander Brigadier General Kiomars Heidari, and ranking commanders of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) attended the ceremony.
Iran an and Israel are bitter enemies and in February Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged British Prime Minister Theresa May to follow the American administration and impose new sanctions on Iran over a missile test earlier this year.
Netanyahu vehemently opposes the 2015 international agreement that imposed curbs on Tehran's nuclear program in exchange for lifting sanctions.
US President Donald Trump is also a critic of the Iran deal and his administration imposed sanctions on more than two dozen companies and individuals after Tehran tested a ballistic missile at the end of January.
In pointed remarks at the start of his meeting with May, Netanyahu said he wished other countries would follow the US lead.
'Iran seeks to annihilate Israel, it seeks to conquer the Middle East, it threatens Europe, it threatens the West, it threatens the world,' he said.
'And it offers provocation after provocation.
'That's why I welcome President Trump's assistance of new sanctions against Iran. I think other nations should follow suit, certainly responsible nations.'
The Trump administration is also perceived as sympathetic to Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land, an issue that caused friction between Netanyahu and former President Barack Obama.
The Palestinians claim the West Bank and east Jerusalem, captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, as parts of a future state.
They say the settlements, home to 600,000 Israelis, are making it increasingly impossible to partition the land into two states - a position that has wide international backing.
Iran an and Israel are bitter enemies and in February Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged British Prime Minister Theresa May to follow the American administration and impose new sanctions on Iran over a missile test earlier this year.
Netanyahu vehemently opposes the 2015 international agreement that imposed curbs on Tehran's nuclear program in exchange for lifting sanctions.
US President Donald Trump is also a critic of the Iran deal and his administration imposed sanctions on more than two dozen companies and individuals after Tehran tested a ballistic missile at the end of January.
In pointed remarks at the start of his meeting with May, Netanyahu said he wished other countries would follow the US lead.
'Iran seeks to annihilate Israel, it seeks to conquer the Middle East, it threatens Europe, it threatens the West, it threatens the world,' he said.
'And it offers provocation after provocation.
'That's why I welcome President Trump's assistance of new sanctions against Iran. I think other nations should follow suit, certainly responsible nations.'
The Trump administration is also perceived as sympathetic to Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian land, an issue that caused friction between Netanyahu and former President Barack Obama.
The Palestinians claim the West Bank and east Jerusalem, captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, as parts of a future state.
They say the settlements, home to 600,000 Israelis, are making it increasingly impossible to partition the land into two states - a position that has wide international backing.
Iran is trying to provoke a Russia-US hot war in Syria - Mark Langfan - http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/20391
In Syria, an ancient game is being played - with people, countries and strategic goals as pawns.
When you boil Syria down to its principal players, there are only three: Russia, the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran. With Assad's chemical attack, people have been misdirected from the reality by blaming the powerless Assad. But Assad doesn't mvoe without direct Iranian permission. So, the real question is why did Iran launch a chemical weapons attack?
The answer is simple: Iran desperately needs Russia and the United States to get into a hot war in Syria so as to enable Iran to pick up the shattered pieces. In contrast, the United States and Russia desperately need each other to defeat Iran's waxing neo-Safavidic Empire from stretching from Iran to the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.
In order to see why Iran is attempting to foment a Russia/US battle, one has to boil the Syrian theater into the child's hand-against-hand game of ROCK/PAPER/SCISSORS-shoot. When one child flashes PAPER against the other child's ROCK, the "paper" envelops and beats the rock. When one child flashes PAPER against the other child's SCISSORS, the scissors cuts and beats the paper. When one child flashes SCISSORS against the other child's ROCK the rock smashes and beats the scissors.
Russia is the "rock," Iran is the "paper," and the United States is the "scissors."
Iran's strategy is to envelope Syria like a piece of paper, topologically combining Iran's Iraqi "paper," along with Iran's Hezbollah/Lebanon "paper" to form a patchwork-quilt Shiite Empire spanning from Iran/Persia through Iraq, and Syria, and Lebanon into the Mediterranean Sea. As an example of this, Iran just announced it was to build a trans-Iran/Iraq/Syria/Lebanon railroad. Russia is the "rock" trying to bash the Sunni opposition to pieces in order to carve-out its eastern Mediterranean naval outpost and military enclave. The United States, through Sec of Def Mattis, under the strategic cover of defeating ISIS in Eastern Syria is the "scissors" against Iran's "paper" Shiite Empire. The United States with its indigenous allies is trying to efficiently occupy eastern Syria from the Kurds in the north to Jordan in the south. By topologically "cutting" off Iran's patchwork piece of paper, Iraq, from Iran's patchwork piece of paper, Syria, the United States is attempting to defeat Iran's waxing paper Shiite Imanate.
Before Iran's chemical attack in the name of Assad, the western Syrian rock strategy of Russia, and the eastern scissors strategy of the United States were avoiding each other, complementing each other, and together quietly weakening the whole Syrian paper envelopment strategy of Iran. This was great for Russia and the US, but bad for Iran. Iran saw the United States' cutting its patchwork-quilt in two in eastern Syria as an existential threat to the grand strategic arc of its contiguous Mesopotamian/Levantian/Mediterranean swatch of Empire. Therefore, Iran had to do something to instigate a hot war between the United States and Russia. And presto, Iran bombs civilians with Sarin using Assad's planes, Assad takes the fall, and Russia and the United States are escalating against each other.
Russia and the United States urgently need each other to thwart Iran's scheme to control the Middle East. It is in both Russia's and United States' worst strategic interests to allow Iran to become the colossus of the Middle East. Syria is big enough for Russia and the United States to find a modus vivendi and live with each other, allowing each to achieve strategic goals. Russia and the United States have a mutually exact goal i- both aim to defeat the ISIS Sunni Caliphate and the Iranian Shiite Imanate. To defeat both Islamic radical terror threats requires Russia and the United States to work together, and not fight each other. In the current war against both Sunni and Shiite radical Islamic terror, the United States and Russia are critically necessary for one another as allies, not inimical enemies.
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