Iran pledges to help Hamas hide missiles - Aaron Klein - http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/iran-pledges-to-help-hamas-hide-missiles/?cat_orig=world
Gaza terrorists fears U.N. inspectors overseeing dismantlement
The Iranian-backed Hezbollah is currently consulting with Hamas on how to hide missiles and munitions in the Gaza Strip from the discovery of international inspectors, informed Middle Eastern security officials told WND.
The newfound Hezbollah aid, coordinated directly with Iran, is being offered as a precaution amid truce talks that may bring inspectors to the Gaza Strip to ensure Hamas' rocket infrastructure is dismantled, the officials said.
Asked about the report, an Egyptian official directly involved in the cease-fire negotiations told WND that Israel is indeed currently demanding the demilitarization of Hamas as a precondition for any future truce.
Specifically, in the truce talks, Israel is floating the possibility of United Nations or other international inspectors overseeing the dismantlement of Hamas's missile infrastructure after a cease-fire is eventually imposed.
Sources in Jerusalem confirmed that the concept of international inspectors ensuring the disarmament of Hamas' rocket and missile caches was discussed today by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
After their private meeting, Netanyahu and Ban held a joint press conference in which the Israeli leader affirmed his country's right to defend against missile attacks.
"The people of Gaza are the victims of the brutal Hamas regime," Netanyahu said.
Ban called for an end to Israel's military campaign in Gaza and the resumption of "peace talks" aimed at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Israel's military campaign has reportedly extended beyond the Gaza Strip.
The Israel Air Force carried out a surgical strike on a warehouse in Sudan housing long-range missiles destined for Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the London-based Arabic newspaper Al-Arab reported Monday.
Last week, WND exclusively reported Hezbollah was implementing plans to rearm Hamas in Gaza with more missiles following any truce, according to informed Middle Eastern defense officials.
Al-Arab on Monday quoted unnamed sources in Sudan divulging the warehouse was bombed Friday by Israel, contradicting Sudanese officials who had claimed the explosion was caused by a fire.
Al-Arab reported the Sudanese government imposed a total media blackout on the incident to cover up its relationship with Hamas. Sudan claimed the warehouse contained training equipment and not rockets.
There have been numerous reports in the past of Israel bombing weapons convoys in Sudan destined for Gaza, including at least two such strikes in 2011 and another in 2009. Israeli officials have claimed some of the weapons convoys were coordinated with Iranian help.
In addition to the alleged plan to ship more weapons to Hamas in Gaza and the new plan to help Hamas hide its rockets, WND last week reported Hezbollah reopened an operational room with Hamas to coordinate regional militant developments, according to informed Mideast defense officials.
The operational room, commissioned at the direction of Iran, is in Lebanon. It is coordinating with Hamas command-and-control in the Gaza Strip, the defense officials said.
Iran Calls on Syria, Hezbollah, Hamas to 'Ink Defense Pact' Against Israel - Joshua Levitt - http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/22/iran-news-agency-fars-iran-urges-palestinian-syrian-lebanese-resistance-groups-to-ink-defense-pact/
Iran's semi-official state news agency Fars on Tuesday cited Commander of Iran's Basij Force, Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi, as calling on the "resistance groups in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon to sign a defense treaty to help and support each other" against Israel.
"We ask the resistance forces in Palestine, Syria and Lebanon to endorse a defense pact so that an attack on any of them will be an attack on all of them and if the Zionist regime makes an aggression against any of them, all of them will grow united to confront it," Naqdi said in Tehran on Monday night.
Fars's brazen headline, 'Iran Urges Palestinian, Syrian, Lebanese Resistance Groups to Ink Defense Pact,' was further confirmation of accusations made by U.S. Congressman Ed Royce, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, that Tehran's foreign policy is "subversive, sectarian, and set on goals that would come at the expense of U.S. interests in the region."
Pundits have long accused Iran of working through its proxies in Syria, Lebanon and Gaza, but Israel's Operation Protective Edge against Hamas in Gaza has brought what had been said in private out into the open, with Iranian leaders proudly announcing that they have been supplying Hamas with missiles and drones, even as Iranian diplomats try to convince the world they are peaceful nation deserving of a nuclear program.
In Tehran, Naqdi said, "The Islamic Republic has and will always be beside the Palestinian nation," and, in the words of Fars, "warned the Zionist regime that Muslims will not sit idly [by] to witness aggression against their brothers in Gaza, 'rather they will certainly show a firm and serious reaction.'"
Iran's Javan, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, wrote last week that "the [Iranian] regime also provides important aid to the Palestinian fighters, including military weaponry... This measure by the Islamic Republic - arming the Palestinian groups - is carried out publicly, and not in secret, and has even been publicly emphasized by the leader [Khamenei]," according to a translation by MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Institute, published yesterday.
Javan wrote: "Honestly, what reason does Iran have to conceal its comprehensive support for the defenseless Palestinian people? Undoubtedly, it [is a source of] great pride for Iran that the simplest Ababil drones, produced by the Islamic Republic [of Iran] and operated by the Hamas fighters, managed to turn the skies of the occupied territories [i.e., Israel] into the skies of [Hamas] and [even] hide from the [Israeli] regime's expensive radars and air defense systems. [It is a source of great pride for Iran] that Fajr-5 missiles, which are planned and manufactured by the military industries of the Islamic Republic, are in the hands of the Hamas fighters, [to be used] as tools of defense."
Javan reminded readers that "18 months ago, during the previous war between Hamas and Israel, IRGC Commander Jafari announced proudly and clearly that the Islamic Republic had provided the oppressed people of Gaza with the technology to manufacture Fajr-5 missiles."
In 2012, Iran's Fajr-5 missiles were fired from Gaza at Tel Aviv.
On Tuesday, Fars reported that, in Lebanon, Hezbollah Secretary General Seyed Hassan Nasrallah on Monday spoke with exiled Hamas Chief Khaled Mashaal by phone, and said, in the words of Fars, that "Hezbollah and the Lebanese resistance will support the Palestinian Intifada and resistance, with all their hearts, willpower, hope and destiny."
Fars said that Nasrallah also phoned Ramadan Abdullah Shallah, leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad Movement, to discuss battle strategy in Gaza.
In 2012, days after Hamas fired its Fajr-5 missiles at Tel Aviv, Hezbollah put the same weapon on display at a rally in the suburbs of Beirut. At the event, Nasrallah warned that, if provoked, it would rain those rockets on Israeli cities, indicated on a giant map to the right of the missile.
Iran Releases Video Of Israel Under Nuclear Attack As 10,000 Riot In West Bank - http://www.nowtheendbegins.com/blog/?p=23644
Events are reaching an unavoidable flash-point in Israel
"I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence, And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth." Isaiah 62:6,7
Violence broke out Thursday night near the Kalandia checkpoint, located in the West Bank between Jerusalem and Ramallah, as residents of the West Bank village clashed with police in protests against the IDF's operation in the Gaza Strip.
Some 10,000 Palestinians protested near the checkpoint, throwing rocks, firebombs and fireworks at Israeli security forces, and setting tires ablaze. The IDF forces and Border Police were using crowd dispersal means on the masses.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, stated on Wednesday that the only solution for the region is the destruction of Israel, and that the armed confrontation must expand beyond Gaza. Meanwhile, revolutionary guards announced new missiles which could destroy Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system.
Fars News Agency, a media outlet run by the Iranian state, reported today that Khamenei addressed the conflict in Gaza in a meeting with Iranian college students.
"These crimes which are beyond imagination and show the true nature of the wolfish and child killer regime, which the only solution is its destruction," the ayatollah declared to his audience. "However, until that time, the expansion of the armed resistance of the Palestinians of the West Bank is the only way to confront this wild regime."
Huge Iran al-Quds Day rallies call for 'Death to Israel' - http://www.timesofisrael.com/huge-iran-al-quds-day-rallies-call-for-death-to-israel/
Zionist regime should be demolished 'by a referendum,' says Iran's leader, as Rouhani blasts world's silence
Iranians rallied nationwide on Friday in a show of support for Palestinians as archfoe Israel pursued its campaign against Hamas and other groups in the Gaza Strip.
Demonstrations were held in Tehran and more than 700 towns and cities across the country on the last day of prayer and rest of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, state television reported.
In the capital, footage showed demonstrators, carrying placards proclaiming "Death to Israel" and "Death to America," converging from nine different points on Tehran University in the city center.
Iran holds al-Quds Day (Jerusalem Day) rallies in support of the Palestinians every year on the last Friday of Ramadan, but this year's demonstrations came on the 18th day of Israel's campaign against rocket-firing and tunnel-digging Hamas extremists in Gaza. Hamas has fired over 2,000 rockets into Israel. It has also built dozens of "attack tunnels" under the border, and attempted five attacks from the tunnels in the past two weeks, killing six Israeli soldiers; Israel killed 20 gunmen emerging from the tunnels.
According to figures from the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, more than 800 Palestinians have been killed in the assault on Gaza and the Islamist Hamas movement that dominates it and has long been supported by Iran.
Rockets and mortar rounds fired into Israel have killed three civilians - two Israelis and a Thai farm worker - and fighting in and around Gaza has killed 33 Israeli soldiers in all.
"The Islamic world must in unison declare this day one of anger, hatred, unity and resistance against Israel," President Hassan Rouhani said at the Tehran demonstration.
Rouhani, who has overseen a fledgling rapprochement with the West, condemned "those who stay silent in the face of the Zionist regime's crimes.
"The world demands an end to the Gaza blockade, opening the Rafah crossing and halting attacks on Gaza so its people can live normally," he said.
He was referring to the demands of Hamas for any truce with Israel to end the deadly violence. The Rafah Border Crossing between Gaza and Egypt is the territory's only one not controlled by Israel. The blockade is maintained by Israel and Egypt to prevent Hamas smuggling in weaponry.
'Continue the struggle'
General Hossein Salami, second in command of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, struck a defiant tone in a speech broadcast on state television.
"Now no place in the occupied territories is safe for the Zionists. The missiles of Palestinian fighters have a range well beyond what the Zionists believe," he claimed.
"We will continue, house by house, and avenge the blood of martyrs shed in Palestine."
Salami's sentiments were echoed by demonstrators.
"My message to the Palestinians is this: Continue the struggle until your last drop of blood. Islamic countries, especially Iran, are behind you to save you," a young protester named Hassan told AFP.
Iran does not recognize Israel's existence, and supports Palestinian terrorist groups that fight it.
On Thursday, the speaker of Iran's parliament, Ali Larijani, told state television's Arabic service that Tehran had provided Hamas with the technology it has used to rain down rockets on Israel.
"Today, the fighters in Gaza have good capabilities and can meet their own needs for weapons," he said.
"But once upon a time, they needed the arms manufacture know-how and we gave it to them."
During the last major conflict in and around Gaza in November 2012, Larijani said Iran was "proud" to have provided "both financial and military support" to Hamas.
Israel accused Iran of supplying Gaza militants with its Fajr-5 missile, which has a range of 75 kilometers (45 miles), for use during that conflict.
But the commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, General Mohammad Ali Jafari, said at the time it was not the missiles that had been supplied, but their technology.
The statements came after Iran's Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday night that the "Zionist regime" must be destroyed. This should be achieved "by a referendum of the people living there," but until that happens, there should be "total armed resistance" against it. That resistance by the Palestinians should be helped by the provision of arms, he added, condemning Israel's recent "savagery."
Khamenei's speech was reported both by Iran's semi-official FARS news agency and the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
He said Israel, which he did not refer to by name, had always practiced and taken pride in using "overt violence.
"They perpetrated any violent act they could think of against the (Palestinians)," he told a cheering crowd of Iranian university students in Tehran. "They stop at nothing. This is the reality of the Zionist regime. The only solution is to destroy this regime."
Iran's supreme leader calls for end to 'murderous' Israeli regime - http://news.yahoo.com/irans-supreme-leader-calls-end-murderous-israeli-regime-215830536.html
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday called for a referendum canvassing the Arabs and Jews that live in Israel in order to end the "Zionist state", but said until such a vote could be held, armed resistance was necessary.
Khamenei and his predecessor the Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini have called repeatedly over the years for an end to the Jewish state, including through a referendum in the region, where Palestinians are in the majority.
In his first official comments on Israel since the start of its offensive on the Gaza Strip on July 8, Khamenei reiterated the call.
"There are logical and practical means to this end, which is for people who live and belong there to pick the government of their choice through a referendum. That would be the end of a usurping fake regime," Khamenei, who has the last word in all matters in Shi'te Muslim Iran, said in a speech to university students in Tehran.
Until then, Khamenei said, "while waiting for an end to this cold-blooded murderous regime, mighty armed resistance is the only way to deal with it."
Khamenei made clear for the first time that he was talking about the dismantling of the state of Israel, not the death of Jews.
"Israel's annihilation is the only real cure, but that doesn't mean destroying Jews in this region," he said in his speech, which was posted on his website.
Iran's new president Hassan Rouhani is trying to improve ties with Western countries, including the United States, in a public relations war with Israel.
Israel launched its offensive to halt rocket salvoes by Hamas and its allies, which have struggled under an Israeli-Egyptian economic blockade on Gaza and been angered by a crackdown on their supporters in the nearby occupied West Bank.
As of the end of Wednesday, 687 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and 32 Israeli soldiers had died in the fighting.
Iran is to mark "International Qods Day," an annual event falling on the last Friday of Ramadan, with nationwide organized demonstrations in solidarity with Palestinians and against Israel.
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