Iran
“If you do not have a credible military threat against Iran, you essentially have nothing,” the former Israeli prime minister tells “Fox & Friends.”
Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid was told by the White House that the president is “on vacation,” according to Israeli media reports.
The Biden administration’s review of Iran’s response to the final E.U. draft agreement has been completed, and its response has been conveyed to the Europeans, says U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price.
“If the media of the world would support the opponents of the regime and show the true face of this criminal cult, they [Iranian repressive leaders] will be forced to retreat,” said Mitra Jashni, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Farashgard Foundation.
Israel and America simulated air raids on Iran and the seizure of Iranian warships in the Persian Gulf, according to an Arabic website.
Nader Hashemi suggested that Israel’s motive for such an attack is its opposition to efforts in reviving the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal.
“We are not prepared to live with a nuclear threat above our heads from an extremist, violent Islamist regime. This will not happen. Because we will not let it happen,” said the Israeli prime minister.
“One way or another, the State of Israel is not a party to the agreement” and is not committed to any of the restrictions stemming from it, says former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett.
“Mideast News Hour” with Caroline Glick and guest Victoria Coates and Simone Ledeen
Most parties to the original accord have signed off on the new one, but the United States has not yet responded, says E.U. foreign-policy chief Josep Borrell.
“The U.S. is acting as if the IRGC is a separate entity from the regime, but it isn’t,” says Bar-Ilan University lecturer Eyal Pinko.
The U.S. administration has reportedly sought to reassure Israel that a new accord would not include major concessions by Washington.
