Iran
The strikes targeted several sites near the town of Zakiyah, including military bases used by Iranian militias, according to Israeli media reports.
“All parties involved in the talks are working hard to resolve two or three remaining issues that are sensitive,” an Iranian official said.
Tehran and Moscow are coordinating their positions at the highest levels, and are even deliberating with regard to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action as the Vienna talks enter their final stretch.
The world order is undergoing a “huge upheaval” in Ukraine, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett tells senior Israeli security officials.
According to York University’s Farhad Rezaei, what distinguishes Iran when it comes to persecution of Christians is that it is pursuing a “strategy of eliminationism” — an organized, unrelenting, Nazi-like campaign to reduce the Christian presence in the Middle East.
Two sources involved in the Vienna talks said that Iran has made new demands while continuing its assistance on previous ones.
Saudi political analyst says that Israel is not the only “plundered” and that from the Saudi perspective Iran plunders Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Bahrain.
Why is the United States—Israel’s “greatest ally”—so obsessed with a nuclear deal if it is not effective, cannot be monitored, and will ultimately hurt Israel and others in the region?
“It is my duty to prepare the security establishment of Israel to be ready to act, when and if needed at any given time, in the present and future. Israel will defend its people at any time when it feels it needs to do so,” said Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz.
The new agreement taking shape will pave the way for Iran to become a nuclear threshold state, says former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “It is a horrible deal. We should oppose it with every fiber of our being.”
The former prime minister calls for Jerusalem to sound the alarm on the agreement emerging in Vienna.
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz focused his comments on threats posed by Iran, especially if it is able to produce a nuclear weapon.