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MESOP NEWS “GLOBAL WAR AHEAD” : ISLAMISM & POLITICAL LEFT AGAINST NATIONAL BOUNDARIES
Zawahiri lectures on global jihad, warns of national boundaries
Posted: 10 Jun 2017 12:06 AM PDT
Ayman al Zawahiri has released another message explaining al Qaeda’s global jihad. He decries those who seek to divide the jihadists’ war according to national boundaries and argues that Muslims face a grand, international conspiracy. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=86623
MESOP TWEETS : PKK/PYD TACTICS FACING A BROAD “YES” TO KURDISH REFERENDUM
pyd rojava @PYD_Rojava 11 June 2017 By New PYD spokesperson Aldar Xelil
Aldar Xelil: Western Kurdistan and Iraqi Kurdistan can establish a confederation system between them that will guarantee Kurdish unity. www.mesop.de
MESOP TWEETS BY TILLERSON – KEEP CALM !
‘We call on… #SaudiArabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain & Egypt to ease the blockade against #Qatar‘ – Tillerson http://on.rt.com/8e9d pic.twitter.com/ttMjAKMpCY
#Tillerson said calls for ‘calm and thoughtful dialogue with clear expectations’ in order to resolve #QatarCrisis. http://on.rt.com/8e9d pic.twitter.com/W2JwddANH3
MESOP TWEETS : CORBYN ? NO !
David Berman The Jewish in UK vote went an astounding 70+ percent for the Conservatives. In this tight race, Jewish defections from Labour may have actually decided the election. British Jews obviously did not like Corbyn. www.mesop.de
MESOP NEWS TODAYS STRATEGIC OUTLOOK – THE ISRAEL PERSPECTIVE
Prospects for a Near East Treaty Organization – Donald Trumps Masterstroke
By Jose V. Ciprut June 10, 2017 – BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 493, June 10, 2017 – Jose V. Ciprut is a social systems scientist and international political economist with professional and academic focus on peace and war econometrics, interregional geopolitics, and regional/local conflict.
US President Donald Trump’s “pilgrimage” to Riyadh, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Rome was carefully choreographed. This first foreign trip by a novice president turned out to be a masterstroke. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=86625
SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)
MESOP NEWS “REACTIONS” : IRAN & PKK & TURKEY AGAINST KURDISH INDEPENDENCE
Iran condemns Kurdish move towards independence, calls for unity of Iraq
June 11, 2017 – ARA News – The Iranian government on Saturday condemned the Kurdish move towards independence in northern Iraq, urging all parties to “respect the Iraqi constitution and maintain unity.”
“This unilateral move by Erbil (capital of Iraqi Kurdistan) is unacceptable,” the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s spokesman Bahram Qasimi said on Saturday.The Iranian statement comes in response to the announcement by the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Masoud Barzani, that September 25 will be a referendum day on Kurdish independence.“The Kurdistan region is a part of Iraq, and it cannot be separated from the country,” Qasimi stressed, calling Kurdistan’s independence referendum “an irresponsible move”. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=86627
WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)
MESOP UPDATE SYRIA: LAVROV – CONTRA TRUMP – Stop Bombing Pro-Assad Forces
By Scott Lucas – eaworldview – 11 June 2017 – Russia has warned the US to stop bombing pro-Assad forces in eastern Syria, enforcing an exclusion zone around a Free Syrian Army base where American special forces are present. Moscow had been relatively low-key about three US airstrikes, two in the past five days, on the forces which include Hezbollah and Iranian-backed Iraqi militia. But on Saturday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (pictured) phoned US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry. — “Lavrov expressed his categorical disagreement with the US strikes on pro-government forces and called on him to take concrete measures to prevent similar incidents in future,” the ministry said. The US is enforcing a 55-km (34-mile) exclusion zone around the Free Syrian Army base at Tanf, near the Iraqi and Jordanian borders. It first intervened in mid-May to stop Hezbollah and Iraqi militia establishing a forward position within the zone. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=86632
MESOP NEWS SPOT : THIS TIME TRUE ? Syrian State TV Claims IS Chief Al-Baghdadi Killed in Raqqa
Basnews English 11/06/2017 – 11:35 – RAQQA — Syrian state television has reported that the leader of Islamic State (IS) Abu Bakr al-Baghadi has been killed in an air strike in Raqqa, Syria. The Syrian state television claims that the IS chief al-Baghdadi was struck in a massive air raid in the group’s stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria.Baghdadi has been reported dead several times before, and his death has not been confirmed this time as well. www.mesop.de
MESOP NEWS – QUOTATIONS : By US Colonel Ryan Dillon, spokesman of the Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve
Coalition confirms use of white phosphorus in fight against ISIS – However, he did not confirm if it was used in Raqqa, or in Mosul. – ARA NEWS 11 June 2017 – On Saturday, an official spokesperson for the US-led coalition confirmed the use of white phosphorus by the coalition forces in the fight against ISIS extremists.
“In accordance with the law of armed conflict, white phosphorus rounds are used for screening, obscuring, and marking in a way that fully considers the possible incidental effects on civilians and civilian structures,” the coalition spokesperson told ARA News, speaking on condition of anonymity. Read more http://www.mesop.de/?p=86644
MESOP NEWS “SURPRISINGLY”: US Officials Credit Russia for Calming Tense Situation in Southern Syria
By Barbara Starr and Ryan Browne 2017-06-11 – (CNN) — US officials are crediting Russia with helping calm the situation in southern Syria, where the US has had to launch several airstrikes against Iranian backed Shia militias and pro-regime fighters in recent days.Pentagon spokesman US Navy Captain Jeff Davis stated: “Russia has been very helpful and I think the calm that we see today is largely due to their efforts.” Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=86646
MESOP FLASH : PUTIN & RUDSKOJ SEE “POSITIVE DEVELOPMENT” / BUT NO “FINAL SOLUTION” INSIGHT
Top Russian General Says Syria Civil War ‘Practically Stopped’
By Henry Meyer – Bloomberg – 2017-06-11 00:57 GMT – A top Russian general said the six-year civil war in Syria has been “practically stopped,” in part thanks to the establishment of four safe zones there under an initiative aimed at shoring up a cease-fire. But President Vladimir Putin said a lasting resolution remains distant.Lt. General Sergei Rudskoi said that Syrian government forces backed by Russian air power are no longer attacking opposition forces but focusing on the Islamic State, the former al-Qaida wing in Syria and affiliated terrorist groups, according to an emailed statement on Friday. Civilians are making their way back to liberated territory, where the authorities are restoring residential buildings and infrastructure and schools, Rudskoi said. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=86651
EAST KURDISTAN (IRAN)
MESOP NEWS RECOMMENDATION : Iran Extends Its Reach in Syria !
By Dexter Filkins – THE NEW YORKER – June 9, 2017 – For the first time since the Syrian civil war began, Iranian-backed militias appear to have secured a road link from the Iranian border all the way to Syria’s Mediterranean coast. The new land route will allow the Iranian regime to resupply its allies in Syria by land instead of air, which is both easier and cheaper. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=86639
SOUTH KURDISTAN (IRAQ)
MESOP NEWS REPORT: THE TEHRAN MULLAHS ARE THE MAIN ENEMY OF PEACE IN MIDDLE EAST
Iran wakes up to Salafi recruitment in Kurdish regions – By Fazel Hawramy – AL MONITOR
10 June 2017 – Will the terrorist attacks in Tehran be a wake-up call about the rise of Salafism in Iranian Kurdistan? And will they be the beginning of a sectarian war at home? – The attacks were the first time that IS managed to penetrate Iran’s defenses and came after the release of a video in late March in which some Iranian Sunni members of the group promised to take the war to Tehran. In the 37-minute clip, titled “Persian Land, From Yesterday to Today,” Iranian IS members list what they see as crimes against Sunnis committed by the Islamic Republic and call on their brethren to take up arms against Tehran, saying, “Our war has started against the Persians. … I call in particular on the Sunnis in Iran to prepare for this war … and we are behind you.”
While the Iranian intelligence services and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) had prior to June 7 managed to seal off the country’s borders from attacks by IS and other militant groups, the incidents in Tehran could be the beginning of a long battle between predominantly Shiite Iran and Iranian Sunnis who have joined IS in recent years. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=86653
MESOP MIDDLE EAST
MESOP NEWS : PUTIN’S RT SURPRISED !? –
‘Strange, Trump slams Qatar for ‘supporting terrorism,’ yet gives Saudis a blank check’
10 Jun, 2017 13:41 Edited time: 10 Jun, 2017 – RUSSIA TODAY
President Trump seems to have married US policy to this very malignant power coming from Riyadh, Jim Jatras, former US diplomat, told RT. Sara Flounders, head of International Action Center, also joins the discussion. Trump has attacked Qatar for “funding terrorism,” while taking credit for the recent decision by Arab nations to cut off diplomatic relations with the country.Qatar has “historically been a funder of terrorism at a very high level,” Trump said during a press conference in the White House Rose Garden.
“I decided, along with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, our great generals and military people, the time had come to call on Qatar to end its funding ‒ they have to end that funding ‒ and its extremist ideology.” Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=86657
THE GERMAN CHAPTER
MESOP NEWS : SELF FULLFILLING PROPHECY ! KUNSTSTÜCK !
“David de Rothschild hat ausschließlich lobende Worte für Emmanuel Macron übrig:
Es war vorbestimmt, daß er in den Elysée Palast einzieht.“
Aus, Vorwort zu Anne Fulds, Emmanuel Macron, Die Biographie, Aufbau Verlag 224 Seiten, 18 Euro.