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MESOP NEWS EXCLUSIVE : CHIEF OF STAFF DUNFORD EXPLAINS US STRATEGY CONCERNING TURKEY & IRAN & THE FIGHT AGAINST ISIS

CJCS Dunford Talks Turkey, Iran, Afghan Troop Numbers & Daesh

By James Kitfield on June 16, 2017 at 4:01 AM  – Breaking Defense   – Breaking Defense contributor James Kitfield spoke with Gen. Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,:

BD: Just while you were meeting with your Asian counterparts in Singapore and Sydney, Australia, there were terrorist attacks claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in London, Melbourne, and Kabul. What are we and our allies doing to try and contain the threat from ISIS’ foreign fighters returning to their home regions and launching attacks?

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MESOP NEWS Today’s Column: Expert View

MESOP ANALYSIS : OBAMA’S DEAL FINANCING IRAN’S RULE ON MIDDLE EAST

Iran Nuke Deal Finances Tehran’s Ambitions to Dominate Mideast

June 16, 2017 | General Jack Keane  – Former Vice Chief of Staff, United States Army –

As we approach the two-year anniversary of the signing of the landmark nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 world powers—the U.S., UK, France, Russia, China plus Germany—The Cipher Brief sat down with network expert General Jack Keane to discuss the likelihood that the deal holds, what could transpire if Iran is caught cheating, and the Trump Administration’s overall approach towards Iran.

TCB: In your view, has the Iran nuclear deal, which was signed in July 2015, worked so far? Has it limited Iran’s capacity to acquire a nuclear weapon?

Jack Keane: It is a horrible deal because Iran has been given over $100 billion, and its strategic objective is to dominate and control the Middle East and to undermine the Sunni Arab states.  Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=86817

 

MESOP NEWS TODAYS ANALYSIS : PUTINS STRATEGY IN MIDDLE EAST

RUSSIA’S STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES IN THE MIDDLE EAST &  NORTH AFRICA

Featuring Anna Borshchevskaya – Testimony submitted to the House Foreign Affairs Committee – June 15, 2017 –  The following is an excerpt from Ms. Borshchevskaya’s prepared remarks before the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa. If Washington wants to limit Moscow’s influence and improve the U.S. strategic position vis-a-vis Russia in the Middle East and North Africa, it should embrace a strategy that includes the following: Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=86819

 

NORTH KURDISTAN (TURKEY)

MESOP NEWS SAMPLER : ERDOGAN’S MOSQUES & THE ECONOMY

In Turkey, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, the leader of the largest opposition party, began a march to Istanbul from Ankara to protest the widening crackdown on dissent.

Thousands of people in both cities protested the 25-year jail sentence handed to a prominent opposition lawmaker on espionage charges. Above, a protest in Ankara.
Separately, a Turkish court sentenced a United Nations war crimes judge to jail on terrorism charges.
Our magazine looks at how President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has used the construction of mosques to further his agenda and provide economic stimulus.

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MESOP NEWS FORECAST BY METIN GURCAN / AL MONITOR

Turkey’s top commander may be on his way out

14 June 2017 – Turkish Chief of General Staff Gen. Hulusi Akar has been having a tough time the past couple of months. Turkish media printed his high school photographs with Turkey’s most prominent conservative ideologue, Necip Fazil, followed by photographs of him as a lieutenant with former President Abdullah Gul and notable right-wing columnist Fehmi Koru. – The Turkish president soon will decide whether to keep his embattled chief of general staff for a while or replace him immediately.  Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=86827

 

MESOP NEWS MIDDLE EAST BY STRATFOR INTEL

Hezbollah Watches & Waits

By Ben West – Global Security Analyst, Stratfor – 16 June 2017  – For Hezbollah, revenge seems to be a dish best served cold. After an explosive device concealed in a vehicle killed the Lebanese militant group’s leader, Imad Mugniyah, on Feb. 12, 2008, reprisal attacks looked all but certain. Hezbollah, after all, could hardly let such a high-level assassination go unanswered. Then on June 8 of this year, nearly a decade after Mugniyah’s death, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had arrested two Hezbollah operatives in New York and Michigan. One of the suspects, Ali Kourani, appears to have played a part in planning the long-awaited retaliatory strike. The criminal complaint against him accuses Kourani of conducting surveillance against various targets, including individuals connected to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), in preparation for an attack avenging Mugniyah. Though the attack never materialized, the information Kourani passed back to Lebanon in the course of his surveillance operations could provide the basis for a future act of terrorism. The case, moreover, offers insight into Hezbollah’s workings and highlights the distinctions between its tactics and those of its peers in the world of Islamist militancy. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=86811

 

WEST KURDISTAN (SYRIA)

MESOP NEWS  FOCUS : US HIMMARS FOR PROTECTING KURDISH LED SDF FORCES

Russia Accuses U.S. Of Deploying Missiles In Syria

June 15, 2017 16:12 GMT – REUTERS – The M142 high-mobility artillery rocket system is a U.S. light multiple-rocket launcher mounted on a standard army medium-tactical-vehicle truck frame. Read all  http://www.mesop.de/?p=86815

 

MESOP NEWS Syria Daily: Russia Steps Up Criticism of US Presence in East

By Scott Lucas – eaworldview – 16 June 2017 – Russia has stepped up its criticism of the US military presence alongside rebels in eastern Syria, amid the possibility of a confrontation between pro-Assad forces and the Free Syrian Army.  The Russian Defense Ministry put out the provocative claim on Thursday that the US may attack the pro-Assad troops, which including Hezbollah and Iranian-led Iraqi militia, with the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System brought in to help protect the Tanf base near the Iraqi and Jordanian borders. The Free Syrian base also includes US special forces training and assisting rebels in the fight against the Islamic State. It stands in the way of any pro-Assad push linking up with Iranian-supported militias in neighboring Iraq. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=86821

 

MESOP NEWS BACKGROUNDER: YPG (PKK/PYD) AFTER KICKED OFF BY PUTIN – NOW THE OTHER WAY ROUND AGAINST ASSAD’S ARMY

YPG stays in Aleppo, maintains tenuous relationship with Damascus

RUDAW – 16 June 2017 – ERBIL, Kurdistan Region – The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) remains in control of Kurdish areas of Aleppo amid a tenuous relationship with Damascus.
The fight for Aleppo was center-stage of the Syrian conflict for more than six years. Many parties were involved: the Syrian regime’s army, Free Syrian Army, militias allied with Iran and Syrian President Assad, Russia, Hezbollah, and the Kurdish YPG. Each of these parties wanted to leave their mark on Aleppo, but the battle ended in favor of the Syrian regime on December 22, 2016. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=86825

 

EAST KURDISTAN (IRAN)

!“KNOW BETTER WITH MESOP NEWS!” – MOST IMPORTANT IRANIAN OFFICER KILLED

Chief IRGC military ‘adviser’ killed in Syria’s Daraa –   Haidar Jalilund, the chief military “adviser”

Orient Net Publication Date: 2017-06-16 11:38  – Iranian Tasnim news agency reported that one of the most important officers of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard was killed in Syria during clashes with the opposition fighters in the city of Daraa. Read all http://www.mesop.de/?p=86823

 

THE GERMAN CHAPTER

MESOP NEWS OPINION : Die Teddybär Gesellschaft –  von Peter Sichrovsky  – (SCHLAGLICHTER)

‚We kill, you light candles’  / Gegen den „bösen alten weißen Mann!“

Es gibt kaum ein Ereignis, das drastischer die schrittweise Verblödung der linken und links-liberalen Vertreter der ‚Islamverteidiger’ symbolisierte als der Women’s March on Washington im Januar 2017 gegen den ‚bösen alten weißen Mann’ Donald Trump.Die Aktion wurde von Linda Sarsour initiiert, die stolz das Sternenbanner der Vereinigten Staaten zum Kopftuch verstümmelte, und damit den Sieg des Propheten über die Dekadenz des Westens und seiner angeblichen Wertegesellschaft demonstrierte. Sie verkündete auch ohne jede Scham ihre Sympathie für Hamas und die Scharia, dass Zionisten keine Feministen sein könnten und Israel keine Demokratie sei. Doch das alles schreckte die Kameradinnen nicht davon ab, gemeinsam mit ihr zu demonstrieren. Im Gegenteil, die mit marschierenden Frauen sahen kein Problem darin, als Ausdruck der Gemeinsamkeit mit der muslimischen Fanatikerin ebenfalls kopftuchtragend laut ‚Alluh akbar’ zu rufen. Einige erklärten in Interviews, als man sie auf die Widersprüchlichkeit ihrer Aktion ansprach – einerseits als Frauenrechtlerinnen aufzutreten und gleichzeitig mit den schlimmsten Unterdrückern zu marschieren – dass es hier um Solidarität gegen einen gemeinsamen Feind gehe. Dass sie sich als nützliche Idioten einer diskriminierenden Ideologie missbrauchen ließen, kam ihnen nicht in den Sinn.

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 MESOP CULTURE: DIE FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG – HELL EMPÖRT !

„Ist das noch demokratisch ?

Trump auf Twitter – Wer sperrt hier eigentlich wen?

Wegen angeblicher Aufsässigkeit lässt Amerikas Präsident nicht nur den Bestsellerautor Stephen King auf Twitter blockieren. Auch gänzlich unbekannte Nutzer hat Donald Trump gesperrt. Ist das noch demokratisch? Mehr Von Adrian Lobe 23 31 16 June 2017“

….. demokratisches Netz verlangt ? ,  – das ist Heiko Maas, oder Zuckerbergs Auswahl, in einer digitalen Netzwelt, wo auf facebook wie twitter alle andauernd alle sperren und blocken. Und hat nicht die FAZ vor einem Jahr jede retweet Funktion kommentarlos gegenüber ihre Lesern aufgekündigt  !

Trump triffts aber exclusiv wegen schwerwiegendster konstitutioneller Mängel: er ist weiß, Mann, kein Islamist und nicht einmal schwul. Was also wunder ?!

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