MESOPOTAMIA NEWS FULL STORY : Iran’s role in the latest Gaza conflict
18 Jun 2021|Oved Lobel – THE STRATEGIST – AUSTRALIA
References to Iran have been glaringly absent from commentary on the clash between Israel and Palestinian factions in Gaza, even though two primary terrorist organisations, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, have effusively praised Tehran and its regional proxies for providing their military capabilities and finance.
Moreover, the way the conflict was framed both by the Gaza groups and by Iran’s broader regional network, from Hezbollah in Lebanon to the Houthis in Yemen, makes it clear that they all view their regional battles as mere fronts in an integrated transnational jihad directed against Israel by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
As Islamic Jihad and Hamas have repeatedly asserted for years, they would have little capacity to start these wars against Israel without IRGC training, funding, arms transfers and expertise. Not only does Iran provide arms and rockets, but it has also established local production capability for all its proxies and trained operatives externally in the technical aspects, even custom-designing cruder rockets like the Badr-3 that can be manufactured with ease in Gaza.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS “MUST READ”! : WHILE RED CHINA IS PREPARING TO TAKE TAIWAN
US Defeat Is Possible – Edward Geist June 17, 2021 WAR ON TE ROCKS
If the United States is to have a reasonable hope of winning a war, it needs to think very seriously about what it would be like to lose. For several years, analysts have been sounding the alarm that the United States and its allies might not prevail in a high-level conflict with a near-peer adversary. While Russia and China fall short of the United States in overall military power, they enjoy local overmatch in key theaters that might allow them to defeat U.S. forces. In 2019, analyst David Ochmanek of the RAND Corporation remarked that “In our games, when we fight Russia and China, blue gets its ass handed to it.” In November 2018, the National Defense Strategy Commission found that “If the United States had to fight Russia in a Baltic contingency or China in a war over Taiwan …
Americans could face a decisive military defeat …
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS „NO POSITIVE OUTCOME!“ – What Did the Biden-Putin Summit Mean for Syria ?
Friday June 18th, 2021 by BALADI NEWS (Opposition website)
The meeting between the two world leaders brings no hope regarding an imminent political solution in Syria, according to Baladi News.
Analysts cannot offer any definitive indications about the fate of the Syrian issue after the summit between president Joe Biden, and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. Reports hinted, however, at the possibility of cooperation between the two countries.
Some reports described the Biden-Putin meeting as a pragmatic summit, while other analysts described the meeting as a “red line summit” that was demanded by the two presidents, asserting that the Syrian issue was at the bottom of the agenda.
Neither victorious nor defeated
That being said, this analysis does not mean that the Syrian issue, and what is happening inside the country, are being ignored by Washington and Moscow. Indeed, two aspects must be considered.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS SPECIAL : U.S., Turkey to continue dialogue on S-400 missile dispute
- Ahval – Jun 18 2021 09:17 Gmt+3 -The United States and Turkey will hold further discussions to help resolve a dispute over Turkey’s acquisition of S-400 air defence missiles from Russia, a top U.S official said.
U.S. President Joe Biden and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan failed to agree on a solution during a meeting on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Brussels on Monday.
The issue has dogged relations between the two governments, led to sanctions against Turkey’s defence procurement agency and contributed to a slump in the value of the Turkish lira.
“There was not a resolution of the issue. There was a commitment to continue the dialogue on the S-400. And the two teams will be following up on that coming out of the meeting,” Jake Sullivan, Biden’s National Security Advisor, told reporters in a phone call on Thursday.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS INTEL : The Mossad is hoping for a little quiet as new era dawns !
Why did the interview given by Yossi Cohen to Ilana Dayan spark anger? Will the Mossad carry out fewer “daring operations” under Barnea? And who is expected to be selected soon as the next head of the ISA? A column by Amir Rapaport
Amir Rapaport | 18/06/2021 BY ISRAEL DEFENSE
Has the public atmosphere also changed completely in Israel following the swearing-in of the new government? Highly doubtful. But there is at least one national entity whose staff would be happy to be ignored by the media in the coming years: the Mossad. If possible, completely. This comes after the term of the head of the Mossad, Yossi Cohen, under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the interview that Cohen gave to journalist Ilana Dayan for the “Oovdah” TV program.
It is an understatement to say that not everyone in the Mossad liked the interview.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS INTEL : Der Mossad befürchtet Tatenlosigkeit in der neuen Ära !
18 Juni 2021 – Warum löste das Interview von Yossi Cohen an Ilana Dayan Wut aus? Wird der Mossad unter Barnea weniger “daring operations” durchführen? Und wer soll bald als nächster ISA-Chef ausgewählt werden? Eine Kolumne von Amir Rapaport
Amir Rapaport | 18/06/2021 BY ISRAEL DEFENSE – Ende Oktober 2020 war es in New York schwierig, über irgendetwas außer Donald Trump zu sprechen. Ich war dort für die digitale Ausgabe der Cybertech New York Konferenz, und jede Person, die mit mir sprach, verabscheute Trump oder bewunderte ihn. Die Mehrheit verabscheute den Präsidenten in seiner Stadt. Auf jeden Fall ist New York demokratisch.
Hat sich die öffentliche Atmosphäre auch in Israel nach der Vereidigung der neuen Regierung völlig verändert? Sehr zweifelhaft. Aber es gibt mindestens eine nationale Einheit, deren Mitarbeiter in den kommenden Jahren gerne von den Medien ignoriert würden: der Mossad. Wenn möglich, vollständig. Dies geschieht nach der Amtszeit des Mossad-Chefs Yossi Cohen unter Ministerpräsident Benjamin Netanjahu und dem Interview, das Cohen der Journalistin Ilana Dayan für die Fernsehsendung “Oovdah” gab.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS KURDISTAN-IRAQ : Almost 500 Christian families have been displaced so far.
Christian villagers under fire in Turkey-PKK clashes
RUDAW 18 June 2021 – Yousif Musa – ZAKHO, Kurdistan Region — Navkandalan is a Christian village in the Batifa sub-district of Zakho in northern Duhok.The Christian population there has plummeted from 70 to 40 because of conflict between the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Turkey.
The village’s residents demand protection.
“We’re back in the village for the fourth time, where should we go?” said Soqa Issac, a Navkandalan resident. He said the villagers were poor and there was no force to protect them, “neither from Iraq nor the Kurdistan Region.”
“We ask the KRG [Kurdistan Regional Government] to give us weapons,” he stated.
“I own this flock of sheep, I can’t take my sheep to the foothills,” said Basam Eliksan, a livestock farmer. “As soon as jets see them, they launch rockets. The Turkish army opens fire with their machine guns and weapons. Also the Workers’ Party (PKK) is blocking our way.”
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS NORTH SYRIA : PKK/PYD POLITICIANS ARRESTED
Politicians: Arresting AA, PYD representatives contradict political foundations, agreed protocol
Representatives of the Future Syria Party and the Modernity and Democracy Party in Tabqa described the arrest of the representatives of the Autonomous Administration and the Democratic Union Party by the government of Başûr Kurdistan as “serving only the Turkish state’s interest,” calling on the regional government to reveal their fate and release them immediately.
POLITICS 18 Jun 2021, Fri – 12:45 2021-06-18T12:45:00 TABQA ANHA NEWS Telegram
With the increasing escalation and attacks by the Turkish occupation on the legitimate defense zones amid clear silence of the governments of Baghdad and the Kurdistan Region, and after the arrest of representatives of the Autonomous Administration and the Democratic Union Party (PYD), evidence was clear that the regional government was involved with the Turkish occupation state to implement its plans in the region.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS IRAN-WAHLEN: Rohanis Vermächtnis: ein Atomabkommen und der Untergang des reformistischen Lagers
Während der iranische Präsident erfolgreich mit US-Sanktionen, einer Finanzkrise und Regimegegnern zurechtkam, offenbarte seine Amtszeit die Ohnmacht der gewählten iranischen Beamten angesichts der Ayatollah und Revolutionsgarden.
Von Neta Bar Veröffentlicht am 18.06.2021 um 12:00 Uhr – ISRAEL HAYOM
Präsident Hassan Rouhani wird seine Amtszeit nach acht Jahren beenden, in denen das Ayatollah-Regime vor einigen der größten Herausforderungen stand, die es je gekannt hat. Wenn die Iraner an die Urnen gehen, um zu entscheiden, wer ihr nächster Präsident sein wird, werfen wir einen Blick zurück auf Rohanis Vermächtnis.
MESOPOTAMIA NEWS IRAN ELECTIONS : Rouhani’s legacy: a nuclear deal and the downfall of the reformist camp
While Iran’s president successfully navigated US sanctions, a financial crisis, and anti-regime protests, his time in office exposed the powerlessness of Iran’s elected officials in the face of the ayatollah and Revolutionary Guards.
By Neta Bar Published on 06-18-2021 12:00 ISRAEL HAYOM – President Hassan Rouhani is set to end his term in office after eight years in which the ayatollah regime faced some of the greatest challenges it has ever known. As Iranians head to the polls to decide who will be their next president, let us take a look back at Rouhani’s legacy.
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