Don’t attack Iran, Russia starkly warns Israel and U.S.
Don’t
attack Iran, Russia starkly warns Israel and U.S.
Russia has
starkly warned Israel and the United States against attacking Iran, saying
Moscow sees no evidence that Tehran’s nuclear program is aimed at developing
weapons, the Interfax news agency reported on Thursday.
[um… Gog-Magog war?]
says it treats Israeli military threats as American
Iran makes
no distinction between U.S. and Israeli interests and will retaliate against
both countries if attacked, an Iranian military commander said on Wednesday.
-“The Zionist regime separated from America has no meaning, and we must not
recognize Israel as separate from America,” Ali Fadavi, naval commander in
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was quoted as saying’
strike on Iran – ‘apocalypse’
An Israeli attack on Iran’s
nuclear installations would cause an “apocalypse,” Turkish Prime Minister Recep
Tayyip Erdogan told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. “But I’m sure that I don’t want
to see anything like that happening in the region because in this day and age,
that region needs peace and prosperity and stability,” the Turkish leader told
Amanpour.
bases targeted if Israel hits Iran
Iran “would not be forgiving”
if Israel were to attack Iran. He said the United States would be held
responsible for any Israeli attack. Israeli leaders have raised the possibility
of a unilateral strike against Iran, and the United States says it will not
allow Iran to have nuclear weapons capability.
will seize back assets from Great Satan: Iran Cmdr.
A senior
Iranian commander has censured the blocking of Iran’s assets by the US as
“economic terrorism” and reaffirmed Tehran’s determination to seize its national
wealth back by all means necessary. -The Iranian commander noted that the US
must be gullible to imagine that it has looted Iran’s assets permanently,
adding, “They should be sure that we will seize back our assets from the Great
Satan.”
Intelligence
Committee Chair Describes Explosive Confrontation Between Netanyahu and American
Ambassador
Rep. Mike Rogers, the Michigan Republican who chairs
the House Intelligence Committee, says that his much-discussed meeting with
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem late last month did, in
fact, devolve into an sharp confrontation between Netanyahu and the American
ambassador to Israel, the former National Security Council official (and former
Obama campaign Jewish liaison), Dan Shapiro.
US
congressman confirms high-level US-Israel spat over Iran
Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blew up at the US ambassador last month
because he was “at wits’ end” over what he sees as the Obama administration’s
lack of clarity on Iran’s nuclear program, a US congressman who was at the
meeting said.