[Cross-posted from the European Tribune]
From friend and ally in corrupt matters, tweet by PM Netanyahu …
I think that everybody recognizes the malign intentions of Iran, and I think everybody also recognizes Israel’s right of self-defense, which is really our common defense pic.twitter.com/tdhQSlOsk8
— Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) May 8, 2018
See also my recent diaries …
○ Lebanon’s Choice: Pro Colonial West or Shia Terror
○ #HimToo – Iran Deal Scrapped
Continued below the fold …
UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain welcome Trump’s exit from Iran nuclear deal | The National – UAE |
The president said in his announcement that US had consulted with `friends from across the Middle East’ …
The UAE, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain announced on Tuesday their support for US withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal, with Riyadh’s ambassador to Washington blasting Tehran’s malicious behaviour in the Middle East.
The Emirates, according to a statement released by the official news agency, issued its support for Mr Trump’s decision, and called upon the international community and parties in the Iran nuclear agreement to “heed Mr Trump’s call for a Middle East free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.”
Iran’s rhetoric & aggressive regional actions were the background to a flawed deal. The veneer of Tehran’s compliance contradicted its bellicose policies. President Trump’s decision is the correct one.
— د. أنور قرقاش (@AnwarGargash) May 8, 2018
[Plus a handshake on ten of billions worth of fighter aircraft and armaments 🙁 – Oui]
Both Saudi Arabia and Bahrain also issued statements welcoming Mr Trump’s decision. Riyadh’s statement, which came less than an hour after Mr Trump’s decision, said it “supports and welcomes” the US decision.
“Saudi Arabia’s past support for the nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 was based on its firm belief in the need to work on everything that would limit the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East and the world” it added.
However, it then pointed to Iran’s destabilising activities in the region, especially through the development of ballistic missiles, and its support for terrorist groups in the region, such as the Houthis which “used the capabilities transferred by Iran to target civilians in the Kingdom and Yemen and repeated exposure international shipping lanes, and in flagrant violation of the resolutions of the Security Council,” as reasons why it is withdrawing the support today.
In Washington, Saudi ambassador Prince Khalid bin Salman reiterated the support, and said the nuclear deal “has fueled Iran’s malicious expansion driven by its extremist ideology.”
As I said before with regards to the deal, we are on auto pilot heading towards a mountain. Deal has fueled Iran’s malicious expansion driven by its extremist ideology. It provided Iran with a financial windfall that it used to further sectarian strife/chaos in the region.
— Khalid bin Salman خالد بن سلمان (@kbsalsaud) May 8, 2018
Trump’s revenge on President Obama after embarrassing him at the Press dinner …. Barack never was a friend of the Trumps like Hillary was. One recognizes a person by the company he/she keeps. Sheez … and Murdock too? Well, it’s the corruption of New York, isn’t it?
There are few issues more important to the security of the US than the potential spread of nuclear weapons or the potential for even more destructive war in the Middle East. Today’s decision to put the JCPOA at risk is a serious mistake. My full statement: https://t.co/4oTdXESbxe
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) May 8, 2018
Barack too never really got loose from the strings of Wall Street and the MIC – Pentagon and Langley. But he was president for eight years, all that rest are good memories and the Affordale Care Act (ACA).
Democracy works in Lebanon, people just voted …
Latest …. almost completing the puzzle of Trump’s win from behind …
- The only leader who has tried harder than Trump to kill the Iran deal is Benjamin Netanyahu, which is why, no doubt, the Israeli firm [Black Cube] was hired shortly after Trump visited Tel Aviv and met with the Israeli prime minister to discuss it.
This kind of gutter politics is also signature Netanyahu, who, like Trump, is facing an epic corruption investigation [Lahav 433] that could cost him his job.
The Israeli Mossad are experts in the “piggy-back” form of a coup d’état and ditto assasinations. Murder Inc., covert operation under cover of another event … 🙁
Further reading on today’s developments …
○ White House Refuses to Deny It Engaged Black Cube, a Mossad group to dig up dirt | Tikun Olam |
○ The CIA’s piggyback operation that undermined UNSCOM inspections in Baghdad – 1999 | Arms Control – | The Guardian |
UNSCOM‘s credibility with some members of the Security Council suffered greatly following March 1999 reports that U.S. intelligence had not only benefited from cooperation with UN inspectors, but had used UNSCOM to “piggyback” independent intelligence gathering operations in Iraq.
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Unscom technicians occasionally noted “burst transmissions” but were unable to identify their source. But an Iranian spy in Baghdad was more successful and signalled back to Tehran a message saying that the US was running an electronic espionage operation within Unscom.
British intelligence intercepted the Iranian message, but when it asked the US National Security Agency for an explanation in May 1997, the NSA gave none.
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The Washington Post revealed that from 1996, UNSCOM provided information to the US that could pinpoint the whereabouts of Saddam Hussein and reveal his security precautions.
Until 1998, this was done using Israeli-supplied hand-held devices capable of monitoring and recording radio communications. The recordings were analysed in Israel, Britain and the US.
In 1998, the “US took control of the operation”, the Post reported, and installed a sophisticated “black box” able to automatically send intercepted messages via a “satellite relay in a nearby country to the National Security Agency at Fort Meade [Maryland, USA]”.
○ Operation Desert Fox – The targeting list was stunning in its specificity | WaPo – Dec. 1999 |
○ UNSCOM head Australian Richard Butler — servant of Washington
Under cover of George Bush, the PNAC crowd put in power by the US Supreme Court in December 2000.
○ Leading to Iraq: High Crimes and Misdemeanors – Chronicle
Some of details came from Christian Science Monitor article of 2012 …
○ Iran nuclear talks: Why the trust gap is so great
Richard Silverstein has been one of the great sources on the covert war between Israel and Iran in the 21st century!
Trump did the no no and picked a side. He has allied himself with the Sunnis. The donald better watch his back.
Jerusalem to name square near new US embassy in honor of Trump
Better than a Nobel Prize?
Iran is not isolated when sanctioned by the bad and ugly American. On the contrary, the EU will desperately try to loosen the banking and financial ties to the US that make the sanctions regime so much easier – rethink the so-called War on Terror of George Bush and Ariel Sharon.
The US, UK jointly with Israel and the Gulf States should isolate themselves from the global community.
Eurasia and the alliances such as Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) will pull Iran into their hemisphere.
Not only due to their extended common border, but Pakistan will play a crucial role whether to choose for the bribes from Saudi Arabia or connect to the East and seek Eurasia cooperation. Kashmir, India and the new Silk Route will fulfill an important role to unite nations with trade.
○ Could the SCO Expand Into the Middle East?
○ Saudi purge finds echoes in Pakistan’s internal politics
○ KSA launched a unified platform of Muslim countries in form of Islamic Military Alliance to Combat Terrorism (IMCTC)
That’s really BIG! When Donald enters heaven through the gates of Peter, he’ll be so well known and will get a seat at the table of honorary guests. 🙁 Big time!