[SUDANTRIBUNE] The US Special Envoy to Sudan, Tom Perriello, issued a strong warning today against a potential offensive on El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur.
"Any offensive on El Fasher would be disastrous for Darfur’s civilians and only worsen the already dire situation in Sudan," Perriello said in a statement on Wednesday.
His comments come amid rising tensions in the region, fueled by reports that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) are blocking humanitarian aid deliveries to El Fasher and restricting civilian movement.
"These actions only add to the suffering of the Sudanese people," Perriello added.
The U.S. envoy reiterated the U.S. position, urging all parties involved in the conflict to immediately cease attacks and uphold their commitments under international law, as well as the agreements reached at the recent Jeddah peace talks.
On Wednesday evening, the Sudanese air force targeted the RSF forces outside El-Fasher and in Mellit of the North Darfur state. Also, they bombed the paramilitary forces in Nyala of South Darfur.
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#1
So who is funding the Sudan army? Traditionally equipment has arrived from China and paid for by Iran. As for the RSF, "A 2019 investigation revealed that more than 1,000 vehicles – most of them Toyota Hilux pick-ups – were purchased from dealers in the United Arab Emirates, and later equipped with mounted weapons. The funds to purchase the vehicles were likely sourced from [RSF's] Hemedti’s vast gold mining operations in Sudan." However, this doesn't make sense as the gold mining occurs northeast of Khartoum and controlled by the government.
In fact, the UAE seem to be the primary RSF funding agents, but what they hope to accomplish in the Sudan is murky at best.
#2
Russia / Wagner is funding and supplying Sudan's Rapid Support Forces.
The coup countries across the Sahel (Niger, Nigeria, Mali, Chad, Sudan - particularly the former French Colonies) are getting support from Russia to break away from French Colonialism, and there are seen to kill more ISIS.
President Salva Kiir on Wednesday (Aprl. 03) warned politicians against an extension of the period of transition.
He argued it would deny citizens an opportunity to choose their leaders and urged parliament to pass the necessary laws to pave the way for the elections.
Parliament Speaker Jemma Nunu Kumba said politicians would redouble their efforts to ensure that all the prerequisites for elections are met.
His adress to parliament which return from recess comes just weeks after Salava Kiir's deputy and former rival Riek Machar proposed a postponement of elections expected to be held in December.
Vice President Machar suggested last month an extension of the transitional government’s term to allow for adequate preparation for the elections.
South Sudan became independent in 2011. After a peace deal in 2018 ended a civil war, elections were due to be held in February 2023. However, some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves... the government of national unity of Salva Kiir and Riek Machar has failed to meet key clauses of the deal.
The nation is working to put into place a permanent constitution, an electoral commission and a unified police force, made up of pro-government and rebel factions, that would provide security to the troubled nation.
The landlocked country is facing an economic crisis due to a decline in oil exports after war-torn Sudan last month declared force majeure on oil shipments passing through the country. The fighting in Sudan has affected shipments destined for a terminal near Port Sudan along the Red Sea coast.
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[Regnum] International terrorism remains a global threat to the world. This statement was made on April 4 at a meeting of the Committee of Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces of the CIS countries in Moscow by the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, First Deputy Minister of Defense Valery Gerasimov.
At the same time, he emphasized that hotbeds of tension in various parts of the planet do not arise without external influence.
“International terrorism with the support of shadow sponsors still remains a global threat to the world,” Gerasimov said.
According to the head of the General Staff, in such conditions, challenges to the CIS states are becoming more and more real and diverse. This requires having well-equipped and trained armed forces, Gerasimov added.
As Regnum reported, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia has experienced and knows what international terrorism is. He added that Russia will always feel the bitterness of the irreparable losses inflicted during the years of the fight against international terrorism.
At the same time, according to the head of state, the fight against terrorism cannot be carried out on the principle of collective responsibility, when old people, women, children and entire families also die.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, within the framework of the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings and the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, on March 31 submitted to the Ukrainian authorities a demand for the arrest and further extradition of those involved in terrorist attacks on Russian territory, including the head of the SBU Vasily Malyuk.
The department emphasized that the fight against international terrorism is the responsibility of every country, and demanded that the Kyiv regime immediately stop any support for terrorist activities and hand over all those responsible, as well as compensate the damage caused to the victims.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on March 27 that the Russian side had not received specific proposals from France to combat international terrorism. Paris should stop military support for Ukraine if it is interested in such a fight, the diplomat emphasized.
Western countries are destroying the foundation of strategic stability, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov said on April 4 at a meeting of the Committee of Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces of the CIS countries in Moscow.
“Recent events indicate the consistent destruction by the West of the fundamental foundations of strategic stability,” he said.
He noted that the meeting of military leaders of the CIS countries is taking place against the backdrop of a rapidly changing military-political situation. Challenges to the Commonwealth countries are becoming more and more real, which obliges states to have well-equipped and trained armed forces, Gerasimov added.
As Regnum reported, Russia became the chairman of the CIS on January 1, 2024. As chairman, Moscow will work to strengthen cooperation in the military and border security fields. The concept of Russia's chairmanship in the CIS states that Moscow will also pay significant attention to the work on military-patriotic education.
[Ynet] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with by phone with U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday in a call that lasted for about45 minutes. The call came against the backdrop of an Israeli airstrike that led to the accidental deaths of seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid workers in the Gaza Strip, after which Biden said he was "outraged" about the incident. According to CNN, the talk was scheduled after the deadly attack.
Israeli officials said the conversation "went well," and claimed that it lasted 45 minutes, but the White House claimed on the other hand that it lasted "less than" half an hour.
The White House said in its readout of the conversation that two leaders discussed the situation in Gaza. President Biden "emphasized that the strikes on humanitarian workers and the overall humanitarian situation are unacceptable. He made clear the need for Israel to announce and implement a series of specific, concrete, and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers. He made clear that U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action on these steps," according to the White House readout.
The decision to betray already taken - now looking for excuse?
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The New York Times gets caught red-handed in yet ANOTHER hoax. Who expects anything better from them at this point?
BREAKING: The Intercept reports that journalists inside the New York Times are horrified by the "mass rape" atrocity propaganda hoax its editors allowed Anat Schwartz, Adam Sella and Jeffrey Gettleman to fabricate, and they fear they will scapegoat Schwartz to let it stand pic.twitter.com/R8AW6FvVgh
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Gonna find out the WCKN mission was an aid for profit coordination plus where the boxes with serial numbers ending in 402 go to a certain other address.
#12
The call came against the backdrop of an Israeli airstrike that led to the accidental deaths of seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid workers in the Gaza Strip, after which Biden said he was "outraged" about the incident.
The assumption should always be that shit happens in war zones. If you're not comfortable with the risk then stay out of it.
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Biden said he was "outraged" or Obama?
Biden has dementia so outrage is something normal to expect for any interpreted slight or booboo.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Since the beginning of the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict in October 2023, nine mobilized Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers with Russian citizenship have died. This was reported on April 4 at the Israeli embassy in the Russian Federation.
The diplomatic mission added that among the military personnel there are many Russians with dual citizenship.
As Regnum reported, as of October 20 last year, after the situation in the Middle East worsened, 20 Russians, including civilians and military and law enforcement officials, were killed as a result of attacks from the Gaza Strip. All of them also had Israeli citizenship.
The representative of the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian enclave, Ashraf al-Qudra, reported on January 25 that the number of people killed as a result of strikes and actions of the Israel Defense Forces in the Gaza Strip had increased to 25,900, and the number of victims exceeded 64 thousand.
On October 7, another escalation of the long-standing confrontation between Palestinians and Israelis began. Then the Palestinian Hamas movement launched a massive rocket attack on Israeli territory and captured several settlements.
The IDF responded by striking the Gaza Strip and regaining control of the towns adjacent to the enclave. On October 8, the Israeli authorities announced the transfer of the state to a state of war.
Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", official Osama Hamdan said on Thursday there has been no progress in Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... ceasefire talks despite the Paleostinian group showing flexibility.
Hamdan said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was placing obstacles hindering both parties from reaching an agreement, and that he is "not interested" in releasing Israeli hostages.
"The occupation government is still evading, and negotiations are stuck in a vicious circle", Hamdan said at a presser held in Beirut.
Egyptian and Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi... i efforts, backed by the United States, have so far failed to achieve a ceasefire.
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🔥"Now we have the problem of the pro-Palestine who are actually giving Hamas cover. They are participants in the crime. In fact, since Oct 7, I personally don't differentiate between Hamas and so-called Palestinians."
🔥"You don't know what Palestine is. In fact, the kaffiyeh that you're wearing is just a statement to show that you really lack the authenticity to represent the kids."
🔥"The cause must die. Enough is enough... and you are helping Hamas to prove to the world that Palestine depends on the destruction of the State of Israel. This is not acceptable and we are not going to agree to it."
"For the next ten or twenty years, the Palestinian people will pay the bill for what Hamas has caused today."
The Son of Hamas,
@MosabHasanYOSEF
appeared on Dr. Phil and faced off against two seniors from the University of Michigan and ripped their arguments to shreds. ⤵️
People who support Hamas, and people who claim to support Palestinians but refuse to condemn Hamas are COMPLICIT in the evil of Hamas, and it's time to tell them that to their faces.
Thank you, Mr. Yosef, for your voice and incredible moral clarity!
PJ Media discusses the interview here, identifying him as:
Mosab Hasan Yosef, the son of Hamas cofounder Sheikh Hassan Yousef.
The violence perpetrated by Hamas ended up disturbing Yousef so much that he not only broke with the jihad group but also helped Israeli intelligence, Breitbart explained. Yousef also converted to Christianity.
[AFRICANEWS] **Pope Francis ...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity (so to speak) within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess... renewed his call for a ceasefire in the Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip.**During his general audience, the Pontiff of the Catholic Church expressed his "deep sorrow" at the death of volunteers from the NGO World Central Kitchen. Francis once again called for "access to humanitarian aid" for "exhausted and suffering civilians".
"Unfortunately, we continue to get sad news from the Middle East. I once again renew my firm request for the immediate cease-fire in the Gaza Strip. I express my deep regret for the volunteers killed while they were involved in the distribution of humanitarian aid in Gaza. I pray for them and their families, I renew my appeal so that the exhausted and suffering civilian population may be allowed to get access to humanitarian aid, and that the hostages are immediately released.....
In a speech released on Tuesday evening, Israel Defence Forces Commander Herzi Halevi stated that there was "no intention to harm" WCK volunteers in the attack that killed seven people in Gaza.
On the same day, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that the killing of aid workers in Gaza was a "mistake" while the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell condemned the incident and called for "an investigation".
The number of volunteers killed in the Paleostinian enclave is now around 200. the deadliest ever crisis for humanitairian workers.
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[An Nahar] Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Thursday stressed that Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial... is seeking "real peace" and "the peace of humanitarian justice."
"We raise our voice to the international community, condemning the (Israeli) attacks and demanding that the enemy be deterred, war be stopped and peace be brought," Mikati said at the beginning of a Cabinet session at the Grand Serail.
"I would like to emphasize through Cabinet that Lebanon has friends in all world countries who are honestly working to press the Israeli enemy to halt its aggression against Lebanon," Mikati added.
Separately, the premier said there are "signs of a diplomatic crisis with Cyprus."
"Some Cypriot newspapers have attacked Lebanon over the file of the refugees who are reaching Cyprus illegally through Lebanon’s territorial waters," Mikati said.
"I have conducted the necessary contacts with the Cypriot authorities, underscoring keenness on the best relations with Cyprus and that we don’t accept to export the refugee crisis to it," he added.
As for the banking sector file, Mikati denied that the file of restructuring the country’s banks has been shelved, describing reports in this regard as baseless.
"The file is being calmly studied, and when its elements get completed, we will call for a ministerial meeting before raising the issue in Cabinet according to a clear organizational vision endorsed by everyone," Mikati said.
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[An Nahar] Hezbollah leader Sayyed His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah ...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb... has praised the resistance of Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, and the Paleostinians in a recorded televised speech during an early celebration of Quds day.
Nasrallah said that some are focusing on the losses and ignoring the resistance's achievements.
"We are working to win this war and to defeat our enemy," Nasrallah said after recorded comments from Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh ...became Prime Minister of Gaza after the legislative elections of 2006 which Hamas won. President Mahmoud Abbas dismissed Haniyeh from office on 14 June 2007 at the height of the Fatah-Hamas festivities, but Haniyeh did not acknowledge the decree and continues as the PM of Gazoo while Abbas maintains a separate PM in the West Bank... .
Nasrallah praised the "resistance fronts" in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... , Lebanon Hezbollahstan ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years. It produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. That's three statements. Only the first is subjective.... , and Iraq, the "supportive Iranian fronts", and the protesters supporting Gazoo ...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamaswith about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... around the world.
Since the outbreak of the war in Gaza nearly six months ago, Hezbollah has stepped up attacks, leading to near daily cross-border exchanges between Hezbollah and Israel.
Hezbollah, which has a powerful arsenal of rockets and missiles, says its attacks on Israel are in support of the embattled residents in Gaza and Hamas.
Yemen’s Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels have also repeatedly targeted international shipping and U.S. forces in the Red Sea in recent months in what they portray as a blockade of Israel in response to the war in Gaza.
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[REGNUM] Israeli authorities believe that an Iranian strike in response to the attack on the Iranian diplomatic mission in Damascus on April 1 is inevitable and could occur as early as this Friday, that is, Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, which falls on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The British BBC reports this. In anticipation of retaliatory strikes, the GPS system began to jam over Israeli territory. In addition, IDF soldiers serving in combat units are denied leave.
The risk of further escalation in the region has never been higher.
AT THE "RED LINE"
The attack on the consulate is not the first time since the start of the offensive on Gaza that Israel has struck Syria, where high-ranking Iranian officers have also previously been killed.
Last December, Israeli attacks killed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps General Razi Mousavi, who was responsible for supplying Lebanese Hezbollah with weapons. On January 20, General Sadegh Omidzadeh, head of intelligence for the Quds Force in Syria, was killed.
But these attacks were not aimed at an Iranian government facility, but at Syrian military bases and headquarters where Iranian officers were present, or at Hezbollah facilities that hosted Iranian advisers and trainers.
However, a direct strike hit the Iranian consulate in Damascus this week, killing General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, head of the Quds Force in Syria and Lebanon, his deputy Mohammad Haj Rahimi, Hossein Aminullah, the top Iranian adviser in Syria, as well as four others officer, seriously shifts the “red lines,” if not to say that he completely violates them.
First of all, because Iran’s diplomatic mission came under direct attack, which in itself is an unprecedented act of aggression and a direct attack on the Islamic Republic, taking into account the status of the diplomatic mission as the sovereign territory of the country.
In this regard, on Wednesday Russia initiated a meeting of the UN Security Council, at which it proposed to prepare a statement condemning the Israeli strike as an attack on a diplomatic mission. However, the USA, Great Britain and France opposed it. However, even Saudi Arabia, which until recently was considered an enemy of Iran, condemned the Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate.
However, the main question remains whether Iran will respond to the Israeli strike symmetrically, that is, on its own, or asymmetrically, that is, it will entrust this mission to its regional proxies.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that Israel would be "slapped in the face." “The defeat of the Zionist regime in the Gaza Strip will continue, and this regime will be close to decline and collapse,” Khamenei said in an address to country officials in Tehran. “Desperate efforts like the ones they made in Syria will not save them from defeat. Of course, they will also be slapped in the face for this,” he added.
It does not directly follow from Rahbar’s statements whether Iran itself will strike Israel or will continue to act with the help of its allies, only increasing the intensity of attacks on the Jewish state.
Nevertheless, Tehran is now closer than ever before to that “red line” when it is ready to strike directly at Israeli territory.
It is unlikely that it will be possible to limit ourselves to attacks on certain Israeli intelligence Mossad targets in Iraqi Kurdistan, as was the case before. It is obvious that the result of the attack in Damascus is not the efforts of some intelligence network, but a direct attack by the IDF.
Therefore, an attack by Iranian ballistic missiles on Israeli territory is more real than ever. But it would rather be of a very limited “tactical nature” in order to avoid the risk of a full-scale war.
Overall, Iran appears to have no intention of abandoning its war of attrition tactics against Israel in the hope that, over time, Benjamin Netanyahu's regime will further isolate itself and weaken its international support through its own actions. At the same time, Tehran will continue to influence Israel by weakening its capabilities in Gaza through its allies such as the Lebanese Hezbollah or the Houthis.
Iran has always sought to avoid direct confrontation with Israel, preferring to use its regional proxies for this, and so far it is hardly ready to abandon this well-established strategy that is producing results.
At the same time, the retaliatory actions of Tehran and the Axis of Resistance forces under its auspices often affected not so much Tel Aviv as Washington, since the targets of attacks by pro-Iranian forces were primarily American military facilities in Syria or Iraq.
NEW FRONT AND ATTRITION STRATEGY
However, this time the Islamic Republic needs to ensure that its response is specific to Israel. The situation is noticeably different from the terrorist attack in Kerman, when Iran blamed it on both the United States and Israel, although the explosion itself was carried out by ISIS terrorists (a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation).
Back then, the accusations were based on assumptions and circumstantial evidence, but now Israel’s involvement in the attacks is obvious, which means the answer must be appropriate.
Iran's main ally, Hezbollah, already has a wide arsenal of various missiles, drones and other weapons and has not yet fully deployed them in the confrontation with Israel. Now Hezbollah has the opportunity to activate these resources.
There are other options regarding the opening of new fronts against the Jewish state. In particular, massive attacks from the pro-Iranian “Islamic Resistance of Iraq” from the Syrian part of the Golan Heights, which have long served as a base for pro-Iranian groups, cannot be ruled out.
Attacks can be carried out using MLRS, other types of missiles, or the latest drones, which can be obtained from Iran. It is also likely that assault groups will be used to invade the Israeli-occupied Golan.
In addition, attacks on Israel can also be carried out through the territory of Jordan from Iraq by the forces of the same “Islamic Resistance”.
Abu Ali al-Askari, chief of security for Iraq's Kataib Hezbollah militia, part of the pro-Iranian Iraqi Islamic Resistance, said his forces are ready to arm and train 12,000 militiamen in Jordan for the war against Israel. Al-Askari even has a plan to disrupt ties between Jordan and Israel by blocking roads and preventing the delivery of goods.
“If the actions of the Iraqi militias embarrass the Iraqi government, we will be able to find suitable alternatives,” a Kataib Hezbollah spokesman said.
In Jordan, which has been grappling with street demonstrations against Israel for more than two weeks, urgent military discussions have been convened to prepare a scenario in which the kingdom becomes the new front for an "axis of resistance."
THE US DOES NOT WANT ESCALATION
On the other hand, a massive Hezbollah incursion into Israel would likely force the United States into the conflict as well. It cannot be ruled out that this is part of Netanyahu’s plan.
It is significant that the Israeli strike occurred on April 1, immediately after a virtual meeting in which Israeli officials agreed to take into account US “concerns” about a possible invasion of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
“The American side has expressed concern about various actions in Rafah. The Israeli side agreed to take these concerns into account and hold subsequent discussions between experts,” the White House said. And they added that further discussions will be held, including another meeting next week.
Therefore, Tel Aviv’s attack on Damascus is a challenge from Israel to not only Iran, but also the United States. Like, if you are so afraid of an escalation with Iran over Rafah, listening to your “Arab friends,” then we will make a new round of confrontation with the “Axis of Resistance” inevitable. And then it will no longer matter whether the IDF launches an attack on Rafah or not.
We can say that Washington has found itself virtually hostage to Tel Aviv and is forced to continue to support it, despite its rejection of what the Netanyahu regime is doing in Gaza. Refusal to support Israel would mean the loss of a political future for any American politician.
Now, Israel, with its strike on an Iranian diplomatic facility, can drag the United States into a new confrontation with Iran. Moreover, this time the conflict could take much more dangerous forms.
Fearing such a scenario, the United States has already sent an urgent message to Iran that Washington was not involved in the attack.
“Please don’t hurt us!”
But that may not be enough to allow the United States to avoid retaliation against its forces in the region.
In particular, the commander of the US Air Force in the Middle East, Lt. Gen. Alexus Grinkevich, said that Iran's assertion of US responsibility for Israel's actions could end the pause in attacks by pro-Iranian militias on US troops that have been ongoing since early February.
He said he does not yet see any specific threat to American troops, but is concerned about Iranian rhetoric as it creates increased risks.
In general, Iran will most likely refrain from any actions that could bring the escalation to a new level of tension and will continue to use the strategy of exhausting the Netanyahu regime.
Moreover, in addition to the blow to Damascus, the Israelis launched another one in Gaza. It claimed the lives of aid workers and Western citizens, which also prompted unprecedented condemnation of Netanyahu's actions.
A growing split between the Jewish state and its allies - the United States and the countries of the European Union - is evident. And it is important for Iran to maintain the dynamics of dissatisfaction with Israel’s actions in order to prevent the restoration of consolidation of the Western world.
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Israel has had more than a decade to plan for such a scenario. A devastating Netanyahu counter-attack may be precisely what Iran expects and will limit its own activity at present.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[Regnum] Members of the Iranian-recognized terrorist group Jaish al-Adl, who attacked two police stations in the province of Sistan and Baluchistan in southeastern Iran, hoped to penetrate the headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). This was announced on April 4 by the Deputy Governor of the region, Alireza Marhamati.
“Terrorists in Raska planned to infiltrate the IRGC headquarters, but were thwarted by a shootout with the police. Nevertheless, the conflict still continues,” Iran International TV channel quoted Marhamati as saying.
It is noted that in Raska and Chabahar, police killed two militants, and several more attackers were injured.
As reported by Regnum news agency, on April 3 around 22:00 local time (21:30 Moscow time), the Jaysh al-Adl group attacked two police stations in the Iranian cities of Rask and Chabahar in the southeast of the country. Three security personnel were killed in the attack, Alireza Marhamati said.
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...Argentine liberation theologist, born Jorge Mario Bergoglio. He was elected pope in 2013. Rather than setting up shop in Avignon, where he belongs, the first Jesuit Pope chose to reside in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse instead of the papal apartments. He is big on climate change, against consumerism, and in favor of throwing a blanket over homosexual activity (so to speak) within the clergy. He's not real sure about the Resurrection, about Christ's divinity, and a few other things that would have gotten him burned at the stake a few hundred years ago, but he's hot for a certain South American Earth Mother Goddess...
...In 2020 Hezbollah blew up a considerable portion of Beirut and many of its inhabitants when its ammonium nitrate facility exploded. They blamed it on... somebody else. It wasn't them though. Trust them on that. And it ain't never coming to trial...
Hezbollah
