TEL AVIV – A video of an Iranian sniper staging an assassination of President Donald Trump was posted on the Islamic Republic’s semi-official Fars news agency Monday, with the title, “Hey US! You started it, we will end it.”
Street protests hit Iran for a third day running on Saturday, spreading to the capital Tehran with crowds confronting police and attacking some state buildings, and a social media report said two demonstrators had been shot dead in a provincial town.
President Donald Trump appears to have struck a nerve with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who called America’s commander-in-chief a “brute” and said on Wednesday he does not want to “waste time on answering the rants and whoppers” of the leader of the free world.
Following President Trump’s refusal to certify the Iran nuclear deal, a senior Iranian leader claimed that “U.S. behavior” triggers the extreme, belligerent behavior of North Korea, as America is “not trustworthy.”
A senior Iranian security official boasted over the weekend that it would only take an Iranian missile 7 minutes to reach Tel Aviv.
Amid growing Iranian complaints that world powers have failed to live up to their obligations under the nuclear accord with Tehran, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Monday that dialogue with the US had proven to be “a lethal poison,” as Washington had shown that it could not be trusted.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani blamed Israel on Wednesday for conflicts between Muslim nations and groups throughout the Middle East, saying these were orchestrated by “Zionists” to distract from their crimes against Palestinians.
Iraqi police officers recently arrested a half dozen Sunni Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists as they attempted to escape the besieged Iraqi city of Fallujah incognito, dressed up as women to hide among fleeing civilians, reports Shiite Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency (FNA).
JERUSALEM – Iran on Sunday rejected an American proposal to negotiate a “new arrangement” on the Islamic Republic’s ballistic missile program.
Iran warned the U.S. on Monday that any attempt to encroach on the Islamic Republic’s ballistic missile program would constitute the crossing of a “red line.” “The US calculations about the Islamic Republic and the Iranian nation are fully incorrect,” Iranian Deputy Chief of Staff Brig-Gen Maassoud Jazzayeri was quoted by the Fars News Agency as saying.
The New York Times reports: Israel called on the United Nations Security Council on Monday to punish Iran for testing missiles capable of reaching Israel, which the Israelis said was a sign that the Iranians could not be trusted to
Iran’s state-media claims it was behind the rescue of a Russian pilot whose jet was downed by Turkish fighter jets, utilizing Hezbollah terrorists and Syrian forces to complete their mission. The Russian plane had violated Turkish airspace, causing Ankara to
