We Need a Solution to Syria That Tackles Iran

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Wednesday that Russian Federation needs to use its leverage over Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria to bring about peace and security in the region.

Hazan wrote in the Times of Israel that a war with Hezbollah could draw in Hamas, who control Gaza, leading Israel to fight a war on multiple fronts at the same time.

Israel has always been the unchallenged bully in the Middle East, but now Tel Aviv will face consequences for its temper tantrums. Buchanan suggests what’s needed now is “active diplomacy, not military action.” . But in general, Trump’s decision to acknowledge Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in defiance of United Nations strictures about the divided city, looks increasingly like a flamboyant departing gesture.

It was Iran that, for reasons unknown, chose to fly a drone from Syria into Israeli airspace and started the temporary tempest.

While an investigation is ongoing, Israeli sources indicate that at least 20 missiles were launched towards the fighter, which was damaged after one exploded close to it.

Where else can you find Syrian, Russian, American, Iranian and Turkish troops or advisers squaring off on the ground and in the air – along with pro-Iranian Shiite mercenaries from Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan and Afghanistan; pro-US Kurdish fighters from northern Syria; IS remnants; various pro-Saudi and pro-Jordanian anti-Syrian regime Sunni rebels and – I am not making this up – pro-Syrian regime Russian Orthodox Cossack “contractors” who went to Syria to defend Mother Russia from “crazy barbarians” – all rubbing against one another?

A USA leadership vacuum is creating anxiety.

Tillerson is due to meet Lebanon’s political leadership in Beirut Thursday, with the USA concerned about the influence of Iran-backed Hezbollah which it designates a “terrorist” organisation.

The U.N. report, a U.S. Mission to the U.N. statement said, “validates the United States’ concerns about growing Iranian destabilizing behavior and violations of global norms and UN resolutions”.

On Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily, Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton discussed recent American and Israeli military actions in Syria.

Our orders have been cut. Most of the missiles fired at the Israeli planes were of Russian manufacture, the IDF said Motzoei Shabbos, with the missile that was said to have hit the Israeli fighter jet an older version of a missile.

If Tehran did, it would be an act of monumental stupidity.

Brig Gen Tomer Bar, second in command of the Israeli air force, says the Israeli strike inside Syria was “the biggest and most significant attack the air force has conducted against Syrian air defences” since the 1982 Lebanon War.

Moreover, in recent months Iranian policy-suspending patrol boat harassment of US warships-appears crafted to ease tensions and provide no new causes for Trump to abandon the nuclear deal Prime Minister Hassan Rouhani regards as his legacy.

Last month, however, the State Department announced that the Pentagon would keep 2,000 US special operations forces, as well as diplomatic teams and others, in the country indefinitely to mop up the remaining militants and to ensure “Iranian influence in Syria is diminished, and Syria’s neighbors are secure”, a much murkier goal.

The incident was linked to defensive US airstrikes in Syria over the past week, Bolton believes. Islamic State has been routed from most of its territory but still holds pockets of the Euphrates River valley.

Turkish military forces have assaulted Afrin, a Syrian enclave near the Turkish border that is controlled by us -backed Kurds. On top of this, USA forces clashed with Russian mercenary forces who had attacked Kurdish forces backed by the U.S.

“I want that we have in the coming weeks a meeting on Syria that eradicates the ballistic activities in Syria that puts in danger all the regional powers”, he said, without elaborating.

Another reserve officer theorized that the types of weapons used against the targets, which included the Syrian air force’s T-4 base, had not yet been installed in the F-35s’ weapons bays.

Calling for United Nations action, Haley added: “The world can not continue to allow these blatant violations to go unanswered”. But a militia alliance led by Jabhat Al Nusra and Ahrar Al Sham, and sponsored by Turkey and Qatar, forced Russian hands, when it had to deploy troops inside Syria in September 2015.