{"id":1930377,"date":"2023-05-13T12:13:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T16:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-threatens-israel-at-russia-summit\/"},"modified":"2023-05-13T12:16:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T16:16:42","slug":"iran-threatens-israel-at-russia-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-threatens-israel-at-russia-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran threatens Israel during Russia summit."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Firan-threatens-israel-at-russia-summit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1930377&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Iran Threatens Israel During Russia Summit Amid Gaza Rocket Barrage<\/h2>\n<h3>Syrian Dictator Bashar Assad to Provide Launchpad for New Attacks Against Israel<\/h3>\n<p>A senior Iranian official has predicted that Syrian dictator Bashar Assad will provide a launchpad for new attacks against Israel during a Russia-hosted summit. &#8220;We are sure that the Syrian Army will respond to the Israeli raids at a proper time,\u201d Iranian Foreign Minister Amir Abdollahian said Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Israeli officials have conducted airstrikes in Syria for years, with the stated goal of preventing Iranian forces from establishing military outposts on Israeli borders. Abdollahian renewed that threat from Moscow as Assad gained re-admission to the Arab League, a diplomatic coup for the pariah regime, and Israeli forces clashed with Palestinian Islamic Jihad, an Iran-backed terrorist group in Gaza.<\/p>\n<h3>Iranian Officials Hope for U.S. Special Forces Withdrawal from Northern Syria<\/h3>\n<p>Iranian officials hope that the summit in Moscow will increase pressure for a withdrawal of United States special forces from northern Syria, where they fought alongside Kurdish militia to dismantle the Islamic State\u2019s caliphate. The meeting was attended by Turkey, a NATO ally but also a fierce opponent of U.S. cooperation with the Iraqi and Syrian Kurdish militias.<\/p>\n<h3>Efforts to Contain the Conflict to a Clash with Islamic Jihad<\/h3>\n<p>Israeli Defense Forces targeted the Islamic Jihad militant leaders on Tuesday in an operation that reportedly killed 12 Palestinian civilians in addition to the three commanders. The militant group responded by firing more than 300 rockets into Israel. Their barrage raised the prospect of a more intense conflict, but Egypt reportedly has been working to broker a ceasefire, and Israeli officials have signaled that they want to avoid a wider clash with Hamas, the more powerful terrorist group in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are striking who is launching rockets at us,\u201d IDF spokesman David Hagari told the Times of Israel. \u201cIslamic Jihad is leading this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gaza-militants-fire-missiles-into-israel-as-middle-east-crisis-heightens\/\" title=\"Gaza Militants Fire Missiles Into Israel As Middle East Crisis Heightens\">rocket fire<\/a>. If other factions join, we will respond against them too.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Israeli Efforts to Degrade Iran\u2019s Nuclear Weapons Program<\/h3>\n<p>Such celebrations of terrorist attacks against Israel correspond to intensifying Israeli efforts to degrade Iran\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/evidence-of-undeclared-nuclear-activities-discovered-at-locations-in-iran-that-raise-new-concerns-report\/\" title=\"\u2018Evidence Of Undeclared Nuclear Activities\u2019 Discovered At Locations In Iran That Raise New Concerns: Report\">nuclear weapons program<\/a>, which has continued to progress despite President Joe Biden\u2019s desire to rehabilitate the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Yet Netanyahu has avoided a major clash with Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based terrorist group that looms as Iran\u2019s most powerful proxy on Israel\u2019s borders and reportedly possesses a vast arsenal of rockets and a growing stockpile of Iranian precision-guided munitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Israel has taken the fight inside Iran, not just against proxies on its border, Iran [is] now trying to back its proxy muscles to distract Israel, to keep them busy on their borders and away from operations inside Iran,\u201d the Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior adviser Richard Goldberg told the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<h3>Use of David\u2019s Sling to Down a Rocket Fired from Gaza<\/h3>\n<p>Lebanese Hezbollah\u2019s potential to bombard Israel in retaliation for a major military strike against Iran adds to the significance of the IDF\u2019s use of David\u2019s Sling, a new and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iran-threatens-israel-at-russia-summit\/\" title=\"Iran threatens Israel during Russia summit.\">previously unproven medium-range air defense system<\/a>, to down a rocket fired from Gaza on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe decision to activate David\u2019s Sling and demonstrate its successful capability for the first time is a clear message to other actors, most specifically Hezbollah, and ultimately to Tehran to let them know that the Israeli layered defense capability has improved and that they are not afraid of a confrontation on their northern border, should it come to that,\u201d said Goldberg, the FDD expert.<\/p>\n<p>Egyptian officials reportedly have worked to broker a ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, but the two sides continued to exchange blows Wednesday even after initial reports of a deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran threatens Israel during Russia summit amid Gaza rocket barrage Syrian dictator Bashar Assad will provide a launchpad for new attacks against Israel, a senior Iranian official predicted during a Russia-hosted summit. &#8220;We are sure that the Syrian Army will respond to the Israeli raids at a proper time,\u201d Iranian Foreign Minister Amir Abdollahian said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1930378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[3823,4671,4280,7778,4622],"class_list":["post-1930377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-russia","tag-summit","tag-threatens"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1930377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1930377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1930378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1930377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1930377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1930377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}