Monday, July 20, 2015

Israel to Ashton: Iranian forces mustn’t be allowed to dump ISIS on Israeli Golan border

Although Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu again appealed to US Congress not to approve the “dream deal” won by Iran, this deal was not his main business with US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter whom he was due to meet Monday, July 20.  Carter himself told reporters that the two countries could “agree to disagree.”

Israel’s overriding concern at this time, military sources report, is about Tehran’s possible endgame in fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, i.e. driving ISIS fighters to confront Israeli forces on the Golan and also reach the Jordanian border. (READ MORE)