Senior Iranian commander: Iran transfers Fajr-5 missile technology to Gaza’s Hamas
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has supplied
Hamas in Gaza with the technology to “quickly” produce longer-range
missiles on their own without needing direct shipments, said a report
Wednesday that quoted the head of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard.
The comments by Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari offer some of the
clearest insights on Iran’s weapons support for Hamas, whose
Iranian-engineered Fajr-5 missiles have struck near Tel Aviv and
Jerusalem during weeklong battles with Israel.
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“Gaza is under siege, so we cannot help them. The Fajr-5
missiles have not been shipped from Iran. Its technology has been
transferred and (the missiles are) being produced quickly,” Jafari was
quoted as saying by the semiofficial ISNA news agency.
Iran has
repeatedly denied it directly supplied Hamas with the Fajr-5. The ISNA
report gave no further details on the level of missile know-how sent to
Gaza or the channels used.
Israel charges that Iran sends weapons,
including rockets, to Gaza through a network of smuggling tunnels under
the 15-kilometer (9-mile) border between Gaza and Egypt.
Iran
also backs the anti-Israel faction Hezbollah in Lebanon, which fired
thousands of rockets into Israel during a monthlong 2006 war.
Iran’s
parliament speaker, Ali Larijani, meanwhile, said his country was
“honored” that Iran could help Palestinians with “material and military
aspects.” He did not elaborate.
He criticized Arab countries for
failing to help arm Hamas and other Palestinian group. “The Palestinian
nation does not need speeches and meetings. Arab countries should send
military aid,” he was quoted as saying by the semiofficial Fars news
agency.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei also chided other
Muslim nations for not rallying behind Gaza in the latest showdown with
Israel.
“Some of them sufficed with words, and some others did
not condemn” Israel, Khamenei said, according to the official Islamic
Republic News Agency.
Israel has carried out hundreds of
airstrikes in Gaza over the past week in an operation it says is meant
to stop daily rocket salvos by Gaza militants at Israel.
Iran and
Israel are bitter enemies, and the two nations are locked in a deepening
dispute over Iran’s nuclear program. The West and others fear Iran
could eventually produce nuclear weapons, and Israel has left open the
option of staging a military strike at its nuclear facilities.
Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes such as power generation and cancer treatment.
Terrorism:
Our U.N. ambassador, champion of the altered Benghazi talking points,
helped block attempts by Sudan to turn over the world's most wanted
terrorist outright or share intelligence leading to his capture.
Our U.N. ambassador, champion of the altered Benghazi talking points,
played a key role in blocking attempts by Sudan to turn over the
world's most wanted terrorist outright or share intelligence leading to
his capture.
It does not surprise us that U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice either
willfully or blindly parroted altered Benghazi talking points, going on
five Sunday news shows on Sept. 16 to push the false narrative that the
attack on our consulate in Benghazi was not a terrorist attack but a
flash mob inflamed by a months-old Internet trailer insulting to Islam.
This isn't the first time she has been clueless about and blind to the
reality of terror.
As we mentioned in an earlier editorial about her possible
appointment as secretary of state, "In 1996, while serving as assistant
secretary of state for African affairs under former Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright, Rice helped persuade President Clinton to rebuff
Sudan's offer to turn Osama bin Laden, who was then living there, over
to U.S. authorities."
Richard Miniter, author of the book "Losing bin Laden," told World
Magazine in 2003 that Rice played a primary role in scuttling the deal
in which Sudan could have turned over bin Laden to the U.S.
As a member of Clinton's National Security Council, he wrote, she doubted Sudan's credibility.
"The FBI, in 1996 and 1997, had their efforts to look at terrorism
data and deal with the bin Laden issue overruled every single time by
the State Department, by Susan Rice and her cronies, who were hell-bent
on destroying the Sudan," Miniter said.
Miniter noted that "Rice (cited) the suffering of Christians (in
Sudan) as one reason that she doubted the integrity of the Sudanese
offers. But her analysis largely overlooked the view of U.S. Ambassador
to Sudan Tim Carney, who argued for calling Khartoum's bluff."
Rice wanted to punish Sudan rather than cooperate with it and accept its offer.
Carney co-authored a Washington Post op-ed with former Bill Clinton
diplomatic troubleshooter Mansoor Ijaz in 2002 in which they detailed
how Rice had frustrated attempts to get bin Laden even as Sudan had
agreed to cooperate in 1997 to aid in rooting out terrorists without the
U.S. dropping sanctions against it.
Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/112112-634358-susan-rice-thwarted-bin-laden-capture.htm#ixzz2CvFeNqv5
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