U.S. and Israel reach joint plan to counter Iran

Barak Ravid of Israel's Channel 10 news

Scoop: U.S. and Israel reach joint plan to counter Iran

12-28-2017

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after delivering a speech during a visit to the Israel Museum on May 23, 2017 in Jerusalem, Israel. Photo: Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images

The U.S. and Israel have reached a joint strategic work plan to counter Iranian activity in the Middle East. U.S. and Israeli officials said the joint understandings were reached in a secret meeting between senior Israeli and U.S. delegations at the White House on December 12th.

What it means: A senior U.S. official said that after two days of talks the U.S. and Israel reached at a joint document which included understandings on countering Iranian actions in the region. The U.S. official said the document goal's was to translate President Trump's Iran speech to joint U.S.-Israeli strategic goals regarding Iran and to set up a joint work plan.

At the table: The Israeli team was headed by national security adviser Meir Ben-Shabbat and included senior representatives of the Israeli military, Ministry of Defense, Foreign Ministry and intelligence community. The U.S. side was headed by national security adviser H.R. McMaster and included senior representatives from the National Security Council, State Department, Department of Defense and the intelligence community.

As part of the understandings that were reached the U.S. and Israel decided to form several working groups according to the joint goals:

1. Covert and diplomatic action to block Iran's path to nuclear weapons – according to the U.S. official this working group will deal with diplomatic steps that can be taken as part of the Iran nuclear deal to further monitor and verify that Iran is not violating the deal. It also includes diplomatic steps outside of the nuclear deal to put more pressure on Iran. The working group will deal with possible covert steps against the Iranian nuclear program.
2. Countering Iranian activity in the region, especially the Iranian entrenchment efforts in Syria and the Iranian support for Hezbollah and other terror groups. This working group will also deal with drafting U.S.-Israeli policy regarding the "day after" in the Syrian civil war.
3. Countering Iranian ballistic missiles development and the Iranian "precision project" aimed at manufacturing precision guided missiles in Syria and Lebanon for Hezbollah to be used against Israel in a future war.
4. Joint U.S.-Israeli preparation for different escalation scenarios in the region concerning Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.

Senior Israeli officials confirmed that the U.S. and Israel have arrived at strategic understandings regarding Iran that would strengthen the cooperation in countering regional challenges.

The Israeli officials said:

"[T]he U.S. and Israel see eye to eye the different developments in the region and especially those that are connected to Iran. We reached at understandings regarding the strategy and the policy needed to counter Iran. Our understandings deal with the overall strategy but also with concrete goals, way of action and the means which need to be used to get obtain those goals."

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My Comments :

1. The White supremacist Trump (catapulted into the WH by Sheldon Adelson and Robert Mercer) and the Jew supremacist Netanyahu - devoted follower of the zionist 'we want it all, and we want it all exclusively for ourselves' Zeev Jabotinsky doctrine - are waging war on Shiite Iran and Hezbollah in order to further colonise the Middle East and extend the power of the USA and the Tel Aviv regime in the region.

2. Trump will have realised by now, that Tel Aviv has a respectable amount of leverage (dirty dossiers) on him, in order to be able to dictate him any policy Tel Aviv does want the USA to execute, whether he likes it or not...

3. Do - within the context of would-be regime change in Iran by the racist, fascist and traditionally belligerent USA/Tel Aviv geo-political actors - in particular mark the demonstrative moves of the "spontaneous" opposition from within Iran, that seem to match a classical pattern of subversive tools.

4. Secretive subversive tools from the well equipped tool-kit of the usual suspected secret services, historically initiating a diplomatic playing field within the target country that in the end might "justify" foreign intervention (read : the introduction of a bloody and violent theatre of war).

5. All the way from organising a diplomatic playing field untill the de facto founding of an all too real theatre of war, favourably along the well-trodden pattern of having been "officially invited by the opposition to intervene into the national politics" of the target country.

6. So the West will most probably have planned already in great detail, to go from a (intended) rapidly deteriorating diplomatic playing field towards a full-blown military killing field.

7. Waging another war in the ME (long asked for and anticipated by the neo-conservatives zionists within the USA and beyond) along the path of (intervention in) Iraq, Libya, Syria etc., be it directly or by proxy.

8. (War) By proxy with the help from the ultra-orthodox Sunni SA regime for example, which (war) recently happened to be realised in Yemen with disastrous consequences for the population involved. 

9. For more background info on this subject of ever-increasing western neo-colonialism, see for instance my contribution under this next link :

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