Die US-geführte Anti-Terror-Koalition vernichtet in Syrien alles, nur nicht die Terrormiliz Islamischer Staat (IS). Das hat der syrische Außenminister Walid al- Muallim am Mittwoch gesagt. Die syrische Führung wird entschieden die Auflösung der Koalition fordern.

„Als Beispiel möchte ich die US-geführte Anti-Terror-Koalition anführen, die in Wahrheit alles konsequent zerstört, außer den IS“, sagte al- Muallim beim Treffen mit seinem russischen Amtskollegen Sergej Lawrow.

Officials gave conflicting accounts on whether foreign fighters would also be leaving the city, where the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) have been battling to defeat Islamic State since June.

The SDF could not be immediately reached for comment.

“Both meetings will take place on Oct. 16,” TASS cited Konstantin Kosachev, head of the Senate’s international relations committee, as saying.

NATO-Generalsekretär Jens Stoltenberg hat vor einer möglichen militärischen Intervention gegen Nordkorea gewarnt. Ein militärisches Eingreifen werde verheerende Konsequenzen haben.

Südkorea und die USA halten vom 16. bis 20. Oktober im West- und Ostmeer ein Manöver ab.

Zum Einsatz kommen über 40 Kriegsschiffe, darunter der nukleargetriebene US-Flugzeugträger „USS Ronald Reagan“ und das Atom-U-Boot „USS Michigan“.

In dem 25-minütigen Telefonat gratulierte General Jeong Kyeong-doo seinem US-amerikanischen Amtskollegen Joseph Dunford zur parlamentarischen Billigung seiner neuen Amtszeit als Generalstabschef. Jeong äußerte den Wunsch, dass sich Dunford weiterhin um die Aufrechterhaltung der gemeinsamen Verteidigungsbereitschaft bemühen möge.

„I think I have a little bit different attitude on North Korea than other people might have,“ he told reporters at the start of talks with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the White House. „And I listen to everybody, but ultimately my attitude is the one that matters, isn‘t it? That‘s the way it works. That‘s the way the system is.“

If there is one thing that characterizes Russian policy, it is its utter cynicism.

Die gestrige Rede von Donald Trump über die „Dezertifizierung“ des internationalen Abkommens mit dem Iran muss im weiteren Kontext gesehen werden. Hier rudert eine internationale Kriegslobby von Pontius zu Pilatus, weil sie gedemütgt, unterlegen, auf die Matte geworfen und niedergetrampelt irgendwie versucht sich noch irgendeinen Krieg zu organisieren um den Zusammenbruch ihrer Machtarchitektur zu vermeiden.

Effektiv bedeutet Trumps Rede erstmal Folgendes:

Trump often suggests the United States gave a $100 billion to Iran, but these were Iranian assets that had been frozen.

President Trump announced on Friday his decision to disavow the Iran nuclear agreement, threatening to leave the deal altogether if it was not amended to permanently block Tehran from building nuclear weapons or intercontinental missiles.

But even as he delivered a fire-breathing indictment of the Iranian government’s activities around the Middle East, he stopped short of unraveling the agreement reached by President Barack Obama two years ago.

Israel‘s Channel 2 TV asked Intelligence Minister Israel Katz whether he saw a risk of war after Trump‘s speech.

„Absolutely, yes. I think that the speech was very significant,“ Katz responded. „Iran is the new North Korea. We see where things are goings.“

(4.3.2015) The prime minister has been warning for over 20 years that Tehran is close to achieving its pursuit of nuclear weapons.

“I give advice to the president. He was elected by the American people and I stand by this Iran strategy as it came out today,” Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon.

The worry that Trump‘s Iran policy could heighten the crisis with North Korea is shared even by Democrats who opposed the nuclear deal. Some fear that U.S. criticism of the nuclear deal, despite Iran‘s technical compliance with the terms of the agreement, will diminish the potential to negotiate an agreement with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un.

„Our allies and adversaries alike will see this as a signal that the United States doesn‘t live up to our commitments, making the United States a source of uncertainty instead of a force for solving serious problems,“ New York Rep. Eliot Engel, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Friday. „I have to ask: what major power will trust our word on potential North Korean nuclear negotiations, given how Trump is undermining the agreement with Iran?“

President Donald Trump‘s speech on the Iran deal and Tehran‘s activities in the region reflects a tough-minded approach with objectives that are at best unclear and likely unrealistic.
He appears to want Congress to pass new deal-breaking terms that Iran will never accept, leverage the Europeans into joining, and force Iran through sanctioning the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and ratcheting up the pressure to accept a new accord. None of this is likely to happen.

Most of Pompeo’s remarks concerned the mission of the Central Intelligence Agency and its importance in a world of terrorism and nation-state skulduggery. Pompeo acknowledged that many people have a sinister impression of the CIA, in part because they do not (and cannot) know exactly what the agency does on a daily basis.

He teased a few classified missions that would surely blow the minds of his audience if he could divulge the details, including one carried out by a very young CIA officer that “would be rejected as implausible by any worthy publisher,” were it submitted as an espionage novel.

„We know that it‘s the family and the church — not government officials — who know best how to create strong and loving communities,“ Trump said.

He got a standing ovation when he talked of appointing Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Trump noted he signed a religious liberty order on the National Day of Prayer that eased enforcement of the Johnson Amendment, which regulated political activity of churches.

Netanyahu is ominously and obsessively warning that Israel may not survive to see its 100th anniversary, based in part on his reading of the Bible.

President Trump unveils the United States‘ new strategy on the Iran nuclear deal.