Iran and Azerbaijan continue to lead the news of the Middle East. Iran’s massive military drillsalong their border are a not-so-veiled threat against their neighbor. The Islamic regime persists with their threats demanding that the Azerbaijanis stop their interference in Iran’s truck transport and sever their ties with Israel.
A smiling President Ilham Aliyev even took a photograph on the banks of the Aras River, which serves as the international border between Azerbaijan and Iran, with his hand on an Israeli Harop UAV (drone). Transport planes shuttled military equipment from Israel to Azerbaijan, and a deal has been worked out for the purchase of the Israeli Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile system. In response to Iran’s military exercises, Azerbaijan is in the midst of a military drill in their own country with Turkey’s participation called “The Steadfast Brotherhood 2021”. At the same time, they are participating in another exercise in Georgia with both Turkey and Georgia called “Eternity 2021”.
The military aid to Azerbaijan is only one of the reasons that Iran is claiming that war with Israel has already begun.
Said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh, “Israel has carried out attacks that were intended to destroy our nuclear program for peaceful purposes. It murdered nuclear scientists and harmed Iranian people. Iran is accused of terrorism, but there is no good or bad terrorist. The whole crisis in the region is Israel’s fault.” So, there is “no good or bad terrorist”? Hmmm…spoken like a bad terrorist. Again, a reminder that this will be the topic of my Middle East Update “Has a War Between Israel and Iran Begun?”
While Iran’s suicide drones are operating in a campaign in the northern Syrian province of Idlib, at sunset on Thursday a UAV bombed a site of Iranian militias in the al-Bukmal area, near the Syrian border with Iraq. Also, just last night a shipment of short-range Iranian rockets and launchers were transported from Iraq to the city of Al-Miyadin, Syria and hidden inside an ancient fortress.
While Iran continues to stir up trouble with other nations, their own economy is tanking. Their annual inflation rate has reached 58%, which is the highest rate since the beginning of the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
China has been testing the waters when it comes to the airspace of Taiwan. Over a span of four days this weekend, 149 Chinese aircraft broke into the Taiwanese zone. The U.S. and other nations condemned the action, but it is difficult to not see this eventually ending in a Chinese play for the coveted Taiwan.
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