Gog-MaGog Invasion Shapes Up: Iran 'Mobilizing' Regional Forces, Russia Against Israel

Iran ‘Mobilizing’ Regional Forces, Russia, Against Israel

Stefan J. Bos

 Iran says it is mobilizing regional forces to attack Israel and its allies as it seeks to continue the policies of the Islamic Republic’s president and foreign minister, who recently died in a helicopter crash.

Ali Bagheri, Iran’s acting foreign minister, revealed in remarks monitored by Worthy News that he will tour the region to “mobilize” Iraq-based militias and Hezbollah in Lebanon to hit Israel, which Tehran views as a “Zionist regime.”

Bagheri, 56, had served as deputy to the foreign minister of the Islamic Republic, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who died along with President Ebrahim Raisi and seven others in the May 19 chopper crash in north-western Iran.

Tehran is also backing the Houthis in Yemen, saying it is moving forward to supply the group with anti-ship ballistic missiles, said Iran’s Tasnim News Agency, which is linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

However, Iran’s announced attempts to provide more missiles to Houthis comes after the Marshall Islands-flagged dry-bulk ship Laax said it was hit by five rockets fired from Yemen this week.

Iranian and Russian officials said that besides supporting regional allies, Bagheri also held talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to increase cooperation between Tehran and Moscow.

Iran’s plans to step up military support to its regional allies, as well as Russia, comes more than a month after Tehran fired hundreds of missiles and drones toward Israel. Yet about 99 percent of these weapons were shot down, Israeli defense sources said.

Tehran has expressed outrage over Israel’s attacks in Gaza and its refusal to end operations in the southern Gaza city of Rafah after dozens of people reportedly died there.

Muslims must unite against Israel – Erdogan

RT

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has urged the Islamic world to make a “common decision” to oppose Israel, calling the Jewish state a threat to “all of humanity.”

“I have some words to say to the Islamic world: What are you waiting for to take a common decision?” he said in a speech to lawmakers from his AKP party on Wednesday. 

“Israel is not just a threat to Gaza but to all of humanity. No state is safe as long as Israel does not follow international law and does not feel bound by international law,” he continued, before accusing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of committing “genocide.”

Erdogan’s remarks came days after Israeli forces bombed a refugee camp in the southern Gazan city of Rafah, killing 45 people. The airstrike, which was carried out less than a week after the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to cease military operations in the city, triggered a wave of international condemnation and was described by Netanyahu as a “tragic mistake.”

“No ideology sees the burning to death of innocent civilians in their tents as legitimate,” Erdogan said. “The world is watching the barbarism of this vampire called Netanyahu live.”