On the Eve of Israel\u2019s Election, Netanyahu Thanks Trump for Sanctioning Iran at His Request<\/p>\n
ON THE EVE of Israel\u2019s election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took credit for President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to impose sanctions on Iran\u2019s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, by designating it a foreign terrorist organization. It was, Zarif added, another \u201cmisguided election-eve gift to Netanyahu.\u201d After Netanyahu\u2019s Hebrew-language tweet taking credit for the decision, Zarif tweeted a screenshot of a report from the Israeli press with the letters \u201cQ.E.D.\u201d a Latin phrase used at the end of a mathematical proof, indicating that the truth of a proposition has been demonstrated. Once again, Trump dismisses American military and intelligence officials, and instead listens to Netanyahu and Saudi crown Prince MBS. #IRGC https:\/\/t.co\/6jwPPCfjF8 Maryam Rajavi, the leader of an Iranian exile group known as the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or People\u2019s Mujahedeen \u2014 which successfully lobbied to be removed from the official State Department list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations with the help of paid supporters like Bolton \u2014 also took credit for the new sanctions against the Revolutionary Guard Corps. Robert Mackey, The Intercept,<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the Eve of Israel\u2019s Election, Netanyahu Thanks Trump for Sanctioning Iran at His Request ON THE EVE of Israel\u2019s election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took credit for President Donald…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[90,642,178,20],"module":[81],"ctype":[17],"blog":[109],"class_list":["post-9628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mujahedin-khalq-proxy-force","tag-mujahedin-warmongers","tag-paid-advocacy-for-mko","tag-pmoi-iran-people","tag-third-view-mek","module-article","ctype-story","blog-western-bloggers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9628"},{"taxonomy":"module","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/module?post=9628"},{"taxonomy":"ctype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ctype?post=9628"},{"taxonomy":"blog","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nejatngo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog?post=9628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u201cThank you, my dear friend, President Donald Trump,\u201d Netanyahu tweeted in Hebrew, \u201cfor answering another one of my important requests.\u201d
\nAs the Telegraph correspondent Raf Sanchez noted, Netanyahu\u2019s choice of words seemed to imply that Trump\u2019s earlier decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, Syrian territory Israel seized by force in 1967, was also a gift given at the request of the embattled Israeli prime minister.
\nNetanyahu is taking credit for Trump\u2019s decision to designate the Revolutionary Guard as terrorists. \u201cThank you for responding to another important request of mine,<\/strong>\u201d Bibi says.
\nHe got the Golan 2 weeks ago and now this 1 day before Israel\u2019s election. https:\/\/t.co\/PAvX22o4Y5
\n\u2014 Raf Sanchez (@rafsanchez) April 8, 2019
\nOne day before Israelis go to the polls, Netanyahu is pulling out all the stops, since he faces both an immediate electoral challenge from Israel\u2019s former military Chief of Staff, Benny Gantz, and the prospect of a post-election indictment on corruption charges.
\nJoe Dyke, an Agence France-Presse correspondent, pointed out that Netanyahu omitted the claim that Trump\u2019s move was made at his request in a subsequent tweet in English. That left the prime minister open to the charge often leveled at Palestinian leaders by Israelis, that they placate the international community in English and then say something quite different for domestic consumption in their native tongue.
\nFile this one away for the next time an Israeli official says \u201cThe Palestinians say one thing in English and another in Arabic\u201d https:\/\/t.co\/1OjAtWKGCH
\n\u2014 Joe (@joedyke) April 8, 2019
\nTrump is popular with Israel\u2019s right-leaning, nationalist electorate for a string of concessions to Israeli claims, including the de facto recognition of Israel\u2019s illegal annexation of occupied East Jerusalem as well as the Golan Heights. Netanyahu\u2019s warm relations with the American president have featured heavily in his re-election campaign.
\n\u05e0\u05ea\u05e0\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5 \u2013 \u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05df. \u05d7\u05d6\u05e7. pic.twitter.com\/Yqj1qkYKHH
\n\u2014 Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) March 6, 2019
\nOn Sunday, Netanyahu also shared a segment from Fox News in which Sean Hannity called Gantz \u201chis crazy opponent,\u201d for suggesting that Trump was meddling in Israel\u2019s election.
\n\u05e6\u05e4\u05d5 \u05d1\u05e7\u05d8\u05e2 \u05de\u05ea\u05d5\u05da \u05ea\u05d5\u05db\u05e0\u05d9\u05ea \u05d4\u05d7\u05d3\u05e9\u05d5\u05ea \u05d4\u05e0\u05e6\u05e4\u05d9\u05ea \u05d1\u05d9\u05d5\u05ea\u05e8 \u05d1\u05d0\u05e8\u05d4\u05f4\u05d1.
\n\u05d9\u05d5\u05e2\u05e6\u05d5 \u05d4\u05e7\u05e8\u05d5\u05d1 \u05e9\u05dc \u05e0\u05e9\u05d9\u05d0 \u05d0\u05e8\u05d4\u05f4\u05d1 \u05d3\u05d5\u05e0\u05dc\u05d3 \u05d8\u05e8\u05d0\u05de\u05e4, \u05e8\u05d5\u05d3\u05d9 \u05d2\u05f3\u05d5\u05dc\u05d9\u05d0\u05e0\u05d9, \u05ea\u05d5\u05e7\u05e3 \u05d0\u05ea \u05d2\u05e0\u05e5 \u05e2\u05dc \u05db\u05da \u05e9\u05ea\u05e7\u05e3 \u05d0\u05ea \u05d4\u05e0\u05e9\u05d9\u05d0 \u05d8\u05e8\u05d0\u05de\u05e4 \u05e2\u05dc \u05e9\u05d4\u05db\u05d9\u05e8 \u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05d1\u05d5\u05e0\u05d5\u05ea \u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc \u05d1\u05e8\u05de\u05ea \u05d4\u05d2\u05d5\u05dc\u05df. pic.twitter.com\/q1lTu7oPjB
\n\u2014 Benjamin Netanyahu (@netanyahu) April 7, 2019
\nSoon after Trump\u2019s decision to sanction the Revolutionary Guard Corps was announced, Iran\u2019s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, tweetedthat Trump\u2019s action was the result of lobbying by \u201cNetanyahu Firsters,\u201d including John Bolton, who made paid speeches advocating regime change in Iran before he became the national security adviser, and Sheldon Adelson, a financial supporter of both the American president and the Israeli prime minister who once suggested a nuclear strike on Iran would be the best way to start negotiations.<\/p>\n
\nA(nother) misguided election-eve gift to Netanyahu. A(nother) dangerous U.S. misadventure in the region.
\n\u2014 Javad Zarif (@JZarif) April 8, 2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\n#NetanyahuFirsters who have long agitated for FTO designation of the IRGC fully understand its consequences for US forces in the region. In fact, they seek to drag US into a quagmire on his behalf.@realDonaldTrump should know better than to be conned into another US disaster. pic.twitter.com\/i4bcfgxybT
\n\u2014 Javad Zarif (@JZarif) April 7, 2019
\nSenior Pentagon and C.I.A. officials opposed Trump\u2019s decision to impose sanctions on the military unit and affiliated companies and individuals, arguing that it would \u201callow hard-line Iranian officials to justify deadly operations against Americans overseas,\u201d The New York Times reported. Trita Parsi, founder of the National Iranian American Council, offered this as proof that Netanyahu now seems to have more sway over the president\u2019s decisions than his own military and intelligence officials.<\/p>\n
\n\u2014 Trita Parsi (@tparsi) April 8, 2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nThe terrorist designation of the repressive Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has been the enduring and the righteous demand of the Iranian people and Resistance and an imperative for regional and global peace and security. #Iran #BlackListIRGC
\n\u2014 Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) April 8, 2019
\nIran retaliated, as the BBC Persian correspondent Bahman Kalbasi noted, by designating The United States Central Command a terrorist organization and naming the U.S. government a supporter of terrorism.
\nIran Supreme National Security Council has issued a statement saying it now considers CENTCOM and all the groups affiliated with it as a \u201cterrorist organization\u201d and US Gov. as a supporter of terrorism\u2026.good day for warmongers in DC, Tehran, Tel Aviv, as well as UAE\/Saudi. https:\/\/t.co\/vxtWVlZtW7
\n\u2014 Bahman Kalbasi (@BahmanKalbasi) April 8, 2019<\/p>\n