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Thursday, August 29, 2024
FM Katz accuses Iran of smuggling weapons into West Bank via Jordan
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Foreign Minister Israel Katz accuses Iran of attempting to establish an “eastern terror front” against Israel via Jordan.
Katz — who has faced some criticism for his style of online diplomatic attacks — publishes an AI-generated image showing Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei as an octopus with many tentacles.
The foreign minister claims that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is smuggling weapons from Syria into Jordan, “attempting to destabilize the regime and turn the Israel-Jordan border from a peaceful one into a volatile front.” The weapons are then brought into the West Bank, he adds, “where an Iranian-Hamas terror infrastructure is being established.”
Katz calls for a security fence to be built “quickly” along the Israel-Jordan border, something that has been promised for more than a decade by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but has been dismissed by security officials as a pipe dream.
Iran is working to establish an eastern terror front against Israel through special units of the IRGC, involved in smuggling weapons, funding, and directing terror organizations.
In the first stage, they smuggle weapons into the Kingdom of Jordan, mainly through the Syrian… pic.twitter.com/uO3Rw7iBGG
— ישראל כ”ץ Israel Katz (@Israel_katz) August 29, 2024
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