“Rand is a friend of mine, and Rand asked me if he could get involved,” US President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House. “I have many people involved, and Iran is going to work out very nicely.”
Jewish Agency Chairman Isaac Herzog says he hopes Johnson will work to help UK Jewish community feel safe, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "looks forward to facing common challenges." Iranian FM Mohammad Zarif stresses that Iran does not seek "confrontation" with Britain.
Mossad intelligence agency said to have provided Ugandan security services with information leading to the July 7 arrest of Hussein Mahmood Yassine. He is suspected of scouting Israeli and American targets for potential terrorist attacks in Africa, and building a network of spies comprising Lebanese living in Uganda and Ugandan Muslims.
Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu: If the United States portrays an adversarial attitude towards us, we will take retaliatory measures, as we’ve told them. This is not a threat or a bluff. The US has expressed concerns that Russia's S-400 software will compromise its F-35 stealth jet program to the benefit of Moscow.
British announcement signals potential shift from Washington's major European allies who so far have been cool to US requests they beef up their military presence in the Persian Gulf, for fear of feeding the confrontation there.
Iran's Foreign Minister Zarif says Iran took measures against British-flagged oil tanker to implement international law, not retaliate for UK capture of Iranian tanker two weeks earlier. "Starting a conflict is easy, ending it would be impossible," Zarif warns.
More than half disapprove of British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s handling of Brexit. And 48% polled rate him as either fairly or poorly dealing with complaints of anti-Semitism.
After Iran announces it arrested 17 Iranian nationals allegedly recruited by CIA to spy on nuclear and military sites, and has already sentenced some of them to death, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says regime "has a long history of lying."
The veteran Japanese diplomat, who held the position of IAEA director since 2009, had planned to step down due to an unspecified illness, agency says. Several IAEA ambassadors are said to be in the running to succeed him.
Following Iran's seizure of British-flagged oil tanker, Mohammad Zarif accuses US National Security Adviser Bolton of "turning his venom against the UK in hopes of dragging it into a quagmire."
