The confrontation of the nuclear agreement with Iran
Fox News correspondent Amy Kellogg interviews a former State Department official and adviser to Iran’s nuclear negotiating team on the latest news surrounding the JCPOA.
Iran sent a clear message to Israel at a weapons show on Wednesday by displaying a missile with “death to Israel” written on the side, the Jerusalem Post first reported.
The missile was just one in a display of weapons and military equipment that the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Aerospace Force unveiled at a public event in the central city of Isfahan, roughly 270 miles south of Tehran, the state agency announced. Tasnim News.
The display came a week after a drone strike struck a military factory in Isfahan, causing minimal damage to a roof with no reported casualties.
A long-range Ghadr missile at a defense exhibition in Isfahan, central Iran, on February 8, 2023. (Morteza Salehi/Tasnim News/AFP via Getty Images)
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It is not clear what the military factory was producing, but Iran was quick to blame Israel for the attack.
Jerusalem has not commented on the incident, though Western defense officials said they too believed the attack was carried out by Israel.
Israel and Iran have long been engaged in proxy wars and covert operations across the Middle East, though tensions between the two nations appear to have risen in recent weeks.
The display in Isfahan also came on the same day that Iran unveiled a new underground airbase dubbed “Eagle 44” capable of housing fighter jets, bombers and long-range cruise missiles, during which an Iranian general again named Israel as his main adversary.
A fighter jet is seen at the underground air force base, called “Eagle 44”, at an undisclosed location in Iran, on February 7, 2023. (West Asia News Agency/Handout via Reuters)
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“The Islamic Republic of Iran is the largest state supporter of terrorism in the world, an agent of destruction and violence in the Middle East, Europe, Africa and the Americas, and openly calls for the annihilation of Israel and the destruction of the United States of America. . . Iran is a threat to regional and global stability,” the retired IDF brigadier said. General Amir Avivi, president and founder of the Israel Defense and Security Forum, told Fox News Digital.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks with General Ahmad Reza Radan on January 7, 2023. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
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Calling on Western nations to take a stronger stance when it comes to Iran, Avivi said “diplomatic negotiations cannot be trusted, nor can it be trusted to abide by international rules or treaties.”
