— 🇮🇱/🇸🇾 NEW: Two settlers from Tel Aviv have been indicted for smuggling weapons from the Syrian border.

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— 🇮🇱/🇺🇸 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Neyanuahu: 'When I was in Washington, people said I control the American government and dictate its security policy. Now they claim the opposite, that the American administration controls me and dictates Israel’s security policy. I want to make one thing clear: our security policy is in our own hands.'

These comments come as both American and Israeli officials have been forced to explicitly deny Israeli control over the United States, with Vice President Vance saying last week while visiting Israel: 'One week, they say that Israel controls the United States. A week later, they say the United States controls Israel. This is hogwash. We don’t want a client state, and that’s not what Israel is. We want a partnership. We want an ally here.'

In recent media appearances, Netanyahu has assured Americans that he does not control the United States.

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— 🇺🇸 NEW: The U.S. Navy loses an F-18/A 'Super Hornet' and a Sikorsky MH-60R 'Sea Hawk' in two separate incidents within 30 minutes, both crashing in the South China Sea; no casualties have been reported

This marks the loss of the eighth American F-18 (and its variants) in the past 12 months.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Congressman Thomas Massie questions American aid to Israel.

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—❗️STAY TUNED

In a few minutes, an exclusive MES interview with prominent Iranian Member of Parliament, Dr. Amirhossein Sabeti.

Several clips will be uploaded from the most important parts of the interview, and the full 48 minutes will be uploaded at the end.

—❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇱 Iranian MP, Dr. Amirhossein Sabeti, in an interview with MES:

'A new war between Iran and Israel is inevitable, although we can't predict when exactly it will take place. Iran is certainly more prepared now than last time, and all military and security assessments show this. Iran has prepared for various different scenarios.

Rather than closing the Strait of Hormuz, Iran has much greater tools at its disposal to pressure Israel and the United States, which I cannot elaborate.

On the last day of the war, Iran fired a new missile; this single missile penentrated 6 or 7 Israeli air defense layers and struck its target. Our capabilities are much greater than what we revealed during the 12-day war.

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—❗️🇮🇷/☢️ Iranian MP, Dr. Amirhossein Sabeti, in an interview with MES:

'Iran has never deviated towards producing nuclear weapons. All IAEA reports since 2002-2003 confirm this, and even before that, there is no concrete evidence of it.

Secondly, we are a member of the NPT; Article 4 of the NPT allows uranium enrichment not only up to 60%, but even up to 90% or 95% purity, without weaponization.

Why do we enrich uranium to 60% if we don't intend to produce nuclear weapons?

1. Highly enriched uranium (60%) has many applications other than weapons, in various fields of science and technology.
2. Iran is an independent nation, and nobody can tell us whether we should enrich or not; this is our position.

If one day, Ayatollah Khamenei wanted to change the nuclear doctrine, he would personally announce it.

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—❗️🇮🇷 Iranian MP, Amirhossein Sabeti, in an interview with MES:

'Despite the fact that Iran doesn't produce nuclear weapons, Iran will never end up like Libya, because Libya not only gave up its nuclear program, but also capped the range of its conventional missiles.

In Iran, we have ballistic missiles with ranges of approximately 2,000 kilometers, and we are working to produce Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) with far greater ranges than that.

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇨🇳 Iranian MP, Amirhossein Sabeti, in an interview with MES:

'Instead of negotiating with the West in 2013 and giving many concessions, Iran should have increased its nuclear capabilities and its cooperation with China and Russia.

Let me give you an example: In 2015, China's President Xi Jinping came to Tehran, but Iranian officials at the time concluded that working with China was not in our interests, so we didn't; this was a major mistake.

If we started our strategic cooperation with China at that very moment, we would be several steps ahead of where we are now.'

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇷🇺/🇨🇳 Iranian MP, Dr. Amirhossein Sabeti, in an interview with MES:

'We shouldn't rely solely on Russia and China to solve our problems. But these two countries have common interests with Iran, and we should seize this opportunity.

I want to emphasize: Whatever we have ordered from Russia and China that was paid for, they have delivered to us. And whatever military equipment we requested from them but not yet paid for, they had no red lines and assured us we will receive what we need.

If there is any delay in the delivery of equipment from Russia or China (Su-35), it was from our side due to internal factors; there was zero malice from their side.'

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—❗️🇮🇷/☢️ Iranian MP, Dr. Amirhossein Sabeti, in an interview with MES:

'If a vote to leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is held in the parliament, 90% of MPs will vote in favor, myself included.

Leaving the NPT will result in a permanent state of ambiguity regarding Iran's nuclear program, and the fate of this ambiguity depends on whether Israel decides to continue its miscalculations against Iran.'

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— 🇮🇷 Iranian MP, Amirhossein Sabeti, when asked by MES why Iran keeps negotiating with the West despite broken promises:

'Iran is a democratic country, the monarchy was abolished in 1979. Iranian officials are dependent on the people's votes. The chairman of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, was primarily recommended by the President (Pezeshkian) and simply approved by the Supreme Leader; this has always been the case.

The Supreme Leader doesn't impose his views on people, his approach has always been to work with the President, because he got the people's vote. Even if the President's views may be contradictory to his.

When the elected President is someone like Masoud Pezeshkian, it's natural that the government officials will also follow his view on matters (like negotiations with West).

That's why you see, when someone like Ahmadinejad was President, and his negotiator was Saeed Jalili, Iran moved towards expanding its nuclear capabilities, whereas during Rouhani's Presidency, with a negotiator like Javad Zarif, Iran moved in exactly the opposite direction, limiting its nuclear program.'

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—❗️🇮🇷 Iranian MP, Amirhossein Sabeti, when asked by Middle East Spectator what really happened to President Raeesi:

'I don't have specific evidence to say that this event (the President's helicopter crash) was premeditated or not, but when we look at all the evidence, it was not a normal event. Yes, it's possible that it was not an accident.'

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— 🇮🇷 Iranian MP, Amirhossein Sabeti, when asked by MES about the unreliability of Iranian media and officials' statements:

'Yes, I agree that many unverified statements from various different officials or media outlets can cause confusion.

But maybe the secret to Iran's success and the failure of its enemies is that they get so confused by our statements, they no longer know what is true or false.'

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇸🇾 Iranian MP, Dr. Amirhossein Sabeti, in an interview with MES:

'The movement that is currently in power in Syria is not a legitimate representative of the Syrian people. It came to power through a quasi-coup.

Neither did Jolani come to power through a referendum, nor through a popular revolution. He came to power by force of arms and occupation, with the support of some suspicious countries (Turkey, Israel, etc).

Jolani's regime won't last very long, they'll either fall by themselves or by some other armed movement in Syria. His era of photo-ops with Western officials won't last long.'

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇵🇸/🇮🇱 Iranian MP, Dr. Amirhossein Sabeti, in response to a question by MES about the Gaza ceasefire:

'Iran supports any choice that leads to the Palestinians securing their legitimate rights. Whether that is achieved by a ceasefire or not, what's most fundamental is that the occupied Palestinian lands, which have been usurped for so many years, return to their rightful owners.

At one point in time, the right choice may be a ceasefire, and at another point in time, the right choice may be war. What matters is Palestinians obtaining their legitimate rights.

I don't believe the Gaza ceasefire will last very long, because the Zionists will not rest until they've eliminated every last Palestinian on this planet and occupied all of their lands one hundred percent.'

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇸/🇮🇱 Iranian MP, Dr. Amirhossein Sabeti, in an interview with MES:

'To Trump and Netanyahu I say the following: You saw the results of a military attack on Iran with your own eyes.

It's up to you if you want to experience Iranian missiles raining down upon your heads again, if you want a repeat of the experiences of the 12-day war.'

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