US and Europe impose new sanctions on Iran in response to supply of weapons that US says Russia could use in Ukraine

Russia has received new deadly ballistic missiles from Iran for use in Ukraine and is likely to use them, the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, announced on Tuesday in London as he prepared to travel with the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, to Kyiv.

The news, confirmed by the US for the first time and seen as of huge significance to the battlefield balance ahead of Ukraine’s difficult winter, led the US and Europe to impose new sanctions on Iran, so apparently slamming the door on the prospect of a rapprochement between the new reformist Iranian government and the west.

The move may also add to the pressure on the US to end its restrictions on Ukraine using British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles to strike targets deep inside Russia and not just in occupied parts of Ukraine.

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    The problem is. Hamas wants nothing to do with that. They don’t want a two state solution
    they won’t accept or recognize Israel at all.

    Agree this is a problem. They caused Oct 7 and they need to be stopped.

    The innocent Gazans unaffiliated with Hamas, and the PA and the folks living in the West Bank deserve to have their country and their rights respected, but none of that should read as saying Hamas should stay in power, or even be allowed to exist at all.

    Then your problem is you blame their denial for a two state solution on Netanyahu.

    This is a misreading of my argument. Hamas != State of Palestine

    Or you expect him to give the terrorists sovereignty anyways.

    Well, not to Hamas!

    Why would he have complete supporte for their sovereignty given what his country has seen at their hand.

    Again, not to Hamas! For the past twenty years the PA has kept peace with Israel - this is the model to follow.

    The right answer to this is why do they need a military. They are surrounded by Muslim brothers.

    Yeah… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_proxy_conflict

    There are various countries today without a military force.

    Let’s say for the sake of argument that magical wizards come in and fix everything. We end up with two states tied together by peace, with the violence behind them. (Model for this being the Troubles in Northern Ireland.) Or even a single Israel state with peace - for the sake of this argument, this detail doesn’t matter.

    It’s a volatile area with lots of conflict between different countries, even if one excludes Hamas and related insurgents. Any country in that area would need a military just to defend its own existence.

    The countries that don’t have any military forces - I imagine none of them are in this kind of situation.

    I’m sure israel would offer their protection as well as allies near them.

    In theory that could work. The problem in practice is that IDF has lost a lot of good will, and perhaps might be seen as occupiers instead of peacekeepers from a friendly allied country. Hence my suggestion for Malaysia to step in - Islamic troops from a far away neutral country - might be better perceived.

    Heck, a lot of goodwill might be earned just by being fresh and new. Now that may not be entirely fair to the IDF, but politics is rarely fair.