{"id":31417,"date":"2017-11-17T01:27:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T20:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=31417"},"modified":"2017-11-17T01:27:59","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T20:27:59","slug":"israel-ready-to-share-intelligence-on-iran-with-saudi-arabia-idf-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=31417","title":{"rendered":"Israel ready to share intelligence on Iran with Saudi Arabia:  IDF chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tel Aviv, Nov. 17 (TNS):<\/strong> The chief of staff of Israel&#8217;s military (IDF) told Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Alaf newspaper in an unprecedented interview that his country is ready to share intelligence on Iran with Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With [US] President Donald Trump, there is an opportunity for a new international alliance in the region and a major strategic plan to stop the Iranian threat,&#8221; Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), told\u00a0the paper. &#8220;We are ready to exchange experiences with moderate Arab countries and exchange intelligence to confront Iran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked whether Israel had recently shared intelligence with the Saudis, Eisenkot said:\u00a0&#8220;We are ready to share information if necessary. There are many common interests between us&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The military official added that Iran was the &#8220;<em>biggest threat to the region,<\/em>&#8221; Haaretz\u00a0reported, also saying that Tel Aviv and Riyadh were in full agreement about Iran&#8217;s intentions, and noting that Israel and Saudi Arabia had never fought each other.<\/p>\n<p>Eisenkot went on to say that Israel&#8217;s security situation had never been as good\u00a0as it is at present, claiming that was why &#8220;<em>we are highly regarded by the moderate countries in the region.<\/em>&#8221; He then accused Tehran of trying to destabilize the region by building weapons factories and supplying advanced arms to terrorist groups throughout the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Iran seeks to take control of the Middle East, creating a Shiite crescent from Lebanon to Iran, and then from the Gulf to the Red Sea,<\/em>&#8221; Eisenkot said, when asked about Iran&#8217;s intended goal.\u00a0<em>&#8220;We must prevent this from happening.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The IDF chief also stressed that Israel had no intention of launching an attack on Lebanon&#8217;s Hezbollah movement, despite what he believes is Iranian provocation.\u00a0<em>&#8220;We see Iranian attempts at bringing about an escalation, but I don&#8217;t see a high chance for this at the moment<\/em>,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tel Aviv, Nov. 17 (TNS): The chief of staff of Israel&#8217;s military (IDF) told Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Alaf newspaper in an unprecedented interview that his country is ready to share intelligence on Iran with Riyadh. &#8220;With [US] President Donald Trump, there is an opportunity for a new international alliance in the region and a major strategic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31419,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31417\/revisions\/31419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}