Iran’s latest ballistic missile test comes despite new U.S. sanctions

Iran’s latest ballistic missile test comes despite new U.S. sanctions

(CNSNews.com) – After Iran reported carrying out new ballistic missile tests Tuesday – and underlined that Israel is within range – State Department spokesman John Kirby said if the reports were confirmed, the U.S. would consider using "unilateral and multilateral tools" in response to Iran's behavior.

"We have and we will use unilateral and multilateral tools to address this. If these latest reports are true, we'll take them up appropriately," he told reporters. "We're not going to shy away from confronting Iran over this particular development of this particular technology."

Netanyahu to Biden: Israel’s ties with Arab states ‘solid base’ for peace, stability
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Netanyahu to Biden: Israel’s ties with Arab states ‘solid base’ for peace, stability

Jewish News Service

In a joint press conference with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday in Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas's failure to condemn Tuesday's Palestinian terrorist attacks in Israel.

Speaking of the largest of the attacks, in which 29-year-old American business school student Taylor Force was killed and 11 Israelis were wounded in Jaffa, Netanyahu noted that Abbas's Fatah party "actually praised this murderer as a hero and a martyr. This is wrong, and this failure to condemn terrorism should be condemned itself by everybody in the international community."

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