“Once again Iran proves it cannot be trusted, and wherever there’s killing, hate and misery, Iran is there,” said Herzog.
By: Debbie Reiss
Israeli President Isaac Herzog will present President Joe Biden with evidence that Iranian attack drones are being used by Russia against Ukrainian civilians.
Herzog, who arrived in Washington Tuesday morning, will show Biden images of fragments of Iranian-produced Shahed-136 suicide drones, which explode on impact, in Ukraine, his office said.
The identified fragments share traits, including size and numbering, to UAVs used during an Iranian military exercise in December last year.
“Once again Iran proves it cannot be trusted, and wherever there’s killing, hate and misery, Iran is there,” said Herzog.
“Iranian weapons play a major role is overturning the global order, and its time the international community reach the right conclusions – now and in the future,” he went on.
“There is only one way to deal with Iran – with a unified, determined and uncompromising approach. As we see time and again, we pay a price for any hesitation,” the Israeli president said.
He denounced the Ayatollah regime for using “violence against its own citizens” as seen by its brutal crackdown against the anti-Hijab protests.
Herzog’s remarks come a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky blamed Israel for allowing a Russian-Iranian alliance to emerge by its refusal to provide Ukraine with military aid, going as far as to say that Moscow was helping Iran with its nuclear program in exchange for attack drones.
If Ukraine had “immediately secured our skies, Russia would not have a motive to go to Iran and offer something in exchange for assistance in terror,” the Ukrainian president said in a prerecorded video message to Haaretz’s Democracy Conference.
Herzog also met with Senior Advisor for Energy Security Amos Hochstein, the U.S. mediator in charge of brokering the recent, controversial maritime border deal between Israel and Lebanon.
“The President and [Senior Advisor] Hochstein discussed the details of the deal, its terms and its implications for regional stability,” Herzog’s office said in a statement. “President Herzog thanked Hochstein for his assistance in advancing the deal.”
In another development, TPS reported that the director general of Israel’s Ministry of Defense, Major General (Ret.) Amir Eshel, who is on a working visit to the U.S., visited the Lockheed Martin-Sikorsky factories in Stratford, Connecticut, on Monday and toured the production line of the CH-53K helicopter that Israel is procuring.
So far, the Ministry of Defense has purchased 12 helicopters for the Israel Air Force, which will replace old attack helicopters currently in use.
A heavy-lift cargo helicopter, the CH-53K, was first put into service this past April.
According to Lockheed Martin, the CH-53K King Stallion advances Sikorsky’s 50 years of manufacturing and operational success with its CH-53A, CH-53D/G, and CH-53E predecessors.
Built to thrive on the modern battlefield, including shipboard operations, Lockheed boasts that the CH-53K aircraft is designed to be intelligent, reliable, low maintenance and survivable in the most austere and remote forward operating bases.
The CH-53K helicopter has been designed and built to the exacting standards of the U.S. Marine Corps (USMC) and will serve as its critical land and sea based logistics connector.
The new heavy lifter will allow the U.S. Marine Corps and international militaries to move troops and equipment from ship to shore and to higher altitude terrain, more quickly and effectively than ever before.
(WorldIsraelNews.com & TPS)
