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The White House should immediately provide Congress with a Pentagon report assessing the risks to U.S. security posed by Russia’s violation of an intermediate-range missile treaty, according to Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas).
“I am deeply concerned that the Obama administration has been withholding information it is obligated to provide to Congress to protect what it considers to be the president’s ‘legacy achievements’—such as New START and the recent nuclear deal with Iran,” Cruz, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told the Washington Free Beacon.
The senator, a Republican presidential candidate, wrote to President Obama on Friday requesting that he release a classified report produced by the office of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gen. Martin Dempsey, on Moscow’s breach of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.
“I request that you lift your embargo on this report immediately,” he stated, asking for a response no later than Sept. 1.
The Free Beacon first reported Aug. 11 that the White House is blocking the report that is said to outline possible U.S. responses to the INF treaty violation.
The State Department publicly confirmed the treaty violation last year in an annual compliance report. Details of the violation have not been made public although U.S. officials say that it involves testing of a cruise missile called the R-500.
A ground-launched cruise missile version of Russia’s new SSN-30A long-range anti-ship missile is also said to violate the INF treaty, according to defense officials.
The treaty prohibits deploying or testing ballistic or cruise missiles with ranges between 310 miles and 3,418 miles. Its passage led to the withdrawal of then-Soviet SS-20, SS-4, and SS-5 missiles from Europe and the elimination of U.S. Pershing II and ground-launched cruise missiles.
Rep. Mike Rogers (R., Ala.), chairman of the House Armed Services subcommittee on strategic forces, first disclosed in a speech in July that the White House was holding up the INF report.
Rogers said that the report was produced after Obama directed the Joint Chiefs chairman to develop options in response to the INF breach. He called the report necessary for legislation to support steps to counter the treaty violation.
The Pentagon’s proposed options were provided to the president in December, Rogers said.
Administration officials have provided no details on the options being considered but have said that they include bolstering missile defenses and deploying new nuclear-capable missiles.
White House spokesman Myles Caggins declined to comment on the Aug. 21 letter from Cruz.
Earlier this month, a senior White House official said the United States is considering diplomatic, economic, and military responses to the INF treaty violation.
Joint Chiefs spokesman Greg Hicks said the assessment is secret and will not be released to the public. The Pentagon’s proposed actions regarding the Russian breach of the treaty include “preserving military response options—but no decision has been made with regard to the type of response, if any,” Hicks said.
In his letter Cruz said that holding up the INF report is “withholding information from Congress pertinent to executing its constitutional statutory role in foreign affairs.”
Cruz also said that despite the State Department declaring Moscow to be in violation of the accord, there have been concerns about Russian treaty compliance since 2008 that appear not to have been shared with the Senate during debate on the 2010 New START arms treaty.
“Only in late 2011, long after Congress voted on the New START treaty, did your administration conclude that the R-500 was an official compliance concern,” Cruz stated.
The letter also noted that in 2011, then-Sen. John Kerry told a closed-door hearing that “we’re not going to pass another treaty in the U.S. Senate if our colleagues are sitting up here knowing somebody is cheating.”
Cruz concluded: “The Senate’s advice and consent power is a pivotal element of a constitutional and prudent foreign policy, but it cannot be exercised if your administration does not act in good faith.”
“Grave concerns of Russian compliance exist beyond the R-500 cruise missile, as Russia has potentially mislabeled intermediate missiles as intercontinental ballistic missiles, and fielded air defense systems that possess ground-to-ground ballistic capability,” he added.
“If true, these would not only constitute clear violations of the INF treaty, but present a material threat to the United States and our allies.”
Cruz said the risk assessment is needed in developing strategic responses by the United States.
In an email, Cruz noted that the administration similarly delayed release of the State Department’s annual report on Tehran’s human rights abuses in order to avoid upsetting negotiations with Iran on the nuclear deal.
That human rights report was only made public “once we threatened to cut [the State Department’s] budget,” he said.
“Now the Defense Department is withholding a report that details disturbing Russian violations of the INF Treaty that could undermine the very premise of New START,” Cruz said.
The administration was reluctant to admit that Moscow was not negotiating in good faith, “but the fact of the matter is the administration constrained America’s ability to deploy missile defense systems to protect our NATO allies and in return the Russians are blatantly testing the sorts of weapons that would threaten them,” he noted.
“Congress, and the American people, deserve to know the truth about what turns out to be yet another terrible Obama administration deal with a hostile regime that means us harm,” Cruz said of the Iranian nuclear accord, now under review by Congress.
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Israel to Iranian Proxy: ‘We’ll Get You’ by Abraham Rabinovich
JERUSALEM—In a succession of swift steps after being hit by two rockets fired onto its territory from Syria Thursday, Israel has signaled to the Iranian-backed organization allegedly behind the incident that it knows who is responsible and that “we’ll get you.”
The rockets caused no casualties or damage beyond brushfires but Israel’s vigorous reaction reflects its belief that the attack is part of a stepped-up Iranian campaign to attack Israel through proxies. It was the first time since the 1973 Yom Kippur War that shells were fired into Israel from Syrian territory.
Within hours of the rocketing, Israeli artillery and warplanes hit 14 Syrian army targets across the border. Syria was not behind the attack, Israeli officials say, but the rockets were launched from territory under the army’s control. In an unusual move immediately afterwards, a senior security official briefing reporters revealed sensitive security information by naming the person who had ordered the rocketing as an Iranian officer, Saad Ezadi. He was identified as head of the Israel desk of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. The Quds Force is responsible for quasi-military operations outside Iran and answers directly to the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.
Israeli officials said the rocketing, which also included the firing of two rockets into the Golan Heights, had been carried out by a cell from the Palestinian branch of Islamic Jihad under Ezadi’s control.
By revealing Ezadi’s role and identifying the group that carried out the operation, Israel seemed to suggest that it had precise intelligence about what is happening in the area opposite the Golan border. The Syrian civil war has created a swirl of battling entities there—rebel groups of various ideological hues and militias supporting the regime as well as Syrian army concentrations.
On Friday morning, Israel offered an even more tangible demonstration of its ability to monitor the region when an aircraft, perhaps a drone, fired rockets that destroyed a moving car about 10 miles from the Golan border.
Israel said the occupants were the members of the team that had fired the rockets. Four of the five persons in the car were killed. The fate of the fifth is unknown. A rebel group in the area reported that one of the five was an Iranian officer.
“We followed the cell and attacked it in an area that was under the control of the Syrian army,” said a senior Israeli officer. He described it as “an Islamic Jihad cell controlled by Iran.”
Israeli officials have said for more than a year that Iran is seeking to open a new front against Israel by extending the reach of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, its principal proxy, from the northern Israeli border to the Golan border. This has been the quietest of Israel’s borders since the Yom Kippur War of 1973, with the regime in Damascus keeping militant groups away so as not to provoke Israeli reaction. Because of the civil war, however, the regime of Bashar al-Assad is beholden to Iran, its main support, and it no longer controls the area opposite the Golan.
The first public awareness of an Iranian presence in the area was last January when an Israeli aircraft fired rockets that destroyed two vehicles on Syrian territory that were apparently reconnoitering the border, killing the 12 occupants. It was subsequently learned that one vehicle contained six Iranian military personnel, one of them a general. The other contained six Hezbollah personnel, including two senior officers. That incident was the first public indication of the extent to which Israel was monitoring the area. It was widely assumed that Israel knew beforehand the identity and mission of the vehicles’ occupants.
In recent weeks, army officers briefing reporters have said that Israel, in its determination to prevent Iran and its proxies from building up an anti-Israel base close to the Golan, is preparing for the possibility of sending troops across the border if necessary.
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Moscow plans to give Russian citizenship to Donbass residentsby The European Union Times
The problem of Donbass residents’ legal status is quite serious. While Ukraine does not need these people, simplified procedure to get Russian citizenship will be put into effort. Denis Pushilin, Vice Chairman of the People’s Council of the Donetsk People’s Republic claimed that Abkhazia-, South Ossetia-, and -like passportization is going to be introduced.
Vladimir Karasyov, an economist and political scientist from Lugansk commented on the issue to Pravda.Ru.
”This initiative was launched long ago, and many proposals have been put forward so far. The President also signed a law in August, allowing those having been born in Russia to receive citizenship at once. Those who studied or graduated in Russia can also use this opportunity.”
1.5 – 2 million refugees are reported to have fled to Russia so far.
As for those staying in the territory of Ukraine, to receive Russian citizenship is even much more simple. ”One of the conditions to gain Russian citizenship is renunciation from another. But Ukraine does not have such a procedure of renunciation from its citizenship. People solve this issue in private in Kiev,” Karasyov said.
Young people who turn 16, the age of obtaining passport in Ukraine, do they get this document now?
”No, Donbass residents can only receive citizenship of Donetsk or Lugansk People’s Republics. But these documents are not valid to enter the Russian Federation.”
So, Kiev abandoned its citizens, didn’t it?
”Yes, the only way for them is to go to the Ukrainian consulate in Rostov and pay great money to receive Ukrainian passport. Not everyone can afford it. Thus, it turns out that young people do not have a possibility to study in Russian colleges, or just leave Donbass.”
”Eight million people living in Donbass are all ours, as President Putin used to say many times. I hope that other Russian top politicians, as well as Foreign Minister Lavrov, who always stands for Donbass residents, will also get involved.”
Do Donbass residents have any possibility to get Ukrainian documents, information, or everything is closed?
”Ukrainian structures closed everything long ago. There is nothing there. And the new Republics are recognized only by some states. That is why any Republican documents even notarized and certified with LPR or DPR seals will not pass in Russia. I believe Ukraine faces collapse and a parade of sovereignties in the near future. Then these new entities will be recognized by other states.
Donetsk and Lugansk regions are historical territories of the Russian Federation. They even used to be part of the Rostov region. So, we’ll have to carry out a referendum once again. Then it will be not only possible to enter Russia, but to adhere to the Rostov region.
Donbass may also enter the Russian Federation as a single entity. It is evident that about 95 per cent will vote for at the referendum, as it was shown in the Crimea. Present Ukraine demonstrated that it can only annihilate people.
Those living in Donbass are very hard-working people, hard labour in metallurgy, coal and chemical industries have been present there for generations. Donbass will boost Russian economy, as it used to be a fount of minerals and ore minerals in the former Soviet Union. Ukraine just did not have money and technologies, as well as any desire to develop Donbass. In Russia it is possible.
From the very beginning people were sure 300 per cent that they would go after the Crimea, but it did not happen, the Americans hindered them. Nevertheless, people still believe that the militants will liberate Donbass from the Nazis, then the referendum will take place, and they will return back home to their Motherland. And their Motherland is Russia, this territory just was passed to Ukraine, and people living there were not asked of their opinion.
At the beginning of the XX century, when there was famine in Russia, Lugansk people called for collecting and sending aid. There are even appropriate posters of those times in the Russian museums. Donbass rescued poor, starving and struggling regions. It was in 1915, just 100 years ago. We have always been a part of Russia and lived for Russia.”
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