Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday he will press German and French leaders next week to support his position that Iran should have no military presence in neighbouring Syria. Netanyahu will travel to Germany and France for talks expected to focus on the US decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal — long sought by Israel — and the Iranian presence in Syria. “We believe that there is absolutely no room for any Iranian military presence in any part of Syria,” Netanyahu told senior officials from his Likud party, according to a statement from his office. Those strikes followed a barrage of rockets that Israel said was fired toward its forces in the occupied Golan Heights by Iran from Syria. Tzuriel said that if the opportunity is not seized on and Iran is not pushed back “we are on a collision course with Iran”.

Source: Punch May 28, 2018 15:00 UTC