Iran has presented Hamas and Islamic Jihad with a list of conditions under which the Islamic republic will resume financial support to the two organizations, an Arab intelligence source has told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Those conditions include a full Hamas commitment to support what the Iranians call the “Axis of Resistance,” which includes Syria, Hezbollah, Iraq and the Houthi in Yemen, the intelligence source said.

According to the source, whose information has repeatedly proved reliable, Iran recently renewed support for the Palestinian organization but in significantly smaller amounts than before the civil war in Syria.

Iran is trying to bring Hamas and Islamic Jihad back into the axis, “but it is setting conditions to return relations to the prosperous state that they were in at the beginning of the decade,” said the source.

“The Iranians expect the two organizations to fully adopt its positions, especially in all regards to Israel and the fight against Israel.”

According to the source, “Iran expects the two organizations to fully coordinate with Iran and its allies in case of a confrontation with Israel and members of the ‘Axis of Resistance.’”

According to the source, Iran’s new stance stems, among other things, from its desire to recruit regional players in case of a confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah and the Iranian regime’s ongoing campaign for regional hegemony.

“For the Iranians, in the case of a confrontation with Israel, be it in the Golan Heights, southern Lebanon or on both fronts, the Gaza Strip, led by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, is meant to be part of the war effort against Israel,” said the source. “The Iranians want to ensure that the Palestinian reconciliation process won’t affect decisions by Hamas or Islamic Jihad to join the campaign.”

The source said that the two terrorist organizations have yet to respond to the Iranian demand and are being forced to deal with significant financial difficulties that have manifested in the reduction of salary payments to so-called armed members of both jihadist groups and the complete cessation of payments to non-jihadist personnel.

Hundreds of civilians held hostage by ISIS are being rescued by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters every day, hundreds are transported into liberated areas, like reported by anfenglish.com.

A migrant named Cuma El Hisen from Al-Ashara village in Deir Ez Zor who was rescued by the SDF fighters said the ISIS gangs are in the process of disintegration.

Speaking to ANHA, El Hisen started his speech by thanking the SDF fighters and said, “We had heard a lot about the SDF, but we knew their commitment and respect to humanity.” El Hisen said ISIS gangs didn’t allow them to leave the area and used the civilians as a shield against SDF fighters.

El Hisen stated that most of the gang leaders fled to Turkey and added: “Many gang leaders speak Turkish, and everybody knows that ISIS and the Turkish state are the same.”

The Arab Coalition Supporting Yemen’s Legitimacy showed evidence on Monday of the Iranian tactics to smuggle qualitative weapons to Houthi militias in Yemen and modernize outdated arms, like reported by aawsat.com.

It added that the smuggling process starts from Lebanese “Hezbollah”-controlled regions in Syria, then passes through Iraq and Iran before reaching Yemen.

Tehran also supplies militias with experts and modern techniques to manufacture remote-controlled explosives-laden speedboats to use them in attacks against ships and therefore affect the navigation in the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden and Arabian Sea.

Kuwaiti expert Dr. Fahd al-Shulaimy highlighted the Iranian smuggling operations, saying that the missiles need technical skills to be launched and tools to be directed. These tools and skills are not found among the former Yemeni regime.

The development of the missiles is taking place by Iranian cadres and in cooperation with “Hezbollah”, he explained. He also noted that “Hezbollah” cadres received training in Iraq and moved to Yemen.

Shulaimy told Asharq Al-Awsat that the number of ballistic missiles is not huge because they are launched intermittently. Their aim is not to destruct specific targets, but to intimidate, restore confidence of insurgents, draw attention of the media towards them and achieve political gains.

The Arab Coalition also addressed mines planted by Houthis, revealing that around 50,000 mines were planted at the Saudi border, which represents a threat to civilians.

Furthermore, a Yemeni official said that Iran is exploiting the weak supervision on international passages near Hodeida Port to smuggle ballistic missiles through dismantling, loading and refurbishing them by 75 Iranian experts spread in several cities.

A Houthi-linked army spokesman in the Yemeni capital has threatened escalation against Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, saying the rebels consider the two countries’ airports “legitimate targets”, washingtonpost.com.

Col. Aziz Rashed told reporters late Monday in Sanaa that his military experts are able to develop missiles with ranges that exceed 1500 kilometers.

The threat comes as part of the mutual escalation between Yemen’s Houthi rebels, in control of the northern part of the country, and the oil-rich gulf neighbors who went to war against them after rebels forced internationally-recognized government to flee the country in 2015.

Rashed says: “We urge all airline companies and travelers to avoid airports in both Saudi and UAE as we consider them a legitimate military targets within the range of our ballistic missiles.”

The means by which a modern empire such as the United States seeks to achieve its goals are often immersed in hypocrisy. Wars by deceit are, in fact, second nature to US government, with its history replete with numerous examples, including the sinking of U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor in 1898 that was instantly pinned on the Spanish “enemy” without any proof, or the infamous Gulf of Tonkin incident or, more recently, the “pretextual” invasion of Iraq, under the twin justification of an Iraqi WMD and also links to Al-Qaeda, both lame excuses for war, like reported by eurasiareview.com.

Clearly, contrary to what Hegel and Marx wrote, major historical events tend to appear more than twice, although Marx is fairly on the mark that first they appear as a tragedy and subsequently as a (tragic) comedy. This is certainly the case with the new anti-Iran allegations that accompany the US’s release of tens of thousands of new documents from the “Bin Laden file,” although the CIA website supposedly releasing them continues to be plagued with “technical problems” and the said files are, in fact, as of this moment yet to be publicly released several days after their announcement.

But, thanks to the freedom of information act, a couple of right wing US outfits have supposedly managed to get hold of the crucial files — that depict a cozy Iran-Al Qaeda relationship. Chief among them is a typed Arabic text attributed to Al-Qaeda that has been used by the US media to hurl new accusations of terrorism against Iran at a crucial time when following Trump’s decertification of the Iran nuclear file the US Congress is working overtime to slap Iran with more punishing sanctions. The Al-Qaeda text goes into some details about occasional tensions with Iran as well as their supposed synergy vis-a-vis US power in the region, i.e., as a common enemy.

There is, of course, no way to ascertain the authenticity of this document and prove or disprove that it may have been fabricated in order to demonize Iran as part of a sophisticated public relations ploy. The timing of its release and the absence of corroboration by the US government, whose website is somehow malfunctioning, allows the matter to proceed as a fact for public and policy consumptions while keeping the government off the hook. But, given the facts that it takes several months to acquire anything of significance through the freedom of information act and the US has only very recently decided to release the above-mentioned documents, the question is what is behind the coordinated move with the two hawkish outfits that have released that text?

Inevitably, all this raises another important question: are we witnessing a historical deja vu, that is, the repetition of the Iraq invasion that, lest we forget, was rationalized by a forged UK document, adopted at face value by the US government at the time, falsely claiming that Saddam Hussain was in bed with the Al-Qaeda terrorists. Some US scholars, Laurie Mylroie, the author of Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein’s Unfinished War, were given free reign in the US media to spread the big lie under the veneer of scholastic research, and subsequently rewarded with well-paid academic positions, never to recant subsequently for their dutiful functions as accessories to a great historical war crime.

But, the uncritical embrace of the new “Bin Laden files” by a large portion of the mainstream US media clearly indicates that they have learned precious little from the past history and are quite apt to repeat the past mistake, that is, to allow themselves be manipulated by a new barrage of Iranophobic propaganda. Never mind the historical anomalies that might contradict them, such as the fact that Iran fully cooperated with the fall of Al-Qaeda-linked Taliban in 2001 and that is a matter of undisputed historical record, or the barely mentioned fact that Iran imprisoned a number of Al-Qaeda agents who fled to Iran, showing that Iran and Al-Qaeda were at cross-purposes and not in harmony.

Besides, as of this date the Saudi sponsors of Al-Qaeda continue to evade the US radar, for all the known reasons pertaining to US-Saudi strategic partnership. Indeed, what explains the fact that Saudi Arabia is not on the list of Muslim countries banned by Donald Trump, despite the fact that nearly all the 9/11 perpetrators were of Saudi origins? The right-wing Foundation for the Defense of Demoracies, presently fanning the flames of Iranophobia by its timely recourse to the “Bin Laden files” has, as expected, never been bothered by such known hypocrisies and ‘anomalies’ in US’s foreign policy.

In conclusion, while our final verdict on this matter must await the fixing of CIA’s website so that the much-talked about declassified files finally come to public limelight, nonetheless given the stated reasons cited above, there are plenty of reasons to be suspicious of yet another foul play that could, conceivably, be part of a more sinister jingoistic war plan, thus confirming our cynicism of a historical deja vu.

700 Christian families have fled their homes in Nineveh Plain due to the latest shelling of the Iranian-backed militias of Hashd al-Shaabi which wounded two civilians and destroyed properties in their town, like reported by basnews.com.

Lara Yusuf, Mayor of Alqosh, a Christian town in Nineveh Plain, told BasNews that 700 Christian families have arrived in the town after they fled their homes in the nearby town of Telskuf due to the shelling of the Shi’ite militias.

“Christian population were displaced once again due to Hashd al-Shaabi’s activities and threats,” Yusuf said, adding that the displaced civilians are waiting for the situation in their area to be normalized to return home.

These IDPs are in need of urgent assistance as winter is approaching, said the official asserting that “Christians want to live under the protection of Peshmerga.”

After the fall of Kirkuk and other disputed territories to the IRGC-backed Hashd al-Shaabi militia, Iraq’s minorities in the north, who survived the brutality of the Islamic State organization, once again faced a new wave of atrocities at the hands of the Shi’ite militias.

The Center for Genocide Studies of International University of Erbil called on the US to protect the minorities, namely Yezidis, Christians and Kakais, in Nineveh Plains from another genocide and displacement which is likely to come about in the wake of an imminent attack by the Iranian-backed Hashd al-Shaabi militias on Peshmerga-held Fishkhabur region which Iraq is threatening to capture by force.

It has been called the world’s forgotten war and its worst humanitarian disaster, like reported by rte.ie.

For nearly three years now, Yemen has been embroiled in a bloody civil conflict and now stands on the brink of total collapse.

Houthi rebels, reportedly backed by Iran, are fighting the government of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi, who is supported by a Saudi-led coalition.

Airstrikes and a naval blockade have pushed the country to the brink of famine.

More than 10,000 people have been killed and cholera cases will soon exceed one million.

Yesterday alone, at least 26 people were killed in an airstrike in the Sahar district of Saada province.

Millions have been displaced by the fighting.

Tens of thousands have fled across the sea to the tiny African country of Djibouti.

The UNHCR has set up a refugee camp near the small port of Obock to accommodate the new arrivals.

There are currently 1,500 Yemeni refugees at the Markazi refugee camp.

The camp’s newest arrivals are a family of nine who endured a seven-hour journey in a boat that was taking on water to get to Djibouti.

The father, who declined to give his name, said he had lost friends and relatives to the violence.

“I don’t know who shot them”, he said. “The killing and shooting were everywhere. Nobody knows from where the shooting came.

“Life has stopped. Children cannot go to school. I cannot go to work. This is why I had to leave my homeland.”

Another refugee we met was 65-year-old Ali Shafek Aman, an urban planner living in Aden city.

He has lived through three wars in Yemen but he fled when his apartment was destroyed in 2015.

He despairs of Yemen’s warring factions.

“I escaped from the war because I believe in life I don’t believe in death … When I have seen death everywhere to the innocent people, to the educated people … because I am a civilised citizen from the city, I have no tribe, I have no relatives to go to … so I have found myself insisted to run away and to go to the sea.”

He despairs of Yemen’s warring factions.

“They are blind, they are living in darkness, because of this they are fighting, they are killing … everywhere, they just believe in death … Why?”

In Djibouti city, Leonard Doyle of the International Organisation for Migration has just returned from Yemen.

“The humanitarian situation is desperate.

“80% of people are insecure, they don’t know where their next meal is coming from … about 31 million people.

“Huge problems with access to clean drinking water, why is that important? Well, it’s important because cholera is now striking Yemen. Approximately one million people will have been affected by cholera by the year’s end.”

Mr Doyle believes only one thing can effect change in Yemen.

“The eyes of the world have to see what’s happening, so journalists have to be allowed in. And it’s kind of shocking that the coalition and others deem it not appropriate to have external eyes on it because that’s what we need, we need to know what’s going on.

“It’s the media that help shift politics when things are going bad.

“In Bosnia so many years ago, it was the reporting of the death camps in Bosnia that moved political leaders … to order military action or some political action.

“So we need to somehow find a way to galvanise international opinion and one great way of doing that is to allow journalists in.”

Iranian air force has tested smart bombs during the aerial exercises in the central province of Isfahan, Tansim quotes the spokesman for the war game Massoud Roozkhosh.

F-7 warplanes fired smart bombs, long-range bombs and homegrown rockets. According to him,  F-5 fighter jets and HESA Saeqeh dropped 500-pound bombs on various targets during the aerial exercises.

Iranian Air Force held annual exercises on Tuesday which will last for two days. Dozens of bomber airplanes, fighter jets, military transport aircraft, communication and reconnaissance planes, tanker aircraft and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have taken part in the war game.

Fierce clashes are taking place between SDF fighters and ISIS gangs in the village of Harka northeast of Deir ez-Zor, like reported by anfenglish.com

YPG-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are making further advances in the Operation Cizire Storm they launched on September 9 to liberate Deir ez-Zor territory from ISIS.

SDF forces moved on towards the village of Harka 41 km northeast of Deir ez-Zor Tuesday morning. Reports are coming through that fierce clashes are taking place between SDF and ISIS in the village.