Fatah-Hamas deal is ' smokescreen ': Israel minister (AFP)

JERUSALEM (AFP)-a reconciliation agreement as rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas was to finalise on Wednesday is "smokescreen," Isræls home front defence minister Matan Vilnai said.

"Nothing will change after the entry into force of this agreement, because this is all a smokescreen," Vilnai told isrælske public radio such as Hamas and Fatah officials prepared a ceremony in Cairo marking the signing of the agreement a day earlier.

"Hamas and Fatah cannot agree on something, and the best example of that came with the killing of the super terrorist Osama bin Laden," he added.

While Fatah figures and members of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank welcomed the killing of bin Laden, condemning the Hamass prime minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, raid, killed Al-Qaeda Chief.

Vilnai said that Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, who is also the leader of Fatah, "a mistake in accepting this agreement, when Hamas is in a situation of vulnerability, which explains why it made the step towards reconciliation."

The Minister said Abbas should have insisted on a "clear statement from Hamas recognises Israel and condemn the terrorism before the signing."

Reconciliation deal signed by Hamas, Fatah and other Palestinian factions on Tuesday 11 provides for the formation of a transitional Government in a Europe of Nations to lay the foundations for the presidential elections and parliamentary elections within a year.

It has been welcomed by the Palestinians in the territories shared, but Israel reacted angrily to the deal, threatening to withhold the transfer of Palestinian tax revenues until it could be sure that no money would go to Hamas.

Despite his criticism of the Unit deal spoke against Vilnai decision to suspend the transfer of funds.

"The freeze is a mistake, it is money we collect from the Palestinians, belongs to them," he said.

"This decision is a violation of previous agreements. In this case we cart before the horse. We should have waited to see how they would spend money before acting, "he added.

Israel collects taxes for the Palestinians at border crossings and ports and transfers of funds to the authority under Abbass an economic agreement agreed together with the Oslo autonomy accords.

Revenue amounting to between 3.5 and 5.0 billion shekels ($ 1.04 $ 1.48 billion) each year and represent a significant part of the budget of the authority.

 

The Iranian cell planned attacks in Kuwait, Minister says (Reuters)

KUWAIT (Reuters)-the Foreign Minister of Kuwait, said: last year, the Gulf Arab State were complemented by the Iranian spy cell to monitor the US military presence and resources explosives to bomb the "strategic" facilities. "We are talking about the cell, which was only to keep track of and store (u.s.) military presence, which is in their opinion, the hostile forces, State-of-the-art-American presence in Kuwait of a catch are landed either in-but it exceeded," Sheikh Mohammad al-Salem al-Sabah told the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television.

"They had explosives and the intention to explode vital facilities in Kuwait. They were the names of the officials and had very sensitive information. This indicates a bad intentions to harm the security of Kuwait ".

OPEC-Member Kuwait hosts Camp Arifjan, a vast Us base in the desert capital logistics services, which shall act in accordance with the licensing of neighboring Iraq, the Us forces for staging point on the South side.

United States is in the air and naval installations in the Gulf Arab States, some of which are little more than 200 km (120 miles) to the coast of Iran. The US central command forward headquarters to keep, although the Qatar Bahrain hosts the Us Navy Fifth Fleet.

The Court last month convicted two Kuwaiti Iranians and Kuwaiti was sentenced to death in a case that has strained Kuwait and the Islamic Republic of Iran, the relations between the of the alleged spy ring, as part of the State-of-the-art.

Earlier this month Iran expelled three Kuwaiti diplomats from tit for tat Move after the Gulf emirate, it said the three diplomats from Iran, the throw away line in the spy allegations.

The move came after the three Iranian diplomats expelled from Kuwait, Kuwaiti officials had said.

Kuwaiti media said may 2010 that the authorities had arrested number of people, Kuwaitis and the metropolitan area of espionage for Iran in the fisheries sector. Media reports said they were accused of gathering information on the Kuwaiti and US armed forces sites in the Iranian revolutionary guards.

But Sheikh Mohammad said Kuwait still wants good relations with Iran. "We fully reject the severing ties with (Iran)," he said, although he added that Iran needs to deal with the Gulf Cooperation Council States, "sovereign" and not "the subject".

Iran's relations with its neighbours, the United States allied Gulf Arab, who provide the US forces in the different modes, has soured because of popular uprisings were limited to Government forces.

Sunni Muslims ruled the Gulf Arab States accused Iranian Shi'ite power interfering in their affairs, when Tehran was opposed to the sending of Saudi Arabia and u.a.e. in any of the American Bahrain protests in March, the Shi'ite majority.

(Reports, Mahmoud Habboush; WRITTEN By Eman Goma; Editing Mark Heinrich)

 

With the cooperation of Iran's Khamenei military intelligence Minister: reports (AFP)

TEHRAN (AFP)-the Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi, who resigned his post, returned to the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the President of the Resignation, despite the fact that they are accepted, the reports said on Sunday.

"Heydar Moslehi to continue its work for the Ministry after his call was rejected by the Supreme Leader," news agencies, Fars and Mehr ISNA reported.

Earlier Sunday, the State news agency IRNA reported that Moslehi, and that his was to end the call by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was accepted.

IRNA also reported that President Ahmadinejad immediately her "Adviser" Moslehi Intelligence Committee.

"I like to thank and Appreciate their own tenure during the Intelligence Minister ... the post I agree to the transfer," Ahmadinejad was reported as saying by IRNA Moslehi letter.

IRNA did not specify Moslehi, who was a "new exporter" Ahmadinejad is the reasons for the resignation of the second term cabinet. Ahmadinejad was returned to Office after a disputed presidential election in June 2009.

Moslehi Gholam Hossein Mohseni, was replaced by the, now Iran's Prosecutor Ejeie General, which was published in July 2009 by Ahmadinejad in the post.

In December, then Minister of Foreign Affairs published his Ahmadinejad Manouchehr Mottaki, who had served in the post for more than five years.

 

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