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"We have discussed the details on what kind of work we can carry out amongst us. There are damages that the PKK and its branch in Iran causes. We will carry out these discussions with the understanding that the threats can be defeated with the cooperation of both countries in a short time".This move cements Turkey's further move away from NATO and closer to Eurasian powers, in this case Iran.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) does not intend to conduct any joint military operations with Turkey against members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the IRGC press service said on Tuesday.
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"We do not conduct operations abroad, but we will confront any person or group that will seek to have influence on Iran's territory... We will oppose any attempt to commit a terrorist attack inside the country," the statement said.
The IRGC stressed that there were no plans for any large-scale military operations abroad.
"Trump comes from a liberal background, and he saw which way wind was blowing and see what Eddie and Edith [Savage's term for the common man and woman] wanted, and he ran with it. Now what? Now he's hit a stone wall with his progressive friends, and so he's got to do a 180? How far is he going to turn away from what got him elected? Is he going to become [Mitt] Romney? You know he's going to move in another direction, but it's anyone's guess".This was published prior to Donald Trump's announcement that he plans a 'troop surge' in Afghanistan.
Last Friday Bannon boldly declared: "I'm leaving the White House and going to war for Trump against his opponents... on Capitol Hill, in the media, and in corporate America."
But, according to a new note from Vanity Fair, that "war" could end up ensnaring the President himself should he decide to succumb to what Bannon views as intense internal White House pressure, from the likes of Jared Kushner, Ivanka and Gary Cohn, among others, to move to the Left on key policy issues.
Quoting editor Matt Boyle, Vanity Fair reports..."We're in a loud bar celebrating the return of our captain!" Breitbart's Washington editor Matt Boyle told me on Friday night. Breitbart's defense of Trump has so far helped keep the Russia scandal from gaining traction on the right. But that could swiftly change if Trump, under the influence of Kushner and Cohn, deviates too far from the positions he ran on. If that happens, said one high-level Breitbart staffer, "We're prepared to help Paul Ryan rally votes for impeachment."
...Bannon's main targets are the West Wing's coterie of New York Democrat "globalists" - Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner and former Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn-as well as the "hawks," comprised of National Security Adviser H.R McMaster and his deputy, Dina Powell. "He wants to beat their ideas into submission," Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow told me. "Steve has a lot of things up his sleeve."But the biggest target of all is squarely on the back of Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law who Bannon affectionately describes as a "dope" with "highly questionable political instincts."
The chaotic, war-torn West Wing of the past six months will be prologue, but the coming struggles will be as personal as they are ideological, waged not with leaks but with slashing Breitbart banners. On Sunday, Breitbart took renewed aim at McMaster, with a headline claiming he advocated "Quran Kissing."But most of all, there's a deep animosity between Bannon and Kushner, amplified by a lack of respect. Bannon finds Kushner's political instincts highly questionable. "He said Jared is a dope," one Bannon ally recalled.
The two clashed fiercely on personnel decisions and policy debates, both domestic and international, many of which Bannon lost.
But Bannon, who was the only West Wing advisor to publicly support the president's response to the violence in Charlottesville, is especially galled at being scapegoated as an anti-Semite in its wake. "It's one of the attacks he takes most personally because it's not true," a Breitbart staffer told me. Bannon's allies lay out a more complicated backstory. Bannon, they say, lobbied Trump aggressively to move America's embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, but was blocked by Kushner. And, according to three Bannon allies, Bannon pushed a tougher line against the Palestinians than Kushner did. In May, when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited the White House, Bannon stayed home. "I'm not going to breathe the same air as that terrorist," Bannon texted a friend.
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