Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday that the US decision to deploy more troops to the Middle East in response to the perceived threat from Iran was “extremely dangerous” for peace.
The United States said it was sending 1,500 troops to region in what it called an effort to bolster defenses against Tehran, and it accused Iran’s Revolutionary Guards of direct responsibility for attacks on tankers this month.
“The Americans have made such allegations to justify their hostile policies and to raise tensions in the Persian Gulf,” Zarif told state news agency IRNA.
“Increased US presence in our region is extremely dangerous and it threatens international peace and security, and this should be addressed,” he said.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani implied on Sunday that the Islamic Republic could hold a referendum over the country’s nuclear program.
Rouhani was quoted by the state-run IRNA news agency saying he proposed such a referendum in 2004 to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, who initially accepted the idea, but that former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad “changed the situation and things went on another path.”
Last week semi-official Fars and Tasnim reported that Iran quadrupled its production of low-enriched uranium, citing an official in Natanz nuclear facility.
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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said Sunday that Germany’s recommendation that Jews not wear a yarmulke in public marked the government’s “capitulation to anti-Semitism” and was evidence that Jews are not safe in the country.
Germany’s commissioner on anti-Semitism said in an interview published over the weekend that he “cannot advise Jews to wear the kippah everywhere all the time in Germany,” given increasing anti-Semitism and anti-Jewish attacks.
The Israeli president said he was deeply shocked by the government’s statement that “it would be preferable for Jews not wear a kippa in Germany out of fear for their safety.”

The Palestinian Authority in recent weeks foiled a bomb attack by a 23-year-old West Bank teacher who was recruited by the Islamic State to target Israelis, according to a Ynet news report published Sunday.
Ala’ Bashir from the northwestern West Bank village of Qalqilya was arrested earlier this month after she was recruited to the Islamic State through the Telegram messaging app to carry out a suicide bombing attack in Israel.
Following online pressure to release Bashir, Palestinian security services released a vague statement that said the teacher’s arrest followed her recruitment by outside actors which have been working to “destabilize the organs of the security authority and the stability of the surrounding countries.”

A former Republican congressman who served for nearly two decades in the House slammed President Trump on Friday as an “illegitimate president” and called for his impeachment.
“I’m calling for impeachment now because the Mueller report is out, and in it [special counsel Robert Mueller] describes 10 obstructions of justice charges that he could not bring because of a Department of Justice rule and regulation that says you can’t indict a sitting president. That’s number one,” former Rep. Tom Coleman (R-Mo.) told CNN’s Erin Burnett.
The longtime GOP lawmaker, who left the House in 1993, said his other reason for calling for the president to be removed was because Trump “welcomed help and influence” from Russians during his campaign.

To accommodate alumni and friends around the world who simply could not make it to the Brooklyn Marriott this evening for the Yeshiva Torah Vodaas Centennial Dinner, the program is available for viewing via live-stream on Matzav.com so that one and all can join in this celebration.
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A fire broke out at the Arizal’s mikva in Tzfas tonight.
The fire is the latest in the many that have broken out in Israel this week, including one in Tzfas as well, that fatally injured a three year old child. Another fire on Thursday burned down most of the Moshav Mevo-Modi’im.
Firefighters have been able  to get this fire under control. It is still not clear how this fire was  started.
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A special ceremony was held this morning to mark the sheloshim of Mrs. Lori Kaye Hy”d, who was killed in the attack on the Chabad of Poway.
The ceremony was graced by the presence of the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Dovid Lau, who is presently in Los Angeles in a visit dedicated to encouraging the Jewish community and as a guest of Seeach Sod.