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Ya'alon: Iran Not Part of Solution to Islamic State Threat
(Jerusalem Post) Yaakov Lappin - After meeting with visiting U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Rob Work in Tel Aviv on Thursday, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon told Israel Radio, "We very much do not want to see Iran becoming hegemonic in Syria, as it is hegemonic today in Lebanon or in Iraq....It seems it is easy to hold Iran as something that fights Islamic State, as part of the solution, and we still see it as a main part of the problem." Ya'alon added that from Israel's perspective the main conflict in the Middle East is between Shi'ites and Sunnis, and that Sunni states have begun forming an Arab coalition - which Pakistan has joined - against Iran. "I think the West has to be on a certain side, as we are on a certain side based from the perspective of our interests, and certainly, from the perspective of common enemies."