When reports began coming in through Israeli media of alarms and sirens going off near the Israeli nuclear reactor at Dimona in occupied Palestine, Israel claimed the culprit was “an errant missile” fired by the Syrian air defense system.

The sanctions, which were announced while Tehran was taking part in EU mediated talks to revive the JCPOA, came as a shock.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell says ties with Russia are at their lowest ebb.