KUWAIT (Dispatches) -- The U.S. has given the occupying regime of Israel the green light to assassinate General Qassem Soleimani, commander of an elite Iranian military unit, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported.
Al-Jarida quoted an unnamed source in Jerusalem Al-Quds who said that the two allies have made a quiet agreement after deciding that Soleimani was a threat to their interests in the region.
Israeli daily Haaretz has described Al-Jarida as an Israeli mouthpiece.
The Al-Jarida report also claimed to identify, for the first time, Iran's number two in Syria after Soleimani, as Muhammad Reza Falahzadeh, nicknamed "Abu Bakr".  
Soleimani is seen by the Western media to be behind the Syrian government's resurgence during the siege of Aleppo and had been a point man for the Russian-Iranian axis that has turned the war in Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s favor.
Several weeks ago, CIA chief Mike Pompeo said that he had written to Soleimani over fears that Iranian forces might attack American troops in Iraq but the commander had refused to read the letter.
Al-Jarida's report comes days after Israeli Channel 10 news reported that the Zionist regime and the U.S. had signed a cooperation agreement on how to deal with Iran.
U.S. national security adviser HR McMaster and his Zionist counterpart, Meir Ben-Shabbat, reportedly led negotiations that ended in the December 12 agreement signed at the White House.
According to Channel 10, the agreement will translate Trump's decertification of the Iranian nuclear deal into action by appointing three working groups.
One group will be responsible for countering Iran's nuclear program, another will aim to check Tehran's influence in the region - most notably its links with Hezbollah - and the third will focus on Tehran's expanding ballistic missile program.