Iran

Israel Just Ended China’s Great Power Status in the Middle East

Israeli air and drone strikes during the early hours of June 13th crippled Iran — and severely set back Tehran’s regional ambitions. The Israel Defense Forces hit nuclear weapons development facilities and ballistic missile sites, and killed senior military officers, including Major General Mohammad Bagheri, the armed forces chief of staff, and Major General Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Iranian media announced the death of Ali Shamkhani, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s top adviser.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"China - Communist Slave State", Iran, Israel

Iran was behind two assassination attempts on President Trump, Israeli PM Netanyahu claims in bombshell interview

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused Iran Sunday of orchestrating the two failed assassination attempts on President Trump during his third presidential campaign last year.

Netanyahu characterized Trump as the greatest threat to Iran and its ambitions for acquiring a nuclear weapon — claiming that’s why the rogue regime tried to murder him, in a shocking moment during an interview with Brett Baier of Fox News.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, Israel, USA

A Battered Iran Signals It Wants to De-Escalate Hostilities With Israel and Negotiate

DUBAI—Iran has been urgently signaling that it seeks an end to hostilities and resumption of talks over its nuclear programs, sending messages to Israel and the U.S. via Arab intermediaries, Middle Eastern and European officials said.

In the midst of a ferocious Israeli air campaign, Tehran has told Arab officials they would be open to return to the negotiating table as long as the U.S. doesn’t join the attack, the officials said. They also passed messages to Israel saying it is in the interest of both sides to keep the violence contained.

But with Israeli warplanes able to fly freely over the capital and Iranian counterattacks inflicting minimal damage, Israeli leaders have little incentive to halt their assault before doing more to destroy Iran’s nuclear sites and further weaken the theocratic government’s hold on power.

What would the point of this be? Regime change seems the best course of action. This is nothing more than a Hail Mary by the Mullahs in my view.

h/t Mauser

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, Israel, USA

Israeli strikes spark anti-regime sentiment across Iran

As Israel’s devastating attack on Iran’s nuclear sites — and the killing of scientists and top military personnel — began to unfold early this morning, UnHerd was able to speak to our contacts across the Islamic Republic. The dominant reaction was not anger but jubilation, and hope that the regime’s failure to respond in kind would hasten its demise.

Mohammad, 20, told us from Tehran: “This is our chance to rise up against them because they have shown themselves to be so weak. Our liberation is very close, and they do not have big enough security forces to suppress us.” He went on: “The generals and military officers are now so scared of being targeted by Israel that they won’t dare to come after us.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Iran

Trump warns America ‘could get involved’ directly in Israel-Iran conflict

President Trump warned Sunday that the US could get directly involved in the Israel-Iran conflict if things continue to escalate.

While Trump predicted that Iran and Israel will “make a deal” to end the deadly violence that has seen the Jewish state and Islamic republic exchange countless missiles since Friday, the president said the US may find itself involved if a truce doesn’t happen.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, USA

Trump vetoed Israeli plan to kill Iran’s supreme leader – report

President Donald Trump vetoed an Israeli plan in recent days to kill Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, two US officials told Reuters on Sunday.

“Have the Iranians killed an American yet? No. Until they do we’re not even talking about going after the political leadership,” said one of the sources, a senior US administration official.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said top US officials have been in constant communications with Israeli officials in the days since Israel launched a massive attack on Iran in a bid to halt its nuclear program.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Iran, USA

Iranians in Canada reeling as Israel’s fatal attacks reverberate through diaspora

Mona Ghassemi, president of the Iranian Canadian Congress, was at home in Montreal when she first heard about the Israeli strikes in Iran early Friday. She called her mother, learning her aunt and cousin in Iran awakened to the sounds of nearby missile blasts but were unharmed.

“Residential buildings were hit, and there were children among the killed. So this, of course, is very devastating,” Ms. Ghassemi said.

The Israeli military attack is reverberating 10,000 kilometres away as the Iranian diaspora in Canada reels from the sudden escalation of a long-simmering conflict.

No true Iranian … which voices is the Globe with?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Iran

Vivian Bercovici: Is this the end of Iran’s vicious regime?

Attack sirens wailed in every corner of Israel at 3 am on Friday morning, including the isolated kibbutz in the south where I live. This was followed immediately by an ear-splitting screech that overrode every Israeli cell phone. It was followed by a message from the Home Front Command. The screech and message were unprecedented. It did the trick and grabbed the attention of this war-weary nation.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

Obama Trusted Iran — Israel Didn’t

Where Obama’s rhetoric failed, Israel has taken steps to neutralize Iran’s nuclear program.

Israel’s massive strike on Iran’s nuclear program, codenamed “Operation Rising Lion,” is a stunning rebuke to the Obama (and later Biden) administration’s nuclear deal with the Mullahs. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a Churchillian-like address to his nation and the world, said that Iran was perhaps months away from producing at least nine atomic bombs that threatened Israel’s very survival. “Israel will never allow those who call for our annihilation to develop the means to achieve that goal,” he said. The Jewish state, he continued, “backed those words with action.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, Obama

Iran Saw What Looked Like Weakness – Then Time Ran Out

The Islamic Republic of Iran was no longer hiding its ambitions or disguising its defiance. It was openly confronting the United States, discarding every red line and ultimatum Washington drew in the sand.

At the center of the regime’s defiance lay one uncompromising reality: Iran would not stop enriching uranium. U.S. President Donald J. Trump made it clear: if Iran wanted a deal, enrichment had to stop. Period. Iran repeatedly came back with “no.” Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his top nuclear negotiators declared again and again that enrichment was off the table. In fact, they escalated it. Iran’s leaders mistook Trump’s preference not to use crushing military force for a lack of resolve to stop them.

But they have friends all over …

h/t Patti Jo

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran

Iran threatens to attack British and American bases

Iran has warned the United States, United Kingdom and France against assisting Israel to deter Tehran’s strikes, saying that their bases and ships in the region will be targeted if they do so.

American officials confirmed that the US military had helped to shoot down Iranian missiles headed for Israel, after Iran launched wave after wave of retaliatory missile strikes less than a day after Israel’s surprise attack on Friday morning. Britain was not believed to have been involved.

On Friday, it was reported that Britain is monitoring the safety of staff at the UK embassy in Tehran, fearing that they could be the target of reprisals as the US and Canada closed their missions.

The road to Tehran has been paved: IDF secures air route for stronger strikes on Iran

The Israel Air Force is now capable of operating without obstruction as far as Tehran, following what was described as the destruction of a majority of Iran’s air defense systems, security officials said on Saturday morning.

The reported elimination of Syria’s military capabilities, including those of Hezbollah, has further expanded Israel’s operational range and shortened flight paths to Iran.

Times Of Israel Feed– IDF: ‘Tehran is no longer immune; the Iranian capital is exposed to Israeli strikes’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Iran

Iranian missiles fired at Israel

Iranian missiles streaked across the sky above Israel after Tehran retaliated with a barrage of rockets.

The Israeli army has ordered all citizens to head to shelters after it said it had identified projectiles being launched from Iran.

Note I can’t vouch for this video but given it’s prevalence on X it may be legit.

Sirens across Israel, civilians ordered to enter shelters due to Iranian missile attack

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Iran

Israel chose to act now, whether Trump likes it or not

It has been clear that there has been growing tension between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump over the possibility that Israel would launch an attack on Iran.

Trump has been telling the Israeli leader that he doesn’t want him to do this now and to wait, while the US administration continues nuclear negotiations with the Iranians.

But the Israelis clearly thought that they had their opportunity to act.

They believe that the Iranians are as debilitated as they are going to be in the region after last year’s degradation of Hezbollah in Lebanon – that took away a huge deterrent factor from Israel.

Mixed signals.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, Israel, USA

Israel launches preemptive strike on Iranian nuclear sites, military targets

The IDF has started to attack dozens of Iranian nuclear sites.

Warning sirens have been set off to get the public ready for potential Iranian counter attacks of ballistic missiles on Israel.

Iran has not yet fired ballistic missiles, but has thousands of them.

Live updates from JPost

Live Updates from AlJazeera

X-Thread featuring military status 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Iran