According to a report from Haaretz, the US and Israel are increasing military coordination over fears that Iran could retaliate for the killing of prominent scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
Sources told Haaretz that officials from Iran’s military and US Central Command reportedly met to discuss the chances of an Iranian attack. The two militaries reviewed procedures for the joint detection of missile and rocket fire on US and Israeli targets in the Middle East.
Fakhrizadeh’s killing came after a report from The New York Times said President Trump reviewed options to strike an Iranian nuclear site at an Oval Office meeting last month. Since then, Iran has urged caution, warning its allies in the region against provoking the US into a military confrontation.
Israel, the likely perpetrator of Fakhrizadeh’s assassination, took the news that Trump considered attacking Iran as a signal to escalate tensions. Besides apparently killing Fakhrizadeh, Israel ramped up airstrikes in Syria against what it calls Iranian-linked targets and continues to leak stories to the press about how they are preparing for war with Iran.
The US started pulling diplomats from its embassy in Baghdad this week due to security concerns. While Iran has warned its allies in Iraq not to attack the US, there are other Iraqi factions that have their own reasons to fire on US forces. Regardless, any US casualty in Iraq between now and Trump’s last day in office will likely be blamed on Iran. The same goes for Israeli casualties.
On Thursday, Israel’s National Security Council warned that Israelis visiting countries that neighbor Iran could be the target of Iranian attacks. “In light of the threats heard recently from Iranian factors, and in light of past involvement of Iranians in terrorist attacks on various countries, there is a concern Iran will try to act in this way against Israeli destinations,” the council said in a statement.
Others are not convinced that Iran will retaliate anytime soon, including Elliot Abrams, President Trump’s hawkish point man on Iran. Abrams said that Iran is desperate for sanctions relief and would not do anything to jeopardize future negotiations with the incoming Biden administration.
Abrams and other Iran hawks in the Trump administration are looking to sabotage Joe Biden’s plans for rejoining the 2015 nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA. The administration plans to slap new sanctions on Iran every week until Biden is inaugurated. But despite the sanctions and escalations by Israel, both Biden and Iran’s leadership seem keen to return to the JCPOA.
Zero chance the US will ever have leadership that is not Zionist all the way. That is because the Chosen and the Exceptional are two very special peoples. So they think–and therein lies the problem for the rest of humanity.
And Israel has become our stumbllng block.
Jews believe that they were chosen to get the Torah. Following the Torah means that Jews can’t eat lobster, shrimp, bacon,… & can’t use electricity on the sabbath. How is that a problem for the rest of humanity?
Some Jews believe they were chosen to gt the Torah, some Jews don’t believe any such thing. Quit trying to co-opt all members of an ethnic group as supporters of a particular worldview.
No the problem is Judaeophobia by certain nations
I’ve nothing against Jews, my issue is with Israel (unless you want to conflate the two).
1. You deny the fact that as a result of the Arab Israeli struggle, many hundreds of thousands of Jews living in the Islamic world were evicted from their homes, after centuries of mistreatment.I would never deny that many Arab peoples were evicted during the formation of Israel. I think it stinks that people rot in refugee camps for 70 years.
Given a one state solution, would you allow everyone currently residing in Israel to remain as a full and equal citizen?
no answer, because you don’t have one.
The only reason they are preparing is because they intend to hit Iran again.
They will hit and hit until there is the desired response. This is a war of choice.
How many innocents will perish? They couldn’t care less.
Iran says it wants Israel erased from the pages of history. Thousands of Iranian chant “Death to Israel!” “Death to Israel!” is printed on Iranian missiles. Iran has boasted that it helped Hezbollah & Hamas kill Israelis. Iran has offered to help anyone willing to attack Israel.
How many innocents will perish if the US & Israel do nothing?
Can you blame Iran after what has been done to them. They certainly do have a way of turning the other cheek.
More copy and paste bullshit. Try some new material. Or do I have to post pictures again of Israeli children signing bombs that the cowardly IDF is about to send over to Gaza.
Denial is a river in Africa. you insist on seeing good guys and bad guys-the world is not so simple-your heroes are not heroes.
Are you fucking kidding me? You just described yourself.
So anyone who says something that disturbs you or contradicts your worldview is evil.How infantile.The reason I support Israel on this site is because the criticism here is one sided,and sometimes reflects underlying Judaeophobia
Where did I say that? I replied to johnson11b’s copy and paste that he has posted dozens of times. How is that me saying someone is evil? My point about children signing bombs was to point out that the Israeli’s do the same thing he is accusing Iran of doing. There is no “Judaeophobia” on my part. I have yet to condone any similar behavior from anyone. I don’t base anything on ethnicity or religious beliefs.
“US and Israel Stepping Up Coordination for Possible Iranian Retaliation”
I’m not blaming anti-war because I know they must report the headlines as they are written but this phrasing always gets under my skin. The U.S. and Israel are always portrayed as the victims. Note the passive, defensive wording, we are preparing for an attack from Iran.
The Iranian action is called ‘Retaliation’. I’ve also read ‘Revenge’ making them look like a petty mob. When Israel or the U.S. attacks, it is called ‘preemptive’ or ‘surgical’ attack as if our attacks are defensive. I would call a potential Iranian action, ‘deterrence’ or a ‘counter-strike’. We can’t do that because it would make them sound rational, and you must promote the meme of the mad-Arab.
Again, I am not blaming anti-War, I love anti-war because they strip the BS phrases out of their summaries.
We don’t say that aggressors, like Iran, are deterring.
If Iran doesn’t want to be attacked by Israel, it can simply stop trying to destroy Israel.
Israel wants good relations with Iran. Israel wants to buy Iranian oil & Israel wants to sell Israeli goods to Iran.
“If Iran doesn’t want to be attacked by Israel, it can simply stop trying to destroy Israel.”
Exactly how are they doing that? Are they killing Israeli nuclear scientists? Are they egging on a superpower to go to war against Israel? Do they do airstrikes with impunity in sovereign countries that they think Israel shouldn’t be aligned with? Did they, along with the US, infiltrate and attack Israeli nuclear facilities with the Stuxnet virus?
What exactly has Iran done to Israel? Noticed I used the word “done.” When was the last time that Iran bombed or attacked Isael?
Iran blew up the Israeli embassy and a Jewish cultural center in Argentina
Can you show proof of this?
Iran now realises the evil that Emperor Cyrus released on this world after listening to one of his concubines.
“On Thursday, Israel’s National Security Council warned that Israelis visiting countries that neighbor Iran could be the target of Iranian attacks.”
what goes around comes around…..
The Iranians are very patient and likely won’t do much directly but use their ‘proxies’ over time and at their pleasure.
I would suggest that we look to the Houthis in Yemen as the proxies who will soon unleash a barrage of missile and drone attacks on many objectives in Saudi Arabia, surely one of the conspirators in all these murders of Iranian scientists and military officials.