Tom Nides, the US ambassador to Israel, said Sunday that Israel could do “whatever they need” against Iran and said the US has no plans to pursue a revival of the Iran nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA.
“As President Biden has said, we will not stand by and watch Iran get a nuclear weapon, number one. Number two, he said, all options are on the table. Number three, Israel can and should do whatever they need to deal with, and we’ve got their back,” Nides said, according to The Times of Israel.
The US threats against Iran over its nuclear program continue even though the Pentagon acknowledged in its recently issued Nuclear Posture Review that Iran is not building a nuclear bomb. Nides added that the “cooperation between Israel and the US vis-a-vis Iran is lockstep. Every day.”
His comments came a few weeks after Israel launched a drone attack against a military facility inside the Iranian city of Isfahan. While Israel hasn’t officially taken credit for the attack, it has a history of launching similar operations inside Iran, and US officials told the media that Israel was responsible.
US officials who spoke to The Wall Street Journal about the Israel attack in Isfahan said it came as the US and Israel were discussing ways to counter Iran’s military capabilities, hinting at potential US involvement.
One reason why the US would support Israeli attacks on Iran is Tehran’s support for Russia in the conflict in Ukraine, although Iran still insists it hasn’t provided military equipment since the invasion. “The Iranians are providing drones to Russia and those drones are killing innocent Ukrainians. There is no chance today of us going back to the negotiating table,” Nides said.
What Israel needs and what I personally think Israel needs – and deserves – are at opposite poles on a very very large sphere.
IAEA says Iran now enriching to 84%
Those who still believe that they are not in pursuit of nuclear weapons might be interested in a bridge I have for sale in San Francisco
That’s not what IAEA says.
Iran has denied that it has “intentionally”enriched uranium to a purity of 84 percent
I stand corrected.
No, you do not stand corrected.
Some minor amount of supposedly 84% enriched particles have been found. Even the IAEA speculates that this is just some centrifuges being set incorrectly and is working with Iran to figure out why. There is no speculation that this was intentional.
Lastly, US intelligence continues to believe that Iran does not intend to produce nukes at this time.
Truth is,everybody lies, and no one knows Iran is doing or intends to do.
hmmm, “truth is, everyone lies”? So you’re lying, then? I agree with you …
Your sophistry is not that brilliant.
True. But Iran agreed to the JCPOA and the most intrusive inspections on the planet and yet that wasn’t good enough. Nothing is. It’s failed state or nothing.
Neither you or I know what is going on in innumerable Iranian DUMBOS.
We know a hell of a lot more than we know about any other country’s nuclear facilities. Especially the one begging the superpower to go to war on their behalf.
iran has also signed the NNPT.
something that their enemy neighbor has refused to do.
and that very same enemy neighbor was caught red-handed trying to sell nukes to south africa.
Iran has every right to develop nuclear weapons since it does not act as Israel who provokes terror and sabotage around the world.
At this rate if sabotage and assassinations committed inside their country, going nuclear is the obvious choice as quickly as possible.
War is peace-the sabotage is to prevent acquisition of nukes. You have things reversed.
The JCPOA did that but that wasn’t good enough. Failed state or bust for the little parasite.
The NPT? Not good enough. The JCPOA, the NPT on steroids? Not good enough. And when Iran enriches Uranium above the level they agreed upon, as long as the other signatories were in compliance, let’s blame Iran. Sure, why not.
And this from the article about Iran’s enrichment to 84%, as Caliman already pointed out to you:
“That’s still being looked into, but the IAEA suggests “it was a blip in the reconfigured cascades” when Iran set them to 60%. Iran and the IAEA are still in talks to figure it out.”
https://news.antiwar.com/2023/02/20/iaea-iran-in-talks-over-highly-enriched-uranium-finding/
Israel won`t take on Iran without the support of the yanks they would be wiped out and Israel would be returned to the people of Palestine the right full occupants of that land .
Palestine is now in the hands of its rightful occupants.
90 nuclear tipped Jericho missiles could wipe out Iran- in 30 minutes,if need be.
Fantasy scenario.
It is better to have these weapons and not have to use them,but the weapons are quite real. Do some basic fact checking!
If Israel ever uses a nuke..a nuke will find its way into Tel Aviv same day. Israel is loathed by the world because it is an unbridled terrorist state.
And who will do this?Russia has its own problems.
You have to wonder what Americans think when their government officials openly pledge loyalty to another government. And “do whatever they need” presumably includes nuclear strikes, which the ambassador knows the Israelis are capable of. The neocon project in Ukraine is coming off the rails and they may be transitioning into headlong flight forward. Iran needs to rig some nuclear Saturday night specials and demonstrate ASAP.
Israel needs to prepare for an influx of Ukrainian refugees (which they will require the US to pay for). Even while it’s daily more clear the balance is tilting toward Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran. The Saudis recognize it.
What even happened to the lost art of diplomacy?….
It doesn’t exist within the Regime, Donna 😐
It takes two to tango.when one side hated the other, it has no reason to negotiate.
So, let’s talk about why you hate Russia?
Who the fork are you to define my positions?
Do not deflect. I’m only trying to address your underlining issue.
Self preservation has a way of coaxing the happy and successful to make the smart choice. It is the miserable & feckless who act out of hate in spite of being destroyed by the rash act..You often seem so inclined. Can’t we all just get along?
Donna, diplomacy always had an expiration date.
Dangerous & not especially smart for us in USA to denigrate diplo track when adversary has bombs 4000 times the blast of the one that ended WWII. AND don’t forget the unstoppable hypersonics making the deliveries. All in all talk is better tHan war!!! Especially for the party a generation behind in missiles and rocketry and a sitting duck for their hypersonics!!!. How many Russian subs are a few hundred miles out offshore with hypersonics for the Pentagon and the Capitol…. If the need arises…..?????????????????
Arrogance has made this giant fat, stupid and overconfident.
Here that Israel? You have not real friends, only co-dependent enablers. A real friend would pull you back from the abyss
Looks like US still has surplus of weapons even after sending many to Ukraine and Taiwan. More wars is great for companies like Lockheed, mo wars, mo money.
What if the world Says Iran Can Do ‘Whatever They Need’ Against Israel?
Iran has already stated that they will only retaliate.
So what else is new?
Spoken off of a talk written by Nuland and Blinken, pounded into the head of Biden.
And this is supposed to be US blessing Israel on any potential strikes on Iran…?! Since when Israel has gotten any permission from US to do military operations against their adversaries…?!
Iranian ambassador says Iran can “do whatever it needs” against IsraHell
Does anyone believe that Iran will go quietly into that good night? They are after all the Persian Empire, highly civilized while Europeans were still swinging in trees.
they seem to be more concerned with subjugating their own women is this modern age.
Blame the spread of caliphate and subjugating Iran under Sharia Law for 300 years.
Spy, think about it. It hasn’t been so very long since women were subjugated in Amerikkka.
You were sexually assaulted? It was because you were wearing a short skirt. Your SO used you for a punching bag? Police can’t get involved in “domestic situations”, and yes, I personally LIVED this.
Your boss wanted to play grab-ass with you? If you don’t like it, find another job.
I’m old enough to recall when women had VERY few rights in this f*cking country. The young women today have no idea what we older gals went through. And we’ve been able to vote for less than a hundred years!
i have thought about it and all that you said there is truth.
however unless todays iranian women are liars, they are being imprisoned and executed for simply complaining about their lot in life.
My understanding is Iranian women are in some ways more liberated than western women, many of whom are slave baby machines to fuel endless war.
“The Iranians are providing drones to Russia and those drones are
killing innocent Ukrainians.”
US and UK are the main providers of weaponry used by the Saudi regime in its assault on Yemen killing tens of thousands innocent Yemenites.
Besides the same duo are providing intelligence and logistics to ensure that the destruction and killings are as efficient as possible.
Should we in the same breath also mention that western political, financial and military aid is the reason Israel continues it murderous masacres on Palestinian children on almost daily basis?
Can anyone be as hypocritical as the US?
“Murderous Massacres exists on mars..Arab terrorists kill Israeli children all the time.
I nominate Israel as a champion of gruesome busiess of unapologetic murder in their occupied prison like ghettos . They are making the news this morning for killing children and the elderly. Their attitude and lose enforcement of any humanitarian over sight allows for. genocidal practices
Add to that sadistic.
No, it is not hypocrisy. It is supremacism. Superior brings can do whatever they please, inferior cannot compare.
This is why US officials are itritated over Putin’s “whataboutism”. How dare he? Superior beings do everything with noble intentionns. Their actions cannot be compared to drubby, base actions of inferiors.
Our leadership and those ensconced deep into bureaucracy with massive powers have become inbred, and have a culture of their own — far from American people they pull by the nose and lead into expensive foreign disasters. This is how we ammased the debt, and enriched the same inbred suoremacists.
And they have created their clones in all European countries, secure that they can do what they please and the confused peoples will accept. People can protest all they want.
And we have gone so far as to legislate supremacy in the shape of laws that prohibit boycotts as this practice may actually hurt the supremacy. Being enacted to protect Israel from boycott actions, it in fact can be easily applied by the way of precedent to any other organized attempt to diminish the power of the wealth tey amassed.
It is hard to say if we have emulated supremacy so clearly exhibited in Israel, or tge other way arounnd. But by now the symbiosis is complete.
I believe Isfahan is in the area where Russia recently invested 2 billion $.
This is how Hubris looks like. But in its bossom Nemesis is generated. Nemesis will be on the march, and nothing can stoo it once iit starts rolling. Israel is asking for it, every single day. Stalin coined the ohrase “correlation of forces”. This is exactly what brings about Nemesis. Hubriis never notices clouds on the horizon. Its sun shines 24/7/365. Until it does not.
This is what is uncomfortable about Russian intervention in Ukrainine. Eight years of murderous abuse of Russian speaking Ukrainians in a supposedly bilingual state was challenged by Russia. Zelenski who cut the deal with Catholics was looking at these Christian Orthodox Russian speakers as Palestinians. And in addition to denying them political representation, media, schools -/ engaged in appropiating their businesses, homes, land. And targetted killings. Russia stood by watching this, trusting Franco-German duo to nudge Juev to testire rights of disenfranchised population.
Once tge illusion was over, Russia interened. And in spite if its supposed failure, it demonstrated that NATO and Kiev cannot be trusted, and annexed four provinces of Russian soeakers. Those are nit going back. And more may go.
This is raising unease in Israel and US. What if actiin us taken against Israel for lingcternmn, well documented sadistic abuse of Palestinians?
Sounds unrealistic, but is it? With US tied down in Europe, and raring to go against China in Taiwan — would it have the ability to couner any challenge to Israel in the Muddle East.
This fortress of support enveloping Israel may be thunner than it looks.