The US and Israel are bracing for potential Iranian retaliation for the Israeli bombing of Iran’s consulate building in Damascus, which killed seven members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including a senior Quds Force commander and another general.
Israel frequently kills Iranians in Syria and conducts covert attacks inside Iran, but the attack on the Iranian consulate marked a huge escalation in its campaign against Tehran. Iran is usually very restrained in its response to Israeli attacks, but according to Al Mayadeen, Israel’s Channel 13 reported that Israel is preparing for a direct Iranian attack.
Israeli security sources said they believed Iran was “determined to respond more than ever before.” Israel’s Channel 12 reported that Israel is at its highest state of alert in preparation for a potential attack.
A direct Iranian attack could be exactly what Israel wants since it appears to be trying to provoke a major regional war in hopes that the US would get directly involved.
The US has denied any role in the Israeli attack on a diplomatic facility, but Iranian officials have said the US must be held “accountable” for its military support for Israel. According to AP, the US provides Israel with about 70% of its weapons imports and funds 15% of its military budget. The Israeli attack on the embassy appeared to be carried out using US-provided aircraft and munitions.
By the US’s own logic, its support for Israel is enough to blame it for the consulate bombing. The US said Iran was responsible for attacks on US troops by Iraqi Shia militias because Iran armed the groups despite the lack of any evidence of direct Iranian involvement.
Iran pressured the militias to stop attacks on US bases after three Americans were killed in a drone attack on Tower 22, and US military officials are warning that Tehran could give them the green light to restart the operations after the consulate bombing.
Teheran will continue to let the War Party flail about and exhaust itself. There are only so many $15,000 coffee makers and $5,000 toilet seats taxpayers can afford,
De-Dollarization takes time but brings peace.
When the price of oil goes up to the point that more US children are hungry-thank de-dollarization. How you gonna get to those protests-take a bike.
Dwight D. Eisenhower had an answer for you:
“….Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. . .
….This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron….”
He did say that but was one of the enablers of war and arms industry, himself. It’s like he was masturbating moral superiority on the face of humanity.
There is a certain poetry to that.
And I seem to recall that speech came as he was leaving office. Plus, the whole Iran hatefest started with him.
Yes. Coup in Iran in 1953. He also sent nukes to South Korea. Then there were the “advisers” sent to Vietnam. Lest we forget, he ordered the CIA to assassinate Patrice Lumumba (which was carried out in the early years of the Kennedy administration, orchestrated by Allen Dulles). He had his warts.
At the end of his career, he was most like Major General Smedley Butler, realizing the folly of war, the waste.
Absolutely true,but the US standard of living is predicated upon cheap energy.
Weather damage due to shifts in climate are not cheap. Home insurers are leaving states that have serious events. I believe Allstate is pulling out of Florida.
Meanwhile,the China that is much admired at this site burns coal like crazy.
It Is, yet US policy seems intended to make “cheap energy” impossible. We are sanctioning 3 of the nations with the largest energy reserves (Russia, Iran, Venezuela) and have crippled two others (Libya and Iraq); while allowing destabilization to occur in Nigeria and Mexico, and through internal policies limiting our own production, and cheering the limiting of Canada’s. Meanwhile, we are actively removing dams in the west, which reduces hydro output, closing nuclear plants, and doing everything possible to curtail new nuclear installations.
Redirecting 50% of our military budget for 10 years to real energy production and grid improvements would have us awash in dirt cheap energy for the next hundred years. And we’d STILL be wasting more money on “defense” than anyone else in the world.
Well,we can spend shit loads of energy to mine copper and silver,and produce mega acreage of mine waste-but electric power is not efficient.We can cut down every forest and wipe out every bit of delicate desert life for solar panel fields. Uranium prices are way up,possibly for when SMR’s are ready.Unless we use ZPE,there is no easy out-
Well said. I agree 1000%. Rudderless ship of evil fools.
Very poetic and absolutely true.
Indeed, check out the documentary on Copenhagen at dw.com . Everyone uses bikes daily because it’s the fastest and nicest way to get where you are going, by design. In terms of going hungry, our destructive oil based agriculture fills bellies but degrades nutrition. We are starving ourselves as we get fat. Copenhagen has simple solutions for that systemic error also.
Pesticides are derived from oil products.
Plastics keep bread better than paper. Despite the nasty price increases in food,Joe public still spends a relatively low proportion of his income for food. To put a chicken on the table,requires energy to pump water from the aquifer to grow corn,petroleum to make fertilizer,energy to keep the birds cool while alive and after their demise,to bring them across the country in a cold fresh condition. The organic stuff they sell is very expensive and rather unpleasant. It is through energy that one farmer can feed many people.that all of us can eat fruit every day,and enjoy salads in winter? Is that wrong? It is ludicrous to expect most Americans to walk to work, or bike 60 miles to visit Grandma,or a public beach. Elders die in theheat c/o AC. VIVA Petroleum!
Look at the video… They walk to swim on lunch breaks. An incineration plant is also a rec area. They didn’t mention grandma, but she wouldn’t be 60 miles away, by design. They start learning about design in the 3rd grade.
They also laugh at the lack of sex education in schools in America.
Denmark is a much smaller country,much less distances.
The grocery store in my section of the town we live in is a short walk. I take it. Quite a few other businesses are a bike ride away.
Thats you-fine and good-don’t tell others how to live.
It will go up anyway. Inflation is caused by the owners raising prices of everything. Blame will be placed on “liberals”, immigrants, men and women who are “different”. Easy targets, in their minds. Most people do not read. (I love the movie “Network”, the scene when Peter Finch said that “in America, only 2% of Americans read”) They get their information from the tube, or if they do read, they subscribe to crap like Epoch Times.
Unfunded wars and the wasted domestic expenditures produces inflation.Shortages of goods and labor produces inflation. when goods and services are abundant, producers cannot raise prices for fear of competition.
Most of the citizens of the U.S. of Amnesia don’t care. Give them their beer, NASCAR, automatic rifles, Confederate flags, cable news. They are cool with WWIII.
Don’t forget football,gambling,pornography,subjugation of women,Drugs and Alcohol,White Supremacy and massive political corruption.
Yes! Yes! Yes! ‘Murica!!
So,you are saying that the US is now as bad as the rest of the world.
Another proxy war provocation? Lindsey Graham can hardly contain himself.
He seems to need a diaper for his mouth because when he speaks, what he spews out is crap.
;-/
A senior US official said the US had sent the message “directly to Iran.” The US has a history of approving Israeli airstrikes in Syria, but US and Israeli officials insist that the US was only notified of the strike minutes before it was launched.
Why would this exonerate the US? They could have easily said that if Israel went through with the attack, the US would no longer support them. You know, the same way the US could stop the genocide. It doesn’t matter if it was minutes or seconds before the attack. It was BEFORE.
Also where is the condemnation/outcry against the bombing? It is against international law, the Vienna conventions. The US can’t even deign to cart out its typical high horse rhetoric it saves for other countries.
An act of war. An embassy is the sovereign soil of a country. Killing of Iranian scientist, IN IRAN, is an act of war. Killing a general on a peace mission in another country (Iraq) during the Trump administration is an act of war. How many times must Iran be attacked and humiliated before something serious happens. I expect there to be input into the AI weapons, Lavender, to be utilized in any war with Iran or Lebanon for targeting. It is “battle tested” in Gaza. I also expect Israel to ready its tactical nukes for strikes in Iran and Syria. Will Russia be drawn in? We can stop this train to h*ll if we wanted to.
When it’s as obvious as the noses on our face, then they trot out the obligatory “we’ll wait for the investigation”.
“investigation”: cigars lit, clinking of glasses, laughter, shouts of “mission accomplished”, “mazel tov”.
Again – No to Biden
No to Democrats
No to Zionists
With Trump you get your first two wishes, but not your last one.
Zionism means freedom to oppressed Jewry,and is good. MLK said that when they say Zionists,they mean Jews.
Zionism is not Judaism. It is a cult. It is settler colonialism in the same model as the British prior to the Boer War and the deadly occupation of Ireland in the 1800’s.
Progressivism is a cult.
Zionism is a national liberation movement. Once safe in Israel,Jewish people can practice atheism,any form of Judaism,Agnostism,convert to other faiths. Celts never lived in South Africa-Jews did-Jerusalem was built by King David.
No RetardiQAns either…!
Note to Iranians searching for targets: How about Bibi’s house?
The Iranian rulers don’t want to be targets.
I was kind of being facetious. Kind of. But if they “accidentally” hit his house, well then….
And when a nuclear ballistic missile “accidentally” hits Tehran, well then… accidents happen.
And what is the reason for these air strikes? Think about it.
Preemptive attacks of any kind are not an excuse. That was an attack on Iranian soil. You can’t get away with that shit no matter how hard you try to exaggerate Iran’s desire to destroy Israel.
If a seven foot man is ready to punch you and you can’t run away,would you let him punch you-I think not. Iran’s desire and planning is very real.
That’s ridiculous. What’s a metaphor for nukes and a superpower at their disposal? Why would Iran commit suicide?
No,it is not ridiculous. Israel,with 8 million people,cannot afford a drawn out war of attrition with a country of 80 million people. In warfare,he who strikes first has a huge advantage.
If you ignore the superpower, sure. Or Israels 200-300 nukes. Israel would never have to fight a war of attrition against Iran. If that were even a possibility, they’d had changed their behavior long ago. Why do you think a country of 8 million can attack a consulate of a country with 80 billion?
So in other words, Netanyahole just met his war objective with Hamas. Starting a greater war with Iran. I guess they don’t think Trump is going to steal another election and just moved on without him.
Trump did not steal any election. He won in 2016, lost in 2020. 2024 is a toss up, but Biden seems intent on losing it so, Trump will likely win 2024.
I didn’t mean literally steal, I should have chose my words more wisely. I meant nobody expected he really had a chance. The news treated him like a Talk show host for most of the primaries before they realized the polls weren’t off. By then they were pot invested and kept promoting until he got elected. At which point they all turned against him and attacked him from every angle for 4 years. I think I got most of that right.
I get what you are saying. We all make mistakes with our wording, after all we are not professional writers.
Oh My God, the hand wringing, wailing and gnashing of teeth should Iran strike back, either against Israel or US assets in the region. “9-11!!” “9-11”!! “October 7!!” “October 7!!” “Remember the Maine!!” “Never Forget!” Over and Over and Over again.
Because NOTHING is ever our fault; No One should ever hold us accountable, We Didn’t Do It!!! We’re the City on the Hill!!! (whatever the F that’s supposed to mean)
I am embarrassed by my government. Such a hypocritical, cowardly, dishonest pack of scoundrels. But hey, we have an election in 7 months! NOT the “faked rigged elections” that Russia has; we get to choose between an ethically challenged, incompetent, demented 81 year old and an ethically challenged, incompetent, irrational 78 year old. What A Great Country we are!!
You forgot that 87 felony charges against the 78 year old.
Iran won’t retaliate against U.S. but I see U.S to provide few Israeli targets for Iran to tag back as a compensation to defuse the tension and use it as prapaganda..
The AI program Israel uses, Lavender, is being loaded with into. It is “battle tested”.
How about Hiafa,Hebron and Tel Aviv for starters.
Hebron has a 90% Arab population. Would you be happy when Teheran and Qom get slagged, for starters?-that would be the response to your suggestion. Don’t you want peace?
They’re hoping that it will give them a reason to bomb Iran out of existence, giving Joe in another notch in his Satanic belt.
Joe’s after Tamerlane’s record for total kills. Hitler will wallow in the dust.
Israeli defenses are at their highest state of preparedness since 6Oct.