An Iranian general warned on Sunday that no Israeli embassy is safe as Israel is preparing for a potential Iranian response to its bombing of Iran’s consulate in Syria.
“None of the Zionist regime’s embassies are safe anymore, and therefore, it has so far closed down 28 of its embassies out of fear,” said Maj. Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi, an advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Safavi appeared to be referring to Israeli media reports that said 28 Israeli embassies and consulates have been temporarily closed due to fears of an Iranian attack. “They dream of dying every night and they are the most fearful creatures,” Safavi said.
The Israeli bombing of Iran’s consulate killed 13 people, including a senior Iranian general and six other members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). Iran has killed several members of the IRGC in Syria since October 7, but the brazen attack on a diplomatic facility marked a huge escalation in its attacks on Iranians in the region.
Iran is usually very restrained in its responses to Israeli attacks, but the consulate bombing could provoke something big, which could be exactly what Israel wants as it appears to be seeking a regional war that would bring direct US intervention.
US officials told NBC News that they are concerned Iran might be planning to hit targets inside Israel or an Israeli consulate building in the region. They said the strikes could be launched using a swarm of drones or land-attack cruise missiles.
On Friday, Mohammad Jamshidi, an aide to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, said Tehran told the US not to get involved if Iran responds. “In a written message, the Islamic Republic of Iran warns US leadership not to get dragged in Netanyahu’s trap for US: Stay away so you won’t get hurt,” he wrote on X.
Jamshidi said that in response to the message, the US asked Iran not to target American facilities, but the White House denied his characterization of the exchange of messages, calling it “Iranian spin.”
“We received a message from Iran following the strike in Damascus. In response, we made clear that we were not behind the strike. We also warned Iran to not use the strike as a pretext to further escalate in the region or attack US facilities or personnel,” a Biden administration official told NBC.
I wonder what it matters. Russia has plenty of immigrants, and Japan is taking in many now. It’s like states and nations are outdated.
Where are these people from who are immigrating TO Russia?
Muslims. Asians. Syrians apparently move to even the Yukon. They’ll go anywhere.
Let Israel hang in anticipation until Iranians become impatient.
Keeping them in Fear is the best Offence…!
All of the embassies should be closed for being a genocidal nation, not because of fears from Iran. But that would require the west to be honest brokers.
Was Israel using US made bombs in the attack? I recall Nukey Haley doing a show and tell with remnants of Iranian made weapons at the UN claiming Iran was guilty of some attack because those doing the attack used those Iranian made weapons. But I’m sure that standard only applies if it’s the bad guys doing it and not the beacon of democracy.
Nukey Haley, good one!
I must admit I plagiarized that one. I believe it was from a robert sheetz comment. I think I might have said “good one” too.
Smartest would be to go after a facility in a country that has already broken off relations over the genocide, like Bolivia.
The smartest way is to give up hostility to Israel,and work with them to try to get a better life for the Palestinians.
Why would they waste the time in an effort in which the Israelis have absolutely no interest and declare openly that they will not allow?
Oh, I get it, you think that everyone in the region should bow down slavishly to their deity-declared superiors. Sorry, ain’t happening.
The truth is always best.
Alert! Don’t get stoned and watch that pop-up with the wood splitter.
So the White House “denied” what Iran said and then another White House official confirmed what Iran said: that the US doesn’t want Iran to hit its assets in the region.
Illustrative of the Biden White House: they talk out of both sides of their mouth. No one should take anything they say seriously. Look at what they DO, not what they SAY. What they are DOING is escalating the war because that’s what they really want and all the MSM and alternative media BS about how “no one wants war” is just that: BS.
Why would US officials be “concerned”; Israel hasn’t faced any repercussions for bombing and killing people in a Embassy/Consulate.
If Iran carries out an action against an Israeli Embassy will the US advise Israel not to respond, because that would heighten tensions in the region, like supposedly and comically they told Iran?
What repercussions were exacted when the Israeli embassy in Argentina was bombed? Or the Argentinian Jewish Center?
You meant Israel Dave…!
Brazen was the attacks in Argentina on the Israeli embassy and a civilian Jewish cultural center.
Safavi appeared to be referring to Israeli media reports that said 28 Israeli embassies and consulates have been temporarily closed due to fears of an Iranian attack
This might be the revenge he is referring to. Using threats of retaliation and Israel’s increasing pariah status to further isolate them from the 6 or so billion people not in DC’s fiefdoms.