The US and its allies believe Iranian retaliation for the Israeli bombing of Iran’s consulate in Syria is imminent, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.
Sources told Bloomberg that, based on US and Israeli intelligence, Iran or its allies in the region could launch a major missile and drone attack on military and government targets inside Israel in the coming days.
Axios reported something similar, saying Israel is expecting a direct Iranian attack on its territory launched from Iran’s soil. Israeli sources told the outlet that Israel would respond by launching direct attacks on Iran, which would likely require US support.
A major Iranian response could be exactly what Israel wants, as it appears to be trying to provoke a wider regional war to get the US to intervene directly.
The Axios report said that the top US military commander in the Middle East, Gen. Erik Kurilla, is due to visit Israel on Thursday to coordinate on the potential Iranian attack. President Biden signaled he would directly intervene if Iran attacks Israel in a warning to Tehran he issued on Wednesday.
“We also want to address the Iranian threat to launch a significant – they’re threatening to launch a significant attack in Israel,” Biden said. “As I told Prime Minister Netanyahu, our commitment to Israel’s security against these threats from Iran and its proxies is ironclad. Let me say it again, ironclad. We’re gonna do all we can to protect Israel’s security.”
Israel has a history of covert attacks inside Iran and killing Iranians in airstrikes in Syria. Iran is usually restrained in its responses to Israeli attacks, but the bombing of an Iranian diplomatic facility marked a huge escalation. The airstrikes killed a senior Quds Force commander, another Iranian general, and five other members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
It should be obvious that the purpose of these reports are to 1) deliberately portray any Iranian retaliation against Israel as “illegitimate” and thus a cause for the US to attack Iran, thus deflecting blame from the US onto Iran (and Israel – which is fine by Israel as long as the war happens), and 2) to deflect from the already-made decision by the US and Israel – but especially the US – to widen the war.
This war has been PLANNED by Israel and the US since BEFORE October 7, 2023. That is proven by the events in the days preceding October 7, when the Israelis declared their intention to destroy the Al-Agsa mosque in Jerusalem. That was done knowing Hamas (and Hezbollah) would react and Israel could begin its genocide.
People who don’t think this war has been planned out – by both sides – are delusional.
John Bolton is creaming his jeans in anticipation.
If Biden orders the Joint Chiefs to invade Iran he won’t survive the week. They remember the fiasco of Iraq, and Iran is three times the size with twice the population, an intact infrastructure, a large and fairly well trained and well equipped military, and perhaps the most important they have a mostly homogeneous society (Iraq had none of those). None of them will want to be remembered as the guy who lost the war in Iran.
Bolton and the Joint Chiefs are getting hard on’s right now at the thought of their wet dreams coming true! War with Iran, China, Russia and N.K. Coward MOFU’s who will never see the front lines, until the front lines appear here in the USA,,too late then.
I agree, except who remembers the guys who lost 1) the war in Vietnam, 2) the war in Nicaragua, 3) the war in Iraq, 4) the war in Afghanistan, and currently 5) the war in Ukraine? The US electorate never even knew their names except in passing in the day’s New York Times.
And the Joint Chiefs know that. Plus once they quit, they’re on the board of Raytheon and General Dynamics making more money than they have ever seen and going on CNN to make stupid pronouncements. THAT’S when the public knows their names – when they’re supporting the next stupid war.
The only way we get a coup from the Pentagon – maybe, hopefully – is if they end up directly being ordered to launch nukes at Russia and China, knowing the US will be obliterated.
As long as they think they’re just attacking a “Third World” country – which Iran technically is – they will go along. As Andrei Martyanov says daily, the people in the Pentagon are clueless about modern, real war because all they’ve ever fought since WWII are “sham wars” against weak nations. And they couldn’t win most of those.
Besides which, THEY aren’t at risk. So why shouldn’t they do whatever they asked to do? There is ZERO accountability in the US government because the US electorate has ZERO power to change anything.
Iran knows that Biden is weak. Biden is all talk and little or no action. Not that Trump is any better. Eight years of weak US leadership and 4 more to come.
I would be surprised if Iran did not take this time to strike.
The Intel and the military run U.S. Biden or anyone else won’t change the Iranian mind.
And what would make Biden strong? Telling Iran the US will destroy them if they retaliate against Israel for attacking their consulate? Like the US wouldn’t have already retaliated if their consulate was attacked. And in a way that would make anything that Iran is even considering doing look like a pinprick.
i think that Iran wouldn’t last any longer against uncle sam than Iraq did.
some irony of all this is that the same US media that is constantly harping about “Russia is going to invade Europe and start WW3” is the same US media that has totally ignored uncle sam’s aggression against the rest of the world for many decades now.
No way to know unless it happens, but Iran isn’t Iraq. The U.S. couldn’t even defeat Iraq, so I wouldn’t be so confident.
This is so transparent it is almost comical.
Israel is executing a pre-planned strategy of escalation that is going to get worse, as they want to lure Iran into a full blown war.
The Americans are all in. No way Israel is hitting Iranian consulates without DC’s approval.
Israel and the US cannot be appeased by Iran. Therefore, if Iran’s strategy is to try and retaliate in a symmetrical manner aimed at establishing deterrence, it will fail.
Iranian leaders are very smart. They will know that Israel and the US want a war. They also know that Israel’s economy is collapsing, and their army is getting it’s ass kicked in Gaza and northern Israel.
Iran may decide on a military retaliation. However, any military retaliation by Iran that doesn’t in essence destroy Israel’s capability to continue escalating, will simply result in more intense provocations.by Israel/US.
Iran may decide on a non-military retaliation. This would presumably include choking off the Strait of Hormuz to all Israeli/US shipping, major cyber attacks, plus perhaps using proxies to target US/Israeli naval vessels. Lots of options are available.
Again, the Iranians are smart. They’re not going to give Israel or the US what they want. Expect major surprises by the Iranians, with devastating results.
First:
“Iran may decide on a non-military retaliation. This would presumably include choking off the Strait of Hormuz to all Israeli/US shipping, major cyber attacks, plus perhaps using proxies to target US/Israeli naval vessels.” How are any of these action non military? Even a cyber attack is a military action.
Second:
Don’t over estimate how “smart’ Iran leader are. They have their own internal problems to deal with and can make mistakes.
They can’t avoid the war anymore. They can flatten Israel however. I don’t think we realize how massive the Iranian rocketry and drone power is. It may be non-nuclear but it’s huge and it’s just minutes away from Palestine.
Iran apparently offered not to retaliate in exchange of a serious cease-fire in Gaza but the murder of the Haniyeh family essentially seals that option out.
There will be all out war and will begin this very week.
I agree with you. They can’t avoid the war anymore
Yes,Iran can cause immense destruction in Israel.90 Jericho missiles with nuclear warheads will kill millions of Iranians, especially if fitted with EMP and cobalt warheads. Loose loose situation.
Yes, but then Israel must expect a near term future as green glass from River to Sea. It will provoke more than it can handle.
So most folks will be dead.
As long as U.S. and Russia don’t get involved directly, just get the popcorn out.
Not folks, just people.
I think that Pakistan said that if nukes were used, it would respond in kind. So Israel will indeed become glass.
Why would Pakistan do that?
Because Pakistan is Muslim and has no love for Israel.
You really believe the Likud will commit mass suicide with Nukes ? Sorta like a 21st century Masada ? Do Likudniks really dream of this ?
Israel will absorb a certain amount of casualties,and then go nuclear.Iran has ten times the population and massive amounts of oil. Faced with an powerful enemy determined to destroy them,what options are left?
Give Palestine it’s own State, solve the problem.
Did you ever hear of Oslo-and who killed Oslo? with righ tof return?
Bibi
As he boasted to a group of Israeli settlers in a candid moment caught on video in 2001 following his first term as prime minister (1996-1999):
“I de facto put an end to the Oslo Accords.”
Hamas refused to attend any negotiations-was that more useful? If Oslo had succeeded, Netanyahu might not have become president.
What ifs are irrelevant.
“I de facto put an end to the Oslo Accords.”
“Faced with an powerful (Apartheid State of Israel) determined to destroy (the Islamic Republic of Iran), what options are left (to the Persians) ?”
Indeed, excellent question, Sull. The IRI cannot “rush for the Bomb” lest it provoke the USA -and- violate its own fatwa against nuclear weapon development. It enters the fight an underdog, benefitting only from distance from ASI territory and limited IDF air strikes absent midflight refuelling from the Americans.
Only the Arab world is full of apartheid states, forcing jews to become refugees from the lands that they had lived for 2500 years.
“There are five reserved seats in the Iranian Parliament for the religious minorities. After the Persian Constitutional Revolution, the Constitution of 1906 provided for reserved parliamentary seats granted to the recognized religious minorities, a provision maintained after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. There are two seats for Armenians and one for each other minority: Assyrians, Jews and Zoroastrians.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Parliament_religious_minority_reserved_seats
Teheran supports a plebiscite to determine final status of the British Mandate territory – how’s that destroying ?
Let Teheran give rights to its Kurds and Bahai.
Jake – you keep whining that it’s just not fair .
So, in order to stop a surprise attack from the powerful enemy determined to destroy them, Israel has decided to provoke an open attack from the powerful enemy determined to destroy them. Good plan.
Provoke,or not provoking-a couple of bad guys who were planning to kill Israelis got killed.
Sure, why not. Someone who downplays Israel’s ongoing genocide can hardly think that attacking someone’s consulate is nothing more than a couple of bad guys getting killed. You’re pathetic.
The essence of Likud is terror. From the King David on their go to tactic, like bombing and starving children, has ever been the most outrageous. No one has ever matched them for terrorism. You can smell BB’s eagerness.
Only the King David Hotel bombing was in 1946,and the Likud party did not form until 1977. HHHHAAAAAAA
Stop laughing long enough to read M. Begin’s book “The Revolt” in which he tells the story of when he did that, proudly.
Read-what I said-the man said Likud.
Yes, better said: Zio-nazi (AKA Irgun, Jabotinsky, Likud, …).
USA evangelic Christians nut heads will be very excited and jump with glee.
Yes, absolutely lose-lose. And there is major danger of nuclear escalation if the USA intervenes (again) in support of Israel. I understand that the USA attacking Iran would cross all Chinese and Russian red lines.
Israel will not dare!!!
Never AgainIS VERY REAL.
And so they do one of their own.
It’s a lot tighter a situation than you suspect, Sully.
Could there ever be a tight tight situation?
Skinny jeans + unexpected weight gain.
Ah. We see how your mind works.
False. It doesn’t work.
Apparently Iran is now saying they will not respond if the UN condemns the attack on their consulate. I don’t see why the US would veto that condemnation.
What I read is that they (also) blamed the need to retaliate on the lack of UNSC condemnation for the Zionist bombing of their embassy. I.e. they also disliked that the USA has already vetoed that resolution (I never heard of it but they spoke in past tense).
This is why a false flag is a strong possibility. “Iran” sinks a US ship, killing hundreds, and Iran is blamed. USS Liberty redo. But the public is generally clueless on past Israeli transgressions like these, and the lie parade goes on. It’s best to let the REAL aggressors, the REAL human rights violators, fire the first shot. Defense ALWAYS rules the day.
I doubt it. But in a fantasy scenario, I would like to see what the Iranians are capable of. Too much barking and not enough biting.
“US thinks false flag operation designed to get it to fight Israel’s war against Iran is imminent”
That’s certainly a possibility. I would not put it past the Biden administration or Israel to stage a false flag attack.
But I think if Iran going to attack Israel directly, they’ll probably do something like what they did to Mossad in Kurdistan last January.
I also think their best bet is to wait for the Houthi to crush Israel’s economy. 60% of Israel’s GDP is derived from trade, mostly with the United States, Britain, Ireland, and China. Disrupting that would do more harm than a military attack.
Sana can disappear.
US is not “expecting” but rather hoping. That was the point of the strike in Syria and many other provocations.
We will see. God willing Iran is going to hit Israel that’s for sure. Hope to God some bigwigs get what’s coming to them.
The senile creature wants war the us will get war.
Russia can’t wait to pay the us back for what they keep doing in Ukraine.
What kind of a God wants to his children kill each other?
The biblical one.
What kind of people support the slaughter of 20000 kids in a by 90% majority
Conducting a genocide or attacking another country’s consulate still gets the little parasite an “ironclad” from dead man talking.
So then finally you agree with me that the attack on the Israeli embassy was the start of the intended genocide.
That makes absolutely no fucking sense. Typical.
Israel is our Supreme Master, bow before them and offer up all your money and children to be used for their wars, and don’t dare complain!! (Fox news gives “oral pleasure” to Israel daily, and they #wa##o). 🙁
the hilarity is that everybody around here thinks that they are not only experts but freakin mind-readers as well
What’s being witnessed is the cladiron guarantee that we are moving towards the conflict we really need to avoid. World leaders should reflect on a simple syllogism: every empire in history has eventually faced the war it was trying to avoid; everyone wants to avoid WWIII; therefore, that is the fate that awaits. Paradoxically, the only chance of avoiding that fate is to accept it. I explore this in my new e-pamphlet, The Doomsday Syllogism.
https://www.candlinandmynard.com/doomsday.html
US doesn’t think.
Who cares about nuclear war when we can all watch OJ reruns.
US and Israel are waiting desperately and anxiously for Iran’s counterattack but it is Iran that is waiting for Israel’s Rafah ground invasion…! When that happens Israel will face sustained attacks from north Hezbollah, south Houthis, and east Iraq and Iran; not to mention also from Hamas…!
Sana and Bagdad will be toasted.
Iran is among the oldest civilizations on Earth and is also among the most modern weapons makers. It has been given access to the Volga River by Russia. This access connects Iran to the belt and road route linking Beijing, Moscow and Europe. Russia has also given Iran access to the Black Sea via the Don River. Russia is also Iran’s largest foreign investor. The links between Iran, Russia, China and Venezuela are forged in the furnace of US aggression as ot thrashes around in its death throes.
Israeli genocide is clearly illustrating itself as US funded insanity. My guess is the BRICS+ countries are going to try and avoid war and wait for the complete collapse of genocidal western corporatism.
Hamas tried to commit genocide on Oct &-they failed-now payback.
That’s as dumb as claiming the inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto tried to commit genocide in 1943.
Killing 1200 people in one day in a sadistic manner because of their ethnicity-sounds like genocide to me.Palestinians are being bombed in order to root out the Hamas invaders.
People illegitimately imprisoned like the Palestinians in Gaza have the right to escape by any means necessary. Hamas did not attempt genocide, that comment is unhinged.
The Palestinians just want independence from the overlords. Look inward to see the perpetrators of many of those 1100 killed.
This sort of argument enrages me to the point that I want that Israeli voting public to suffer the nuclear strike that I think they are drawing down on themselves.
Tha’ts why a first strik eis in order-NEVER AGAIN.
So then we find dead iranian in iof uniforms tortured and they were good boys but no one gets to see them as these were the frontline terrorists of a new wave of horror and unimaginable animal behavior, not like us being the only democracy in the neighborhood backed up by the baddest on the planet…
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/8ed1f3c414f70cceeb87451d83b82e953976dac48d5ecd5431d6608f7912cc0d.jpg
On a dark October night in 1995, Netanyahu stood on a balcony overlooking Jerusalem’s Zion Square. A banner reading “Death to Arabs” had been unfurled before him. An inflamed crowd of tens of thousands stood below him. Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister at the time, was pushing for a negotiated settlement with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), and this was a protest organised by the Oslo Accords’ rightwing opponents.
In July 2015, Israeli settlers firebombed a Palestinian family’s home in the village of Duma, killing three people. 18-month-old Ali Dawabsheh was burned alive in the fire. In the “Wedding of Hate” video posted on YouTube:
“guests are shown stabbing a photo of the toddler, Ali Dawabsheh, who had died in the Duma arson attack. The same video contained scenes of guests, armed with guns, knives and Molotov cocktails, chanting a song with the words from the book of Judges (16:28), “O God, that I may be this once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes”, replacing “Philistines” with “Palestinians”.https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/6/2233612/-Israel-has-Unmasked-the-West
“US Thinks” is an oxymoron.
Seven countries in 5 years
(Today, what countries are left to destroy?)
General Wesley K. Clark,
about 10 days after so-called “9/11”
(Wesley Kanne Clark;
birth name: Wesley J. Kanne)
https://youtu.be/6Knt3rKTqCk
Today, what countries are left to destroy?
(a writing)
“A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm”
First neocon report calling for Iraq invasion and the “construction,” or destruction, of the Middle East. Delivered to Israel in 1996.
By whom you ask? Please read:
https://zfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/1996_07_IASPS_Clean_Break.pdf
Participants in the Study Group on “A New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000:”
Richard Perle, American Enterprise Institute, Study Group Leader James Colbert, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Johns Hopkins University/SAIS Douglas Feith, Feith and Zell Associates Robert Loewenberg, President, Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies Jonathan Torop, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy David Wurmser, Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies Meyrav Wurmser, Johns Hopkins University
The British Empire, the Anglo-American Empire, the Anglo-American Empire, and, presently and finally, The Israel Empire
Follow you will … I will … we all will …
Why?
You, I and all are only here to serve the Chosen Ones.
The Fifth Story by a Moses Deuteronomy 20:10-18
I know nothing.
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
Socrates, 470 – 399 B.C.E.
dennis hanna
1962 these guys knew that nuclear war was imminent but they chose to just make a song.
“Telstar” by the Tornados
they never even stopped smiling no matter how terrified they were.
Duck And Cover you dumbasses
Iran might strike Israeli positions in the Syrian or Lebanese Golan Heights which do not legally belong to Israel. In so doing, Iran could claim they didn’t attack Israel. That would be the ideal retaliation to Israel hitting Iranians in Syria.
And Iran could also hit Israeli positions in parts of Palestine that Israel occupies illegally.