British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said Wednesday that he believes Israel will respond to Iran’s drone and missile attack, which was a reprisal for Israel bombing Iran’s consulate in Damascus.
Cameron made the comments while visiting Israel and advising against escalation. “It’s right to have made our views clear about what should happen next, but it’s clear the Israelis are making a decision to act,” he said after meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog. “We hope they do so in a way that does as little to escalate this as possible.”
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock was also in Israel on Wednesday to warn against a major escalation. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled he would not heed the advice.
“I have just come from meeting with the British and German foreign ministers,” Netanyahu said. “I thank our friends for their support in defense of Israel and I say this — support in both words and deeds. They also have all kinds of suggestions and advice, which I appreciate; however, I would also like to clarify — we will make our decisions ourselves. The state of Israel will do whatever is necessary to defend itself.”
Also on Wednesday, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi reiterated Tehran’s warning that it would hit Israel much harder if Israel chooses to escalate. “If we had carried out a heavier operation, nothing would be left of Israel. But it was supposed to be a limited action,” Raisi said.
Iran gave the US and Israel plenty of time to prepare for its attack, as Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said Tehran gave 72-hour notice to regional countries. The White House denied that it received direct notice from Iran, but Turkish, Iraqi, and Jordanian officials said they did, which would have gotten back to the US. Iran also announced that it launched missiles and drones hours before they would reach Israel, and the US was able to intercept most of them on its own.
The US is portraying the Iranian attack as an Israeli victory, and President Biden has said the US would not support Israeli offensive action against Iran. But the US has also vowed to continue to defend Israel, which means the US would intervene if there were another escalation and Israeli territory came under attack again.
US officials told NBC News that they believe Israel’s response will be “limited in scope” and would likely target Iranian forces and allies outside of Iran. Israel has been targeting Iranians in Syria for years, but the consulate bombing marked a huge escalation since it targeted a diplomatic facility and killed a high-level Iranian general and six other members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
“The US is portraying the Iranian attack as an Israeli victory” Of course it was. 300 + warheads fired resulting in , zero deaths and just some dirt blown up. Now toss in that 50% of Iran’s ballistic missile malfunctioned in flight.
What else would you call it?
Put extra butter on your popcorn. Because you may just get your wish. Just don’t complain when Israel cries out Holocaust part deux.
90 plus deliverable nukes say otherwise.
How do you know it is true?
Those who follow nuclear proliferation say so.
Who are they? Just curious.
I see the people liking your comment.
The usual sick fake antiwar/peace activists.
Salud!
There is a lot of those on this website. They believe that attacking American or Israel is OK. But the when US or Israel hits back that is bad.
You are funny.
Reading your comments over time, it’s clear you are not anti war either.
Exactly what is “my wish”?
There are three camps regarding Israel/Iran:
Those who are anti war.
Those who are high on their own supply like Tony Montana about Israel has nukes and iron dome is invincible.
Those who want to watch a Tony Montana in a shoot out to see if he makes out alive.
Pick your camp, stick to it, and don’t judge the other camp until it’s done.
What else would you call it?
A warning shot.
Warning shots are not fired directly at the target. These were fired with intent to do damage and kill. The attack failed.
72 hour advance notice with slow moving drones and yet 5 out of 7 ballistic missiles hit the Zio’s most defended air base.
That’s a bitchslapping and not the last one they’ll be getting.
“If we had carried out a heavier operation, nothing would be left of Israel. But it was supposed to be a limited action,” Raisi said.
Damned decent of him in the circumstances…
Indeed … Iran does not intend to destroy Israel militarily. However, must be said that the tens of nukes that would fly back given a major bombardment have their effect as well …
The nukes President Kennedy tried to prevent Israel from developing. Weeks before his assassination, President Kennedy exchanged terse letters with Ben-Gurion, imploring him not to develop the bomb. President Kennedy reasoned (correctly) that a nuclear armed Israel would become more uncontrollable in the ME, more belligerent in the ME as well as toward the world. Iran needs the bomb for deterrent. The U.S. Pentagon has said that the only reason for Iran to have the bomb is just that, a deterrent. Israel waves its nukes at other countries, a ha ha to the world. The messianic Zionists in Israel is a pox on that country. A dangerous pox. There is a great interview on KPFK, The Ralph Nader Hour, with Mr. Nader interviewing Professor Jeffrey Sachs, that hammered home the dangers of the messianic Zionism that has taken over Israel. It aired on 14April2024. Another interesting read is this: https://michael-hudson.com/2024/04/gaza-the-strategic-imperative/ Dangerous times.
And 40 million Irans dead.
Muslims are more Christian than Christians.
I trust what Raisi said.
Our officials are liars, they can’t be trusted, that includes genocide Joe who must go.
Must watch interview with Norman Finkelstein, there is no stopping them, lunatics:
https://rumble.com/v4q23p2-system-update-show-259.html
According to Professor Jeffrey Sachs, in an interview by Ralphy Nader on The Ralph Nader Hour on KPFK , Israel is ruled by a bunch of messianic Zionists that are on a mission to emigrate, starve, kill all Palestinians.
From Michael Hudson: https://michael-hudson.com/2024/04/gaza-the-strategic-imperative/
Finkelstein is the preeminent scholar on Israel, IMO.
So true, fanatic Jewish Zionists and fanatic Christians know no mercy. The Iranian Shiite leaders are not fanatics and as far as I know they do not practice Shia law.
Do you mean sharia law? That is the explicit basis of the Iranian legal code, which includes a “Guardian Council” of sharia scholars who are empowered to veto any law passed by parliament if it doesn’t pass sharia muster.
Yes I meant sharia law.
Sounds like the Iranians have a SC like we have, the SC is empowered to veto laws not passing Christian value muster based on the Christian constitutional pattern as they understand it.
Iran will be happy to teach Israel a lesson.
Me too!
We know that, you little Nazi.
little Nazi
Unlike you, I’m neither.
Thank you, Don, as you are the star of our new drinking game here. Every time you make a silly comment, we have to down a shot of your namesake tequila.
It’s hard work, but someone has to do it.
Salud!
If you want a good drinking game take a shot every time someone uses the term genocide. You can be drinking all day. Which I think you do anyway.
I’ve thought about keeping a bottle of bourbon on my desk and having a shot every time I come across the phrase “under the rubble.”
Tequila is more constructive than you and Don combined.
By silly comments you mean, I don’t suck on Putin’s like you fluffers do all day and I support Ukraine’s fight for freedom kind of comments?
Yeah, get drunk. You are welcome.
I am going to drink champagne in a moment and I will be very happy to shove the cork up your ass darling.
Donna, be careful, a popping cork could put a hole in a man’s head. Don’t kill the little guy.
Don’t get drunk, you will miss the big Ukraine burial. Don’t forget to donate for the headstone. Have your drink later.
Too bad, looks like Joe Biden is missing out on a regime change, genocide Joe must go, comes first, the people signed a new contract with Putin again.
Iran does not want war. But they will be continually provoked until there is no choice.
And you will be the first to complain when Israel counter attacks.
pss pss, she is a self proclaimed “peace” activist but supports all these dictators.
Let that sink in.
May God the Father and. Christ the Son always bless and protect you, you sorry sack of sh-t.
Such a lovely word-combination.
A diplomatic master piece, Blinken could learn something.
Yes,they are quite able to kill tenor twenty thousand people .Britiain did not crumble under bombing,they firebombed Dresden. This lesson you speak about…-well Teheran for starters has 7.8 million people that might wind up melted.
NYC would make a good target and so would DC. Bombing civilians does not win a war it is all about killing civilians and destruction, see Gaza.
Dresden was bombed when the city was full of thousands of refugees, mostly women and children and old people when the war was over, it was nothing but revenge. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were bombed when the war was over. They are fighting and slaughtering in Ukraine for a war that has been lost a long time ago, actually on day one. What for, to make Biden look good and win his reelection?
Talking about insanity.
And I believe Iran did that with its recent aerial attack. It looks to me like a carefully calibrated exercise and experiment. By giving the Israel and the US and its allies foreknowledge of the attack, Iran explicitly challenged its antagonists to resist the assault. And they could not prevent some missiles from landing on the important strategic targets Iran had chosen (military bases).
It is as if you were in a verbal confrontation and the other person said, “Thirty seconds from now, I am going to slap you on the face.” And you prepare yourself to fend off the slap, and then it arrives just as promised. How humiliating!
And next time, there will be no warnings (that’s the unspoken message).
That is what Iran gave its enemies: not a physical injury but a humiliation. And a warning. Which changes the whole dynamic, although that message may take a while to sink into the stubborn prideful minds of the US/Israel cohort.
Positions of where the interceptors came from, the radars.
Nice way to spin a defeat. The fact is that Iran fired missiles at Israel and they were mostly shot down. And 50 % of the ballistic missiles simply malfunctioned. A very poor performance by Iran. And that is your idea of a win. Wow.
Mostly shot down by the US and Jordan.
Wow, Making shit up, I see. Just like very low potential 1730.
If Boris Johnson takes a trip to Israel, we’ll know they’re getting ready to strike Iran.
This article is funny.
Peaceful Putin asking Iran for restrain with Israel. Yep, the guy who went full Hitler in Ukraine. What a dipsh!t clown.
Surely there’s nothing peaceful about it and more about Russia’s concern with losing their current weapons shipments they get from Iran.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/russia-calls-restraint-after-iranian-strikes-israel-2024-04-14/
Salud again!
Wishful thinking on your side, no wonder you are so envious.
They are just better than the Zionists in Tel Aviv. In Teheran and Moscow leadership is competent and rational, they beat the fanatic Zionists in Tel Aviv and DC.
I cannot believe the media blitz in favor of Israel. Really. Through the years Israel has murdered Iranian scientists, hit Iranian labs processing uranium for nuclear power plants, murdered two ( you can bet Israel was involved in the murder of General Soleimani in 2020) Iranian generals, bombed the Iranian Consulate. Yet when Iran finally loses patience, makes a measured attack, with forewarning, the media goes crazy. I am so sick of hearing “anti-semitism” being flung all over the airwaves against anyone who criticizes Israel. I am sick of the complicity by my country in the ethnic cleansing, the genocide in Gaza.
Oh I feel so sorry for you. What you really sick of is that Iran’s attack was a failure and you are still depressed about it.
Israel breaks all International Laws, breaks Treaties, commits War Crimes and leaders of the “free world” play with themselves, that’s all we get.
“leaders of the “free world” are complicit committing the war crimes.
‘Cameron made the comments while visiting Israel and advising against
escalation. “It’s right to have made our views clear about what should
happen next, but it’s clear the Israelis are making a decision to act,”
he said after meeting with Israeli President Isaac Herzog. “We hope they
do so in a way that does as little to escalate this as possible.”’
I think it’s important to keep in mind that this is David Cameron’s public statement, the one put out for public consumption. And as such, it is worth looking at its mirror image which may better reflect what the UK/US position actually represents.
In which case the real message is something along this line:
“We have spoken to the Israelis and we all agree that an action against Iran is necessary. We all hope Israel does so in a way that escalates the situation as much as possible.”
Well, we certainly have, other than assist Israel in knocking down the rockets sent by Iran. We have sanctioned Iran, not Israel for bombing the Iranian Consulate, which as we all know is sovereign soil. The f*ckery in D.C. is overwhelming.
Clowns are in power, all they do is pile up in the funny car, being driven by Genocidal Manic Netanyahu, going along to slaughter more defenseless people. Cameron, Blinken, are COWARDS, weak men, who have no conscience, no morality, just keep lying and keep arming the Zionist to slaughter more children. When are REAL men going to stand up to the Zionist THUGS in Israel, stop arming them, stop allowing them to kill. Are there NO real men left? Is it time for women to put on a pair of balls and stand up to the Depraved Zionist? Who is going to take the lead here, it will not come from the USA, UK, EU, so WHO is going to STOP the Zionist Murderers in Israel?
All I can say is: “Duh!” Of course Israel will respond. Then Iran will respond. At some point, the US will respond on behalf of or with Israel – and then we’re off to the races.
That’s the ENTIRE POINT of the Israeli crazies holding a meeting under the Al-Aqsa Mosque before October 7 – to start a Mid-East war.
People forget that the Hamas operation on October 7 was called “the Al-Aqsa Flood”. Israel KNEW Hamas would have to respond to their intentions to destroy the Mosque and build a “Third Temple” on the site. Israel just didn’t know how prepared Hamas was for the resulting conflict.
The entire Axis of Resistance is prepared for this war. They’re been preparing for it for twenty years.
The war is now virtually inevitable. And Israel and the US will lose because the strategic advantage is with the Axis. It will be the end of the Israeli state and the end of US involvement in the Middle East.
Three lunatics talked and it ended as one would expect. Israel will decide and the others pay the bill.
Not my words but still…”Israel has become a blight to the world. The nukes President Kennedy tried to prevent Israel from developing. Weeks before his assassination, President Kennedy exchanged terse letters with Ben-Gurion, imploring him not to develop the bomb. President Kennedy reasoned (correctly) that a nuclear armed Israel would become more uncontrollable in the ME, more belligerent in the ME as well as toward the world. Iran needs the bomb for deterrent. The U.S. Pentagon has said that the only reason for Iran to have the bomb is just that, a deterrent. Israel waves its nukes at other countries, a ha ha to the world. The messianic Zionists in Israel is a pox on that country. A dangerous pox. There is a great interview on KPFK, The Ralph Nader Hour, with Mr. Nader interviewing Professor Jeffrey Sachs, that hammered home the dangers of the messianic Zionism that has taken over Israel. It aired on 14April2024. Another interesting read is this: https://michael-hudson.com/… Dangerous times”.
Israel has not waved nukes,they are well known to keep an opaque stance on that issue. Zionism is not messianic,it is nationalistic-once peoples physical lives are secured,they can live as they please. Kennedy was concerned about maintaining good relations with the Arab states,as the US needed their petroleum, and big oil was very powerful.