On Thursday, a funeral was held in Tehran for Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, and Iranian officials vowed they would strike back at Israel for the assassination of the Palestinian official on Iranian soil.
Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s parliament, spoke at the funeral and said Israel would pay a “heavy price” for killing Haniyeh and said the era of Israel and its main ally, the US, conducting “hit and run” attacks is over. “It is our duty to react in the right place and at the right time,” he said.
Haniyeh and his bodyguard were killed Tuesday night while sleeping in an official guest house in Tehran, reportedly by an explosive that was planted by Israeli intelligence two months earlier. He was in Iran for the inauguration of President Masoud Pezeshkian.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei quickly vowed Iran would take “revenge” for the assassination and, according to The New York Times, has ordered a direct attack on Israel in response. Khamenei led a large crowd of mourners in prayers during the funeral.
Back in April, Iran launched its first-ever direct attack on Israel in response to the Israeli bombing of the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria, which killed a senior Iranian general. Iran warned regional countries 72 hours earlier, and the US and some of its allies intercepted most of the Iranian missiles and drones.
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has pledged that the US would defend Israel again, but the attack could be much bigger. There’s a chance it could be coordinated with Hezbollah, which is warning its war with Israel is in a “new phase” after an Israeli airstrike killed one of its commanders in Beirut.
"the era of Israel and its main ally, the US, conducting “hit and run” attacks is over"
About goddamn time. Any other country (with the exception of Syria which is also too weak to do anything) would have trashed any country who did the crap Israel gets away with as a result of US backing.
As I've been saying, the Axis of Resistance has decided now is the time to both destroy Israel and drive the US out of the Middle East.
Yes
Ditto the heck out of that!
Perhaps the best time for equality of action is to wait until our government engages with The People's Republic of China with violence.
That is not going to happen.
Of course not. We'll use a proxy like we're doing in Ukraine.
Russia and China are just going to arm Venezuela or whomever.
It is consequential that China and Russia conducted a joint flyover near Alaska. Bombers and jet fighters. Russian nuclear sub docking at Cuba. Now Venezuela is saying they want to join BRICS. Hezbollah perhaps hooking up with Iran. Iran perhaps executing a crash course in putting together several nukes. Everything is rushing at breakneck speed. I fear for the economy and the value of our home. If we get involved in the conflagration that may come, even gold will be worthless. The maniacs in D.C. have no clue. The donor class has no clue.
The Ayatollahs Khamenie and Nasrallah should issue a directive to Israel to evacuate Tel Aviv and go to the south.
And then bomb the south, create a famine, tell them to evacuate back to the north, then bomb the north again. Rinse and repeat. It's all legal now.
Yep, RBO seal of approval. A small token (also strictly RBO) Nikki Haley will sign a bomb and Rachel Madcow compose ex tempore commentary … “oh, the horror” … delivered breathlessly … ascending to a crescendo in FreedonandDemocracy.
From what I have read, the Israeli population is moving to Central Israel, to get away from vulnerable North and South Israel. Money is leaving Israel.
What good would that do?
I watched a segment on Judging Freedom, with the guest saying that the South and North of Israel has seen citizens heading either out of the country or to Central Israel. The video showing the critical places in Israel that Hezbollah showed snippets of what the organization knows where the are has to have driven the IDF brass nuts. Then there are the chlorine and ammonium plants.
Rich with targets; and I’m guessing there’s some troubled sleep waiting for the doomsday.
Supposedly that attack didn't do $^*%, and Iran's response to Soleimani's assassination was equally impotent.
Iran talks tough, but they don't have the cajones to truly follow through.
If I may I add. Iran has balls the size of Gibraltar! They sure as hell do! They have held back from going into a larger conflict by simply telling the truth in their media. Now that is about as damn peaceful as it can get!
Relax kids, they won’t do jack. All bark, no bite.
The IRI would be wise to observe the success of Osama Bin Laden's playbook against the American Empire (tho they hated OBL so).
The key to success is the long game. Force the USA to ruin itself by over-reacting, over-committing, and overspending. Al-Q's dollar return on investment for 9/11 (for sake of argument, saying they did it) is estimated at 1,000,000:1.
If the IRI keeps US carrier groups in the Middle East, loans and weapons/ammo/antiballistics flowing "free" to the ASI from the USA, and American domestic P.R. spending wildly to manufacture acceptable "truth" upon its citizens, the US national debt and domestic financial woes will drag down 'Murica with little effort from Iran.
The two assassinations that followed Netanyahu's vomit in front of both houses of congress has managed to forge a bond between Shia and Sunni Muslims.
The Axes of Resistance are collaborating to recruit new members, to even the grounds & confront Israel, US and its vassals like UK, France and Jordan…!
Sounds like its time to high-tail out of Israel. Opps they're stopping flight service out of Israel. Well, look at Gaza. As they say what goes around, comes around.
Hmmm.. all I read is that Iran keeps “polishing” their arsenal of weapons despite Israel keeps assassinating wantonly foreign guest in Iranian and Iranians..
WWIII is not happening over this. Iran will launch a bunch of missles as they did last time, knowing they will all be shot down just to show they did something. Lol
Last time they gave plenty of notice explicitly to avoid escalation. I wouldn't expect the same courtesy this time.
I hope so. Make them pay. It is the only way to stop this. The Israelis have shown they will keep on killing everyone around them for decades unless they are stopped.
Indeed it's the only way…!
The Grudge is still there…! They're determined to kill at least 4 million Palestinians to equalize what they lost to Nazi Germany…!
Iran should keep doing what they are doing, and no ceasefire. A war of attrition, with prolonged attack every now and then, will grinds Israel down and out.