Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has told Secretary of Defense Lloyd Autin that Iranian military preparations show Iran is preparing for a large-scale reprisal attack against Israel, Axios reported on Sunday.
The report said that a new Israeli intelligence assessment says that Iran is likely to launch an attack in response to the Israeli killing of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in the coming days. Israel previously thought Iran might have been rethinking the attack due to US pressure.
Last week, Israeli officials discussed the possibility of launching a “preemptive strike” on Iran if they had intelligence that an Iranian reprisal attack was coming, which would just escalate the situation further.
Sources told Axios that Israeli intelligence believes Iran might launch the reprisal attack before Thursday, the day the US, Qatar, and Egypt said they wanted hostage negotiations between Israel and Hamas to restart.
Iran’s mission to the UN said Sunday that Tehran is hoping its reprisal attack will not impede ceasefire negotiations. “We hope that our response will be timed and conducted in a manner not to the detriment of the potential ceasefire,” the mission said.
The US is vowing to defend Israel from any Iranian attack and has deployed military assets to the region as a threat to Iran and its allies. Austin reiterated the pledge to Gallant, according to a Pentagon readout of the call.
“Secretary Austin reiterated the United States’ commitment to take every possible step to defend Israel and noted the strengthening of US military force posture and capabilities throughout the Middle East in light of escalating regional tensions,” Austin said.
The readout said the deployment of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and its strike group to the Middle East would be “accelerated.” It said Austin also ordered the deployment of the USS Georgia, a guided-missile submarine.
The Iranian reprisal attack might be coordinated with Hezbollah, the Houthis in Yemen, and potentially the Shia militias that operate in Iraq and Syria.
"Iran is likely to launch an attack in response to the Israeli killing of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in the coming days."
He should note that Haniyeh was visiting Iran as a diplomat when killed by an Israeli attack.
He dared desire peace. Let that be a lesson for others.
"He dared desire peace" not on Oct 7.
Tim:
I give you a “P” for persistence but would rather give it to you for efforts at Peace…
I give Timothy a W.
For "Whataboutism".
"Sure he was a diplomat, but WHATABOUT Oct 7th ??"
Thanks Uncle S.!
Israel's response to 10-7 makes the events of that day look like a tea party in comparison.
"What about 10-7?" isn't really working anymore, sport.
It is still a major factor in events. That is a fact Jack. Haniyeh was taken out because of his involvement in 10-7.
There’s none so blind as they that will not see.
The Israelis killed on 10-7 were mostly lefty Peace Now kibbutzniks, along with a bunch of techno-hippie raver types, think Burning Man. IOW my people!
One thing they were not was Netanyahu supporters.
Such a politically convenient, albeit suspicious, massacre.
I have no sympathy for Hamas, but Hamas is a creation of the Israeli Right, the golem created to destroy both the Palestinian & Israeli Left
Perhaps on 10/7, the golem slipped the leash, as is their wont.
According to the highly respected medical journal the Lancet, approximately 186,000 Palestinians have been “taken out” in one way or another by the invasion,
At least that many are seriously wounded, and millions have been bombed out of their homes.
The Israelis are running torture and rape camps.
So Yeah, Tea Party, and half the departed guests were killed by the IDF!
The Lancet article did not claim that “approximately 186,000 Palestinians have been ‘taken out.'” It projected that number as a possibility. The number may have been low, reasonably accurate, or high. It was a projection from analysis of history/trends/data.
The Lancet article estimated that 186,000 Gazans have died as a result of the invasion, in common parlance they were taken out, directly or indirectly.
What are we quibbling about here?
“The Lancet article estimated that 186,000 Gazans have died as a result of the invasion”
No, it didn’t. It said that such an estimate “is not implausible,” while bemoaning the difficulty of actually getting an accurate count.
If you drive a Lamborghini Countach down a road that I am not allowed to stand beside with a radar gun, it is “not implausible” to estimate that you MAY have gone as fast as 221 mph. But the fact is you MAY have gone 45 mph, or 111 mph.
The Lancet article applied a formula based on past statistical data, and VERY CAREFULLY/CAUTIOUSLY described the result of applying that formula as “not implausible.” That’s not an “estimate,” it’s a surmise as to possibility.
“In recent conflicts, such indirect deaths range from three to 15 times the number of direct deaths. Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death9 to the 37 396 deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza. ”
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext
So it’s a plausible estimate. What more can be said about estimates?
It's a "major factor in events" because in that feeble mind of yours, you think it justifies Israel's terroristic response. It doesn't. Terrorism is terrorism and what Israel has done since Oct 7th makes all other accused terrorists look like Boy Scouts.
And why should he have? Was Israel desiring peace? Gaza was an outdoor prison/concentration camp. Nothing peaceful about that and nothing was going to change Like I said, you kick a dog long enough, he is going to bite you. People like Haniyeh have exposed Israel as the real terrorists.
Thanks Carlton Meyer. Yes, we're Israel & we can never have peace. ONly endless war (just like the US).
Red flag #6 appears to be smoking gun proof the US and Israel (both Zionist and both Globalist) were the primary culprits behind the 9/11 attacks:
https://izraulhidashi.medium.com/dear-pro-vaxxers-you-might-be-taking-the-wrong-vaccine-3e92fd0e5fd8
The US was not behind 9/11. Take the tin foil hat off and taken your mental support drugs.
So you support Oct 7 action. That is OK, but quit complaining about the price.
Don't put words in my mouth asshole. If you treat people like shit long enough, they will eventually respond. And quit justifying Israel's genocide/ethnic cleansing/collective punishment because it wasn't justified in any way, and I'll continue to complain about it until it ends. Even a spineless turd like yourself wouldn't put up with 17 years of being a prisoner in a shithole like Gaza.
Every time A Hamas leader offer Israel a truce or cease fire proposal Israel goes and assassinate him . Israel does not want and never wanted any type of peace with the Palestinians at all. Israel is bent on conquest and expansion.
1988: Just one year after the group was founded, Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar met the late top Israeli officials Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres, and proposed that Israel withdraw from the 1967-occupied territories in exchange for a truce. This was before Hamas had built its armed wing, the Qassam Brigades. Also, in 1988, Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmad Yasin himself indicated a willingness to negotiate with Israel under the condition that it “first acknowledge the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and right of return to their land”.
1994: Hamas offered a truce to Israel after the abduction and killing of Israeli soldier Nachshon Wachsman. A year earlier, the Palestinian Authority (PA) had accepted the proposal of a Palestinian state comprised of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. Hamas agreed to that proposal.
1995: Hamas again proposed a 10-year truce based on the same condition of Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories.
1996: In March, after Israel assassinated Hamas military leader Yahya Ayyash in January, the movement offered a ceasefire.
1997: September: Days before Israel attempted to assassinate Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal in the Jordanian capital, Amman, the movement offered Israel a 10-year truce. October: After his release from Israeli prison, Hamas founder Yasin renewed the call for a ceasefire. November: Hamas again proposed a truce. The Qassam Brigades said attacks against Israeli civilians would stop if Israel stopped targeting Palestinian civilians.
1999: Yasin made another ceasefire offer provided Israel withdrew from the 1967 territories. In a letter to European diplomats, Hamas offered to cease all hostilities in exchange for Israeli withdrawal, evacuation of settlements, and release of Palestinian prisoners.
2003: In December, Yasin offered a ceasefire on the condition that Israel withdraw from the Palestinian territories. He was killed four months later in an Israeli attack.
2004: Yasin’s successor and Hamas co-founder Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi again proposed a 10-year truce. Israel killed him one month after Yasin.
2006: Hamas again offered a 10-year truce that would be “automatically renewed if [Israel] commits to restoring the full and legitimate rights of the Palestinian people to them within a final solution that matches what is accepted by the PLO”.
2007: Senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh repeated the group’s call for a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.
2008: Hamas leader Meshaal again offered a 10-year truce, which he repeated a year later.
2014: Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad offered a 10-year truce in exchange for the lifting of the Israeli blockade and release of Palestinian prisoners.
2015: Hamas proposed a long-term ceasefire in exchange for the lifting of the blockade.
2017: Hamas presented its revised charter announcing that it accepted a Palestinian state in the 1967 borders.
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/features/2024/1/22/how-israel-has-repeatedly-rejected-hamas-truce-offers
OK. So what? Israel is not going to go back to the 1967 borders and certainly not going to allow Palestinians to back and live in Israel. So most of Hamas proposals were not going to happen.
Of course, most of Hamas proposals weren't going to happen. Israel DOESN"T WANT PEACE. But "So what?" is all you got. You're pathetic.
He dared desire peace. Let that be a lesson for others.
It should also be noted that Haniyeh was a major leader behind the Oct 7 attack. Diplomat or not he was a killer.
So was George Washington.
A 6 year old could have led the attack. Israel ignored warnings and left those at the music festival vulnerable by failing to warn the organizers. So, Haniyeh wasn't the only "major leader" involved.
Haniyeh was one of the bad guys. If one leaves the keys in car that makes it easy to steal. The person who steals the car is still the robber. Four of the five major Hamas leaders involved in planning the attack are gone, one more to go. Like Bin Laden, it may take time, but Sinwar will pay.
Haniyeh was no more a bad guy than any of a large number of high-ranking officials in Israels own government. In fact, the likes of Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and Smotrich put him to shame in comparison. And once more you're hoping for an assassination of someone that you have admitted will escalate the war. What the fuck are you doing here besides being a troll?
Why didn't they kill Ismail Haniyeh in Qatar where he was living?
Because Qatar has relatively good relations with Israel and is sometimes a mediation facilitator in regional disputes. The Israelis either don’t care what the Iranians think or actively want the Iranians mad at them. They’d rather no piss off the Qataris.
You are correct. Qatar is one of the safe places for Hamas leadership. Turkey is another and I suspect Egypt also. But not Iran.
Yes, according to Israel the best place for Palestinians to live is in Qatar or Egypt or Britain or the US——anywhere but Palestine. That has been the Zionist policy.
Or they hoped to ignite a regional War with Iran.
Plus this:
US quietly reaches agreement with Qatar to keep operating largest military base in Middle East
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/02/politics/us-qatar-agreement-largest-base-middle-east/index.html
See Tom's answer. He is spot on.
Yes he is. And what he said wasn't a compliment towards Israel. Israel also allowed Qatar to send in cash to Hamas because Israel wanted to keep Fatah and Hamas at odds so there would be no chance of a Palestinian state. In other words, Israel is responsible for Hamas being in power.
Israel started the war in 1948 when it drove over 750,000 Palestinians from their land. They were barred from returning on pain of death.
Israel's 17 year long blockade of Gaza was and is an act of war.
In the 15 years prior to 10-7-23, Israel killed over 4,000 Palestinians in Gaza.
A Gazan child born in 2000 has already lived through at least six massacres (Operation Summer Rain [2006], Operation Hot Wind [2008], Operation Cast Lead [2008/09], Operation Returning Echo [2012], Operation Pillar of Defense [2012], and Operation Protective Edge [2014]), along with innumerable cross-border shootings, and the suppression of non-violent resistance like the Great March of Return.
Until the 1960s and the first wave of successful anti-colonial independence movements, Zionists were not ashamed to call their project colonialism. Established with the aim of creating a Jewish homeland in Palestine, their institutions from 1897 onward included the Jewish Colonization Association, the Society for the Colonization of the Land of Israel, the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association, and the Jewish Colonial Trust.
"Israel started the war in 1948" Did not Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Syria attack the state of Israel the day it was created? Yep, they did. And did not Jordan take the West Bank away from the Palestinians in 1948 and then annexed in 1950? Yea, they did that too. Did not the Palestinians try to stave the Jewish people out of Jerusalem in 1947 and 1948? That they also did.
Both sides in 1947 civil war and then 1948 Arab war were trying to kick the other side out of the land. The Palestinians destroyed Israel villages and Israel destroyed Arabs villages. . If the Arabs won, Israel would have been destroyed. But Arabs and the Palestinians lost.
Not even Haniyeh knew about it. There killers and then there are killers who are egotistical genocidal murders. Benjamin Netanyahu on top of the list.
"Not even Haniyeh knew about it" The top guy in Hamas did know? I don't buy that.
Not true. Haniyeh was the lead negotiator, a position he was given after the first negotiator was murdered by Israel. So, does Israel want to negotiate, to have peace when two Hamas negotiators are murdered?
Much ado about nothing. I guess it’s in Israel’s interests to have a war but not in Iran’s.
Exactly, it's a lot easier to grab land in Gaza and Lebanon, and potentially Jordan and Egypt than faraway Iran…!
One might be inclined to wonder, if they’d dare try?…
Ahem.
Much ado about nothing. I guess it’s in Israel’s interests to have a war but not in Iran’s.
I do sometimes wonder if Israel has dyslexia?… https://media4.giphy.com/media/VdbIkRC3fxV0h7LqOC/giphy-downsized-small.mp4
"Report: Israel Tells US That Iran Is Preparing a Large-Scale Attack" Translation: Israel Tells US That
IranIsrael Is Preparing a Large-Scale Attack"Israel Tells US That Iran Is Preparing a Large-Scale Attack" Actually, that's no totally accurate. Both Demo
crats and Repugninants tell the US the same exact thing Israel tells them. …Sorry. That's also wrong. We already tell ourselves the exact same thing Israel tells us.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0_kCS6Cy0dw
Alastair Crooke : Is Middle East War Inevitable?
Alastair Crooke | former British Diplomat
Worth every second and thanks for sharing the excellent post!
I watched it earlier today. A man that everyone needs to listen to.
Israel thought wrong…!
I think Israel should consider Iran’s ability to fight back?….
So far, they are using truth as a weapon of peace but they are easily mobilized and indeed, fortified?…..
Bummer, was it unforeseen that assassinating somebody in Iran would annoy them?
This on top of blowing up the Iranian embassy in Damascus on April 1 of this year. 16 people were killed in that attack.
""Israel Tells US That Iran Is Preparing a Large-Scale Attack""
Israel has been claiming that for decades now so at some point the US should choose a side.
wait,… choose a side? oh shit; the whole point of this nonsense is to sell more weapons to both sides. what
Capitalistic Warfare?…!
Plus lend both money, ideally.
So THIS time, the ASI and its IDF thugs pay attention to Intel. Whereas the warnings preceding Oct 7th – naaahh, it'll be fine.
Leading me to suspect the ASI is lying and they don't have solid evidence of an IRI attack. They just want the USA to strike.
We always seem to get our balls in a sling (shot)!
The US is probably the only country in the world that cares more about protecting the borders of other countries than it does protecting its own.
The GOP is the only party in the USA that cares more about protecting the borders of other countries that it does protecting its own.
Explain how our country was protected by Democrat "Border Czar" Kamala Harris? She was (is) a disaster.
Obama was known as the "Deporter in Chief", deporting more immigrants than the previous 5 presidents combined. His VP? Joseph Biden.
Did you read the question?
Agreed. To the extent that she was “border czar,” she didn’t do any better job than Trump, let alone Biden or Obama, of “protecting our country.” That would require an open borders policy rather than the Make America East Germany Againism of her predecessors/boss.
I'm calling it now, the Iranian response is not going to come fast enough, so Israel will be "forced" to launch a preemptive strike on Iran.
Certainly wouldn't be the first time Israel has launched "Preemptive strikes" against its neighbors.
It will hard to duplicate what they did in June 1967. That was brilliant plan. What made is more brilliant was idiots in Jordan and Syria deciding to join the war. Result, Jordan lost the West Bank and Syria the Golan Heights.
Eleven years earlier, in 1956, the Israeli military had taken the entire Sinai Peninsula from Egypt in a pre-emptive strike. They attacked Egypt in collaboration with British and French forces .
Really brilliant. Killed 34 men, wounded 170 men on the U.S.S. Liberty. The lands taken were illegally annexed, including the lands in the Golan Heights where the Iron Dome pieces landed on the school field, killing Druze children. I repeat Druze children. Druze are under occupation in that area of the Golan, and do not count themselves as citizens of Israel.
The idiots in NATO have lost all wars, but they are profitable business, so the profiteers won.
Like Rosa Luxemburg said.
"Profits go up and people go down."
Nothing has changed since she said it.
Is there any other kind for Israel?
And the USA did it in Iraq also based on lies only, another failed state.
Along with Wash. and all the hardware now in the region. Preemptive strike due to 'intelligence' will be the reason used to further pull the wool over the eyes of America who funds the ongoing atrocities and genocide.
Hezbollah leadership has said that if the war that Netanyahu wants does happen, there will be more than rockets hitting
Israel. Men, on the ground will invade Israeli towns. Shia and Sunni have formed a bond that has not been in 1400 years. Turkey may get involved. Sisi in Egypt is not thrilled that Israel has defied the Abraham Accords and taken over the Philadelphia Corridor.
The USA can't depend on NATO, riots could break out all over Europe and traitorous governments removed from office. It could be pretty bloody.
I'm growing weary of seeing the crap that routinely comes out of the mouths of the Israelis.
And D.C.
You have lots of company.
Iran's last retaliation against Israel didn't do much. Israel stopped 99% of incoming. It's hard to see what Iran thinks it can do? The truth is, Israel, at least to date, is seemingly all powerful. Even if Hezbollah, Yemen and Iran team-up, they will be on the receiving end of most of the damage. This is why Iran has been slow and reticent to retaliate in general. And even if an "all-out" war were to breakout, not sure what that would even mean? Unless Egypt also attacked Israel, which seems rather unlikely. And even then, if Israel really felt threatened, they wouldn't hesitate to use their massive nuclear arsenal. Not sure where that would end? There are no good options for Iran as far as I can tell.
The last revenge attack used up Israeli missiles, which cost far more than the drones used by Iran. (But the US taxpayer's pockets are bottomless, so more will be given to the Zionist hoodlums in Tel Aviv, which will deplete US stockpiles.)
Also exposed the origins of the defensive positions. In that latest volley of missiles from Hezbollah, the Iron Dome had some problems. It seems that Israel's adversaries have adequate jamming devices to prevent the ground to air missiles from tracking incoming accurately.
You must be in contact with Iran's military. How did you do that?
Iran's previous counterattack was deliberately attenuated in terms of ordinance and vulnerability. We can thank DC for that.
As for the use of nukes, it would be the end for Israel.
It would be a repeat or sorts of our nuking Japan. If Israel evokes the Samson Directive, all bets are off. Have you noticed the craziness in other areas of the world? It seems, to me, that we, the U.S. of Amnesia, have stirred up the collective world to go nuts.
Some 800 military bases all over the globe means some 800 targets. The American people should understand their country will become a target for nuclear missiles too.
Ther last retaliation came with an advanced warning to avoid escalation.
Israel is only killing unarmed Palestinians, mostly women and children and only know how to drop 2 000 pound bombs on shabby refugee tents and all that with the most advanced war technic, almost a year now and with unimaginable sadism they have destroyed hospitals, schools and churches using snipers with high powered rifles to kill anything that moves including shooting toddlers in the head.
They underestimated the Hamas resistance as the Americans underestimated Russia.
When they go down they will take the USA and Israel down with them.
Putin said, "there will be no world without Russia". think about it, Putin does not bluff, he means it.
You seem to have some cognitive dissonance going on.
If the Israelis under-estimated “Hamas resistance,” then they are presumably coming up against some of that and ending up killing only “unarmed Palestinians.”
As of January, Israel claimed to have killed 12,000 Hamas fighters; a Hamas official said it was only 6,000, but Hamas later denied that figure and hasn’t, so far as I can tell, since offered any substitute figure.
Thomas, you know better.
Does Hamas have tanks and helicopters and real air defense? Israel has ‘CLAIMED’ to have killed 12000 Hamas fighters. That is all you know, but the ruins of Gaza are visible, the genocide is real, women and babies and teens children are not armed and trained military, Physicians have reported the horrible medical conditions and amputations without anesthetics, children included. What does it take for you to recognize war crimes? What is wrong with you?
Hopefully Iran will follow through.
Rooting war Dan?
Perhaps a level playing field.
As compared to rooting for a genocide/ethnic cleansing/collective punishment like yourself?
Only the Israelis want war in the ME, because they believe the US is invincible and they will win control of the ME and a greater Israel. Hubris can move mountains, or not?
Well, it does look like Gen. Wesley Clark's statement re. taking out 7 countries in 5 years, with Iran being the last is about to happen. Just behind schedule, like Helter Skelter as prophesied by Chas. Manson. If you haven't heard about the 5 year plan, it's on YouTube and the web.
Yes, but I don't think back then they calulated that Russia, China possibly Turkey might present a bit of a problem for achieving that end but let's not be concerned about small matters as we are the indispensable nation, nobody can stand up to us and even though Russians are on the ground in Iran to help faciliate the plan and if a few Russians get killed, no big deal, Russia won't dare do anything. Yes, the U.S. and it's master Israel are just a bit full of themselves. Could be a real game changer coming along for the Death Cult.
Neither Russia or China will come to Iran's aid.
Iran won’t need them contrary to Israel that needs US in order to survive…!
They already did. Their interests are the same and they are reliable.
The USA and NATO are anything but reliable, they break their words and contracts when it is in their interest. And the corrupt officials destroy each other, see the pipeline sabotage. The people don't forget what corrupt traitorous politicians did to them.
Biden did a super job, sanctioning allies, destroying their economies, you could not have ask for more. Kudos to President Biden, for a job well done, from President Putin.
The megalomaniacs did not expect to deal with a demented Biden, and the demented Zionist idiots advising him, that would take common sense and a moral compass which they don't have.
IN TIME for the next election and to credit Biden while still in office. He worked hard to get to this point, credit where credit is due. Biden is an outstanding single wrecking ball, he made sure there are enough enemies out there for a big war. He will be so proud.
MESSAGE TO THOSE IN CHARGE IN IRAN:
All the hardware Wash. is sending to the region is costing billions of dollars, so hold off, because the longer you do the more billions will be spent. And remember the old maxim: REVENGE IS A DISH BEST SERVED COLD.
This clearly shows the Israeli regime is panicking. They had the forelorn hope that the US could convince Iran to hold back. "That ain't gonna happen." So now they're begging the US to protect them.
Yesterday Hezbollah showed them that they have zero protection. I don't know how many Hezbollah missiles hit some Israeli military bases, maybe 30, and the Iron Dome completely failed to intercept any of them, apparently. It's not even clear from the X reports I saw last night that Iron Dome was even used – since Hezbollah has already destroyed many of the radars and launchers in northern Israel.
This time the Iranian strike will not be mostly slow-moving drones. There will be some, of course, to absorb anti-missile systems from the US and Israel and their Arab allies (although I understand Egypt and Jordan are balking at being part of it this time.) What Iran will use is some of their better missiles – probably not that many, if they want to hold back their best for the all-out war – similar to the nine or so that were not intercepted and successfully hit an Israeli airbase in the April attack.
That's the way a world war starts.
The "Pearl Harbor" moment for a US war with Iran could have been the assassination of Donal Trump on July 13 had it succeeded as planned. The country would have been in shock and disarray and the Deep State and Fake News could have easily pushed an "Iranian conspiracy" to murder the former President. Here we are a month later and we still know basically nothing about the shooter Thomas Crooks other than his name, and even that is quickly fading from memory.
It's more like… Israel Asked for Help From US That Iran is Preparing a Large-Scale Attack…!
What Israel and the regime in DC tell us is propaganda, but it is most likely that Iran has had enough and will kick back. Why not? That is self-defense regardless of what who ever is in charge in DC has to say.