The Israeli airstrikes on Iran that were launched Saturday morning killed four Iranian soldiers, members of Iran’s Air Defense Force.
The Iranian Army said in a statement that the soldiers lost their lives “while confronting the projectiles of the criminal Zionist regime in order to safeguard the security of Iran and prevent harm to the Iranian nation and interests.”
The Iranian military said the Israeli attack hit bases in three Iranian provinces: Ilam, Khuzestan, and Tehran. The New York Times and other Western media outlets reported that the Israeli strikes destroyed several air defense systems, but the Iranian military only confirmed that some radar systems were damaged and said it successfully countered the attack.
“Thanks to the timely performance of the country’s air defenses, the attacks caused limited damage, and a few radar systems were damaged,” the Iranian military said, according to Al Jazeera.
It’s unclear at this point if Iran will retaliate and launch another missile attack on Israel. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Sunday that Iran doesn’t seek war but warned there would be some sort of response.
“We do not seek war but we will defend the rights of our nation and country,” Pezeshkian said. He added that Iran “will give an appropriate response to the aggression of the Zionist regime.”
Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said Iranian officials will determine how to respond. “How to convey this power and resolve of the Iranian nation to the Zionist regime is for our officials to determine, and what is in the best interest of the nation and the country should be done,” he said.
The US has backed Israel’s attack on Iran, saying it has the right to “self-defense.” Pentagon officials told NBC News there was no direct US involvement in the strikes, but the US did support the attack by deploying a THAAD air defense system to Israel, vowing to defend Israel from any retaliation, and continuing to supply military aid.
The Israeli attack came after Iran fired nearly 200 ballistic missiles at Israel on October 1 in response to a series of Israeli escalations in the region, including the killing of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, while he was visiting Tehran. The Iranian attack killed one Palestinian in the West Bank, who was hit by shrapnel, and damaged some Iranian military sites.
Israel is testing the limits of everyone’s patience!…
Israel is losing by “winning”. Never again will they be seen as victims. As for Iran, Russia, China. When your opponents are destroying themselves by their own hubris, don’t interrupt.
Israel is able to listen in on communications from Iran to Hezbollah and vice versa. Why hasn't the two done what we did during WWII? Remember the code talkers? The Japanese army could not decipher the code (language) of the Navajo code talkers. Could a similar strategy be availed by Iran?
The various dialects and sub-dialects of the region are fairly well understood these days lots if cross fertilization and cognates.
For example – plenty of experts conclude Hebrew is a dialect of Arabic.
It would indeed be interesting if a 5,000-year-old language was a dialect of a 1,500-year-old language.
See what Chris wrote below. What the Likud speaks is most definitely not a 5,000 year old language.
Modern Hebrew as concocted for Israel (eradicating a variety of venerable Jewish languages more effectively than Hitler did – no one damages Judaism quite like Zionists) is not ancient Hebrew. Modern Hebrew for the giant cosplay con that is Israel was lacking massive amounts of vocabulary as one could imagine when drawing from 2000+ year old religious texts as a language source. (And at that ~2300-3000 years is more likely the range of Torah Hebrew than 5,000; both Judaism and Christianity have done some serious backdating of the texts not to be taken seriously.)
Imagine trying to have a marketing meeting for a rollerblade company that wants to advertise on the Cartoon Network solely using Latin you pulled from Catholic mass prior to Vatican II. That was what Israel faced in trying to erase the Yiddish etc the population actually spoke. So among other things the creators of the modern spoken language pulled heavily from the closest extant living language, ironically Palestinian Arabic. There are I understand a few children out there with hardcore Trekker parents who were raised speaking Klingon too.
Check out the "Revival" portion of the Wikipedia entry for modern Hebrew: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_Hebrew
I think much of the Old Testament was written 9th to 4th century BCE; very little of the OT contemporaneous with its subject matter. The New Testament content is late 1st to 3rd century CE. Recognizing as well that just under half of Paul's letters in the NT, and the Book of Daniel in the OT (if not others) are known to be forgeries.
Additionally, there are no original manuscripts for any of the books, particularly the gospels, which are anonymous (only attributed to M M L by church tradition) tho "John", as the last one written may have better attribution.
Archaeology and historical scholarship, as well as comparative literature, do not find evidence to support either the biblical narratives OR their authorship at the time of events.
Fun fact – the mythology of the constellation Pleiades may date back 100,000 years, making it humanity's oldest known story.
Thank you Chris for illuminating the language topic. Solid points
BTW – Yiddidh is considered a dialect of German by many experts.
Yiddish vocabulary is largely German/-ic but the origins of it grammatically are mired in politics (back to Zionism again!) and competing linguists. We have also a western and eastern Yiddish which according to who you throw in with developed largely independently and merged, or didn’t. You can get deep in the weeds on that with geneticists and linguists tussling over who came from where, when… with the unusual stakes of any credibility at all for Zionist claims on the line. Most disturbing to the Zionist project are the claims (largely from argument-minority Israeli doctorate holders in both areas!) are the hypotheses related to Turkic-Slavic origins of Yiddish grammar, a line of argument which presumes mass conversion of Turkic then subsequent Caucasian/Europeans to Judaism, knocking the legs further out from under a land claim in the Levant. Oddly the two places to read about any of this are from (quite brave and honest and smart) Israelis themselves or… American anti-Semite troll sites. I can recommend the Shlomo Sand bestseller “Invention of…” for some insight.
Isn’t Slavic grammar a basic Latin foundation ?
Thanks for your nuanced answers.
Old Slavic and proto-Slavic languages and Latin presumably have common Indo-European origins, there are some competing linguistics and anthropology based arguments also as to where exactly in Eurasia the origins of that mother language in turn were, including some more complex hypotheses involving time and distance separations and re-combination through contact of differing dialects through time. There are very interesting YouTube videos that give a run down of the competing hypotheses.
Hebrew and Arabic are both ancient Semitic languages and have a lot of root words in common …
In 2006 Hezbollah cracked the IDF's communications and were able to hear IDF movement orders.
Much of what Hezbollah is doing is via hardwired landline, similar to Hamas's system. Also most of the Hezbollah units currently fighting in Southern Lebanon are local units assigned to the villages currently under threat who don't need instructions from Hezbollah higher command.
Plus I doubt Hezbollah and Iran are communicating much over the air in this situation – mostly likely just sending couriers as needed for major coordination.
Any phone calls are probably coded and you can't "crack" a verbal code without a lot of such calls to work with by analyzing what actions result after the calls. If you then change the code to the next one on the list, bingo – the IDF gets nothing.
Wars of attrition are not Israel's forte. That's why both Hamas and Hezbollah are still fighting after all these months and years. Iran can just bide their time and wait for Israel's economy to tank and its overextended army to cry ENOUGH!
Meanwhile, back at the genocide…..
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/10/27/a-stunning-de-capitation-the-netanyahu-madness/
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There would most likely be no direct response from Iran…! But there will be increasing attacks from Hezbollah to Israeli military bases as well as infrastructure and to some surprising facilities with Israeli soldiers to revenge the four non IRGC operators killed…!
I am thinking that the Iranian response may be in the form of a successful nuclear weapon test.
Zero chance.
A Second One…!
So far, in world history, thee ONLY PURE EVIL "nation" to do nukes is guess who?
Hardly a word on Ukraine on Anti-war, why not?
I still say something is wrong with the Israeli strike. It made no sense at all. I suspect that either the "retaliation" is not over – other methods may be used – or future provocations are being planned.
Israel and the neocons are not giving up on getting a US-Iran war. This isn't remotely over.
Agreed
Yes, and I think that's why Iran has not retaliated, they don't want to fall into the trap
RSH: a US-Iran war.
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What number usa War of Aggression will that be, 4hundred and what?
Apparently the Likud planned a 3 wave strike, but after the failure of the first wave, the 2nd and 3rd waves were called back. TBD
What did Iran expect would happen after they launched missiles at Israel? What did the Israelis expect would happen after their last provocation? Seems like an endless cycle. There isn't much the U.S. can do to effect the situation. If Iran and Israel wish to turn that section of the world into a radioactive crater, there's not much we can do about it. Any move the U.S. makes will probably have unintended consequences that only make matters worse.
There isn't much the U.S. can do to effect the situation.
That's utterly ridiculous.
You over estimate the power that the U.S. has to affect the Middle East.
That's funny.
As Iran do not have nuclear weapons, it would be Israel turning places into radioactive craters.
Right now they don’t.
Iran has shown tremendous restraint.
Yes. I supect Israeli gov't members find that unnerving
For what it's worth, Khuzestan, bordering Iraq and the Gulf, has a large Arab population unusual for Iran (one that was in revolt c. 1980) and suffered heavily during the Iran-Iraq war. I'm sure the neocon/Israeli (redundant) playbook would include stirring up any possible trouble there they can.
This attack was an utter failure, and the IAF dared not to enter Iranian airspace, but chose to hide in Iraqi airspace. All of the video footage shows that this attack was nothing, but unfortunately several Iranians died.
At this point Iran should arm Hezbollah to the teeth with anti aircraft weapons to terminate all of the death from the sky coming from the ZDC.
I am surprised that the IDF warplanes made it out without losses. Leading me to wonder if the IRI is employing a Coventry Strategem – intentionally not using its knowledge of F-35 weaknesses and/or the full extent of its own AA capabilities in order to lull the IDF into overconfidence and goad a bigger or all-out attack by the ASI.
Additionally – I am annoyed that modern conflicts (Ukraine & NATO vs. Russian Federation; ASI vs. IRI; ASI vs. Hezbolla'ah) do this mincey-prancey dance around open warfare with each other. It's like two brawny idiots lipping each other off in front of a cop, trying to tempt the other into throwing the "official" first punch so the guy on the receiving end doesn't get arrested.
But in geopolitics, there IS no cop about to step in and reprimand. In NO circumstances is there a higher power with the authority or the might to jump in on the aggressor and say "Okay, Boy-o, off to the clink with ye.". Not even the USA could "arrest" Hez, the RF, the IRI if they launched total war against their regional foe.
So why this idiotic dance ? Does it telegraph that neither side(s) actually WANT to commit to what they act like they want ? Have we cause for hope ??