US officials have issued a threat to Iran, warning of serious consequences to the Iranian economy and the country’s new government if it launches a major reprisal attack on Israel for the killing of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
“The United States has sent clear messaging to Iran that the risk of a major escalation if they do a significant retaliatory attack against Israel is extremely high,” a US official told the paper.
The official said the US expressed “that there is a serious risk of consequences for Iran’s economy and the stability of its newly elected government if it goes down that path.”
The warnings were given both directly and through intermediaries, the official said. Back in April, during the last major escalation in the region that was caused by the Israeli bombing of Iran’s consulate in Damascus, the US and Iran delivered messages to each other through Omani mediators.
The US officials speaking to the Journal insisted the warning to Iran was not a threat that the US would carry out strikes in Iran but a warning about a “robust military response” from Israel. However, the US has pledged to intervene directly to protect Israel, as it did in April, and if the situation turns into a full-blown Iran-Israel war, the US would almost certainly be directly involved.
The US officials said they don’t have a clear picture of when Iran will launch its reprisal attack or how extensive it will be. The US and Israel think it could be coordinated with Hezbollah and other Iranian allies in the region. On Wednesday, US officials told POLITICO that they thought Iran might be rethinking launching a multi-pronged attack on Israel due to US pressure.
a serious risk of consequences for Iran’s economy
Ooo, they might add more sanctions! How scary!
At this rate, I think they mean more than sanctions. Sanctions have only made them stronger and more independent.
Once a bully always a bully
They are not even hiding anymore. They used to pretend they were all about justice. Now they don’t even fake it. Everyone in the world knows about Israel’s Holocaust and how the US is helping it. Everyone knows the US leadership are bottom of the barrel organized crime muscle of no sophistication whatsoever.
The only people still bamboozled about any goodness are some US citizens and the Israelis who I believe have a collective psychosis at this point.
The US is governed by war criminals, Israel's useful idiot servants.
Even Kamala's VP candidate voted in support of Israel, making him an AIPAC approved candidate. So much for that, not a hard decision to make for the Biden regime.
President Kennedy wanted AIPAC's predecessor, the AZC, to register as a foreign agent.
Maybe if the USA would show a similar concern for Israel's attacks this wouldn't be happening! Israel is not interested in peace, only power and more land. It's OK for Israel to do "revenge attacks" but not for those nations that Israel attacks? There's the double standard problem right there!
Upside down world . Lies are truths. Aggression is self defense.
We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.” ― Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isaevich
So it goes………….
Orwell in a bottle.
The official said the US expressed “that there is a serious risk of consequences for Iran’s economy and the stability of its newly elected government if it goes down that path.”
But we would supply you with billions worth of state of the art weaponry to conduct a genocide on a basically defenseless population largely populated with women and children. We will also turn a blind eye towards your reckless assassinations even though if something similar happened on our soil we would have bombed the shit out of the country that did the assassination in a New York minute. Plus, we'll also send you yearly checks of $4 billion (besides all those extra billions for your "wars") and give you veto power at the UN.
Is the demented president still in charge of the government, if not, who is? When will MSM demand an answer, that is if they even bother to ask?
Blinken, Sullivan and his Chief of Staff (Zents is is name, I believe), are manipulating the puppet strings. Biden has dementia, but he does not realize he has dementia.
The Biden regime is warning, threatening the whole world with WW III if Iran dares to fight back and retaliates in self-defense against Israel for an act of war they committed against Iran.
The US regime of war criminals, Israel's useful idiots.
"US officials told POLITICO that they thought " Really, they THOUGHT? That is funny.
The mother of oxymoron is "military intelligence".
google translation: Washington to Tehran, "If you don't allow Israel to murder your friends, commit genocide in Gaza, and sodomize prisoners in peace, we will destroy your infrastructure."
Nailed it!
The chess match is on. The soft underbelly of Washington/Tel Aviv is the economy. Iran should offer to compensate Turkey's oil export to Israel in return for closing the spiggot; itself close the Persian and Oman Gulfs while the Houthis do the same for the Red Sea and Suez, and Hezbollah destroys the port of Haifa.
That actually can happen at some point in the future…!
It would save a lot of lives and allow us to concentrate efforts rectifying the abuses and crimes of our elite and their legion boot-lickers.
If Blinken truly wanted to end this crisis, all he has to do is tell Iran that, if they stand down, the US will immediately stop sending weapons to Israel for a few months.
Blinken is a Zionist and never acted in good faith during the negotiations. He is a LIAR, Big LIAR for the State of Israel, where his loyalty lies. I doubt Blinken has ever read the Constitution, or knows what a Republic is. Blinken needs to be FIRED!
The Biden Zionist regime are traitors.
They deserve to face a war crimes tribunal and the death penalty.
To allow a foreign agent, Benyamin Netanyahu, to address congress, where he condemned people exercising their Constitutional right to protest, is, to me, treason. How dare our congress allow that. How dare our congress to give the man 58 standing ovations, the longest when he castigated our protesters, alleging the protesters to be bought by Iran, calling American citizens "useful idiots". Our congress, save a very few, is a disgusting cauldron of sewage. Sewage!
Who ever wins it’s The Zionist State of Israel first, second, third, fourth and maybe The United States of America fifth, maybe. We sought to bid for a Federal contract, one of the provisions was we could not boycott The Zionist State of Israel. Say it, who’s first, The Zionist State of Israel.
With the Zionist congress of the U.S. of A.
As I keep saying, this war was and is PLANNED since before October 7, 2023.
It is now utterly inevitable.
It was. The Israeli leaders knew of the operation one year in advance. It was noted in Haaretz that rave was given the OK on 5Oct, and was allowed to be on one of the routes that the Hamas fighters would take to get to the Israeli base singled for an attack. The military stand down. Other acts that essentially allowed the attack. All a set up to trigger the "final solution" to the "Palestinians problem". Nearly half of the 1200 who died 7Oct were taken out by IDF tanks and pilots of American made Apache helicopters. Frantic communications of the pilots, who went back to their base to reload, confusion as to what to shoot at (the order was to light everything up). The stories of Hamas fighters beheading babies, raping women was debunked quite early by The Grayzone. Months later, and after many attacks by media, Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate' were proven correct. Yes, it was a set up.
And someone threw the switch on the so highly touted Pegasus AI layered defensive perimenter.
They threaten Iran and then say that is not a threat. Can it get crazier than that?
Typical US Warning…! Would it be the same economic warning Russia got prior to their special military operation in Ukraine…?!
Warn Iran about Iran escalating, while allowing Israel to escalate. Riiight.
USA wants to enforce the NPT while always maintaining the ability to beat up any country with its insanely large conventional army.
Demonstrating that your country has a nuke will equal out the escalation dominance. I hope Iran gets nukes. Unfortunately, it is the only way to end the threats and force negotiation.
"I hope Iran gets nukes" You think that is a good idea? Oh well. There is a good chance that the US will decide to prevent Iran from going nuclear by a war. Do you want that?