Nevatim Air Base was hit again. This is the air base where Israel stores its nuclear-capable aircraft. It was hit back in April as well in the first Iranian retaliation.
Reports are that Israel's gas platform off the coast of Gaza was hit. That would be a smart Iran move: targeting the Israeli economy since it's already in the toilet.
Israel is claiming "Israeli and US air defence systems operated effectively". But you'll notice no one is claiming 97% of the Iranian missiles shot down, since the horde of videos make it clear they didn't intercept squat. Jake Sullivan is claiming it was "defeated" and since the MSM will never play those videos, the US public will remain ignorant.
Sullivan also says the US is coordinating with Israel on a retaliation. So looks like the US may get its war with Iran. I'm going to wait and see what happens before claiming vindication on my 17-year prediction of a war with Iran.
Also interesting is apparently there was some sort of ground attack in Tel Aviv, with two gunmen opening fire at a light rail station, killing six people and wounding others. If that continues, it will make Israelis even more nervous. I wonder if Hezbollah or Hamas has "sleeper cell kill squads" hidden away in Tel Aviv for activation.
The MoA thread's been very active. There was a report about Zionist troops being eliminated in Kursk, which if true would be very big news.
Here's the link to that info. It's revealed at the 6:45 mark of this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktchhxAsS7w "50" Zionist mercs were "part of the 84th Mechanized Brigade." There's a picture of mercs holding the Zionist and Ukie flags at the 6:50 mark. I wonder if any were captured, and if so if they revealed how much support the Zionist government provided them. The commentator's conclusion: "Israel is all in with NATO."
Last week Apti Alaudinov told that mercenaries from Israel were in Kursk. It was also told on TV Zvezda.
There are many captured tactical patches from VSU and also nazi Azov battalion with zion star. It is commonly known that Israel supports Ukraine. Very complicated now for Berel Lazar.
Has he come out publicly with a clear message about the vast difference between Zionism and Judaism? Would you say Russian public opinion is with the Resistance and against the Zionists or is that too hard to tell?
Zionism is Jewish nationalism, that is my understanding. Everyone knows what German nationalism was and can see what Israel is doing. Western hypocrisy about Russian military has highlighted it.
Stalin said some interesting things about it. Medvedev said some ridiculous things about it.
Lazar is in the clique that the majority despises.
Thanks for your reply. It's not normal, healthy nationalism like that within Russia. Zionism is exclusive and is similar in its goals to Plan Ost for the Levant. Alastair Crooke in his writings over that last several years has tried to inform readers of the fanatical eschatological nature of Zionism and the current Occupied Palestine regime, but few have heeded his warnings and the very detailed historical context he provides.
United Russia has consolidated power. One way or another it has swallowed everything and everyone. What has not been able to conform has been rejected or discarded. Like evolution, although nature is as harsh and sometimes more, it does not discriminate. This is not to say it is not successful and has not done very good work. It is, and has delivered many important projects it promised.
The majority wanted stability, understandably after the chaos of the 90s, and we got it, but an unsatisfactory feeling is common despite all of this. Of course it is very easy to criticise after the fact, so maybe we are just never satisfied.
So I will leave it with this.
They closed media and denied opportunities to distribute election advertising in Kostroma to the daughter of Zinoviev.
Although I know, to satisfy curiosity, I asked AI, "in regards to a constitution what is denial of democratic due process in politics".
Been watching the MoA thread. Saw that reference about Israeli troops in Ukraine.
I assume those are volunteers. Israel can't presumably afford sending troops outside the country at this time, when they're short of troops to go up against Hezbollah.
Elijah Magnier says Israel has 18 brigades, or 60-70,000 troops, in the north. With Hezbollah having 60-100,000, how the hell does the IDF possibly defeat Hezbollah with a 1:1 or less ratio against fortified positions requiring 5:1 or 10:1 ratios?
I conclude that Netanyahu is prepared to sacrifice the IDF in a bid to get the US to bail him out - or justify the use of nuclear weapons. How he expects the US to bail him out, I don't know, since the US can't send enough troops to Lebanon to defeat Hezbollah, either.
Beginning to suspect that Netanyahu has already decided to use nukes. Israel just said their retaliation tonight "will be seen by the entire Middle East."
I expect that as soon as a Zionist missile or airplane is discovered by Iranian radar that the next 1000 missiles will be launched as I don't think the Iranians are fools.
Very likely. However, as I discussed in my article, Iran does not have "thousands" of missiles that can hit Israel. My conservative calculation were about 500-750, maybe 1,000. They just used up 102-180 of those, assuming those were the same missiles usually regarded as "long-range".
Iran also needs to withhold some of those for attacks on US bases in the region once the US attacks Iran.
So there are limits to Iran's ability to keep pounding Israel with ballistic missiles. The will have to go back to drones once those are exhausted. Then they will have to rely on Hezbollah to do the bulk of the missile attacks on Israel.
We're rapidly approaching the time when Hezbollah will have to go all in on attacking Israeli air bases and any bases they have in Cyprus.
Iran has just said it can and will if pressed "raze Tel Aviv to the ground." Here's the full citation from MoA #460:
Former head of IRGC Quds force, Vahidi: if Israel respond; We will raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground.
The former commander of the IRGC's Quds Force: All countries in the region, especially Islamic countries, should be careful that we are in a sensitive situation.
We want peace and stability for the region, and at the same time, we do not joke with anyone in the field of national security. Whoever helps our enemy, we will crush him together with the enemy.
🔺 Tonight, we could have acted like the regime and struck to kill their officials between civilians area so that they could understand they aren't safe even in the shelters, but we didn't want to hit the civilians. We did not use the surprising part of our power, but if the Zionist regime makes a mistake, we will use all our power.
Well, sorry, but I don't take IRGC proclamations as gospel. Everyone always says they will destroy the enemy. Rarely does it actually happen.
Now I could easily be wrong in my count of Iranian long-range missiles. The usual figure cited, as I analyzed in my article, is "3,000". But that estimate I traced to ONE statement by a US General testifying before Congress - and what he actually said was, "SOME OF THEM can reach Tel Aviv." Not all 3,000.
So unless Iran has at least another 1,000 or more, I don't see them razing anything to the ground except maybe Israeli military sites - which is what they should be using them for anyway.
Perhaps. It's assumed the Zionists lack a missile delivery vehicle for their nukes, so they rely on F-35 and F-16s which can be affected by that EW system. To reach Iran, the Zionists would need to overfly all Arab nations in between.
The Murmansk-BN is one of the most efficient electronic warfare systems in the world. It is a long-range communications jamming system that has specifically been designed to take out NATO and United States high-frequency military satellite communications. It can be used to conduct radio reconnaissance, intercept and suppress enemy signals throughout the short-wave range and up to 5,000 - 8,000 km. It covers the entire shortwave range with frequencies from 3-30 MHz that are commonly used by warships and aircraft. The standard deployment time is 72 hours. The system is able to detect and support typical shortwave (HF) radio communications and interfere with HF radio communication lines in the enemy's operational-strategic and operational-tactical command and control units. The jammer is specifically geared at tackling high-frequency communications systems, including the High-Frequency Global Communications System. Citing information from Russian sources, onboard systems of F-35 fighter aircraft of the US Air Force came out of order due to the interference created by Murmansk-BN electronic warfare systems. US stealth fighters experience frequent failures of their avionic equipment over the Black and Baltic Seas. Electronic warfare interference systems of the Russian Armed Forces start showing a noticeable impact on US Air Force stealth fighters.
Murmansk-BN automatically scans over a large area. If sources of radio emissions are detected, the system’s transmitters start jamming in narrow bands, so that the enemy can’t exchange information. Murmansk-BN is capable of intercepting communications between warships, aircraft, and satellites. Furthermore, in both directions, blocking the flow of information from satellites to specific combat units. This is very important because the target reconnaissance satellites are capable of accurately guiding the missile to hit the target. The impact of the Murmansk-BN system renders the enemy’s smart weapons useless, reconnaissance and early warning aircraft unable to provide information about the targets.
Before asserting vindication on your 17-year prediction of a war with Iran, could you clarify why you view that as such a significant or unique stance? I find it a bit puzzling, as it's no secret that this has been a serious possibility for quite some time. You're hardly alone in seeing that risk. 😊
Sorry, you're utterly wrong. While there has been discussion on the subject for years, every single time I brought it up on numerous Web sites including Talking Points Memo, GoingToTehran, Antiwar.com and Moon of Alabama and others, going back seventeen years, literally everyone told me I was crazy, that it couldn't possibly happen for a host of bogus reasons.
They'd say Iran is too powerful, that the US wouldn't risk economic suicide if Iran closed the Straits, and other crap I've forgotten about. I kept insisting that any time in history two countries (three counting Israel) have this much enmity between them, they go to war. And that the Zionists and the neocons had no reason not to continue to pursue their goals and that those goals could NOT be achieved without getting rid of Hezbollah first and then getting rid of Iran. It was that simple.
The only thing holding back the war was: 1) the problem of Hezbollah being too powerful for Israel to defeat (and that problem remains), and 2) the need to find a way to blame Iran for the resulting war. As a third issue, it required a government in both Israel and the US stupid enough to actually attempt it.
All one had to do was look at the behavior of Israel in 2006, the constant attacks on Iran over the non-existent nuclear weapons program, and so forth to understand that this was inevitable. Brian Berletic has covered a Brookings Institute paper from 2009 that laid out this exactly situation in detail - every way the US could start a war with Iran while avoiding blame. I mentioned that paper in my previous Substack articles.
But no, everyone was too afraid of the consequences of a US/Israel-Iran war to allow themselves to seriously consider the situation objectively. They dived into denial, just as the pro-Ukraine morons dived into denial over the possibility that Ukraine was going to lose.
Well, here we are. Very shortly, denial will no longer be an option.
“if they have one “ indeed. I fear that the Deep State is going to advance their “continuity of government” contingencies in order to keep their ‘hands on their tiller’. I can’t condone an escalation of killings but I can’t help but be encouraged that the resistance has declared ‘enough is enough’. Let’s pray that this is the beginning of the end! Thanks for your tireless reporting Karl!
It's unlikely that Israeli or Western media will report how successful the attack was, but initial indications from videos taken in Israel indicate that it was struck by many missiles. The salvos Iran fired may have had 200 missiles in total, however reports of numbers vary. At a minimum, scores landed in various locations, including military bases.
Update: As predicted, no mainstream news outlet I can find in the West or Israel is detailing what targets were hit, other than some stray locations that were likely damaged by falling missiles that had been intercepted. In particular they don't talk about any military bases being hit. Whereas on Telegram (and probably other sources) you can see videos of the missiles raining down on Israel, with many impacts.
The Guardian calls Iran's attack "a military failure" because hardly anyone died!
This will worry the jackal states- all of them originally founded by the UK- in Arabia, who have been watching with a mixture of satisfaction and concern as Israel has attacked the people it fears most, the patriotic Arabs.
The satisfaction comes from their feeling that Israel as the imperialist regional enforcer would guarantee their families and friends perpetual power over the peoples that they exploit and cheat.
Their concern is that, should the Resistance hold its own their regimes will collapse like a kindergarten or hospital hit by a bunker buster.
The next move must be the stiffening of Lebanese defences by volunteers and the counter-attack which is long overdue.
Well, it's on. Despite the passivity of most of the regions states, the cycle is in motion. Probably to nobody's surprise. Israel will reflexively double down, until eventually US gets dragged in. This is inevitable, because Israel is a small battle space and doesn't have an infinite supply of airports, and the Israeli combat capability is held up by the air element probably 90%.
When US enters in the form of strikes on either Iran or Iraqi proxy targets, it's really hard to predict what will happen. But I'm pretty sure US bases in Iraq etc will become targets. A harassment level of rocket strikes is a minimum there. Considering the Blinken/Biden team's total lack of finesse, they're liable to reignite ground fighting in Iraq. US bases just across the Gulf are a wildcard, they're hostages. Local populations in US-collaborationist Arab regimes, which are universally outraged by now, also a wildcard.
Iraqi Resistance has said if the Outlaw US Empire gets involved--even overflies Iraqi airspace--it will attack all US installations in Iraq. As Crooke reported, the Islamic world is boiling mad, and US linked interests in that region will suffer boycott at minimum. As many have stated, Imperial bases in the Levant are now hostages, like the troops in Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar, and elsewhere. Qatar in particular is in a very uncomfortable position as is Bahrain.
UK sovereign bases in Dhekelia and Akrotiri. They are legitimate targets if used as springboard for launching airstrikes, as they did before against the Houthis in Yemen.
That's bologna. The 1864 election was held in the midst of the Civil War, and every election since 1940's been held amidst some level of war--in 1948, Truman had to invent a War Scare over Berlin to rescue his campaign and beat Dewey and Wallace.
The Iranian mission at the UN also made an announcement about the missile attack.
“Iran’s legal, rational, and legitimate response to the terrorist acts of the Zionist regime – which involved targeting Iranian nationals and interests and infringing upon the national sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran – has been duly carried out. Should the Zionist regime dare to respond or commit further acts of malevolence, a subsequent and crushing response will ensue,” the mission said in a statement posted on X.
Far more reliable and circumspect in my view of the Iran governments actual position than the other reported comments and threats.
Nevatim Air Base was hit again. This is the air base where Israel stores its nuclear-capable aircraft. It was hit back in April as well in the first Iranian retaliation.
Reports are that Israel's gas platform off the coast of Gaza was hit. That would be a smart Iran move: targeting the Israeli economy since it's already in the toilet.
Israel is claiming "Israeli and US air defence systems operated effectively". But you'll notice no one is claiming 97% of the Iranian missiles shot down, since the horde of videos make it clear they didn't intercept squat. Jake Sullivan is claiming it was "defeated" and since the MSM will never play those videos, the US public will remain ignorant.
Sullivan also says the US is coordinating with Israel on a retaliation. So looks like the US may get its war with Iran. I'm going to wait and see what happens before claiming vindication on my 17-year prediction of a war with Iran.
Also interesting is apparently there was some sort of ground attack in Tel Aviv, with two gunmen opening fire at a light rail station, killing six people and wounding others. If that continues, it will make Israelis even more nervous. I wonder if Hezbollah or Hamas has "sleeper cell kill squads" hidden away in Tel Aviv for activation.
The MoA thread's been very active. There was a report about Zionist troops being eliminated in Kursk, which if true would be very big news.
Here's the link to that info. It's revealed at the 6:45 mark of this video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktchhxAsS7w "50" Zionist mercs were "part of the 84th Mechanized Brigade." There's a picture of mercs holding the Zionist and Ukie flags at the 6:50 mark. I wonder if any were captured, and if so if they revealed how much support the Zionist government provided them. The commentator's conclusion: "Israel is all in with NATO."
https://dzen.ru/a/ZvabfMTYZy-VVA_7?sid=914328922409013785
Last week Apti Alaudinov told that mercenaries from Israel were in Kursk. It was also told on TV Zvezda.
There are many captured tactical patches from VSU and also nazi Azov battalion with zion star. It is commonly known that Israel supports Ukraine. Very complicated now for Berel Lazar.
Has he come out publicly with a clear message about the vast difference between Zionism and Judaism? Would you say Russian public opinion is with the Resistance and against the Zionists or is that too hard to tell?
Zionism is Jewish nationalism, that is my understanding. Everyone knows what German nationalism was and can see what Israel is doing. Western hypocrisy about Russian military has highlighted it.
Stalin said some interesting things about it. Medvedev said some ridiculous things about it.
Lazar is in the clique that the majority despises.
Thanks for your reply. It's not normal, healthy nationalism like that within Russia. Zionism is exclusive and is similar in its goals to Plan Ost for the Levant. Alastair Crooke in his writings over that last several years has tried to inform readers of the fanatical eschatological nature of Zionism and the current Occupied Palestine regime, but few have heeded his warnings and the very detailed historical context he provides.
What's your impression of United Russia?
United Russia has consolidated power. One way or another it has swallowed everything and everyone. What has not been able to conform has been rejected or discarded. Like evolution, although nature is as harsh and sometimes more, it does not discriminate. This is not to say it is not successful and has not done very good work. It is, and has delivered many important projects it promised.
The majority wanted stability, understandably after the chaos of the 90s, and we got it, but an unsatisfactory feeling is common despite all of this. Of course it is very easy to criticise after the fact, so maybe we are just never satisfied.
So I will leave it with this.
They closed media and denied opportunities to distribute election advertising in Kostroma to the daughter of Zinoviev.
Although I know, to satisfy curiosity, I asked AI, "in regards to a constitution what is denial of democratic due process in politics".
Smiles...
Been watching the MoA thread. Saw that reference about Israeli troops in Ukraine.
I assume those are volunteers. Israel can't presumably afford sending troops outside the country at this time, when they're short of troops to go up against Hezbollah.
Elijah Magnier says Israel has 18 brigades, or 60-70,000 troops, in the north. With Hezbollah having 60-100,000, how the hell does the IDF possibly defeat Hezbollah with a 1:1 or less ratio against fortified positions requiring 5:1 or 10:1 ratios?
I conclude that Netanyahu is prepared to sacrifice the IDF in a bid to get the US to bail him out - or justify the use of nuclear weapons. How he expects the US to bail him out, I don't know, since the US can't send enough troops to Lebanon to defeat Hezbollah, either.
Beginning to suspect that Netanyahu has already decided to use nukes. Israel just said their retaliation tonight "will be seen by the entire Middle East."
I expect that as soon as a Zionist missile or airplane is discovered by Iranian radar that the next 1000 missiles will be launched as I don't think the Iranians are fools.
This should be the case 100%. Their arsenal has to be locked and loaded and ready for any contingency.
And I am pretty sure that Iran has his back covered by Russia and possibly China!
Did you see anything about a phone call w/Putin and Netanyahu or was that just a rumor?
Rumor.
Having your back covered doesn't neutralize a nuclear strike. If a shield is to be used it must be between you and your opponent.
We may get to see that - if Russia did in fact deliver S-400 to Iran with Russian operators.
My comment was meant to be read metaphorically, not literally. :)
Very likely. However, as I discussed in my article, Iran does not have "thousands" of missiles that can hit Israel. My conservative calculation were about 500-750, maybe 1,000. They just used up 102-180 of those, assuming those were the same missiles usually regarded as "long-range".
Iran also needs to withhold some of those for attacks on US bases in the region once the US attacks Iran.
So there are limits to Iran's ability to keep pounding Israel with ballistic missiles. The will have to go back to drones once those are exhausted. Then they will have to rely on Hezbollah to do the bulk of the missile attacks on Israel.
We're rapidly approaching the time when Hezbollah will have to go all in on attacking Israeli air bases and any bases they have in Cyprus.
Iran has just said it can and will if pressed "raze Tel Aviv to the ground." Here's the full citation from MoA #460:
Former head of IRGC Quds force, Vahidi: if Israel respond; We will raze Tel Aviv and Haifa to the ground.
The former commander of the IRGC's Quds Force: All countries in the region, especially Islamic countries, should be careful that we are in a sensitive situation.
We want peace and stability for the region, and at the same time, we do not joke with anyone in the field of national security. Whoever helps our enemy, we will crush him together with the enemy.
🔺 Tonight, we could have acted like the regime and struck to kill their officials between civilians area so that they could understand they aren't safe even in the shelters, but we didn't want to hit the civilians. We did not use the surprising part of our power, but if the Zionist regime makes a mistake, we will use all our power.
Well, sorry, but I don't take IRGC proclamations as gospel. Everyone always says they will destroy the enemy. Rarely does it actually happen.
Now I could easily be wrong in my count of Iranian long-range missiles. The usual figure cited, as I analyzed in my article, is "3,000". But that estimate I traced to ONE statement by a US General testifying before Congress - and what he actually said was, "SOME OF THEM can reach Tel Aviv." Not all 3,000.
So unless Iran has at least another 1,000 or more, I don't see them razing anything to the ground except maybe Israeli military sites - which is what they should be using them for anyway.
I wonder how well Murmansk really works. Can it also work on missiles?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DB-bPuiypdo
Perhaps. It's assumed the Zionists lack a missile delivery vehicle for their nukes, so they rely on F-35 and F-16s which can be affected by that EW system. To reach Iran, the Zionists would need to overfly all Arab nations in between.
From an article:
The Murmansk-BN is one of the most efficient electronic warfare systems in the world. It is a long-range communications jamming system that has specifically been designed to take out NATO and United States high-frequency military satellite communications. It can be used to conduct radio reconnaissance, intercept and suppress enemy signals throughout the short-wave range and up to 5,000 - 8,000 km. It covers the entire shortwave range with frequencies from 3-30 MHz that are commonly used by warships and aircraft. The standard deployment time is 72 hours. The system is able to detect and support typical shortwave (HF) radio communications and interfere with HF radio communication lines in the enemy's operational-strategic and operational-tactical command and control units. The jammer is specifically geared at tackling high-frequency communications systems, including the High-Frequency Global Communications System. Citing information from Russian sources, onboard systems of F-35 fighter aircraft of the US Air Force came out of order due to the interference created by Murmansk-BN electronic warfare systems. US stealth fighters experience frequent failures of their avionic equipment over the Black and Baltic Seas. Electronic warfare interference systems of the Russian Armed Forces start showing a noticeable impact on US Air Force stealth fighters.
Murmansk-BN automatically scans over a large area. If sources of radio emissions are detected, the system’s transmitters start jamming in narrow bands, so that the enemy can’t exchange information. Murmansk-BN is capable of intercepting communications between warships, aircraft, and satellites. Furthermore, in both directions, blocking the flow of information from satellites to specific combat units. This is very important because the target reconnaissance satellites are capable of accurately guiding the missile to hit the target. The impact of the Murmansk-BN system renders the enemy’s smart weapons useless, reconnaissance and early warning aircraft unable to provide information about the targets.
Before asserting vindication on your 17-year prediction of a war with Iran, could you clarify why you view that as such a significant or unique stance? I find it a bit puzzling, as it's no secret that this has been a serious possibility for quite some time. You're hardly alone in seeing that risk. 😊
Sorry, you're utterly wrong. While there has been discussion on the subject for years, every single time I brought it up on numerous Web sites including Talking Points Memo, GoingToTehran, Antiwar.com and Moon of Alabama and others, going back seventeen years, literally everyone told me I was crazy, that it couldn't possibly happen for a host of bogus reasons.
They'd say Iran is too powerful, that the US wouldn't risk economic suicide if Iran closed the Straits, and other crap I've forgotten about. I kept insisting that any time in history two countries (three counting Israel) have this much enmity between them, they go to war. And that the Zionists and the neocons had no reason not to continue to pursue their goals and that those goals could NOT be achieved without getting rid of Hezbollah first and then getting rid of Iran. It was that simple.
The only thing holding back the war was: 1) the problem of Hezbollah being too powerful for Israel to defeat (and that problem remains), and 2) the need to find a way to blame Iran for the resulting war. As a third issue, it required a government in both Israel and the US stupid enough to actually attempt it.
All one had to do was look at the behavior of Israel in 2006, the constant attacks on Iran over the non-existent nuclear weapons program, and so forth to understand that this was inevitable. Brian Berletic has covered a Brookings Institute paper from 2009 that laid out this exactly situation in detail - every way the US could start a war with Iran while avoiding blame. I mentioned that paper in my previous Substack articles.
But no, everyone was too afraid of the consequences of a US/Israel-Iran war to allow themselves to seriously consider the situation objectively. They dived into denial, just as the pro-Ukraine morons dived into denial over the possibility that Ukraine was going to lose.
Well, here we are. Very shortly, denial will no longer be an option.
Thanks Karl!
I am totally depressed, more even since the start of the SMO, and I am longing for signs that this insanity will come to an end. Usrael dismantled.
Read Aron Misrahi, who lived in Yaffa since yesterday. He says to all his frieds within the colony: get out as long as you can!
“if they have one “ indeed. I fear that the Deep State is going to advance their “continuity of government” contingencies in order to keep their ‘hands on their tiller’. I can’t condone an escalation of killings but I can’t help but be encouraged that the resistance has declared ‘enough is enough’. Let’s pray that this is the beginning of the end! Thanks for your tireless reporting Karl!
It's unlikely that Israeli or Western media will report how successful the attack was, but initial indications from videos taken in Israel indicate that it was struck by many missiles. The salvos Iran fired may have had 200 missiles in total, however reports of numbers vary. At a minimum, scores landed in various locations, including military bases.
Update: As predicted, no mainstream news outlet I can find in the West or Israel is detailing what targets were hit, other than some stray locations that were likely damaged by falling missiles that had been intercepted. In particular they don't talk about any military bases being hit. Whereas on Telegram (and probably other sources) you can see videos of the missiles raining down on Israel, with many impacts.
The Guardian calls Iran's attack "a military failure" because hardly anyone died!
This will worry the jackal states- all of them originally founded by the UK- in Arabia, who have been watching with a mixture of satisfaction and concern as Israel has attacked the people it fears most, the patriotic Arabs.
The satisfaction comes from their feeling that Israel as the imperialist regional enforcer would guarantee their families and friends perpetual power over the peoples that they exploit and cheat.
Their concern is that, should the Resistance hold its own their regimes will collapse like a kindergarten or hospital hit by a bunker buster.
The next move must be the stiffening of Lebanese defences by volunteers and the counter-attack which is long overdue.
Authoritarians of a feather stick together. Stephen Douglas called it Popular Sovereignty.
Thanks for the information, Karl. 👍🏽
Well, it's on. Despite the passivity of most of the regions states, the cycle is in motion. Probably to nobody's surprise. Israel will reflexively double down, until eventually US gets dragged in. This is inevitable, because Israel is a small battle space and doesn't have an infinite supply of airports, and the Israeli combat capability is held up by the air element probably 90%.
When US enters in the form of strikes on either Iran or Iraqi proxy targets, it's really hard to predict what will happen. But I'm pretty sure US bases in Iraq etc will become targets. A harassment level of rocket strikes is a minimum there. Considering the Blinken/Biden team's total lack of finesse, they're liable to reignite ground fighting in Iraq. US bases just across the Gulf are a wildcard, they're hostages. Local populations in US-collaborationist Arab regimes, which are universally outraged by now, also a wildcard.
Way to go, Genocide Joe.
Iraqi Resistance has said if the Outlaw US Empire gets involved--even overflies Iraqi airspace--it will attack all US installations in Iraq. As Crooke reported, the Islamic world is boiling mad, and US linked interests in that region will suffer boycott at minimum. As many have stated, Imperial bases in the Levant are now hostages, like the troops in Kuwait, Jordan, Qatar, and elsewhere. Qatar in particular is in a very uncomfortable position as is Bahrain.
IRGC: If Israel responds, we will respond with a destructive below.
So you can say this was an appetizer.
Iraqi Resistance: If US attacks Iran, or Israel crosses Iraqi airspace we will attack all American bases in the region
Will Cyprus get hit?
Is there a reason for it to be targeted?
UK sovereign bases in Dhekelia and Akrotiri. They are legitimate targets if used as springboard for launching airstrikes, as they did before against the Houthis in Yemen.
The visuals in your reference make a mockery of the claimed interception rate.
We'll have to wait until we get data on targeting and BDA.
Continuing widening war ought to gift Trumpsky the election, if they have one
I believe that the expanding of this nightmare is partly to insure that Trump doesn't ever reach the WH by having no election
That's bologna. The 1864 election was held in the midst of the Civil War, and every election since 1940's been held amidst some level of war--in 1948, Truman had to invent a War Scare over Berlin to rescue his campaign and beat Dewey and Wallace.
His name is Alon Mizrahi.
Crossing the Rubicon: Is Israel Prepared for Iran's Response?
https://substack.com/home/post/p-149692541
A historical overview of the pivotal events between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon that have culminated in today’s missile attacks on Israel by Iran.
The Iranian mission at the UN also made an announcement about the missile attack.
“Iran’s legal, rational, and legitimate response to the terrorist acts of the Zionist regime – which involved targeting Iranian nationals and interests and infringing upon the national sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran – has been duly carried out. Should the Zionist regime dare to respond or commit further acts of malevolence, a subsequent and crushing response will ensue,” the mission said in a statement posted on X.
Far more reliable and circumspect in my view of the Iran governments actual position than the other reported comments and threats.