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Israel unleashes huge attack on Iran

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There were many many signs that this was going to happen, and soon. Last night Israel struck Iran, hard:

Not only did Israel hit over a dozen nuclear sites in Iran, but they targeted the country’s top military leadership as well. That includes Hossein Salami, the supreme commander of the IRGC. He has been confirmed killed in a precision strike, and he’s not the only one. The entire IRGC headquarters is reportedly on fire, with multiple officials dead.

Iran’s [two] top nuclear scientists are also dead, representing a major blow to the nation’s ability to restart enrichment at some point.

Netanyahu addressed the nation and had this to say:

“We can’t leave these threats for the next generation,” Netanyahu said during an address shared on YouTube, pressing that the attacks will continue for “as many days as it takes.”

“Because if we don’t act now, there will not be another generation. If we don’t act now, we simply won’t be here. We have internalized the lessons of history. When an enemy says he intends to destroy you — believe him,” he continued.

“When the enemy develops the capabilities to destroy you — stop him.”

A recent report that Iran had enriched enough uranium to build nuclear bombs within days was confirmed, a source told The Post Thursday night, adding that is why the strike occurred.

It’s fairly straightforward, actually. Iran has said for decades that its goal is to destroy Israel, and Israel has no intention whatsoever of being destroyed.

Secretary of State Rubio said:

“We are not involved in strikes against Iran and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region. Israel advised us that they believe this action was necessary for its self-defense.” …

“President Trump and the Administration have taken all necessary steps to protect our forces and remain in close contact with our regional partners,” Rubio also said in his Tuesday statement.

“Let me be clear: Iran should not target US interests or personnel.”

That’s a very Trumpian message: hands off the US. But I am virtually certain that Trump was not against this move. He wanted to try diplomacy – or maybe that was a head fake; with Trump, who knows? Now it was time for action on Israel’s part, and I believe Trump agreed.

Who disagrees? Quite a few Democrats:

Reed, the top Democrat on the US Senate Armed Services Committee, warned that the “strikes threaten not only the lives of innocent civilians but the stability of the entire Middle East and the safety of American citizens and forces.”

“While tensions between Israel and Iran are real and complex, military aggression of this scale is never the answer,” he insisted.

What is the answer, Senator Reed? Obama’s Iran deal? The obliteration of Israel? Do tell.

From another Democrat senator:

“This is a disaster of Trump and Netanyahu’s own making, and now the region risks spiraling toward a new, deadly conflict,” [Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut] warned on X.

He also took a political jab at the US president, insisting that Israel’s decision to attack “is further evidence of how little respect world powers — including our own allies — have for President Trump.”

Clueless? Lying? At any rate, the French press says much the same:

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, one of Trump’s closest international allies, brazenly defied his advice by unleashing a major military campaign described as a “preemptive” strike against Iran’s nuclear program.

The attack marks only the latest setback for Trump’s lofty goal set out at the start of his second term of being a “man of peace.”

Israel has been preparing for this for years – actually, decades. And as I said, I strongly believe that Trump gave the attack the green light.

The extent of the Iranian retaliation has yet to be seen. But this entire assault could shake up and rearrange the Middle East. Here’s hoping it somehow leads to the Iranian theocracy’s downfall – which would be a triumph for its people.

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Israel unleashes huge attack on Iran — 62 Comments

  1. Sen. Fetterman, as we might have expected, stands apart from his Israel-disdaining (where not outright Israel-hating) Democrat colleagues.
    https://x.com/SenFettermanPA/status/1933337901963903335

    Our commitment to Israel must be absolute and I fully support this attack.

    Keep wiping out Iranian leadership and the nuclear personnel.

    We must provide whatever is necessary—military, intelligence, weaponry—to fully back Israel in striking Iran.

  2. Looks like the Democrats have no problem aligning themselves with the usual suspects…

    Shocking, I know…
    (No wonder they believe that Fetterman is deranged!)

    AND, since one can always use a bit of humor to start the day…

    —“Hamas: Israel is dragging the region into open war”—
    https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409951

    And then there’s this:
    “Iraq complains to UN Security Council that Israel violated its sovereignty“
    H/T Israel National News

    + Surprising Bonus, if true…
    “President of Turkey’s daughter supports Israel“
    H/T Israel National News

  4. So before Israel hit Iran Reed thought that the Middle East was “stable”?

    What a loon.

  8. Trump ended the second Iraq war and regional conflict with a well-placed missile up an Iranian proxy. Aborting Obama’s redistributive change scheme was also a factor to mitigate progress and viability of the ethnic Spring.

  9. ‘Excellent’: Trump lauds Israeli strikes on Iran, says Tehran can still make a deal

    Says he gave Iran 60 days to make a deal: ‘They should have’

    US leader says he ‘gave Iran chance after chance,’ warns next strikes will be ‘even more brutal’; suggests Islamic Republic make a deal ‘before there is nothing left’

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/excellent-trump-lauds-israeli-strikes-on-iran-says-tehran-can-still-make-a-deal/
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    I’m sure Trump gave the green light to Israel. He’s playing it cagey, but he’s got Israel’s back and there’s no way Iran comes out of this with a nuclear program.

    This way Trump protects himself and the US from being cast as bullies interfering in world affairs. Even the liars, domestic and foreign, will have trouble denying Israel’s case for self-defense. (Not that they won’t try.)

    And the Iranian leadership looks trebly humilated for Israel to have defeated Hamas, Hezbollah and now Iran itself.

  10. If Joke Bidet had approved this attack, the media would be proclaiming him a genius and all the Dems in Congress would be praising him.

    Anyway, as long as the present govt in Iran is in power, the Iranians will just regroup, begin again to develop nukes, continue tossing $$$$ to Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis and in general plan attacks on Israel.
    China, Russia, N.Korea, will support Iran anyway they can.

    This is not over by a long shot.

  11. Israel and Ukraine, know how to use drones, and how to get them into enemy territory.
    I would not be a bit surprised if AWACS from US weren’t in position.
    With so many Dems criticizing Israel, don’t US Jews understand that the Dems would not support their destruction too. Just look at the 100 House Dems that voted against a resolution condemning the Boulder attack.

  12. Besides this way Trump and Netanyahu can work the Good Cop / Bad Cop routine with Iran.

    Iran would still be better off, objectively, by making a deal with Trump and thereby come out of this with less damage to their country and gain sanctions relief and economic aid.

    Not that I expect Iran too. But their leadership is also looking at an angry, desperate populace. They might recall how Mussolini went out.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Benito_Mussolini

  13. “They might recall how Mussolini went out.”

    Heh.

    Perhaps, yet I can hope they only do so mere milliseconds before the rope goes taut and the light goes out.

  14. I suppose that it could be seen as a compliment to Trump that the Democrats and the French, to name a few, see Trump as the controlling influence on every event, anywhere in the world.

    Personally, I am pleased to see that one more time the sun rose in the east this morning. Thank you President Trump. I do have to note that due to Trump’s authoritarian mishandling, it rose above cloudy skies.

  15. Amazing how the Dems keep putting themselves on the 20 side of 80/20. At least I assume the majority of Americans support this strike by Israel; by how much I don’t know. Their default position seems to be “if Trump did it , we are against it!”

    SHIREHOME brings up our age old question: “With so many Dems criticizing Israel, don’t US Jews understand that the Dems would not support their destruction too. Just look at the 100 House Dems that voted against a resolution condemning the Boulder attack.”

    I know Neo has answered this, but it still astounds me how a group that has been so targeted throughout history sides with the political party that doesn’t care, and may even want their destruction.

  17. Funny how Donald Trump is, at the same time, the stupidest person in the world as well as a Lex Luthor-level criminal mastermind.

    He’s Schrodinger’s Totalitarian.

  18. @JohnTyler – I don’t believe that Biden (or any other Democrat save Fetterman) would have approved this attack. Not only that, I believe that Biden or any other Democrat would have worked to undermine the attack up to and including leaking battle plans, as purportedly happened last year.

    News this week has been great for Trump. On immigration, we’re talking about his strength issue and not focused on overreach, such as due process problems, deportations that violate court orders, or the Alien Enemies Act. The LA riots are about meat and potatoes law and order. And Democrats are acting like clowns. Trump has been steady and gets to look sober in contrast.

    On Iran, I am grateful that Trump green-lighted this attack. It’s probably the only way to avoid Iranian nukes, and, as I said, I believe that Biden, Harris, or another Democrat administration would have tried kicking the can down the road again and then been shocked (shocked!) when Iran ended up with a nuclear arsenal in about a month.

    So, credit where credit is due – Trump has been steady on both immigration/riots and Israel this week.

  20. “France24” is as dishonest as Reuters. Trump’s remarks before the attacks were not “Israel better not attack Iran.”

  21. It is amazing that Democrats automatically hone in on the wrong side, now using vacuous, stupid reasoning (if it can be so named) on its opposition to Israel’s preemptive brilliant strike at Iran.
    Them Dems seem brain-dead. Dems are the anti-American disloyal opposition.

  22. It seems to me that if the Democrat Party has a future, it will be with people like Fetterman.

  23. @Hep:It seems to me that if the Democrat Party has a future, it will be with people like Fetterman.

    Fetterman talks about doing right by Israel, but his vote is still for Chuck Schumer for Majority Leader and he will not ever be in a position to do anything meaningful for Israel. He is still a progressive with all it implies and he still votes with the Dems pretty much all the time on everything.

  24. Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi (son of the Shah) is available. He wants Iran to be a secular democracy, and is very friendly to Israel. (He visited Israel in 2023, pre-10/7, and met with Bibi among others.) I know from friends who are Jewish emigrants/refugees from Iran that the Shah was very good to the Jews in Iran, as well as a good friend of the US until Carter screwed everything up.

  25. Something’s happening here… AI is being used to craft war strategies and plans.

  29. Regrettably, the Democratic Party has a future no matter how asinine are the stances they take. About 40% of the (legitimate) voting public would never at this point consider voting Republican and they have their ample supply of postal ballots filled out in the name of aliens and relict entries on the voter rolls.

  31. From Raylan Givens on X: “I’m starting to see numerous reports in Iran about citizens talking about ballistic missiles leaving the launch pads but crashing very quickly, or exploding immediately, apparently due to a malfunction.”

  33. Wendy K Laubach:

    I saw some footage from a drone targeting an Iranian ballistic missile, then the drone zeroes in, not to just on the missile, but to hit the bottom of the missile where the engine is.

    Awesome.

  34. Large salvos of ballistic missiles have been arriving to Israel within the last hour, many many intercepted but some 6-7 I’ve seen reported hitting in Tel Aviv and other places. The whole country is on rocket attack alert, sheltering where possible.

  35. Iran now retaliating with a missile barrage of about 100 missiles; most have been intercepted. I hope Israel now strikes back twice as hard.

    Israel has stated this is not a one day affair, but could last a week or more. So I assume they already have a second (and third and fourth) strike plan in place.

  36. Neo quotes Senator Murphy of the state of Connecticut:

    “This is a disaster of Trump and Netanyahu’s own making, and now the region risks spiraling toward a new, deadly conflict,” [Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut] warned on X.

    He also took a political jab at the US president, insisting that Israel’s decision to attack “is further evidence of how little respect world powers — including our own allies — have for President Trump.”

    The good Senator is apparently not aware that Netanyahu and Trump were pretty much in agreement. The apparent “strike-don’t strike” conflict between Netanyahu and Trump was, as huxley stated, was more of the good cop/bad cop game.

    In addition, by destroying much of Iran’s offensive military capacity, it would appear to me, at least, that the prospect of conflict is reduced.

    The good Senator previously had shown that he condemned Trump when Trump showed restraint regarding Iran while also condemning Trump when Trump acted towards Iran. Sen. Chris Murphy condemns Soleimani airstrike days after claiming ‘no one fears’ US during embassy assault.

    After Iranian proxies attacked the US embassy in Bagdhad in December 2019, the good Senator tweeted on December 31, 2019:

    “The attack on our embassy in Baghdad is horrifying but predictable,” Murphy tweeted. “Trump has rendered America impotent in the Middle East. No one fears us, no one listens to us. America has been reduced to huddling in safe rooms, hoping the bad guys will go away. What a disgrace.”

    Several days later, US forces killed Iranian terror chief Soulemani in Bagdhad. The good Senator shared his wisdom with us in a January 2,2020 tweet:

    “Soleimani was an enemy of the United States. That’s not a question. The question is this – as reports suggest, did America just assassinate, without any congressional authorization, the second most powerful person in Iran, knowingly setting off a potential massive regional war?”

    According to the good Senator, Trump is damned if he does, damned if he doesn’t with regard to the Middle East.

    Note that while in 2025, the good Senator predicts that Israeli attacks on Iran will risk “spiraling toward a new, deadly conflict,” his similar prediction that killing Soulemani would “knowingly setting off a potential massive regional war” did not happen.

  37. Hes a blithering moron to be charitable and an evil troll when he isnt

    He was all for the jizda (the proper name for the bribe to the iranian regime) back in the teens that malley had arranged through obamas offices

  38. I see that my Polish made brick model of a Nazi submarine (Gunther Prien’s U-47*) that I bought from an Israeli hobby shop made it out of Tel Aviv today before Israeli airspace was closed.

    I never imagined writing that statement.

    *Prien with U-47 snuck into Scapa Flow and sank the battleship Royal Oak.

  41. There have been so many Islamist deaths, these new deaths will only get 12 Virgins and all of them will be ugly as sin.

  43. It may be asking for too much of a good thing, but I gotta say I’m a bit disappointed that so far as we can tell Ayatollah Khamenei has yet to go meet his Mahdi dude wherever it is he hangs out. I mean, c’mon guys, splat that sucker. Time’s a wastin’.

  45. miguel cervantes:
    The absolute worst (Bernie Sanders comments on Israel’s attack on Iran.)

    Pretty much so. Here is another Democrat senator from New England commenting on Israel’s attack on Iran.(Disclosure: I am a New England native, but left decades ago.) Senior US Democrat (Jack Reed, D-RI) condemns Israel’s ‘reckless escalation.’ Murphy( D-CT), Reed (D-RI) and Sanders (D-or-I, VT) show their wisdom on foreign policy. (BTW, Jack Reed is a West Point graduate.)

    Those New England Democrat Senators’ opinions on Israel and Iran help show why I concluded decades ago that the most constructive role Democrats could play in foreign policy was to decide which ethnic restaurant to patronize. 🙂

  48. Any advice on the best coverage of events (most accurate breaking news) would be appreciated.

  50. Ynet is good which i think is israeli national net some x accounts like fuld jacoby et al, probably times of israel after that

  53. Gringo – one of the key proximate reasons I ditched the Dems over 20 years ago was coming to the conclusion that national security meant nothing to them except as a political football. Looking back it was right around the time Dan Moynihan passed, maybe not a coincidence.

  54. He also took a political jab at the US president, insisting that Israel’s decision to attack “is further evidence of how little respect world powers — including our own allies — have for President Trump.”

    Meanwhile, Michael Doran in the Free Press is arguing — quite convincingly — that Trump’s apparent vacillation on Israel has been a headfake all along and that Trump and Netanyahu collaborated in a great deception to lull Iran into complacency. I’m thinking respect might be in order.

    https://www.thefp.com/p/the-ultimate-deception-how-trump

  55. Joe lieberman who was practically driven of the party (who was a reform democrat) on the north east i cant really think anyone else of use

  56. @sdferr: Lee Smith in Tablet, “The Normal President”

    The first paragraph is great too — and true:
    _____________________________

    The main reason Israel’s massive attack on Iranian leadership, nuclear facilities, and other targets came as a surprise is that no one believes American presidents when they talk about protecting Americans and advancing our interests—especially when they’re talking about the Islamic Republic of Iran.

    Ever since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, U.S. presidents have wanted an accommodation with Iran…
    _____________________________

    I had a bad feeling when Trump laid down that 60-day deadline for negotiations. I figured the Iranians would just play pretend and spin the process out while they made a run to breakout a bomb.

    Well, they did, but they neglected to notice they were dealing with a real Jacksonian president, Donald J. Trump.

    FAFO.

    Which they did on Day 61.

  57. @Mrs Whatsit: Trump’s apparent vacillation on Israel has been a headfake all along and that Trump and Netanyahu collaborated in a great deception to lull Iran into complacency. I’m thinking respect might be in order.

    That’s my read too.

    His enemies keep underestimating Trump. That’s how he beats them.

  58. Day 61 might make a decent title for the docudrama movie on the subject, to be made around 2029 or thereabouts.

  59. They will never get a clue, even though he shows them the face cards

  60. From the meatiest article I’ve encountered on Israel’s strategy:
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    Echoing Netanyahu, his national security adviser also acknowledged that Israel was unlikely to be able to completely destroy Iran’s nuclear program through military strikes.

    Speaking to Channel 12, Tzachi Hanegbi said the overall goal of Israel’s campaign, rather, is to pressure Iran militarily into agreeing to completely dismantle its nuclear program.

    Earlier Friday, Trump said that Iran still had another chance to strike a nuclear deal after Israel launched its ongoing attack….

    Hanegbi specified that the goals of the ongoing operation, as approved by the cabinet, against Iran were four-fold: striking Iran’s nuclear program, striking its ballistic missile capabilities; attacking its capacity to destroy Israel via a ground attack; and creating the conditions for the long-term thwarting of Iran’s nuclear program via diplomatic means.

    Asked if this meant that Israel does not have the goal of “the IDF destroying Iran’s nuclear program,” Hanegbi replies: “That’s not possible. It cannot be done via kinetic means.”

    What is possible, he says, is a solution such as played out in Libya, South Africa and elsewhere, where “the balance of pros and cons” leads the leadership of a state to abandon its nuclear weapons efforts.

    “Only the Americans can bring that about,” he said. “Only President Trump. He is capable of bringing about what is described as ‘a good deal’ — the model under which Iran, by its choice, gives up on nuclear weapons, pays considerable costs, gets lots of benefits… That’s the diplomatic expectation…”

    https://www.timesofisrael.com/pm-israel-couldnt-wait-anymore-to-strike-iran-idf-confirms-hitting-isfahan-nuclear-site/
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    So it is Good Cop / Bad Cop.

  61. miguel – also Zell Miller, he and Lieberman were the last two honorable Democrats.

  62. Israel will pound Iran to the point where it is out of both offensive and air defense missiles.

    Then the B-2s will come in from Diego Garcia and deliver the coup de grace to the deep nuclear bunkers.

    As Churchill sagaciously noted, “Rubble don’t cause trouble.”

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