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  1. If I was Iran then I would take Netanyahu’s promise of revenge at face value and launch a preemptive attack first WITHOUT ANY WARNING TO THE USA

    There is no use waiting until half your ballistic missiles are put out of action. The timidity of the Ayatollah’s regime, like that of Hezbollah is counter productive.

    Don’t poke the tiger

    1. @ Tony greenstein: Iran is trying to tread carefully. If it launches an all-out attack it will likely draw the US into a war on Israel’s side. That could devastate Iran. Unlike Bibi, who is hellbent on regional war, Iran is trying to assert itself without sticking its neck out too far. It understands that whatever its capabilities, it cannot match the combined military arsenal of both Israel and the US.

  2. Starmer’s Government Complicit In Gaza Genocide 

    In 1996 neoconservatives led by Richard Perle produced the policy paper titled “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” for the attention of then-Israeli PM, the Likud party’s Benjamin Netanyahu.

    | UK Intelligence liaison | GCHQ – NSA – Unit 8200 …
    war atrocities murdering civilians  … committing ugly war crimes including torture until death follows.

    Keir Starmer’s 100 spy flights over Gaza for Israel

    The intelligence-gathering flights began in December under the previous Tory government.

    Eleven flights took place in Labour’s first week in power, and during Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s first full month in office in August, the Royal Air Force (RAF) flew 42 flights over Gaza.

    Declassified UK found that the flights were departing from Britain’s air base in Cyprus. The flights may have gathered up to 500 hours of footage of Gaza.

    Israeli forces fire on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon | UN News – 10 Oct 2024 |
    https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/10/1155551

    Members of the elitist western empire have threatened the ICC in The Hague and the specific judges and prosecutors in the responsible role of their decision on arrest warrants for alleged genocidal acts under the leadership of PM Netanyahu and Defense minister (minister of war) Gallant.

    Their silence is deafening and undermines the United National and the very critical UN Charter. The world weeps with the Palestinians …

    ICC A Political Tool of the Empire?

    The title could have read: “America’s Revenge On the Islamic State of Iran”

  3. Bidenomics is Maga for thinking people

    Opinion piece in The Guardian …
    Analysis is close, in the right direction, but not quite there …

    Facing war in the Middle East and Ukraine, the US looks feeble. But is it just an act?
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/10/war-middle-east-ukraine-us-feeble-biden-trump

    Has been clear to me from the early months of the Biden-VP Who? administration. AmericaFirst! 🇺🇸

    🇺🇸 Biden’s ’Multilateralism’ Amounts To AmericaFirst!! | 25 March 2021 |
    🇩🇪 Deglobalization: US Attack On Europe’s Heart | 23 Dec 2022 |

    Joe’s Hail Mary pass late in the game … an attack on Iran would be helpful to support Zelenskyy’s “Victory Plan” to get Russia on its knees.

  4. Are you really referring to Joe Biden himself in the article or to his puppeteers (e.g. Blinken and Sullivan)?
    It is very obvious from several videos that Joe Biden has senile dementia and thus he cannot even decide what to have for breakfast, imagine if he can take any decision about the situation in the Middle East!

    Secondly, I hardly believe that there are deep fractures between Israeli and American leadership. Their words cannot be taken at face value. How long have US officers and diplomats saying that they are reaching a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas and what have they achieved so far? Nothing! They are just buying time for Israel. There may be some disagreements, but not as deep as you think. If the US leadership wanted to end the war in the MIddle East, they could do it very easily by just stopping the flow of weapons and ammunition to Israel and removing their diplomatic cover of Israel at international institution (ICC, ICJ and UNSC), then Israel would stop its indiscriminate destructive actions immediately. Instead they keep supporting the genocidal Israeli leadership.

  5. Late in the game, option was published by Karim Khan himself …

    Israel files ICC petition challenging potential arrest warrants against PM, Gallant | TOI – 20 Sept 2024 |

    Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has said that Israel’s defense of complementarity — the principle that bodies like the International Criminal Court in The Hague can only get involved when national legal systems fail to carry out their duties — “can only be realized” with a state commission of inquiry,  the establishment of which has been rejected by Netanyahu.

    Earlier this month, it was reported that Justice Minister Yariv Levin, acting at the behest of Netanyahu, asked Baharav-Miara to open a criminal probe into the premier and Gallant regarding the Gaza war in an effort to circumvent the request for arrest warrants.

    The powerful operate in mode of impunity 🤬

  6. Building a Regional Superpower in a New Middle East

    Secretary of State Antony Blinken declines to identify ’red line’ for [military] aid to Israel | 12 May 2024 |

    Today on regional war with its neighbours and impunity for Israel to do what is “needed” …

    The Jewish State of Israel as last stand for the United States in the Middle east.

    ((youtube gOmgK1ZpcT4))

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOmgK1ZpcT4

    Blinken: Future of Lebanon Depends on Its Citizens | Full Statement | AC1C

    In a press conference, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken emphasizes that Lebanon’s future lies in the hands of its people, calling for diplomatic efforts to ensure peace and stability. He highlights the ongoing challenges posed by Hezbollah’s influence in Lebanon, the need for diplomatic resolutions, and international support to address Lebanon’s political and security concerns. Blinken reiterates the importance of protecting civilians amidst the region’s conflicts and stresses that key decisions must be made by the Lebanese people themselves.

    Reiterating the words from Bibi Netanyahu, it is up to the Lebanese to rid themselves of the “terror” state within a state. Israel is merely defending itself so its citizens can return home and children can safely return to school. Blinken didn’t mention where future borders would be, leaving that up to minister Smotrich.

    Reading between the lines of diplomatic nonsense … the U.S. and Israel will provide a day of reckoning with the Islamic Republic of Iran for the “evil” going back nearly half a century. Putting Iran on notice …

  7. Ismaele above has it correct. Biden and the rest of his crowd are all in for a war with Iran. Always have been.

    Anything coming out of the White House suggesting the Biden and Netanyahu are at odds, or that the US wants to “restrain” Netanyahu, is complete nonsense. It is merely a CYA cover story to enable the US to declare that it was not at fault when the wider Middle East war erupts and then goes sideways as US wars always do.

    Harris is already painting herself as “not Biden” in order to throw Biden under the bus when the war fails (assuming she wins the election and is still President when it becomes painfully obvious that the war has failed.

    As for Iran not being able to match US firepower, yes, it can. All the US military is good for is bombing civilian infrastructure. It’s completely incapable of defeating any significant military power at this point in time. Iran has enough short-range missiles to devastate US bases in the region. Iran’s entire military strategy is defensive and relies on two things: 1) its missile arsenal, and 2) underground facilities impervious to even US “bunker buster” bombs.

    In addition, Iran is secure due to its physical size, large population, and in addition to a relatively large army it has a militia forces varying from one million to ten million men, depending on whose estimate you believe. As such, no ground invasion of Iran can succeed (as Iraq proved in the 1980s.)

    And of course, Iran can inflict massive damage on the world’s economy by cutting the oil flow in the Persian Gulf. US Navy claims that it can “keep the Straits open” are a pipe dream. US Navy mine-clearing operations have been an utter failure, and in any event it will be impossible for them to continue under fire from Iran’s large arsenal of anti-ship missiles concealed in shoreline caverns.

    The problem is that both the US military and the Israeli military – including Netanyahu and the Biden neocons – do not understand the shift in military power over the last two decades. So Netanyahu and Biden think that the combination of the US and Israel can take out all of the US and Israel’s enemies in the region. That is what this conflict is about.

    Unfortunately for them, that is not the case. The combined power of the Axis of Resistance – Iran, Hezbollah, Syria and Iraqi Shia, and the Yemenis – are quite capable of fighting the US and Israel – and NATO, too, if they involve themselves – to a draw.

    I cover this issue in detail in my recent Substack posts:
    Armageddon in the Middle East – Part 1 – Why It’s Inevitable
    https://richardstevenhack.substack.com/p/armageddon-in-the-middle-east-part-a9a

    Armageddon in The Middle East – Part 2 – Correlation of Forces and Methods
    https://richardstevenhack.substack.com/p/armageddon-in-the-middle-east-part

    Armageddon in The Middle East – Part 3 – Scenarios and Implications
    https://richardstevenhack.substack.com/p/armageddon-in-the-middle-east-part-8a2

    Armageddon in The Middle East – Part 4 – The Nuclear Option
    https://richardstevenhack.substack.com/p/armageddon-in-the-middle-east-part-b3e

    1. Richard Steven Hack: Please do not use the comment threads to promote your own blog. 4 links to your posts is a few too many.

      You’re not facing facts. While I sympathize with Iran’s plight and certainly denounce what Israel is doing, we have to be sober about what’s at stake here. Israel can do massive damage to Iran (and I fear it will). The former has delusions about how much damage it can do and what impact it will have on Iran. And that is Israel’s fatal flaw. Nevertheless, Iran will suffer a terrible blow. One that it can survive. But we should not minimize it as you have.

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