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In an unsurprising development, Israel is planning a new war on Iran, and actively working on securing support from the United States for this by using the Islamic Republic’s missile program as a pretext.
This was first revealed by NBC News which reported on December 20 that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will present plans for a possible fresh attack on Iran to President Donald Trump during his upcoming visit to the U.S. The meeting is expected to take place in the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida at the end of the month.
According to the report, Israel is growing increasingly concerned that Iran is rebuilding and even expanding its ballistic missile production in the wake of the nations’ 12-day war in June.
The last war began with Israel stating that it was going after Iran’s nuclear program, but quickly escalated to include an unprecedented wave of assassinations and attacks on missile and drone sites, in addition to civilian facilities, which left over a thousand Iranians dead. The Islamic Republic responded with a series of missile and drone attacks, killing at least 28 in Israel.
The report by NBC News also said that Israel is worried that the Islamic Republic is rebuilding its nuclear enrichment program.
While Israel has publicly called Iran’s nuclear program an existential threat, officials quoted in the report said that the ballistic missiles were seen by Israel as a more pressing concern.
The report started a wave of claims related to the Islamic Republic’s missile program. The most notable of which came from Iran International, a Saudi-funded, Persian-speaking TV based in the United Kingdom.
The news channel reported, right after NBC News released its report, that Western intelligence agencies had detected unusual activity involving Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Aerospace Force.
The activity involves movements and coordination beyond normal patterns, including Iranian drone, missile and air defense units, Western officials familiar with the assessments told the channel, adding that the developments could be linked to military exercises.
The officials, however, noted that the scale and synchronization had drawn closer scrutiny, and revealed that Intelligence services are tracking command-and-control signals, deployments and logistical movements associated with the IRGC Aerospace Force.
These claims were repeated just a day later by Axios. The U.S.-based news website said that Israel had warned the Trump administration that the IRGC may be using an ongoing military exercise focusing on missiles as cover to launch an attack on its territory.
Citing Israeli and US sources, the website said that Israel has a much lower risk tolerance after Hamas’s October 2023 attack. It also noted that the country issued previous such warnings six months ago when it identified similar movements of Iranian missiles.
“The chances for an Iranian attack are less than 50 percent, but nobody is willing to take the risk and just say it is only an exercise,” an Israeli source was quoted as saying.
Notably, an American source told Axios that the U.S. intelligence community has not seen any signs that an Iranian strike could be imminent.
The website reported that Israel’s Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir discussed the recent developments with Adm. Bradley Cooper, commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East, in Tel Aviv on December 21.
Senator Lindsey Graham, a close ally of Trump and an unhinged supporter of Israel, was quick to adopt the narrative and push for U.S. support of any new war on Iran.
On the same day Axios released its report, the influential Republican lawmaker said that the U.S. should strike Iran again if there is credible evidence that the Islamic Republic is rebuilding its nuclear enrichment program or expanding its ballistic missile capabilities.
“We obliterated the Iranian nuclear facilities. We did not obliterate Iran’s desire to have a nuclear weapon,” Graham said, speaking to reporters from Tel Aviv.
“Are they regenerating their nuclear capability? Are they building more ballistic missiles that could hurt Europe and Israel? I don’t know, but there’s evidence that, yes, they are,” he continued.
“If there’s credible evidence that Iran is going back into the enrichment business at other sites, that they’re trying to build more ballistic missiles to terrorize Israel and maybe Europe, that we hit them before they can do that,” the senator added.
Trump has not yet commented on the recent accusations against Iran, but his public stance on this may not be of much value.
For months before the 12-day war, Trump advocated for talks with Iran. It was only after the U.S. joined the war by attacking three underground nuclear facilities in the Islamic Republic that it became known that the talks were a part of a deception campaign. A report published by The Washington Post on December 17 very much confirmed this.
In fact, in a way, the U.S. has already begun taking action against the Islamic Republic’s missile program based on the narrative being promoted by Israel.
A report by The Wall Street Journal from December 12 revealed that U.S. forces boarded a ship in the Indian Ocean last month and seized military-related cargo headed to Iran from China. The cargo consisted of dual-use items, with both civilian and military applications, which was going to Iranian companies that specialize in procuring components for its missile program.
U.S. support was critical for the June war. Israel didn’t have the capability to attack Iran’s top three nuclear facilities, the Fordow Uranium Enrichment Plant, the Natanz Nuclear Facility, and the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center. American B-2 Spirit stealth bombers armed with over a dozen Massive Ordnance Penetrators did the job.
The situation is not different with Iran’s missile facilities. Most of the storage and launch sites are deep into mountains. During the past war, Israel failed to stop the launch of missiles because of this, and towards the end of the war attacks became more effective as its multi-layered air defense network was depleted.
If the U.S. joins a new attack aimed at destroying Iran’s missile program, it will likely do much more than the one-off strike we saw during the 12-day war.
Iran has begun to push back against this new narrative. During his weekly press briefing on December 22, Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei stated that the missile program has been developed solely for the defense of Iran’s territorial integrity.
“Iran’s missile program has been developed to defend the country, not for negotiation,” the spokesman said.
“The defensive capabilities of Iran, which are designed to deter any aggressor from contemplating an attack on Iran, are not a matter for discussion,” he added.
Iran may indeed be its missile program, its first means of deterrence. Nevertheless, there is no evidence whatsoever that the Islamic Republic is working on expanding the range of its missiles beyond the 2,000 kilometer limit it has so far committed to.
Just before the last war, Iran can likely do nothing to avoid an attack by Israel and the U.S. There is even no more trust to politically engage with the Trump administration.
The emerging threat to Iran coincides with Israeli escalation against Hezbollah in Lebanon, the top ally of the Islamic Republic. The upcoming meeting between Netanyahu and Trump at the end of the year coincides with the end of an ultimatum Israel has set for the group.
Considering all recent development, within a few weeks Israel could start a new round of fighting from Lebanon to Iran and possibly other fronts, like Iraq and Yemen.
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everyone knows usil (the warmongering oligarchy in us and ‘israel’)is the plotter for the complete takeover of the world including invading iran russia china south america etc.they attack everyone and portray themselves as victims whenever there is any retaliation (real or false flag). for mena west asia it’s in their plan since at least bush sr. later dubya did most of it. cf gen welsey kanne clark sr 2003, yinon oded.
its been there plan since they ruined egypt and babylon
grow up one of the only reasons you’ve been free your whole life is thanks to moses demanding pharoah set his people free firstly and them thanks to judeochristian values , basically, america going to war to end slavery. didnt you go to school?
mentira, nunca a história hebréia é parâmetro para alguma coisa. a história de vocês é um lixo, além de derramamento de sangue, vocês nunca trouxeram nada de bom ao mundo, apenas ódio.
load of misinformation as usual the alphabet soup brigade of preffered propagandas for the nazionalists .
us attacked all 7 countries told to wesley clark on septembre 2003. fact. oded yinon proposed the same kind of things. fact. you can still ignore everything as long as you want and recite your empty rhethorics. there is no blinder that one who does not want to look etc there is no more ignorant that the one who does not want to know 🙈🙉🙊.
no more blind*. and no it is neither nazionalist nor expanzionist. i guess there still could be some sane people who do not want to be represented by meyer lansky and benjamin “bugsy” siegel of murder dot inc or bibinocchio hasoatanyahoo and bang virus of genocide dot gov
inshallah their takeover plans fail miserably
the jew putler betrayed syria and thereby put iran in danger. if shah reza pahlavi returns to power in iran, it will be putler’s sole fault.
why put all the blame on russia. assad is a thief that wouldn’t even pay the syrian army. hezbollah didn’t want to fight, and iran’s liberal pro-western president didn’t want to send iranian troops to fight in syria. how is this all russias fault? the only thing i blame russia for in syria is supporting an unpopular dictator who comes from a small minority group that the majority of the country hated.
you’ve no idea such parochislism, so head in the sand box. like some commercial msm tv station news slops.
blah blah blah ramses mia tomm sawyer python curcumcised marco poloni baloney.
putler is a jew and that’s why he kidnapped assad’s officers last december and dragged them to russia. assad is a disgrace to all of syria because he didn’t welcome the hts terrorists and israeli collaborators with a mined palace. he greeted them kindly and blow up them into the air. if mr. bassil al-assad had not had a fatal accident then, netanyahu had not killed nasrallah, putler killed utkin and prigozhin, and trump was killed soleimani, this disgrace of syria would never have happened.
how many of those people did putler really forcibly mobilize into his army? some say be mobilezed only suhail al hassan and a few others, while others claim that there were more than three hundred of these people.
and what are the chances of isis truly defeating hts and expelling the israelis from syria?
all of assad’s officers and assad himself have probably forgotten about the dead leith abou fadel, but i still respect her. she was a better journalist than the putler rt and sputnik prostitutes (presstitutes). isis-k is my hope now because they have enough courage that they might just be able to knock hts and jolani out of dump’s game. although journalist leith abou fadel warned against them.
everyone has forgotten the heroic and honest woman. everyone respects the cowardly, dirty liar margarita simonyan.
even after her husband died and she had a cancer you still blaming the woman for telling the truth. it destroyed russia’s enemies propaganda during all wars in mena/west asia. there were so many lies in western mainstream, only acknowledging a few ‘involuntary inaccuracies’ decades later because they were too exposed by rt and wikileaks much earlier and the truth had spread in all society.
lollyputian la la land from ramses narco polo brand of transparency in reporting.
russia is seemingly in no position to resist the international jew and their demands so why complain about this?
obama started it in ukraine and biden started it in the middle east.. the bush’s are cousins of the windsirs via henry the 8th elder sister margaret, and every president since george washington has been related to her family too.. its about the church and crown together uniting to secure their future. the catholic word meaning universal not international.allegedly according to google sources.
but nice try with the traditional nazi propgandas bs for dummies 101
meanwhile, a couple of days ago putin reportedly laughed at mi6s threats and today one of his top generals in blown to bits by a car bomb
putin is ok with any death besides his own or his zionist masters.
lmao aint that the truth
a história hebréia é um lixo de história, moisés, davi, salomão, apenas regras inventadas, controle sexual, morte de quem é diferente, a história hebréia é a pior história inventada que poderia existir nesse mundo pra tentar controlar o planeta.
every time israel gets in a panic, innocent families and children die. it seems the israeli mission is to destroy civilization. because this is always the result of their actions. even if they destroy all things, they will never be happy
without any assertive political strategy, obsessed with retaining domestic control, having proven faithless to the axis of resistance it created, the iranian regime is quite vulnerable to more serious attempts by israel and the u.s. for regime change. both the latter will be working harder to combine attacks with uprisings. never, need i say it, to benefit ordinary iranians.
chumpo is such a shabbos he might as well hava a menorah
sticking out of his head.