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Another war between Israel and Iran is “only a matter of time,” according to a report published by The New York Times on November 9.
The report casts serious doubt on the idea that the 12-day war between the countries in June neutralized Iran’s nuclear program.
It claims that Middle East officials and experts increasingly believe Israeli and United States strikes caused less damage to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities than previously thought, and that both countries are preparing for the prospect of another attack.
“Iran’s stockpile of highly enriched uranium, enough to make 11 nuclear weapons, is either buried under rubble, as Iran claims, or has been spirited away to a safe place, as Israeli officials believe,” the report said.
Other factors make another war likely, the report said, referring to the ongoing impasse in talks between the U.S. and Iran and the reintroduction of international sanctions on the Islamic Republic after the activation of the snapback mechanism from the 2015 nuclear deal by the United Kingdom, France and Germany.
Those factors, coupled with intensive Iranian work on a new enrichment site it refuses to give international inspectors access to, make many in the Gulf think that another Israeli attack is “almost inevitable,” the report added.
The NYT piece is the latest in a series of reports from Hebrew, Arab and Western media that are hinting at a near war with Iran over alleged nuclear activities and development missile capabilities.
One recent report by the Institute for Science and International Security talked about activities at one of Iran’s most secretive nuclear sites. Another from CNN said that the Islamic Republic ramped up efforts to rebuild its missile program despite the recent reimposition of international sanctions.
There were even rumors of Iran developing an intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of 10,000 kilometers, which is enough to reach mainland U.S.
In addition, Iran has been facing increasing accusations from Israel. Very recently, the Mossad spy agency accused the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of orchestrating a string of recent attacks on Jewish sites in Western countries.
A later report by Axios said that the guards’ elite Quds Force attempted to kill the Israeli ambassador to Mexico, Einat Kranz-Neiger, and that the plot was foiled by Israel, the U.S. and Mexican security forces. These accusations were denied not only by the Islamic Republic, but also by Mexico.
All of these recent reports, accusations and speculations could be a part of coordinated efforts to prepare the public opinion for war with Iran.
The first war was not initiated by Iran, and the next one won’t likely be. The Islamic Republic is, however, preparing and appears to be more alerted than back in June when it thought that talks with the U.S. could prevent, or at least delay, an attack by Israel.
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judging by the movement of us carriers and warships and their air defense shields, an attack on venezuela is more likely at least in the very near future. may be iran should take the opportunity to act in “self defense” with respect to israel while the cat is away.
that would be wise. but ‘condemned’ by ‘democratic’ countries western ones, and those quasi muslim states of gulf of persia.
let’s make some shit and regime change in emirates for start?
no chance the emir had a private special meeting with king charles early this year and they’re in it together as are all of the royals ,both active and exiles, and symbolic .
they’re all united to achieve the same outcome .allegedly .
all of the royals ,orthodox christian catholic islamic ,the tribal such as maori hawaiian and african ,where they’ve been rebuilding the africans palaces very actively over the last 20 years ,and have built the biggest catholic cathedral in the world they all will accept the king of kings .allegedly .
iran is not worried about the usa what you don’t understand is this will end with using nuclear weapons israel can’t survive war against iran neither can the usa iran has enough ballestic missiles to turn west asia into char in all honesty this is getting boring time to light those nukes up and time for iran to show us its plasma bomb
iran’s just “found ” a billion dollars to fund hezbollah ..surprise ??
al jolani is coming to the white house . now that syrian air space is controlled by greater israel . the war cult has no issue with destroying thousands of years of civilization . libya, iraq and syria are sound examples
their influence is the worst regressive and destructive force in the 21st century. they will eventually destroy the whole world and become the scourge of humanity.
my my hasn’t your language improved well done.
they are scourge of humanity.
a scourge is something which purifies.
you’re really unbelievably gullible in my opinion .for a start you, obviously ,don’t even know what destructive or regressive mean ..you haven’t any idea actually .you probably are one of those stagnant ponds thinkers who view any change as a threat to your complacency and status quo .
oh do try to keep up they are building a new world order pay attention you’ve read ,1984 , and you should know,but probably don’t, that they ,the firm , had the queen’s prime minister thatcher despatched to america as an historic state visit , to legally contract with regain that they would ” build the world again ” use your brain .
why would the jooooos want to get their a$$e$ kicked twice in 1 year by iran?… why, you ask… because the warmongering jooooos know nothing in their history but death, rape, theft and deception and are really good at killing, raping, theft and deceit… but they will get a$$ kicked twice… hahahahahaha
yawn .have a cup of tea dear and do lie down.
betmen ja ti ga metnem.
same ro you with cream on top dear. .
droll really aren’t they with their stunning capacity of prophesy.
teheran is dry
the bbc ,with threats of being sued for 1.5 billion after getting caught lying their boxes off by trump will be feeling very dry in the mouth right now i imagine and here the abcs getting threats that they are to be investigated over their coverage if j 6 too .they’ll have a very dry taste in their mouths i reckon ..
the son of the dirty jewish old woman putler prevented iran from defending syria a year ago.
therefore, the iranian leadership must be replaced by a shah who is hostile to russia and crimea must be part of ukraine again.
it is also necessary for israel and qatar to jointly build a gas pipeline to europe so that the russians will receive a suitable payment for their betrayal.
id reflect on churchill’s launching of operation hellfire if i were you ..you might reflect on history always repeating .
and if hitlter had enough brains to graduate from high school,without needing to resit his german exam after summer school ,failing again and having to go back to night school for another year repeating it and then just getting a minimum pass that didn’t qualify him into uni, he might have had the foresight to think about the genealogy of others around the place before turning lunatic anti semitic .but he didn’t .
why are you repeating all the stupid judeo lies told about dead enemies? he failed at an art-school / architecture. there they said he was not talented enough, an d not in normal highschool. you truman joo are the uneducated fool in this room !
war with iran???? wow, someone is soooo prescient. tell us something we don’t know for a change.
exactly .the sun will rise in the east .
duh king charles told you that he is prepared for 100 years of war obviously it’s going to be rolled out like crop rotation over decade,moving the centre of attention from location to location,keeping areas on the back burner changing direction and the people on tenterhooks .
i no longer trust the new york times.
it is not about war but about the jews attacking iran again for no reason whatsoever. judea delenda est.
israel is mad enough to attack iran again, but will trump join in. col daniel davis thinks he will because of the new forces deployed in the m.e. trump would pick a ‘good time’, meaning the govt shutdown will have to be fully resolved. after that, all bets are off.