“Iran could launch a pre-emptive strike if Israel prepares to attack it, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander told broadcaster Al-Alam on Sunday, a day after his boss warned that conflict was inevitable.
“Should Israel and Iran engage militarily, ‘nothing is predictable… and it will turn into World War III,’ Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh told Iran’s Arabic-language television network.”
“In an interview to air tonight on CBS’s 60 Minutes, President Barack Obama will refer to Israel’s concern over Iran’s march toward a nuclear program as ‘noise.’”
Surely any reasonable person can now readily admit that President Obama is not pro-Israel — not even in the most loose sense of the word.
“Israel might attack Iran by using electromagnetic pulses (EMP) that could cripple the country by shutting down its electronics and sending the Islamic Republic ‘back to the Stone Age,’ The London Sunday Times reported.”
An EMP attack would cripple communications and other forms of technology in Iran, crippling not only its nuclear program but also its economy.
“If Netanyahu decides to take military action, he will do so in a strategic environment in which Israel, Iran and the US have no preference for a major war. Each state views the prospect of a war as counter to their particular long-term ambitions.
“Because of this, while serious, Iranian retaliation would be unlikely to produce an escalatory dynamic leading to war. The leadership of each of these states will restrain their respective actions in the pursuit of differing long-term objectives but common short-term ones.”
“The United States has indirectly informed Iran, via two European nations, that it would not back an Israeli strike against the country’s nuclear facilities, as long as Tehran refrains from attacking American interests in the Persian Gulf, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Monday. According to the report, Washington used covert back-channels in Europe to clarify that the US does not intend to back Israel in a strike that may spark a regional conflict.”
Truly, you cannot be a supporter of Obama and call yourself pro-Israel.
Along with losing a key geopolitical ally in the Levant, Iran may also suffer a tactical loss. As the civil unrest in Syria grows worse by the day so does Iran’s ability to use the state as an early-warning or buffer against a possible Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities.
“Amid increasing talk of a possible Israeli strike on its nuclear facilities, Iran has begun construction of a new, state-of-the-art, anti-aircraft missile base. The new base, located near the city of Abadeh, in southern Iran, will cost $300 million, be home to 6,000 personnel, and host seven battalions, Iran’s Fars news agency reported Tuesday.”
The rhetoric between these two countries is reaching unprecedented levels.
“A senior Iranian commander says a possible Israeli airstrike against his country’s nuclear facilities is ‘welcome’ because it would give Iran a reason to retaliate and “get rid of” the Jewish state ‘forever.’”
“When President Obama announced last month that he was barring a Baghdad bank from any dealings with the American banking system, it was a rare acknowledgment of a delicate problem facing the administration in a country that American troops just left: for months, Iraq has been helping Iran skirt economic sanctions imposed on Tehran because of its nuclear program.”
“Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told an annual anti-Israel protest in Tehran on Friday that the Jewish state was a ‘cancerous tumour’ that will soon be excised, drawing Western rebukes.”
“Reuters reported that the rial was trading in the free market at around 21,510 per dollar, down from about 20,440 on Sunday.”
“A major British bank, using its New York operations, ‘schemed’ with the Iranian government for nearly a decade to launder $250 billion, exposing the United States financial system to terrorist entities, drug traffickers and corrupt regimes, New York’s top banking regulator charged on Monday.”
