As Israel continues its dismantling of Hamas in Gaza, and proceeds with its ferocious assault on Hezbollah in Lebanon, the government in Jerusalem is also pondering when, and what, to strike in Iran, the puppetmaster of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis, that has supplied all three of these malign proxies with money and weapons to attack Israel, and has itself launched its own missile attacks on Israel — 300 launched in April, and 180 ballistic missiles launched on October 1 — almost all of which were either intercepted or fell harmlessly in open areas. The attack on October 1 did result on damage to housing, but not to any military targets at Nevatim Airbase, save for one hole punched in the roof of one building.
The Biden administration insists that the Jewish state must avoid targeting nuclear facilities, even though Iran is believed by the most knowledgeable monitors of its nuclear program, including David Albright, founder and head of the Institute for Science and International Security, to be within a few weeks of being able to produce a nuclear weapon, should it decide to do so. Biden has also urged Israel “to reconsider” any plans to attack Iranian oil facilities, presumably including not just oil fields but also the terminals at Kharg Island, from which 90% of Iran’s oil is exported. Washington also wants to be kept informed about the IDF’s plans for dealing with Iran — a preposterous demand, considering our leaking ship of state.
But there are other voices of sober realism who remind us that the Iranian threat is not limited to Israel. Iranian-supported militias have launched attacks on American bases in Iraq and Syria. Iran has been an evil actor in Europe, providing Vladimir Putin with munitions, artillery shells, drones, as well as Fath and Shahid missiles. In the Red Sea, Iran supplies the Houthis in Yemen with missiles to hit ships and force 15% of the world’s seagoing vessels to change their routes from Asia to Europe; the ships that used to go up the Red Sea and through the Suez Canal now must go round the Horn of Africa and up Africa’s western coast to Europe, a much longer and more expensive trip for such shipping. Iran provided support to the terrorists — “Hezbollah” had not yet announced itself — who launched an attack in Beirut in 1983, that resulted in the deaths of 220 American Marines, 18 sailors, and three soldiers, as well as of 58 French soldiers, all of them murdered while asleep in their barracks. Iran has been behind both a suicide attack in 1992 on the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, in which 29 people were killed, and in 1994 another attack in the same city on the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA), killing 85 and injuring hundreds more. Iran’s tentacles, and those of its proxies, extend across the globe, from Moscow to Buenos Aires. In recent years, Hezbollah operatives have been caught preparing attacks as far afield as Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Cyprus, Egypt, Peru, and Thailand. Hezbollah weapons caches have been discovered in the Gulf, in Europe, in Asia, and in Africa.
Unlike our own current leadership, the leader of Canada’s Conservative Party, Pierre Poilievre was forthright in his support for an Israeli attack on Iran, insisting that for Israel to prevent the “genocidal” Islamic Republic from obtaining nuclear weapons “would be a gift by the Jewish state to humanity.”
At a press briefing he held outside Canada’s House of Commons on September 8, Poilievre said, “I think the idea of allowing a genocidal, theocratic, unstable dictatorship, that is desperate to avoid being overthrown by its own people, to develop nuclear weapons is about the most dangerous and irresponsible thing that the world could ever allow.”
And the former National Security Adviser in the Trump Administration, General H. R. McMaster, has gone even further than Pierre Poilievre. He thinks the Americans should not rely on Israel to do all the heavy lifting against Tehran, but should themselves consider launching their own strikes to destroy Iran’s key military programs, including its nuclear program. More on General McMaster’s view can be found here: “McMaster urges consideration of U.S. strikes on Iran,” by Marc Rod, Jewish Insider, October 9, 2024:
Former National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster said on Tuesday [Oct.8] that the U.S. should consider military strikes against Iran’s key military programs.
The former national security adviser, speaking on Tuesday at an Atlantic Council event moderated by NBC correspondent Courtney Kube, said that the U.S. should consider wiping out drone and missile factories inside Iran. Hearkening back to the mid-1990s, he said the U.S. should give serious consideration to military strikes against Iran’s nuclear program.
When do the missile facilities, as well as the nuclear facilities — when are those options brought to the president?” McMaster, who served in the Trump administration from 2017-2018, said.
But he noted that any U.S. strikes must pursue clear strategic goals, including restoring deterrence; degrading the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s capabilities to supply, communicate with and coordinate its proxies; and setting back Iran’s nuclear and missile programs….
Will General McMaster’s call for American attacks on Iran’s key military programs be heeded? Or will tiny and embattled Israel, its hands already full with dismantling Hamas in Gaza and, even more, with fighting Hezbollah with its huge arsenal of 150,000 rockets and missiles, be expected to take on as well the task of removing the Iranian regime’s nuclear threat all by itself? And if Israel finds it must do so alone, will Washington supply it with all the weaponry, including the 30,000 pound bunker-buster bombs — Massive Ordnance Penetrators, or MOPs — that would be required to destroy nuclear facilities built inside a mountain at Fordow, or underground elsewhere? Or will the Americans attempt to dissuade the Jewish state from such an attack by withholding such weapons? In arguing that the United States itself should take part in an attack on Iran’s military assets, including its nuclear program, General McMaster has made an important contribution to the debate.
somehistory says
kjp has been promoted to be an “advisor’ to biden. Will she agree with this man, this general? Not likely.
And what qualifications does the idiot woman have? kjp has shown she agrees with telling Israel to cease defending her people.
khp will likely advise biden and crew to ignore General McMaster.
OLD GUY says
KHP is a total DEI hire and has no qualifications other than I guess she is a women and black. Reminds me of KAMALA.
Walter Sieruk says
No informed person should be surprised about the deadly malice of those despots of Iran. So much so that this horrendously vicious Islamic regime of lunching ballistic missiles into Israel.
Nothing but wicked intentions by those tyrants in power in Iran many expected from them.
For, example, fiendish villain, Ayatollah Khamenei, who is in power in Iran which is a cruel brutal and murderous tyrannical Islamic regime and his death in loss., That Joe Biden still supports that Islamic tyranny.
That hostile and vicious Islamic regime of Iran even supplies deadly weapons to those murderous jihad entities Hamas and Hezbollah.
Therefore it should be made known that if the founder of the current Islamic tyranny ,Ayatollah Khomeini would still be alive today ,he would spit on those Westerners who say that “Islam is a non-violent religion.”
For as Ayatollah Khomeini had clearly announced that “Those who know nothing about Islam pretend that Islam counsels against war….There are hundreds psalms and hadiths urging of Muslims to value war and to fight. …I spit upon those foolish souls who make such a claim.” [1] So if he was alive today who would spit on those Westerners who say that “Islam is a non-violent religion.”
There are also many places in the Qu ‘ran that instruct in violence and killing for the cause of Islam. As found in ,for example Surah 2:191. 4:89.. 5:33. 9:5, 111,112 ,123. 47:4.
Those jihadists operatives of that Islamic regime of Iran in the different Western countries will not lose interest in their insidious dangerous strategic scheming against the nations of the West.
[1] THE ISLAM IN ISLAMIC TERRORISM by Ibn Warraq page 339.
Walter Sieruk says
Those vicious tyrants of that “mullah regime “ of Iran has the ability to launch many murderous and destructive ballistic into the State of Israel with that malicious and deadly Islamic goal of killing her peaceful citizens.
One major factor that has the power to this evil is ,largely, because of Joe Biden , who strived to get the economic sections lifted that had been justly enacted , the President Trump and his administration, against that aggressive and hostile Islamic regime of Iran with the funds so that it now provides Hezbollah with those missiles .
Joe Biden has the blood of many innocent people on his treacherous and wicked hands.
Biden is guilty as sin.
Sima says
I just wish the world would come to its sense and let Israel to attack the clergy leadership occupier of Iran where it hurts.
Walter Sieruk says
Those fiendish villains and treacherous rats, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have ,indeed, totally betrayed Israel. Biden even has the diabolical gall to attempt to impose sanctions on the Israel Defense Force all the while he’s providing that aggressive Israel and America hating hostile Islamic regime of Iran, which supports Hamas, with billions of dollars and then he wants to send Iran even more money Before this betrayal of the State of Israel and the United States ,Biden allowed that Islamic tyranny that to obtain billons of dollars . How terribly wicked of Biden .For that belligerent ”mullah regime” of Iran calls Israel “The little Satan and the US “The great Satan.”
Truly, Biden and Harris are treacherous scoundrels.
Walter Sieruk says
That supreme Ayatollah of Iran ,Khamenei as well as the other Muslim clerics as the ayatollahs and mullahs along with the Muslim members of the Iranian parliament n do naturally favor having Kamala Harris in the Office of the President of the United States. This is because she would continue the policy of appeasement of Joe Biden of giving those despots of Iran everything they demand.
For Kamala Harris ,along with her many of her comrades of the Red /Green alliance that she would fill her administration with would gladly grant that anti America and anti-Israel Islamic regime all provisions that those tyrants clamor for. As the Jewish and Israel hating Islamic tyranny would then use the financial support given to it by Kamala Harris and use that money to obtain many deadly weapons to the it’s proxy jihad murder machine entities and Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad so that that those jihad groups would launch in many murderous Islamic terrorist attacks against the peaceful citizens of the State of Israel.
In addition , that “mullah regime” of Iran would also use that money to send its jihadist operatives through the porous US /Mexican borders ,created by the Biden/Harris team , to engage in future 9/11 murderous jihad affronts across the US.
So, indeed, those hostile and vicious Islamic dictators of Iran will do everything that they are able to do to ensure the Kamala Harris will be the next President of the United States.
Walter Sieruk says
Those tyrants in power in Iran want Kamala Harris to become the next US President should be of no surprise to any well informed person. The reason why this is so is because those in power in that Islamic tyranny of Iran will do everything they are able to interfere in the process on the 2024 national election in order to have that Jewish hating pro-Islamic radical far -left, wing Marxist Kamala Harris ,who is part of the Reed/Green alliance, in the White House as President.
For if those Muslim dictators of Iran would have Kamala Harris as the next US President, that would ensure that they would have a friend in the Oval Office of the White House granting them everything that they demand.
Looking all this from the view of those despots of Iran. It’s like in the insidious sense, they would think “Why shouldn’t we meddle in the US general election, again, ? We did before in 2020 and it worked [1] ,we got our useful idiot Joe Biden , in the White House who conceded to all our demand. For our cunning stealth jihad strategy worked for us so then, we should do it again.”
The sly and effective influence by those in power in the hostile America hating Islamic tyrannical regime on the 2024 US Presidential election should not be underestimated.
[1] TRUMP CARD the video documentary by Dinesh D’ Souza
Ben says
Senile joe biden is a fool for insisting that iran’s nuclear program shouldn’t be targeted.
Ben says
Israel shouldn’t share their plans with tbe US because the US is an unreliable ally. The Ukrainians had shared their 2023 counter offensive plans with the US and somehow those plans got leaked allowing the Russians to succesfully defend against the Ukrainian counter offensive. Right now not trusting the Americans is a wise policy.
gravenimage says
Sad but likely so, Ben.
somehistory says
“VIDEO| Israel’s Iron Dome Fails Again; Iran-Backed Iraqi Fighters Rain Non-Stop Drones from Red Sea”
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/video-israel-s-iron-dome-fails-again-iran-backed-iraqi-fighters-rain-non-stop-drones-from-red-sea/vi-AA1s2n6Q?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=8b8d7d6416024f83b1349be1cd373a79&ei=31
gravenimage says
Former National Security Advisor on What to Do About Iran
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Smart stuff from McMaster.
Paul SIERAK says
Now, from the article above, it is openly apparent that the Democratic administration seeks the further evolution of Iran into a nuclear power and to have increasing wealth thru oil exportation. Israel is a current potential problem to Democratic achievement of a strong Iran. They could take out both nuclear and oil. So the administration puts the heat on Israel to leave these two aspects intact. Now let us look at this from a different angle. The Democrat party is an internal enemy of the core of America, namely the constitution. The Democrats internal enemy are those Americans that oppose them. So how does a well funded nuclear Iranian regime help the Democrat party in their aim to take over and dominate the US and win against their internal enemy?
First it would allow Iran to take down Israel, or at least allow the US to tightly control Israel. They would become more dependent on the US for protection. The US would hold at bay the enemy of Israel. If it was unable to, and Israel was wiped out, would we intervene to avenge Israel. I think not. So the Democrats really don’t care if Israel is done in. So with a strong Iran, only the US would be able to protect other countries in the Middle East from Iran. That is the Democrat party would have more power internationally.
But how would this dominance help the Democrats against their internal US enemy? We have to look for increases in their ability to gain more power over US citizens due to this. Well for one we now have a stronger and richer enemy that has openly called for Death to America. This means increased terrorist attacks within America from Iran. The Democrats would want this so that emergency measures could be put in place, to protect Americans from the big bad wolf. The emergency measures would of course not be consistent with the constitution. Thus, in the name of saving Americans, the Democrats would be able to take down parts of the Constitution due to the terrorism and hence diminish their internal enemy by pulling part of the constitutional rug out from under them. Thus enlarging their power over America.
I haven’t been able to fully follow and surface all the implications of the Impact of this supported international play by the Democrats on America. A few things are certain. The Democrat threat to America is more fully and convincingly shown by their actions. They want to further set up Americans for their dominance.
The internal enemy is now fully operating in the open. It’s the Democrats. They will say and do anything for power over the rest of us and use our resources against us. The are lower than spit on the ground, as the old saying goes. So beware.
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