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On Friday night, Israel launched its much-feared and much-anticipated attack against Iran, hitting Tehran and nearby Karaj with a series of airstrikes in retaliation for Iran’s missile attack on Israel on Oct. 1. During the three-and-a-half weeks between Iran’s strike and Israel’s retaliation, we have seen the Biden-Harris regime pull out all the stops to try to keep Israel from hitting back, or to limit the attack on Iran as much as possible. The scope of Israel’s action on Friday appears to reflect that.
The biggest roadblock that Biden-Harris apparatchiks put in the way of Israel’s attempt to defend itself was yet another outright betrayal: last week, a regime insider actually leaked Israel’s plans to the Islamic Republic, forcing the Israelis to go back to the drawing board.
Suspicion for the leak fell on Ariane Tabatabai, a senior Pentagon official who has been identified as a member of the Iran Experts Initiative, which the Washington Free Beacon on Thursday called “an Iranian government propaganda group.” Tabatabai was found to have “report[ed] back to Iran’s foreign ministry and communicate[d] with senior officials in the hardline regime.”
Despite that, Tabatabai wasn’t fired. Instead, in keeping with the Biden-Harris regime’s intense unrequited love for the Islamic Republic of Iran, Tabatabai was actually promoted: she had been chief of staff to the assistant secretary of defense for Special Operations but moved up last month to the position of deputy assistant secretary of defense for Force Education and Training.
And even before the leak, Old Joe Biden had warned that the U.S. would not support a strike on Iran’s nuclear sites. Why he wants a regime whose rulers scream “Death to America” as well as “Death to Israel” to have nuclear weapons, he did not explain. But against that backdrop, Israel had little room to maneuver. The Biden-Harris regime might take too strong a response as a pretext to withhold weapons shipments from Israel or to shower more billions upon the forces that are determined to destroy the Jewish state. Too weak a response, however, would only embolden the Islamic Republic.
It also must be remembered that Israel was not retaliating solely for the strikes of Oct. 1. The entire war against Israel, beginning with Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 massacre of 1,200 Israelis and continuing up to this moment, has been a war that Iran has been waging through its proxies. Hizballah is a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of the Islamic Republic. So are the Houthis. Hamas gets significant financing from Iran.
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
Yesterday, on X, I saw a video of someone in a southern Iranian city shoot dead a pro-regime Friday prayer leader in the city, and then shoot himself. Looks like Iranians might be experimenting w/ new resistance now that the IRGC and other theocratic authorities are in Israel’s crosshairs
Israel should start doing in Iran what it has been doing in Lebanon for the last month, and in Gaza previously. Keep at it until November 5th, and then take a fresh look based on the results of the elections here
RJ Katz says
This woman is worse than Johnathan Pollard who spent decades in Jail for passing secrets to an ally. Israel should never share its plans with the United States.
bagsgroove says
I think the maroon Biden is really a mullah in disguise. What a “president”,doing everything for the muslims. Get rid of him right away ! Or be sorry later.
Walter Sieruk says
It’s very important and necessary that the government authorities and officials of the State of Israel have a duty and responsibility to use sarong military force and continue fighting against Hamas and Hezbollah to ensure the safety security and lives of the people who are citizens of that nation. It’s basic matter of self-defense.
As the fifth President of the United States, James Monroe, rightly and wisely, in a speech had declared, “The right to self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and to individuals.”
Walter Sieruk says
One of the reasons that the military of the State of Israel is striking back in retaliation against the armed militia bases against that hostile Islamic regime for lunching deadly and destructive missiles into Israel viciously attempting to murder her citizens. That’s the only ways to send those fiendish Muslim despots in power in Iran the message of “Don’t attack us again.”
For the powerful uses of rocket barrage into the military bases is the only means of communication that those tyrants in power in Iran are able to understand. As Thomas Jefferson was so right in declaring “With every barbarous people ….force is law.”
bagsgroove says
And don’t stop attacks on iran after the start. Take it to the end, until the mullahs are sent to allah in hell !
OLD GUY says
You’re right let’s not just slap their hands, lets kick their dead asses to where ever Allah is waiting for them. War is hell but you don’t win by being the nice guy when dealing with Islam.
James Lincoln says
You mess with the IDF – and you mess with the best.
I’ve asked top US Naval Aviators flying tactical jets if they would – theoretically of course – want to go up against IDF Air Force pilots.
Privately, they have always set a resounding NO.