Israel attacks Iran's nuclear and military sites

The war in Ukraine has showed us that the only way to stay safe is to have nukes.

However iran, an islamic dictatorship that stones its own people to death over trivial things, should never ever have nukes until the people rise up and reform the country without religion as its rule of law.

Hope Israel gets the crap bombed out of its nuclear sites.

Netanyahu sure keen to avoid that corruption trial.

How many wars can Israel fight at once , this puny little UN created cesspit of ugliness.

Anti botter....the worse way to have a nation "rise up " is to attack it.....Iranians are proud people with thousand year history.

This Israeli war crime will bring the nation of Iran together.

Wow! Never thought they would actually do it. Hope nobody throws a nuke.

@GuruMick

Anti botter....the worse way to have a nation "rise up " is to attack it.....Iranians are proud people with thousand year history.

This Israeli war crime will bring the nation of Iran together.

They may be a "proud people", but they also chafe and protest against their government. Perhaps they will be both proud and free soon.

Looking forward to the US regime protecting war mongering Israel with vetos at the UN Security Council. /s

What a time to be alive.

Iran is not a state that you simply believe to be telling the truth. Preemptive strike is the best approach.

The "anti-war" potus approved Netanyahu's message to the mullahs and signed off on their attack. If the Israelis could bring down the ruling gangster government of Iran, it would be a good thing, but also good if the Israeli aggressors got a taste of the death and destruction they like to mete out to their weaker neighbors on a regular basis.

This is very bad situation. Israel is too aggresive.

Garlic eater....do tell of your extensive travels in Iran where you witnessed the "chafe and protest " things.

Havent been have you ?

Ignorance is bliss unless its Israeli hasbara , where, there HAVE BEEN mighty protests against the Government, Netanyahu and the war.

I would guess there is more "chafe and protest " in Israel than Iran

The Israelis are stirring desperately for a war. Well hopefully Iran - and anyone else - gives it to them. Give them a hiding. Go after their nuclear installations, infrastructure, dams, bridges and airports.

Israelis deserve EVERYTHING that's coming.

So, if the language of CNN is the standard, North Korea was helping Russia defend itself.

Watch how quickly the language turns Iran into the aggressor, and the genocide committing regime an innocent victim.

Also watch how little attention is paid to the military targets Iran will be going after AND how little attention is paid to the civilians kilked in Israel's UNPROVOKED ATTACK.

Yikes, Israel's not bothering to wait for Trump Admin's diplomatic efforts, which are ongoing. Issue is WAY more important to global security than Ukraine, let's hope Trump Admin can curtail Isreal ASAP, so a reasonable civilian nuclear capability in Iran can be allowed

Knew this was coming. The US had all non-essential personnel leave their Baghdad embassy, there was a red alert notice for the Middle East and North Africa issued last night too.

Oh, and please note that Israel's main airport is MILITARY more than it is civilian, as the Israeli militants have launched their warplanes and helicopter gunships from there

Hang on a second - isn't that a US ally firing rockets into cities and killing people?

Why yes... yes, it is.

Netanyahu stabs Trump in the back. Not the Art of the Nuclear Deal.

Anyone who believed Trump was Anti-war was an idiot to start with. We probably sent Israel the munitions they used. We probably gave them the surveillance to say where the nuke production was.

The sooner the failed "Israel experiment" is ended the better. Move the Jews back to their countries of origin, Russia, Poland, Ukraine etc and stop pandering to holocaust guilt.

I often find myself amazed that we have survived this long as a species.

I'd suggest this attack is mainly designed to further pressure Iran at the negotiating table with the US, the classic good cop bad (Israel) cop strategy

Let's see how it plays out, this situation clearly one in which Pres. Putin can help bridge the US Iran divide, as its Russia that' helped build the Iranian Nuclear industry

Easy to understand why Ukraine becoming a backburner issue, Iran nuclear proliferation existential to the world

Of course none of this would have been possible without a Zionist loving clown in the White House.

Netanyahoo crossing lines.

Open up the gates of hell on Israel

Trump's 180 day legacy...

The Russia-Ukraine war intensifies and isn't ended "in 24 hours"...

India and Pakistan almost comes to nuclear blows...

China continues to militarily bully Taiwan and the Philippines...

Now the Middle East erupts in a new major war...

Just goes to show no one respects or is afraid of this guy - and America's international reputation as a global leader is in tatters...

The Israeli regime is BRAGGING it deliberately targeted civilians in these attacks. Think about that.

Solving the nuclear weapons issue in Iran is one of the most important global security risks of all, something the world's been worried about for decades etc.

DJ Trump is well positioned to do it, especially given his proximity to other leaders across the Middle East we observed in the Gulf States in May, Pres. Putin and Israel

Iran declared war on Israel years ago, by using proxy terrorists like Hezbollah and Hamas. The Israelis finally ran out of patience and decided to do something about it. I feel for the people of Iran, they have been labouring under the yoke of an Islamofascist dictatorship for more than 40 years. Perhaps this might give them the impetus needed to rise up and reclaim their country.

At the moment there is only one democracy in the Middle East (Israel). Hopefully soon there will be two.

Lots of bovine sourced fertilizer coming from the Israeli regime about why it launched this unprovoked, illegal attack on Iran.

But there's other possible reasons like an economic crisis hitting Israel's economy.

From another news source:

For the year 2025, the Israeli government announced it would be earmarking an additional $150 million toward global public relations, an unprecedented increase in spending that comes alongside a striking collapse in perception for Israel around the world.

The cost of that collapse, it turns out, can be measured. Meta, which owns both Instagram and Facebook, is the primary way that many companies reach customers. The cost to earn the eyeballs of a new customer by advertising through Meta is known as CPC, or cost-per-click. The lower a company’s CPC, the less it has to spend to attract new customers. The more it has to spend, the less viable a business becomes.

A review of leaked data from Meta, provided to us by company whistleblowers, shows that Israeli companies since 2023 are finding it increasingly difficult everywhere around the world to attract new customers, leading to advertising-cost increases in the billions.

@GuruMick

Garlic eater....do tell of your extensive travels in Iran where you witnessed the "chafe and protest " things.

Havent been have you ?

Ignorance is bliss unless its Israeli hasbara , where, there HAVE BEEN mighty protests against the Government, Netanyahu and the war.

I would guess there is more "chafe and protest " in Israel than Iran

Feb 25, 2025: Ahead of the 46th revolution anniversary in February, citizens spray‑painted “no entry” signs across Tehran, Karaj, Hamadan with a green stripe—green being a coded sign of defiance. Rooftop chants of “death to Khamenei” were reported in multiple cities, and security forces cracked down with tear gas and arrests. (Wikipedia).

March 2025: Women have continued to protest the hijab law since the 2022 "Women, Life, Freedom" movement. Some protests emerged in March 2025 in front of Parliament—supporting stricter hijab rules, ironically—and others were covert acts of defiance, like uncovered heads in public. (AlJazeera).

And that's just a couple.

The US already knew because they removed US government personnel from the region a few days ago!

I hope Iran will teach a lesson to blood thirsty Israel.

Trump's 180 day legacy...

The Russia-Ukraine war intensifies and isn't ended "in 24 hours"...

India and Pakistan almost comes to nuclear blows...

China continues to militarily bully Taiwan and the Philippines...

Now the Middle East erupts in a new major war...

Just goes to show no one respects or is afraid of this guy - and America's international reputation as a global leader is in tatters...

The religious conservatives and uniformed who voted have been fooled by the anti-christ in the White house!

Iranian should of use GPS jammer to jam planes and bombs

Israel leaders are huddle in bunkers ,like a bunch of coward,

Hope Israel gets the crap bombed out of its nuclear sites.

Netanyahu sure keen to avoid that corruption trial.

How many wars can Israel fight at once , this puny little UN created cesspit of ugliness.

Hear! Hear!

The Israelis are stirring desperately for a war. Well hopefully Iran - and anyone else - gives it to them. Give them a hiding. Go after their nuclear installations, infrastructure, dams, bridges and airports.

Israelis deserve EVERYTHING that's coming.

THIS!!!

Open up the gates of hell on Israel

Its about time.

Well, it turns out apartment complexes can be targeted after all the feigned moral outrage elsewhere.

Bodies of children being wheeled out now.

Likely US and Israel 'coordinated' on this attack, suspect it was more for 'theater' to demonstrate to Iran, crushing nature of an actual military conflict with US and Israel, should escalation be necessary without an agreement.

Trump's 180 day legacy...

The Russia-Ukraine war intensifies and isn't ended "in 24 hours"...

India and Pakistan almost comes to nuclear blows...

China continues to militarily bully Taiwan and the Philippines...

Now the Middle East erupts in a new major war...

Just goes to show no one respects or is afraid of this guy - and America's international reputation as a global leader is in tatters...

On the other hand, Trump knows that war is good for approval ratings. He gets to talk tough, which thrills the neanderthal "hoo-agh" rednecks who voted for him, and he also gets to play with big expensive military toys. So he's probably wetting himself with excitement over all this.

The Muslim world were divided in two groups: Sunnis and Shias

When Iran is under attacks, the Sunnis just watched and do nothing. Same uf the Sunnis under attacked, the Shias do nothing. Tge Sunnis even having an infighting inside their own. That's why Israel is dares to attack Iran because the Sunnis won't do anything helping Iran. And that's why Netanyahu is emboldened to make hawkish rhetorics and aggressive actions !

Big question, does Iran respond with an attack on Israel? If so, then sadly a non-proliferation nuclear weapons agreement with the US becomes less likely...stay tuned

Hope the IDF pilots all got back safely. So far no word that any of them got shot down.

Let's see how it develops, but this could potentially be very bad. Hopefully Iran respons in a way that dosn't escalate things further.

One must remember, all the Arab Gulf States are also terrified of a nuclear armed Iran, so not just Isreal, and thus the coalition is broad-based and powerful. Pres. Putin seem to be the key to de-escalation.

Naturally, oil prices moving north and financial markets south, expect Pres. Putin and Trump are busy talking RIGHT NOW with the Iranian leadership...

The Israeli regime is BRAGGING it deliberately targeted civilians in these attacks. Think about that.

Grok, can you confirm?

Richardpierce, can you provide a source?

Once again Israel has carte blanche to do what ever it wants with the US in complete support obviously as they already evacuated non essential personnel from all Middle East bases.

disgusting hypocrisy on show yet again from the war criminals in Israel and their enablers in the US!

Pres. Putin has +25 years of building goodwill with Iran, including helping establish their civilian nuclear industry, so he's the key right now, and Pres. Trump surely busy leveraging Putin right now to de-escalate ASAP

Good, you can’t have the Iranians have a nuke, not going to happen

Pres. Trump stated MANY times, Iran can have civilian nuclear power, just no enrichment of nuclear materials.

Russia, obvious partner to provide civilian enrichment to Iran to avoid a hugely costly deadly all-out war with US

US have a history of lost causes

Israel is a rouge and terrorist state.

Occupied Palestinian

Conducting genocide of Palestinians in Gaza

Displaced millions of Palestinians

Bombed Lebanon

Bombed Syria

Bombed iran

The list goes on

Israeli and American warmongers.

lincolnmanToday  10:24 am JST Trump's 180 day legacy..

This has got nothing to do with Trump

and all to do with unhinged Netanyaho.

Trump could issued a "firm no" to Bibi on this strike - it's clear the US was informed beforehand....

Yet he didn't - and what does that say to other regimes that the US is in negotiations with? Talk to us in ending hostilities, but we'll let our allies bomb you anyway...

Or maybe Trump did say no, but Bibi blew him off - and launched the attack...

Either one, it shows just shows how weak Trump is...

My own take is Trump probably told him to wait....but Bibi said "I need another war to stay out of jail"....and Trump replied "I can sympathize with that"....

“Reminder that on April 12th, Trump publicly gave the Islamic Republic 60 days to seriously come to the table on dismantling their nuclear program or face military consequences.

Today was day 61….”

interesting if True. This has nothing to do with Trump anymore.

he tried to save them from Israel. They didn’t listen.

Maybe Israel is thinking that it started with Hamas, but it ends in Iran.

The world will be better off without the Mullahs in charge in Iran. It will give that poor country a chance to rejoin the world of free nations and prosper. Otherwise, they are doomed.

As for Israel, what do you expect? Iran has been sponsoring proxy wars on Israel for years. Now that policy has returned to bite them in the... well. FAFO Iran.

Financial markets recovering for now, likely interpreted as Iran has not yet responded with an attack on Israel.

Let's hope it continues, and sanity prevails as Iran like dozens of other countries, can easily have civilian nuclear power without nuclear enrichment. Surely Pres. Trump and Putin now busy making this case to Tehran!

Based on what I am seeing here it feels like criticizing Israel is the hot new social trend—maybe TikTok’s also pushing it now. But what would you do if your enemy was enriching uranium to near weapons-grade while calling for your destruction and funding attacks on your civilians? Just let them finish their centrifuge work?

Israel may start the fire,but may not be around to see it put out, especially when Iran already has Chemicals and Biological weapons on their missile,nuke are mute

If only Israel can go for ancient borders!!

I wonder how much this is going to cost the US.

This would have never happened if Trump were in office. Now he's going to have to make a phone call or something to end this whole thing in 24 hours. ;)

No claim of having killed the Quds Force commander.

Wallace

Netanyahu stabs Trump in the back. Not the Art of the Nuclear Deal.

Nothing of the sort. Trump is in the loop about these Israeli attacks 100%. Why else would he have ordered the withdrawal of most US personnel in the region in the preceding days?

Time for the Israeli cowards to meet their reckoning. They've been oppressing and bullying others for decades. Horrible nation, horrible people.

Everybody should just hold hands and be friends.

Don't be surprised if Iran doesn't respond right away, not because of any 'disuptions' the unprovoked murders of Iranian military and government members supposedly cause, but because Iran, both politically and morally considers war a serious moral problem. Its the MORALITY of their response they'll be weighing, both as individuals and leaders.

That's something that EVERY country should do, but few actually do.

But there's something that countries that casually wage war and then pretend they are doing so for some moral reason won't be prepared for. Once the consensus that an outcome is the moral one worthy of the immorality of waging war is achieved, it will be extremely difficult to reverse it for some gain of some sort.

The opening salvo of WWIII,,,

Remember: The US is "not involved".

All it did was supply Israel with the money, intel and weapons necessary for such a strike, constantly fearmonger about Iran, and defend Israel throughout 18 months of ruthless genocide.

Nothing of the sort. Trump is in the loop about these Israeli attacks 100%. Why else would he have ordered the withdrawal of most US personnel in the region in the preceding days? 

Time for the Israeli cowards to meet their reckoning. They've been oppressing and bullying others for decades. Horrible nation, horrible people.

The Israelis are not the bad ones, it's quite simple, The Iranians can't have nukes, that is just a non-starter, it's up to them where they will take this, Israel wouldn't target the regime had they not pushed to pursue making a nuclear weapon. So Israel will take whatever action is necessary to protect its nation.

@bass4funk

"Good, you can’t have the Iranians have a nuke, not going to happen"

But you are fine with the genocidal, mad-dog Israelis having them?

Price of oil has surged more than 5%.

Sounds like Netanyahu is secure in his bunker.

Iran has been attacking Israel since the Six Day War using proxy groups to do it.

For 40 years, Iranians have been yelling "Death to Israel", not "we want peace in the region, including with Israel."

There won't be peace with Iran until their Supreme Leader dies and moderate Iranian politicians remove fundamental Muslims from control of the country.

Hamas, Houthis, Hezbollah are all part of the Iranian attacks on Israel, along with Iranian medium range missiles, which have been sent at Israel a few times in the last 2 yrs.

April 2024: Iran launched 300 missiles at Israel https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/2/timeline-the-key-moments-that-led-to-irans-missile-attacks-on-israel

Oct 2024: Iran launched 181 missiles at Israel. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70w1j0l488o

Israel has responded to the direct attacks. Recall the pagers that killed 700 Hezbollah members?

Israel has killed more than 45K Palestinians in Gaza thanks to Hamas not understanding war. Hamas leaders, coached by Iran, are fools. They traded 2K Israelis for 45K Palestinians. That's just dumb. And yet, Hamas is still seen attacking Israeli troops in Gaza when Gaza is rubble. They've been beaten, but rather than give up to fight another day, they are intent on having every last Palestinian killed. Hamas isn't your friend if you are Palestinian.

Should we be taking iodine pills? All that burning nuclear material. Enriched uranium, cesium-137. I don't know, maybe they ought to tell Iranians to evacuate Tehran. Buy bottled water for the next few decades.

In October 2024, after Iran launched missiles toward Israel, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, during Friday prayers in Tehran, praised the attack as “brilliant” and described Israel as “the wild dog of the United States,” warning Iran would repeat such strikes if needed. (Wikipedia).

Who in their right mind would want to attack the uranium enrichment facilities of such a peace loving government as Iran?

Price of oil now surged 7% and climbing.

Iran made a mistake by using US GPS signal, instead of Chinese or Russian GPS signal,you can use graph paper and design a GPS map and launch 100 of drone to form one constellation and meet together forming one attack formation of attacking one target

Lots and lots and lots of unthinking anti-Semites on here today. Israel wants to live in their own country in peace. The Islamic countries want to kill all Jews. Many of the leaders of these countries say that out loud. It is really that simple and basic.

@V Campbell

Lots and lots and lots of unthinking anti-Semites on here today. Israel wants to live in their own country in peace. The Islamic countries want to kill all Jews. Many of the leaders of these countries say that out loud. It is really that simple and basic.

Agree. A lot of social trends are propelled by social pressure to be in the "right" crowd. People crave affirmation more than logical consistency.

Lots and lots and lots of unthinking anti-Semites on here today. Israel wants to live in their own country in peace. The Islamic countries want to kill all Jews. Many of the leaders of these countries say that out loud. It is really that simple and basic.

And here we have textbook projection. Accuse the other side of exactly what you are thinking and doing. Typical for these lot.

Just heard recent reporting, second wave of Israeli attacks under way, though they do not have US 'bunker' busting bombs. Seems likely US will join the fray with their stealth bombers to finish off most hardened sites.

Supposedly Israeli intel had detected that Iran already possessed sufficient enrichment for 9 nuclear weapons, thus trigger this ongoing attack

The USA is clearly providing targeting information through its military satellite network Blood is on your hands.

Price of oil now surged 7% and climbing.

This will last a little while.

Israel has hit civilian apartment blocks.

Good for Israel. Iran has been noncompliant for years with its nuclear program. They have lied continually. They are developing a bomb. They will use that bomb or get a proxy to do it. Appeasement isn't working. Iran has been sponsoring terrorism for too long.

I hope Israel strikes more targets.

I would say Israel gave the US a heads-up perhaps a week ago, and then later Trump gave Israel a wink. Five days ago US diverted 20,000 anti-drone missiles. which are designed to take down Iranian Shahed drones. from Ukraine to the Middle East, and then the US started issuing security alerts. I would say the US knew exactly what was going on. It was imminent, indeed.

So other than failing to rein in Putin and failing to rein in Netanyahu, Trump's hopes for a nobel peace prize are going great!

Israel is BRAGGING that it deliberately targeted civilians in this UNPROVOKED ATTACK.

PS, lots of people offer THEIR opinions about what the opinions of the Iranian population are. The Canadian company Iranpoll doesn't, it asks the Iranian population what their opinions are and puts together a report. And one if their clients is an American university, which means you have free access to those reports.

I would say Israel gave the US a heads-up perhaps a week ago, and then later Trump gave Israel a wink. Five days ago US diverted 20,000 anti-drone missiles. which are designed to take down Iranian Shahed drones. from Ukraine to the Middle East, and then the US started issuing security alerts. I would say the US knew exactly what was going on. It was imminent, indeed.

Oh, I definitely believe that.

@bass4funk

The Israelis are not the bad ones, it's quite simple, The Iranians can't have nukes, that is just a non-starter, it's up to them where they will take this, Israel wouldn't target the regime had they not pushed to pursue making a nuclear weapon. So Israel will take whatever action is necessary to protect its nation.

Agree. But that sort of argument doesn't work, unfortunately. Unless your argument is baseless and hysterical, it won't be acceptable.

HopeSpringsEternalToday  10:59 am JST

Pres. Trump stated MANY times, Iran can have civilian nuclear power, just no enrichment of nuclear materials.

Why should he get to decide?

The US knew all about this - but their regional mongrel appears to have rabies.

geronimo2006Today  01:01 pm JST

I would say Israel gave the US a heads-up perhaps a week ago, and then later Trump gave Israel a wink. Five days ago US diverted 20,000 anti-drone missiles. which are designed to take down Iranian Shahed drones. from Ukraine to the Middle East, and then the US started issuing security alerts. I would say the US knew exactly what was going on. It was imminent, indeed.

Agreed and proof that Ukraine 'territorial' matters are not a Trump Admin priority, and small potatoes compared with Iranian nuclear proliferation, why the real reason Trump's rebuilding US readiness and not Ukraine

Netanyahu is a rabid murderer. Iran’s nuclear weapons program only exists because Trump was stupid enough to pull out of the deal they had with Iran.

The right wing are one step closer to global destruction, just like they want.

Fox’s Jennifer Griffin just confirmed that Trump was indeed notified and briefed on the strike some time ago that this was going to take place.

Agree. But that sort of argument doesn't work, unfortunately. Unless your argument is baseless and hysterical, it won't be acceptable.

Keep trying…eventually the left will get it.

Inevitable, never in any question, all with the full knowledge logistical support of US government.

The question is how much closer this pre-emptive strike will bring the threat of all-out war in the middle east?

Compare the size of the "UN Gift State ", Israel. to that of the historical colossus Iran

No US support...no Israel

Pathetic little hanger on nation.

People here have no idea on how a "regime change " would work.

Iran has Islamic theocrats at the top, Israel has Zionist messianic at its top.

If real war breaks out, look for local countries to join Iran.

I cant see anyone in Europe joining Israel

In past aggressions by Israel, Iran bided its time and sent a CALIBRATED response.

No one here mentioning Netanyahu,s precarious political position and the forever delayed trials for bribery.

I hope Iran kicks some Zionist butt

Not allowing Iran to have nukes is very much ok, but delivering them directly on the silver tablet all the reasons for developing and having nukes from now on, that is maybe not so clever and could lead to very severe global disruptions as like in the other case, Palestinians, we have proxy population and supporters of both contrary sides in nearly all developed countries. If it is not cooled down, we could have many local clashs and eruptions anywhere or even a bigger third world war, combining big block powers' intentions with explosive multi-religious conflicts.

Iran’s nuclear weapons program only exists because Trump was stupid enough to pull out of the deal they had with Iran.

You heard here first, Iran didn't hve nukes til Trump showed up!

Best case, this bombing campaign on Iran's nuclear program ends shortly, and then Trump's able to hammer out an enforceable non-proliferation agreement with Iran

Certainly, the Arab Gulf States are all pulling for the above outcome, along with Israel.

Trump logic goes something like this...all those Iranian nuclear facilities had to be destroyed anyway, as a condition for any non-proliferation agreement between US and Iran, so this military attack, not such a big deal...

I hope Iran kicks some Zionist butt

Then that would be the end of that country as we know it

Let's see how much longer Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has left. Perhaps the Iranian people, not a body of clergy, will be able to choose their leader in the near future? Or is that not desirable?

deanzaZZRToday 12:45 pm JST

The USA is clearly providing targeting information through its military satellite network Blood is on your hands.

I feel so bad that a terrorism promoting bug is being squashed. I mean, the munitions should have been saved for the Taiwan Strait but what can you do.

I pray that with this operation it will be a start that the people will rise up and take it from the crazy religious mullahs, topple it and rid themselves from this cancerous fanaticism

The United Nations is toast. It somehow survived the American crimes of Vietnam and Iraq. It will not survive this time with Uncle Sam backing Israel to attack every Middle East country that does not have a king or sultan. Funny that.

"Pres. Putin has +25 years of building goodwill with Iran, including helping establish their civilian nuclear industry, so he's the key right now, and Pres. Trump surely busy leveraging Putin right now to de-escalate ASAP."

Sometimes silence speaks volumes, don't expose much just enough sinkers are enough

Middle East was fully aware that the tension with Iran and their nuclear weapons program was reaching a breaking point. Trump just achieved historical US military sales and security arrangements with the Gulf States in May. Iran was front and center in all their discussions.

Let's hope Iran fully understand futility of responding with military force. Naturally, worst case is if Iran is somehow already in possession of a nuclear weapon, due to failed Israeli and US intel.

Trump's been VERY clear, while campaigning for President and now as #47, that nuclear weapons proliferation is BY FAR the greatest threat to humanity.

Today, proof Trump's delivering on promise to prioritize the greatest threats facing the entire world, not pesky regional matters that can only dangerously escalate.

World is VERY lucky to have Trump back in 1600, leadership matters, focusing on truly global matters!

Sowing terror will reap terror.

Iran may not or cannot hit back directly or soon but it will surely hit back.

not a good way to live always wondering when your enemy may get to you

JJE Today 10:03 am JST

Knew this was coming.

You should have knew this was coming since Netanyahu spoke all those years ago about how Iran was just around the corner from creating nuclear weapons. He has been itching at it for a long time.

Mr KiplingToday 10:16 am JST

The sooner the failed "Israel experiment" is ended the better. Move the Jews back to their countries of origin, Russia, Poland, Ukraine etc.

A better solution would be to move the Jewish people of all countries to the Jewish Autonomous Oblast in Russia which was especially created for Jewish people as a homeland. But the Jewish people preferred to create a homeland with violence and displace other people because their ancient religious books said that their God had given that particular parcel of land to them. So here we are.

Bass4funk Today 01:30 pm JST

I pray that with this operation it will be a start that the people will rise up and take it from the crazy religious mullahs, topple it and rid themselves from this cancerous fanaticism

You would not have had to pray for such things if American and England did not act orchestrate a coup against Iran’s prior democratically elected government in 1953 to reinstate the unpopular and dictatorial Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. It was the resistance to Pahlavi’s government which led Iran down the path to the place it is now.

You speak about the fanaticism of Muslim believers in Iran, but fail to note the fanaticism of Jewish believers which has literally caused problems in multiple nations for more than two millennium. You should read about the history of the Jewish nation under the Romans and compare it to their closet neighbors, the Samaritans. Although both communities share the same common core religious tradition, the Jewish nation continually revolted, unlike the Samaritans, to such a degree that the Romans destroyed their temple in much the same way as the Hasmoneans had destroyed the Samaritan temple 200 years prior. The same Hasmoneans who are held up by the Jewish people as heroes to this day, just as those Zealots who died Masada in the Judean-Roman war are. One person’s terrorist and zealot is another person’s freedom fighter and faithful believer. I personally find the zealotry of Muslims and Jews distasteful and harmful to the world.

You speak about the fanaticism of Muslim believers in Iran, but fail to note the fanaticism of Jewish believers which has literally caused problems in multiple nations for more than two millennium. You should read about the history of the Jewish nation under the Romans and compare it to their closet neighbors, the Samaritans. Although both communities share the same common core religious tradition, the Jewish nation continually revolted, unlike the Samaritans, to such a degree that the Romans destroyed their temple in much the same way as the Hasmoneans had destroyed the Samaritan temple 200 years prior. The same Hasmoneans who are held up by the Jewish people as heroes to this day, just as those Zealots who died Masada in the Judean-Roman war are. One person’s terrorist and zealot is another person’s freedom fighter and faithful believer. I personally find the zealotry of Muslims and Jews distasteful and harmful to the world.

I know and understand all of that, but it has nothing to do with the current and the moment and the fact that the mullahs want to wipe the Jewish nation off the face of the earth. So I do think that this was the appropriate and necessary strike to make.

HopeSpringsEternal

Today 02:10 pm JST

Nobody wants to live on a planet, wondering when the leadership in Tehran will decide to use nukes, not a good way to live for the entire world. DJ Trump, thus thankfully taking decisive action to prevent such a terrible condition

Imagining others will attack you and using that as justification to attack those others ensures that they will do attack you when they get the chance.

Serious people realize nuclear weapons proliferation is the single greatest threat to humanity and civilization.

Everyone wants Iran to thrive, but like almost all other countries, cannot be allowed to possess nuclear weapons. Not an attack on people of Iran, rather an attack on dangerous policies pursued by their leadership

There's a wave of drones crossing the other way to that rogue state/US ally now.

Can we expect ballistic missiles to be launched at a time when the drones are just approaching or entering certain airspace, in order to overwhelm the Dome... Will know soon.

bass4funk Today 02:13 pm JST

it has nothing to do with the current and the moment and the fact that the mullahs want to wipe the Jewish nation off the face of the earth.

The Iranian complaint about Israel in the area is directly tied to Jewish insistence that their homeland must be on that particular parcel of land because their ancient religious books say that their ancestors were given that land by God who empowered them to slaughter the existing Cannanite nations. If the English had not given validity to this religious belief and double-dealed with both the Arabs and the Jews, but recognized that the kingdoms of Israel and Judah were toppled more than 2,000 years ago so that no legitimate claim could be made, we would not be here. So the religious convictions of the Jewish people have everything to do with the situation.

The Iranian complaint about Israel in the area is directly tied to Jewish insistence that their homeland must be on that particular parcel of land because their ancient religious books say that their ancestors were given that land by God who empowered them to slaughter the existing Cannanite nations. If the English had not given validity to this religious belief and double-dealed with both the Arabs and the Jews, but recognized that the kingdoms of Israel and Judah were toppled more than 2,000 years ago so that no legitimate claim could be made, we would not be here. So the religious convictions of the Jewish people have everything to do with the situation

Again, I know the history and understand it, but what does that have to do with making sure that Iran doesn’t obtain nukes? It’s not going to happen, it won’t be allowed, bottom line. So now quite a few of the top leadership have been killed off, this is good news for a possible resistance movement to grow from within.

HopeSpringsEternalToday 02:04 pm JST

Trump's been VERY clear, while campaigning for President and now as #47, that nuclear weapons proliferation is BY FAR the greatest threat to humanity.

Today, proof Trump's delivering on promise to prioritize the greatest threats facing the entire world, not pesky regional matters that can only dangerously escalate.

World is VERY lucky to have Trump back in 1600, leadership matters, focusing on truly global matters!

I hope TrumpGPT stays with us if things go south so we can gauge its reaction.

Israel doesn't have the ability to make strikes over this much distance without logistical support from the US. This was Trump showing Iran that they are powerless and an incentive to them taking whatever deal he is still willing to offer them.

Trump campaigned for no wars on his watch. I guess this is another promise made but not kept. I hope he can keep us out of this conflict. Our soldiers do not deserve fighting a religious war.

This only means Iran will supply Putin with more weapons while NK, Russia, China and Iran will work together to bring down the incompetent Trump administration. I assume that will attack what Trump cares about the most: his money and his image!

"Hossein Salami, chief of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards, has been killed".

There you are, a precision attack against a legitimate military target.

bass4funk Today 02:30 pm JST

what does that have to do with making sure that Iran doesn’t obtain nukes? It’s not going to happen, it won’t be allowed, bottom line.

I was responding to your statement about Iran currently acting out of "cancerous fanaticism." I have explained that Israel as a nation state only exists due to the enabling of the fanatic religious belief of the Jewish people. You here switch the subject to nuclear weapons. Yes, I do find a nuclear Iran worrisome. But if, as I have already explained, the existence of Israel as a nation state itself is predicated on fanatical religious belief, how should one view Israel having nuclear weapons? "Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons. Estimates of Israel's stockpile range between 90 and 400 nuclear warheads" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Israel). Why would I be concerned about Iranian nuclear weapons without being concerned first about Israeli nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons which they have had from the last century. Might that, not wacky Islamicism, be the reason Iran seeks nuclear weapons?

@JJEToday  02:23 pm JST

There's a wave of drones crossing the other way to that rogue state/US ally now.

Can we expect ballistic missiles to be launched at a time when the drones are just approaching or entering certain airspace, in order to overwhelm the Dome... Will know soon.

You want to know why that dome is there? Israel built it because of the repeated rocket attacks from Hamas. Without that, they would have had to have invaded Gaza to root out Hamas many years earlier. They only did it recently because of the documented Hamas terrorist attack on Israel which forced their hand. Or perhaps you would argue that they should have just accepted the hostage taking of their citizens and the shooting of Israelis who were attending dance parties and the like?

I was responding to your statement about Iran currently acting out of "cancerous fanaticism." I have explained that Israel as a nation state only exists due to the enabling of the fanatic religious belief of the Jewish people. You here switch the subject to nuclear weapons. Yes, I do find a nuclear Iran worrisome. But if, as I have already explained, the existence of Israel as a nation state itself is predicated on fanatical religious belief, how should one view Israel having nuclear weapons? "Israel is widely believed to possess nuclear weapons. Estimates of Israel's stockpile range between 90 and 400 nuclear warheads" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_weapons_and_Israel). Why would I be concerned about Iranian nuclear weapons without being concerned first about Israeli nuclear weapons? Nuclear weapons which they have had from the last century. Might that, not wacky Islamicism, be the reason Iran seeks nuclear weapons?

So what do you suggest? What should happen in your opinion from here on out?

Iran has just launched drones to attack Israel, and their leadership is talking tough, so not exactly promising developments unfortunately, but not surprising either.

Hopefully, they're just trying to 'save face'

bass4funk Today 02:52 pm JST

What should happen in your opinion from here on out?

Well one can start by denuclearizing Israel. But the Israeli religious fanatics will not allow that most definitely.

jeffyToday 02:47 pm JST

Iran could have chosen peace and not funding terrorism and would have had no need for nuclear weapons.