RichardPearce comments

What good is 'absolute air supremacy' when the only place you can land is the airfield or aircraft carrier of a country that then has to choose to either prevent you from taking off on another attack run, or losing their airfield or aircraft carrier?

Because if yesterday was all about Iran hitting Israel's weapons programs R and D, and choice military bases throughout the Occupied Territories, today could be about going after Israel's Air Force facilities (or the armored vehicles of its antioverthrow divisions).

Oh, wait, did the article, so full of details about what the Scofflaw regime has hit from the start of its sneak attack on somehow run out of room before it could provide much detail about what Iran hit while your reporter in Israel was being a glitched video saying 'we got the alarm that something was coming but we can't see, hear, of feel ANYTHING right now' again, and again, and again, and again...

Iran HAS been exercising the utmost restraint for DECADES, while Japan has been siding with those harassing and poking and prodding and tripping and spitting on it.

It even exercised the utmost restraint in responding to Israel's slaps in the face.

But there comes a point where fighting back just a forcefully as the person attacking you IS restraint.

One wonders if the responses of the Japanese government is because of unacknowleged shame that it has failed to do ANYTHING about all the Crimes Against Humanity of the Israeli regime.

So Iran is playing the diplomatic game to put America's involvement in the Israeli regime's military decisions on record, and to reinforce the obvious that Israel is both ABSOLUTELY the aggressor in this war, and that Iran is trying to diplomatically end this war.

Which means it's setting the stage for after it wins (which will require killing a lot of the regime's militants and supporters, and doing that also running up the 'collateral damage') to debunk claims that the US wasn't involved, that Iran was the aggressor, that Iran killed unnecessarily, that Iran blocked diplomatic efforts to limit casualties or end the war.

Why would Iran do that? Because despite being the victim of an UNPROVOKED ATTACK, the target but never user of WMDs, after Iran won against Saddam Hussein, the US blamed Iran for everything and too much of the world BELIEVED THE LIE over the the truths easily seen.

I wonder how long our media will keep up the pretence that the government of Yemen gets missiles etc from Iran given the stark difference between the 'Iranian supplied missiles' that Yemen has used in its demonstration that, despite the US etc refusing to recognize it as a legitimate government, it takes the duties that international law imposes on all governments a lot more seriously than those who insist on calling them 'Houthi rebels' despite them being composed of pretty much every subdivision of the population of Yemen.

Note that the CPPCG calls on EVERY GOVERNMENT to do everything it can to Prevent, and, if that has failed Punish those attempting the Crime of Genocide.

PS, what has the Japanese government done to meet that obligation?

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The first thing to remember when reading these reports is that Iran is very open about where it is hit and who was killed in attacks on it, while the Israeli regime tends to consider that data a state secret except when it can be used for propaganda purposes, and also tends to be very, let's say liberal, in defining an Israeli as a civilian, and even more liberal in defining a nonIsraeli as a combatant ofnone sort or another. Won't take someone digging very hard to come up with examples of Israel doing both things.

Now you may not be aware that the head of Israel's intelligence services quit because his warnings that Iran had thoroughly penetrated Israel's military, military suppliers, and his intelligence services.

And before Netanyahu started this war, Iran's intelligence services had essentially confirmed this by releasing enough information about Israel's nuclear weapons program to suggest it has the vital secret information about where all of Israel's enriched nuclear material is that means that it can continue to hit Israel's nuclear weapons program sites without accidentally causing a nuclear disaster.

Oh, and even Netanyahu has admitted that he isn't going to win anytime soon. Remember that whenever someone is claiming Israel's war on Iranians is going well.

There was a guy, born in what the government, population, and maps agreed was called what translates as Palestine.

He is acknowledged to have attacked Jewish religious leaders, inside Jewish religious sites, and was tried and convicted of what we now call terrorism.

And 99% of those reading this will recognize the name of this Palestinian terrorist.

Jesus of Nazareth.

Where ther 'Iranian barrages' struck yesterday.

The targets hit include Tel Nof airbase near Tel Aviv, Nevatim airbase in the Negev desert that houses F-35 warplanes, Dimona nuclear facility, Tel Aviv Nuclear Research Center, and the Kirya district in Tel Aviv, known as the "Israeli Pentagon."

Does that sound like Iran was targeting "nuclear facilities, missile storage and launch bases, nuclear scientists, and other legitimate military targets" or using "indiscriminate missile attacks on Israeli cities"?

Think about this, the costs of carrying out the UNPROVOKED ATTACK ON IRAN almost certainly ran higher than the costs of the Iranian response plus the costs of all the destruction Netanyahu caused. If you add in the costs of everything that Netanyahu threw into a failed attempt to block the probing wave of the response, the 'almost certainly' loses its qualifier. And that's just the beginning. Tonight's response probably was testing out the upgrades, reworks, and new designs to Iran's drones and missiles based on what they learned in their previous response to a smaller unprovoked Israeli attack on them. Because the Iranian weapon design program follows the successful Allied weapon design program (using what's available in quantity wherever possible) their turnaround time for upgrades etc AND low overhead for mass production, the disparity in costs are going to expand rapidly, and success rates (both with offence and defense) for Iran will undergo exponential rises.

Seeing the guy who's antidemocratic regime has been committing genocide on the majority of its LEGAL POPULATION asking the population of Iran to overthrow the Iranian government reminds me of Saddam Hussain's spokesperson claiming the outraged Iraqi population were slaughtering the American military invaders.

Netanyahu's disconnect from reality is total.

So, what's going to be the consequences of the Israeli regime winning? They'll keep slaughtering civilians around the region with impunity. The NNPT, the ICC, the UNSC become irredeemable farces. The NWPT dies.

What's the consequences of Iran winning? The region gets stabilized, the dictatorships will feel pressure to democratize because there's nobody coming to restore them (or a clone of them) to power. The NNPT gets at least tightened up (no more exemptions from inspection, no more board of politicians 'reinterpreting' what the inspectors find, and insisting that the sixth time an unsubstantiated accusation is made the accusation has to be considered absolutely true until definitively debunked tge way the previous 5 were) and begins transitioning to the NWPT, the ICC faces a similar reform to get rid of exemptions and political charges, the UNSC becomes less of a tool of the colonial powers.

So, which side do YOU support?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

So, according to the genocide deniers, the ISIS members they recruited to run their deception campaign were killed by the elected government of the concentration camp.

When it comes to credibility between the Israeli regime, ISIS, and Hamas, the Israeli regime has the least by a couple of orders of magnitude.

When a country boards a ship destined for a different country, finds ZERO contraband, zero criminals, and yet takes over the vessel, forces it to dock in a country it wasn't going to, forces everyone to abandon the vessel and the legal cargo, it is not 'deporting' the members of the passengers or crew, it is RELEASING KIDNAPPED HOSTAGES!

And it is Israeli practice to, when it say ms it is 'delivering' humanitarian aid pira...oops 'seized' this way to 'confiscate' the actual aid, substitute expired items, and deliver that, WHILE REDUCING THE OTHER HUMANITARIAN AID it reluctantly lets trickle in by at least the amount it seized.

Russia kept showing up at the agreed time and place, and finding Zelensky didn't want his guys back, alove or dead.

Because alive they increase the odds of a coup against a, and dead they increase the already ridiculous debts the Azovian's have run up

There's a few words missing, like HIGHJACKED, PIRATED, KIDNAPPED AND ILLEGALLY DETAINED.

But that's OK, enough people can see them between the lines of type. That's the problem with censorship, you can hide the truth, you can erase the truth, you can paste layers of lies on top of the truth but people see the truth anyway

We've been told the Iranian government represses its population, is antidemocratic etc.

And, of course, there are Iranians who feel that way, just as there are Japanese who feel that way about the Japanese government, Americans about the American government, Canadians about the Canadian government etc.

And if the only people you hear called 'experts' on Iran, and the only Iranians you see being interviewed say that the majority of Iranians feel that way, well, it's easy to believe that most Iranians feel that way.

But what happens if you actually ask a representative sample of Iranians how they feel? Strangely you don't hear the 'experts' talk specific percentages and citing polls, and the notion of citing those is dismissed because 'the regime dictates what the results of polls in Iran produce' and 'our' polling companies, which can be trusted (we are told) don't run polls on Iranians.

But there is a Canadian company (Iranpoll) that does indeed run polls on Iranians, and one of their clients (the University of Maryland) makes the results of the polls they commission public, and it turns out the percentage of Iranians who feel repressed by their government is about on par with Americans who feel repressed by the American government, and Canadians who feel repressed by the Canadian government.

Those same investigations find the Gazan government statements hold up pretty consistently.

(Sorry, my dog's nose hit the post button)

There are people who judge who's statements are most believable based on what they've been told to believe about those making the statements.

And there are those who judge who's statements are most believable based on how their previous statements hold up to investigation and cross examination.

Every neutral investigation has consistently found the Israeli regime's claims rarely hold up. Those same investigations find most of the Gazan g

Denialism is very effective for a while, not so effective after that, and then counterproductive after that...but the people practicing it believe it to remain very long after its hit the counterproductive stage.

Woody, the virtue signallers said the same thing in the effort to persuade themselves they held the moral high ground with both supporters of the White State In South Africa and those who wanted to end it, and regime apologists said it to try and discredit opposition to it.

The problem is that something that violates the ICSPCA makes it impossible for coexistence to happen, and anything resembling equality and justice is unacceptable (and toxic) to a regime that has violated the ICSPCA.

The question is does Zelensky actually believe he is winning/has the upper hand (despite even with all of NATO assisting him, the Kiev regime had trouble with just the population of the eastern oblasts, and then, when NATO escalated to providing a flood of weapons and cash to make one more try at crushing resistance, had zero success against those plus the Russian intervention forces) or does he think that, when the whole house of cards collapses, he's got a genteel 'retirement' in France (like the Shah) or somewhere else awaiting him?

The problem with the existing international institutions that have grown into farces is that the White Bloc states have either exempted themselves from their jurisdiction while making themselves the major influence on their composition or simply refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of rulings against them for so long the notion of the rulings having any real effect disappears.

Is it possible that the ones China is helping the majority of the world create for themselves will be perverted the same way? Yes. But the likelihood is much smaller.

Before there was an ICC, there were ICTs.

The ICTY established that even if a group that had formerly had a historic homeland tried to 'take it back' from a people for whom it was now their homeland, it was still 'the worst' Crime Against Humanity to use military force against the civilian population to displace them.

The ICTR established that, when it comes to 'the worst' Crime Against Humanity, you didn't have to have fired a weapon, or ordered others to fire weapons, or provided weapons or cash used in the Crime, to be guilty of participating in that crime. All one has to have done is set the conditions for others to see that Crime as justified and YOU can be tried and convicted of Genocide.

Lots of people ignore those two precedents, but they are likely to be haunted by that for decades.

Woody, there's over 20,000 hostages. The Jewish State In Palestine militants and their 'Christian Zionist' supporters may think that when most of the world says ALL THE HOSTAGES it doesn't mean those kidnapped by Mileikowsky. On the other hand, most of the world thonks it does.