oz4real83: Iran will only look for soft targets outside Israel just to prove to their deluded followers that they have "avenged" the killing of their top generals by Israel, they won't dare attack Israel from their own soil
An Iranian attack on Israel from its own soil, rather than via proxy groups, would invite an Israeli retaliation in kind, Foreign Minister Israel Katz threatens on X.
“If Iran attacks from its own territory, Israel will respond and attack in Iran,” Katz tweets in Hebrew and Persian, tagging Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
The threat comes moments after Khamenei tells a crowd in Tehran that “the evil regime made a mistake and must be punished and it shall be,” referring to an April 1 attack on Iran’s consulate in Damascus allegedly carried out by Israel.
OhuDealer: Iran's geography is even worse than Afghanistan as it's mostly mountainous lands.
And you can bet IRCG has hundreds of ballistic missile silos deep in their mountain ranges and hundreds of miles of network of underground bases .
Dropping nukes on mountainous regions have been proven to be highly ineffective because the mountains seem to contain and deflect the blast.
The only vulnerable areas in Iran as a result of geography are the flat plains bordering Iraq where most of their oil fields are. Bombing these oil fields won't do shit either as Iran has huge strategic reserves of refined oil products stored in cavernous storage facilities buried under mountains.
I sincerely can't make sense of Israel's suicidal objectives unless you consider that Israel is currently ruled by fanatical Jewish supremacists who are bent on starting a global conflict in which they believe their Messiah will appear at the last minute to save them and from there rule the world with Jews as the elite ruling class and the rest of humanity who survive the war enslaved to every Jew.
Deranged Shiites believe in the coming of their 12th IMAM of Mahdi.
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) has been preparing its F-35s for possible attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, according to sources in Israel.
Last week, Ali-Akbar Salehi, the former head of Iran’s nuclear agency, implied in remarks broadcast on Iranian state television that Iran had everything it required to construct a nuclear bomb.
The changes made by the IAF to its F-35s were behind the decision to perform heavy maintenance in Israel rather than send the stealth aircraft to a European maintenance centre. The changes being made have the intention of making the stealth aircraft more capable should Israel decide to attack nuclear sites in Iran.
The IAF has tested some of the modifications made to its F-35I Adir stealth fighters to make them more capable in a potential attack on Iran. In March 2023, the IAF participated in a joint exercise with Greece, France, Cyprus, Italy and the US.
Sources in Israel were only ready to say that the F-35 operated by the IAF would carry more fuel “in special tanks” in the non-stealth phase of the flight, noting that the added fuel was “a must” even with aerial refuelling capabilities.
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has developed special fuel tanks for different types of fighter aircraft and has operated old Boeing 707s converted to operate as refuelling aircraft. In recent years, Israel has ordered new Boeing KC-46A Pegasus tankers, the first of which will be delivered towards the end of 2025.
Special test aircraft have recently been armed with an Israeli-made precision-guided munition weighing 1,000kg. The bomb, designed to fit the weapons bay of the F-35, has been described as a weapon with “super penetration”.
No further details have been released on the bomb but one of Israel company Rafael’s family of smart bombs, the Spice 2000, has an add-on kit for 900kg warheads such as the MK-84, BLU-109 and RAP-2000. It can be assumed that the new bomb was based on the experience gathered by using this bomb.
In recent tests, this unique bomb developed for the IAF’s F-35s achieved a circular error probability (CEP) of three metres.
The F-35 test aircraft operated by the IAF’s main test unit has been equipped with systems that enable it to fly and launch weapon systems in EW-saturated areas.
The test aircraft was also used to enhance the F-35’s capabilities to intercept armed-UAVs that Iran has been manufacturing in growing numbers, many of which have found themselves sent to Russia to be used in the country’s war in Ukraine.
Israeli sources have said that the growing threat of Iranian armed-UAVs was reflected in the changes performed in the IAF’s F-35s which included allowing pilots to receive direct data from ground units that are part of the IDF’s “Depth Command”.
Two years ago, Israel was affected by Russian GPS denial systems operated by Russian forces in Syria. During the event, Israeli civil aviation suffered the most severe interference, but recent years have seen the acceleration of the development of systems that would make Israeli-developed military systems immune to such disruptions. Some are already in operation while others have continued testing.
Officially, nobody in Israel has been ready to address the problem. Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Giora Eiland said that if advanced Western weapon systems got to the hands of Iran it could cause a problem if these systems were used against Israel.
“When a country like Iran puts its hands on an advanced US-made weapon systems such as the JDAM it creates the danger of finding the weak spots in such a system,” Eiland remarked. “In the JDAM example, the GPS navigation system can be affected by advanced GPS denial technologies such as those developed by Russia.”
Israeli-made weapon systems that use GPS as a guidance sensor also use other methods that are immune to interferences. By analysing the Russian GPS denial systems operated in Syria, Israel took action to be better prepared for more aggressive GPS denial.
The proliferation of Russian-made GPS jamming systems in the Middle East accelerated the process of equipping the IAF’s aircraft with anti-jamming systems. In 2021, the IAF revealed that an advanced anti-jamming system developed by IAI had been integrated into advanced platforms used by its different squadrons.
The system, the ADA anti-jam GPS system, was designed to protect GPS/GNSS navigation from jamming. According to IAI, the system has been integrated into advanced platforms used by the IAF including F-16 fighter jets and various types of UAV. The ADA system has demonstrated operational maturity and has been in use by a number of international customers on various airborne, land and marine platforms.
IAI said that ADA was combat proven in providing immunity against GPS jammers after it demonstrated its effectiveness in the 2021 Israel–Palestine crisis in Gaza.
Israeli sources have said that the changes in the IAF’s F-35 were also made to enable the aircraft to operate in a “stand-alone mode” when ground forces transmit target data directly to the pilot without going through the IAF operation centre.
“This would enable the stealth aircraft to hit pop-up targets that require the shortest sensor to shooter time,” one of the sources said.
The capability will be based on a very advanced, highly classified data transfer system developed in Israel.
Britain is on the verge of launching airstrikes in Yemen as Rishi Sunak signs off on a drastic response after Iran-backed Houthi rebels ignored a 'final warning'.
The Prime Minister summoned his top team to a virtual emergency meeting from Downing Street this evening where he briefed them on the plans, with Foreign Secretary David Cameron seen entering No10.
The Mail understands F-35B Lightning stealth jets based at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus are being readied for an imminent strike.
These aircraft were expected to play a key role in the air strikes likely to target Houthi rocket launcher sites and command and control facilities.
British drones equipped with lethal RX-9 were also primed, it is understood.
US President Joe Biden is expected to make a statement after the military strikes tonight.
Downing Street declined to comment ahead of what is expected to be a significant military operation led by the United States.
But Whitehall sources confirmed that Mr Sunak is ready to sign off military reprisals against the Houthis, who have launched a string of attacks on merchant shipping in the Red Sea in recent weeks.
US only need to stop funding and they will be roasted!
A shithole filled with cowards, talking about fighting a brave army with bad ass ideology and morale!
Even the US intelligence already knows Israel will be defeated!
How many fronts does the shithole want to fight!
Israel has a joker card and they will use it. With over 100 hydrogen bombs they can turn the whole middle east and beyond into GLASS. Be careful what you crazy stone age lunatics wish for.
An Israeli air strike killed senior Hezbollah commander Wissam al-Tawil on Monday, a development that is likely to result in a further escalation between the two sides, which have been involved in a low intensity conflict since 7 October.
Tawil died along with another fighter from the Lebanese armed group, according to the Reuters news agency. The Israeli air strike targeted the pair's car in the village of Majdal Selm.
Known as “Jawad”, Tawil was a deputy head of a unit in the elite Radwan force and played an important role in Hezbollah's recent confrontations with the Israeli army.
"This is a very painful strike," one security source said, while another added, "Things will flare up now."
The commander played “a leading role in managing Hezbollah’s operations in the south”, according to one unnamed official speaking to the AFP news agency.
Israel ignored Joe Biden's criticism of its bombardment of Gaza, vowing its war against Hamas will continue no matter what and rejecting one of the American president's key requests regarding the Palestinian Authority.
'Israel will continue the war against Hamas with or without international support,' its Foreign Minister Eli Cohen said.
His double down came after Biden issued a stunning rebuke of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, warning Israel is losing support across the globe and its conservative government needs to 'change'.
Netanyahu had his own response, using Biden's critique to rally the right in Israel by rejecting Biden's call for the West Bank’s Palestinian Authority to be revitalized in order to take over governing Gaza after the war.
He vowed he 'won’t allow Israel to repeat the mistake of Oslo,' referring to the 1993 Oslo accords that was meant to allow limited Palestinian self-rule. The country's conservative right-wing hates the agreement.
The Israeli Prime Minister also has indicated he will keep Israeli troops in Gaza indefinitely.
Biden has been supportive of Israel since the surprise attack by Hamas forces on October 7th killed 1,200 people. But his words of warning - given Tuesday behind closed doors at a political fundraiser - were his strongest echo yet of concerns about the collateral damage from Israel's military assault on Hamas: more than 18,000 Gazans killed and a massive humanitarian crisis in the West Bank.
'They're starting to lose that support by indiscriminate bombing that takes place,' Biden said of Israel.
But Israel is rejecting any idea of a reduction in forces or a ceasefire.
[b]'A ceasefire at the current stage is a gift to the terrorist organisation Hamas, and will allow it to return and threaten the residents of Israel,' [/b]Cohen said.
Biden's national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, will travel to Israel on Thursday to meet with Netanyahu to discuss how long the fighting will continue.
'I will certainly be talking to Prime Minister Netanyahu, the war cabinet and the senior national security leadership of Israel, about timetables about how they are thinking about that,' Sullivan said at a Wall Street Journal forum on Tuesday.
But he wouldn't say whether or not he'd talk about pressuring Israeli officials to shorten its military campaign.
The U.S. is starting to feel its own isolation when it comes to unabashed support of Israel.
On Friday, the United Nations Security Council passed a cease-fire resolution - which the U.S. promptly vetoed. But, on Tuesday, the U.N. General Assembly overwhelming supported a non-binding measure of the same proposal.
Netanyahu, meanwhile, has flatly rejected American plans for the future of the region.
He ruled out any role for the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority in Gaza, which Washington wants to see, opening up a divide between the allies.
'There is disagreement about 'the day after Hamas,' Netanyahu said in the video statement posted on social media, 'and I hope that we will reach agreement here, as well.
'After the great sacrifice of our civilians and our soldiers, I will not allow the entry into Gaza of those who educate for terrorism, support terrorism and finance terrorism,' Netanyahu said. 'Gaza will be neither Hamastan nor Fatahstan.'
Sullivan said he would speak to Netanyahu and other officials about plans for the region after the war.
'We've been clear that we believe that reoccupation of Gaza is a bad idea,' he said.
'It should not happen. We believe that the Israeli government ultimately understands that as well. We also believe there will have to be some kind of interim security arrangement as we work on a long term political solution for both Gaza and the West Bank.'
Biden has pressed for a two-state solution for the area.
Israel has retaliated hard against Hamas since the terrorist group attacked on October 7th. But many nations are expressing concern about the number of Palestinian civilians being killed as Israel bombs Gaza.
Nearly 16,000 Palestinians have been killed and most of Gaza's 2.3 million inhabitants have been displaced since the war began.
Damage also has been considerable. Nearly 40,000 buildings or about 18% of all pre-conflict structures have been damaged or destroyed in the Gaza Strip, a U.N. assessment showed on Tuesday.
With little aid allowed into Gaza, Palestinians face severe food shortages along with a lack of water and other basic goods. Some worry that Palestinians will be forced out of the territory altogether.
About 1,300 people on the Israeli side have died since the war began. Israel says Hamas still has 117 hostages and the remains of 20 people who died in while in captivity or during the initial attack.
Photos and videos shared by Israeli journalists on social media show scores of Hamas terrorists surrendering to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.
“Hamas fighters surrendering here in seemingly large numbers,” wrote defense analyst Jonathan Schanzer on X/Twitter. “This is a good sign, if the trend continues. Questioning them will also lead to more intelligence that could also help bring a speedier end to this phase of the war.”
Some videos from correspondents in the region reportedly showed the IDF arresting dozens of men who surrendered and were being checked to determine if they were operatives for Hamas or Islamic Jihad, both Palestinian terror groups operating out of Gaza.
Some of the heaviest fighting of the Israel-Hamas war has occurred in recent days, as IDF troops have pushed into multiple Hamas strongholds across northern and southern Gaza.
The IDF “launched a combined attack on the area of the city of Khan Younis, against the ‘centers of gravity’ of the Hamas terror organization,” the IDF said in a statement on Wednesday evening. It added that the forces broke through Hamas defenses within a few hours.
“The entire leadership of the Hamas terror organization — political and military — grew up in the area of the city of Khan Younis, including Yahya Sinwar, Muhammad Sinwar, and Mohammed Deif. Now the city is surrounded by the 98th Division,” the IDF said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu released a video statement saying that IDF forces were “currently surrounding Sinwar’s house.”
“His home isn’t his castle, and he can flee, but it’s just a matter of time until we get to him,” Netanyahu added.
Sinwar is Hamas’ leader in Gaza.
The IDF announced on Thursday the deaths of three more soldiers, bringing the current toll from the military’s ground operation to 87. Israel launched its military campaign against Hamas in Gaza following the terror group’s Oct. 7 invasion of the Jewish state, in which Palestinian terrorists rampaged across southern Israeli communities, murdering 1,200 people and kidnapped 240 as hostages.
“Hamas is losing control of Gaza,” said Schanzer, the military analyst. “The IDF may be drawing closer to [Hamas leaders] Yahya Sinwar & Mohammed Deif. The question now: will they flee Gaza by tunnel to Egypt or fight to the end?”
The financial times UK should also tell us about the hardship being faced by UK citizens! Oh! They feel we don't know that inflation is biting harder than never before, and a housing crisis fvckin their country from the butthole?
Anyways, His Excellency, President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu (GCFR) is aware about the statistics and making frantic efforts to steer the economy on a growth path. Nigerians do not need a foreign entity battling with its own problems, to notify us.
The IDF eliminated Ahmed Siam, a company commander of Hamas's Naser Radwan Company, the terrorist responsible for holding approximately 1,000 Gazan residents hostage in Gaza's Rantisi Hospital preventing them from evacuating south to safety, the IDF said on Saturday.
The assassination succeeded with the efforts of both the IDF and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency). Ground and air troops participated in the operation.
It was Thursday 19 October at about 06:30, and Israel had been bombing Gaza for 12 days straight.
He'd been in his third-floor, three-bedroom flat in al-Zahra, a middle-class area in the north of the Gaza Strip. Until now, it had been largely untouched by air strikes.
He'd heard a rising clamour outside. People were screaming. "You need to escape," somebody in the street shouted, "because they will bomb the towers".
As he left his building and crossed the road, looking for a safe place, his phone lit up.
It was a call from a private number.
"I'm speaking with you from Israeli intelligence," a man said down the line, according to Mahmoud.
That call would last more than an hour - and it would be the most terrifying call of his life.
'We will bomb three towers' The voice addressed Mahmoud by his full name and spoke in flawless Arabic.
"He told me he wanted to bomb three towers… and ordered me to evacuate the surrounding area."
Mahmoud's tower was not directly under threat - but he was suddenly responsible for evacuating hundreds of people. "I had the lives of people in my hands," he says.
He gathered his thoughts and told the man, who identified himself as Abu Khaled, not to hang up the phone.
As a 40-year-old dentist, Mahmoud says he has no idea why he was chosen for this task. But that day, he did everything he could to keep his community safe.
Directed by the voices of strangers, who always seemed to know how to reach him even when his battery ran out, he pleaded for the bombing to stop and screamed until his throat hurt for people to run away.
He led a mass evacuation of his neighbours - and then watched his neighbourhood explode in front of his eyes.
During this conflict, the Israeli military has phoned Gazans sometimes to warn them ahead of air strikes - Mahmoud's account gives an insight into one such phone call in an unprecedented level of detail.
The BBC contacted Mahmoud after multiple al-Zahra residents identified him as the man who received the warning call.
We cannot independently verify the contents of the call, which he recounted roughly three weeks after the event. The details, however, match those on a community Facebook group from the day as well as satellite images before and after the bombing.
We know that day many hundreds of people were left homeless as the Israeli army bombed at least 25 residential blocks housing hundreds of apartments, destroying an entire neighbourhood. These people were forced to flee with what few belongings they could take, and were eventually dispersed across Gaza.
The IDF says it strikes military targets and these actions are subject to the "relevant provisions of international law".
Mahmoud could not believe it when the man began speaking, he recalls.
People around him warned that the call may be fake. Since the war had begun, messages had been circulating in the community Facebook group warning of hoax calls and offering tips on identifying real Israeli evacuation orders.
Mahmoud asked the voice on the phone to fire a warning shot to prove this was real. If those still sleeping did not hear the screams from the streets then they would hear the shot, he thought.
A warning shot seemingly from nowhere, but perhaps from a drone, hit one of the apartment blocks under threat, he says.
"I asked him to 'shoot another warning shot before you bomb'," Mahmoud says. One more rang out.
Now that Mahmoud knew it was real he tried to stall, asking the man to be patient. "I told him: 'Don't betray us and bomb while people are still evacuating.'"
The man said he would give Mahmoud time - he said he did not want anyone to die, the dentist recalls.
Mahmoud responded that he didn't want anyone to even be injured.
He kept the call going as he rushed around the neighbourhood, urging people to evacuate. One neighbour remembers the dentist "just shouting", then others joined in.
"I didn't want to know that there's someone I could have saved and I didn't," Mahmoud says.
Hundreds of people poured into the streets that morning. Residents of this usually peaceful city were screaming and running, some of them wearing their pyjamas or prayer clothes.
The area - just north of the Wadi Gaza river, a point that Israel has been ordering civilians to move south of since the early days of the war - was made up of modern blocks of flats as well as shops, cafes, universities, schools, and parks. It was in these parks that people began to gather.
Fugazy2023: This fools are doing too much. PBAT is too cool for my liking. Arrest those bastards, charge them to court and lock them forever. Nothing will happen. Na noise SM headless mobs go make and soon everybody go calm down
Blazebond: Israel and united states get nuclear weapons but Iran and Palestine nor get so tell me,is it a fair fight ? And for all you christian zealots that think that you can wipe the Arabs and Muslims out of this world ehn, I sorry for una,Arabs and Muslims together is more than 2.5 billions,una go kill tire and they will keep on coming,by the time una tire like as united states tire for the Afghanistan war and as Israel also tire the last time them fight Hezbollah so ehn,na multiple suicide bombings una go dey experience everyday for una countries.
Islam is 1.8billion not 2.5billion.
If IRAN tries nonsense, IRAN will be turned to a desert.
Aonkuuse: I dey laugh at people who think US will fully enter this war if middle east decide to gang up against Israel....... USA don't like the world at peace, anything that will bring peace is what the US hates.
One thing about these Islamic countries is that they will keep coming, you will kill and kill untill you will get tired and start looking for peace with them.
So you agree that ISLAM is a DEATH & BLOOD SUCKING cult.
FreeStuffsNG: Not even the Americans will be so naive to ignore threats from Iran If you know the huge cost it took US to make this decision you will know that the issue is serious. Iran has nuclear capabilities and in bed with the Russians. All this kitikata US is running up and down will not deter Iran. The war has gone beyond Gaza and Israel.
A US nuke sub has arrived in the Middle East, the American military has said in an unusual announcement.
The move can be seen as a deterrent to regional adversaries as Iran said the US "will be hit hard" if there is no ceasefire in Gaza.
"Our advice to the Americans is to immediately stop the war in Gaza and implement a ceasefire, otherwise they will be hit hard," Minister of Defence Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani said, Reuters reported.
On Sunday, US Central Command said in an Ohio-class submarine was entering its area of responsibility as Israel enters its 31st day at war.
The social media post appeared to show the sub in the Suez Canal northeast of Cairo, CNN reported.
“On November 5, 2023, an Ohio-class submarine arrived in the US Central Command area of responsibility”, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter.
The Central Command area includes the Middle East.
The post did not name the submarine, but the US Navy does have four Ohio-class guided missile subs.
Also known as SSGNs, these are former ballistic missile subs converted to fire up to 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles rather than nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles.
The Israeli military welcomed the deployment of the American nuke sub, saying it will be "stabilising" for the Middle East.
"It's always good news to see that the Americans are moving in more assets," military spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hecht said earlier.
"We see this as sort of a deterring, stabilising aspect in the region."
Just weeks ago, a massive "Western Armada" of 19 warships was massing in the eastern Mediterranean.
The monster fleet sent by NATO allies includes the world's largest aircraft carrier, elite guided-missile cruisers, destroyers, frigates, and support ships.
The American military is also increasing its firepower in the region, looking to prevent Iran and groups backed by the nation from getting involved in the war.
The US empire of steel includes a network of bases in the Middle East with 2,000 troops, 2,400 Marines, and 13 warships now on alert.
A few A-10 Warthog and F-15E attack planes arrived in the region.
More advanced military aircraft was expected to join.
The Pentagon was rushing air defences and munitions to Israel, Reuters reports.
In late October, the United States had also told some 2,000 troops to be ready to deploy within 24 hours if notified - instead of the usual 96 hours - and could include units that provide assistance like medical aid if needed, a US official said.
It comes as Iran's supreme leader issued a chilling message four days before Hamas brutally murdered 1,400 Israeli men, women, and children.
Head of state and commander-in-chief of its armed forces, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said: "The Zionist regime is dying."
An Iranian state-run account shared the post along with a Palestinian flag icon.
In the post on X, formerly Twitter, on October 3, Khamenei added: "The usurper regime is coming to an end.
"Today, the Palestinian youth and the anti-oppression, anti-occupation movement in Palestine is more energetic, more alive, and more prepared than ever during the past 70 or 80 years.
"God willing, the movement will achieve its goals."
Four days later, on October 7, Iran-backed Hamas unleashed its terror on Israel in a "surprise" attack during a Jewish holiday.
Some 260 bodies were discovered at a music festival in Israel after the terror group cut the power and opened fire on civilians.
Hezbollah's terror chief also issued an unsettling warning to Israel in his first public address since the October 7 massacre.
The Iran-backed leader Hassan Nasrallah said "all options are open" amid the brutal ongoing conflict.
The Hezbollah chief, 63, praised the Hamas October 7 attack and branded it a "sacred operation" that was "100% Palestinian."
He warned that the battle has extended to "more than one front".
The terror chief said the deadly attacks a month ago led to an "earthquake" in Israel and exposed the country's weakness.
IDF soldiers who entered the Gaza Strip on Saturday raised the Israeli flag on one of the homes in the area, according to video shared online.
A man could be heard in the video saying “three weeks after the horrible crime, soldiers of the 52nd Battalion of the 401st Brigade lift the flag of Israel in the heart of Gaza, along the beach. We will not forget... we will not stop until victory.”
Foreign Affairs › Re: Breaking -Israel Threatens Direct Strike On Iran If Tehran Attacks From Own Soil by SeeThisLoser(op): 8:47am On Apr 10, 2024
Confused crazy jihadist.
