Topic: Israel vs Iran and its Proxies

[Libertas]

Well, thanks to psychotic trash like The Kenyan and his muppet FJB appeasing and paying off the Iranians...the Persian Mahdi Death Cultists are now openly talking about making a nuclear weapon...straight from the NYT's, the public voice of the DOJ/FBIKGB -

The New York Times in a fresh report says an unprecedented trend is cause for serious alarm: "For the first time, some members of Iran’s ruling elite are dropping the country’s decades-old insistence that its nuclear program is entirely for peaceful purposes." This comes just as Iran - which remains the archnemesis of Israel - is about to pick a new president after Ebrahim Raisi's recent death in a helicopter crash.

"Instead, they are publicly beginning to embrace the logic of possessing the bomb, arguing that recent missile exchanges with Israel underscore the need for a far more powerful deterrent," continues the NY Times.

Tehran is fully aware of its status as a 'threshold state' and is using this to project strength in its broader standoff with Israel in the region:

In interviews with a dozen American, European, Iranian and Israeli officials and with outside experts, the cumulative effect of this surge appears clear: Iran has cemented its role as a “threshold” nuclear state, walking right up to the line of building a weapon without stepping over it.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/iran-openly-talks-about-building-nuke-historic-shift

[Libertas]

Hilarious...Mahdi Death Cult threatens neighboring Arabs to not intervene in any attack on Israel...

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/08/iran-announces-it-will-attack-any-arab-country/

...what a swell neighbor to have, eh?

Talk about the worst neighbor, ever!

 

[patentlymn]

My impression is that the Arab leaders do not care about the Palestinians at all as they wore out their welcome long ago. 
BUT their populace is on the side of the Palestinians and their leaders are afraid of their people.
I doubt any Arab country is going to lift a finger to help Israel no matter what.

[Libertas]

In the past Jordan has, even Egypt...and I think you underestimate others distaste for the crazy death worshippers in Tehran...

[Libertas]

See?

Jordan has reportedly informed Israel and Arab countries that it will not allow warring parties to use its airspace and is ready to confront any Iranian projectile that breaches its skies, as it did on April 13.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/jordan-ready-shoot-down-any-iranian-missiles-breaching-its-airspace

As for this...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/game-israel-again-thinks-iran-poised-major-retaliation-us-deploys-sub-hurries-carrier

...it is almost certain there already are subs in the area...announcing the sortie of another one is meant as a warning.  And the Lincoln was already steaming West when it deployed in early July and steamed to the Aleutians and Guam, so a sortie to the Persian Gulf is not unexpected because someone has to relieve the Roosevelt (already in the 5th Fleet and at sea for 7 months now) in the area at some point.  And there is the Vinson in the PI Sea and another 2-3 carriers that could deploy quickly if necessary.  Plus, the Wasp Amphib Group is already in the East Med and the America & Boxer (the latter expected to relieve the former who is changing home port) in the West Pacific.  So, plenty of assets in/near area as well as what is already in the region for Air Force, Army & Marines.

If the Mahdi Death Cult gets a wild hair there could be some significant fireworks.

But...the bigger risk is the puppet regime, leakers and back-stabbers that could screw the pooch...

[Libertas]

Nice!

The Sunday night major Israeli airstrikes in the central Syrian town of Masyaf which we reported on earlier in the week might have involved much more than what was initially known.

There was an unusually high death toll for such an attack, which targeted a highly secretive Syrian government facility known as the Syrian Military Scientific Studies and Research Center (SSRC). It left at least 16 people killed and another 40 injured.

But now both Axios and Israeli media are reporting it involved a ground component. "During major attack by jets earlier this week, IDF commandos said to have rappelled from helicopters to capture Iranians and remove materials before destroying site," Times of Israel writes. However, other reports make no mention of captured Iranians.

The Thursday Axios report says the Sunday night Israeli operation in central Syria really involved the following: "An elite Israel Defense Forces unit conducted a highly unusual raid in Syria earlier this week and destroyed an underground precision missile factory that Israel and the U.S. claim was built by Iran, according to three sources briefed on the operation." It was reported at the time that significant portions of the surrounding countryside caught on fire.

Axios further cites the following while reporting that the White House was briefed ahead of time and did not oppose the daring raid which apparently involved boots on the ground:

On Wednesday, a Syrian opposition television channel and Greek Middle East expert Eva J. Koulouriotis both reported the airstrikes were a cover for an Israeli ground operation in Masyaf.
Three sources with knowledge of the operation confirmed to Axios that the Israeli Air Force elite unit Shaldag conducted a raid and destroyed the facility.
The report further claims that the elite IDF commando team engaged in a firefight on the ground outside the facility during the operation, killing several Syrian guards.

The special forces team additionally rigged the underground missile facility with explosives and blew it up, according to the claims. Israeli airstrikes were unleashed on the area as a diversion, but also to prevent Syrian Army reinforcements to the area.

Times of Israel said that the Israeli team was able to recover sensitive documents as well before destroying the facility. The publication further noted that "the fresh reports were the first to claim that Israeli troops operated on the ground during the action at Masyaf, which lies about 200 kilometers (124 miles) north of Israel, though only about 30 kilometers (18 miles) from Syria’s western coastline."

One question that remains is how a slow-moving helicopter (as in much slower moving than Israeli jets) was able to breach Syrian airspace for so long - and was able to insert ground forces - without triggering Syria's Russian-made anti-air defenses. It could be that following so many Israeli Air Force attacks of late, Syria's air defense are seriously degraded - or else regional batteries were successfully distracted, or there's the possibility Israel used stealth technology and low altitudes.

Israel has kept quiet about any details of a ground insertion, and Damascus is unlikely to confirm, given if Israel successfully pulled off something like that it would be a humiliation.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/israel-inserted-elite-commandos-syria-blew-secret-missile-base-reports-say

I am not sure about the stealth helicopter insertion proposition...unless they got their hands on a Euro Tiger, we cancelled our FARA program, the succeeding FLARA program as far as I know hasn't even got to prototype phases yet...so a stealth helicopter seems unlikely...but I do not know what surprises Israel may have up their sleeves...they are technically very savvy and could have done some simple mods on an existing chopper flying at a crazy low level in combination with some jamming and spoofing of the Syrian Russian-made air defense systems...

Regardless, nice op!

[patentlymn]

https://voxday.net/2024/09/16/douhet-wept/

There’s an amount of discussion of the potential ramifications for the Middle East of the Yemeni missile that was used to strike the Gezer power plant from 1,265 miles away.

    The Israeli air defense failed to intercept the Yemeni missile primarily because it is capable of changing its course suddenly – Israeli Channel 12. The US Navy failed to intercept the missile in the Red Sea as well. Great possibility that this was hypersonic.

    Yemen confirmed that they used a hypersonic ballistic missile in the attack on Tel Aviv Yemeni Armed Forces says it hit an Israeli military target in Yaffa (Tel Aviv) with a new hypersonic ballistic missile that traveled 2,040 kilometers. This is the first time that an Iranian-made hypersonic missile has been used in an attack on Israel.

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[Libertas]

https://voxday.net/2024/09/16/douhet-wept/

There’s an amount of discussion of the potential ramifications for the Middle East of the Yemeni missile that was used to strike the Gezer power plant from 1,265 miles away.

    The Israeli air defense failed to intercept the Yemeni missile primarily because it is capable of changing its course suddenly – Israeli Channel 12. The US Navy failed to intercept the missile in the Red Sea as well. Great possibility that this was hypersonic.

    Yemen confirmed that they used a hypersonic ballistic missile in the attack on Tel Aviv Yemeni Armed Forces says it hit an Israeli military target in Yaffa (Tel Aviv) with a new hypersonic ballistic missile that traveled 2,040 kilometers. This is the first time that an Iranian-made hypersonic missile has been used in an attack on Israel.

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Showing results for who has deployable hypersonic missiles?

Based on the provided search results, the following entities have deployable hypersonic missiles:

Russia: According to the search results, Russia has deployed hypersonic weapons in combat, launching at least one such missile against a target in Ukraine.

North Korea: North Korea has successfully tested its hypersonic glide missile technology, and analysts believe it could potentially deploy such weapons in the future.

It’s worth noting that Lockheed Martin, an aerospace and defense manufacturer, has been developing hypersonic technology for over 60 years and has implemented these systems in the world. However, it’s unclear from the search results whether Lockheed Martin has developed deployable hypersonic missiles itself or is working on behalf of the US military.

Other countries mentioned in the search results, such as Australia, India, France, Germany, South Korea, and Japan, are also developing hypersonic weapons technology, but it’s unclear from the provided information whether they have deployable hypersonic missiles yet.

The US military has conducted successful tests of its hypersonic missiles, including a first complete, end-to-end flight test of its hypersonic missile, but it’s unclear from the search results whether these systems are yet deployable.

So, since the only known deployable hypersonic missiles can come from Russia...I doubt it found its way into Houthi hands directly, more likely through their pals in the Iranian Mahdi Death Cult...who are pals with Russia...meaning Iran likely has some for itself (think of those being nuclear-armed!) and also meaning Russia has introduced long-range hypersonic missiles against Western targets and Israel..so I would expect that approval for Z-man to use long-range US made missiles against targets deeper inside Russia is probably back in play for this Admin who cannot wait to unleash them...

Way to go, Vald!

[Libertas]

Check this out!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/breaking-1000-wounded-including-hezbollah-terrorists-as-pagers/

Pretty sure we know who did this, well done!!!

Probably more hits coming Hezbollah's way now that their manpower is hampered and the recriminations and counter-espionage process is kicking into gear in their ranks...

https://americafirstreport.com/middle-east-apocalypse-israel-is-preparing-for-an-all-out-confrontation-with-hezbollah/

Preparation continues...

[Libertas]

H/T-WRSA@GAB

And perhaps not just lithium-based batteries?

Judging from this...

https://thelibertydaily.com/second-wave-blasts-sweep-through-lebanon-as-hezbollah/

...the walkies seem to pack a bigger punch.  And a lot of walkies take standard alkaline batteries...but they are bigger...so perhaps they were packed with something (C4?) between manufacture and distribution...would explain a lot.

The lithium scare might be debunked with the walkie-bombs.

I'm sure there is going to be more on this.

In the meantime, at Ace it appears the Biden-Harris regime is again reprising the Obama-Biden regime habit of leaking Israeli ops...placing both Israel and Us in danger!

So, let's start off with a literal bang! While given the fact that we can control the weather, is it really any surprise that Israel could pull off one of the most daring, retaliatory strikes in history. If only it could have prevented the events of 10/7 in the first place, but the IDF and the Israeli people are going to have to sort that out for themselves as to who and what is to blame for that equally massive failure. In any case, given who and what is running this country – Kamalorama Hussein Obama-Harris, is this item really surprising:

Israel did not take responsibility for the pager attack that crippled Hezbollah’s comms and took out a chunk of their officer corps. It certainly did not go ahead and describe how it was done for the media. That’s tradecraft. And you don’t reveal it.
But the New York Times had a report detailing how it happened that same evening. I won’t link to it as it carries the byline of fake news fabulist Sheera Frenkel who had previously carried water for Hamas and lied that the Islamic terror group had not kidnapped and killed three Israeli teens.

The report is described as being based on briefings received by American officials.

The material leaked to the Times comes from “American and other officials briefed on the operation” and the “American and other officials spoke on the condition of anonymity given the sensitive nature of the operation.”

. . .Under Obama, leaks of Israeli operations were standard procedure. But if this was Biden-Harris admin policy, it doesn’t just hurt Israel, it hurts America. The leak undermines claims that we didn’t know about it beforehand. And encourages Hezbollah to target our people as the weaker link in the Oct 7 war. Some officials in this junta clearly don’t care, but they could also find themselves in the line of fire.

https://ace.mu.nu/archives/411527.php#411527

Ace cited this report - https://www.frontpagemag.com/biden-harris-admin-immediately-leaks-details-of-israeli-pager-op/

And now some home solar units are going Ka-Boom in Lebanon - https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/developing-home-solar-systems-explode-beirut-lebanon-following/

Sucks to be in Lebanon...but, like the Fake Nation idiots and Hamas...Lebanese don't want to throw Hezbollah out...

SSTB

[Libertas]

Mobilizing...

https://x.com/TheNewsTrending/status/1836456688364253257

PS - https://x.com/Mr_Andrew_Fox/status/1836150975297376481

Looks like they read Reuters' post!

[patentlymn]

My first thoughts were on how clever the exploding pagers were. Stuxnet remains the most clever.
Then I read about all the collateral damage to bystanders. Not a great PR win for Israel around the world not that it was great any way.

There are thousands of injuries. Likely to add support for Hezbollah in Lebanon.

US officials recently said that US would not support Israeli offensive operations into Lebanon but would defend Israel. ?

[patentlymn]

Says 3 airlines cancelled flights scheduled to Israel bc of exploding pagers.


https://t.me/putingers_cat_chat/387728

[patentlymn]

I heard some Taiwan company had designs for the pagers. This IT was licensed to a Hungarian company to make them but maybe that company is a front and the address is a house. The money was routed through middle east banks.

There was extra lithium in the pagers? Not standard  explosives. The pagers overheated and exploded. Pagers out of range did not explode.

The brand name of these pagers is kinda ruined I think. I think they were used by hospitals.

https://youtu.be/VuiM0qz5wDw
Laith Marouf Reporting on the Pager Bombing Attack in Lebanon
Most data in first 10 minutes.
https://www.laithmarouf.com/

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[Pablo de Fleurs]

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[Libertas]

My first thoughts were on how clever the exploding pagers were. Stuxnet remains the most clever.
Then I read about all the collateral damage to bystanders. Not a great PR win for Israel around the world not that it was great any way.

There are thousands of injuries. Likely to add support for Hezbollah in Lebanon.

US officials recently said that US would not support Israeli offensive operations into Lebanon but would defend Israel. ?

Bullsh!t!  Islamic terrorists everywhere kill civilians almost exclusively and the fracking world just looks the other way and kisses their asses!  Such sentiment is used to absolve the terrorist scum from complicity in their crimes against humanity...Israel targeted militant terrorist operatives...anybody nearby is collateral damage and the fault of the terrorist IMO.  And if idiots shelter such trash among themselves cannot be surprised if they are caught in a crossfire...Israel didn't hold a gun to their head and say "choose"!

[Libertas]

Says 3 airlines cancelled flights scheduled to Israel bc of exploding pagers.


https://t.me/putingers_cat_chat/387728

I heard they banned pagers and walkies...

Cancelling flights is stupid IMO.

[Libertas]

I heard some Taiwan company had designs for the pagers. This IT was licensed to a Hungarian company to make them but maybe that company is a front and the address is a house. The money was routed through middle east banks.

There was extra lithium in the pagers? Not standard  explosives. The pagers overheated and exploded. Pagers out of range did not explode.

The brand name of these pagers is kinda ruined I think. I think they were used by hospitals.

https://youtu.be/VuiM0qz5wDw
Laith Marouf Reporting on the Pager Bombing Attack in Lebanon
Most data in first 10 minutes.
https://www.laithmarouf.com/

https://x.com/TVFreePalestine

RU http://rumble.com/user/FreePalestineTV

YT:    / @tvfreepalestine 

IG   / free.palestine.tv 

TGM http://t.me/freepalestinetv

I heard the company was going to try to sue, cannot wait to see the evidence...

 

[Libertas]

Brought to you by Mossad agents: Eli Copter, Paige Ur & Ray Dio

 

[Libertas]

In the meantime, the prepping of the battle space to really take it to Hezbollah continues...

https://twitter.com/i/status/1836768281786519850

Did he say "like"?  Well, duh!

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-unleashes-heavy-strikes-south-lebanon-after-war-plans-approved