It ain't over 'till the fat lady sings!
"You have not begun to appreciate the real depth of our guilt. We are intruders. We are disturbers. We are subverters. We have taken your natural world, your ideals, your destiny, and played havoc with them. We have been at the bottom not merely of the latest great war but of nearly all your wars, not only of the Russian but of every other major revolution in your history. We have brought discord and confusion and frustration into your personal and public life. We are still doing it. No one can tell how long we shall go on doing it." -- Marcus Eli Ravage, A Real Case Against the Jews, The Century Magazine, Jan. 1928, p.346-350 (source)
WASHINGTON - The US military dropped at least six "bunker buster" bombs on Iran's Fordow nuclear enrichment plant Saturday night and hit two other key sites - with President Trump declaring the facility hidden nearly 300 feet beneath a mountain is "completely and totally obliterated."
Trump announced the historic airstrikes days after Israel initiated extensive attacks on Iran's nuclear infrastructure and military.
"We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. All planes are now outside of Iran air space," Trump posted on Truth Social just before 8 p.m. Saturday - marking the first-ever US strike on Iranian territory.
Beyond the Orwellian 'war is peace' lunacy, and contrary to Trump's transparently asinine statements that the damage to Iran's civilian nuclear facilities, Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan, "was very severe" and "there was obliteration" and "the last thing they wanna do is enrich anything right now", Iran's peaceful nuclear program almost certainly remains intact and they have stated that they fully intend to continue to enrich uranium, as they have every right to do. As a result of the illegal, unauthorized attack, the U.S. and Israel is likely to know less about Iran's nuclear activities going forward given that Iran is not keen on allowing the IAEA back into their country and this means their withdrawal from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. I wonder if Iran's discontent with the IAEA could have anything to do with this corrupt body providing sensitive personal information about their nuclear scientists to Israel which likely facilitated their murder.
"Iran has an obligation to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency on its nuclear program," its Director General, Rafael Grossi, told France 2 on Wednesday.
In detail, the senior official stated that Iran's cooperation with the agency "is not a favor, it is a legal obligation as long as Iran remains a signatory to the Non-Proliferation Treaty."
Lastly, as a result of the illegal and unprovoked attacks upon its nation by Israel and the United States, both of which possess nuclear weapons, Iran now has a burning reason to develop 'the bomb' which, for the last 30+ years, Netanyahu has claimed it was only a few years or months or weeks away from acquiring.
Iran made two extremely serious mistakes in my view and they paid the price for their stupidity: 1) they didn't develop a nuclear weapon. Had they done so prior to the illegal, preemptive strike by Israel, they might have avoided this war, and 2), and i agree with Scott Ritter, for whatever reason, Iran decided to enriched some of its uranium to 60%, just one centrifuge round away from weapons grade, while tensions between the U.S.-Israel alliance and Iran were already through the roof. As Ritter essentially said, by enriching to 60%, Iran poked the wild pig in Tel Aviv and then cried when they got bit. In addition to these mistakes, Iran turned down a mutual defense offer presented by the Russians.
This was never about Iran's non-existent quest to develop 'the bomb' however. This was always about regime change for the benefit of Israel and the United States and to inflict damage upon the BRICS alliance, of which Iran is a key party, in order to protect what remains of the status of the U.S. dollar as the worlds reserve (fiat) currency. Trump made it very clear that he will not tolerate any challenge to the dollar.
You leave the dollar, you're not doing business with the United States, because we're going to put 100% tariff on your goods
The irony in all this is that Israel does possess a large number of undeclared nuclear weapons and refuses to sign on to the NPT treaty. In addition to attempting to force the Jewish lobby in the U.S. to register as a foreign agent, which they are legally required to do, John Kennedy also attempted to force the Jewish state to open up its Dimona nuclear enrichment facility to inspectors and we see where that got him; Ben-Gurion resigned as Prime Minister and Kennedy's head exploded in Dallas on live television for all the world to see. No U.S. president since has dared to challenge AIPAC or Israel's nuclear weapons program.
"But I believe that Israel has a powerful stranglehold on the American government. They control both members of the House, the House and the Senate. They have us involved in wars in which we have little or no interest. Our children are coming back in body bags. Our nation is bankrupt over these wars. And if you open your mouth, you get targeted. And if they don't beat you at the poll, they'll put you in prison. [...] They're controlling much of our foreign policy. They're influencing much of our domestic policy. Wolfowitz as undersecretary of defense manipulated President Bush number two back into Iraq. They've pushed definitely, definitely to try to get Bush before he left to move into Iran. We're conducting the expansionist policy of Israel and everybody's afraid to say it. They control much of the media, they control much of the commerce of the country, and they control powerfully both bodies of the Congress. They own the Congress."
James Traficant, former U.S. congressman, as quoted in an interview by Fox News, Sep. 10, 2009 (source, video).
Contrary to the bullshit spewing from the D.C. ding-bats and the "Orange McCain", as Max Blumenthal hilariously referred to Trump recently, the U.S. military is weak and this has been clearly demonstrated by its recent failures:
- The U.S. has, and continues to fail miserably in it's proxy war with Russia in which the Russians were able to destroy and defend against the majority of weaponry supplied to Ukraine by the U.S.. The kill ratio is estimated to be 10:1 in Russia's favor;
- The U.S. failed to subdue Yemen's Houthi's (Anser Allah) in the Red Sea. U.S. ships were repeatedly forced to withdraw after sustaining multiple hits and losing two combat aircraft which, allegedly, fell off of their carrier during emergency evasive maneuvers resulting from attacks by the Houthi's who also downed more than 20 of the United States' 30 million dollar MQ-9 Reaper drones and posed such a significant threat to its F-35 fighter aircraft and B-2 bombers that they were withdrawn;
- U.S. supplied Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) air defenses failed to intercept many of the Iranian ballistic missiles launched at Israel and apparently none of their newer, hyper-sonic missiles. Israel's so-called "Iron Dome" missile defense systems, which is partly a U.S. project, also failed to intercept roughly half of Iran's missiles and intercepted none of its hyper-sonic missiles as far as i'm aware;
- The weakness of the U.S. military was demonstrated again with its illegal attack on Iran's civilian nuclear infrastructure. The 30,000 pound 'bunker busting' bombs and submarine launched cruise missiles appear to have failed to achieve any substantial result, in part because Iran secured its uranium beforehand, but also because the so-called 'bunker busters' are apparently not nearly as effective as it says on the tin, especially when the target is deep underground, protected by solid rock and/or reinforced concrete. Lastly, these sites were already bombed by Israel;
- More significant than the 'Trumped-up' failure of the U.S. to "obliterate" Iran's nuclear program is the fact that the U.S. launched its attack from Missouri, roughly 7,000 miles away, rather than utilizing the resources available in its nearby Middle East bases. The reason for this is likely because, had they done so, the Iranians would have hit these vulnerable bases with their hyper-sonic missiles for which the U.S. military has no known defense.
The U.S. attack on Iran's nuclear facilities appears to have been little more than a symbolic move designed to project the alleged might of the U.S. military without further antagonizing Iran, as well as to pacify its Israeli overlord. Of course Iran prepared for the attack it was forewarned of by securing its uranium stockpile which is why there have been no reports of radioactivity at the damaged Fordow site which, by the way, was bombed again by Israel just hours after the U.S. "completely destroyed" it. It also seems that Iran didn't bother to activate its air defenses or scramble its fighter jets which seems to suggest that they weren't interested in defending surface structures that were already destroyed by the Israelis. Iran's proportional response in its targeting of the U.S. base in Qatar also seems to have been a symbolic one, albeit one that demonstrated its ability to target U.S. bases in the region.
Trump has lost much of his base. Even some of his highest profile loyalists, such as Steve Bannon, Tucker Carlson, Candice Owens and Marjorie Taylor-Greene, have been highly critical of his attack on Iran after running on an anti-war platform. I suspect Israel essentially forced Trump into attacking Iran, but the nature of the attack suggests to me that he wanted to provide himself with an exit strategy that would avoid further conflict with Iran and satisfy Netanyahu.
There are knowledgeable people who feel that Iran was foolish for ceasing their operations against Israel, an opinion i share completely. First of all, Israel habitually breaks ceasefire agreements and secondly, Iran has thus far failed to break the back of the Zionist Israeli government as it clearly promised it would. Secondly, the ceasefire, more accurately referred to as a 'break', has allowed Israel to replenish its stockpile of U.S. supplied weapons and step-up its slaughter of the Palestinians of which it has murdered at least 60,000 since Israel allowed itself to be attacked by Hamas on 7-Oct-2023. The real number of Palestinian deaths may be substantially higher.
It is my opinion that Iran broke its promises to the Palestinian people, the world, and its own people. Nothing of any lasting value was attained it seems. Larry Johnson writes, "I don't know why Iran agreed to the ceasefire, but it did. Iranian leaders, in my opinion, are frighteningly naive.". The racist, war-mongering, Neanderthal-brained Jewish Zionists received their first taste of war with a truly capable enemy since the Jewish state was created in 1948, and while the disgusting vermin who claim to be "God's chosen people" may be a bit traumatized as a result of the beating they rightfully deserved, they are still genocidal Zionists who enjoy the full support of the United States. Inflicting damage upon an enemy without destroying it is likely to embolden it, as Hitler discovered when he allowed the British to escape. Bibi has backed himself into a corner from which he is unlikely to escape "absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event", to borrow a phrase from PNAC. Let us not forget that Netanyahu is a criminal, wanted both within and outside of Israel, thus he is dependent upon perpetual war in order to avoid prosecution, unless of course someone comes to his rescue ...
This isn't over.