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Israel hits Iran nuclear facilities, missile factories; Tehran vows revenge
Summary
Iran says Revolutionary Guards commander killed
Israel says it targets Iran's nuclear facilities, missile capabilities and commanders
'We are at a decisive moment in Israel's history' - Netanyahu
Rubio says US not involved in Israeli operation
JERUSALEM/DUBAI/WASHINGTON, June 13 (Reuters) - Israel launched widescale strikes against Iran on Friday, saying it targeted nuclear facilities, ballistic missile factories and military commanders and that this was start of a prolonged operation to prevent Tehran from building an atomic weapon.
Iranian media and witnesses reported explosions including at the country's main uranium enrichment facility at Natanz, while Israel declared a state of emergency in anticipation of retaliatory missile and drone strikes.
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An Israeli military official said Israel was striking "dozens" of nuclear and military targets including the facility at Natanz in central Iran. The official said Iran had enough material to make 15 nuclear bombs within days.
The United States said it had no part in the operation, which raises the risk of a fresh escalation in tensions in the Middle East, a major oil producing region.
Alongside extensive air strikes, Israel's Mossad spy agency led a series of covert sabotage operations inside Iran, Axios reported, citing a senior Israeli official. These operations were aimed at damaging Iran’s strategic missile sites and its air defence capabilities.
Iran launches missiles and drones at Israel as Israel attacks Iranian nuclear sites and top commanders, IDF says
Warning sirens sounded across Israel on Friday and a military official told CBS News that dozens of Iranian ballistic missiles were en route to Israel. The country's population had been instructed to remain in bomb shelters until further notice.
The apparent retaliatory action from Iran came after Israel has launched over 200 airstrikes on Iran — continuing a major operation that began overnight, Israel Defense Forces spokesman Brigadier General Effie Defrin said Friday. Israel's airstrikes are continuing, Defrin said.
Israel first launched airstrikes on Iran early Friday and announced its operation was targeting Iranian nuclear facilities, scientists and senior military commanders. Tehran responded by launching more than 100 drones at Israel on Friday morning, Israel's military said. Defrin said earlier Friday that Israel's air defenses had worked to "intercept the threats." Later Friday, an Israeli military official told reporters that while the threat wasn't over, Israel had managed to intercept many of Iran's UAVs. (...)
Shortly after the statement, the IDF confirmed that its fighter jets had "completed a strike on the Iranian regime's nuclear site in the Isfahan area." Ishafan is in central Iran. The strike "dismantled a facility for producing metallic uranium, infrastructure for reconverting enriched uranium, laboratories, and additional infrastructure," the IDF said.
The U.S. was not involved in Israel's strikes, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, adding a warning that "Iran should not target U.S. interests or personnel."
President Trump said in a post Friday morning on his Truth Social media platform that he had given Iran "chance after chance" to make a deal with the U.S. on its nuclear program, but that despite his warnings to Tehran that the alternative would be "much worse" than anything seen before, "they just couldn't get it done."
"There has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter, with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal, come to an end," Mr. Trump said. "Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left." (...)
Israel has intercepted virtually every Iranian weapon launched in previous large-scale attacks by the Islamic republic. The retaliatory action by Iran was long anticipated and well planned for, Defrin said. (...)
"I can confirm that the senior security leadership of the Iranian regime has been eliminated in the strike: the Iranian Chief of Staff, [Mohammad] Bagheri; the Commander of the Revolutionary Guards, [Hossein] Salami; and the Head of the Emergency Command, [Gholamali] Rashid," Defrin said, adding that other commanders had been killed and that Israeli would provide further updates. He said Israel had "targeted and struck the Iranian regime's aerial defense arrays."
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HitRed wrote:Praying for Israel and the USA.
They [Israel] need to look to me and I will make their enemies my footstool. - God
Biden withdraws Trump’s restoration of UN sanctions on Iran
Published 6:33 PM EDT, February 18, 2021
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday rescinded former president Donald Trump’s restoration of U.N. sanctions on Iran
Gaza is plagued by poverty, but Hamas has no shortage of cash. Where does it come from?
Hamas has an investment portfolio of real estate and other assets worth $500 million, say experts, and an annual military budget of as much as $350 million.
The Iranian connection
The unemployment rate in Gaza is 47% and more than 80% of its population lives in poverty, according to the United Nations. Hamas, however, has funded an armed force of thousands equipped with rockets and drones and built a vast web of tunnels under Gaza. Estimates of its annual military budget range from $100 million to $350 million, according to Israeli and Palestinian sources.
As the U.S. House and Senate will be asking in separate hearings Wednesday and Thursday, where does all that cash come from?
Since coming to power in the Gaza Strip 17 years ago, Hamas has filled its coffers with hundreds of millions in international aid, overt and covert injections of cash from Iran and other ideological partners, as well as cryptocurrency, taxes, extortion and smuggling, according to current and former U.S. officials and regional experts.
The size of the Hamas budget and its sources have both morphed over time.
Iran has been a consistent financial and military patron of Hamas since the 1990s, long before the group achieved control of Gaza. The funding has gradually increased, and is now at about $100 million annually, according to the State Department.
Hamas leaders have publicly acknowledged Iran’s ongoing financial and military support.
In an interview this month that appeared on Russia Today TV, senior Hamas official Ali Baraka said that “First and foremost, it is Iran that is giving us money and weapons.” Last year, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh told Al Jazeera that Iran paid $70 million to the group to support its defense plan.
House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions Hearing: How America and Its Allies Can Stop Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran from Evading Sanctions and Financing Terror
Since 2012, the Islamic Republic of Iran has spent more than $20 billion to support foreign terror groups in the Middle East and beyond. The regime in Iran uses these terror groups to advance its radical and revolutionary ideology dedicated to the destruction of the State of Israel (the “Little Satan”), the destruction of the United States (the “Great Satan”), and to undermine and overthrow rival Sunni governments in the Middle East. The regime massively increased funding to Hamas in the past year – enabling the terror group to launch the heinous October 7 terror attacks and to sustain its ongoing operations. This attack would not have been possible without funding from the regime in Iran. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s economic and budgetary philosophy is to use all funds the regime can obtain for the support and conduct of its foreign policy of terrorism, leaving the bare minimum to sustain the needs of a functional state and ignoring entirely the material needs of the Iranian people. The United States must not aid this effort. Instead of enabling the regime to access large sources of funding from abroad, the United States should claw back all funds within its jurisdictions, aggressively disrupt Iran’s oil exports, advance economic pressure on other fronts, and force the regime to reckon with budgetary conundrums that will either degrade its domestic stability or its terror capabilities. This economic strategy is a critical part of any proper U.S. government strategy to curtail the regime’s threats, but it must also be paired with robust military deterrence, diplomatic pressure, and support for the Iranian people’s fight for freedom. This testimony provides statistics and details on Iran’s terror spending and financing, a brief outlook on Iran’s economic strength and weaknesses, an analysis of recent large inflows of funds into Iran, an analysis of successes and failures of U.S. sanctions and economic pressure, as well as policy and legislative recommendations for Congress.
Section 1 - Trends in Iranian Terror Spending: From 2012-2018, Iran spent $16 billion propping up the Assad regime and supporting its other terror partners in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Lebanon, and Palestinian Territories. While this spending decreased from 2019-2020, it has since increased to record highs.
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Section 2 - Iran’s Economic Strengths and Vulnerabilities: Iran’s lack of financial transparency extends to its economic statistics – negative statistics are often hidden or fudged to attempt and bolster the stability of domestic markets, particularly during periods of political instability. However, the broad trajectory is still clear from IMF, U.S., and Iranian data. Iran’s economy has rebounded significantly since 2020 under reduced economic sanctions enforcement. However, endemic corruption, mismanagement, and prioritization of the regime’s terror apparatus have left the regime with major long-term economic vulnerabilities.
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Iranian Financial Mechanisms for Funding Terrorism: The Iranian economic system is designed around the paramount goal of ensuring the regime can divert streams of income to fund terror – to the detriment of all other forms of economic and banking activity in the nation. As former U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on October 18, 2023, during his confirmation hearing to be U.S. ambassador to Israel, “When you’re dealing with Iran, you’re not dealing with a rational economic player. You’re dealing with an evil, malign government that funds its evil and malign activities first.”20 Iran’s terror financing is often conducted directly through the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), which was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury in September 2019 for its provision of billions of dollars to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), its Qods [Jerusalem] Force, and its terror proxies Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis. The CBI has transferred large amounts of foreign currency to the IRGC, including from Iraqi payments, a problem discussed more in Section 4 of this testimony.21 For this reason and many more, no agreements with Iran should ever include the lifting of sanctions on the CBI and its associated funds, as was originally planned in recent negotiations,22 until the regime completely overhauls its financial practices and support for terrorism – a step the regime is opposed to at the core of its ideology. This has been most evident when it comes to the regime’s opposition to passing the banking reforms
WILLIAMS5232 wrote:If I hear "bunker buster bomb" one hundred more times today I'm gonna cut a tree down. Sounds like a katy perry song at the mall.
Israel has pushed the US to use its ‘bunker buster’ bomb on Iran. Here’s what the weapon can do
As President Donald Trump is warming to the idea of using US military assets to strike Iranian nuclear facilities, officials and experts have suggested the US’ 30,000-pound “bunker buster” bomb is the only weapon capable of destroying the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, a facility thought to be key to Tehran’s nuclear program, which is carved into a mountain and extends deep underground.
The GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), which has yet to be used operationally, is designed for “reaching and destroying our adversaries’ weapons of mass destruction located in well-protected facilities,” according to a fact sheet from the US Air Force.
The weapon is a 30,000-pound bomb with 6,000 pounds of “high explosives,” said Masao Dahlgren, a fellow with the Center for Strategic and International Studies Missile Defense Project.(...)
B-2 Stealth Bomber
Dropped by the B-2 stealth bomber, the GBU-57 is designed to strike locations that require significant penetration, such as hardened and deeply-buried bunkers, tunnels and facilities.
The only aircraft able to deploy the MOP is the American B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber, which can carry two bombs.
The bomb can penetrate up to
60 meters (200 feet) into the ground.
Iran’s deepest site, Fordow, is estimated to be 80–90 meters (260–295 feet) below ground and may need multiple strikes at the same location to reach the facility.
It carries a large explosive payload which is detonated when it reaches its target.
Operation Opera (Hebrew: מִבְצָע אוֹפֵּרָה),[1] also known as Operation Babylon,[2] was a surprise airstrike conducted by the Israeli Air Force on 7 June 1981, which destroyed an unfinished Iraqi nuclear reactor located 17 kilometres (11 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq.[3][4][5] The Israeli operation came a year after the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force had caused minor damage to the same nuclear facility in Operation Scorch Sword, with the damage having been subsequently repaired by French technicians. Operation Opera, and related Israeli government statements following it, established the Begin Doctrine, which explicitly stated the strike was not an anomaly, but instead "a precedent for every future government in Israel". Israel's counter-proliferation preventive strike added another dimension to its existing policy of deliberate ambiguity, as it related to the nuclear weapons capability of other states in the region.[6]
Dukasaur wrote:Israel has bombed dozens of hospitals, in Gaza, in Lebanon, in Syria. Their bombings of hospitals have caused literally hundreds of direct deaths, thousands of indirect deaths (because of patients who didn't get treated when a hospital was forced to shut) and tens of thousands of lesser injuries.
But just one of their hospitals gets struck, with a few dozen injuries, and they absolutely lose their shit over it!
Those who live by the sword, die by the sword.
I think it's hilarious. I don't oppose Israel, I think they have every right to exist, and every right to attack those who wish them harm. But don't be fucking hypocrites. You fight dirty, you know you fight dirty, the whole world knows you fight dirty, so don't act all outraged when your enemies bring your chickens home to roost.
Re: Israel
Postby ConfederateSS on Thu Jun 19, 2025 11:38 pm
Until Reagan took over as President...He said, "We begin bombing in 5 minutes...(nuke)...They are Americans they'll die for their country..."...The next day, the American hostages were on their way home...
"We begin bombing in five minutes" is the last sentence of a controversial, off-the-record joke made by U.S. President Ronald Reagan in 1984, during the Cold War.
On August 11, 1984, President Ronald Reagan makes a joking but controversial off-the-cuff remark about bombing Russia while testing a microphone before a scheduled radio address. While warming up for the speech, Reagan said “My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”
Negotiations continued throughout late 1980 and early 1981, during which time the Iranian demands centred largely on releasing frozen Iranian assets and lifting the trade embargo. An agreement having been made, the hostages were released on January 20, 1981, minutes after the inauguration of the new U.S. president, Ronald Reagan.
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The 52 American hostages held in Iran were released on January 20, 1981, after 444 days of captivity. The release occurred minutes after Ronald Reagan's inauguration as the 40th U.S. President, concluding the Iran hostage crisis
Do you have some sort of asshole Tourette’s that makes you just post douchey shit uncontrollably?
Can you seriously not help yourself?
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