Threat of Iranian attack on Israel is 'real and credible', says White House

Tensions are high over the possibility Iran will retaliate for an air strike that killed senior Iranian commanders nearly two weeks ago.

US officials had told CBS News, the BBC’s US partner, that a major attack on Israel could happen imminently.

Israel has said it is ready “defensively and offensively”.

“I can’t speak to the size, scale, scope of what that attack might look like,” US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Friday. But he added that the Iranian threat was “viable,” saying Washington was “watching this very, very closely”.

He said: “We are in constant communication with our Israeli counterparts about making sure that they can defend themselves against those kinds of attacks”.

Bye,

BRB buying Raytheon stock

itsgroundhogdayagain,

Well, well, well, if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.

ThePyroPython,

So just to be clear…

Fundamentalist government sends financial aid to fundamentalist government’s militia, fundamentalist militia attacks fundamentalist government’s civilians, fundamentalist government’s military invades and attacks fundamentalist government’s civilians, so fundamentalist government sends financial, intelligence, and lethal aid to fundamentalist government’s militia and gives access to fundamentalist government’s compounds for their leaders, so fundamentalist government attacks fundamentalist government’s compounds and therefore fundamentalist government says they’re going to attack the fundamentalist government.

ososalsosal,
@ososalsosal@aussie.zone avatar

The wording is something else.

Ensuring they can defend themselves… against another state defending itself from them?

Whatever. It’s a mess that’s gonna get worse and worse.

catloaf,

Escalation seems unlikely. I’m not sure that there would really be anyone having Iran’s back in this.

NoIWontPickAName,

Honestly, at this point, if I was around, I wouldn’t do shit.

Make them look like they were crying wolf, we can bring back 2003.

SlopppyEngineer,

Well, countries have the right to defend themselves, as Israel likes to repeat often. Even Iran.

theotherverion,

How is iran attacked?

SlopppyEngineer,

A few of their people were killed. It’s all the justification needed these days.

Maalus,

Bombing an embassy isn’t “all justification needed these days”. It is literally bombing the country itself. Also doing that to an embassy is a giant “fuck you” finger and a provocation.

girlfreddy,
@girlfreddy@lemmy.ca avatar

Here’s a list of attacks on US diplomatic facilities that often led to wars.

…wikipedia.org/…/Attacks_on_U.S._diplomatic_facil…

eardon,

Their embassy was attacked in Syria.

Same thing as attacking Iran directly.

Linkerbaan,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

Well if Iran retaliates tomorrow let us remember that history starts on April 13th and as always israel definitely didn’t do anything to provoke it.

DoomBot5,

Once again Linkerbaan is okay with deaths, as long as they’re on his preferred side.

NoIWontPickAName,

I mean, at least everyone agrees that the Iranian strike will probably be a non-civilian strike.

We cannot say the fucking same for Israel at all, like not even a little fucking bit

DoomBot5,

Oh really? Everyone agrees on that? Does Iran? I’ll remind you that they fund several terrorist organizations that strike at civilians regularly

NoIWontPickAName,

OK, I was vague enough to invite a little bit of assholery there.

The intelligence services of the United States and Israel agree that it will not be a strike against the civilian target.

This information was good from about five hours ago. I haven’t looked into it since then.

goferking0,

Pointing out it’s Israels fault for bombing an embassy means they’re pro death? What???

DoomBot5,

No, he’s just pointing out how he’s fine with deaths as long as they’re israeli.

goferking0,

Not at all what they’re saying

eardon,

That’s how war works?

I’m sure you’re okay with deaths as long as they’re Russian.

gravitas_deficiency,

“What are causal relationships”, alex

Adderbox76,

Good. A period of prosperity usually follows a global conflict (Roaring twenties, 1950s American Dream, etc…)

We’ve been heading down this road for a few years already, all over the world nothing but hatred and bigotry and selfishness seemingly on the rise. Mini conflicts all over the place, and the only super power literally on the verge of electing a fucking dictator. If the eventual result is a global conflict (it is), then let’s just get it the fuck over with so the political systems that remain afterwards can recover like they did post-ww2.

yesman,

If you want to make seeping, bold, and wrong predictions about the future based on incomplete knowledge of the past, you should try economics.

Adderbox76,

I was quite literally an Archaeology major with a minor in History. Care to try again?

carl_dungeon,

It’d be terrible if they targeted hospitals and kids wouldn’t it.

xmunk,

Likud has caused this, Isreal. I hope this doesn’t materialize but you need to change fucking course.

goferking0,

Are they just trying to get into as many wars/conflicts as possible to stay in power?

bobs_monkey,

Probably just pushing the envelope at this point since no major Western powers have done much to stop them regarding Gaza.

girlfreddy,
@girlfreddy@lemmy.ca avatar

Don’t forget Netanyahu is in the middle of a corruption trial right now. Guaranteed that has something to do with him stalling a cease fire.

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