Iran may attack Israel if U.S. standoff escalates: Israeli minister

[TU Curmudgeon]

From Reuters

Iran may attack Israel if U.S. standoff escalates: Israeli minister
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli cabinet minister warned on Sunday of possible direct or proxy Iranian attacks on Israel should the stand-off between Tehran and Washington escalate.

The United States has increased economic and military pressure on Iran, with President Donald Trump on Thursday urging its leaders to talk to him about giving up their nuclear program and saying he could not rule out an armed confrontation.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, which supports Trump’s hard tack against its arch-foe, has largely been reticent about the spiraling tensions.

Parting with the silence, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said that, in the Gulf, “things are heating up”.

“If there’s some sort of conflagration between Iran and the United States, between Iran and its neighbors, I’m not ruling out that they will activate Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad from Gaza, or even that they will try to fire missiles from Iran at the State of Israel,” Steinitz, a member of Netanyahu’s security cabinet, told Israel’s Ynet TV.

COMMENT:-

And if the Iranians have the audacity to attempt to defend themselves from an American attack which is coordinated with and operated through Israel, then the Israeli "hard-liners" would be absolutely overjoyed to nuke Iran. The Iranians, of course, have absolutely no idea that this is what would happen.
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[OrphanSlug]

Doubtful.

Sure, Iran is ran by a bunch of ideological lunatics holding onto key tenets of one of the worst of the monotheistic religions on the planet but I highly doubt they are interested in all out war with Israel / US.

 

[GDViking]

This is the exact wag the dog situation I have been expecting trump to pull.

He has been dying to prove to his generals that he knows more than they do...

 

[TU Curmudgeon]

This is the exact wag the dog situation I have been expecting trump to pull.

He has been dying to prove to his generals that he knows more than they do...

Just wait for the official announcement that "Iran has vast stockpiles of WMD and we know where they are hidden".

 

[SLC]

From Reuters

Iran may attack Israel if U.S. standoff escalates: Israeli minister
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli cabinet minister warned on Sunday of possible direct or proxy Iranian attacks on Israel should the stand-off between Tehran and Washington escalate.

The United States has increased economic and military pressure on Iran, with President Donald Trump on Thursday urging its leaders to talk to him about giving up their nuclear program and saying he could not rule out an armed confrontation.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, which supports Trump’s hard tack against its arch-foe, has largely been reticent about the spiraling tensions.

Parting with the silence, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said that, in the Gulf, “things are heating up”.

“If there’s some sort of conflagration between Iran and the United States, between Iran and its neighbors, I’m not ruling out that they will activate Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad from Gaza, or even that they will try to fire missiles from Iran at the State of Israel,” Steinitz, a member of Netanyahu’s security cabinet, told Israel’s Ynet TV.

COMMENT:-

And if the Iranians have the audacity to attempt to defend themselves from an American attack which is coordinated with and operated through Israel, then the Israeli "hard-liners" would be absolutely overjoyed to nuke Iran. The Iranians, of course, have absolutely no idea that this is what would happen.
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Well the Iranians have been trying to get a nuke. Maybe they will get one ....some assembly required.





I hope not.

 

[TheParser]

One can say many unkind things about the leaders of Iran, but one cannot say they are insane, which they would be if they dared attack Israel.


One does not need to be a Nostradamus to know that if Iran were to attack Israel, the former within a few minutes would be the proverbial parking lot.

 

[AmNat]

From Reuters

Iran may attack Israel if U.S. standoff escalates: Israeli minister
​

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli cabinet minister warned on Sunday of possible direct or proxy Iranian attacks on Israel should the stand-off between Tehran and Washington escalate.

The United States has increased economic and military pressure on Iran, with President Donald Trump on Thursday urging its leaders to talk to him about giving up their nuclear program and saying he could not rule out an armed confrontation.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, which supports Trump’s hard tack against its arch-foe, has largely been reticent about the spiraling tensions.

Parting with the silence, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said that, in the Gulf, “things are heating up”.

“If there’s some sort of conflagration between Iran and the United States, between Iran and its neighbors, I’m not ruling out that they will activate Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad from Gaza, or even that they will try to fire missiles from Iran at the State of Israel,” Steinitz, a member of Netanyahu’s security cabinet, told Israel’s Ynet TV.

COMMENT:-

And if the Iranians have the audacity to attempt to defend themselves from an American attack which is coordinated with and operated through Israel, then the Israeli "hard-liners" would be absolutely overjoyed to nuke Iran. The Iranians, of course, have absolutely no idea that this is what would happen.
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We're being set up for a false flag.

 

[apdst]

This is the exact wag the dog situation I have been expecting trump to pull.

He has been dying to prove to his generals that he knows more than they do...

What'd President Trump do?

 

[apdst]

We're being set up for a false flag.

The Iranians know the Leftists would side with Iran and undermine the U.S. and Israeli war effort.

They're hoping the Democrats would impeach Trump and then force U.S. forces to surrender.

 

[The Mark]

From Reuters

Iran may attack Israel if U.S. standoff escalates: Israeli minister
​

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli cabinet minister warned on Sunday of possible direct or proxy Iranian attacks on Israel should the stand-off between Tehran and Washington escalate.

The United States has increased economic and military pressure on Iran, with President Donald Trump on Thursday urging its leaders to talk to him about giving up their nuclear program and saying he could not rule out an armed confrontation.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, which supports Trump’s hard tack against its arch-foe, has largely been reticent about the spiraling tensions.

Parting with the silence, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said that, in the Gulf, “things are heating up”.

“If there’s some sort of conflagration between Iran and the United States, between Iran and its neighbors, I’m not ruling out that they will activate Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad from Gaza, or even that they will try to fire missiles from Iran at the State of Israel,” Steinitz, a member of Netanyahu’s security cabinet, told Israel’s Ynet TV.

COMMENT:-

And if the Iranians have the audacity to attempt to defend themselves from an American attack which is coordinated with and operated through Israel, then the Israeli "hard-liners" would be absolutely overjoyed to nuke Iran. The Iranians, of course, have absolutely no idea that this is what would happen.
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It's stories like this that remind me there's a faction of Christians in the USA who not only think biblical predictions make a war in Israel inevitable, but are actually working to make it happen faster to make the biblical events predicted as a result happen faster.

And they have influence in government.

 

[Deuce]

The Iranians know the Leftists would side with Iran and undermine the U.S. and Israeli war effort.

They're hoping the Democrats would impeach Trump and then force U.S. forces to surrender.

:lamo

Jesus Christ the things you people believe.

One Democratic congresswoman dares suggest that money from pro-Israeli lobby groups actually performs the intended function and she gets called an anti-semite and gets death threats. But sure. The Democrats are all in a suuuper sekret plot to surrender the United States to ****in Iran.

Good lord. You should write books. Science fiction, obviously.

 

[Athanasius68]

Just wait for the official announcement that "Iran has vast stockpiles of WMD and we know where they are hidden".

Yep-- and then the Russian intelligence agencies will say the American intelligence agencies are wrong-- there are no WMD's in Iran-- and the Democrats will be screaming that Trump has to attack immediately else it proves how unpatriotic he is-- trusting Russian intelligence ahead of American.

 

[Athanasius68]

From Reuters

Iran may attack Israel if U.S. standoff escalates: Israeli minister
​

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli cabinet minister warned on Sunday of possible direct or proxy Iranian attacks on Israel should the stand-off between Tehran and Washington escalate.

The United States has increased economic and military pressure on Iran, with President Donald Trump on Thursday urging its leaders to talk to him about giving up their nuclear program and saying he could not rule out an armed confrontation.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, which supports Trump’s hard tack against its arch-foe, has largely been reticent about the spiraling tensions.

Parting with the silence, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said that, in the Gulf, “things are heating up”.

“If there’s some sort of conflagration between Iran and the United States, between Iran and its neighbors, I’m not ruling out that they will activate Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad from Gaza, or even that they will try to fire missiles from Iran at the State of Israel,” Steinitz, a member of Netanyahu’s security cabinet, told Israel’s Ynet TV.

COMMENT:-

And if the Iranians have the audacity to attempt to defend themselves from an American attack which is coordinated with and operated through Israel, then the Israeli "hard-liners" would be absolutely overjoyed to nuke Iran. The Iranians, of course, have absolutely no idea that this is what would happen.
​

In such a circumstance, Iran would repeat what Iraq did during the Gulf War. Israel, however might not tolerate it like that did that time.
However, Iraqi objectives then was to cause a general Arab/Muslim across the mideast when Israel counterattack. That's what Iran would want. But I think the situation in the mideast is different now than in 1990 and I don't think that would be the result.

 

[Hatuey]

:lamo

Jesus Christ the things you people believe.

One Democratic congresswoman dares suggest that money from pro-Israeli lobby groups actually performs the intended function and she gets called an anti-semite and gets death threats. But sure. The Democrats are all in a suuuper sekret plot to surrender the United States to ****in Iran.

Good lord. You should write books. Science fiction, obviously.

He will not grasp the context of your post and respond with some one liner.

Sent from the Oval Office using Putin's MacBook, and Barr's Wi-Fi password.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

We're being set up for a false flag.

Turn off Alex Jones and get real. Trump wants his war to hang onto his presidency.
Stop using Alex Jones buzz words. Oh wait, you can't stop, I forgot.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

It's stories like this that remind me there's a faction of Christians in the USA who not only think biblical predictions make a war in Israel inevitable, but are actually working to make it happen faster to make the biblical events predicted as a result happen faster.

And they have influence in government.

They call themselves Dominionists.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Yep-- and then the Russian intelligence agencies will say the American intelligence agencies are wrong-- there are no WMD's in Iran-- and the Democrats will be screaming that Trump has to attack immediately else it proves how unpatriotic he is-- trusting Russian intelligence ahead of American.

Your head is really that far up?

 

[uptower]

The Iranians know the Leftists would side with Iran and undermine the U.S. and Israeli war effort.

They're hoping the Democrats would impeach Trump and then force U.S. forces to surrender.

How about not starting a fight over nothing in the first place?

In any limited engagement America will win - in the short term. However it will not bring Iran to the negotiating table (where it already had a comfortable spot till Trump came along) and will only serve to isolate and embitter it further.

Moreover this is not only Bolton's long held neocon wet dream, but a clear attempt to deflect from Trump's mounting scandals at home. Monica Missiles times ten.

 

[Atomic Kid]

In such a circumstance, Iran would repeat what Iraq did during the Gulf War. Israel, however might not tolerate it like that did that time.
However, Iraqi objectives then was to cause a general Arab/Muslim across the mideast when Israel counterattack. That's what Iran would want. But I think the situation in the mideast is different now than in 1990 and I don't think that would be the result.

What??? Can't even begin to translate that gibberish.

 

[Roadvirus]

Headline should read "Iran may commit suicide by attacking Israel".

 

[apdst]

How about not starting a fight over nothing in the first place?

In any limited engagement America will win - in the short term. However it will not bring Iran to the negotiating table (where it already had a comfortable spot till Trump came along) and will only serve to isolate and embitter it further.

Moreover this is not only Bolton's long held neocon wet dream, but a clear attempt to deflect from Trump's mounting scandals at home. Monica Missiles times ten.

Tell that to the Iranians.

 

[Athanasius68]

Your head is really that far up?

Well, in the scenario presented, American intelligence would say that Iran has the nukes.
Russia is an ally of Iran and would reasonably say its intelligence services state Iran has no nukes.
Who to believe? American or Russian intelligence services.

 

[Athanasius68]

What??? Can't even begin to translate that gibberish.

The article claims that in the event the USA attacks Iran, Iran would do what Iraq did in 1990-- attack Israel. Iran would do this for the same reason Iraq did-- to cause a general mideast conflagration when Israel counterattacks.
But the mideast in 2019 is not the same as it was in 1990.

 

[Atomic Kid]

The article claims that in the event the USA attacks Iran, Iran would do what Iraq did in 1990-- attack Israel. Iran would do this for the same reason Iraq did-- to cause a general mideast conflagration when Israel counterattacks.
But the mideast in 2019 is not the same as it was in 1990.

What article? This isn't nearly the same situation as 1990.

 

[Checkerboard Strangler]

Well, in the scenario presented, American intelligence would say that Iran has the nukes.
Russia is an ally of Iran and would reasonably say its intelligence services state Iran has no nukes.
Who to believe? American or Russian intelligence services.

But you feel compelled to claim that "leftists" (oh scuse me, Democrats) "will be screaming that Trump has to attack immediately else it proves how unpatriotic he is-- trusting Russian intelligence ahead of American."

Do I need to read all your posts back to you?
Like I said, how far up is your head, really?