The Middle East Thread

https://x.com/AmichaiStein1/status/1840770306509578600
https://x.com/ragipsoylu/status/1840772606640730526
(Washington may or may not be informed, as recent history has shown, so salt needed).
https://x.com/Liz_Friden/status/1840772760873619721

https://x.com/Faytuks/status/1840765734294610086

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Possibly quite concerning for many:
https://x.com/netanyahu/status/1840740049299583355

You don’t say…
https://x.com/Faytuks/status/1840768950704947392

I am sure the people of Iran are very relieved…

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Sort of comic relief in a dreadful situation getting out of of control this; but “Mr. I have my tongue up Putin’s arse”, continues to amuse me. This absolute retard does not understand that Khamenei controls the Armed Forces and overall policy, and the president the economy and foreign relations. But the grifter is now getting money from gullible Pro palestinians, Russians, pro Asar Allah, pro Axis of so called resistance and has become quite rich out of this, despite being an utterly immoral imbecile of the First Order:

https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1840703411085262934
https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1840707993664446482

His patrons and subscribers are possibly dumber than him, so there is that.

Genuinely had no idea this person existed, but quite clearly a Russian tool.

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I think an Israeli strike on Iran is possible, but at current unlikely. But I do think it is possible. They for sure want it, they want to exploit this situation and take care of the enemies they can take care of, now that they have this golden window of opportunity prior to the US election.
So yeah, It is worrisome. But I still think Israel hope that Iran retaliates now soon, so they can get a better Casus Belli. It would be ideal for them.

Holy fuck , they’re going to attack Iran.

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You are very lucky to have never heard of the imbecile. He was Super MAGA, earned too little money out of that, and swapped to Putin and Assad. Now it is Putin, Assad, Ansar Allah, Kim jong Un, Khamenei and for some reason Venezuela.
There is a big grift on the internet to be had for westerners who do propaganda against the West.
Problematically, he is of course pro Palestinians (not that he cares about them, but officially in his grift), so he is often re-tweeted by pro Palestinians who have a terrible filter (which sadly is quite a lot of people on the internet). It works for him. He get’s interviews on RT even. Recently even traveled to Sana and interviewed the Houthies :smiley:

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Yeah, I worry about that posibillity indeed. As I said, I do think they hope for a better Casus Belli though. For the “promised” iranian retaliation (they also killed an IRGC general in Beirut when they took out Nasrallah and Khamenei reportedly was in tears when Nasrallah died according to one source). Trying their best at least.

But still, I don’t think they will strike Iran out of the blue, but they might.

I’ve rarely seen such a direct threat towards a country, formulated in such a straightforward manner. It’s absolutely frightening to see him replicate JW Bush’s words before he went to war with Iraq. Wasn’t it said then that he’d bring them democracy, progress and prosperity, and that it would be a war for the greater good?

Now, almost twenty-five years later, with all the hindsight of what happened after the US went to war, this demon goes again with the same arguments. As if war had ever brought prosperity anywhere… :see_no_evil:

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Perhaps the only thing that might deter them (at least for now) would be the prospect of Hezbollah throwing everything they’ve got at Israel if Iran comes under attack. That certainly wouldn’t help their stated goal of getting their civilians back into their homes in the north , and nor would an incursion presumably. This really is on a knife edge now.

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Contradictory reports.

Israel claiming so.

Yeah but you’re missing the point.

It keeps him in power, so the gravy train continues.

I don’t think Hezbollah is an effective deterrant at current. They are in chaos, it’s not just the leadership that has been liquidated, far worse for an organisation like Hezbollah is the methodical take out of the middle commanders and veterans (pager and radio strikes). Hezbollah at the moment, is seriously in jeopardy and unable to calibrate retaliation effectively.
It is getting constantly bombed, it’s resistance, rockets and missiles, not very coordinated. But yes, it can probably throw a lot more iron, but it’s seriously reeling at the moment. Unlike in Gaza, in Lebanon, the Israeli strikes have benefited from fantastic intelligence and almost every bombing run actually hit Hezbollah targets.

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It brings plenty of prosperity to arms manufacturers and dealers.

And their chums in government.

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Regarding Maher al Assad, Israel did indeed bomb the Syrian 4th division HQ (4th division is the IRGC affiliated one led by Maher al Assad) and caused significant casualties, but unknown if Maher is dead. Would be quite ok if he was. 4th division was the one responsible for most chemical attacks.

Bottom line, Israel is currently bombing every single Iranian military satelite.

Yeah, I should have written general prosperity, which is Netanyahou’s theme in his speech: after we’ll have brought war to your country, Iranian people will thrive and everyone will be happy. Basically what JW Bush said when he brought war to Iraq.

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I wonder at which point Russia will intervene. Iran is their closest ally in the middle east after all.

This is where the Ukraine war is a quagmire for them. They had no choice but to watch Armenia get disembowelled, and they don’t have many options here.

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