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Israel intensifies strikes on Iran as Netanyahu aims for ‘regime change’

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Israel has sharply escalated its military campaign against Iran, expanding its targets from nuclear facilities and military leaders to include residential areas, fuel depots, and government ministries.

The widening assault has now reached as far as Mashhad, where an Israeli strike reportedly hit a refueling plane 2,000 kilometres from Israeli territory. As casualty figures inside Iran mount, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz warned of potentially “burning Tehran” should Iran continue missile attacks on Israel, and military officials have spoken of “opening a path to Tehran.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has framed the offensive as a fight against the Islamic regime rather than the Iranian people. In a Fox News interview, he cited the Iranian protest slogan “Woman, Life, Freedom” and claimed that “80% of the people” want regime change. He added that “the Persian people and the Jewish people have had an ancient friendship” and said that any uprising would ultimately be “the decision of the Iranian people.”

Amid this intensifying conflict, former U.S. President Donald Trump allegedly vetoed an Israeli plan to assassinate Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Two senior U.S. officials told Reuters that while Israel had the opportunity to carry out the strike, Trump blocked it, noting that no American had yet been killed by Iran in the current escalation. Trump has maintained regular communication with Netanyahu and confirmed to Reuters, “we knew everything” about the Israeli strikes. Planned nuclear negotiations in Oman were cancelled due to the ongoing military action.

Netanyahu dismissed reports of the assassination veto as “false.”

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  1. What has transpired from these belligerent unprovoked actions against Iran
    Under the pretext of weapons of mass destruction
    Like Iraq
    And the facade of peace talks
    Like the Minsk Agreements
    Is that the Jewish state all for the sake of the preservation of the seriously deranged psychopath Benjamin Netanyahu
    Holocaust denier
    And no doubt the result of many centuries in the advanced state and effects of untreated syphilis and gonerhea
    Now finds himself up a creek lacking a paddle and no way to maneuver
    Nor extricate itself
    Which most probably was the intended malice and deceit from the start knowing full well
    Requiring the entry of the United States under another bad actor Donald Trump into the foray
    Now would be the most opportune moment for a False Flag Attack to happen within the United States
    Which would conveniently be blamed on You know who
    Which would allow this to be purpose to be achieved
    And the perfect vehicle for a flip flop by guard dog Donald Trump to come groveling to the aid of His Jewish Master and donor
    The situation is just so pathetic

  2. Middle eastern version of Nazi Germany. Utterly vicious and without conscience. I feel deeply sorry for Iran, faced with these murderous swine. Lets hope Russia and China. can offer some assistance.

  3. That is what you get when crime is never punished.
    They even bite the hand that feed them. Devious liars, cowards , thieves and murderers.
    Spying on everybody on earth to blackmail
    Time for a huge pogrom.

  4. And which way will Erdogan jump?
    The opportunist fence dweller
    Again capricious unpredictable reactionary
    The Greater israel
    Erdogan’s new Sultanate
    Where civilizations political ambitions and objectives clash
    In a world of rising tensions between Russia and the United States, the Middle East and Europe, Sunnis and Shiites, Islamism and liberalism, Turkey is at the epicentre
    Interesting times

  5. “we knew everything”
    “Two senior U.S. officials told Reuters that while Israel had the opportunity to carry out the strike, Trump blocked it, noting that no American had yet been killed by Iran in the current escalation.”

    So the US is intimately involved with these strikes.

    And apparently, we are their allies?!

    Shame on our politicians. Shame on ANYONE who signs up to support these bullies

    • Trump is lying. He is no longer kissing Netanyahu’s ass. He has now started kissing Iranian ass.

      He has changed his mind. Previously Trump was very clever in lulling the Iranians into false security with negotiations while the Israelis conducted brilliant pre-emptive strike and he knew all about it. Now Trump says USA had nothing to do with it and they must de-escalate.

      Why change his mind? Because history repeats and the dumb yanks are losing yet another dirty war they started. Trump is now positioning himself on the side of the winners – not Israel.

      • Excuse me ! what ” pre emptive ” strike ? Israhell is a rogue criminal association of joows
        It was an aggressive attack under false reasons. Like the ” weapons of mass destructions” in Irak. They have not a nuke
        The US vulture and its associate in crime israhell have been destroying all middel east cultures one after another.

  6. Sharing this (with permission), written by a Persian friend living in New Zealand who knows first hand what the Iranian regime is like:

    🩸 Let me explain to you, from my heart, why many Iranians do not mourn when Israel strikes the Islamic regime in Iran.

    You see, while some in the West speak of diplomacy and peace, we Iranians have lived under the shadow of these monsters for more than 40 years.

    They took my father.
    They stole my childhood.
    They shattered my youth.
    They buried my dreams.

    They killed my people, not just once, but over and over for five generations.
    They executed fathers.
    They raped daughters.
    They tortured sons.
    They erased the faces and names of the brave.
    They filled mass graves with students, workers, mothers, anyone who dared to speak the truth.

    And when they ran out of Iranians to kill, they exported death to Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen — leaving behind the blood of innocent children far from our borders.

    They built empires of terror.
    They fed themselves with black blood stolen from our land while millions of Iranians fell into poverty.
    They built penthouses of gold funded by sanctions evasion, human trafficking, and the tears of mothers who lost their children to the regime’s bullets.

    While Western politicians shook hands with these demons in suits, flattering them in Vienna and New York, we watched as our brothers and sisters were tortured in Evin prison.

    While the world debated “diplomacy,” they drained the life from our nation.

    And now, when Israel targets the IRGC commanders, the very architects of these crimes many in the free world cry out and say:
    “Oh, don’t escalate!”
    “Oh, innocent lives may be lost!”

    Let me tell you:
    Those who die are not innocent.

    They are the butchers who drained rivers of blood inside and outside Iran.

    So don’t you dare speak for us, the real Iranian people.

    Don’t lecture us about morality while you have flirted with these murderers for 40 years.
    Don’t pretend to know the price we’ve paid.

    Israel is not attacking the Iranian people.
    Israel is hunting the regime that has held us hostage for decades — the regime the world allowed to grow while we were being silenced.

    While Western governments invited these monsters to negotiate, only one country stood up against them.
    Only one country dared to hunt them — even in their penthouses, even in their foreign mansions, built on blood money.

    And for that, many of us are grateful.

    Because we know who the enemy truly is.
    And we know who finally dared to fight them.

    🩸 Do not confuse the people of Iran with the demons who rule it.

    We want our country back.
    We want freedom.
    We want our children to live without fear.
    And we will never cry for those who slaughtered our fathers.

    #Iran #IRGC #IslamicRegime #Israel #TruthTellers #Resistance #FreedomForIran #WeKnowWhoTheEnemyIs #DontSpeakForUs

  7. @ rob

    What you write might be true. Individuals get sometime crushed by governments. We all saw with covid that individuals get persecuted. Even groups of individuals.
    Iran already underwent a regime change end ’70. And the population was the one who threw the US vulture ou of their country. Remember the US ambassy plundered and burning ?

    So they are very capable to organize a ” regime change” if the majority of iranians wish to.

    Israhell and the US vulture don t act in good faith. They are predators of the worst kind.

    So if iranians whish to liberate themselves from the tyrannie of their regime, they will have to take the necessary steps.

    And it seems that for now, the population is in support of their regime which was very well inspired to produce a large stock of ammunitions.
    Just in case, as we by now all know how ” regime changes” occur and are not in the interest of concerned population, as the US predatory vulture and his associate in crime help greatly through corruption

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