If any part of what Pepe Escobar reported is correct, then this suddenly becomes the biggest news story of the century. If it is all correct, then its one of the biggest stories in history. While I think the scenario is possible, I find it highly implausible. Larry Johnson’s excellent assessment here.
[Pepe E.]:
Israel initially chose to respond with extreme force.
An F-35 loaded with a nuclear bomb was sent east over Jordan.
The mission: cause a high-altitude detonation over Iran that would provoke a surge in the high-capacity power lines, crippling Iran’s electric grid, as well as disabling all electronic devices.
An EMP attack.
However…
… As the Israeli F-35 was leaving Jordanian airspace it was shot down by the Russian Air Force.
Two substantial problems with this idea involve the rather subjective matter of potential Zionist nuclear capabilities and the extreme limitations of the named aircraft, especially given the supposed manner of attack. While this story is obviously developing, I’d imagine that no one wants any part of it, barring a total denial if it did not happen at all, coming out. If anything, even if a fictional thing, it is a reminder how close the world is teetering right now towards some very, very bad outcomes.
Late last week, Iran changed the paradigm in the Middle East when it retaliated against the Zionist Entity occupying Palestine for an earlier Zionist strike against an Iranian consulate in Syria and many other previous provocations. Using hundreds of drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles, launched in sequences to ensure they all arrived at roughly the same time, Iran accomplished several things. It tested and overwhelmed Zionist air defense capabilities. It demonstrated it can conduct powerful, precise operations at a great distance. It evidently tested new hypersonic glide vehicle technology, something similar to Russia’s Avangard weapon, if slower, smaller, and far less lethal. Iran partially eliminated assets of the IGF (Israeli Genocide Force) used during the Syrian attack. Those damaged targets include the IGF air bases at Ramon and Nevatim, and allegedly, an intelligence and radar site near Golan, and the IGF air intelligence headquarters in Tel Aviv.
Tehran’s retaliation looked very much like the kind of precision exclamation point response they delivered to the GAE in early 2020. Now as then, the Empire, the Zionists, and their media puppets spin the same lies and Hasbara: 99% of Iran’s missiles were intercepted, there was no damage, and there were no casualties. Iran notified all relevant parties so as to minimize civilian harm during their demonstration. A seven-year-old Bedouin girl was either killed or injured when she was struck by debris from a downed projectile. A tragedy, though she might be the only Bedouin the zionists and luciferian clowns have ever feigned concern for. As at the GAE’s al-Assad AB in 2020, moderate to substantial damage was inflicted on the IGF’s bases. And there was no stopping it despite ample, supposedly effective air defenses. 99% of the drones probably were shot down, and that is why they were deployed—as decoys. But it appears that two-thirds of the ballistic missiles hit their targets.
Here’s a video of one such successful strike. It may be the first video evidence of a hypersonic warhead maneuvering to evade an air defense missile. If that was what happened, then Iran has joined Russia in a very rare and elite club.
(Larry Johnson, YT.)
The Zionists have vowed to retaliate, though where, when, and, most importantly, how remains to be seen. Iran has acknowledged this possibility, is by all accounts prepared for it, and has promised to repay if necessary. In short, Tehran sent a message to the Zionist occupiers that their days of running roughshod over the region are over. A similar message was conveyed to the Yankee Empire. *This is, of course, a fluid situation.*
The Global American Empire is at its end, being too stretched, too weak, and too opposed to continue dominating the entire world. I just read The Other Side Of The Wall: A Palestinian Christian Narrative Of Lament And Hope by Rev. Munther Isaac of Bethlehem (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2020). He’s the Lutheran Pastor Tucker Carlson recently interviewed and who has been speaking out against IGF violence and Western Christian indifference during the late Gazacaust. On page 64, he writes about empires:
In empires, human beings were numbers: a commodity! Moreover, empires were fully prepared to undertake violence on whatever scale was required for the success of extraction and commoditization. In other words, war was the official language of the empire—and it was often conducted in the name of spreading peace or making order.
Isaac’s is a book I highly recommend, and those words of his should sound rather familiar to Americans. On their watch and in their name, the GAE has committed atrocity after atrocity for decades. In the process, as it caused incalculable damage worldwide, it burned itself out and reduced Americans to mere numbers, increasingly impoverished and despondent numbers. It is now beginning to collapse, a process that will be followed by the eventual dissolution of the United States as it is currently organized. It will likely be a very messy happening, most painful for Americans, though it is a blessing for the world at large. As-is, in its death throes, the foreign elite controlling the GAE are frantically stirring as much trouble as they can, particularly in two major fronts of the existing global conflict, while planning a third major provocation and participating in many others of lesser character. None of this is of any benefit to the American people.
I decided to map out how far away a few of these pointless conflicts are from Oby’s in Starkville, Mississippi. One can simply adjust the distances to where one lives.
Neither the Zionists nor the GAE can successfully wage war against Iran. The Zionists are already losing to the much less powerful foes of Hamas and Hezbollah. The GAE has for the past eight decades shown it cannot win, or really even fight a war against anyone. Tehran is 7,000 miles from Starkville. Jerusalem is 6,600 miles away, and Gaza is a hair less. And the Bab al-Mandab Strait at the southern entrance of the Red Sea is 8,000 miles out.
The Empire’s Ukrainian project is shaping up to be its worst defeat ever. For the rulers of the West, it was critical and its loss to Russia will have permanent consequences. Americans, who probably still couldn’t find Ukraine on a map, should know that Kharkiv, a city destined to fall and rejoin Mother Russia, is 5,800 away from all those hot po’ boys and cold beers.
As if running two losing offensives isn’t offensive enough, the lords of Washington, DC (Devil’s Coven) fantasize about a third loser against China. China, along with Russia and other BRICS+ countries, is already beating the brakes off the GAE economically and geopolitically. One supposes the neoclowns won’t be happy until Beijing adds a military component to the equation similar to Russia’s. Much of this silently has to do with keeping Japan and South Korea in the GAE’s orbit. But it’s popularly sold as a conflict over Taiwan. Taipei is almost 8,000 miles from Starkville.
At the moment, those measurements cover the major theaters. But there are many, many more: Serbia, Niger, Sudan, North Korea, Venezuela, etc. Add those future or unfolding disasters to the past list that includes Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and more. None of these misadventures helped or served Americans in any way. The lie was and is always the same—it’s all about America’s national interests. The lie comes in because there is no national interest, in the conflicts, or in general. There are no national values. No valid national government. No solvent national economy. As Paul Graham said, there isn’t even a national nation.
There is one more major front. It’s the only one that truly matters to Americans. It’s America itself. Americans should see at least two distinct though related existential threats to themselves and their muddled polyglot association. Washington dismisses both threats, and in their place, and on strict behalf of the elites, substitutes the American people themselves.
The first threat, which may be the largest of its kind in history, is the ongoing foreign invasion of the former United States. At random, I selected the Nuevo Laredo border crossing along America’s non-existent border. That point in Texas is only 750 miles from Starkville. Unlike the foregoing places of comparison, the border is much closer. There are no oceans or impenetrable natural barriers separating it from Mississippi or any other state. In fact, potholes and faulty bridges aside, they’re all linked by superhighways, railways, and air routes.
By sheer coincidence, Washington, Devil’s Coven is also only 750 miles away. New York City is approximately 950 miles from Starkville. I list those cities because they represent, more than any other places, the seats of the second extreme threat facing Americans, the capitals of the clown’s empire. Once the international operations collapse and cease, the elites will only have Americans left to bully, dehumanize, rob, and murder. They hate and have hated Americans more than any other adversary. They’re really going to want to vent their frustrations on their last viable targets.
How far away from Starville is the true danger? It’s way too close for comfort. At some point, maybe after another rigged election and financial depression, Mississippians, Southerners, and other Americans will finally realize who their genuine enemy is and has been. None of the overseas conflicts concerned Americans, but Americans have nonetheless allowed themselves to become involved in them. In many ways, Americans are guilty of some of the shameful barbarities in those conflicts. That price will be paid and is already being felt at home. A silver lining is that the resistance in all those foreign lands may serve as both general inspiration and technical demonstration for Americans. Once they wake up. And once they do, the real prize is that their true enemies’ threat and power are largely illusory. The demons Americans suffer from turn out to be small, weak, rather stupid, and relatively few in number.
For optimistic reference, the surface of the Sun is 93 million miles from Starkville. I suggest that would make an ideal, if implausible place to exile the elite enemy. I cannot calculate the distance from Starkville to hell. But that’s where the clowns are eventually going. None of their victims need to accompany them. Oby’s is zero miles from Oby’s. Once victory is achieved, it is the ideal place for a celebration.
It’s hard to say. There’s the initial fog and I’ve just come in. It looks like Iran is peppering IGF air bases. RT coverage. Aljazeera.
Also, if there’s a funny angle, it’s the Zionist Entity suddenly recognizing the UN and international law after at least 57 years of ignoring or flouting it. UNSC meeting tomorrow.
The Amero-Zionist axis of evil is going to push too hard and too far. And the retaliation will be brutal. At some point, Iran will cease tolerating pro-ISIS, anti-human attacks like this one.
Mohammed Reza Zahedi, the top commander in the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) for Lebanon and Syria was assassinated in an air strike on Monday.
Zahedi is the highest ranking Iranian killed since the current war started, even higher than Sayyed Reza Mousavi, who was killed in December, the Jerusalem Post has learned.
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Initial reports indicate that at least six people were killed in the strike, which targeted a building adjacent to the Iranian embassy.
The Iranian Embassy in Lebanon responded with fury to the alleged strike, saying: “This barbaric Israeli aggression is a flagrant violation of international laws, diplomatic norms, and the requirements of the Vienna Convention.”
Just another day in the sad saga of Anglo-yankee-zionists exploitation and terrorism. Venessa Beeley constantly reports on it. Maybe the only preemptive thing that could stop a war the zionists and the yankees will lose would be if Russia declared all of Syria and Lebanon a no-fly zone. Once NATO’s pet project in Ukraine is crushed, Moscow might look towards the Middle East a little more. In Tehran, they’re probably already looking at options. They have many.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said it had used ballistic missiles against an ISIS base in Syria and a stronghold of the Israeli spy service Mossad in Iraq on Monday, in retaliation for the recent terrorist bombings in Iran.
Two explosions killed almost 100 people in Kerman on January 3, as pilgrims gathered to honor the late General Qassem Soleimani, killed by the US in 2021. Islamic State (IS, also known as ISIS) claimed responsibility. Last month, another suicide bombing in the town of Rask killed 11 Iranian police. It was blamed on the Pakistan-based group Jaish Al-Adl.
“In response to the recent crimes of the terrorist groups that unjustly martyred a group of our dear compatriots in Kerman and Rask, we have identified gathering places of commanders and elements of ISIS related to recent terrorist operations in the occupied territories of Syria and destroyed them by firing a number of ballistic missiles,” the IRGC said in a statement.
In a follow-on statement, the IRGC said it had also used missiles against “one of the main espionage headquarters of the Zionist regime (Mossad) in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.”
And now we await more big tough words from the gasbag Lindsey Graham.
UPDATE: This was probably Iran’s largest and strongest effort ever, more powerful than the already devastating ass-stomping of the gay GAE in 2020 which you’re not supposed to know about or understand. And if THIS report is to be believed, then Tehran is at a totally new operational level. I’m sure all those GOP queers, liars, heathens, invaders, and murderers are talking about all this in Iowa or New Hampshire or Oz or wherever.
Satan’s Sinator, Lindsey Graham (R-Hell), issued big, strong, tough, very macho, and tough words towards Iran. I mean BIG, tough, strong, tough talk!
On Thursday, Graham told Netanyahu that both US lawmakers and the administration of President Joe Biden would “push forward to make Iran’s worst nightmare real,” adding that the US would “do everything we can” to support Israel. He argued that West Jerusalem should strive for reconciliation with Arab nations, calling such an outcome “a nightmare for the ayatollah.” He also described establishing ties between Israel and the Arab world as an “absolutely essential ingredient to a better, more stable Mid-East and a safe and secure Israel and a prosperous Palestinian people.”
Look out, Tehran!!! I can only read this threat as proof of Lindsey’s intention to personally move to Iran. What else could be their or anyone else’s worst nightmare? And as much as Southerners would love to see him gone, it just wouldn’t be right to foist him off on someone else.
It’s coming. While people with names like Graham and Bolton bleat stupidly about bombing Iran, Israel exercises the only option it and the GAE have – terrorism.
Ch. Nasrala in a little while – “ Today is historic and will be mentioned for what will follow ”
In a statement, Hezbollah emphasizes that the assassination of Saleh al-Aroui is a «serious attack on Lebanon, its people, security, sovereignty and resistance of », warns « that this crime will not go through without an answer and punishment ».
He ends up saying that “ today is historic and will be mentioned for what is to follow ”.
For what is to follow. We remembered what followed the murder of the general. What, one wonders, will happen now that a replacement has also been killed along with 200 people at a cemetery memorial? Odds are, we’re about to find out.
If recent history is a guide, then the occupying IDF won’t have to wait long to find out whether their strike into Syria crossed one too many red lines.
An Israeli air strike outside the Syrian capital of Damascus has killed a senior adviser in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), according to reports from Iranian state media.
Sayyed Razi Mousavi, one of the top IRGC commanders in Syria, was killed on Monday.
He was responsible for coordinating the military alliance between Syria and Iran, an important part of Iran’s regional network of allies and proxies known as the “Axis of Resistance”.
Mousavi “was killed during an attack by the Zionist regime a few hours ago in Zeinabiyah district in the suburbs of Damascus,” Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported, using a different name for Sayyida Zeinab south of the Syrian capital.
In a statement read on state TV, the IRGC said that the “usurper and savage Zionist regime will pay for this crime”.
The GAE can attest to the kind of payment the IRGC can extract. And over the past 4 years, Iran’s already impressive rocketry forces have only become more sophisticated, accurate, and powerful. Perhaps now would be a good time for Bibi Herod to consult with Orange Man about the appropriate after-the-fact bluffs and lies to sling.
The wicked idiots in DC may have found another avenue to intensify WWIII.
The U.S. military is readying plans to embark armed Marines and sailors aboard the commercial ships of interested private companies after a spate of vessel seizures by Iranian forces in the Middle East, officials said Thursday, a remarkable escalation that could put Washington and Tehran in direct confrontation.
The effort has not yet received final approval, but it has buy-in from senior Biden administration officials and could commence as soon as this month, said one official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military planning. Marines from Camp Lejeune, N.C., have been flown to Bahrain and received related training, with additional personnel due to arrive soon aboard American warships.
The protected tankers are probably the ones used to transport oil stolen from places like Syria by the GAE. Add to that crime the piracy and theft of foreign tankers by the GAE. Add in Marines and one wonders whether these “interested private” vessels might be properly considered overt military targets.
The GAE has its Ukranazi proxy openly attacking private freighters in the Black Sea. All of this signals that such ships are open targets. Iran will not lightly accept new interference in its sphere of influence. On the wider seas, other parties with much greater abilities would only need to seize, disable, or sink one or two tankers or container ships in order to bring international shipping to a full stop. That might rightly be considered “bad”. As such, we all wait breathlessly for a solution from Brandon the AI or one of the GOP cucktards.