Following the Iran–Iraq War, in 1989, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani concentrated on a pragmatic pro-business policy of rebuilding and strengthening the economy without making any dramatic break with the ideology of the revolution. In 1997, Rafsanjani was succeeded by moderate reformist Mohammad Khatami. Around this time, Washington began to squeeze Iran’s economy by sanctioning Iran. Russia stepped in and began to help Iran in completing its unfinished nuclear reactor, meant to improve Iran’s electricity generation. This was followed by China purchasing larger volumes of Iranian oil since the late 1990s.
The 2005 presidential election brought conservative populist candidate Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power. Hassan Rouhani was elected president on 15 June 2013, improving relations with other countries.
Israel targets Iran
In March 2003, the US invaded Iraq. Over the next three years, the main targets of the US occupation forces in Iraq were the Sunni population and their resistance groups. The US then created conditions to incite and launch sectarian clashes throughout Iraq between the Sunni and Shia groups and populations.
When Israel was defeated in the 2006 Lebanon border war, the US initiated a change in strategy. The US focus changed from targeting Sunni forces to targeting Shia forces in Iraq. At the same time, Syria became the focus of the US for several reasons. One was to stop the flow of arms and manpower flowing into Iraq from Syria. The second was to cripple and destroy the Shia Axis of resistance stretching from Iran through Iraq into Syria and then to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Between 2006 till April 2024, Israel’s Mossad began to assassinate many Iranian nuclear scientists, as well as sabotage Iran’s nuclear industry. After Iran began helping Syria stave off a regime – change operation against Bashar Asad, along with helping Hezbollah with military equipment and arms, the Mossad began killing many of the IRGC commanders involved in Syria and Lebanon.
On 3 January 2020, the revolutionary guard’s general, Qasem Soleimani, was assassinated by the US in Iraq, which considerably heightened existing tensions between the two countries. His assassination leads to Operation Martyr Soleimani, the largest ballistic missile attack ever on an American base in Iraq-the Ayn al Assad Base. Initially, the U.S. was not willing to concede the seriousness of the attack, but ultimately, the U.S. Department of Defense said that 110 service members had been diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries. Many were killed but as usual, the US denies any deaths.
Ebrahim Raisi is the current President of Iran, and he successfully ran for president a second time in 2021 with nearly 63% of the votes, succeeding Hassan Rouhani. He is often seen as a frontrunner to succeed Khamenei as the Supreme Leader.
From Strategic Patience to Strategic Deterrence
Having read the previous article regarding the covert war between Israel and Iran, Iran made a decision at the end of the Iraq-Iran War in September 1988. This was to build up their own arms industry to avoid relying on outside suppliers.
From 1989 till 2020, Iran built up its military and technological capacity, its industrial base and began to improve its economy. At the same time, it began to train its allies – Hezbollah, the Houthis and the Palestinian resistance groups along with the Iraqi resistance factions. It also armed them as well. All along, it exercised strategic patience, while building up its strength. By the beginning of 2024, Iran was ready.
On January 15, 2024, Iran launched ballistic missile and drone attacks against Mossad headquarters in Iraqi Kurdistan, and ISIS bases in northern Syria, in response to the killing of Razi Mousavi and the 2024 Kerman bombings. A day after the attack, Iran carried out a similar series of strikes in Panjgur District of Pakistan, targeting the CIA terror group Jaish ul-Adl.
The Straw that Broke the Camel’s Back
On 1 April 2024, Israel’s air strike on an Iranian consulate building in the Syrian capital Damascus killed an important senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), Brig Gen Mohammad Reza Zahedi, along with other IRGC commanders, who were meeting to co-ordinate the next phase in the Axis of resistance’s attacks on Israel.
Over the next two weeks, many people in Israel began panic-buying groceries and essentials- all in fear of an Iranian retaliation! The holy month of Ramadan ended on Wednesday 10th April. The next day, Iran sent a message to Israel via the Turks and Saudis that they are going to strike Israel. Panic ensued.
A little over 48 hours before Iran’s aerial message to Israel across the skies of West Asia, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov confirmed, on the record, what so far had been, at best, hush-hush diplomatic talk: The Russian side keeps in contact with Iranian partners on the situation in the Middle East after the Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in Syria. Connivance with Israeli actions in the Middle East, which are at the core of Washington’s policy, is in many ways becoming the root cause of new tragedies.
Here, concisely, we had Russia’s top diplomatic coordinator with BRICS – in the year of the multipolar organization’s Russian presidency – indirectly messaging that Russia has Iran’s back. Iran, it should be noted, just became a full-fledged BRICS+ member in January. Iran’s aerial message this weekend confirmed this in practice: their missile guidance systems used the Chinese Beidou satellite navigation system as well as the Russian GLONASS system. This is Russia–China Intel leading from behind and a graphic example of BRICS+ on the move.
Ryabkov’s “we stay in constant touch” plus the satellite navigation Intel confirms the deeply interlocked cooperation between the Russia–China strategic partnership and their mutual strategic partner Iran. Based on vast experience in Ukraine, Moscow knew that the biblical psychopathic genocidal entity would keep escalating if Iran only continued to exercise “strategic patience.” The morphing of “strategic patience” into a new strategic balance had to take some time – including high-level exchanges with the Russian side. After all, the risk remained that the Israeli attack against the Iranian consulate/ambassador’s residence in Damascus could well prove to be the 2024 remix of the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
And don’t forget the Strait of Hormuz
Tehran did manage to upend the massive western psychological operations aimed at pushing it into a strategic misstep. Iran started with a misdirecting masterstroke. As US–Israeli fear porn went off the charts, fueled by dodgy western “intel,” the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) made a quick sideways move, seizing an Israeli-owned container ship near the Strait of Hormuz.
That was an eminently elegant manoeuvre – reminding the collective west of Tehran’s hold on the Strait of Hormuz, a fact immeasurably more dangerous to the whole western economic house of cards than any limited strike on their “aircraft carrier” in the Middle East. That did happen anyway.
Iran Breaches Anglo-Zionist Defenses in Historic Attack: A Breakdown
Unlike that ‘moral’ army specialized in killing women, children, and the elderly and bombing hospitals, mosques, schools, universities, and humanitarian convoys, the Iranian attack targeted key Israeli military sites such as the Nevatim and Ramon airbases in the Negev and an intel center in the occupied Golan Heights – the three centers used by Tel Aviv in its strike on Iran’s Damascus consulate.This was a highly choreographed show. Multiple early warning signs gifted Tel Aviv with plenty of time to profit from US Intel and evacuate fighter jets and personnel, which was duly followed by a plethora of US military radars coordinating the defense strategy.
It was American firepower that smashed the bulk of what may have been a swarm of 185 Shahed-136 drones – using everything from ship-mounted air defense to fighter jets. The rest was shot down over Jordan by The Little King’s military – the Arab street will never forget his treachery – and then by dozens of Israeli jets.
Israel’s defenses were de facto saturated by the suicide drone-ballistic missile combo. On the ballistic missile front, several pierced the dense maze of Israel’s air defenses, with Israel officially claiming nine successful hits – interestingly enough, all of them hitting super relevant military targets.
Look at the targets that were struck.
Ramon has been badly hit. Nevatim was hit by more than 7 missiles. Air Force Intelligence HQ completely leveled. Other strikes on air defence installations obviously not close to population centres and out of view but I’m sure sat Intel will show extent of damage. And another:
- Nevatim Airbase in the south of occupied Palestine- this is the base that the F-35’s took off from. It is the most highly defended base in the world. Very heavily protected by a vast array of anti-missile defense systems, all of which are tied connected to the US SatCom system. Reports say that as many as a 100 US officers were manning these complex systems, and they suffered huge losses in this Iranian hit. Of course, neither Israel nor the US will confirm any of this. The funny thing is that we hardly ever hear of any Israeli or American soldiers being killed on the battle field. Rather, they are “wounded”. What else can one accept from the Empire of Lies?
- Ramon Airbase in the south of occupied Palestine-this is the headquarters of the Israeli Air-Force Intelligence. This is the site where the attack on the consulate was planned. This building and its occupants was totally destroyed. Much valuable equipment was destroyed. There have been reports that many senior intelligence officers – reports say about 20- were also killed in this attack.
- The Israeli top-secret intelligence-spy base in Jabal al-Sheikh (Mount Hermon) in the north of the occupied Golan. Israel captured this site from the Syrians in the June 1967 War. In the 1973 October War, a fierce battle was fought here, when Syria managed to re-take this site. Israel counter-attacked and managed to take it back. Since then, Israel has fortified this site. This site is crucial for either side. For Syria, this site could allow them to overlook the entire Galilee and northern Israel. Conversely, with this site in Israel’s control, Israel can see the entire southern region of Syria, and was able to monitor Damascus very closely, in terms of communications. That’s how they were able to know that a meeting was taking place in the Iranian consulate held by the senior-most commanders of the IRGC, who were meeting to take the next steps in the attacks on Israel. It should be noted that the rest of the explosions or hits in other areas of the occupied territories are related to the confrontation of the Israeli air defense systems with the projectiles in the sky or the falling of the wreckage of the interceptor missiles or the wreckage of Iranian missiles.
This strike was unprecedented for several important reasons. Firstly, it was of course the first Iranian strike on Israeli soil directly from Iranian soil itself, rather than utilizing proxies from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, etc. This alone was a big watershed step that has opened up all sorts of unprecedented milestones and potentials for escalatory spirals.
Secondly, it was one of the most advanced and longest range peer-to-peer style exchanges in history. Even in Russia, where I have noted we’ve seen the first ever truly modern near-peer conflict, with unprecedented scenes never before witnessed like when highly advanced NATO Storm Shadow missiles flew to Crimea while literally in the same moments, advanced Russian Kalibrs flew past them in the opposite direction—such an exchange has never been witnessed before, as we’ve become accustomed to seeing NATO pound on weaker, unarmed opponents over the last few decades. But no, Iran upped the ante even more – because even in Russia, such exchanges at least happen directly over the Russian border onto its neighbor, where logistics and ISR is for obvious reasons much simpler.
But Iran did something unprecedented. They conducted the first ever modern, potentially hypersonic, assault on an enemy with SRBMs and MRBMs across a vast multi-domain space covering several countries and time-zones, and potentially as much as 1200-2000km. This has never before been witnessed. And to add to that, Iran did all this with, as mentioned above, potentially hypersonic weapons which peeled back another layer of sophistication that included such things as possibly some endo-atmospheric interception attempts with Israeli Arrow-3 ABM missiles.
But let’s step back for a moment and say that Iran’s operation in general was sophisticated and modeled after the paradigm set by Russia in Ukraine: As stated, all three layers of the attack were timed to coincide, with the slowest (drones) going first, then next fastest (cruise missiles), followed by the fastest time-to-target, the ballistic missiles. The U.S. scrambled a large coalition to shoot the threats down, which included the U.S. itself, UK flying from Cyprus, France, and, controversially, Lebanon itself which allowed them all too also use its airspace. Dozens of images proclaimed the “successful” shoot downs of Iranian ballistic missiles. The problem is all of those are the ejected booster stages of two-stage rockets. There is no conclusive proof that any ballistic missiles were shot down and in fact all the evidence points to the opposite: direct footage of the missiles penetrating the AD net and striking targets.
This comes closest to confirming that missile to be an Emad from the chart above, which is one of Iran’s most advanced and can feature a MaRV (Maneuverable Re-entry Vehicle) warhead. This is where it starts getting interesting, because the hits we saw in Israel appeared to potentially utilize some form of MaRV or hypersonic glide vehicle, which would mean Iran could have made history even beyond what we can imagine last night.
“Iran has not fired its hypersonic missiles. In fact, most of the drones and missiles that were fired were older drones and missiles. They were very inexpensive and were used as decoys. So Iran spent a couple of million dollars to force the Israelis to spend $1.3 billion in anti-missile missiles, which was itself a big achievement by the Iranians. And then a number of other missiles that the Iranians fired…cut through and struck their targets,” an Iranian academic and geopolitical affairs commentator told Sputnik.
In short: while Israel and the U.S. claim they shot down 100% of everything, and while it’s possible that the drone and cruise missile lures were mostly shot down—though we have no strong evidence one way or the other—we do have evidence that the ballistic missiles largely went unopposed, slicing through what’s claimed to be the densest air defense in the world. Not only Israel’s itself, comprised of a layered defense of David Slings, Arrow-3s, Patriots, and Iron Dome, but also the aforementioned allied air-forces, as well as what’s now been reported to be two U.S. Arleigh Burke warship firing upwards of 70+ SM-3 missiles from the Mediterranean shore. The hits that we saw were spectacular in one profound way: the terminal velocity of the Iranian ballistic missiles appeared stunningly fast. However, based on visual eye-balling, some of the strikes appear to be landing at minimum Mach 3.5-5 if not higher, which according to some, is even higher than Iskander terminal velocity.
That being said, while the Iranian MRBMs feature very complex propulsion systems, given that they are two and even three stage for extra-long range, while Russia and the U.S. lacks these because of their previous adherence to the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile Treaty, the guidance aspect of Iranian MRBMs remains a question mark. We don’t know how accurate they are, and in the end, how effective the strikes actually were in hitting their targets. That’s because beyond the general macro objective of “hitting Nevatim airbase”, for instance, we don’t know what precisely inside that giant airbase Iran may have targeted.
And, finally, to scare Israel even more, another missile landed very close to the Dimona nuclear reactor and research center in the south. The message from Iran was – “attack our nuclear facilities – we have many- at your peril, for now we can touch your facility at Dimona”.
This is a statement from Scott Ritter- a former US intelligence analyst:
“My understanding is that Iran used 3 types of ballistic missiles. One ballistic missile uses a warhead that separates and then burst-fires a number of decoys that are specifically designed to attract Iron Dome missiles. …so, Iron Dome will fire 25 interceptors…Meanwhile smaller more maneuverable warheads burst through those interceptors and hit the Israeli air defense systems… and that appears to be the case. So, they are telling the Israelis ‘How we are going to take you out’... The next thing we see is missiles coming in that the warheads separate from the missile body and then there is a booster engine on the warhead that drives it down into the ground blowing away any ability for radar intercept hitting the target. And what this does is clear the space, clear the entire air defense; and the final thing is these heavy warheads that come off the heavy missiles that hit the runways and blew the big craters in them. This was a three-layered ballistic missile attack that was specifically designed by the Iranians to destroy Israeli air defense to clear the way to show the Israelis that we can put the big warheads on the target anywhere in Israel we want to. This was successful, and the beauty of this is, they didn’t use their best missiles…. This was just a single strike-package. …Iran can repeat this process all day long and what they’ve showed Israel is that “This is what we can do.” And I guarantee you that there are intelligence officers like me writing reports right now telling Israel “Stop all the nonsense. We can’t win this war. It’s over, guys. We have no defense here. If Iran wants to come in, we are powerless. Stop it now.”
The whole show had the budget of a mega blockbuster. For Israel – without even counting the price of US, UK, and Israeli jets – just the multi-layered interception system set it back at least $1.35 billion, according to an Israeli official. Iranian military sources tally the cost of their drone and missile salvos at only $35 million – 2.5 percent of Tel Aviv’s expenditure – made with full indigenous technology.
The US, Britain and France launched 150 jets to shoot down these drones. And they fired 100s of sidewinder missiles, with each costing more than $500,000 each. Add to this, the anti-missile systems on two US Aegis-class warships. The cost to the US and its allies just for this has been more than $2 billion. Thus, it cost Israel, the US, Britain and France an amount of more than $3.5 billion!
What makes the situation worse for NATO and the US is that they are unable to produce such missiles in sufficient quantities to continue expending such missiles. Were Iran to repeat this attack EVERY WEEK, for the next few months, then by October of this year, the entire West will be completely out of air-defense missiles and launch systems.
Iran’s Post-Op Statements
The Deputy Chief of Staff for Political Affairs to the Iranian President, Mohammad Jamshidi, announced that the political equation against the Israeli occupation “has completely shifted”.
He affirmed on X that targeting Iran’s forces and assets would be met with a direct response. He added that Operation True Promise encompassed the end of strategic patience toward the Israeli regime’s evils, noting that Iran has defeated “Israel’s” strategy of “war between wars”.
In the same context, the commander of the Iranian Revolution Guard Corps, Brigadier General Hussein Salami, reiterated that Iran is now employing a new strategic equation consisting of direct responses to any Israeli aggression against Iranian territories. On his part, Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian warned “Israel” and the US that any attack on Iranian interests would be met with Iran’s retaliation. In turn, the Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Army, Major General Sayyed Abdolrahim Mousavi, warned the Israeli occupation entity against insisting on continuing its attacks, stressing that Tehran would face new Israeli attacks with harsher and stronger punishments. The Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, Major General Mohammad Bagheri, announced on that two important Israeli military sites were targeted in Iran’s response. According to Bagheri, the Israeli intelligence’s headquarters in “Mount Hermon,” and the Nevatim Air Base were destroyed in the operation carried out. Bagheri pointed out that the attack, which was carried out with ballistic and cruise missiles, “was planned to target the airbase from which the Israeli aircraft that attacked our consulate departed.”
“A considerable number of drones and cruise and ballistic missiles have been used in this operation with well-thought-out tactics and proper planning, as neither the Iron Dome nor the Zionist regime’s missile defense shield could take any significant action against this operation.” “The operation’s purposes have been fulfilled,” the Bagheri declared.
Checkmate – A new Middle East Chessboard
It took only a few hours for Iran to finally metastasize strategic patience into serious deterrence, sending an extremely powerful and multi-layered message to its adversaries and masterfully changing the game across the whole Middle Eastern chessboard.
Were the biblical psychopaths to engage in a real Hot War against Iran, there’s no chance in hell Tel Aviv can intercept hundreds of Iranian missiles – the state-of-the-art ones excluded from the current show – without an early warning mechanism spread over several days. Without the Pentagon’s umbrella of weaponry and funds, Israeli defense is unsustainable. It will be fascinating to see what lessons Moscow will glean from this profusion of lights over Israel’s sky, its sly eyes taking in the frantic Israeli, political, and military scene as the heat continues to rise on the slowly boiling – and now screaming – frog.
As for the US, a Middle East war – one it hasn’t scripted itself – does not suit its immediate interests, as an old-school Deep State stalwart confirmed by email:
“That could permanently end the area as an oil-producing region and astronomically raise the oil price to levels that will crash the world financial structure. It is conceivable that the United States banking system could similarly collapse if the oil price rises to $900 a barrel should Middle East oil be cut off or destroyed.”
It’s no wonder that the Biden combo, days before the Iranian response, was frantically begging Beijing, Riyadh, and Ankara, among others, to hold Tehran back. The Iranians might have even agreed – had the UN Security Council imposed a permanent ceasefire in Gaza to calm the regional storm. Washington was mute. The question now is whether it will remain mute. Mohammad Bagheri, chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, went straight to the point: “We have conveyed a message to America through the Swiss Embassy that American bases will become a military target if they are used in future aggressive actions of the Zionist regime. We will consider this as aggression and will act accordingly.”
The US dilemma is confirmed by former Pentagon analyst Michael Maloof: “We have got some 35 bases that surround Iran, and they thereby become vulnerable. They were meant to be a deterrence. Clearly, deterrence is no longer on the table here. Now they become the American’ Achilles heel’ because of their vulnerabilities to attack.”
All bets are off on how the US–Israel combo will adapt to the new Iranian-crafted deterrence reality. What remains, for the historic moment, is the pregnant-with-meaning aerial show of Muslim Iran singlehandedly unleashing hundreds of drones and missiles on Israel, a feat feted all across the lands of Islam. And especially by the battered Arab street, subjugated by decrepit monarchies that keep doing business with Israel over the dead bodies of the Palestinians of Gaza. Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israeli military sites on April 13-14 signals a tectonic shift in the regional balance of power. While the media remains preoccupied with the number of outdated Iranian drones that were shot down during the onslaught, military analysts are far more focused on the way that Iran’s ballistic missiles cut through Israel’s vaunted air defense systems striking sites at the Nevatim and Negev Air Bases.
What the operation proved is that Israel’s “deterrents supremacy” is largely a fiction based on overly optimistic assumptions about the performance of their air defense capability. When put to the test, these systems failed to stop many of the larger and more destructive ballistic missiles from hitting their targets. This, in turn, revealed that Israel’s most heavily-defended and critically-important military sites remain overly-exposed to enemy attack. More importantly, any future attack will not be announced days in advance nor will Iran attempt to avoid high-value targets or heavy casualties. Instead, they will use their most lethal and state-of-the-art hypersonic missiles to inflict as much death and destruction on Israel as is required to make sure that the Jewish state is unable to lift a hand against Iran in the future.
In short, what Iran’s historic attack on Israel shows is that any future provocation by Israel will be met by an immediate and overwhelming response that will leave Israel battered, bloodied and broken. Iran’s purpose in launching the attack was to establish a deterrence posture designed to put Israel and the United States on notice that any attack against Iran, whether on Iranian soil or on the territory of other nations, would trigger a retaliation which would inflict more damage on the attacker than the attacker could hope to inflict on Iran. To achieve this result, Iran had to prove itself capable of overcoming the ballistic missile defense systems of both Israel and the United States which were deployed in and around Israel at the time of the attack. This Iran was able to accomplish, with at least nine missiles striking three Israeli air bases that fell under the protective umbrella of the Israeli-US missile defense shield.
The Iranian deterrence posture has implications that reach far beyond the environs of Israel or the Middle East. By defeating the US-Israeli missile defense shield, Iran exposed the notion of US missile defense supremacy that serves as the heart of US force protection models used when projecting military power on a global scale.
The US defensive posture vis-à-vis Russia, China, and North Korea hinges on assumptions made regarding the efficacy of US ballistic missile defense capabilities. By successfully attacking Israeli air bases which had the benefit of the full range of US anti-ballistic missile technology, Iran exposed the vulnerability of the US missile defense shield to modern missile technologies involving maneuverable warheads, decoys, and hypersonic speed. US bases in Europe, the Pacific and the Middle East once thought to be well-protected, have suddenly been revealed to be vulnerable to hostile attack. So, too, are US Navy ships operating at sea.
In short, Iran was able to slip by Israel’s robust radar and air defense systems and deliver a blow at the heart of the Israeli war machine using second class munitions and technology. Imagine the damage they would inflict if they felt forced to use their unstoppable hypersonic missiles. This is why it is unlikely that Netanyahu will order a direct attack on Iranian territory. The consequences for Israel would be nothing short of catastrophic: If it was Iran’s intention to cause “significant destruction and casualties”, then why didn’t they bomb downtown Tel Aviv or Haifa? Wouldn’t that have made more sense? And why did Iran communicate their plans 72 hours in advance to everyone, including the United States via the Saudis? And, if the attack was such an “embarrassing failure”, then why is Israel still hesitating to strike back?
The fact is, the Israeli war cabinet has already met four times since the incident and has not yet decided how to respond. Why? Because Iran’s deputy foreign minister Ali Bagheri has told Israel in no uncertain terms that if they launch another attack on Iran, they should expect to “get hit harder, faster, and with more immediacy.” So, the flexibility Israel has enjoyed for the last two decades, of bombing and assassinating its neighbors whenever it gets the urge, is over. Just Israel’s long streak of impunity is over. Tehran has thrown down the gauntlet and let it be known that it if Israel crosses its red lines, there’s going to be a war. Indeed, Iran will be better prepared and will do everything in their power to overwhelm the enemy and bring this decades-long confrontation to a swift and decisive end.
The failure of the combined US-Israeli defense systems in the face of a concerted Iranian missile attack exposed the short-comings of the US ballistic missile defense capabilities world-wide… This means that the US and NATO forces in Europe are vulnerable to attack from advanced Russian missile technologies most likely be able to strike and sink US navy ships in the Pacific Ocean in the event of a conflict over Taiwan…. which match or exceed those used by Iran to attack Israel. It also means that China and North Korea could do the same to US ships and forces ashore in the vicinity of Japan and South Korea… The global strategic implications of this stunning Iranian accomplishment are game-changing. Checkmate.
A Humiliated Israel Responds
The Israeli cabinet met 4 times since the Iranian hit. All very nervous – and frightened. Remember, the original plan of the US was to blow up the Middle East by goading Iran to attack either American or Israeli assets in the region. This, the, would be used as a justification to attack Iran. But, it didn’t go the way they planned. The way that Iran responded gave these two a shock of their lives.
Now, they knew that any major attack on Iran would result in devastating destruction to both Israeli and US assets in the region. But, still, in order to save face, the US and Israel decided that some response was imperative. The following response from Israel/US gives us some indication of their plans. There were 3 possible options. Here goes:-
Option 1
Israel initially chose to respond with extreme force. Israel sent in an F-35 loaded with a nuclear bomb 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. Then, using long-range missiles, take out an air-defense radar system protecting Iran’s nuclear facility at Natanz. Finally, send in a strike package of F-35’s to bomb Natanz. Regarding the first point here: this news came from 2 sources in the intelligence services of two major powers. Anything is possible in the shadow world. Remember when Israel lost 2 Dolphin submarines in the eastern Mediterranean Sea back in mid-2014. Nothing was made public. It could be the same here. It seems that the major global powers have decided to keep this incident very quiet. In the end, all sides decided not to publicize the real news, in order not to start World War 3. It just goes to show how genocidal and desperate the Rothschilds are, especially when it comes to their baby – Project Israel. They will burn the whole world in order to make sure that their Project Israel does not collapse.
Why did Russia intervene in these two? Because it is the same people and forces that are behind the plan to destroy, dismember and loot Russia are EXACTLY the same forces pushing the Gaza genocide. It is also the same forces pushing immigration, the destruction of Christianity, the push for the LBGT and gender nonsense, etc. The forces of evil. So, Putin is helping humanity by standing against the two families.
But, let’s do a hypothetical analyses on this option- – – if this was the Israeli plan.
The first objective was to use an EMP bomb to destroy Iran’s power grid. If there is no power, then nothing will work in the country.
The second objective was to destroy Iran’s air-defense system. This would make the task of bombing Iran’s nuclear facilities and its important strategic locations.
But, the plan failed with the first move. If the F-35 incident really happened. This information about the F-35 has been revealed by veteran Eurasian analyst, Pepe Escobar. A very credible report as Pepe has impeccable sources at the highest levels in many Eurasian countries. This info came from TWO DIFFERENT SOURCES from TWO DIFFERENT countries. I personally stand with Pepe’s analyses on this point. Within 2 days, the information was confirmed to Pepe by someone very high up in a major intelligence service of a major Eurasian power. Do people really think that such type of information is going to be presented to them in front of a TV? REALLY! After this incident, both the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds knew that their game-plan for global domination is coming to an end. Why? Because of what Russia did with this F-35 attack. Now they know that Iran is fully protected by Russia and China.
Furthermore, at around the same time that this was happening, Russia installed a post on the Syria side of the Golan Heights. This move gave notice to Israel and the US that Russia will not tolerate a “free-for – Israel” card in the region. And, that there will be consequences. Israel now finds itself hemmed in, with very little room to maneuver. It can no more do as it likes.
The point everyone is missing is that, if Russia really downed this F-35, then they must have been fore-warned. It means that Russian Intelligence is truly “on the ball”, having assets , sources, etc. within the highest levels in the key powers – US, London, Paris and Tel Aviv. If true, this report shows that these 2 families were ready to use a nuclear weapon – the EMP bomb- to destroy Iran’s electric grid and system. If true, then it means that the possibility of the use of nuclear weapons in the future has just become a fact.
Option 2
Take out the air-defense radars at Natanz. Then send in a strike package to bomb Natanz.
Option 3
Avoid using a direct attack on Iran from Israel. Rather use its “terror” networks and spies within Iran to launch very small drones against any Iranian military bases. By doing this, a “token response”, the Israeli leadership manages to retain some face. But, nobody was fooled. Israel, apart from being defeated by a “street gang” in Gaza, and a “non-state” actor in Lebanon, was now defeated by Iran- whom it has threatened to “destroy” for the past two decades. The humiliation is beyond agonizing.
Any Israeli attack on Iran or its personnel will result in retribution from Iran into “Israel”. This marks a transformation of the Resistance Fronts’ strategy: Until now, it has consisted of movements acting in concert — with States remaining strictly in the background.
Now as the unity of non-state actors remain activated, they are now supplemented with Iran and “Israel” facing each other directly. It is a new phase. And a Sixth Front has opened versus “Israel”.
The third element is that Netanyahu has been angling to draw the US into war with “Israel” against Iran for two decades (albeit with successive US Presidents declining the dangerous prospect).
The fourth reality is that Iran’s nuclear programe is untouchable, tucked away, deep within mountain interiors. Former Israeli PM Ehud Barak wrote explicitly in July 2022 in Time Magazine: Iran is a threshold nuclear state – and there is nothing that “Israel” can do about it. Get used to it, Barak advised: “It’s time to face reality”. So is there no strategic point to any Israeli military response in Iran? Just a show of force? Well, not exactly. For Netanyahu sees the stand-off as one of a ‘balance of power’. He will recall the influence and power of Iran during the Shah’s era: Iran quietly has been becoming the great regional power again. The Israelis would like to that power cut down to size.
Herein lies the issue of managing the dilemmas: Israelis widely believe that without deterrence — without the world fearing them — they cannot survive. October 7 set this existential fear burning through Israeli society. Hezbollah’s presence only exacerbates it — and now Iran has rained missiles down into ‘Israel’ directly. The opening of the Iranian front, in a certain way initially may have benefited Netanyahu: the Israeli forces’ defeat in the Gaza war; the hostage release impasse; the continuing displacement of settlers from the north; and even the murder of the World Kitchen aid workers — all were temporarily forgotten. The West grouped at Israel’s side again. Arab states were again co-operating. All attention moved from Gaza to Iran. But to cut Iran down to size would require US military assistance. The Iranian missile launch underscored that. Reports suggest that the US did the heavy lifting. Was ‘Israel’ to go it alone in a reprisal attack on Iran, would that — in and of itself — give ‘Israel’ escalatory dominance in the region (and restore deterrence)? Or might it bring the wider regional war which might end with ‘Israel’s’ demise as a state as we know it? The dilemma for ‘Israel’ is, should the US say ‘no’ to a strike on Iran (and actually mean it), ‘Israel’ is left to wallow in a clutch of defeats on all six fronts, plus fraying public trust. Of course, a decisive blow against Iran remains very hypothetical for now. But gamblers are known, after an extended stretch of losses, to double down and to place all on the ball landing on red.
Our next article swings back to Gaza, and is titled “Gaza-the Genocide continues”.
