Iran has prepared for this for decades and they already won the first two rounds. As a senior security official told Press TV on Wednesday, Iran was ready for an all-out war with the US and Israel as tensions continue to escalate.
As Iran rebuilds its missile and drone capability in anticipation of renewed conflict with the U.S. and Israel, calls grow for it to embark on its own nuclear weapons program
A spokesman for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said the cables would be regarded as “legitimate new targets” if the U.S. and Israel were to go ahead with fresh strikes on Iran
(Trump) “started this war thinking it would be simple and he would get a nuclear deal out of it … Now he realises he’s in a very bad situation … but he doesn’t know how to get out of it.” Former aide to Secretary of State Powell, Col. Larry Wilkerson on the dilemma Trump faces and how he fell under Netanyahu’s thumb. Was it through the Epstein files or Trump’s vanity? Either way, America is fighting a war for Israel
The USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier group and the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit will arrive in the Middle East days before the US midterms. Giving Trump a wider range of options to strike Iran, should he decide to do so.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps has shot down another US MQ-9 Reaper drone. Before the war the US had 185 Reaper drones in service. So Iran has downed, or damaged on the ground, almost 30 percent of the U.S. Reaper fleet
If Iran does develop nuclear weapons the U.S. and Israel will only have themselves to blame. For decades Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei opposed developing nuclear weapons as he felt it violated Islamic law. Having killed him in a targeted strike, the U.S. and Israel have since removed the main obstacle to Iran developing nukes
The damage from Iranian missile and drone strikes has been far worse than the gulf states have been willing to admit
Alastair Crooke on the difficulties facing the U.S. military as it tries to inflict damage on Iran and why even nuclear weapons are inadequate against Iran’s subterranean missile cities
“As bad as Joe Biden was,” Trump may be even worse. Some interesting observations from the editor of 21st Century Wire, Patrick Henningsen, on how Trump may be under pressure and inadvertently disclosing more than he planned
For years the Gulf monarchies have been told that the path to security runs through Washington and Tel Aviv. Then came the war with Iran. Refineries in Saudi Arabia, LNG trains in Qatar and energy facilities across the region were hit, and none of those partnerships kept the missiles and drones away.
Trump also ruled out putting US troops on the ground to seize Iranian nuclear sites, adding that the war is “going to end very soon”. However, he said exactly the same thing in March and now, seven months later, it is still not over