Iranian air defence system in operation near the Natanz nuclear facility recently
Omri Nahmias, Yaakov Katz and Lahav Harkov – Jerusalem Post Dec 11, 2021
Defense Minister Benny Gantz updated American officials that he has set a deadline for when the IDF will need to complete preparations for an attack against Iran.
The Americans did not voice opposition to the Israeli preparations when presented with the date by Gantz on Thursday, a senior diplomatic source said the following day.
“There was no veto,” the source said.
The IDF has intensified planning for an attack against its arch enemy. Last week, American sources revealed that Austin and Gantz were expected to discuss joint military preparations, and a report on Kan said that the IDF was planning a massive mock strike aerial drill for this summer.
Gantz met with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday. The conversations focused mainly on Iran and its continued pursuit of nuclear capability, but some of the US officials also brought up Israeli settlement activity and their concern that building in the West Bank will block a future two-state solution
Jerusalem consulted with Washington on two previous strikes on Iran: one in June against a facility producing centrifuges in Karaj, and another on a missile production site outside Tehran, The New York Times reported.
US President Joe Biden asked his National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan two months ago to review plans to attack Iran if diplomatic efforts fail, as well as the possibilities for increasing sanctions, according to the Times.
That leak comes as the US and Israel are increasingly at odds in their evaluation of the Iranian threat. Israeli officials continue to be deeply concerned that in the recently resumed negotiations in Vienna, Washington will seek an interim deal lifting sanctions on Tehran while insufficiently restricting its nuclear program.
Blinken spoke with Foreign Minister Yair Lapid on Friday.
According to the State Department, they discussed topics “including the enduring importance of the US-Israel bilateral relationship, Israeli-Palestinian issues, and regional developments, such as our shared conviction that Iran must not be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon.”
According to the Foreign Ministry, Lapid told Blinken that “even if there is a return to negotiations, sanctions on Iran must not be lifted. The money the Iranians will receive will reach our doorstep in the form of terrorism and missiles.”
The conversation was “warm, productive and open,” Israel’s MFA said in a readout, and included topics such as “joint efforts to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear threshold state, Minister Lapid’s visit to Cairo, the arrival of new US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides, and expanding the circle of peace.”
State Department Spokesperson Ned Price commented on Thursday on US-Israel discussions of alternative ways to counter the Iranian nuclear threat if negotiations in Vienna collapse.
“I wouldn’t want to speak to what we might be contemplating if the path to diplomacy toward a mutual return to compliance isn’t viable in the near term,” Price said. “But we are discussing those alternatives. We are discussing those options with our close partners, with our close allies, and that includes with the Israelis. We have already had good discussions with the Israelis about the path forward, and how we can work together to ensure that Iran is never able to acquire a nuclear weapon.”
Gantz addressed the Israel American Council summit in Miami on Friday, saying that Iran is a great threat to Israel but first and foremost to the world.
“This is why the international community, with US leadership, must stand together and act forcefully against Iran’s hegemonic aspirations and nuclear program and restore stability for the sake of global peace,” he said.
The consultations in Washington were “excellent,” the defense minister said, and they included ways to ensure Israel’s qualitative military edge in the Middle East.
Gantz said he spoke with the Americans about how to keep the pressure on Iran with the aim of keeping them away from a nuclear capability, and to take advantage of Iranian vulnerabilities – particularly economic – that could be used to persuade them to suspend nuclear activity.
His impression from the meetings in Washington was that the fate of the negotiations in Vienna would be determined in the near future. “I think that in the coming weeks we will know where we stand,” Gantz said.
they dont follow the chinese arts of
war therefore their efforts will be
invain !
Fluffy propaganda must be a quiet fake news day.
what about the corona’s terror ? will they stop it if they get Iran’s war?
we in the UK both christain and muslim need to support iran
as if they are taken out and israel then has the whole middle east
stage 2 they come after us the little people
we must do all we can to stop israeli terrorism
my son in law is in the army and many are now saying they will fight no more wars for israel
To my fellow Jews in Israel.
If your government has been sticking you with the real stuff, you have a bigger problem with your government than you have with Iran.
I hear it’s time for your fourth.
What are you mugs or liars?
Israel is not going to attack Iran in any significant way. It is all talk. Endless bullcrap by cowards who never attack anyone who could strike back. Jews only attack defenseless Palestinians or hide behind a civilian airliners when launching a missile into Syria.
If Israel was going to attack Iran they would have done it long ago and they would not announce it ahead of time.
This never ending beating of the war drum is just more Jewish cowardice and heavy breathing, a big nothing, except to condition everyone to hate Iran, and to steer US-Iran negotiations into favor of Israel. The Evangelists love this war vibe, every Gospel television station just loves it when Israel threatens war – as it means the return of their savior in end times. What a truly sick society we live in.
This obsession with Iran, which is not even a threat to Israel, is most curious as it is a window into the mind of the power crazed Jewish only state mad men which can not stand that a nation near it is not completely under their control, and don’t forget Iran hosts Holocaust revisionism – a complete heresy. The fact the new Israeli regime is utterly mad about Iran tells you everything about how completely insane the Jew really is. Iran is resisting the Greater Israel project, and da Jew is raving mad insane about it. I thought it was just Nutty Netanyahu, but no, these Jews are all the same, stark raving mad lunatics.
Take a look at a map of the middle east, every nation near Israel is in ruins or at war. Just be thankful that you don’t live near Israel.
“The international community”–yes, because only Jews pollute every nation.
Israel will have to hold off attacking Iran until this Omicron fraud has played out. There will be no civilian aeroplanes for their jets to hide among.
@ fj
aha , you want to make a deal with
desteny/jews/god/satan , yes ? NO
WAY : they TPTB will not fulfill your
wish : making war with iran/ukrain/china
and sparing you/us further vaxfraud war.
NO WAY ! FORGET ABOUT !
@ YUKON JACK
O Iam not thankful since i as german
live under the thread of their nuke umbrella.
german hating rabbis + idf generals etc
already have offered to berlin , frankfurt,
hamburg, munich and more. surely they will
not do it openly but secretly as false flag.
for example a remotecontroled nuke from
their Dolphin submarines (gratis build by
germany). maybe lets say fired out of the
Black Sea. claiming later it was an iranian
nuke . that IDF/MOSSAD likes those
scenarios i remind only : 9.11.Bali,Yemen,
Fukushima, Beirut port maybe more ?
Oh there needs to be an “attack timeline” alright, but the target should most certainly be the terrorist haven of Israel and the timeline SHOULD have been September 12, 2001, the day after those vile psychopaths attacked the Jewnited States, which then caused death, starvation, and misery for millions around the world. Though that attack date has come and gone, it’s not too late to nuke that kike shithole into a glowing glass crater, just have to give the beleaguered Palestinians a heads-up to take cover and be upwind.
Yukon Jack: Israel has a habit of doing stuff on Christmas Day.