Introduction – June 12, 2025
As the following report suggests, Israel is preparing to launch strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. However, these strikes will only be limited because all of Iran’s more critical nuclear and military facilities are buried deep underground.
Making them pretty much invulnerable to conventional Israeli air strikes.
To reach them Israel would require the GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator and it doesn’t have planes to deliver such ordnance.
B-2 Stealth Bomber
Only the U.S. Air Force B-2 bomber is capable of doing that.
So why is Israel preparing to launch strikes against Iran when the country’s more important military and nuclear sites are largely out-of-reach?
On the face of it this doesn’t make sense. Unless, Netanyahu is hoping to provoke Iran into launching retaliatory strikes not only against Israel, but also against U.S. military sites in the region.
After all Iran has warned that if it is struck it will retaliate against U.S. bases in the region.
IF that happens then President Trump could then order massive retaliatory strikes against Iran, using B-2 bombers, with each bomber delivering two GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrators to Iran’s underground sites.
It’s a gamble but it’s one that Netanyahu may be banking on to rescue Israel. Ed.
Israel is poised to launch operation on Iran, multiple sources tell CBS News
By Jennifer Jacobs, Margaret Brennan, James LaPorta, Eleanor Watson and Gabrielle Ake – CBS News June 12, 2025
U.S. officials have been told Israel is fully ready to launch an operation into Iran, multiple sources told CBS News.
The U.S. anticipates Iran could retaliate on certain American sites in neighboring Iraq. This is part of the reason the U.S. advised some Americans to leave the region earlier Wednesday. The State Department ordered non-emergency government officials to exit Iraq due to “heightened regional tensions,” and the Pentagon has authorized military family members to voluntarily leave locations throughout the Middle East, a defense official told CBS News.
President Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff is still planning to meet with Iran for a sixth round of talks on the country’s nuclear program in the coming days, two U.S. officials said.
A reporter asked Mr. Trump Thursday if an Israeli strike on Iran is imminent. “Well, I don’t want to say imminent, but it looks like it’s something that could very well happen,” he said.
Mr. Trump spoke about Iran at an appearance at the Kennedy Center Wednesday evening, telling reporters Americans were advised to leave the region “because it could be a dangerous place, and we’ll see what happens.” Mr. Trump also reiterated the U.S. did not want Iran to develop a nuclear weapon, saying: “We’re not going to allow that.”
When asked at the White House why dependents of military personnel were allowed to voluntarily leave the region, Mr. Trump said, “You’ll have to see.”
Meanwhile, Iran’s Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh told reporters Wednesday that if nuclear talks fail and “a conflict is imposed on us,” the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps “will target all U.S. bases in the host countries.”
A source familiar with the situation and a U.S. official told CBS News that the Trump administration was weighing options regarding how to support Israeli military action without leading it. Those options could include aerial refueling or intelligence sharing, but the U.S. official was unaware of any commitment.
The source familiar said the options are unlikely to include direct participation by U.S. B-2 bombers that carry the type of bombs that can penetrate Iran’s deep underground fortified uranium enrichment facilities at Fordow and Natanz. Without that type of strike by U.S. B-2 bombers, it is unlikely Israeli military action could destroy the underground portions of Iran’s program, and thus solo military action by Israel is presumed to be limited in its capability to fully eliminate the program.
The U.S. official said the U.S. could help defend Israel against Iranian ballistic missiles in case of a counterattack, as it did during the two tit-for-tat episodes between Iran and Israel in April 2024 and October 2024.
The U.K. Maritime Trade Organization on Wednesday advised ships to exercise caution in the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman — three key waterways for the global oil trade — due to “increased tensions within the region which could lead to an escalation of military activity.”
Israeli officials and White House spokespeople declined to comment.
The Trump administration has sought a deal with Iran to limit the country’s nuclear program, as international watchdogs say the country has continued to enrich uranium to near-weapons level. The talks are delicate, and it’s unclear how close the two sides are to a deal: Mr. Trump has said he will not accept any uranium enrichment by Iran, but Iranian leaders have indicated they won’t accept those terms, the president said earlier this week.
For years, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been deeply skeptical of any deal with Iran. The two countries have been nemeses since Iran’s 1979 revolution. Netanyahu’s office says Israel has conducted “countless overt and covert operations” to stunt the growth of Iran’s nuclear program.
Last month, Mr. Trump said publicly he had urged Netanyahu not to strike Iran while his administration pursues negotiations with the regime.
“I told him this would be inappropriate to do right now because we’re very close to a solution,” Mr. Trump said.
Iran’s nuclear program dates back decades, though the country has long insisted the program is only intended for peaceful purposes.
In 2015, former President Barack Obama struck a deal with Iran limiting the scope of the country’s uranium enrichment program, over the objections of Netanyahu, who alleged Iran is unreliable and had covertly violated the agreement. Mr. Trump exited the agreement during his first term and ratcheted up sanctions against Iran, while the Middle Eastern country expanded its stockpile of highly enriched uranium.
In a report two weeks ago, the International Atomic Energy Agency estimated Iran had enriched 408.6 kilograms of uranium up to 60% purity — which is very close to the 90% enrichment level required to build a nuclear weapon. That’s a significant jump from the 274.8-kilogram stockpile the United Nations agency had estimated in February.
In testimony on Capitol Hill earlier Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, “There are plenty of indications that they have been moving their way towards something that would look a lot like a nuclear weapon.”
It has started, but the Nazi Joos have attacked civilian targets and some housed senior scientists.
The bunker buster mentioned above, can’t destroy Iranian nuclear sites, even when armed with nukes.
There are also stories that Iranian planes were sabotaged by THE Nazis.
Given that chats with the Great Nazi Satan failed, weeeeks ago, Iran must assemble nukes, and use them on Israel and US military assets in the region.
The Nazis must be stopped. We are dealing with a cancer, and so be it, if the treatment kills the patient. We must take that chance.
“IF that happens then President Trump could then order massive retaliatory strikes against Iran, using B-2 bombers, …”
That is of course assuming that any of those allegedly “stealth” B-2’s get through. “Stealth” this or that — only the kikes from Hollywierd could dream that up.
israel bombed iran in the night
why when the whole of the UK supports iran
does the government support israel and its genocide and terrorism ?+
35% of palestine is christian and being bombed by israel
why does the UK and UK
supposedly christian countries allow this ?
Friday sundown until Saturday sunrise is the Jewish Sabbath so maybe Iran is waiting until overnight on their Sabbath to respond to Israel’s overnight aggression? But if it doesn’t respond this time it should keep quiet from here ever after. I think this time it will. Maybe Iran is patient because to destroy something beyond repair it is not always an immediate rush. Wiped out beginning Saturday or wiped out beginning Sunday won’t make that much difference.
This from Judging Freedom special with Scott Ritter.
As Scott says, Nazi Amerika can never be trusted again, and Putin better grow some balls are do something, because the meek do not inherit the Earth.
Iran must assemble it’s nukes, and take Israhell out, and hit Nazi Amerikan assets in the Middle East, such as aircraft carriers.
Ritter says US military not involved, so who was flying the tanker refuelling planes? Maybe they uses none Joolandia air bases?
https://www.youtube.com/live/TJwAh244HeY?si=mUz9ZUspW3aNZZ6O
Iran, Russia, and China, must understand that the Nazis want them destroyed.
MIGRANT STABS AND KILLS THREE MEDICS
There have been “cover-ups” and “mistruths” surrounding the healthcare provided to the Nottingham attack killer before the stabbings, a mother of one of the victims has claimed.
Valdo Calocane, who had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, killed three people – 19-year-old students Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Barnaby Webber and 65-year-old caretaker Ian Coates – and attempted to kill three more in Nottingham in June 2023.
we dont want these people here
they must be sent home
Only problem is its all a hoax. Iran possesses no ‘nuclear facilities’. This is all a phony coordinated operation between Donmeh Iran & Israel to surreptitiously advance Jewish-Christian-Muslim eschatology.
Rochdale Muslim gang convicted for raping and exploiting terrified teenage girls for five years
Story by Kim Pilling
•A group of men have been convicted of the sexual exploitation of two teenage schoolgirls in Rochdale.
The seven defendants were all Asian males aged between 39 and 67. They preyed on the vulnerabilities of their victims to groom them as “sex slaves” from the age of 13 on various dates in the Greater Manchester town between 2001 and 2006.The victims were drugged, given alcohol, cigarette, places to stay and people to be with, Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court heard. Both were described as white christian teenage schoolgirls with “deeply troubled home lives.”
After initial meetings, the girls were expected to have sex “whenever and wherever” the defendants and other men wanted in filthy flats, on rancid mattresses, in cars, car parks, alleyways and disused warehouses.
Jurors deliberated for three weeks before delivering their unanimous guilty verdicts on Friday.
Three of the abusers, Mohammed Zahid, 64, Mustaq Ahmed, 67, and Kasir Bashir, 50, – all born in Pakistan – were stallholders on the town’s indoor market.
Kasir Bashir said ” it was great we thought we were allowed to do it as no one stopped us”
The police interview of Roheez Khan, one of seven Asian men who were convicted (Greater Manchester Police)
Father-of-three Zahid – known as Boss Man – gave free underwear from his lingerie stall to both complainants and also money, alcohol and food in return for the expectation of regular sex with him and his friends.
In 2016, Zahid was jailed for five years in an earlier muslim rape gang case after he engaged in sexual activity in 2006 with a 15-year-old girl who he met when she visited his stall to buy tights for school.
Bashir did not attend the current trial as jurors were ordered not to speculate why but it can be revealed that he absconded while on bail before the trial got under way.
It can also be reported that co-defendants Mohammed Shahzad, 44, Naheem Akram, 48, and Nisar Hussain, 41, were remanded in custody with their bail revoked in January before the jury was sworn in.
Police received intelligence that the three Rochdale-born taxi drivers were planning to leave the UK and had already paid a deposit for their transport, the court heard.
All three denied the accusation but Judge Jonathan Seely said the court was not prepared to take a risk that they too would abscond. Seven more Asian men have been convicted of the sexual exploitation of two teenage girls in Rochdale (PA)
Seven Asian men have been convicted of the sexual exploitation of two teenage girls in Rochdale (PA)
A seventh defendant, Pakistani-born Roheez Khan, 39, also featured in another previous Rochdale grooming trial in 2013 when he was one of five men convicted of sexually exploiting a “profoundly vulnerable” 15-year-old girl in 2008 and 2009. Khan was jailed for six-and-a-half years for engaging in sexual activity with a child and witness intimidation.
Opening the prosecution case in January, Rossano Scamardella KC said Rochdale had been “blighted” by child sexual exploitation for some years and that one of the two complainants, Girl A, who had mild downs syndrome was abused by many other Asian men.
Girl A told the jury she could have been targeted by more than 200 offenders as her phone number was swapped but said “there was that many it was hard to keep count”.
She told local children’s services in 2004 that she was forced to “hang around” with groups of older men, drinking and taking cannabis, the court heard.
Giving evidence, Girl B said she was living in a local children’s home when she was preyed on by Zahid, Ahmed and Bashir.
She said she presumed various agencies knew what was going on as police regularly picked her up after social workers labelled her a “prostitute”.
Girl B told the hearing she had since read her file held by Rochdale social services which she said stated she had been selling herself for sex from the age of 10.
She said she never received any money.
The police interview of Naheem Akram, one of seven Asian men who have been convicted (Greater Manchester Police)
The police interview of Naheem Akram, one of seven Asian men who have been convicted (Greater Manchester Police)
Both children denied claims from defence barristers that they fabricated the allegations to secure compensation. Zahid, of, Station Road, Crumpsall, was convicted of raping Girl A and Girl B, who did not know each other.
Jurors also found him guilty of offences of indecency with a child and procuring a child to sell for sex.
Ahmed, of Corona Avenue, Oldham, and Bashir, of Napier Street East, Oldham, were convicted of multiple counts of rape and indecency with a child, in relation to Girl B.
Shahzad, of Beswicke Royds Street, Rochdale, Akram, of Manley Road, Rochdale, Hussain, of New Field Close, Rochdale, and Khan, of Athole Street, Rochdale, were convicted of multiple counts of rape against Girl A.
Roheez Khan was found guilty of a single count of rape against Girl A.
During the trial the prosecution offered no evidence against an eight defendant, Arfan Khan, 41, of Rochdale, who was cleared of various sexual offences.
All the perpetrators were prosecuted as part of Operation Lytton, an ongoing investigation since 2015 by Greater Manchester Police into historical child sexual exploitation in Rochdale.
A total of 37 individuals have been charged so far, with five more trials scheduled to take place from September onwards.
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quite odd isn’t old boy that no jets were shot down by Iran. For months we’ve been reading articles on TTS how powerful Iran’s military is…looks like that winston smith guys stuff is probably closer to the truth than most will admit