🚨🇮🇷🇮🇱ISRAEL’S STRIKES ON IRAN: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Israel has launched UNPRECEDENTED strikes on Iran, targeting its nuclear program and senior military leaders. Netanyahu said that Operation Rising Lion will last many days, targeting “the heart of Iran’s ballistic missiles program.”

📍 WHAT WAS TARGETED:
▪️Dozens of locations across Iran linked to its nuclear program
▪️Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz (confirmed by the IAEA)
▪️Long-range missile capabilities (per Israeli reports)

⚔️IRANIAN TOP MILITARY KILLED IN THE STRIKE:
▪️General Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of IRGC
▪️Major General Gholam Ali Rashid, commander of the central headquarters of the Iranian Armed Forces
▪️Major General Mohammad Bagheri, the chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces
▪️Nuclear scientists Dr. Tehranchi, Dr. Fereydoon Abbasi

🗣WHAT HAS IRAN SAID?
▪️Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the attack a violation of the UN Charter and a clear aggression.
▪️Iran has the legal and legitimate right to respond to this aggression.
▪️Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said that “showed its evil nature like never before by striking residential areas.” He warned the enemy to expect “severe punishment.”
▪️Iran HOLDS US COMPLICIT in Israeli strikes on Iran, said spokesman for Iranian armed forces.
▪️Iran has since shut down its airspace and signaled that a military response is imminent.

🇺🇸US RESPONSE:
▪️Trump said he was aware of the strikes AHEAD of time but was not involved militarily and hopes Iran will return to the negotiating table.
▪️Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US isn't involved in strikes against Iran and their "top priority is protecting American forces in the region."

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📹THROWBACK: US planned to destroy Iran?

Gen. Wesley Clark spilled the plan years ago, after 9/11 – the Pentagon planned to take out Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan… and Iran last.

Now Israel hits Iran, and the US throws up its hands: “We weren’t involved!”😏

Just history casually checking off its to-do list…

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🚨Iran is taking ALL NECESSARY defense, political, legal measures to respond to Israeli strikes, Tehran stated

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🚨🇮🇷🇮🇱Israel’s strike on Iran ‘almost certainly’ coordinated with US – analyst

👉Proof?
▪️Withdrawal of non-essential personnel from US embassies in Iraq and around the Persian Gulf on the eve of Israel’s strikes was a clear indication that Washington was kept in the loop, says Dr. Greg Simons, professor of Journalism at Daffodil International University.

👉 Israel’s strike aimed to KILL US-Iran nuclear diplomacy
▪️“They did the same thing with the JCPOA [Iran nuclear deal],” says Simons, and while they got Trump to do that during his first presidency, now his geostrategic priorities have changed.
▪️The US wants to focus on China, but “their vassals and client states in Ukraine and Israel are causing problems for them by running their own agenda,” he said.

👉This is NOT SELF DEFENSE for Israel
▪️US hawks' rhetoric about Israel's right to self-defense is “garbage, but it’s what you'd expect from this clown show,” says Simons.
▪️There was no threat – they’re just lying, like their patron, the US.

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🚨🗣Israel’s Netanyahu CLINGS TO WAR to evade justice – analyst

Netanyahu is “banking on remaining in a perpetual state of war,” believes Dr. Greg Simons, professor of Journalism at Daffodil International University.

“I think more and more Israelis are beginning to understand this, especially in the military structures,” he noted.

Why? Because as soon as war finishes, he is likely to be arrested – not for genocide, but for his “dirty style of politics and corruption,” says Simons.

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💬 Iran will unleash its vengeance with no limits – Iranian politician

“The Israeli regime must be punished at the highest level. Netanyahu and his accomplices will be held accountable for their crimes,” Mahmoud Abbaszadeh, former member of Iran’s parliamentary committee on national security, told Sputnik.

Abbaszadeh also noted that despite the US distancing itself from supporting Israel, the recent strike has cast a shadow over indirect Iran-US talks:

“You can’t negotiate with a country while watching the attack on its territory.”

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❗️Russia concerned, condemns sharp escalation between Israel, Iran

The Russian Foreign Ministry will soon release detailed statement on situation between Israel and Iran based on President Putin's instructions, Kremlin Spox Dmitry Peskov said.

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📹 IDF shows the destruction of Iranian ballistic missiles

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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱US gave Israel 'green light' to attack Iran - Iranian Foreign Minister

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🇷🇺⚡️ Russian forces take control of the village of Yablonovka in Sumy region, as well as the settlements of Koptevo and Komar in the Donetsk People’s Republic

Other statements by the Russian Defense Ministry:

🔸 The Russian army carried out a massive and seven group strikes on military targets in Ukraine over the past week

🔸 The strikes hit infrastructure at military airfields, radar stations, drone production and storage facilities, as well as nationalist deployment points.

🔸 Ukrainian armed forces lost over 610 troops in the "Dnepr" operation zone in a week, with nine ammunition depots destroyed.

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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱Israel’s strike on Iran has US FINGERPRINTS all over it – analyst

The Israeli strike on Iran almost certainly leaned on American intel and US-supplied weapons, says ex-Italian diplomat and PM Middle East advisor Marco Carnelos.

🔶 Was it meant to sabotage US-Iran nuclear talks – or did Trump greenlight it to boost his bargaining power with Iran? The second sounds more plausible, according to the special envoy for Syria and the Middle East peace process.

🔶 US hawks’ “self-defense” logic is “BASELESS and SCHIZOPHRENIC,” rooted in their dystopian mindset that no one can fix, says Carnelos.

🔶 Iran’s retaliation is reportedly underway – 100 drones en route to Israel, post-lunch, just in time for coffee, he points out.

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🇺🇸🇬🇧 US, UK INVOLVED in Israel’s Iran strike – expert 🇮🇷🇮🇱

American bases have been used in Turkiye, Qatar, the UAE, and Bahrain to help the Israelis – and it's not just the Americans, it's the British as well, says Seyed Mohammad Marandi, analyst at Tehran University and former 2015 Iran deal negotiator.

The game will change only if the US jumps in directly, Marandi warns. US bases across the Gulf could become targets, fueling chaos in energy markets.

💬 "So the smart thing to do for the United States is to stay is to stay out of this."

⚔️ Netanyahu’s FOREVER WAR Plan

With a worn-out army, collapsing economy, and global reputation in ruins, Netanyahu’s regime is running on fumes.

💬 “It’s almost universally despised – except by Zionists and extremists,” Marandi adds.

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📹 Shiraz, Iran, has been attacked - Iranian media report

The Israeli Air Force has carried out a strike on a missile production plant in Shiraz, Israeli Channel 12 reports.

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🗣'I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal' - Trump

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