ISRAEL STRIKES IRAN NUCLEAR SITES & CITIES

Written by Michael Thervil

Iranian firefighter after Israeli attacks in northern Tehran, Iran, yesterday | Photo by Vahid Salemi/AP

[Israel strikes Iran nuclear sites & cities] Yesterday, Israel launched operation “Rising Lion” which was an aerial offensive consisting of roughly 200 fighter jets and an estimated 100 targets, with the aim of destroying both Iran's ballistic missile program and nuclear facilities. In the aftermath of the Israeli strikes, senior Iranian military commander Gen. Hossein Salami and Maj. Gen. Gholam Ali Rashid of the Iranian revolutionary guard corps (IRGC) and  Maj. Gen. Mohammad Bagheri, Iran's highest ranking  military officer, were assassinated in this Israeli attack.

It was also reported that other top military officials within the Iranian military structure were also either killed or wounded. nuclear scientist and former atomic energy chief Fereydoon Abbasi has also been killed by Israel. There were a little more than 80 civilians killed and roughly another 300 injured due to Israeli actions in Tehran. In response, Iran launched an estimated 100 drones towards Israel. It is said that Israel will continue to carry out military airstrikes in an effort to completely destroy Iran’s underground nuclear facilities for the next several days.

Reports also indicated that Israel also has formulated a “Kill List” of the top 25 Iranian  nuclear scientists with two confirmed kills thus far, what's not known is if the 5 professors from the Shahid Beheshti University who were killed were included in that kill list. It should be noted that Israel also killed some of the family members of Shahid Beheshti University professors as well. one of the nuclear professors, nuclear scientist Mohammad-Mehdi Tehranchi. Were amongst the university professors killed by Israel. 

Israel activity has  Mossad agents deployed  within Iran with directives to execute operations of sabotage toward Iranian missile and air defense locations. Although this is a direct attack on Iran by Israel, the Trump Administration is urging Iran not to respond militarily to Israel, an action that Iran's supreme leader Ali Hosseini Khameneh simply cannot do if he wishes to remain in the highest seat of power within Iran.

The one thing that is clear is that president trump had been made aware of Israel's plans to militarily strike Iran for quite some time, he has publicly stated that he will stand by Israel's actions, but America would not participate in any form of attack toward Iran. This has been refuted by at least two Israeli officials who stated to the Press that Trump was only pretending to oppose Israel's attack on Iran in public but supported behind closed door talks. The reason for this was because the Trump Administration wanted to downplay any notion of Israel attacking Iran.

The Trump Administration has pulled many lower level federally employed Americans out of the region for safety concerns. With America having roughly 90,000 troops in the region, Iranian officials have stated that not only will their next wave of retaliatory strikes be aimed at Israel – but they will also be aimed at America as well. all of this comes at a time where the U.S.-Iran nuclear talks are in process.

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When it comes to Iran agreeing or disagreeing with nuclear talks with America and the Collective West, under international law Iran does have the right to pursue any and all nuclear capabilities that it feels it needs as a nation to not only help improve the lives of its citizens and for its defense if it so chooses to. This position is not only limited to Iran, but to all sovereign countries around the world.

We also hold the position that Iran may have very well engaged in good-faith nuclear talks with America, again whether they choose to agree to the terms presented to them or not is totally up to them. What we mean by this is that if Iran, lika any country, deems that the terms of any proposal presented to them are not in the best interest of their country, then they have every right to reserve the right not to sign on any such proposal.

The Trump Administration has demonstrated things, one wishes many countries around the world already knew; and the first thing that the Trump Administration has demonstrated is that it cannot be trusted geopolitically because they had preemptive knowledge of Israel's plans to strike Iran long before yesterday. Secondly, the Trump Administration has also demonstrated that although it may not have physically engaged in any part of Israel's bombing campaign, they are indeed complicit in Israel's actions; therefore can and should be considered legitimate targets of whatever militaristic plans of action Iran may have for both Israel and America.

Iran should cease any and all peace and nuclear talks with America and Israel, and all Arab and Muslim countries should mobilize their militaries and descend on Israel. Of Course everyone knows this is an unlikely occurrence. But what is a more likely occurrence is that Hezbollah, Iran, Hamas, Ansarullah and other Iranian sponsored militias and organizations will more than likely respond to the actions of Israel on a multilateral basis.