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Iran threatens to attack British and American bases

Iran has warned the United States, United Kingdom and France against assisting Israel to deter Tehran’s strikes, saying that their bases and ships in the region will be targeted if they do so.

American officials confirmed that the US military had helped to shoot down Iranian missiles headed for Israel, after Iran launched wave after wave of retaliatory missile strikes less than a day after Israel’s surprise attack on Friday morning. Britain was not believed to have been involved.

On Friday, it was reported that Britain is monitoring the safety of staff at the UK embassy in Tehran, fearing that they could be the target of reprisals as the US and Canada closed their missions.

The road to Tehran has been paved: IDF secures air route for stronger strikes on Iran

The Israel Air Force is now capable of operating without obstruction as far as Tehran, following what was described as the destruction of a majority of Iran’s air defense systems, security officials said on Saturday morning.

The reported elimination of Syria’s military capabilities, including those of Hezbollah, has further expanded Israel’s operational range and shortened flight paths to Iran.

Times Of Israel Feed– IDF: ‘Tehran is no longer immune; the Iranian capital is exposed to Israeli strikes’

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Iran

Iranian missiles fired at Israel

Iranian missiles streaked across the sky above Israel after Tehran retaliated with a barrage of rockets.

The Israeli army has ordered all citizens to head to shelters after it said it had identified projectiles being launched from Iran.

Note I can’t vouch for this video but given it’s prevalence on X it may be legit.

Sirens across Israel, civilians ordered to enter shelters due to Iranian missile attack

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Iran

Israel chose to act now, whether Trump likes it or not

It has been clear that there has been growing tension between Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump over the possibility that Israel would launch an attack on Iran.

Trump has been telling the Israeli leader that he doesn’t want him to do this now and to wait, while the US administration continues nuclear negotiations with the Iranians.

But the Israelis clearly thought that they had their opportunity to act.

They believe that the Iranians are as debilitated as they are going to be in the region after last year’s degradation of Hezbollah in Lebanon – that took away a huge deterrent factor from Israel.

Mixed signals.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, Israel, USA

Israel launches preemptive strike on Iranian nuclear sites, military targets

The IDF has started to attack dozens of Iranian nuclear sites.

Warning sirens have been set off to get the public ready for potential Iranian counter attacks of ballistic missiles on Israel.

Iran has not yet fired ballistic missiles, but has thousands of them.

Live updates from JPost

Live Updates from AlJazeera

X-Thread featuring military status 

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Israel preparing to strike Iran, US officials told

American officials have been told that Israel is “fully ready” to launch an operation into Iran and anticipates that Iran could retaliate on US sites in neighbouring Iraq.

CBS News reported that Israel was poised to begin an operation in Iran, prompting the United States to scale down its embassy staff in the Middle East. Further reports suggest that Israel is preparing an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.

The partial withdrawal was announced by President Trump, who said he was less confident now that negotiations with Iran on a nuclear deal would succeed.

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Trump Cannot Ignore the Latest Damning Evidence of Iran’s Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons

Amid concerns that US President Donald J. Trump is backtracking on his pledge to confront Iran over its controversial nuclear programme, new evidence pointing to Iran’s clandestine attempts to develop nuclear weapons should persuade the Trump administration to make the Iran threat one of its top priorities.

The latest evidence that Tehran has spent the past few decades developing nuclear weapons has come in the form of a bombshell report published by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN-sponsored body responsible for monitoring Iran’s nuclear activities.

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Iran expands dog-walking ban

Iranian officials have expanded a ban on dog walking to a swathe of cities across the country, citing public order and health and safety concerns.

The ban – which mirrors a 2019 police order that barred dog walking in the capital, Tehran – has been extended to at least 18 other cities in the past week. Transporting dogs in vehicles has also been outlawed.

Dog ownership has been frowned upon in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, with dogs viewed as “unclean” by authorities and a legacy of Western cultural influence.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Iran, Islam, Islam and violence, WTF?

Why Iran Will Never Give Up Its Nuclear Weapons

Iran’s ruling elite, bluntly, believes that both its survival and its mission depend on acquiring nuclear weapons. They saw what happened to Libya and Ukraine when their leaders gave up their nuclear weapons, and understood that this was not the way to go. To Iran’s rulers, their nuclear program is not just a policy objective to protect the continuation of their regime, but the centerpiece of Iran’s ideology and propaganda.

Despite having some of the world’s richest oil and gas reserves, the regime has accepted crushing sanctions and economic ruin, all under the excuse of pursuing nuclear power. The regime’s goal is the bomb.

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Iran blasts Trump for ‘racist mentality’ and hostility to Muslims over travel ban

Tehran has denounced the US travel ban on Iranians and citizens of 11 other mostly Middle Eastern and African countries, saying Washington’s decision was a sign of a “racist mentality”.

Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday reviving sweeping restrictions that echo the US president’s first-term travel ban, justified on national security grounds after a firebomb attack at a pro-Israel rally in Colorado.

Alireza Hashemi-Raja, the foreign ministry’s director general for the affairs of Iranians abroad, called the measure – which takes effect on 9 June – “a clear sign of the dominance of a supremacist and racist mentality among American policymakers”.

I call it good common sense.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, USA, WTF?

Iran Duping Trump with IAEA Inspections. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Death To Israel Missile Iran

Once again, the United States has sat down with Iran for yet another round of nuclear negotiations — this time the fifth. And once again, we are told that there will be another round in the “near future.” Sound familiar? It should. Iran’s cat-and-mouse diplomatic theater is not a breakthrough; it is a rerun. Just as the past rounds, this latest episode concluded without any meaningful agreement, while Iran continues to advance in its nuclear program, intercontinental ballistic missiles — not needed to attack Israel — and rebuild its air defense.

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Do Not Be Fooled by Iran: What They Really Want Is to Destroy America, Israel Is Just in the Way

In many respects, Hamas, the Iran-backed terror group, has always been more forthright and honest about its goals regarding Israel than its rivals in the Palestinian Authority (PA). When one listens to leaders of the PA and the leaders of Hamas in Arabic, it is almost impossible to tell the difference between them. Their rhetoric, for instance, to vilify Israel, is identical: “The Zionist Enemy”, “the Zionist Entity”, the State of Occupation”, and “the Apartheid State”.

Hamas and the PA both view the establishment of Israel as a “catastrophe” (nakba) and call for flooding it with millions of Palestinian “refugees” so that Jews become a minority to eliminate or cast out.

Bonus Ilhan Omar vid …

h/t patthedog

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Why Iran ‘cannot turn back time’ on public hijab rule

Iranian women increasingly resist the public headscarf rule. Despite ongoing repression, Iran’s regime seems powerless to stop social change.

“The state’s current policy on the issue of the hijab is not to follow strict rules,” Ali Motahari, a conservative Iranian politician, told journalists last week on the fringes of the International Book Fair in Tehran.

He added that the police should only intervene in the event of gross violations.

“You have to know that even at the time of the Shah, before the 1979 revolution, women were arrested if they did not dress decently in public,” he said. Wearing a hijab, or headscarf, remains mandatory in Iran.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Iran, Islam, Islam and violence, Islam's war on women

FBI Warning—CCP, Iran, and Mex-Cartels Partnering in Canada to Move Fentanyl and Terrorists Into U.S.

WASHINGTON — In an explosive Sunday interview that will place tremendous pressure on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new Liberal government, FBI Director Kash Patel alleged that Mexican cartels, Chinese Communist Party operatives, and Iranian threat actors have forged a new axis of criminal cooperation, using Canada’s porous northern border and the Port of Vancouver—not the southern Mexican border—as their preferred entry point to flood fentanyl and terror suspects into the United States.

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Iran Is Using North Korea’s Playbook — And the US Is Falling for It Again

As the United States continues negotiations with Iran to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons, if it does not already have them, it has become clear that the Islamic Republic’s regime is not pursuing these talks in good faith.

Far from viewing negotiations as a means toward a peaceful resolution, the Iranian regime appears to see them as a tool that has proven successful before, not only for itself but also for its authoritarian ally, North Korea.

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