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Israeli military says strikes hit dozens of targets in Iran, including nuclear sites

Old_JoeOld_Joe
edited 4:29PM in Off-Topic
The Guardian is reporting that-

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has addressed the nation, saying Iran’s main enrichment facility has been targeted
20.52 EDT
The Israeli military says it has completed the first stage of strikes

The Israeli military has said it has completed the first stage of strikes that included attacks on dozens of military targets, including nuclear targets in different areas of Iran. Dozens of Air Force aircraft recently completed the opening strike, which included attacking dozens of military targets, including nuclear targets in various areas of Iran.”

The IDF has been conducting a lengthy process of assessments and preparations for the campaign at the front and in the rear. Civilian resilience will be an important component of the campaign.”

In a statement, the IDF said “Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of the Iranian regime are a threat to the State of Israel and a significant threat to the entire world. The State of Israel will not allow a regime whose goal is the destruction of the State of Israel to possess weapons of mass destruction.”

Israeli media are reporting that as well as the strikes, the Israeli espionage service, Mossad, orchestrated a series of clandestine operations within Iran. “These missions were designed to undermine Iran’s strategic missile systems and its air defense capabilities,” i24 diplomatic correspondent Amichai Stein has reported. The US publication Axios has said the operations were “deep inside Iran,” and aimed at damaging Iran’s “air defense capabilities.”

Iran state TV says children are among those killed in the Israeli attack on residential areas in Tehran. Reports in state media say that the strikes hit Tehran and “several other cities.” The same reports say a revolutionary guards headquarter in Tehran was also hit. The New York Times is reporting that multiple residential apartment buildings in Tehran were hit, and are either demolished or burning.

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  • Old_JoeOld_Joe
    More...
    Iranian state media confirms death of Revolutionary Guards commander Hossein Salami

    Iranian state media has confirmed the killing of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Commander Hossein Salami in an Israeli strike.

    One other top Guard official, as well as two nuclear scientists, were also feared dead, the reports say.

    Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is one of the main power centres within the country. It also controls Iran’s arsenal of ballistic missiles, which it has used to attack Israel twice during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip.
  • Observant1
    edited June 13
    I posted the following comments earlier today.

    The UN nuclear watchdog agency stated for the first time in two decades that Iran failed to comply
    with its nonproliferation obligations. In a major escalation on Thursday, Iran announced
    it would open a third uranium enrichment site. A sixth round of nuclear negotiations
    between the U.S. and Iran is expected on Sunday. It's very doubtful that Tehran will agree
    to stop producing fissible material. Israel rightfully feels threatened by a nuclear-armed Iran
    and is considering a military strike according to various sources. Trump has warned Benjamin Netanyahu
    against a military strike since this could derail Iranian negotiations.
    I'm concerned that the Iranian negotiations will not yield appreciable results and Israel
    will subsequently attack Iran. If this occurs, what will be the total impact and how will the U.S. be involved?

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    The IDF is calling up thousands of reserve soldiers to prepare for an operation that may last for days.
    Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the United States was not involved in Israel's strikes against Iran
    and warned Tehran not to target U.S. interests or personnel.
  • Observant1
    edited June 12
    Benjamin Netanyahu Video Address
    https://youtu.be/Vsj5pw4QPls
  • Sven
    This explains the rise of oil prices, US used to import majority of oil from Canada. This helps to stabilize gas prices. Now that relationships no longer exists.

    US is evacuating embassy family members from Iraq and several Middle East countries.
  • hank
    edited June 12
    Sven said:

    This explains the rise of oil prices, US used to import majority of oil from Canada. This helps to stabilize gas prices. Now that relationships no longer exists.

    Glad I filled up yesterday. See crude futures. Good for TSLA?
  • FD1000
    Sven said:

    This explains the rise of oil prices, US used to import majority of oil from Canada. This helps to stabilize gas prices. Now that relationships no longer exists.

    US is evacuating embassy family members from Iraq and several Middle East countries.

    Oil went up because of the attack. It has nothing to do with Canada. Go ahead and make it political....AGAIN.
  • CrashCrash
    FD1000 said:

    Sven said:

    This explains the rise of oil prices, US used to import majority of oil from Canada. This helps to stabilize gas prices. Now that relationships no longer exists.

    US is evacuating embassy family members from Iraq and several Middle East countries.

    Oil went up because of the attack. It has nothing to do with Canada. Go ahead and make it political....AGAIN.
    A steady flow from Canada was reliable, which is good. Markets like reliability. Is THAT political???? But the USA has become unreliable under the Orange Doink's regime. Canada has a world of other prospects, and they are intelligently developing them. It will take time, but the end result will be stability and new partnerships for them. Too many US voters stand as illustrations of the truth of Churchill's words: "The best argument against democracy is a 5-minute conversation with the average voter." Elect an Orange, conscience-less grifter? Don't be surprised at anything that may happen. In all directions. Everywhere you turn. All the time. Over and over.
  • CrashCrash
    .... Wondering if foreign stocks will fall, lined up behind the US. Mr. Market will wait to see if Iran attacks US people and bases.... Or, will foreign stuff do better because they are NOT Israeli or US? Hmmmmm....
  • CrashCrash
    Another interesting item: Al Jazeera is reporting that Israel says it "fully coordinated" with the US before the attacks. US credibility, much??????? Nope. The report comes from Amman. The Israeli rogue regime forced Al Jazeera to close offices in Israel months ago.
    https://www.aljazeera.com/
  • CrashCrash
    Times of Israel:
    "After YEARS of preparation..."
    https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-years-of-preparation-israel-launches-major-offensive-against-iran-and-its-nuclear-program/?utm_source=article_hpsidebar&utm_medium=desktop_site&utm_campaign=liveblog-june-13-2025
  • CrashCrash
    edited June 13
    Jerusalem Post on joint Israeli-US "deception."
    https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-857608
  • DrVenture
    The WH trying so hard to distance itself was a red flag. Iran was never going to buy it. In all likelihood, the ME is going to deteriorate beyond Israel/Iran, with Iran ramping up terrorism.

    Not sure what to think about Russia's overtures to relieve Iran of their processed nuclear materials.



  • DrVenture
    edited June 13
    Sven said:

    This explains the rise of oil prices, US used to import majority of oil from Canada. This helps to stabilize gas prices. Now that relationships no longer exists.

    US is evacuating embassy family members from Iraq and several Middle East countries.

    It likely is not helping. The U.S. imported 4.373 thousand barrels a day from Canada in July one year ago. As of March 2025 that number stands at 3.760 thousand barrels a day. A 14% drop. Given we get 60% from Canada, that is rather significant coming into the summer.

    Another interesting thing is that the upper Midwest gets a lot of Canadian oil trucked in. If Keystone XL is completed, that oil will flow by pipeline to the Gulf of Mexico for export, and prices would rise in the Heartland.
  • DrVenture
    edited June 13
    Observant1 said:

    ...
    The UN nuclear watchdog agency stated for the first time in two decades that Iran failed to comply
    with its nonproliferation obligations...

    The thing is that when the watchdogs said, during the first Trump administration. that Iran was complying with agreements, people refused to believe it. And we tossed out the agreement. Now we are here. Do we only believe the UN watchdogs, when it is convenient?

  • DrVenture
    "Meanwhile, two Iranian news agencies reported that two explosions were heard near the nation’s Fordo nuclear enrichment site, according to NBC News. That site is buried deep underground." - I guess we will see how those hardened underground facilities hold up. I wonder what sort of munitions (bunker busters?) are being used for this sort of attack.
  • AndyJ
    FD1000 said:

    Oil went up because of the attack. It has nothing to do with Canada. Go ahead and make it political....AGAIN.

    Missed the point entirely. AGAIN.
  • CrashCrash
    ...So much for US "neutrality." Rubio says we had no part in the attacks? Bullshit. And now that Israel is under attack, the US is there in an instant with assistance. Israel COULD be governed by reasonable people. It's just NOT. That regime runs on legitimized State-sponsored terrorism and genocide.
    https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/13/trump-urges-iran-to-reach-nuclear-deal-before-there-is-nothing-left-.html
  • DrVenture
    edited 1:20PM
    The more that I read, and ponder this, the more I am struck by the fact that it was an inevitability than Israel would strike Iran at this point in time. Many of the resources that were used in this attack were pre-positioned into Iran in the last couple months. These resources would not have gone un-noticed forever, so there was an imminent timeline at play. Meaning that I find it certain Israel was going through with this, regardless of the outcome of negotiations taking place. That Israel did not want a successful negotiation, which would negate their rationale for an attack. That essentially, this attack took place now, as a way of undermining the possibility of a successful deal being struck.

    IOW, the Trump administration negotiations were purposely torpedoed by Israel.
  • larryB
    At Crash. Your antipathy towards Israel is well documented. I wonder if you can separate Israel’s behavior in Gaza from the way they deal with Iran, which is an existential threat to their very survival? Or put another way, do you think that Israel has the right to survive? A simple yes or no will suffice.
  • CrashCrash
    larryB said:

    At Crash. Your antipathy towards Israel is well documented. I wonder if you can separate Israel’s behavior in Gaza from the way they deal with Iran, which is an existential threat to their very survival? Or put another way, do you think that Israel has the right to survive? A simple yes or no will suffice.

    No, a simple yes or no will not be sufficient. Israel was created unilaterally in 1948 and immediately recognized by the US gov't. That's ancient history not worth arguing over at this point. THROUGHOUT its history, the Israeli regime has found pretexts never to let Palestine be established as its neighbor State, but instead, Palestine, such as it is, has been occupied, ground down, fragmented and deliberately torn up since 1967. A viable Arab peace plan was offered in 2002, 2006 and 2012. Always rejected by the Israelis. (And I'd make a big distinction between Israelis and Zionists, such as the dirt-bag Mike Huckabee.)

    What's going on in Gaza (and West Bank) is heinous genocide and cruelty. Israel's attack upon Iran begun last night can be justified, but went too far, specifically re: the assassinations. Israel continues to behave without regard to any norms. its leaders claim they are leading a Jewish State. The leadership there has forsaken Judaism long ago. And the bad stuff just gets intensified through the years.
  • a2z

    w/trump its worse. remember kushner's permanent peace cruise to the middle east?
    the one where he was re-convinced by Israel to tank oversight the rest of the world considered reasonable? and bebe wants to convince he has some grand iran strategy but was unable to stop a primitive raid from Hamas? gmafb.

    we are now in scenario where MAGA's friend putin is fully backing Iran, but they will happily ignore that. these 3 leaders deserve each other, as do all that back them.

    simple Q, was gaza genocide, or is that a trademark violation?
  • larryB
    Crash. Your first sentence could be interpreted as questioning Israel’s legitimacy from the start. I don’t know how to do links but give a listen to Neighborhood Bully by Dylan from 1983.
  • CrashCrash
    larryB said:

    Crash. Your first sentence could be interpreted as questioning Israel’s legitimacy from the start. I don’t know how to do links but give a listen to Neighborhood Bully by Dylan from 1983.

    OK, I'll do that. With regard to 1948 and prior, there was some infighting between rival Jewish groups. Haganah? Rivals with another cadre of pre-Israel paramilitary. The King David Hotel was even blown up. Internecine. But more to the point, what too many have never heard about is the violent intimidation by those paramilitaries against ordinary Palestinians in those days, even to the point of trucking the men away from their families; at the borders of Syria or Jordan, those gunmen fired above their heads, "encouraging" the Palestinians to escape over the border. Then they'd not be re-admitted!

    Anyhow, Israel is there, and like everyone else, deserves to live in peace and security. It seems to me they refuse to play nice with their neighbors. I do know how to include links. Here's one for you:

    image

  • CrashCrash
  • larryB
    Thanks for the link Crash. Very timely.
  • larryB
    Crash. We can agree that it is a mess. …
  • CrashCrash
    +1.
  • FD1000
    edited 9:52AM
    @Crash
    Anyhow, Israel is there, and like everyone else, deserves to live in peace and security. It seems to me they refuse to play nice with their neighbors. I do know how to include links. Here's one for you
    Very naive and not based on facts.
    I wonder what the US would do if US cities got bombed by thousands of enemy missiles.
    https://www.prageru.com/video/why-isnt-there-a-palestinian-state

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl5OOpCFUCs

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN1MkAGuVyY

    When we talk about extremism on a global scale, it’s worth asking: who is truly the outlier—the 10 million Israelis or the 2 billion Muslims?

    Look at where the violence is happening: the Middle East, parts of Africa, India, the Philippines, Europe, and even the U.S. It’s hard to ignore the pattern.

    The Iran-Iraq war led to over 500,000 deaths.
    Was that Israel’s doing? Of course not.

    That said, it’s also true—and important to recognize—that the vast majority of Muslims are peaceful, law-abiding people. But even a small percentage of extremists within a large population can cause widespread disruption, death, and fear.
  • Mona
    There will never be peace with Netanyahu as the Prime Minister. He needs chaos to stay out of prison.

    "The first and last rule of Benjamin Netanyahu’s doctrine of perpetual warfare is brutally to the point: peace cannot and must not be allowed to last"

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/18/gaza-benjamin-netanyahu-israel-hamas-palestinian-territories
  • CrashCrash
    @Mona: boom. yup. truth.
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