US has struck three Iranian nuclear sites, Trump says, joining Israeli air campaign https://www.wral.com/story/diplomat...iran-war-stretches-into-second-week/22058946/ WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran, directly joining Israel ’s effort to decapitate the country's nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid Tehran’s threat of reprisals that could spark a wider regional conflict. The decision to directly involve the U.S. comes after more than a week of strikes by Israel on Iran that have moved to systematically eradicate the country’s air defenses and offensive missile capabilities, while damaging its nuclear enrichment facilities. But U.S. and Israeli officials have said that American stealth bombers and a 30,000-lb. bunker buster bomb they alone can carry offered the best chance of destroying heavily-fortified sites connected to the Iranian nuclear program buried deep underground. “We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan," Trump said in a post on social media. "All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are safely on their way home.” The strikes are a perilous decision for the U.S. as Iran has pledged to retaliate if it joined the Israeli assault, and for Trump personally, having won the White House on the promise of keeping America out of costly foreign conflicts and scoffed at the value of American interventionism.
Interesting world, the Trump world is. He invites Steve Bannon over to the White House for lunch today so that Bannon could do a full presentation and argument for not bombing Iran. If I have my time frames right, Trump was bombing Iran all while Bannon was making his case.
Yeh, Trump and company did a little deceptive routine sort of fooled the media and thereby gave me incorrect information. This morning I made some comments about the B-52's with MOABS heading out said some things about how they would not be in place for a while. However there appears that there was a little ruse going on there. The Americans sent out three planes heading west and the media reported them as the first being sent. In reality, however, while they were sent heading west over to Iraq, little did we know that Camp Trump had earlier already sent thee heading east to Iraq. I guess the want the Iraqis to be locked into tracking the ones heading west. Bad dog Mr. Trump.
That Bannon thing was a great play, because you know Iranian intelligence monitors our news. They had no idea this thing was coming tonight. Great play.
There were Jews in Yemen when I was there in the 1990s. Probably just a handful now. The non stop work of Israeli nationalist Zionists to scare them to move to Israel. Then when Mizrahi do they are seen as low class Jews. Can't have Jews in Iran for 2700 years making their only safe place, only one home, narrative look bad.
By god, man, are you daft?!? Let me give you another version that could be just as valid as they one in your head: From its inception, Shiitees believe they should lead Islam's community over Sunni Muslims. Their dominant foothold is Iran, Iraq and Bahrain with minorities elsewhere in the Middle East and India. Much like Christianity's wars of religion between Catholics and Protestants in the 17th century, Shiites and Sunnis have fought one another for centuries to this day. Both believe the entirety of the Middle East is Muslim land. Throughout history, Muslims have been tolerant of non Muslims among them during periods of peace, and known to slaughter minorities in periods of instability. Upon the creation of Israel and the other countries in the Middle East, Sunni fought to retake what they believed was Muslim land and lost multiple wars over decades. Eventually, neighboring Sunni nations moved towards peace with Israel, creating an opportunity for Shiites to claim a righteous war against the infidels of Israel once Khomeini swept into power in 1979. Khomeini seized the moment to drive Shia as the only true Islamic warriors ready to throw the infidels out of Muslim land. Israeli became the boogie man to expand Shia influence in the Middle East.