LMAO, United States is determined to prevent (anyone but USA) exploiting the situation or expanding the conflict. Same old hypocrisy.
World 'safer' without Hezbollah chief Nasrallah, says Blinken 30 Sep 2024 WASHINGTON: United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Monday (Sep 30) that the world is safer after Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah, describing the Hezbollah chief as a "brutal terrorist" while insisting diplomacy was the Middle East's best chance at stability. "The region, the world are safer without him," Blinken, speaking in Washington, said of the deceased leader of the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group. "Hassan Nasrallah was a brutal terrorist whose many victims included Americans, Israelis, civilians in Lebanon, civilians in Syria and many others as well," he continued during opening remarks at a meeting of countries in the coalition fighting the Islamic State group. Iran launches major missile attack on Israel By Ivana Kottasová, Jeremy Diamond, Kevin Liptak, MJ Lee, Arlette Saenz, Kylie Atwood and Jennifer Hansler, CNN Tue October 1, 2024 Iran launched dozens of missiles toward Israel on Tuesday in what it said was a response to the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and others – potentially taking the region closer to a wider conflict. CNN teams on the ground in multiple locations in Israel observed dozens of missiles piercing through the skies as sirens blasted across the country. Israel’s military said it estimated that Iran fired 180 “projectiles” at the country. Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari called the barrage was a “serious attack” and said “there will be serious consequences.” The IDF said it intercepted many of the missiles, although some landed on the ground in Israel with no injuries initially reported. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said later on Tuesday that the attack by Iran was “effectively defeated.” While the attack was over relatively quickly, it is clear that it has further raised the stakes in what is already an extremely tense moment. World leaders have long warned the conflict between Israel and Iran’s proxies Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon could spiral into a wider regional war. All eyes will now be on how Israel responds. Israel has been fighting Hamas in Gaza since the deadly October 7 terrorist attack by the group on southern Israel. Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, with much of the strip reduced to rubble. And while Israel and Hezbollah have been trading cross-border fire for much of the past year, Iran launched the barrage on Tuesday just hours after Israel announced it launched a “limited and localized” ground operation in Lebanon. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it targeted Israel in response to the killing of Nasrallah and others, according to Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency. After the barrage of missiles was launched, the Iranian mission to the United Nations said that Tehran carried out a response to “the terrorist acts of the Zionist regime.” The mission said on X that if Israel should “dare to respond or commit further acts of malevolence, a subsequent and crushing response will ensue.”
American politicians, Biden, Blinken, Harris, Trump, (and alot of others) all idiots sending America down a road of insanity. Its all about cultism of everything Israel. So we get American war mongers supporting shit stirring Israel.
You can see a similar attitude with some ET posters on the Russia Ukraine thread, they love constantly talking about killing the enemy. Sure kill the enemy but maybe we are our own worst enemy.
https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/iran-launches-unprovoked-attack-at In harrowing scenes, Iran has launched a salvo of hypersonic missiles at Israel that have rendered the iron dome useless and caused explosions across the country. This unprovoked attack came after Israel peacefully committed a year-long genocide, bombed an embassy, destroyed schools, universities and hospitals, starved 2.1 million civilians, carried out multiple assassinations, murdered 162 journalists and 222 UN workers, built a centre dedicated to the rape and torture of prisoners, launched large-scale terror attacks in Beirut, and invaded Lebanon. Why is Iran like this? Among Iran’s targets were military installations located in densely-populated areas of Tel Aviv. Outrageously, Israel has been accused by the worst people of using civilians as human shields. What kind of monster would use such insensitive language when people are dying? Please show some compassion. In a horrific attack, a large number of Israeli civilians were gunned down in Tel Aviv earlier today. Every decent person should condemn this violence towards civilians, and every decent person has. Even the people who laughed when Lebanese children lost their eyeballs in the pager attack have condemned this violence. Israelis are understandably terrified, having endured for one day what Palestinians have endured for one year. Everyone knows only Palestinians, and maybe Lebanese, should endure this level of suffering. We couldn’t just have… peace. As all the sensible people keep telling us, a peace deal wouldn’t achieve peace, only this would: World War III. If you don’t understand this, it’s because you’re an idiot and a terrorist lover. Thankfully, the newspapers have found their ability to name the attacker, now that someone who is not Israel is firing rockets. For a moment, I was worried they were going to describe this terrorism as “mysterious explosions in militant strongholds” and urge restraint from Israel. Netanyahu was understood to be in good spirits in his luxury bunker as World War III got underway because sure, millions of innocent people around the world are going to die, but this is his best chance of avoiding those corruption charges. And that’s what matters, isn’t it? Reassuringly, I’m told the prime minister has now been airlifted out of Israel and returned to the safety of his home country, Poland. This is how much Mileikowsky loves his people. Israel’s de-escalation through escalation strategy is going well, isn’t it? So well, in fact, that I’m having an end of world party tonight. I mean why not? Personally, I think this is much better than the alternative which was not selling arms to Israel. If we’d done that, we wouldn’t have had the pleasure of 12 months of genocide, would we? Thank god the moderates made the right decision! Anyway, who else can’t wait to be conscripted and used as a meat shield for Israel? If you’re worried you’re too old for conscription, at least your children can be called up. I hope you’re not too attached to them! At least they’ll be sacrificed for the best possible reason: the political career of someone everyone hates. Netanyahu has reassured us that when Israel loses the war he didn't start, he is going to push that nuclear button because the tens of thousands he’s killed so far, and the millions he’s about to kill, just aren’t enough. Might as well eradicate every multicellular lifeform on the planet. It’s either that or international arrest warrants and the Hague. I know what I’d choose in his position
White House vows consequences for Iran’s attack on Israel U.S. forces had a limited role in repelling the ballistic missile assault, which U.S. officials called ineffective but a ‘significant escalation’ nonetheless. President Joe Biden addresses the situation in the Middle East during a meeting at the White House on Tuesday. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) By Missy Ryan, Dan Lamothe, Karen DeYoung and Michael Birnbaum October 1, 2024 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/10/01/iran-israel-biden/ Tehran will face “severe consequences” for its large-scale missile attack on Israel Tuesday, the White House said, after the United States employed military force to help defend its closest Middle Eastern ally from Iranian fire for the second time in five months. National security adviser Jake Sullivan said the barrage of nearly 200 ballistic missiles fired at Israel late Tuesday, only the second time Iran has launched a direct attack on the Jewish state, represented a “significant escalation.” He said President Joe Biden was closely tracking the developments, as spiraling violence threatens to undermine one of the U.S. leader’s chief foreign policy goals: preventing an all-out war across the Middle East. “We are now going to look at what the appropriate next steps are to secure, first and foremost, American interests, and then to promote stability to the maximum extent possible as we go forward,” Sullivan told reporters at the White House. Officials said the attack had been largely ineffective, with one civilian death reported as initial assessments were made. He declined to say what form the promised repercussions on Iran, already the object of extensive American sanctions, would take. “We have made clear that there will be consequences, severe consequences,” he said. “We will work with Israel to make that the case.” Sullivan spoke shortly after American destroyers in the eastern Mediterranean Sea shot down multiple missiles launched by Iran, according to U.S. defense officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the operation. Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters after the attack that two U.S. warships, the USS Bulkeley and USS Cole, fired about a dozen interceptors at inbound ballistic missiles, but said officials were still assessing how many of those struck a target. The comments suggested that Israel, with its extensive air defense network, shot down most of the incoming munitions on its own. “Israel, with the active support of the United States and other partners, effectively defeated this attack,” said Secretary of State Antony Blinken. “We demonstrated, once again, our commitment to Israel’s defense.” The incident echoes the events of April, when Iran launched a major missile and drone assault in retaliation for an Israeli strike that killed a senior Iranian military official in Syria. The assault was an ominous milestone for Israel, already engaged in a punishing war against Iranian-backed Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip and what until recent days had been a more limited conflict with Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. This time, the exchange is overshadowed by a deepening engagement in Lebanon, where Israel has launched a series of major airstrikes over the last week and is now conducting ground operations against Hezbollah. The unfolding Israeli campaign, which aims to set conditions for allowing displaced Israelis to return to their homes in northern Israel, abruptly curtailed hopes for a near-term cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, Iran’s largest and most powerful militant client. The situation underscores the Biden administration’s failure, despite months of diplomacy, to secure peaceful conclusions to the bloodshed in Gaza and, now, in Lebanon. Iranian officials said Tuesday’s attack was retaliation for a series of recent high-level assassinations, including strikes that killed Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah and Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh. Over the last year, the Biden administration has repeatedly cautioned the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the wake of deflected attacks by adversaries, including Iran, to “take the win” and avoid fueling further escalation by conducting a major counterstrike. It is likely to do so again in this instance. U.S. officials say they are committed to defending Israel when the country faces external attacks but does not intend to conduct offensive operations in Lebanon or other countries. U.S. officials said that they detected signs of an imminent Iranian attack in the hours before it was launched Tuesday, but said there was no direct or indirect warning from Iran’s government ahead of time. During Iran’s April attack, a pair of U.S. destroyers positioned off Israel in the Mediterranean shot down a handful of ballistic missiles; a Patriot missile defense battery shot down a missile over Iraq; and American jets from the 494th and 335th fighter squadrons downed dozens of munitions headed for Israel. This time, the U.S. role appeared to have been even more limited. Sullivan declined to say whether the Biden administration would undertake a military-led operation to evacuate civilians from Lebanon but cautioned that U.S. citizens should leave the country as soon as possible. The United States conducted such an operation during Israel’s last war in Lebanon in 2006. John Hudson and Abigail Haushlohner contributed to this report.