Posted on 07/29/2019 5:35:25 PM PDT by robowombat
White House Plans'Massive' Tactical Strike Against Iran – Reports © Sputnik / Brian M. Wilbur
16:29 18.06.2019(updated 16:44 18.06.2019) Get short URL53483
Countries around the world have expressed concerns over Washington's plans to deploy an additional 1,000 troops to the Middle East on top of the already considerable presence stationed there following last week's apparent sabotage attacks against two oil tankers off Iran's coast. The United States is planning to carry out a "massive" tactical attack on an Iranian target, a Western diplomat at the UN headquarters in New York has told Israel's Maariv newspaper.
"The bombing will be massive but will be limited to a specific target," the anonymous source said, without specifying exactly what type of target this might be.
In its coverage of the story, The Jerusalem Post suggested that the attack may target a facility linked to Iran's nuclear programme.
According to Maariv's sources, the White House has discussed the option of military action against Iran at length, with President Trump himself unenthusiastic about the prospects of strike, but 'losing patience' and allowing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who has made more hawkish statements on the matter, to push forward with his preferred policies.
High-level discussions on possible military options involved senior commanders, Pentagon officials and advisers to the president, according to the anonymous officials.
Last week, following the apparent sabotage attacks against two 'Japan-related' tankers in the Gulf of Oman, Secretary of State Pompeo almost immediately blamed Iran for the attacks. Tehran categorically rejected Pompeo's allegations. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the US made its claims "without a shred of factual or [even] circumstantial evidence" and accused Trump administration officials and their Gulf allies of engaging in "sabotage diplomacy" to "cover up" their "economic terrorism against Iran."
Last Friday, the president of the Japanese company operating one of the tankers which were hit in Thursday's attack challenged the US version of events, saying the vessel's crew saw an object flying toward them before the blast. The official's remarks contradict US allegations about Iranian military forces using mines attached to the ships to carry out the attacks.
Several major US allies, including Germany, France, and Japan, have expressed similar doubts regarding US claims regarding the tanker attacks, although UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said that an independent intelligence assessment by London had shown that Iran was "almost certainly" behind the sabotage.
On Tuesday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned that the US' decision to deploy 1,000 more troops to the Middle East against Iran threatened to open a "Pandora's Box." Moscow, meanwhile, said that the US' policy of "political, psychological, economic and military pressure on Iran" was "quite provocative" and amounted to efforts to "provoke a war."
Tensions between Iran and the US began to escalate in May 2018, when the US unilaterally withdrew from the 2015 Iran nuclear program and reinstated tough sanctions against Tehran. Last month, Iran announced that it would withdraw from some of its voluntary commitments under the nuclear deal. Tehran maintains that it is not looking to pursue nuclear weapons.
we pee ourselves every time Iran shits on our shoes. We must be waiting till they have the bomb and can load it on an ICBM which they area also developing.
Not exactly. It's over a month old...
Since the Mueller scam failed it’s back to trying (once again) to lure President Trump into a war with Iran.
The Deep State can not be trusted to provide the President with good intlligence.
“...Today’s BS...”
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I don’t think 18.06.2019 is “today”...
Why don’t you make sure your posts are TRUE and up-to-date!!!!
Trying to upset snowflakes or Iran?
What sense does it make to advertise intentions, if any,
to strike?
That’s for damn sure.
He did tweet something about Iran today, about them losing at war but winning at negotiations.
I keep an eye on the Opec basket price, which is down to day at $64 per barrel. This is about $10 below where it was in October when nothing was going on. The marketplace doesn’t think there is going to be a war or the price would go higher. (oilprice.com)
Why is this news? The Pentagon has contingency plans for almost every eventuality. No doubt these plans have been around for a long time and are updated as appropriate.
Russian Propaganda and written by Dems?
Iranian ambitions to get a nuclear capable ballistic missile in order to destroy the Jewish Nation of Israel, the United States of America or any strategic partner is not some hairball lame goofy conspiracy “Deep State” plot.
Your deep state is the dual joint alliance Russia and China along with their proxies that’s your deep state.
When/if it happens , Iran will be the first to know ,LOL
KBG/FSB propaganda intelligence units writes this stuff its spunknews, Russia Today, Zero Hedge, etc. They also have successfully infiltrated the American far right publications and news outlets this includes Conservative Tree House, info Wars, the American Conservative, Breitbart news, gatewapudit. They spread masses of disinformation conspiracy theories in order to weaken the United States.
Why are you posting month old crap from some Russian sputnik site?
You should have included Dave Hodges in that list.
Good grief these folks need to take massive amounts of meds and have their internet shut off.
Hah, hah, hah, hah ... Sputnik.
Agree it’s BS as the plans to strike Iran have existed for decades, if anything they are dusting them off and updating.
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