Wednesday, May 21, 2025

US: Israel Possibly Preparing to Strike Iranian Nuclear Facilities

CNN's Jim Scuitto and two other report that new US intelligence is indicating that Israel is preparing a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. Currently the Trump Administration is in negotiations with Tehran over Iran's nuclear program.

Posted by retort at 08:26 AM | 21 COMMENTS | permalink

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CNN -- The US has obtained new intelligence suggesting that Israel is making preparations to strike Iranian nuclear facilities, even as the Trump administration has been pursuing a diplomatic deal with Tehran. https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/20/politics/intelligence-israel-possible-strike-iran-nuclear-fa[image or embed]

-- Steve Herman ð"¡ (@newsguy.bsky.social) May 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM

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WWIII will definitely start because of stupid squabbles over Bronze Age goat herder myths, led by the extreme arrogance of Israel.

#1 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-21 09:32 AM

Looks like Nutty Yahoo is about to pull the rug out from under The Mad King. Appears old Humpy Trumpy has been bluffing (Lyin) all along and ain't got no cards after all.

Also is striking "nuclear facilities" considered nuclear war? Hopefully they haven't managed to build one. But they have had enough time so how would we know? Trumpy pulled out of the only deal that would have allowed inspectors to possibly know.

#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-05-21 11:40 AM

WWIII will definitely start because of stupid squabbles over Bronze Age goat herder myths, led by the extreme arrogance of Israel.
#1 | Posted by jpw

I imagine secular anger by Israelis over Iran's goat herder myth support for terrorist attacks by HizBallzOff, Hamas, etc. might have something to do with it as well.

Like when we decided to attack Iraq/Afghanistan because Saudi nationals attacked us on 9-11 (due to the Saudi's goat herder myths) many of us didn't give two figs about religion.

#3 | Posted by censored at 2025-05-21 12:24 PM

I imagine secular anger by Israelis over Iran's goat herder myth support for terrorist attacks by HizBallzOff, Hamas, etc. might have something to do with it as well.

What suggested that I think otherwise?

Your comment is noise for the sake of noise.

#4 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-21 04:08 PM

What suggested that I think otherwise?
Your words, which I guess I misunderstood as equating the two governments as engaging in equivalent theocratic warfare.

Your comment is noise for the sake of noise.
#4 | Posted by jpw

#5 | Posted by censored at 2025-05-21 05:27 PM

Your words, which I guess I misunderstood as equating the two governments as engaging in equivalent theocratic warfare.

Two countries whose existence is based on religious justifications and connotations, one whose resistance to the other's existence is based entirely on religious connotations...

You can't really separate the religious drivers behind the decades of conflict that has built to this point and the current situation. They're too entwined and engrained at this point.

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-21 08:02 PM

"Saudi nationals attacked us on 9-11 (due to the Saudi's goat herder myths)"

OBL has a very specific list of demands and we complied with all of them.
Saudi goat herder myths are good enough for America to use as foreign policy.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-21 08:05 PM

"many of us didn't give two figs about religion."

Many of us did though.
Most people who supported that war still do not accept that Muslims and Christians worship the same G-d.
Even though it's right there in the Bible and the Quran.

So, they care deeply about religion. They care about it so much, it's so ingrained, they don't even realize they've based their cultural identity on having their true G-d be a different from the enemy's false G-d.

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-21 08:20 PM

I always said that the Israelis would not allow the Iranians the chance of become a nuclear state.

#9 | Posted by Wildman62 at 2025-05-21 08:46 PM

Israel is a terrorist nation.

Come at me, DHS. You ------- -----.

#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-22 12:31 PM

Israel is a terrorist nation.
Come at me, DHS. You ------- -----.
#10 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-22 12:31 PM

Their spies are embedded within the Pentagon and ironically foreign asset Fox News back in 2000 spilled that tea on "Israeli art students".

I wouldn't doubt Musk's "Golden Dome" is just the latest mercenary spy network.

Any pre-emptive attacks inside of Israel will be false flags, imo.

#11 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-05-22 04:59 PM

Any pre-emptive attacks inside of Israel will be false flags, imo.
#11 | Posted by redlightrobot

Of course they will, in your opinion. According to you, the Palestinians didn't rape and murder 1,200 Israeli civilian men, women, and children on October 7th.

If you can deny those atrocities, there's no end to what else you will deny.

#12 | Posted by censored at 2025-05-22 08:00 PM

 

Something is up with Pres Trump and PM Netanyahu.

The 'Trump--Netanyahu Rift' Hinges on Gaza and Iran
www.cato.org

... (This article appeared in The American Conservative on May 21, 2025.)

A litany of media reports indicate a growing "rift" between U.S. President Donald Trump and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. After more than 19 months of lockstep American support following Hamas's terror attack against Israel on October 7, 2023, and through Israel's ensuing war in Gaza, a change in Washington's approach appears possible. ...

Reports of Trump "bypassing" Netanyahu and the relationship between the two becoming increasingly "strained" are now commonplace.

Most notable was an article published in Israel Hayom"owned by Miriam Adelson, the hawkish pro-Israel megadonor to both of Trump's presidential campaigns -- claiming Trump is "disappointed" with the Israeli premier and "has decided to stop waiting for Israel and instead move forward with Middle East initiatives without Netanyahu."

More recently, Vice President J.D. Vance canceled a trip to Israel reportedly to make clear the administration opposed Israel's imminent plan to flatten then occupy Gaza. ...



#13 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-22 08:16 PM

According to you, the Palestinians didn't rape and murder 1,200 Israeli civilian men, women, and children on October 7th.

Civilian death toll was more like ~1000 including those killed by Hannibal. Plenty of IDF died failing to repel apes on mopeds, and you can split hairs over police being military or civilian in that theater.

#14 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-22 08:34 PM

@#14 ... According to you ...

Who is "you?"


#15 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-22 08:41 PM

Those nuclear facilities need to be taken out and sooner rather than later, and could care less as if whether Israel or we do it.

#16 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-05-22 11:58 PM

@#16 ... Those nuclear facilities need to be taken out and sooner rather than later ...

I do not disagree.

But let's get to ...

... and could care less as if whether Israel or we do it. ...

Yeah, there's a significant problem there.

Should, as you suggest, Israel or the US violate World Order in order to preserve it?


#17 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-23 12:18 AM

#16 so we're back to being hawkish again?

#18 | Posted by jpw at 2025-05-23 01:08 AM

so we're back to being hawkish again?

Nothing says "Peace Prize" like a preemptive attack on a foreign nuclear site.

#19 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-05-23 01:17 AM

Idiots like Msgt think Iraq flew planes into the twin towers

#20 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-05-23 04:41 AM

Honestly, I was surprised they didn't do it at the end of Trump's last Term in the White House. It might have ginned up a war with Iran that would have let Trump win his second term.

#21 | Posted by Hughmass at 2025-05-23 07:18 AM

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