Posted on 01/20/2024 8:18:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind
For the second time in less than a month, senior Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard officers have been killed in a suspected Israeli airstrike in Damascus, Syria. Iran's unofficial Mehr news agency said, "The Revolutionary Guards' Syria intel chief, his deputy, and two other Guards members were martyred in the attack on Syria by Israel." Updated reports say that five IRGC officers, plus some of their Syrian counterparts, were killed in the attack.
The icons are already circulating.
The intelligence chief, Sadegh Omidzadeh, was a close associate of Brigadier General Sayyed Reza Mousavi, the IRGC commander in Syria, who, along with several associates, was killed in a similar manner shortly before Christmas 2023.
Saturday's attack and that in December look a lot like preparation of the battlefield for Israel opening hostilities in southern Lebanon, with a goal of gutting Hezbollah.
Under UN Security Council Resolution 1701, adopted on August 11, 2006, Hezbollah is forbidden to keep an armed presence south of the Litani River. Hezbollah violated this agreement almost as soon as it was signed. In 2017, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley conducted a very public scolding of the commander of the UN Peacekeeping force, UNIFIL, in that area over Hezbollah's infractions and UNIFIL's refusal to report or confront violations or even acknowledge that documented violations had taken place.
The targeted killings of senior IRGC officers who control Iranian intelligence and logistics support to Hezbollah and of some senior Hezbollah officers could be a first stage of the operation that would prevent Hezbollah forces from undertaking a prepared defense against Israel.
READ: Israeli Airstrike Kills Senior Hezbollah Commander in Lebanon
In the end, by his timidity and hubris, Jake Sullivan may end up giving Biden the expanded regional war and escalation of hostilities with Iran that he's tried to avoid.
“”Hezbollah is forbidden to keep an armed presence south of the Litani River””
This would be the same as forbidding democRATS to cheat during elections.
Hezbollah builds rockets and rocket launchers RIGHT NEXT to the United Nations ‘peacekeepers’ in Lebanon, and the UN just shrugs, because most of the UN is just like the Party of Hate, the DemoKKKrats.
Gee, terrible terrible terrible...good job.
Why Lebanon? Just attack Iran and get it over with. None of this other shit happens without those devils. Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, etc. Kill the entire IRG leadership, the Mullahs, everyone. MOAB their nuclear plants. Enough of this crap.
The U.N. can rot in hell...
Aloha Snachbar,Babies!
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March to Armageddon!
How much longer before this war comes to the continental USA?
Brandon already let Hamas and Hezbollah in.😡
Let the suicide-bombings begin.
Senior Iranian jihadis martyred. good for them or not?
Better get on Ayatollas before the virgins are gone. Oops, you get all the virgins you want here right?
If nothing else, their script tells you they are afu
Already has.
Been going on since 1979. In 1981 Iran had an American agent assassinate a loyalist diplomat - in DC, I believe.
Sami am Arian and Nasrallah of Hezbollah were operating in Florida for years and working with Sudan’s NIF.
CAIR, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood (Hamas is its militant wing) functions as a foreign agent of Iran inside the US.
Iranian UN diplomats were caught casing NY landmarks.
Iran was behind the poot to bomb a Washington DC area restaurant not too long ago.
Iran just made a hit on long time dissident Salman Rushdie in the US.
Code Pink was operating in conjunction with Ahmadinejad carrying out “insurrection” acts for years and still do.
I think there was also an Iranian cell operating out of Columbia, Missouri, and an incident where an Iranian engineer was caught plotting something in Missouri.
Bibi’s Boyz doing their thing
Yup. The current regime’s foreign policy is a carry over of the Obama regime’s passive-aggressive weakness: talk big and carry a limp stick.
The Iranian-supported Ansar al-Islam began carrying out bombings and other attacks against coalition forces and Iraqi citizens in the summer of 2003. One report, describing an interview with a source, said: “There were approximately 320 Ansar al-Islam terrorists being trained in Iran . . . for various attack scenarios including suicide bombings, assassinations, and general subversion against U.S. forces in Iraq.” The reports linked Ansar al-Islam to al Qaeda and to Abu Musab Zarqawi, the most wanted terrorist in Iraq. “Among the more capable terrorist groups operating in Iraq,” an analyst wrote in another report, “are al Qaeda, the al Zarqawi network, as well as Ansar al-Islam.”...
The ZarqWi Network merged with Ansar an Islam to form an Qaeda in Iraq, later the Islamic State, ISIS/ISIL
I think Lebanon is not full-out Islamist. I knew a Lebanese family in CA. Granddad came to US, had a little coffee shop in Michigan somewhere, eventually grew in billion-dollar shopping centers enterprise. In the generation I knew, one son was an MD (good friend of mine) and his younger brother made a great living and life as a movie producer.
They hardly fit the mold of Hamas, Hezbollah, etc.
They will.
Here’s hoping.....
Hopefully these are pre-strike photos. I would love to see the post-strike ones, of a human goulash pie.
Israel has stated it will not allow Iran to become a nuclear power.
If true, you can expect Israel to hit Iran very hard in the next few days as it is said Iran is a week or so away from making a nuke or two.
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