Posted on 10/18/2023 4:59:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber
On Monday, Iran’s Minister of Foreign Affairs warned that the expansion of the Hamas-Israel war on “other fronts” is becoming “inevitable,” and “preemptive action” could be expected “in the coming hours.”
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian declared on state television Monday that Israel will not be allowed to take any additional action in the Gaza Strip without major consequences.
“Leaders of the resistance will not allow [Israel] to take any action in Gaza … All options are open and we cannot be indifferent to the war crimes committed against the people of Gaza,” Amirabdollahian said, as translated by Reuters.
“The resistance front is capable of waging a long-term war with [Israel] … in the coming hours, we can expect a preemptive action by the resistance front,” he added. “If the crimes in Gaza do not stop immediately, new fronts will be opened.”
Amirabdollahian issued further warnings on X later Monday, posting that time is running out for political solutions to the war.
“Today I talked with my colleagues in Malaysia , Tunisia and Pakistan,” he wrote. “It was emphasized on the need to immediately stop the killings and war crimes of the Zionists in Gaza and to send humanitarian aid to this region. I stated that the time for political solutions is running out and the possible expansion of the war on other fronts is approaching the inevitable stage.”
“We emphasized the necessity of immediately stopping the genocide and war crimes committed by the Zionists in Gaza and expediting the sending of humanitarian aid to it,” Amirabdollahian added in a subsequent post. “I said that time for political solutions is running out and that the possibility of expanding the scope of the war on other fronts is approaching the stage that cannot be avoided.”
Over the weekend, Amirabdollahian met in Qatar with Hamas politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh.
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In another worrisome development, the Islamic Republic’s official international broadcasting radio network on Monday declared in Arabic that “The victory of Allah is near.”
At least 2,808 people have been killed by Israeli attacks in Gaza, and more than 1,400 people were killed by Hamas terrorists during the sneak attack in Israel on Oct. 7.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Imam Sayyid Ali Khamenei celebrated the Hamas operation on X: “Whatever crimes the Zionist regime commits will fail to compensate for its disgraceful defeat during the Al-Aqsa Storm operation.”
Khamenei also warned Tuesday that if Israel continued to bomb Gaza, “no one will be able to stop the Muslims and the resistance forces.”
On Tuesday, Amirabdollahian blamed the United States for the ongoing hostilities in a phone conversation with the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell.
The Iranian foreign minister reportedly said “the United States’ non-constructive policies and encouraging the Zionist regime to stage more strikes against civilians in Gaza is an important factor in the continuation and spread of the war.”
Khamenei also took aim at the United States on Tuesday, declaring that “the U.S. must be held responsible” for its support for Israel.
“Our numerous intelligence reports show that the US is formulating the Zionist regime’s current policy, and what is being done is governed by US policymaking,” he posted on X. “The US must be held responsible for this situation.”
In response to Iran’s threatening statements, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby claimed on NBC’s TODAY that there is “no specific indication” that Iran, or anybody else, “is preparing to widen and deepen this conflict” in Israel.
Iran has denied any involvement in the planning of that attack, and U.S. authorities claim they have no intelligence indicating that Iran was involved.
Update:
Tuesday evening, the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Syria posted on X a threatening message in Hebrew: “time is up.”
I wonder if Iran has nukes yet....
FJB really knows how to rule the world.
Nuke ‘em ‘til theu glo; then shot ‘em in the dark.
I am afraid these crazy assholes really mean it this time. This could become a shooting war very quickly.
The end times are here. I wish my grand kids could have grown up in a morally good and God fearing country. If Iran starts the war ,we must finish it! Problem is this POS in the white house is a fraud and traitor.
I think you misspelled ruin .
The victory of Jesus is much closer than any hoped for victory of Allah (aka Satan).
Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus.
Iran always talks tough. I don’t think they can afford a war right now, and they know it.
I hope Iran likes mushrooms ……. Big mushrooms!
Stick Allah where the sun don’t shine, raghead.
They’re shrinking violets. They are terrified of ISR’s retaliation upon Iran.
Here is something that is very likely to happen, IMHO.
1. Turkey will send a “peace convoy” of supply ships to Gaza visibly full of hippie useful idiots. Giant peace symbols on deck that can be seen from airplanes, etc.
2. It will be escorted by Russian naval warships from their two bases in Syria. Russia also has advanced fighter-bombers based there that carry hypersonic ship-killer missiles.
3. The folks pushing for WW3 will order Biden’s puppet handlers to order the US Navy to block the “peace convoy,” after accusing it of smuggling weapons etc.
4. This will set up a direct confrontation between the U.S. and Russian navies, including submarines, as well as land-based Russian hypersonic ship-killer missiles now in Syria, and those advanced Russian fighter-bombers, also with said hypersonic ship-killer missiles.
5. The US Navy, for the entire world to see, will be viewed as blocking food and medical supplies from the poor suffering besieged Gazans. It is a lose-lose-lose optics situation for Uncle Sam. With a great chance to see warships on both sides sunk with all hands. Then, WW3 ensues.
6. This is not 1960, Joe Biden is not JFK, Putin is not Khrushchev, Gaza is not Cuba, and all of these ships will be in easy hypersonic ship-killer missile range. If it goes kinetic, it will be like the Gunfight at the OK Corral, but taking place inside a small room with no doors or windows.
7. And the US Navy will be seen as the bad guys with the black hats trying to keep Gaza from receiving humanitarian aid and medical supplies.
This makes sense. I’ve said since the outset that there must be other factors at play. Clearly Iran has more in store than just suicidal hit & run attacks on Israel.
The worst part of it is that I believe the USG knows what’s coming, probably even Israel, given their lack of actions which facilitated the 10/7 attacks’ success.
Hindsight is now bearing out that between the Obama and Biden administrations’ insanity of the all carrot, as in carrot and stick, JCPOA approach offering Iran boatloads of money and perks and looking the other way on sanctions to get them to behave and Trump’s stick or no stick approach offering them nothing but the misery of crashing their economy to force them to behave which put them on their economic knees that Trump had the only approach Iran understood. The contrasts between Trump and these two are similarly amazingly stark when it came to approaches and ensuing consequences re immigration, crime, inflation, domestic energy production, etc. We are seeing that borne out right now
And the US Navy will be staffed with crews that had to cancel weapons training so they could schedule the mandatory Diversity Training.
Ch’aniqua and LeBront’je running the bridge and CIC.
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Answer: Talk big.
Question: What do you do with three American battle groups staring down your throat.
The way Joe handles our national security, who needs nukes?
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