Posted on 01/31/2024 8:29:54 AM PST by Mariner
JERUSALEM (AP) — Iran threatened Wednesday to “decisively respond” to any U.S. attack on the Islamic Republic following President Joe Biden's linking of Tehran to the killing of three U.S. soldiers at a military base in Jordan.
The U.S. has signaled it is preparing for retaliatory strikes in the Mideast in the wake of the Sunday drone attack that also wounded at least 40 troops at Tower 22, a secretive base in northeastern Jordan that's been crucial to the American presence in neighboring Syria.
Any additional American strikes could further inflame a region already roiled by Israel's ongoing war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The war began with Hamas attacking Israel on Oct. 7, killing some 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostage. Since then, Israel has killed more than 26,000 Palestinians and displaced nearly 2 million others from their homes, arousing anger throughout the Muslim world.
Violence has erupted across the Mideast, with Iran striking targets in Iraq, Pakistan and Syria, and the U.S. carrying out airstrikes targeting Yemen's Houthi rebels over their attacks shipping in the Red Sea. Some observers fear a new round of strikes targeting Iran could tip the region into a wider war.
A U.S. Navy destroyer in the waterway shot down an anti-ship cruise missile launched by the Houthis late Tuesday, the latest attack targeting American forces patrolling the key maritime trade route, officials said. The U.S. later launched a new round of airstrikes targeting the Houthis.
The Iranian warnings first came from Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran's ambassador to the United Nations in New York. He gave a briefing to Iranian journalists late Tuesday, according to the state-run IRNA news agency.
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So that's what Biden will likely do.
STFU about it and blow something of theirs up?
It will be a hand slap, kinda like what Hunter gets. Then life goes on.
Joe’s military response: “That’s not us.”
He goes out of his way to put our military in jeopardy. A knee Jerk, political reaction will be seen just as that, so the Iranians will respond with escalation until this idiot does something real.
“Biden weighs how to react to a base attack in Jordan”
“Hmmm...I had chocolate yesterday. Maybe today I should have vanilla. Or butterscotch. Butterscotch is nice. There’s always tapioca. Jill, what do you think? I like BEING THERE for pudding time.”
He’ll carpet bomb them with giant wads of cash. That’ll show ‘em! If that doesn’t work, he’ll threaten to jam all communications in Iran with Kamala’s cackle playing on a loop.
Biden gave them billions of dollars.
Hasn’t Brandon been been planning to give them more?
Putting the so-called Iran Deal back in place and giving them billions of dollars was priority for the Brandon “administration” from day 1.
Not only will the Biden cabal do nothing to disrupt or hurt the Iranians but they will release over $6 billion to them. John Kerry is smiling.
To me the discussion itself seems weak. Turning it into a calculation means it’s a calculation. Trump understands war better than anyone else from i can tell.
Biden isn’t weighing anything bit his next purchase at Yogurt Mountain…
Cash bombs should do it.
Table of Iran’s Missile Arsenal
(Iran threatened Wednesday to “decisively respond” to any U.S. attack)
Just wait until we hit them with Ballistic Ikki Haley Missile!
Ikki Haley is probably suiting up right now for a HALO drop into Iran
a) the "Biden" regime is full of Iranian agents;
b) there's loads of payola going from Iran and the transfer of frozen Iranian assets to US officials;
c) the increase in gasoline prices or a cutoff after "Biden" drained the Strategic Petroleum Reserve would be a political disaster for the Dems akin to the gas shortages under Carter.
The irony is that the combination of appeasement and corruption makes a general war more likely. The Israelis are not going to stop with Hamas: Hezbollah is next, as Israeli troops are being moved to the Lebanese border already.
$5 says they’ll do nothing to Iran. Chickenshit cowards like Bidet&Co are always very predictable.
It would take 8+ months to get sufficient military assets in place to defeat Iran conclusively, and even then it’s unlikely we would defeat them “conclusively”. Iran has hundreds of thousands of missiles spread widely across their territory and all of the centrifuges they use to enrich uranium are either underground or under a mountain making them impervious to bombing.
Take down Iran’s oil infrastructure? Them Iran closes the Persian Gulf and creates a worldwide depression. So forget about defeating them “conclusively”, that just isn’t going to happen. They will receive a slap on the wrist and that’s that.
I can’t wait to vote him out in November.
he’s thinking about 1 or 2 scoops.
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