Posted on 10/28/2024 4:49:34 AM PDT by bert
Saturday's strike was not just a threat; it was a promise that reached the heart of Tehran.
As dawn broke over Tehran on Saturday, it wasn’t the usual hum of a busy city greeting the morning.
Instead, the reverberations of precision strikes echoed across Iran’s strategic landscape. You could almost picture the startled faces behind closed doors in Iran’s power centers, scrambling to understand how Israel managed to pull off an operation so audacious, so brazen, and, yet, so meticulously calculated.
For more than three hours, Israel struck with unprecedented precision, unmasking a simple truth: Tehran, for all its bluster, isn’t untouchable.
You can almost feel the tectonic plates shifting under Iran’s feet, as the “regional power” finds itself reeling, looking a lot less like the force it projects to the world and a lot more like Hezbollah, scrambling to avoid the light.
Imagine the dilemma for Iran’s leadership – retaliate and risk a spiral that might burn everything it’s built, or stay silent and let Israel’s quiet triumph ring louder.
A response would almost certainly turn Tel Aviv into a potential target, but after late Friday night, Iran knows that Israel can just as easily reach Tehran.
This isn’t a vague threat; it’s a promise that’s landed, with clarity and force, right on their doorstep.
Israel changed the game Israel has done more than just attack military installations here. It has rewritten the rules of the game, showing that it has both the nerve and the know-how to reach where it needs to and disrupt what it must.
This isn’t just an exercise in military might – it’s a statement.
Israel has stripped Iran of some of its military edge in a single night, leaving the so-called “regional power” scrambling for control over its narrative, like a magician left with empty hands in front of a disappointed audience.
What we’re witnessing isn’t just military strategy but also a glimpse of a new regional dynamic. Israel has drawn a line that will be felt in power corridors well beyond Tehran.
It’s a lesson in calculated defiance, one that sends a message to Iran and its proxies: Israel is ready to protect its own, to reach into even the most fortified of regions if it means safeguarding its people.
The reverberations of Saturday morning’s strike won’t fade quickly – they mark a turning point, a shift that might just reshape the balance of power for years to come.
The Iranian military is blinded by religion to what really is in the world.
amas is dead. Hezbollah is near death. Iran is defenseless. Peace is coming through war
A certain pro-savage Freeper is deeply saddened.
This is a good thing.
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Iran is now defenseless to American made aircraft flown by Israel, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
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Iran bought 30-40 S-300/400 systems; Israel reportedly took out 7-8 of them - at most. That does not qualify as defenseless.
It did so by humiliating any supposed air defense and countermeasures Iran should have had. Try being less myopic, it is as much about how effective and untouched they were in the operation as the destruction of the targets.
Or, stop killing Jews.
How many planes did your 30-40 vaunted systems hit?
Oh, none?
Lol
I am sorry none of that is even remotely true. I have read a pretty good analysis of the Israel Strike and it really accomplished nothing and Hezbollah is not giving up.
Israel jets never even went into Iran airspace. The attack was not successful as they make out to be.
Source?
Israel should target Iran’s secret police and revolutionary guard leadership. If the Persian people can get an edge on the mullahs, they can take care of their own business.
“Source?”
The Atlantic? The NYT? The Washington Post?
LOL exactly, all the rabid anti-Semite propogandist rags, basically the Bagdad Bob’s of media.
How many planes did your 30-40 vaunted systems hit?
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not mine, you fish - they were Russian systems. And so far they have not taken out a single plane even in Ukraine-Russia war. Iran? Phift.
The Israeli planes may not have been in Iranian airspace. Beside the systems were going after the incoming missiles, not the planes. Those systems are mainly used against missiles.
The systems are mainly used against missiles, not planes - Russian systems come already “humiliated” in the Ukraine-Russia war. It was a foregone conclusion that Iran would not be able to hit any planes and only a few of the missiles. The rest of your comment is garbage.
should have been done in 2010, when millions of pros American Iranian protesters were in the streets; that scum o blame a didn’t lift a finger
ESAD Ayatollahs. These crazed Muslim fundamentalists are also very wealthy. Through their clans and extended families, they own and control the prime sectors of the Iranian economy. They are all super connected moneywise/ Their families are very comfy and doing great
So they could care less how average Iranians are impoverished. Islam is a rip-off religion. Iranians have to overthrow the Ayatollah parasites and really bump off a few thousand of them. The same way Ayatollah Khomeini did when he seized power 1979-1980/
Ayatollah Khomeini had been booted out by The Shah. He lived in exile in....... France.
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It’s important to note that Khomeini’s exile was not spent entirely in France. He lived in exile in multiple countries, including Turkey, Iraq, and France2. France was actually the last country where Khomeini resided before his triumphant return to Iran.
While the exact number of years Khomeini spent specifically in France is not provided in the given search results, it is known that he spent the final portion of his exile there. His time in France was crucial, as it allowed him to communicate more freely with his supporters in Iran and coordinate the revolutionary movement.
Damn! I hate this, because I’m not sure what to believe. I’m hearing both, it was a success/it wasn’t so successful. That’s my biggest problem with the internet these days, not sure what is propaganda or not, until days later if ever.
Try actually reading my comment, I know they attacked med to long range systems, I never claimed the systems they attack were for air defense, I literally said “any supposed air defense and countermeasures.”
DO you make it a habit of falsely imputing intent of other peoples statements?
The other part I stated “how effective and untouched they were in the operation” which is literally a common understanding of limited military engagements, first objective is of course the mission but on a broader scale the operation is also sending a “diplomatic” message.
Given your supposed profile page you should know this, odd you seem ignorant of the concept.
So now please, instead of bad faith imputing and false assertions, explain how I stated the targets were air defense and why the operation should not be viewed in a political, diplomatic and military sense as a warning and show of power?
I'm sure I read the same thing in the online memoirs of Abraham Lincoln.
Do you mean Pres. Barakeh Hussein? Attack fellow Muslims? Barakeh only encouraged the Islamic Brotherhood in Egypt, Sudan, Iraq, Libya, Gaza (HAMAS), Lebanon (Hezbollah) and all over the world. We had a serious chance of toppling the regime back then but Hussein took care of his own.
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