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Missile attack caused minor damage to US embassy in Tel Aviv, envoy says
TIMES OF ISRAEL ^ | June 16, 2025

Posted on 06/16/2025 1:56:57 AM PDT by GonzoII

”US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee says the US embassy branch in Tel Aviv suffered damage from a volley of Iranian missiles that targeted the area early Monday.

“Some minor damage from concussions of Iranian missile hits near Embassy Branch in @TelAviv but no injuries to US personnel,” he writes on X….”

(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: iran; israel
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1 posted on 06/16/2025 1:56:57 AM PDT by GonzoII
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To: GonzoII

The embassy annex is in Tel Aviv, while the embassy proper is in Jerusalem (where it should be). I wonder how much the Iranians will dare to strike Jerusalem.


2 posted on 06/16/2025 1:59:46 AM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: Apparatchik

They’re liable to do anything to save face on their way out.


3 posted on 06/16/2025 2:16:54 AM PDT by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen )
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To: GonzoII

Do you think they’ll deliberately lash out at U.S. interests or personnel?

They’re most definitely getting an earful from Secretary of State Rubio over this “near hit”.

They may be a bit preoccupied. That said, they will not want to cross over into the FO phase of this particular scenario.


4 posted on 06/16/2025 3:15:22 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: Apparatchik

Thanks for the reminder that PDJT in his first term came through like a champ for Israel and recognized their national capital.

Just because a particular act involves or includes, in part, symbolism, doesn’t mean it is not hella timely and significant. Israel undoubtedly deserves the ordinary respect due to a sovereign.


5 posted on 06/16/2025 3:21:35 AM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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To: one guy in new jersey
They may be a bit preoccupied.

Yuh think?

PBUH! My landline to the launch area is down, too!

6 posted on 06/16/2025 3:38:06 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: GonzoII

Since it’s not the main embassy, Trump has some wiggle room. Not sure which way he will go. He can justifiably decide not to engage or to engage at this point. Personally, I hope he gives Israel the bunker busters and bombers needed to destroy remaining facilities and take out the ayatollah. No boots on the ground, let the non radicals sort out their country, but take out the leadership.


7 posted on 06/16/2025 3:45:44 AM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: GonzoII

What is it with Iran and U.S. embassies? They’re either stuck in the 70’s or stuck in the 7th century.


8 posted on 06/16/2025 4:05:02 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: GonzoII

You sound so excited! No, a random hit doesn’t mean we’re in.


9 posted on 06/16/2025 4:14:14 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI….)
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I thought our embassy was moved to Jerusalem during the Trump 1st term!!!!


10 posted on 06/16/2025 4:17:17 AM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

It was, this is an annex. And it sounds like a few broken windows from the concussion of a missile hit in the vicinity as they shot at Tel Aviv. Despite the salivating for a Trump war, this is not the same as then targeting a US base over there somewhere, Hell, we blew up the Chinese embassy in Belgrade with 5 precision bombs from a B-2 while we were attacking Serbia.

The Boltons, Grahams, Levins etc want their next neocon war.


11 posted on 06/16/2025 4:32:52 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI….)
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To: Apparatchik
I wonder how much the Iranians will dare to strike Jerusalem.

If they do, flatten the Al Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount and blame it on an errant Iranian missile.

12 posted on 06/16/2025 4:34:52 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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To: GonzoII

We need an embassy annex in Tel Aviv because the night life is better there than old stodgy Jerusalem.


13 posted on 06/16/2025 5:00:15 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: GonzoII

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14815831/Pakistan-tells-Iran-NUKE-Israel-Netanyahu-uses-nuclear-weapons-against-Tehran-regime-officer-claims-huge-WW3-apocalypse-threat.html


14 posted on 06/16/2025 5:07:23 AM PDT by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis icShouldn't shetu vultures super turrem exanimat.)
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To: GonzoII

Interesting. I stay a block from the Embassy Annex on Hayarkon.


15 posted on 06/16/2025 5:07:33 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 62, Hadith 88: Mohammed consummated the marriage when she was 9 and he was 54)
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To: Mashood

“The Imperial” bar is across the street from the Embassy Annex in Tel Aviv. It won “Best Bar in Middle East and Africa” four years running. I’m friends with the manager. Worth the trip…


16 posted on 06/16/2025 5:47:10 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Sahih al-Bukhari, Book 62, Hadith 88: Mohammed consummated the marriage when she was 9 and he was 54)
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To: DesertRhino

The one thing Bibi, *his* buddy Putin, and Putin’s buddy the shah, plus Xi Jinping, all have in common along with every Western European leader + Zelensky is: no one wants to give Trump the “win” of peace and a deal. 🙄 They’re all buddy buddy in the end in that regard. 🙄🙄🙄


17 posted on 06/16/2025 5:59:22 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: GonzoII

Only if you want to be. Don’t. Don’t.


18 posted on 06/16/2025 7:25:26 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need ofand thhere we CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: GonzoII

I thought we moved our emboto Jerusalem in Trump’s first term…


19 posted on 06/16/2025 9:49:34 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: 17th Miss Regt

“If they do, flatten the Al Aqsa mosque on the Temple Mount and blame it on an errant Iranian missile.”

I was thinking the same thing while watching Fox a couple of nights ago. I thought to myself “Wouldn’t it be funnier than hell to see an Iranian missile hit the Dome of the Rock or the Al Aqsa Mosque?”


20 posted on 06/16/2025 1:43:20 PM PDT by MplsSteve
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