Posted on 06/22/2025 10:45:46 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Summary
ISTANBUL/WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM, June 22 (Reuters) - The world braced on Sunday for Iran's response after the U.S. attacked key Iranian nuclear sites, joining Israel in the biggest Western military action against the Islamic Republic since its 1979 revolution.
With the damage visible from space after 30,000-pound U.S. bunker-buster bombs crashed into the mountain above Iran's Fordow nuclear site, Tehran vowed to defend itself at all costs.
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It fired another volley of missiles at Israel that wounded scores of people and flattened buildings in Tel Aviv. The U.S. State Department ordered employees' family members to leave Lebanon and advised citizens elsewhere in the region to keep a low profile or restrict travel.
An advisory from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned of a "heightened threat environment in the United States." Law enforcement in major U.S. cities stepped up patrols and deployed additional resources to religious, cultural and diplomatic sites.
Tehran has so far not followed through on its threats of retaliation against the United States - either by targeting U.S. bases or trying to choke off global oil supplies - but that may not hold.
Speaking in Istanbul, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said his country would consider all possible responses. There would be no return to diplomacy until it had retaliated, he said.
"The U.S. showed they have no respect for international law. They only understand the language of threat and force," he said.
Ali Shamkhani, an adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on X that the initiative was...
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They changed the title between the time I copied it and posted the article.
LOL- they couldn’t control the skies over their own country.....they had no clue B2’s were taking a 15 hour flight to destroy the nuclear facilities in the middle of the country...they warned the world they were going to pull off a military stunt on Wednesday that would make everyone take notice- and we’re still waiting...POTUS warned everyone should leave Tehran 10 days ago and there was mass evacuation...
Yeh- we’re waiting...
The will attempt to do what they have always done as cowardly savages, hit targets that win them political favor here at home with thier supporters the democratic party
“Tehran vowed to defend itself at all costs.”
LOL...no leadership. No eyes. No nuke program.
Reuters awaits wringing hands. Clutching pearls.
We imagine Hegseth, Cain and Trump doing the same. Why? They’re not
Oh because people don’t know Trump, Hegseth and Cain. They ought to
If you’re actually waiting for a response... I suggest that you not hold your breath for too long. Whatever form of response they attempt will be quickly muted.
Iran just got the Pearl Harbor treatment and couldn’t even shoot back.
Y’know, when everyone is wondering, “What will those crazy psycho mother****ers do to get back at us?” maybe the problem isn’t that we finally took their decades of threats seriously and acted preemptively to disarm them. Maybe the problem is that they’re crazy psycho mother****ers in the first place.
“Maybe the problem is that they’re crazy psycho mother****ers in the first place.“
Exactly. But yeah let’s hit and run and wait. Just out of curiosity: Where the hell are the Persian people in all of this?
Their fake allah has forsaken these hapless Iranian clowns, abandoned them to the despised Jews. They need to get a new religion or no religion. Zoroastrianism would be a good choice.
BTW their Ayatollah oppressors use their phony baloney piety to mask their thievery. Their tremendous skim of Iranian oil and gas profits. The Ayatollahs extended families live high on the hog.
I hope and pray that the Iranian people take full advantage of this opportunity — the gift from God that Trump delivered. They MUST be courageous about taking back their country.
Agreed, but Biden probably did let many of those nutcases into our country. Thank you, Joe…/s
Reuters is a joke. Iran isn’t doing sh*t
Is seems Iran has developed the “Black Knight” syndrome. I wonder how the mullahs are explaining how Allah can’t protect them from such inferior countries.
or maybe they’re like those internet tough guys who talk a lot of crap and make all kinds of threats from the safety of their basement- yet fail to show up when given the opportunity to follow through...
I’ve had my share of that kind...
“regime change not US goal”
But.....it should be! They did not do enough last night! Call it imperialism if you so desire, but Iran has to be shut down, period. I’m not advocating to kill all Iranians. I’m saying that the radical-Islamists have to go, no matter how many that is, from Kockahmamy to the janitors, if they are radical-Islamists.
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