Posted on 06/28/2025 4:32:07 AM PDT by daniel1212
Defense Minister Israel Katz briefed the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, chaired by MK Yuli Edelstein, at the Kirya military headquarters, detailing Israel’s pre-emptive actions during the 12-day “Am K’Lavie” war against Iran, which ended with a ceasefire on June 24. Katz revealed that Iran had planned a surprise attack, stating, “The Iranians planned to strike first and launch between 400 to 500 missiles in the opening strike. If we hadn’t acted first, it would have been much harder for us.”
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“We met 100% of the operational objectives in Iran, and the Americans helped a lot in the end,” jokingly adding, “If Trump had woken up after a quarter of an hour, the strike this morning would have been even stronger.” On Iran’s nuclear program, Katz asserted, “Iran no longer has the ability to produce nuclear weapons. I instructed the IDF to prepare an enforcement plan in cooperation with the Americans, based on the Lebanese model, but much more comprehensive, to enforce any attempt to develop nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.”
... We must remember that Trump canceled the central sanction on Iran selling oil to the Chinese, and as a result, Iran could become stronger again.”
Israel reportedly planned a massive attack wave on Iran for violating the ceasefire and hitting Israel with missiles - until Trump stopped it and forced it to become a symbolic strike, a "friendly wave" as he put it, according to Kann News.
Per the report, the planes were in the air, the armaments locked in, with a clear goal - a strike killing hundreds on the Iranian side. Three minutes before the strike, command HQ received a clear, unequivocal order: stop it all now.
The planes remained in the air for six minutes, vulnerable over Iranian skies, until Trump's demand that the strike not happen led to a symbolic strike on one radar station and everyone returning home with the armaments intact.
Why allow oil to China?
“Why allow oil to China?”
Because they bought it?
Oil is the most fungible item on world markets.
Trump to Boasberg: I can turn planes around in mid flight.
President Trump sleeps?
Re the title:
Whatever happened to “AWAKENED”...?
“Why allow oil to China?”
Geopolitics. All about leverage.
I think the joke is that the Israeli counterattack was called off because Trump does not sleep much. But if he had slept in for 15 minutes, it would have allowed time to get in a counter strike. Not the most well crafted joke, but it seems to be a playful acknowledgement that they deferred to Trump.
Cuz China wants the oil, we want prosperity for Iran AND no nukes. It’s a bargain. Take it or leave it.(and the bombing starts at my convenience)
Can you say, "Taiwan"?
Cutting off oil to Japan is what brought on Pearl Harbor.
Fitfully.
The only way to stop Iran from getting nuclear bombs is to kill the Iranian leaders.
They gotta slip that ‘woke’ in there any way they can.
Yep.
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