Israel are going to start WWIII

The US can quickly mobilise its airforce to try to shoot down any missile incoming towards Israel ….. but don't appear to be able to do it on any of the many missiles leaving Israel and fired at other countries.

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US warning of severe consequences if Iran launches an attack. Meanwhile Israel can blow up thousands of kids and its serious consequences are billions of dollars in weapons from the US. US has lost serious credibility over this past year.

So has most of Europe.

Ideally Iran would swiftly defeat Israel and eliminate Netanyahu to end this madness but I think the threat of a US response would see them limited to token strikes only.

It's hard not to be fearful on the scale this conflict will take as the Israeli thirst for blood will only be limited by where the US place their red line for support which currently appears not to exist.

The first shot is free, and quite a few since as well by Iranian directed forces.

Israel has decided that asking repeatedly or graded responses don't register with the lunatics it is fighting..

I think one missile now will be treated the same as 500 ballistic missiles, Iran is long past declaring war and needs to be stood up to.

Mossad commentary, not Mossad but someone who has informal links to them, used by them to get a point out before, shared a post with a video of Irans main power station, nice in the middle of nowhere target in response to an attack.

Israel is no longer playing and can't afford to so I would say that a severe targeting of infrastructure, especially the nuclear infrastructure would be on the cards.

An attack from which the Mullahs would be lucky to survive, revenge for all the women they have mutilated, raped and killed recently.

Iran is an amazing country, with an amazing people but a qtr are fanatics

Iran aren't stupid, even if they were able to launch any meaningful response they wouldn't because they no the consequences.

They're happy to sit back and let their proxies take the hammering, putting themselves in the firing line aint their style.

Iran "swiftly defeating" Israel is beyond far fetched. Israel is militarily vastly superior to Iran and it'd have to cross several countries to even reach Israel.

Obviously Iran can cause some damage to Israel via missiles and drones, but a "swift defeat" or any sort of remotely favorable outcome in a war is complete fantasy stuff.

Ah hang on now. Israel are a shower of genocidal pr1cks, but the Iranians are hardly any better

Theres a good article on newstatesman.com about Israel s war on Hezbollah it says the invasion could be very costly in terms of casualties there's no guarantee they can stop missile attacks on border areas Hezbollah has 1000s or well armed troops when are experienced in conflict

As casualties mount up Israel risks losing support from western country's and America at some point American politics might lose patience

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Iranian missiles have launched.