https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/13/israel-iran-strikes-defence-minister-tehran-middle-east-live
Reports stating that Israel have launched an attack against Iran
Israel took some hammering last night, looks like they bit off more than they could chew
It's not just the West against Iran, Iran with nuclear weapons is a nightmare for the likes of Saudi Arabia and the UAE. You can dislike Israel but understand that Iran with nuclear weapons is a disaster for the region and the world. I wish people would also remember that one of the reasons the war in Ukraine rages on is because of Iranian support for Russia.
Iran has one of the great ancient cultures of the world, it was once a beautiful place, A lot of Iranians are extremely bright and well educated. They would be so much better off not being ruled by a bunch of elderly fundamentalist islamists. Iran is by far the most legitimate target Israel has hit, far more justified than Gaza or Syria
Nope I am opposed to mossad terrorism in other people's countries- Are U not-?-
Israeli ambassador / embassy pulled out of Ireland- does that make them anti-Irish-?-
For once the Israelis are taking on a nation that can actually retaliate. I don't see Israel backing down and expect the Iranian attacks to get progressively worse until Israel comes to its senses. America actively bombing Iran could change things. However their naval fleet is horribly exposed plus Iran has the option to close the straits of Hormuz sending oil prices haywire. So it would be wise for the Americans not to do sorties into Iran. We know they are aiding and abetting Israel. So in that sense they are involved.
There is a good chance that Benjamin Mileikowsky has put the very existence of Israel in peril with his reckless attack on Iran which was not pre-emptive but an act of aggression. Israel has never been hurt like this before. Mileikowsky and his henchmen are evil and the regime must go. Israel as an entity no longer has the right to exist. Let it's people be merged with the Palestinians into a Palestinian state from the river to the sea. A new state where everybody is to be treated as equal before the law and where ethno supremacy is not tolerated.
Mileikowsky has humiliated Trump no matter how you view his statements. Iran negotiated with the U.S in good faith and that faith was cynically betrayed. A P.R. disaster for the U.S in terms of diplomacy.
You sir, going by tour posts, are anti semitic!
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Every IDF accusation is actually an admission
Human shields are used routinely by the IDF in Gaza, according to IDF members themselves as well as Palestinians.
Yes- and it's good to see suspected Mossad bombers caught-
Always amazes me when some strongly opposes terrorist bombings- suddenly supports mossad terrorism in others countries-
I read an article by Fox News yesterday about how mossad had manage to smuggled explosives into Tehran for use in the initial attacks. So while I'd be skeptical about claims made by either side this does sound much more plausible than their claim to have shot down two f35 jets
Iran says they have captured two suspected Mossad Israeli agents inside Iran who had explosives etc-
Terrorism diverted-
They also have all these command centres and bunkers deep underground all connected to each other in the centre of Tel Aviv. The New York times had tour on it a few years back, they took pictures and everything of it all, it's called the fortress of Zion apparently.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/22/world/middleeast/israel-fortress-of-zion.html
You've got it exactly backwards.
Israel are occupying Palestine. Israel are using human shields routinely in the most depraved way
There is hypocrisy though if you claim to be against the intentional use of human shields while at the same time minimising or outright defending the IDF using Palestinans civilians as human shields in Gaza and the West Bank while conducting searches. I presume you are against the use of human shields as a principle, so you condemn the practice no matter who is guilty of doing it .
yes our mighty and well funded armed forces are preparing peace keeping plans
Our military just needs permission from the Chinese, Russians and Trumpistanis on the UN security council and French and Germans in EU level to give 👍 up due to triple lock
Our president is crafting a strongly worded letter which will shock and awe all sides
^ in case not clear all that above is sarcasm
Yeah yeah.
When Israel use actual human shields thats ok too, right?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_shields_in_the_Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict
The claim of hypocrisy doesn’t hold up under scrutiny because it draws a false equivalence between Hamas’s intentional use of civilians as human shields and the IDF’s operating in a densely populated country with unavoidable proximity to civilian infrastructure.
Hamas deliberately embeds military assets inside hospitals, schools, and residential buildings as a core strategy. Israel doesn't.
They are completely different things.
You do understand that every military on the planet has military buildings in urban areas, Ireland included.
They are military buildings. Not military posts in civilian buildings.
Acting like they're the one and same is astoundingly ignorant.
So you don't see the hypocrisy of Israel bombing hospitals while claiming that Hamas are using the hospital as human shields, while they put their own military headquarters next to schools and apartment buildings.
Yep
Lol
This Gaza?
Gaza before Oct 2023 had a shocking level of disparity between the wealthy - often Hamas-connected - elite and the very very poor. Northern Ireland, even at its worst (and I was born before the Troubles started so have some knowledge of that) was never comparable.
On the other hand, it's not unusual in the Arab world.
The Israelis weren't responsible for the grinding poverty associated with adminstrative corruption in Tunisia that led a young market seller to set himself on fire, leading to the Arab Spring.
If Israel disappeared tomorrow, the vast majority of Palestinians would not be one whit better off, but the 2 million Arab Israelis would undoubtedly be a lot worse off. Meanwhile a few at the very top of Palestinian society would get even wealthier.
You would never see the oppressive and antisemitic Iranian regime give such warnings to Israeli citizens.
Israel warns Iranian civilians near weapon facilities to evacuate
"Israel's military spokesman has issued an evacuation warning to all Iranian residents near weapon facilities.
Avichay Adraee posted an "urgent warning to all Iranian citizens" on social media.
"All individuals currently or in the near future present in or around military weapons production facilities and their support institutions are to leave these areas immediately and not return until further notice," he wrote."
perhaps US will give Israel the bunker busting bombs they need to take out Irans deeply buried nuclear weapons sites
We are only seeing the attacks from the media. We can't see the attacks on the military bases and industrial centres throughout the country because the military put a new censorship law in the other day which forbids it.
Looks like many people underestimated Iran's capability
Trump would be mad to get America involved. Netanyahu may have started the end of Israel as we know it. Hard to believe what we are seeing. Yes Israel caught Iran off guard but the Iranians are a proud and resilient people.
Israel asking for America to join the war. Quelle surprise.
Israel has asked the Trump administration over the past 48 hours to join the war with Iran in order to eliminate its nuclear program, according to two Israeli officials.
The big picture: Israel lacks the bunker buster bombs and large bomber aircraft needed to destroy Iran's Fordow uranium enrichment site, which is built into a mountain and deep underground. The U.S. has both within flying distance of Iran.
An Israeli official claimed to Axios that the U.S. might join the operation, and that President Trumpeven suggested he'd do so if necessary in a recent conversation with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/14/israel-iran-war-us-nuclear-program-trump
I would give more credence to what US intelligence says. Also this is the same IAEA who got it badly wrong with regard to Iraq's WMD
I am sure you have a reason to ignore US intelligence . As you do to declare Russia is committing genocide while denying Israel is doing the same.
But at least let us have an honest and open discussion of both sides of this issue, including Israel’s 55 year old nuclear stockpile which was instituted despite the clear opposition of both JFK and LBJ. I fear that no American in a responsible government position will be willing to do so. Israel’s nukes are now haram for them to mention because their government broke US law in ignoring the fact while aiding that country.
When Netanyahu speaks to Iranians does he really expect them or us to believe that an attack like this is an effective way to advance the cause of secular social democracy in their country? Like the US, Iran has a core of ethno-nationalists, often poorly educated, who support the regime and whose ranks will swell during this war.
