US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

I wonder what the talking points on this will be to attempt to make Israel ("the only democracy in the Middle East") seem more enlightened than Iran or other autocracies in the region. Or maybe at this stage the mask will just slip and all will just be happy with admitting they are ok with them killing the ignorant savages.

Were the EU acting rationally?
This action would be the death of Association agreement.
Given that every country in the EU has abolished the death penalty.
That it is completely anathema to the ECHR.
That the EU itself views the abolition of the death penalty as one of its core achievements.

That we would allow the continuation of the association agreement with Israel and this openly racist implementation of the Death penalty against "non-israelis" is an affront to everything the EU claims to stand for.

There will come a time, when the histories of how the world stood idle whilst Israel stretched and shattered international norms.
That they will be recognised the same way that Japan and it's actions in China are.
The withdrawals from Lebanon & Gaza in 2006 and the continual violence through every ceasefire will be seen the same way as Mukden & the Marco Polo bridge incidents.
They've yet to storm out of the UN, but make no mistake.
They have left it almost as irrelevant as the League of Nations while warmongering under the cover of a US veto.
The way they treat the UN, and more particularly the way they treat UN peacekeepers and observers has hastened the decline of the UN.

For all the damage that Russia has wrought in the world order.
The continual effort to ignore and excuse Israeli brutality by Western governments and protection the US & UK veto has afforded them over the years...
Is as bad, and has accelerated the race to multi-polarity.
It has led to a nation drunk on their Kahanist vision of a Jewish homeland who believe they can act with brutal impunity.

They'll kill the "anti-Semite" Irish and everyone, including our own government, will just stand around shrugging their shoulders saying 'ah shure'. The level of influence this paraiah state has on international relations is beyond belief.

It could be worse.

A good 20% of Israeli nationals identify as Palestinian, so this effectively allows a shoot to kill policy within Israel too.

someone trying hard to pull NATO into the madness?

Same goes for the US RE death penalties and there is a bowl of shamrocks brought over every year accompanied by some serious ass kissing/licking

Some interesting speculation as to the amount of Uranium 235, the enrichment ratio and a proposed location for Iran's Uranium.

An intersting tidbit from the article is the claim that rather than the long acknowledged 440kg of 60% enriched Uranium 235, it attempts to outline where the lower enriched material migh be and what it amounts to.

Then, in a confidential letter of June 12, the IAEA informed member states that Iran had significantly ramped up production of enriched uranium, estimating that Iran’s total stockpile now included 440.9 kilograms of up to 60-percent HEU, 184.1 kilograms up to 20 percent, 6,024.4 kilograms up to 5 percent, and 2,391.1 kilograms up to 2 percent. On the same day, the IAEA’s board declared Iran in breach of its non-proliferation obligations.

Now the article posits that the HEU may have been moved to Isfahan.
The reported movements of US troops and particularly of Special Forces into the Gulf has been ongoing for a moth now.
I've posted previously that even with the advanced elements of the 82nd Airborne, the 2 MEUs and the special forces in the region.
That the US has around 10000 immediately deployable combat troops.

Nowhere near enough to ensure a successful assault on Kharg or Qeshm Islands, perhaps sufficient force to take one of the Tunbs or Abu Musa.
But?
I'd argue that assaulting any of those islands doesnt fit the pathology of the Trump regime.
The spectacular victory and the appearance of succesful warfighters carrying out an audacious strike is more important to the Executive than sensible and strategic operation to take control of one of the Strait of Hormuz exit/control points.

I mentioned in earlier posts that I believe that the ground forces assembled are only suitable for a raid rather than an invasion.
What if the planning is to use the troops in theatre to raid Isfahan, seize the HEU and exfiltrate?

Well, I'd argue if thats the US play?
That Iran moving to material to a central point such as Isfahan, makes that mission far tougher for the US.
Couple that with the destruction of the E3-G and the 2 damaged EA130s, and it pulls the rug from the SEAD and support elements of getting any such raid into and out of Iran.
Aircraft vital to ensuring a safer approach for any Airborne or V22 assault force.

Isfahan is approx 600km from Iran's Gulf Borders and 450km from Iraqi border.
Too far for helicopter insertion and surely the US wouldnt repeat the mistakes of Operation Eagle Claw?
So what would the likely approach for such a raid be?
Would the US attempt a Hostomel style assault?
Seize an Airfield near Isfahan via a V22 insertion of forces and then land a larger force via C130s to then assault the rumoured location of the HEU to then try and get back out the same way?

This is hyper speculative on my part and its an operation that no professional officer would even countenance IMHO.
But?
We are dealing with a "Department of War" led by a demonstrated moron who believes in the audacious.
We are dealing with a POTUS who has that love of audacity dialled to the Nth degree.
I think its an unlikely scenario but its far less a not possible in my mind now then it would ever have been previously.

To add, Isfahan is both heavily garrisoned and has both armoured IRGC and normal Iranian troops stationed in the areas aswell as a significant Saberin SF units based locally.

This really is more a journey into fantastical thinking, than it is a genuine prediction as to likely US aim for boots on the ground.
I can't reconcile a serious ground assault on Iran with the number of US combat coded forces currently deployed.
The thing that keeps jumping out at me, is the fact that 1 of the MEUs, and the 82nd Airborne's advanced brigade are coded as Special Forces and combat and then you have the consolidation of Special Forces in the region.

For what purpose?
I think a raid on Kharg would invite a degree of retaliation against the GCC aswell as Kharg itself that would destroy oil output for a couple of years across the region.
Similarly any raids to seize an Island at the head of the Strait would leave the US forces under Iranian fire control via drone and missile as well as tube artillery on some of the closer to the mainland islands.

I keep swinging back to the Trump regime's need for spectacle and supremacy and I worry for US forces that will be tasked for the attempt to land in Iran.

They could invite the Knesset leaders to a meeting of the European Parliament and roll-out the red carpet just to show Israel that their bond of friendship will survive through every atrocity.

Von der Leyen is a typical brainwashed German Zionist but I suspect Kaja Kallas doesn't like them and has no time for them or for Netanyahu.

Israel is so used to acting with impunity. To never suffer any consequences. Eventually, they will go to far.
An Ethnicity based death penalty should be a red line for the EU if it had any credibility.