Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
Intelligence obtained recently by the United States suggests that Israel is making preparations to strike Iranian nuclear facilities, CNN reported on May 20, citing three U.S. officials familiar with the intelligence.
One of the officials told the news channel that the likelihood of an Israeli strike on Iran “has gone up significantly in recent months,” adding that that the chance of a strike would be more likely if the US reached a deal with Iran that did not remove all of the country’s uranium.
According to CNN, the intelligence was based on the public and private communications from senior Israeli officials as well as intercepted Israeli communications and observations of Israeli military movements.
Citing the two other officials, the channel said that the Israeli military preparations observed by the U.S. were the movement of air munitions and the completion of an air exercise. The channel noted, however, that the moves could be part of an Israeli pressure campaign against Iran rather than an indicator of a possible strike.
Following a tense period earlier this year which saw U.S. President Trump directly threatened Iran with military action, the two sides launched indirect nuclear talks with help from Oman in April.
So far, four rounds of talks have been held, with the U.S. Special Middle East Envoy Steve Witkoff and Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi leading the talks.
Despite reports of progress after the last round, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on May 20 that the U.S. demands that Tehran stop enriching uranium are “excessive and outrageous,” voicing doubts over whether the talks on a new nuclear deal would succeed.
A source familiar with the Trump administration’s thinking told CNN that the U.S. was unlikely to assist Israel in a strike against Iran right now, while a U.S. official said that intelligence efforts were ramping up to help if Israeli leaders decide to attack.
The channel also cited a source familiar with the matter saying that Israel does not have the means to take out Iran’s nuclear program without U.S. help.
This was denied by an Israeli source, who told the channel that Israel was ready to act alone if Washington negotiates a “bad deal” with Tehran that is unacceptable to Jerusalem.
“I think it’s more likely they strike to try and get the deal to fall apart if they think Trump is going to settle for a ‘bad deal,’” a person familiar with U.S. intelligence told CNN. “The Israelis have not been shy about signaling that to us… both publicly and privately.”
In another indication of the Trump administration moving away from plans to strike Iran, it was revealed on May 20 that the U.S. had pulled out all six B-2 stealth strategic bombers from Diego Garcia. The bombers were deployed at the Indian Ocean island, within striking distance from Tehran, earlier this year.
Due to its ability to penetrate dense air defense networks and deliver very heavy bunker buster bombs, the bomber was always considered essential for any strike on Iran’s underground nuclear facilities, like the Natanz uranium enrichment site.
Israel could decide to stroke Iran alone, even if a new nuclear agreement was reached. Without U.S. help, the strike is not guaranteed to be successful. However, such a strike is certaine to ignite a dangerous confrontation in the Middle East, one that the U.S. will not be able to stay away from.
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they were, are and will always humiliate iran! israel obliterated iran.
israel is a genocidal regime. be prepared to be reminded of this genocide forever.
international courts are weighing in—but haven’t ruled on genocide yet
south africa took israel to the international court of justice (icj) in late 2023 under the genocide convention, requesting provisional measures to halt operations in gaza on the grounds that they risk “genocidal acts.” that case is ongoing, and while the icj can order immediate protection of civilians, it has not yet decided on the heavier question of actual genocide
nobody cares about what kangooroo courts say or don’t say. it is a well documented genocide. you will be remembered you participation in this atrocity forever. enjoy.
we need memorials and a rememberance day to the genocide against the palestinians and we also need to hold israeli leadership accountable in nuermberg style trials and make israel pay reparations to the survivors of the genocide and the palestinian state forever. its time we turn the tables of the jews and teach these genocidal demons a lesson and pay them back in even coin for all their lying and bullsitting they have done to us.
homo americunt hillbilly needs more mulatto sodomy
enough americans are fed up with the kikes and now openly say fk the jews. so its not all hill billies over there its just that the jews control the government and its institutions and they use the usa to fight israels wars and give them billions in aid. but when americans who are jew wise reach critical mass these jews can be brought to justice and shlomos days are numbered. its time the shmuley boteachs and jonathan greenblats are dealt with in a proper manner.
israel is a parasite state and the jews are parasites who live off our surplus and who are like a cancer are destroying us from within with their racemixing lgbtiq+ propaganda and self destructive false narratives porn industry filth and degeneracy hollywood and self destructive narratives
men with zero planes a.k.a houthis have humiliated israel, biggest whore of babylon since assyria. jews are genetic defectives, we can all see it now
like all of germany then. idiot. they are not jews, if they was jews, they had right to the land. jew means the native population in palestine. the palestinians are the jews. its like explain things for really small children :-)
so no arabs lied there? if a jewish new york cab driver turned up at my house in palestine said he was taking it he would get a 9mm in the face.
the indians are (was) the native population in north america. if you genocide them, you are a democrat. if you genocide the native population in palestine, something you almost already have done by call germans for jews, they will probably also be democrats, or something else nice self admiring.
american indians were slaughtering each other in tribal warfare long before any european set foot on the continent.
very retarded comparison.
there is a difference between war and genocide. civilized people know it. israel doesn’t because the mentality of its population has not evolved since 2000 years. the us was involved in genocide. germany was involved in genocide. israel is involved in genocide right now.
the goal of israel is to to get rid of the palestinians, as the us wanted to get rid of the amerindians, and for the same reasons : stealing their land/resources.
the comparison is quite apt.
israelis are the new nazis. seig heil!
hitler actually liberated germany from the jewish parasite who were exploiting the german people for just a few years. the jews declared war on germany in 1933 and they manipulated britain and france to declare war on germany starting ww2 the jews already controlled the soviet union and were prepping it up to use it to bring jewish marxist communism to all of europe. the jews unfortunately won the war and that is why the jews today control every nation and everything against us.
our own leaders serve the jews and israel instead of us the people
there is an accoint that zionists got usa into ww1 in exchange for a guarantee from the brit empire that a zionist homeland would be created in palestine. remember balfour declaration 1917 and lord rothschild anyone? the french had lost two armies to the germans by 1916 and both they and the brits were staring down the barrel of defeat. usa entered the war in 1917 and the victorious allies carved up the ottoman empire giving britain the mandate for palestine.
except when iran was at war with iraq and needed spare parts for their american weapons systems, so israel sold millions of dollars of parts to iran. look up iran contra affair. gtfoh with your bullshit.
what else? ruzzia fails to defend iranian islamic terrorist regime? we all know how iran oppresses women a lot. they are islamists funded by nazis in ruzzia.
israel is tough as hell. they destroyed: syria, hezbollah and iran’s puppet allies and armed gangs altogether.
they are also defeating the houthis lmfao.
when you are a country that genocide infants while laughing, you have no moral lessons to give the world about anything. in case you didn’t notice, the whole world is turning against israel, including europe and the us. enjoy your pyrrhic victories while they last.
chatjew pt chimes in with the latest small hat, small brain thesis
why many—especially in israel and its supporters—strongly reject the label israel and allied voices argue that its military operations target hamas militants and infrastructure, not palestinians because they are palestinians. the american jewish committee called genocide allegations “biased” and insists israel is acting in self-defense ajc . israel’s un ambassador even criticized fletcher’s use of “genocide” as undermining neutrality
the nazi also justified their atrocities with the self-defense of the german culture. you are a genocide enabler and anybody that defend this kind of atrocity will be tainted by association. enjoy.
and auschwitz was really a luxury holiday camp with golf courses, a la carte restaurants, olympic swimming pools, spas and saunas.
even the worst of the bought and blackmailed goy whores are now starting to turn against their j masters …. out of pure self interest and self preservation.
“only in americuntland is the father vestigial–all amerikunts acquire a feminine conscience”. geoffrey gorer
this explains why usa #1 domestic violence rape per capital all nations–despite that experts say less than 25% reported
iran the next syria russia allies 3 days kiev
this is a genocide supporter.
no, it’s not just trendy rhetoric. calls to label this crisis “genocide” come from established legal definitions and serious investigations by leading human-rights organizations, un officials, and international courts. at the same time, the question of whether those criteria are fully met—meaning a deliberate, state-sponsored plan to destroy palestinians as a group—is still fiercely contested in courtrooms and diplomatic arenas.
no. you are a genocide enabler. you are suporting a regime that is engaged in a well documented genocide and nobody except deniers of this atrocity is interested in the delaying tactics in controled kangooroo courts. enjoy your black mark.
it is only contested by zionist war criminals and their lying whore genocide deniers. imagine the outrage if quarter of a million yids had been murdered and maimed and millions more were being starved and ethnically cleansed. all the confusion about whether this is “genocide” or not would suddenly disappear.
why chat homo so desperate? senility untreatable? cannot find suitable ugly obese tranny in burgerland?
where did this three days come from? maybe you know.
in three days i will have my last operation and finally become spiderwoman.
israel will never achieve anything. they are the most dumb bunch of morons the world has ever seen. that is why they never build any civilizations, they live on whoring their entire lives….like ukrainians
thus far they achieved: overthrowing assad, destroyed hamas and all of its leaders (95% of them), destroyed hezbollah and its mullah (nasrallah) and humiliated your terrorists with pagers. what else? even defeated iran and downed his chopper.
if killing the leadership achieved anything, you would not be so miserable as most jews still are today. i think the problem runs much deeper. its psychological and spiritual. moloch worship hollows you out on the inside.
also being guilty of genocide and becoming the black sheep of the international community. quite the achievement that one.
the nazis murdered tens of millions and look what happened to them.
as an american, careful of throwing rocks in your glass house.
“ america is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without knowing civilization.”
just remember, thaad, arrow, plastic dome cannot stop iranian ballistic missiles, drones and hypersonics. the squatter settler state is at war with everyone. that is heavy shit man, being that miserable, stubborn and defective as the zionists. zionists hate everybody and everybody hates the zionists.
ansar allah stopped trump from landing in israel and penertrated the best of american israeli “defense”. israeli diaper forces could not penetrate more than a few km into lebanon. but sure, they can kill women and children very well in gaza and steal some syrian land . taking on iran is a different story. the jewish weakness is their over emotional brains and lack of self control and self awareness. sinwar gave them a self destruct button. the jews hammered it
shlomo is the belligerent drunk in a bar telling anyone who will listen he is serious and they had better hold him back. they won’t do jack s***. every war has been fought for them by the stupid goyim.
not a belligerent drunk. more like a psychopath conman & serial killer.
can’t wait for iran to light israel up. i really don’t think chicken little got the balls though. but we’ll find out soon enough.
it will he the last thing they ever do.
i hope they do it. because then all muslims in the world will side with iran and we can finally start to fight the jewish psychopaths toghether and united christians and muslims united against the jewish baby killer demons. and liberate palestine from the zionist occupiers.
the only reason jews have gotten away with as much as they did is because they played both the muslim and christian world off against eachother. invoking genocides and ethnic cleansing such as the greek ,armenian, assyrian genocides iraq war the war in syria lybia yemen. the yugoslav wars genocide in bosnia its all jews playing us off against eachother. controlling sides from within.
if israel strikes first that is the best thing that could happen as many christians in the united states will also stop supporting israel. they dont want to fight a war for israel. if the united states start is the jews get exactly what they want a war between christians and muslims for israel. if israel starts it we are united against the jews from the start.
the worst thing is many muslims are too low iq to see what the jews are doing and how they are destroying us all and playing us all off against eachother and they support erdogan and aliyev and jewlani, who are controlled by netanyahu against the christians instead of helping the palestinians and christians against the jew zionists.
the problem is quisling whore puppets like abbas, sisi, fake “king” abdullah and the fake moslems in shady wahabia. they need to be strung up from the nearest lamp post, like iran did to its quisling leaders in 1979.
have to follow old al pike luciferian plan in order to accomplish their satanic agenda huh. ignorant asshole murderers.
bye bye israhell! no one will miss you!
usa replaced the b2 by b52, they pulled out nothing. israel does nothing without us approval, financing and other direct support. let’s stop pretending that israel, that tiny beachhead the size of albania, is an autonomous actor, please!