There were no explosions in Isfahan, only small blasts by Iranian air defenses. Explosions occurred in Iraq and Syria.
Social media has reports that Israel will 'delay' its reprisal on Iran until after Passover, which starts just after this weekend on April 22 thru April 30th?
But others think Israel is now genuinely frightened. In the Iranian attack on Israel April April April 14th, higher-tech missiles - several of them got through and significantly smashed Israel's Nevatim air base, thought by some to be also a Mossad outpost ... some Arabic news sites claim there were 44 Israeli dead there, with both Israel hiding this and Iran not wishing to 'rub it in'
John Helmer:
'Enough missiles got through to strategic targets to prove that with hypersonic speed, higher yield warheads, and better accuracy, the next round of Iranian missiles will be unstoppable. This prospect is what is rattling the Israelis now.'
That article in Aang's post above, on 'Israel Has Been Defeated' underscores how Israelis feel their security has disappeared and may not return. A swath of Northern Israel within Hezbollah rocket range has been evacuated, and Israelis fear this may become permanent. There is a broad Israeli wish to be rid of Netanyahu but it is not as if some other Israeli leader has some greatly different 'plan'.
And maybe indeed there are no 'nuclear weapons' in Israel's - or anyone else's - arsenal, per the evidence discussed last year here -
Today a FB friend off the walled me that Israeli Intelligence did hear whispers that Iran does have nukes - as per what my Pakistani friend told me as they gave a nuke or 2 to Iran. That, he claims, why Bibi is going 'softly'. Bibi has proven his point that Israel is in existential threat so despirt Gaza - they will get LOTS of missiles, lots. Bibi's won already. Iran's Fars news agency reported "three explosions" were heard near the Shekari army airbase in the northwest of Isfahan province, while Iran's space agency spokesperson Hossein Dalirian said "several" drones had been "successfully shot down".
"There are no reports of a missile attack for now," Dalirian said on social media platform X. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/explosions-drones-shot-down-in-iran-after-israel-threatened-retaliatory-strikes-reports/rr3xopdgp?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0jzftTEd13VC1KDPEi-k7i7p-DhxDD9lu--bPQb2tirboEbgmsre3iXq8_aem_AZs7zzQt86B9wVjWG3AyHPWrQkZAy6kkuELAb-OLwKUnk1KXi2yEex1EJKxgr7z9YOjo2FWCeECKe4eve1mJ7E2Q
The chance's of Pakistan giving nuclear weapons to Iran are a lot less than Israel giving nuclear weapons to Iran !! In the UK people do not understand the loathing between Sunni and Shi'a Muslims or the tensions between them . In many respects Iran is far ahead of Pakistan industrially, people forget that although Pakistan has nuclear weapons they don't have a proper delivery system other than against India
Sabre rattling and rumors. They need Russia to complete the Ukraine conflict and be fully committed to Iran first. It's not about WW3, this is the assembling of massed forces that can be redirected to a new target at the last minute.
So a very limited 'performative' attack on Iran by Israel ... Iran not speaking of reprisals or escalation ... 'markets calming down'
How much is this an arranged distraction from the ongoing genocide famine in Gaza?
Are any nations really much 'alternative' to the West, when no one who can - such as Iran, Russia or Turkey - is sending their navy and military in, to end the Gaza blockade and mass deliver food and medical supplies?
Egypt of course should be leading to end the blockade given its control of the southern land border with Gaza, but Egypt's President Al-Sisi is legally Jewish with his Moroccan Jewish mother, her family linked to Israel's elites, as was noted in a past post here http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2023/10/egypts-president-al-sisi.html
But are Iran and Russia and Turkey much different, given the lack of action to directly rescue dying Gazans?
Millions of Muslims and others, are ready to immediately fight and die to help Gaza, but governments are not providing the avenues.
Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, are doing what they can, but they have limited means ... Taliban is ready to travel from Afghanistan but they need permission to pass through Iran and Iraq and Jordan or Syria
None of the big governments with the big navies and military forces act to save Gaza, and it seems very ugly as to why they don't
Today a FB friend off the walled me that Israeli Intelligence did hear whispers that Iran does have nukes - as per what my Pakistani friend told me as they gave a nuke or 2 to Iran. That, he claims, why Bibi is going 'softly'. Bibi has proven his point that Israel is in existential threat so despirt Gaza - they will get LOTS of missiles, lots. Bibi's won already. Iran's Fars news agency reported "three explosions" were heard near the Shekari army airbase in the northwest of Isfahan province, while Iran's space agency spokesperson Hossein Dalirian said "several" drones had been "successfully shot down".
ReplyDelete"There are no reports of a missile attack for now," Dalirian said on social media platform X. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/explosions-drones-shot-down-in-iran-after-israel-threatened-retaliatory-strikes-reports/rr3xopdgp?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0jzftTEd13VC1KDPEi-k7i7p-DhxDD9lu--bPQb2tirboEbgmsre3iXq8_aem_AZs7zzQt86B9wVjWG3AyHPWrQkZAy6kkuELAb-OLwKUnk1KXi2yEex1EJKxgr7z9YOjo2FWCeECKe4eve1mJ7E2Q
The chance's of Pakistan giving nuclear weapons to Iran are a lot less than Israel giving nuclear weapons to Iran !! In the UK people do not understand the loathing between Sunni and Shi'a Muslims or the tensions between them . In many respects Iran is far ahead of Pakistan industrially, people forget that although Pakistan has nuclear weapons they don't have a proper delivery system other than against India
ReplyDeleteSabre rattling and rumors. They need Russia to complete the Ukraine conflict and be fully committed to Iran first. It's not about WW3, this is the assembling of massed forces that can be redirected to a new target at the last minute.
ReplyDeleteSo a very limited 'performative' attack on Iran by Israel ... Iran not speaking of reprisals or escalation ... 'markets calming down'
ReplyDeleteHow much is this an arranged distraction from the ongoing genocide famine in Gaza?
Are any nations really much 'alternative' to the West, when no one who can - such as Iran, Russia or Turkey - is sending their navy and military in, to end the Gaza blockade and mass deliver food and medical supplies?
Egypt of course should be leading to end the blockade given its control of the southern land border with Gaza, but Egypt's President Al-Sisi is legally Jewish with his Moroccan Jewish mother, her family linked to Israel's elites, as was noted in a past post here
http://aanirfan.blogspot.com/2023/10/egypts-president-al-sisi.html
But are Iran and Russia and Turkey much different, given the lack of action to directly rescue dying Gazans?
Millions of Muslims and others, are ready to immediately fight and die to help Gaza, but governments are not providing the avenues.
Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon, are doing what they can, but they have limited means ... Taliban is ready to travel from Afghanistan but they need permission to pass through Iran and Iraq and Jordan or Syria
None of the big governments with the big navies and military forces act to save Gaza, and it seems very ugly as to why they don't