Thread: Israel launches preemptive strikes on Iran

• Israel has launched what it called “preemptive strikes” against Iran and a state of emergency has been declared in Israel, according to the country’s Defense Minister Israel Katz.
• Iranian state media report explosions have been heard in the capital, Tehran
• Israel has declared a State of Emergency for the entire country. Schools and workplaces have been told to close and gatherings are prohibited.

I think Israel is getting a little too bloodthirsty.

Time to turn the screw on them through sanctions. They need isolating for a while.

In the news yesterday it was confimred Iran had 3 operational enrichment sites. How long before they have their own bomb is uncertain. They are ignoring the IAEA who have issued strongest rebuke of Iran in 20 years. They are ignoring the US, so you exepct Israel to twiddle their fingers whilst a state that has vowed to end them and is a constant threat to regional stability to develope nuclear capability?

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there are reports coming out, (not sure if they’ve been substantiated) that Iran was just days away.

I think the risk was way too high that Iran would nuke Israel. The Israeli government has a duty to prevent Israel being hit with nuclear weapons. This attack should have happened much earlier.

These monsters had it coming...

yet again, israel is doing the wests dirty work for us, and will undoubtedly be vilified by the west for doing it.

iran, and the religious dictatorial islamic cabal that control it and have treated their people cruelly are the instigators, financiers and cheerleaders of the warmongering clans of hamas, hezbolla, assad and yemen, and who would gladly use nuclear weapons to achieve their aims, have met their match.

they represent, along with the taliban and isis the very worst of islam and must be squashed before islam can assume the less aggressive and more peaceful and positive role that undoubtedly exists somewhere in the world of islam.

go israel go. for the sake of islam, for the sake of judaism and for the sake of the rest of us.

Originally Posted by Troy

I think Israel is getting a little too bloodthirsty.

Time to turn the screw on them through sanctions. They need isolating for a while.

You have clearly lost your mind.

Originally Posted by bsnub

You have clearly lost your mind.

he's in hospital and i suspect high on fentanyl at the moment.

Israel strikes Iran’s nuclear and military sites

Israel is targeting Iran’s nuclear sites: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel targeted Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz and the country’s ballistic missile program, as well as top nuclear scientists and officials.


Head of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard is feared dead: The report from Iranian state television offered few other details about what happened to Gen. Hossein Salami. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, created after its 1979 Islamic Revolution, is one of the main power centers within the country’s theocracy.


Tensions rose over Iran’s nuclear program: The Board of Governors at the International Atomic Energy Agency censured the nation for the first time in 20 years Thursday after it refused to work with inspectors. Iran immediately announced it would establish a third enrichment site in the country and swap out some centrifuges for more advanced ones.


US responds with a warning: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Israel took “unilateral action against Iran,” warning Iran not to target U.S. forces in retaliation. In recent days, the U.S. began pulling some diplomats from Iraq’s capital and offering voluntary evacuations for the families of U.S. troops in the wider Middle East.


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I am disappointed that Pete hegseth didn't leak news of this on signal.

he's not in the whatsapp group anymore

Israel’s bravery shames our pusillanimous Prime Minister
Twice before Israel has saved us all from nuclear enemies. Now is not the time for ‘restraint’, but for Israel to finish the job

13 June 2025 8:50am BST



Keir Starmer and David Lammy

It would, to say the least, be helpful if we had a Prime Minister who understood even his own supposed principles. Since taking office last year, Sir Keir Starmer has been admirably strong and consistent in supporting Ukraine against Russian aggression, at least in his statements, if not in actual firepower.

But his response to the Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear and military sites is not just naïve, it is pusillanimous and shows how empty a vessel he really is: “The reports of these strikes are concerning and we urge all parties to step back and reduce tensions urgently. Escalation serves no one in the region. Stability in the Middle East must be the priority and we are engaging partners to de-escalate. Now is the time for restraint, calm and a return to diplomacy.”

Starmer grasps the need to stand up to Putin’s aggression, but crumbles into spineless diplo-speak when confronted by a theocratic tyranny.

For a leader with a clear understanding of the Iranian threat – of reality, in other words – there should be relief, not consternation. Just yesterday, for example, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) declared that Iran was in breach of its non-proliferation obligations, refusing to answer questions on uranium particles found in undeclared sites in the country and the stockpiling of uranium enriched to nearly weapons grade. Iran then revealed it is operating a previously secret new uranium enrichment centre. The threat of an Iranian nuclear weapon has not been theoretical but very real and increasingly imminent.

According to Sir Keir, “Now is the time for restraint, calm and a return to diplomacy.” This is the precise opposite of what it is the time for. Diplomacy led us to the disastrous Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) which relaxed sanctions on the regime, handed it huge amounts of money from oil exports, and thus funded not just the Iranian proxies Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis but the nuclear weapons programme.

In this sense Israel has been acting not only on its own behalf but on behalf of all those Middle Eastern states which have been destabilised by Iran – and on behalf of the West itself.

This is a familiar story; twice before Israel has saved us all from nuclear enemies, in 1981 when it destroyed Saddam’s reactor in Iraq and in 2007 when it destroyed Assad’s facilities in Syria.

One irony of this is that the so-called Free Palestine brigade, who will doubtless be back on the streets soon, should be cheering Israel today – if they genuinely cared about securing a Palestinian state. There are reports that the UK is on the verge of recognising such an entity next week at the special UN conference called by France. But there will never be a secure and stable Palestinian state while Iran continues to spread its malign influence through its proxies – and should it acquire a nuclear weapon the prospect of a Palestinian state would be the first casualty.


Contrary to Sir Keir’s spineless timidity, this is the time for action by a clear eyed state which understands the threat posed by its enemy and is willing to act to defend itself by neutering that threat. Far from stopping now as Sir Keir urges, it is essential that Israel finishes the job it began last night. Israel has not started a war – it has prevented one.

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Well I think we can expect a few revenge attacks on "western interests" in the coming days and weeks.

Just a little reminder that Iran was actually playing ball until the orange turd waded in and fucked things up.

^ I'm not sure that continuing at pace to develope enrichment capability and pressing ahead with development of tactical nuclear warheads and denying any form of audit and access by the IAEA is "playing ball"

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Just a little reminder that Iran was actually playing ball until the orange turd waded in and fucked things up.

and that is just a little reminder than 'arrys grip on reality is as tenuous as ever. as if a reminder was ever needed.

iran, like russia and n.korea are rogue states.

they never play ball. they cannot be trusted and the sooner they are castrated the better. the better for their own people and for the world.

Originally Posted by Molle

Do you really believe that Iran has been "castrated" and will therefore not have the bomb? That's very naive thinking..

Look around you and tell me how many have been castrated? Or let me rephrase that, how many still have Hizballhas left?

The only way to stop Iran or any other country from having nukes is by negotiations and pressure.

I think 20 years of negotiations and pressure is enough.

It's all good imo. Fuk the mussie scum. The ordinary Iranians, and I've known a few seem decent people and could do without tge religious extremists running the shop. Carry on Israel, great job.

^ Clearly those 20 years of negotiations have worked. Far better having another 20 years of talking than destabilizing the region with such an attack.

Met some very nice Iranians in my life. Never met an honest Zionist.

^ destabilising the region

Tell us Troy, once Iran is nuclear weapon capable just how stable do you think the region will be. Set your zionist mates aside do you fondly imagine the mussie nutters will sit back whilst one sect is nuclear armed. 555555t5 fuk you are funny

And old, but they aren't mutually exclusive

Originally Posted by Molle

They can't have nukes because US and Israel has the right to decide which country can and which country can't?
Iran's neighbours Pakistan and India are obviously among those who are allowed to have them..

Do you really believe that Iran has been "castrated" and will therefore not have the bomb? That's very naive thinking..
The only way to stop Iran or any other country from having nukes is by negotiations and pressure.
A threat from US saying if you ever use nukes then we will nuke your country into dust is probably more efficient than Israel delaying Iran from having nukes by bombing their nuke facilities. Delaying them for how long? A year or two..

Another grade school anylisis by the runt.

Originally Posted by Troy

Never met an honest Zionist.

Could you define what you consider a Zionist to be? I will be waiting but I doubt a decent response is incoming as is par the course with most of you pro-pally nutcases.

You clearly meet the definition of an antisemite.

the mullahs of iran, when are not occupied torturing dissidents, hanging pooftahs and horsewhipping women have only one aim, and that is to destroy israel.

they are a danger not only to israel, but to the wider world and the obliteration of the regime is to be welcomed.