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Israel bombs Iran’s state TV in latest wave of attacks on Tehran

Iran’s state television says it has been attacked by Israel in the latest wave of missile strikes on Tehran, Al Jazeera reports. Multiple explosions have been heard around the Iranian capital as Israel issued new evacuation threats, warning of imminent attacks, according to the report. Iran

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Israel bombs Iran’s state TV in latest wave of attacks on Tehran

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Iran’s state television says it has been attacked by Israel in the latest wave of missile strikes on Tehran, Al Jazeera reports.

Multiple explosions have been heard around the Iranian capital as Israel issued new evacuation threats, warning of imminent attacks, according to the report.

Iranian forces, in turn, have warned residents of Tel Aviv to evacuate, the Doha-based broadcaster adds.​

Iran bombed theirs!

 

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Trump ka ullla has called a NSC meeting cuz Iraands fukking little ol Ijjh-RRaheel up very badly now........

Aaaaaaahahahahahaaaaa.....

 

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Kya karain @Vsdoc ?

Rok dain jang? jub in westerner ka do rupaay ka pitthu increasingly shikasta?

Bolo bhai?.......

Ijjh-rraheel even weaker than AL-Baqistan or lund ass AL-Turkiya no?

Kya bolain ab bhai?

Iran ko kya karna chhahiye ab to destroy all these dalit do rupay k rats dead in their tracks?

 

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Understanding Washington’s war on Iran through Netanyahu

THE attack was repeatedly predicted by observers and analysts, including the US attempt to distance itself from the reckless adventure despite providing Israel with all the weapons used. There is a very high possibility that the US was directly involved...

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Understanding Washington’s war on Iran through Netanyahu
Simon Chege Ndiritu 17 June, 2025, 00:00

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THE attack was repeatedly predicted by observers and analysts, including the US attempt to distance itself from the reckless adventure despite providing Israel with all the weapons used. There is a very high possibility that the US was directly involved.

Activating long-term plans to destroy Iran

THE US involvement in this strike is impossible to conceal for many reasons, including that Washington, gives Israeli military resources equivalent to Brazil’s military budget every year. The recent made-up divide between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu was the last sign of an imminent attack, as the US thinks tank had plotted to instrumentalise Israel for this attack while both sides feigned disagreement to shield Washington from responsibility. However, Trump in his hubris stopped just short of admitting Washington’s culpability by praising Israeli aggression and reminding audiences how it occurred exactly after the 60-day ultimatum he had given the Iranian leadership lapsed. This means that Trump ordered the attack through Israel, noting that he has also already used it to threaten Iran to make a deal before Israel launches more such attacks. In his social media post, Trump did not appear concerned that the attack violates the UN charter or that it caused massive civilian casualty. The US and Israel do not care about civilian casualties due to their racist mindsets; Trump has already issued a veiled threat that more civilians will die if Iran does not capitulate. Both think that people in the non-Western world were born to serve or die to advance the West’s interests. Therefore, negotiating with a party with such supremacist views is pointless and is only designed to mislead countries to freeze in fear as the West advances its modern colonial rampage.

What does the attack reveal about negotiating with the West?

WASHINGTON’S facilitating Israeli attack on Iran, and Trump’s proceeding to praise it only a day before US-Iran talks were scheduled, illustrate how pointless it is to negotiate with the West. The US, Europe, and Israel view negotiations as a psychological ploy designed to make their appointed opponents delay their actions or lower their guards as the West escalates. It should be noted that the Israeli attack occurred only two days before US-Iran negotiations were scheduled in Oman. This attack was similar to the attempt on the Russian president’s life in Kursk, which occurred a few days before a major round of Ukraine-Russia negotiations was scheduled in Turkey. To illustrate the disingenuous nature of the US leadership, Trump would condemn Russia’s response to Ukraine’s attack while shifting responsibility to Vladimir Putin. Apparently, Trump expected Russians to lower their guard or pause military action even while his administration was facilitating Ukraine to assassinate Russia’s president and later conduct attacks on Russia’s strategic aviation.

Since no helicopter has been downed by a drone across the Russia-Ukraine front before, the Kursk attempt on Putin means that the West was applying higher capabilities while expecting Russians to halt their operations in anticipation of disingenuous peace overtures from Trump. Furthermore, audiences should note that the former Hezbollah leader was assassinated when the US had claimed that a ceasefire was impending. From the above experiences, Iranians or other parties that may believe the West’s overtures for diplomatic solutions will be disappointed. Washington’s appointed opponents must decide whether to use their weapons to defend themselves or wait to be eliminated with their weapons intact, which will not spare their populations of Western genocide. A good example that their populations will not be spared can be seen in how Israel has continued violating Syrians after the fall of Bashar al-Assad, whom the West and Israel had framed as the only enemy and not the civilians.

West’s offer to the world: endless wars, and zealotry

A WAR against Iran has been a consensus of Washington’s deep state parties that have only disagreed on how to market it to American audiences. For instance, in 2001, Wesley Clark, the NATO supreme allied commander for Europe during the Kosovo War reported receiving plans developed by Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz to destroy 7 countries, the last of which was Iran. The US and its vassals have already destroyed the other 6 countries, with Iran surviving because Washington thought attacking it would have prohibitive consequences. Meanwhile, Netanyahu has gone to Washington several times calling for an attack on several countries, for instance, his call to attack Iraq in early 2000, his cheering of destabilisation of the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, and his calls to invade Iran on several occasions. Also, his addresses to the US Congress and the UN in 2023 and 2024 entailed calls to invade Iran, which can be understood as statements from Washington.

Israel has historically operated as America’s forward operating base, with its civilians being a source of conscripts and a trip-wire used to blackmail the rest of the world to defend US reckless military adventures. This latest attack is particularly brazen, as it cannot be justified by the usual claims of targeting Hamas or Hezbollah leaders in Iranian cities. Also, it was imperialist noting that Netanyahu’s claimed that it aimed at preventing Iran from acquiring Nuclear weapons, despite targeting several military leaders and civilians. These justifications are pathetic for among other reasons that no international body mandates Israel to prevent countries from having nuclear weapons. Also, Israel runs nuclear facilities and has undeclared nuclear weapons, making it chauvinistic to try barring Iran from developing nuclear technology. Importantly, Netanyahu’s justifications fly in the face of Article 2, part 4 of the UN charter which prohibits countries from threatening or using force against others. This attack evolved exactly according to a 2009 Brookings Institute report, which outlined how an attack on Iran was supposed to be preceded by diplomatic gimmicks designed to fool other countries that Washington was giving Iran a good off-ramp from developing nuclear weapons, which Iran would be painted as having rejected. However, it was Trump who withdrew from Iran’s nuclear deal, making the attack on Iran through Israel as reckless as George Bush’s war against Iraq. The pressure leveled against Iran has been baseless since the country’s leadership has an internal policy that prohibits the development of nuclear weapons, and has also signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

Total contempt for the international law

THERE was nothing ‘preemptive’ about Israeli’s attack on Iran, only a colonial and imperialist attitude that must not be allowed to stand. Israel and its Western backers are progressively showing all possible disdain for international law and multilateral bodies. This contempt can be noted in the notion that they are supposed to have control of what Iran does within its boundaries, noted in Netanyahu’s and Trump’s demands that Iran stop Nuclear enrichment, while their countries possess nuclear weapons and routinely bomb others. Also, a world in which the West’s nuclear scientists receive Nobel Peace Prizes while Iran’s get to be assassinated is unacceptable. The US, Israel, and other colonialist states must not be allowed space to unilaterally decide what other countries do within their sovereign territories.

New Eastern Outlook, June 15.Simon Chege Ndiritu is a political observer and research analyst from Africa.​

 

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US nay ager apni chhotti si chhicchhi nikali bahar doc, Iranndz goin get genocidal.......All muzlim dalit goin die in da GCC........

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Iran, Israel trade deadly strikes in spiralling air war

Iran launched missiles at Israeli cities Monday after Israeli strikes deep inside the Islamic republic, raising Israel’s death toll by 11 on day four of an escalating air war.

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Iran, Israel trade deadly strikes in spiralling air war
US warship reported heading towards Middle East

Agence France-Presse . Jerusalem 16 June, 2025, 12:10

Smoke billows for the second day from the Shahran oil depot, northwest of Tehran, on June 16, 2025. | AFP photo.

Iran launched missiles at Israeli cities Monday after Israeli strikes deep inside the Islamic republic, raising Israel’s death toll by 11 on day four of an escalating air war.

Meanwhile, the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz was leaving Southeast Asia on Monday after cancelling plans to dock in Vietnam, amid reports it is headed to the Middle East to boost the US presence as Israel and Iran do battle.

At 13:45 GMT, the carrier was traveling through the Malacca Strait toward the Indian Ocean, according to Marine Traffic, a ship-tracking site.

A Vietnamese government official confirmed to AFP that a planned reception aboard the USS Nimitz on June 20, as part of the ship’s expected June 19-23 visit to Danang, had been cancelled.

After decades of enmity and a prolonged shadow war, Israel on Friday launched a surprise aerial campaign targeting sites across Iran, saying the attacks aimed to prevent its arch-foe from acquiring atomic weapons — a charge Tehran denies.

Israel’s strikes have so far killed at least 224 people, including top military commanders, nuclear scientists and civilians, according to Iranian authorities.

Israeli defence minister Israel Katz said that Iran’s state television and radio were ‘about to disappear’, after an evacuation warning was issued for the district in Tehran where the broadcaster is based.

‘The Iranian propaganda and incitement megaphone is about to disappear,’ he said in a statement. ‘Evacuation of nearby residents has begun.’

In retaliation, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said it had ‘successfully’ struck Israel with a salvo of missiles and warned of ‘effective, targeted and more devastating operations’ to come.

The Iranian attacks hit Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak, Petah Tikva and Haifa — with shattered homes, smouldering wreckage and stunned residents picking through debris.

‘The entire shelter shook,’ said Shlomi Biton, who had taken cover with his five children in Haifa. ‘There were many, many explosions.’

Ido, a student whose house was hit, recalled scenes of panic. ‘There were 12 to 13 children there in the shelter screaming.’

The death toll in Israel rose by 11 on Monday, the prime minister’s office said, bringing the total since Friday to 24.

US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said the missile barrage also lightly damaged a building used by the American embassy in Tel Aviv.

In Iran, foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei condemned as a ‘war crime’ an Israeli strike that damaged a hospital in the western city of Kermanshah. A previous report said a nearby workshop had been the target.

Iran’s missile attack followed waves of intense Israeli air raids that struck targets across the country — from the western border with Iraq to Tehran and as far east as Mashhad, where the airport was hit.

While some people fled Tehran, others vowed to stay.

‘It is natural that war has its own stress, but I will not leave my city,’ said Shokouh Razzazi, 31, in the capital, where the Grand Bazaar was closed amid the on-going Israeli strikes.

The escalation has sparked growing international concern.

China urged both sides to ‘immediately take measures to cool down the tensions’ and avoid plunging the region into deeper turmoil.

European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen also called for calm, telling Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu that ‘a negotiated solution is, in the long term, the best solution’.

Though critical of Israel’s campaign in Gaza, she blamed Iran for the latest crisis, citing the UN nuclear watchdog’s findings that it was not in compliance with its obligations.

‘In this context, Israel has the right to defend itself. Iran is the principal source of regional instability,’ she said.

Iran, in turn, urged the International Atomic Energy Agency to condemn Israeli strikes on its nuclear facilities.

‘We expect the IAEA Board of Governors and the director general to take a firm position in condemning this act and holding the regime (Israel) accountable,’ said spokesman Baqaei.

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan meanwhile told his Iranian counterpart in a phone call that Ankara is ready to play a ‘facilitating role’ to end the conflict.

The Israeli military said Monday it had destroyed 120 missile launchers — one third of Iran’s total.

In a televised address, Iranian armed forces spokesman Colonel Reza Sayyad vowed a ‘devastating response’ to Israeli attacks.

‘Leave the occupied territories (Israel) because they will certainly no longer be habitable in the future,’ he said, adding shelters would ‘not guarantee security’.

Addressing Iran’s parliament, president Masoud Pezeshkian urged citizens to ‘stand strong against this genocidal criminal aggression with unity and coherence’.

US president Donald Trump insisted Washington had ‘nothing to do’ with Israel’s military campaign but warned any Iranian attack on American interests would trigger ‘the full strength and might’ of the US military.

On Sunday, Trump urged both sides to ‘make a deal’ while expressing doubts about near-term peace prospects.

‘Sometimes they have to fight it out, but we’re going to see what happens,’ he said.

A senior US official said Trump had intervened to prevent Israel from carrying out an assassination of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

‘We found out that the Israelis had plans to hit Iran’s supreme leader. President Trump was against it and we told the Israelis not to,’ said the official.

Asked by Fox News whether regime change in Iran was one of Israel’s objectives, Netanyahu said: ‘It certainly could be the result, because the Iran regime is very weak.’

As hostilities intensified, Iran said it was scrapping planned nuclear talks with the United States, calling dialogue ‘meaningless’ under bombardment.​

 

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Revolutionary Guards say Iran to strike Israel 'without interruption until dawn'

Iran will strike Israel "without interruption until dawn" overnight from Monday to Tuesday, its Revolutionary Guards announced

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Revolutionary Guards say Iran to strike Israel 'without interruption until dawn'

The Israeli Iron Dome air defence system fires to intercept missiles during an Iranian attack over Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, June 15, 2025. File photo: AP

Iran will strike Israel "without interruption until dawn" overnight from Monday to Tuesday, its Revolutionary Guards announced.

"The ninth wave of combined drone and missile attacks has begun and will continue without interruption until dawn," said the Guards' spokesman, Ali Mohammad Naini, according to the official IRNA news agency.​

 

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Netanyahu says campaign 'changing face of Middle East' as Israel, Iran trade blows

The remarks came hours after a dramatic Israeli attack on an Iranian state TV building that forced a presenter to flee mid-broadcast under a shower of dust and debris -- prompting a threat of retaliation against Israeli news channels by Tehran

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Netanyahu says campaign 'changing face of Middle East' as Israel, Iran trade blows

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the annual ceremony at the eve of Israel’s Remembrance Day for fallen soldiers (Yom HaZikaron) at the Yad LaBanim Memorial in Jerusalem, 29 April 2025. File photo: Reuters

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on Monday that Israel's campaign against Iran was "changing the face of the Middle East", as the two countries traded heavy strikes for a fourth day.

The remarks came hours after a dramatic Israeli attack on an Iranian state TV building that forced a presenter to flee mid-broadcast under a shower of dust and debris -- prompting a threat of retaliation against Israeli news channels by Tehran.

After decades of enmity and a prolonged shadow war, Israel on Friday launched a surprise aerial campaign against targets across Iran, saying they aimed to prevent its arch-foe from acquiring atomic weapons, an ambition Tehran denies.

The sudden flare-up in hostilities has sparked fears of a wider conflict, with US President Donald Trump urging Iran back to the negotiating table after Israel's attacks derailed ongoing nuclear talks.

While Trump has maintained that Washington has "nothing to do" with its ally's campaign, Iran's foreign minister said Monday that the US leader could halt the attacks with "one phone call".

Israel's strikes have so far killed at least 224 people, including top military commanders, nuclear scientists and civilians, according to Iranian authorities.

Netanyahu told a press conference Monday evening that Israel was eliminating Iran's security leadership "one after the other".

"We are changing the face of the Middle East, and that can lead to radical changes inside Iran itself," he said.

Iran has launched several waves of missiles in retaliation for Israel's attacks, with Iran's Revolutionary Guards warning of "more devastating operations" to come.

In Tehran, the live feed of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) was interrupted when an Israeli strike hit its building on Monday.

The presenter was in the midst of lambasting Israel when an explosion rocked the facility, causing the monitors behind her to cut out and sending debris raining from the ceiling, live footage showed.

Children screaming

Video released by the Iranian judiciary's Mizan Online website later showed the building in flames.

Israel had previously issued an evacuation warning for the part of town where IRIB is located, with Defence Minister Israel Katz saying before the strike that Iran's "propaganda and incitement megaphone is about to disappear".

IRIB resumed its broadcast shortly after the strike, with a senior official at the service saying "the voice of the Islamic revolution... will not be silenced with a military operation".

Iran later "issued an evacuation warning for the N12 and N14 channels of Israel", state TV reported, calling the order a "response to the hostile attack" on IRIB.

In Israel, the military reported a fresh salvo of Iranian missiles on Monday evening targeting the north of the country, where residents were advised to take cover.

Iranian attacks earlier on Monday hit Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak, Petah Tikva and Haifa -- leaving behind shattered homes, smouldering wreckage and stunned residents picking through debris.

"I have four children, four boys. We're very scared, but everyone is OK," said Idan Bar, whose building in Petah Tikva was among those hit.

The death toll in Israel rose by 11 on Monday, the prime minister's office said, bringing the total since Friday to 24. The figure included three people killed when a missile struck an oil refinery in Haifa on Sunday, according to an Israeli official.

US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said a nearby missile strike lightly damaged a building used by the American embassy in Tel Aviv, while the US State Department warned citizens on Monday not to travel to Israel due to security concerns.

The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz was also leaving Southeast Asia on Monday after cancelling plans to dock in Vietnam, amid reports it was headed to the Middle East to boost the US presence there.

'Make a deal'

International calls for calm have mounted since the fighting began.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told reporters at the Group of Seven summit in the Canadian Rockies on Monday that he believed his fellow leaders were united in wanting de-escalation, adding the "risk of the conflict escalating is obvious".

China called on both sides to "immediately take measures to cool down the tensions" and avoid plunging the region into deeper turmoil.

Trump, also speaking from the G7 summit, urged Iran to come back to the negotiating table.

"They have to make a deal, and it's painful for both parties, but I'd say Iran is not winning this war, and they should talk, and they should talk immediately before it's too late," he said.

The United States and Iran had engaged in several rounds of indirect talks on Tehran's nuclear programme in recent weeks, but Iran said after the start of Israel's campaign that it would not negotiate while under attack.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Monday that "absent a total cessation of military aggression against us, our responses will continue".

"If President Trump is genuine about diplomacy and interested in stopping this war, next steps are consequential," he said on X.

"It takes one phone call from Washington to muzzle someone like Netanyahu. That may pave the way for a return to diplomacy."

A senior US official told AFP Trump had intervened to prevent Israel from carrying out an assassination of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

But Netanyahu did not rule out the possibility when asked about the reports during an interview with ABC News.

"It's not going to escalate the conflict, it's going to end the conflict," he said.​

 

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Strikes on Israel self-defence, Iran tells UN

Iran's strikes on Israel are self-defense and are "proportionate defensive operations directed exclusively at military objectives and associated infrastructure," Iran's UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani told the UN Security Council on Monday

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Strikes on Israel self-defence, Iran tells UN

Israeli air defence systems intercept Iranian missiles over Tel Aviv early on June 15, 2025. Photo: AFP/Jalaa Marey

Iran's strikes on Israel are self-defense and are "proportionate defensive operations directed exclusively at military objectives and associated infrastructure," Iran's UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani told the UN Security Council on Monday.

He wrote in a letter that any cooperation by third countries with Israel's strikes on Iran "makes them complicit in the legal responsibility and consequences of this crisis."

Speaking to reporters later on Monday, Iravani singled out the United States.

"Without the US weapons, intelligence and political backing, this attack could not have happened. The United States will share responsibility for this unlawful act," he said. "Let me be clear, Iran has not attacked Israel. Iran has not started any war. The so-called existential threat narrative is false."

Israel launched its air waron Friday with a surprise attack that killed nearly the entire top echelon of Iran's military commanders and its leading nuclear scientists. It has said its aim is to destroy Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Iran has since retaliated against Israel.

"In the past 48 hours, Iran has launched over 1000 missiles and drones directly at Israeli civilians," Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon said on Monday. "Iran aims its missiles at children, while we target the regime's terror machine."

Iravani told the Security Council in his letter that Iran was acting under Article 51 of the UN Charter, which requires the 15-member Security Council to be immediately informed of any action states take in self-defense against armed attack.

The Security Council met on Friday, at the request of Tehran, over Israel's initial attacks on Iran.

Danon said that Israel has "pushed back the nuclear program in the last few days, we will continue with our efforts to push back the program." He added: "It is much more challenging operation, and it takes time."​

 

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Israel’s attack on Iran and the precipice of a wider American war

At the end of the day, Netanyahu’s success will measured by whether he can lock the US into yet another made-for-Israel Middle East war.

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A pre-emptive strike on diplomacy

Israel’s attack on Iran and the precipice of a wider American war

The ongoing war against Iran is part of Israel’s long-standing obsession with maintaining its monopoly on nuclear technology in the Middle East. FILE PHOTO: REUTERS

Israel's latest strike on Iran had nothing to do with dismantling the Iranian (civilian) nuclear programme. Despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's assertion that the timing for this Israel-Iran conflict was "fixed back in November 2024," the real zero hour was designated only to undercut possible diplomatic framework that could have legitimised Iran's nuclear development under international, verifiable supervision.

This war is not a pre-emptive blow against Iran —it is a pre-emptive strike against diplomacy itself. The Trump administration made a grave error by keeping Israeli officials closely informed of the sensitive progress in the secret negotiations. This privileged access allowed Israel to strategically time its military strike to sabotage diplomatic efforts at a critical juncture, undermining further progress just as it was beginning to take shape, and before any agreement could fully mature.

Multiple independent leaks had pointed to progress in the Oman-brokered negotiation between the US and Iran, inclusive of intrusive International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections, capped enrichment, and restart of oil exports under strict monitoring. An agreement of that sort would have undercut Israel's decades-long doctrine that only isolation and coercion can keep Iran "in its box."

Rather than accepting a rules-based diplomatic framework that Netanyahu could not control or veto, he chose to hinder the potential agreement—with F-35s and cruise missiles.

This war is also part of Israel's long-standing obsession with maintaining its monopoly on nuclear technology in the Middle East. Far from a purely defensive measure, Israel's broader strategy has consistently aimed at preventing any regional power from acquiring not only the infrastructure required to develop nuclear capabilities but even the scientific expertise and human capital necessary to pursue such knowledge.

Hours after the first explosions, US officials solemnly declared, "America did not take part." But the denial was tactical, not principled. By remaining officially aloof, the Trump White House hoped to keep a seat at any revived negotiating table while still wielding the Israeli strike as leverage. Donald Trump's own split-screen rhetoric—calling the raid "excellent," threatening Iran with "more to come," yet urging Tehran to "make a deal"—spelled out the gambit: let Israel be the cudgel while the US courts concessions.

On the other hand, and in response to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's claim that the US is "not involved in strikes against Iran," Israel declared that every phase of the attack had been "closely coordinated" with the Pentagon and that that the US provided "exquisite intelligence" to attack Iran.

Unlike the sporadic and largely asymmetrical conflicts with non-state actors like the Resistance in Lebanon and occupied Gaza, this confrontation introduces a level of state-to-state warfare that challenges Israel's long-held military superiority and assumptions of deterrence. What has unfolded so far with the Iranian retaliation is a harbinger of a more symmetrical and likely prolonged confrontation—one in which Israel's own centres of power may be within range, and where the frontlines are no longer confined to Gaza, the West Bank, or southern Lebanon, but centred into the very core of Tel Aviv.

The yawning gap between the two narratives on the ongoing Israel-Iran conflict served both capitals. In Washington, it allowed officials to reassure anxious allies that the US was not actively escalating another Middle East war. In Tel Aviv, Netanyahu exploited the ambiguity to provoke Iran into retaliating against US forces—potentially drawing Washington deeper into Israel's war. At the same time, he sent a calculated message to domestic hawks and regional adversaries: that Israel still enjoys unwavering American backing.

Netanyahu's sinister calculus was familiar and transparent from Israel's book to drag the US into its endless wars: derail the diplomatic channel, then dare Washington to pick up the pieces while Israel enjoys another round of strategic impunity.

Even in a region where Israel uses starvation as a weapon of war and genocide in Gaza, its choice to strike residential neighbourhoods—ostensibly targeting senior officers, civilian leaders, and nuclear scientists—crosses a perilous line. The laws of armed conflict draw a bright red distinction between combatants and civilians; by erasing it, Israel has handed Iran moral and legal grounds to retaliate in kind. If Tehran targets the private homes of Israeli leaders and commanders, Tel Aviv cannot plausibly cry victim after setting that precedent.

The first wave of Iranian retaliation—targeting the Israeli defence ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, among other sites—marks the beginning of a new kind of war, one unlike anything Israelis have faced in previous conflicts. For the first time, a state with advanced missile capabilities has shown both the resilience to absorb the initial strike and the capacity to hit back deep inside Israel—an experience unprecedented in Israel's 77 years of existence.

Unlike the sporadic and largely asymmetrical conflicts with non-state actors like the Resistance in Lebanon and occupied Gaza, the latest Israel-Iran conflict introduces a level of state-to-state warfare that challenges Israel's long-held military superiority and assumptions of deterrence. What has unfolded so far with the Iranian retaliation is a harbinger of a more symmetrical and likely prolonged confrontation—one in which Israel's own centres of power may be within range, and where the frontlines are no longer confined to Gaza, the West Bank, or southern Lebanon, but centred into the very core of Tel Aviv.

In the coming days, Washington's true measure will be taken after the smoke clears. If US Aegis destroyers in the Gulf or anti-missile batteries in the region are activated to shoot down Iranian missiles and drones, the US will cease to be an observer and become a co-belligerent.

Such presumably "defensive" steps quickly metastasise: one intercept invites another, and each exchange digs the US deeper into a conflict created by a foreign country. History offers bleak guidance. Once American troops engage, momentum overrides strategy and the dynamics of war supplant planning. Political leaders feel compelled to "finish the job," costs spiral, US interests go unsecured, and the chief beneficiary is almost always the Israeli security establishment that triggered the crisis.

At the end of the day, Netanyahu's success will not be measured by how many centrifuges he cripples or how many Iranian scientists he murders. It will be measured by whether he can lock the US into yet another made-for-Israel Middle East war, paid for—strategically, financially, life, and morally—by Americans.

If Washington truly opposes escalation, it must say no—publicly and unequivocally—to any role in shielding Israel from the blowback it just invited. Anything less is complicity disguised as caution, and it will once again confirm that Israeli impunity is underwritten in Washington, even when it torpedoes the US's own diplomacy and ignites yet another Israeli-engineered war.

Jamal Kanj is the author of Children of Catastrophe: Journey from a Palestinian Refugee Camp to America, and other books. He writes frequently on Arab world issues for various national and international commentaries.​

 

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Iran vows to 'pummel' Israel until attacks stop

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Monday that Iranian forces will "pummel" Israel until the attacks against the Islamic republic stop.."Our powerful Armed Forces are making clear to the world that the war criminals hiding in shelters in Tel Aviv will not go unpunished for their c

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Iran vows to 'pummel' Israel until attacks stop

The Israeli Iron Dome air defence system fires to intercept missiles during an Iranian attack over Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, June 15, 2025. File photo: AP

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Monday that Iranian forces will "pummel" Israel until the attacks against the Islamic republic stop.

"Our powerful Armed Forces are making clear to the world that the war criminals hiding in shelters in Tel Aviv will not go unpunished for their crimes," said Araghchi in a post on X. "We will continue to pummel the cowards for as long as needed to make sure that they are no longer firing at our people," he added.​

 

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Netanyahu says campaign 'changing face of Middle East' as Israel, Iran trade blows

The remarks came hours after a dramatic Israeli attack on an Iranian state TV building that forced a presenter to flee mid-broadcast under a shower of dust and debris -- prompting a threat of retaliation against Israeli news channels by Tehran

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Netanyahu says campaign 'changing face of Middle East' as Israel, Iran trade blows

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the annual ceremony at the eve of Israel’s Remembrance Day for fallen soldiers (Yom HaZikaron) at the Yad LaBanim Memorial in Jerusalem, 29 April 2025. File photo: Reuters

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on Monday that Israel's campaign against Iran was "changing the face of the Middle East", as the two countries traded heavy strikes for a fourth day.

The remarks came hours after a dramatic Israeli attack on an Iranian state TV building that forced a presenter to flee mid-broadcast under a shower of dust and debris -- prompting a threat of retaliation against Israeli news channels by Tehran.

After decades of enmity and a prolonged shadow war, Israel on Friday launched a surprise aerial campaign against targets across Iran, saying they aimed to prevent its arch-foe from acquiring atomic weapons, an ambition Tehran denies.

The sudden flare-up in hostilities has sparked fears of a wider conflict, with US President Donald Trump urging Iran back to the negotiating table after Israel's attacks derailed ongoing nuclear talks.

While Trump has maintained that Washington has "nothing to do" with its ally's campaign, Iran's foreign minister said Monday that the US leader could halt the attacks with "one phone call".

Israel's strikes have so far killed at least 224 people, including top military commanders, nuclear scientists and civilians, according to Iranian authorities.

Netanyahu told a press conference Monday evening that Israel was eliminating Iran's security leadership "one after the other".

"We are changing the face of the Middle East, and that can lead to radical changes inside Iran itself," he said.

Iran has launched several waves of missiles in retaliation for Israel's attacks, with Iran's Revolutionary Guards warning of "more devastating operations" to come.

In Tehran, the live feed of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) was interrupted when an Israeli strike hit its building on Monday.

The presenter was in the midst of lambasting Israel when an explosion rocked the facility, causing the monitors behind her to cut out and sending debris raining from the ceiling, live footage showed.

Children screaming

Video released by the Iranian judiciary's Mizan Online website later showed the building in flames.

Israel had previously issued an evacuation warning for the part of town where IRIB is located, with Defence Minister Israel Katz saying before the strike that Iran's "propaganda and incitement megaphone is about to disappear".

IRIB resumed its broadcast shortly after the strike, with a senior official at the service saying "the voice of the Islamic revolution... will not be silenced with a military operation".

Iran later "issued an evacuation warning for the N12 and N14 channels of Israel", state TV reported, calling the order a "response to the hostile attack" on IRIB.

In Israel, the military reported a fresh salvo of Iranian missiles on Monday evening targeting the north of the country, where residents were advised to take cover.

Iranian attacks earlier on Monday hit Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak, Petah Tikva and Haifa -- leaving behind shattered homes, smouldering wreckage and stunned residents picking through debris.

"I have four children, four boys. We're very scared, but everyone is OK," said Idan Bar, whose building in Petah Tikva was among those hit.

The death toll in Israel rose by 11 on Monday, the prime minister's office said, bringing the total since Friday to 24. The figure included three people killed when a missile struck an oil refinery in Haifa on Sunday, according to an Israeli official.

US ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said a nearby missile strike lightly damaged a building used by the American embassy in Tel Aviv, while the US State Department warned citizens on Monday not to travel to Israel due to security concerns.

The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz was also leaving Southeast Asia on Monday after cancelling plans to dock in Vietnam, amid reports it was headed to the Middle East to boost the US presence there.

'Make a deal'

International calls for calm have mounted since the fighting began.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told reporters at the Group of Seven summit in the Canadian Rockies on Monday that he believed his fellow leaders were united in wanting de-escalation, adding the "risk of the conflict escalating is obvious".

China called on both sides to "immediately take measures to cool down the tensions" and avoid plunging the region into deeper turmoil.

Trump, also speaking from the G7 summit, urged Iran to come back to the negotiating table.

"They have to make a deal, and it's painful for both parties, but I'd say Iran is not winning this war, and they should talk, and they should talk immediately before it's too late," he said.

The United States and Iran had engaged in several rounds of indirect talks on Tehran's nuclear programme in recent weeks, but Iran said after the start of Israel's campaign that it would not negotiate while under attack.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Monday that "absent a total cessation of military aggression against us, our responses will continue".

"If President Trump is genuine about diplomacy and interested in stopping this war, next steps are consequential," he said on X.

"It takes one phone call from Washington to muzzle someone like Netanyahu. That may pave the way for a return to diplomacy."

A senior US official told AFP Trump had intervened to prevent Israel from carrying out an assassination of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

But Netanyahu did not rule out the possibility when asked about the reports during an interview with ABC News.

"It's not going to escalate the conflict, it's going to end the conflict," he said.​

Dis small time hollywood shyster, he's losing bigtime now as Iran gears up for unleashing hell on him.

He thought by assassinating a dozen people and killing 200 others associated with the gubment, he can defeat Iran?

This is the height of miscalculation bhai.

Never knew hes this incompetent.

Now he wants the US and EU plus muzlim dalit dictators to save his asss?

WTF @Vsdoc @Sharma Ji

Come on man?

Ye to do rupay ka niklaa?

Doc.......after dis over.......Iran should demolish all these gypsy outlets surrounding it........lehaaz (humanitarian) karnay key koi zaroorat nahi ab!.......

Suwar key maut sub ko maarnay ka time aagya hae ab.

 

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Iran vows to 'pummel' Israel until attacks stop

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Monday that Iranian forces will "pummel" Israel until the attacks against the Islamic republic stop.."Our powerful Armed Forces are making clear to the world that the war criminals hiding in shelters in Tel Aviv will not go unpunished for their c

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Iran vows to 'pummel' Israel until attacks stop
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The Israeli Iron Dome air defence system fires to intercept missiles during an Iranian attack over Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, June 15, 2025. File photo: AP

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Monday that Iranian forces will "pummel" Israel until the attacks against the Islamic republic stop.

"Our powerful Armed Forces are making clear to the world that the war criminals hiding in shelters in Tel Aviv will not go unpunished for their crimes," said Araghchi in a post on X. "We will continue to pummel the cowards for as long as needed to make sure that they are no longer firing at our people," he added.​

Iraans fukk'd em up hard and now NSC meetings being held.......

@Vsdoc @Sharma Ji @Krishna with Flute

What should Iraannndd do here going forward?

The west's best proxy has been exposed as an asss clown no?

What should Iraaandd do now?

 

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@Lulldapull

yes, Iran being nice to neighbors no? for da gesture......however pakistan on Zio payroll no?

Come on no?

 

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@Vsdoc @Sharma Ji @Krishna with Flute

Aik bhee muzlim dalit country Iran k saath nahi kharra cuz deys all under Zio-financial/ cultural occupation no?

Aur Idher Iraaandd ne is sub key gaaandd maar de hae......

Technological and economic shupa pawa hae? juldi say lundd choos lo colludz k bachon.......

Tumhara pyo colluddz rundi hae no, challo shabash convent isskool main jao aur UK k khwaab dekho? tum to ho hee colludz k dalit? Acchha ab sharmeela honay say lund hona hae......chalo acchhay bachay bano juldi say......koi baat nahi

Aaaaaahahahahahaaaaaaa