There’s one inescapable fact in life: the Israelis are just plain smarter than the Muslims!
We normally use our headline World War III Watch for escalation in the Russo-Ukrainian War, but this time it’s Israel trying to prevent World War III, by going after the Iranian military command and the Islamic Republic’s programs to build nuclear weapons. Robert Stacy McCain wrote:
It has been pointed out that, on April 12, Trump said Iran had 60 days to reach an agreement on ending its nuclear weapons program, and today? Yeah — Day 61.
Anyway, this is YUGE:
Iran’s state-run Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) confirmed in the early hours of Friday morning local time that Israeli airstrikes on targets in the country eliminated Major General Hossein Salami, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
Other arms of Iran’s state news apparatus confirmed several other high-profile regime members, including two nuclear scientists, were killed in the strikes. While unverified reports suggested that Salami may be far from the only high-ranking Iranian regime official to have been targeted successfully in the operation, he is the only one whose death the Iranian government has confirmed at press time.
Salami has sustained a place as one of the most prominent and belligerent senior leaders in the Iranian Islamist regime, regularly threatening attacks on America and Israel. In what was perhaps his final public appearance on Thursday, Salami declared that his forces were “war-tested and experienced,” prepared for war against its enemies.
I have to admit it: I have a natural revulsion to these kinds of attacks, but in the case of Iran and its continually threatening stance, I see it more as an attack against Nazi Germany before the Third Reich was really prepared for war. I’ve been very concerned about war with Russia spreading outside of Ukraine, because Russia has a strategic nuclear arsenal; what Israel has been doing is to try to keep Iran from building nuclear weapons.
Mr McCain entitled his article “‘An Earth-Shattering Kaboom’: Israel Wipes Out Top Iranian Military Leaders,” so I just have to include that video from Bugs Bunny; it’ll be below the fold.
Interestingly, when I embedded that video, the subsequent one that showed, at least during my writing of this, was 99 Luftballons, a German anti-war song.
That Major General Salami has been sent to his 72 bacha bāzī boys is an unambiguously good thing. Was the salami created from that very model of a modern major general hahal, so that it could be sent to Gaza to reduce hunger?
Yeah, it’s not a good thing to make fun of the dead, but let’s tell the truth here: Iran brought this attack on themselves. It hasn’t just been Iran’s belligerent words, but Iran has been shipping money and military equipment to Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and the Houthis in Yemen, all in the mad mullahs’ campaign to attack Western civilization in the cause of Islamist barbarism.
President Trump noted the attack, pointing out that he had given Iran sixty days to make a deal which would keep Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, and they wouldn’t budge, and that they now have, yet again, an opportunity to make a deal, and if they don’t Israel would continue to attack.
But, let’s tell the truth here: the religious leaders of Iran aren’t going to go along with Mr Trump’s call; they would see that as abject surrender. It will be up to the Persian people to overthrow their religious government before any real peace with Iran can occur.
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Related Articles:
- Wiliam Teach, “Israel Attacks Iran’s Nuclear Program, NY Times Goes TDS And NDS“
- Deanna Fisher, “Just How Close Is Iran To A Nuke, And What Will Trump Do?“
- Stephen Green, “Oops! Mossad did it again!“