If tweets about explosion of whole other range of electronics turns out to be true then one thing is for certain, Israel have dealt a huge damage not only to Lebanon but to liability and reliability of products made in West.
I’m still highly reluctant to believe Israel is going to follow up these atrocities with an invasion should Hezbullah not react with disproportionate response.
Yes, the pagers were carried by unarmed members too. The thing is those members were out in public among ordinary people with pagers in their waist bags. If a you were a kid standing next to someone with these pagers, the bomb would be literally in your face. Let alone people who were sitting next to them.
Videos coming out of Lebanon’s hospitals show what Israel did was a massacre, victims especially children badly wounded. There is probably more martyrs in upcoming days.
I want to point out something, that is what we see here is Israel’s response to Yemen’s ballistic missile that was fired two days ago which landed near Tel Aviv, terrorizing Israelis.
Israel not only terrorized but killed people in response, now even I am worried as a Iranian living in Iran. What if Israel pull something similar here? Well, if that’s what it takes to bring Israel one step closer to its downfall so be it.
Yes, I live in Iran.
Here is a BBC article on Israel’s abduction of the Iranian man
Here is the NourNews article on arrest of that Israeli spy
Now take note of dates which these articles were published. In both cases the abductees were filmed and broadcasted on TV. In both cases abductees were asked to talk in their native language, Hebrew and Farsi, so that the people of the opposing nations witness the failure of their intelligence services.
Noticing stuff like this requires reading news published in Farsi inside Iran. Israel and Iran go quiet and deny when embarassing stuff happens to them or when they reach deals behind the scenes.
For instance during the Iran/Israel shadow war where they were targeting each others industrial and military infrastructure and assassinating intelligence officers, 90% of the stuff didn’t even get published in English or was being reported as ‘accidents’.
One such example is when Israelis sabotaged a chemical factory in Iran leading to hospitalization of 90+ people which got reported as accident. It took about a week for Iranian media to report a chemical factory in Israel suffered cyberattacks which according them led to hospitalization of few people.
I think she was swapped for an Iranian that Mossad kidnapped.
Israeli special forces ‘raid missile site in Syria’ - BBC
Related: Iran denies claims its advisors injured, abducted in Syria’s Masyaf - Al Mayadeen English
I don’t know which to believe.
Russia and China have in various joint statements with the Persian Gulf countries have asserted that Iran’s Abu Musa, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb islands belong to UAE.
And as you have mentioned, Russia supports Turkiye and Azerbaijans plan to create the Zangezur corridor in the North of Iran, which not only cuts Iran off from Armenia but also from Europe.
Russia back stabbed Iran a lot. When Iran bought S-300 from Russia they refrained giving the systems to Iran, same thing now with Su-35s. When it came to sanctioning Iran for its nuclear program Russia and China voted in favor of sanctions in the UN.
On world stage hurting Iran is beneficial because the Saudis would shower you with money, the Israelis would give you inteligence and military services and the US will offer you all the support in the world.
India for instance ceased to deal with Iran in exchange for financial support from Saudis back in Trump era. But they reverted their decision because Iranians offered even more. Today India buys saffron for a fraction of the cost from Iran and repackages it and sell it to global market for much much higher price, courtesy of the US sanctions that Russia and China approved.
China and Russia benefit a lot from an isolated Iran because they can exploit its valuable resources in exchange for basic stuff that Iran doesn’t have capabilities and knowledge to make and produce.
Ever since assassination of Soleimani there have been phony deals between the US and Iraq for withdrawal of US military every year and that will never happen unless the US wants to.
Yes, we have this in Iran. It mostly comes in form of a guy walking in streets asking “Palestinians” whether Saudi Arabia helps Palestine the most or Iran.
They tell us Iranians that our regime is stealing our money and gives it to Lebonan, Iraq and Syria.
It is unlikely that retaliation happens before the end of Arba’in, August 25.
According to Yemen’s Al-Masirah news agency, Yemen have targeted USS Cole and USS Laboon destroyers which were heading to Israel. They have also targeted Contship Ono which was violating the Yemeni blockade on Israel.
Several US personnel injured in Iraq Ain al-Assad Airbase attack - Al-Mayadeen
A tweet claims this vehicle launched the rockets.
Also there are US convoys coming to Iraq from Saudi border to prepare for defending Israel against Iran’s revenge.
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By the time Iran attacks Israel, Half-Life 3 is out.
Longer than everyone’s patience especially me.
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