The Central Intelligence Agency has issued a stern warning to the nation of Israel saying that Iran will likely be attacking their country sometime within the next 48 hours, according to a report from The Express. It’s being reported that Israel wiped out two commanders within the Iranian military after carrying out a strike on Tehrain’s consulate located in Damascus, the capital of Syria this week. Things in the Middle East really beginning to pop and not in a good way. Conflicts that continue to escalate like this are almost guaranteed, at some point, to drag us into them. I guess we should all prepare for the inevitable sending in of troops to this seemingly always troubled part of the world.
Here’s more from The Express:
Iran vowed that it would take revenge for the attack, and now foreign media is reporting that US intelligence is fearful of an attack on Israel. Iran is said to be planning a combined attack with a ‘rain’ of drones and missiles fired from its bases at strategic locations inside Israel, according to Al Mayadeen.
This comes after US officials raised fears that the Israeli strike could lead to a wider war in the Middle East. Ralph Goff, a former senior CIA official who operated in the Middle East, said Israel’s strike was “reckless” adding that “it will only result in escalation by Iran and its proxies.”
Speaking to the New York Times, he added that Israel is trying to hit the Iranian Revolutionary Guard to “punish them for ongoing plots to kill or kidnap Israeli Jews around the world.”
Kenneth F. McKenzie, a former US Central Command chief and retired four-star general, issued a warning of his own, stating the assault by Israel was a “blow” for Iran. He then went on to say that, “Iran’s options to hit Israel are very, very limited,” and “the Israelis aren’t going to back down.”
Dana Stroul, the Pentagon’s former top Middle East policy official, warned the strike was a “significant escalation and risks tipping an already volatile, unstable region into full-scale war.”
Stroul then added, “The question is, will Iran respond in a manner that deescalates the situation, or will it climb further up the escalation ladder?”
“[The strike] should have a strategic effect on how the Quds Force operates abroad and should erode any semblance of invincibility or deniability that this terrorist organization only brings instability and violence to the places it seeks to operate,” she said.
Ebrahim Raisi, the president of Iran, made a statement after Israel launched their attack, saying, “After repeated defeats and failures against the faith and will of the Resistance Front fighters, the Zionist regime has put blind assassinations on its agenda in the struggle to save itself.”
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei shared a few thoughts of his own, stating, “The evil Zionist regime will be punished at the hands of our brave men. We will make them regret this crime and the other ones.”
When things start getting heated like this, I tend to get a tad bit nervous, don’t you? There are several major conflicts raging around the world, with meetings happening between China and Hamas, which makes it look as if certain countries are colluding with each other against the rest of the world.
Tense times we’re living in, ladies and gentlemen.
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