If you make another move against Israel, Joe Biden’s handlers warned Iran’s Ayatollah, you’re on your own. Officials in the Biden-Harris administration “warned Iran in recent days against launching another attack.” They can’t hold Netanyahu back any longer. Leaks from both the U.S. and Tel Aviv confirmed the message’s contents.
Israel uncontrollable
As the war between Israel and local Arab terror groups escalated, their sponsor calling the shots, Iran, got dragged more and more directly into the conflict. The assassination of several top Hamas and Hezbollah commanders really hurt.
Along with pager and radio bombs which caused thousands of casualties, wiping out command communications at the same time. The Ayatollah vowed “a crushing response.” Expect it any minute now, he said last week. Apparently he got the message.
Iran fired back at Israel on October 1. The IDF answered that by “hitting military targets but not nuclear or oil production facilities.” Well, there was at least one nuclear facility but the Ayatollah can’t admit that it was.
Behind the scenes, the World Economic Forum ordered John Kerry to call on his friends in Switzerland. The federal official with a murky job description and access to his wife’s private jet lurched into action.
“We told the Iranians: We won’t be able to hold Israel back, and we won’t be able to make sure that the next attack will be calibrated and targeted as the previous one,” an anonymous U.S. official leaked.
“It will depend on how massive the attack is and what are its results,” his Israeli counterpart notes.
Swiss neutrality
The same source verified to left-leaning Axios that “the message was conveyed directly to the Iranians.” It’s unusual that it got leaked because “such direct contacts are rarely disclosed.” We know it went through Kerry because the source in Israel leaked “a message was passed from Washington to Tehran through the Swiss.”
That’s where the negotiations to revive the pallets of cash deal has been dragging on since 2020. Kerry took charge of that personally before he was dragged away to handle hospice for Joe’s campaign.
According to Esmail Kowsari, a member of the national security committee in Iran’s parliament, as of Saturday, November 2, “Iran’s security council had agreed on a response but not yet on the exact date and scope.” Israel simply needs to expect the unexpected. Still, the Supreme Leader is more than a little anxious that the U.S. sent over a whole bunch of B-52’s the other day, and have them on standby.
General Pat Ryder confirmed Friday “that the U.S. was moving additional ballistic missile defense destroyers, fighter squadron and tanker aircraft, and several U.S. Air Force B-52 long-range strike bombers to the Middle East.”
Iran is still relying on Hezbollah and the Houthis to handle a lot of the heavy lifting. He can’t count on Hamas because the few of them who left are starved nearly into submission and out of ammunition. Kowsari relates that “the attack will be executed in coordination with other ‘resistance‘ groups in the region and will be stronger than Iran’s October 1 attack, which involved 180 ballistic missiles.”
Israel continues to insist that it will be the last round of missiles that ever will be launched. Go ahead, make my day, Netanyahu taunts. Sideshow Karine Jean-Pierre quipped on Friday that her administration had “been very clear that Iran should not respond” and that “we will continue to support Israel” if they do.
