Iran - Israel/US War: Israel-US declare war on Iran, Iran responds

Leadership of Middle East are in a scary and difficult situation.

I wouldn't want to be in their shoes. If Iran and Hezbollah are successfully weakened, I don't know what Israel does next.

Maybe assault Gaza again and pick a fight with Egypt ? Pick a fight with Syria and Turkey ? Or they stop and go back to status quo ?

Who's gonna put a stop to this ?
 
Falcon29 said:
Hezbollah is refraining to target some critical Israeli infrastructure like Haifa gas refinery because Israel is threatening to targeting Lebanese state infrastructure

Hezbollah is trying to please all sides but with time they may have no option but to respond in kind
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The war in Lebanon is especially interesting. Not least because Israel has in the last two years identified the Litani River as its objective … a mere 7 miles away on 3 occasions. Somehow, despite spectacular military successes in each occasion, this remains the target for the next offensive. What’s happening? Is the much vaunted IDF unable to defeat the ragtag Hezbollah? Mon dieu! Surely not.
 
Falcon29 said:
Leadership of Middle East are in a scary and difficult situation.

I wouldn't want to be in their shoes. If Iran and Hezbollah are successfully weakened, I don't know what Israel does next.

Maybe assault Gaza again and pick a fight with Egypt ? Pick a fight with Syria and Turkey ? Or they stop and go back to status quo ?

Who's gonna put a stop to this ?
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This is precisely the paradigm that the world is now facing. The question is not who will stop it. The question is who is actually able to stop it, even if they want to?
 
Falcon29 said:
Hezbollah is active. I do feel bad for them. They're kind of alone like Hamas was.

GCC was rather quiet today. I'm unable to find much reports.

It's possible Iran is preparing strike packages for near end of Trump's new deadline which is 5-7 days away ?

It's okay for Iran to move assets into place and prepare more effective strike packages then sprinkle fire here and there to entertain us.

I think what people don't understand is Russia can guard it's airspace so it can keep building drones and going on forever. Iran is unable to guard its airspace nor prevent strikes on its homeland. They cannot engage in a war of attrition against Western powers like Russia or China can.
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Well @Immortals has been posting a lot of hits of GCC sites and Hezbollah can’t fight for years to come if it had to Israel would need to occupy all of Lebanon and the especially the valley itself where Israel would literally have to fight house to house forests and everything in between to try to dislodge Hezbollah they can try to burn everything from the air but that will only go so far they would have to send 100 plus thousand into Lebanon and hope West Bank Gaza and I’m going to throw this in the air because I don’t think Syria will ever actually fight Israel today tomorrow or any near future(not a dig on the guy but he isn’t a power player or piece that would actually scare the Israelis)
 
Shags101 said:
Well @Immortals has been posting a lot of hits of GCC sites and Hezbollah can’t fight for years to come if it had to Israel would need to occupy all of Lebanon and the especially the valley itself where Israel would literally have to fight house to house forests and everything in between to try to dislodge Hezbollah they can try to burn everything from the air but that will only go so far they would have to send 100 plus thousand into Lebanon and hope West Bank Gaza and I’m going to throw this in the air because I don’t think Syria will ever actually fight Israel today tomorrow or any near future(not a dig on the guy but he isn’t a power player or piece that would actually scare the Israelis)
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Agree they won't pick a fight with Israel. But Israel is not going to leave them alone. It's supporting a separatist Druze movement in the South which is controlling some Syrian territory, through force, as bargaining chip to get Syria to stand down from Golan Heights for any 'peace' deal or normalization.

Lebanese and Hezbollah should be able to defend larger part of Lebanon. That doesn't mean this isn't a difficult time for them. Their supporters some of them are normal civilian people just like in Gaza people cannot withstand such hard conditions.

It's an existential fight and such fights are not fun. What's happening in Iran does not bode well for Hamas and Hezbollah's future. It creates struggles for them.

It's not an easy situation is what I'm trying to get across
 
Falcon29 said:
Agree they won't pick a fight with Israel. But Israel is not going to leave them alone. It's supporting a separatist Druze movement in the South which is controlling some Syrian territory, through force, as bargaining chip to get Syria to stand down from Golan Heights for any 'peace' deal or normalization.

Lebanese and Hezbollah should be able to defend larger part of Lebanon. That doesn't mean this isn't a difficult time for them. Their supporters some of them are normal civilian people just like in Gaza people cannot withstand such hard conditions.

It's an existential fight and such fights are not fun. What's happening in Iran does not bode well for Hamas and Hezbollah's future. It creates struggles for them.

It's not an easy situation is what I'm trying to get across
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It’ doesn’t bode well for Syria to be fair when Arab countries are basically openly doing bibis bidding of Israel wants to carve out more territory is Syria really nothing he can do either fight back or just watch it happen(again not a dig but I don’t see anyone other than Iran putting up a fight just playing the lip service routine )
 
Shags101 said:

Iranian missiles shift toward strategic targets amid escalating Hezbollah barrages​


By Nour Odeh
Reporting from near Ramallah
What we’ve seen is a decrease in the number of Iranian missiles, but an increase in the kind of value of the targets that they’re aimed at.

We saw the oil refinery in Haifa, we saw the chemical plant in Beersheba, we saw a power station, one of the most important ones in Israel, in Hadera earlier, and at the same time, we’ve seen a decrease in the number of Iranian missiles and an increase in potency.

We’ve also seen an increase in the attacks from Hezbollah. Tonight, we saw a large barrage of rockets from Hezbollah targeting Nahariya, Acre and Haifa as well, we have seen reports of several sites of impact and some areas even affected to the point of losing electricity, at least for a short while, because of those rockets.

So, all of that is happening at the same time while the situation for ordinary Israelis continues. The state of emergency will not be lifted even now, when Israelis are going into the Passover holiday.
He agrees with me @Immortals
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Iran has burnt through Israel’s radar shield and her interceptor wall, so now is the time to impose a real cost on Israel, and take out some serious targets to establish a cost of war on Israel and therefore deterrence.

It’s taken a month to get to this point, Iran should not waste this opportunity again.
 
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Trump has been pressing US allies for weeks to send their own naval assets to the strait to escort tankers. He has grown increasingly frustrated that none have so far agreed to step in while the war is still ongoing. Meanwhile, the collective view among many foreign leaders is that Trump is looking to saddle them with a problem of his own making once he decides the war is over, according to officials familiar with the sentiments.
It’s really starting to look like even if Iran got battered as they did they won I think countries are now going to have to pay up big to use those straits again navy or navy Iran has full control of the straits and he can talk a big game but now we have an Iran that’s not going to play by the old rules anymore why would they no one else is so why should they play by those rules?
 
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Usual american strategy, kill lots of women and children, destroy civilian infrastructure and call the victims the terrorists and the greatest threat to the world. The sooner they lose the top spot of the world the better. Trumpy as many had thought is accelerating a new world order with a multi polar world, US no longer will rule the roost, they havnt achieved a single objective against a country with decades of sanctions, no airforce, no navy, no effective air defence against warplanes.

So what do the losers do start to destroy civilian infrastructure.

Iran should not allow any US ships through the SOH and threaten to bomb any US bases in the region preemptively if they try to fix them and repopulate them. Any country that sanctions Iran or has supported this war should have to pay a toll to cross the SOH. If they destroy Irans economic infrastructure then there are other ways to pay for it.

Iran could earn daily between $150-250m a day (not including their tankers). If half of these were friendly and they waive the free, then its still around $100m daily which translates to $36.5b a year.

Iran, do it!
 
Ali_Baba said:
Iran has burnt through Israel’s radar shield and her interceptor wall, so now is the time to impose a real cost on Israel, and take out some serious targets to establish a cost of war on Israel and therefore deterrence.
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Yes I am in the mindset Iran won’t let this slide like in the past they will spend every missile in their arsenal to destroy or badly damage Israel’s own infrastructure or nuclear sites if they don’t Israel will go back any time they wish in the future let Bibi burn no matter the costs it has to be done
 
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