'Iran threats against Jewish targets in US growing'

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The threat against Israeli and Jewish targets in North America by Iran is on the rise, ABC news reported Friday, after the Iranian regime vocalized again its intention to aid in the fight against the "Zionist regime" in the face of Western sanctions.

Guarded and "soft sites," such as synagogues, community centers and schools, are the primary targets by Iran, a letter circulated by the Consul General for Mid-Atlantic States and obtained by ABC news claimed.

"We predict that the threat on our sites around the world will increase," the letter stated.

Police and intelligence officials have stepped up monitoring Israeli government buildings and Jewish centers in cities across the US and Canada, telling local officials to remain wary of the potential threat from Iran, such as the bombing of an Argentine community center in 1984 that killed 85 people.

This development has been ongoing for a number of weeks, ABC reported.

The report came after Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamanei said on Friday he had "no fear of saying that we will back and help any nation or group that wants to confront and fight against the Zionist regime (Israel)."

'Iran threats against Jewish tar... JPost - Iranian Threat - News

 

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U.S. anxiety grows over possible Israeli plans on Iran

European and U.S. diplomats say Obama administration worried about Israeli leaders' provocative public comments on Iran's nuclear program.

U.S. anxiety grows over possible Israeli plans on Iran - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News


Israel Vice PM: Military strike can hit all of Iran's nuclear facilities

All of Iran's nuclear faculties are vulnerable to a military strike, Vice Prime Minister and Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon said on Thursday, calling the potential of a nuclear Iran a "nightmare to the free world."

Israel Vice PM: Military strike can hit all of Iran's nuclear facilities - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

Hard to hear with all this Saber rattling

 

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U.S. anxiety grows over possible Israeli plans on Iran

European and U.S. diplomats say Obama administration worried about Israeli leaders' provocative public comments on Iran's nuclear program.

U.S. anxiety grows over possible Israeli plans on Iran - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News


Israel Vice PM: Military strike can hit all of Iran's nuclear facilities

All of Iran's nuclear faculties are vulnerable to a military strike, Vice Prime Minister and Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Ya’alon said on Thursday, calling the potential of a nuclear Iran a "nightmare to the free world."

Israel Vice PM: Military strike can hit all of Iran's nuclear facilities - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

Hard to hear with all this Saber rattling

Both the US and Israel are clearly preparing for military strikes against Iran, but both countries are democracies so neither can go to war until there is strong popular support for the action and in neither country is popular support quite strong enough yet. This is especially true in the US since it is an election year. Obama has to be concerned not only with total support for a military strike but especially with support within those segments of the population he hopes to win in the election.

When administration officials talk about "red lines" they are talking about reports of Iranian actions that would push popular support for a military strike high enough that, especially in an election year, such action would be virtually unavoidable.

Similarly in Israel where the Netanyahu government is considering calling early elections in the fall for domestic reasons, because of the possibility of a strong counter strike from Iran and its Arab proxies, Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the government wants strong popular support for a strike before it undertakes it.

Both governments are keeping Iran's nuclear weapons program and the possibility of a military strike in the news so that they can carefully gauge the political costs or benefits before taking action.

 

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Which Path to Persia? Options for a New American Strategy toward Iran

“If the United States were to decide that to garner greater international support, galvanize U.S. domestic support, and/or provide a legal justification for an invasion, it would be best to wait for an Iranian provocation, then the time frame for an invasion might stretch out indefinitely. With only one real exception, since the 1978 revolution, the Islamic Republic has never willingly provoked an American military response, although it certainly has taken actions that could have done so if Washington had been looking for a fight.

Thus it is not impossible that Tehran might take some action that would justify an American invasion and it is certainly the case that if Washington sought such a provocation, it could take actions that might make it more likely that Tehran would do so (although being too obvious about this could nullify the provocation). However, since it would be up to Iran to make the provocative move, which Iran has been wary of doing most times in the past, the United States would never know for sure when it would get the requisite Iranian provocation. In fact, it might never come at all.”

Which Path to Persia? - Brookings Institution

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