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Israel Strikes Iran After Iranian Missile Attack,
Defying Trump's Request to Hold Off
Israel Strikes Iran After Iranian Missile Attack, Defying Trump's Request to Hold Off
Israel strikes Iran after missile attacks, defying Trump's call to hold off amid escalating conflict.
redstate.com
Israel conducted strikes on military targets in western and central Iran early Monday local time, the Israeli military announced, escalating a conflict that had already broken through the ceasefire just hours earlier when Iran fired multiple waves of missiles at Israel on Sunday.
The strikes came despite a direct phone call from President Trump to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, urging him not to retaliate immediately for the Iranian missile attack. A senior U.S. official told the Associated Press, on condition of anonymity to describe a private call, that Trump believed he had convinced Netanyahu to wait.
Israel struck anyway.
Trump’s public message to Iran on Sunday was to stand down. “What I would suggest to Iran: You’ve shot your missiles, that’s enough,” he said in a Fox News interview. “Get back to the table and make a deal.” The U.S. Embassy in Israel directed employees and their families to shelter in place shortly before the missile launches. U.S. Central Command posted on X that American forces across the Middle East were “vigilant and ready.”
Sunday's Collapse, a Ceasefire on Life Support
Sunday's collapse began with a Hezbollah drone attack on Dovev Barracks in northern Israel. Israel responded with airstrikes on Beirut's southern suburbs, hitting a residential building in the Mreijeh area that killed two people and wounded 20, according to Lebanon's health ministry. Washington had asked Israel not to strike Beirut. Israel did it anyway.
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Iran's response came in two waves. The IDF reported sirens going off across northern Israel as four missiles were launched in the first wave. Iranian state media then reported a second wave, which Israeli officials confirmed. The IDF said all missiles were intercepted. No injuries were reported.
Iran's military said Israel had "crossed all red lines" and warned that "if it expands its attacks in that area, or responds to Iran's action, it will face more forceful blows, and devastating attacks will be launched" against Israel and its supporters. The IDF, for its part, said it was already preparing for "a variety of defensive and offensive scenarios" before the Iranian launch.
Iran had warned before Sunday that an Israeli attack on Beirut would renew full-scale war across the Middle East, even as Pakistan and other mediators were trying to restart talks between Tehran and Washington. Israel struck Beirut. Iran fired on Israel. Israel struck Iran.
Trump had previously said that if Iran kills American troops, that would be "a good reason" to restart the war. No American casualties have been reported. But with Israel now having struck inside Iran over a direct presidential request to stand down, the distance between this moment and an open resumption of the war has narrowed considerably.
Commentary:
This is what happens when you do not simply defeat the enemy and bring them to their knees.
When you run a conflict management activity instead of defeating the enemy completely and decimating them, they always come back for more, especially if they are Islamic nut jobs.
Finish them off already!
Time to spin up the B-1's, B-2's and B-52's from Diego Garcia and wreck Iran....
