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As an Israeli retaliation for Iran's massive ballistic missile strike looms, the Biden White House has decided to deploy a six-launcher battery of Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missiles to shore up Israel's air defenses, and at least 96 US soldiers will man the missile battery. //
THAAD was developed as part of the ballistic missile defense program and has proven itself effective against Iranian-designed missiles. THAAD can counter short-, medium-, and intermediate-range ballistic missile threats and is the only U.S. system designed to intercept targets outside and inside the atmosphere. //
In previous Iranian attacks on Israel, US aircraft and warships have engaged Iranian cruise missiles and drones but only in international airspace. This deployment not only places American soldiers in Israel as the region slides, inexorably, in my view, toward a regional war that has the possibility of going nuclear; see Israel Hammering Iran's Proxy Armies Sends a Clear Message to Tehran That the Rules Have Changed – RedState, it marks the beginning of positive rather than incidental participation in the brewing war.
Purrl
10 hours ago
To me what this signals is Biden ignoring his pro-Iran advisors. As much as I despise the man, until he became a vegetable he was a pretty strong supporter of Israel (IIRC), and now that he's in full "screw you" mode I suspect he's reverting to type. Also, still in awe of the level of love for the mullahs displayed by the State Department; there's no good reason whatsoever to protect Iran's nuclear facilities.
But whatever his reason for adding another layer of defense for Israel, I approve. //
streiff wildmlm
11 hours ago
we are all pretty sure that Iran has enough fissile material (they were 2-3 months from that point in 2015 according to the Obama administration. They probably have a nuke ready to test. We know they have the delivery system.
Black Magic streiff
9 hours ago
Yes, Streiff is probably totally correct, and if anything is possibly low in his estimate.
And the Iranians idea of a test, will likely be to launch the missile at Israel and see if it works.
May God bless and watch over the Israelis.
And I truly pray he is still willing to bless and watch over America after the evil of the last 4 years.
Purrl wildmlm
10 hours ago
For the most part, anything you can put a conventional warhead on you can put a nuke on.
streiff Purrl
10 hours ago
once you have the fissile material, the rest is an engineering problem that was first solved 70 years ago.
Iran had already been concerned for years that Mossad, an Israeli intelligence agency, had infiltrated Tehran’s ranks, the outlet reported. Following Nasrallah’s death, that concern has grown larger — and Iranian officials have become worried about Khamenei’s safety, officials and sources close to the matter told Reuters.
“The trust that held everything together has disappeared,” an Iranian official told Reuters.
“[Khamenei] no longer trusts anyone,” another source close to the Iranian regime told Reuters. //
Authorities have opened investigations to see whether some Iranian officials or members of Iran’s military are compromised, another Iranian official told Reuters. The investigations are particularly centered around officials who travel or have family outside the country.
Authorities are reportedly suspicious of Iranian military members who have recently been in Lebanon, one of the officials told Reuters. One of the military members had recently been asking about Nasrallah’s location, raising eyebrows among other officials. That individual was arrested, along with several others, the official told Reuters. //
Chillypod anon-ymous99 an hour ago
Mossad is freaking the Iran leaders out and it's probably by design. They will not trust their most trusted people right now and it's great. Think about them arresting their own close people, it's bound to make quite a few other ones very nervous. //
KJSpeed Chuck in TX 2 hours ago
It would be like Israel to plant incriminating evidence on anyone they want taken out. Let the Ayatollah be the means to his own end. //
veritaseequitas 2 hours ago
Mohammad nowhere to be found. No comfort, no peace, no absence of fear.
Islam is a cult, worshipping a man. //
DonH-Texas 2 hours ago edited
Isn't it odd that the ayatollahs are not so ready to be martyred as they are to send off their flunkies to die? They act a whole lot like godless politicians in secular states.
If you want to know what people really are, don't rely on what they say, look at what they do. //
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The missiles hitting Israel right now are the same ones Biden and Harris worked to lift UN sanctions on the first month he took office.
They said it would help promote diplomacy with Iran.
12:54 PM · Oct 1, 2024 //
Brytek
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Wars end when you annihilate the opposition or force an unconditional surrender, wars on end begin with proportional responses. Perhaps Israel has learned anyone pushing a proportional response is not their friend and is in fact the worst kind of enemy to have, as all it does is bleed both sides whilst the “allies” military industrial complex sell weapons to both sides, while draining their own populations of wealth to fund it.
PM tells world to choose peace and battle ’Iranian curse’; vows to keep hitting Hezbollah; says Hamas must go; denounces UN; promises Israel ’won’t go gently into that good night’ //
The full text of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the United Nations General Assembly, September 27, 2024, as provided by the Prime Minister’s Office.
The Israel Air Force launched at least seven airstrikes against the Houthi port city of Hodeidah in retaliation to a ballistic missile fired at Tel Aviv. The strikes hit the port's tank farm and a power plant.
The Israel Defense Force's Chief of the General Staff, General Herzi Halevi, describes the action this way: “This is not a message, it is an action — an action that carries a message with it.”
Message indeed.
Last night, we saw another "action that carries a message with it." The Israel Defense Force crossed into southern Lebanon to eradicate the Hezbollah presence from where it has no right to be under UN Resolution 1701.
For decades, the Iranian regime has used Hezbollah and the Houthis as a shield to protect itself from its actions. The Houthis could be relied upon to close the Red Sea during a crisis and jack up shipping rates to pressure the civilized world to bow to Tehran. Hezbollah was Iran's ace-in-the-hole that made any decision by Israel to attack Iran's nuclear weapons infrastructure guaranteed to provoke an attack on Israeli cities by Hezbollah.
Israel has decided to break this strategic stalemate. //
Iran's main strategic partner, Russia, is mired in a war in Ukraine. It no longer has the weapons to send to Iran, and no sane person is in awe of Russia's military.
Hamas has totally collapsed, and its leadership is either dead or trying to find a clean pair of brown trousers in the bunker.
The failed April 13 Iranian missile and drone blitz of Israel reveals just how flimsy and inferior its offensive weaponry was when confronted by Israel's defenses. This further degraded Iran's ability to deter Israeli action.
The Hezbollah ally they have cultivated for a half-century has been decapitated like no other combatant in history. In the space of less than two weeks, the entire "middle management" of Hezbollah was gutted by a wave of exploding pagers and other electronic devices... //
Iran will now accelerate its move to nuclear breakout, but the air attack on Hodeidah, Yemen, and the removal of Hezbollah forces as a cohesive fighting unit sent another message.
The range circle depicts the distance from Tel Aviv to Hodeidah.
Iran's nuclear weapons project is within the range of Israeli air power, and they won't have to fly over Hezbollah-manned air defense sites in Lebanon to get to them.
Look at the tweet from former prime minister Naftali Bennett last night, using very strong language, saying: “This is the greatest opportunity in 50 years to change the face of the Middle East.” He was arguing that Israel should go after Iran’s nuclear facilities, in order to “fatally cripple this terrorist regime”.
Now he’s not prime minister (although he is widely tipped to be a future one, so he was making a point to show he is tough) but it does reflect a certain mood in the country.
I would not rule out attacks by Israel on anything at the moment – nuclear sites, petrochemical facilities, anything that could cause damage to the Iranian economy.
The scenario always was that Iran had a forward defence in the shape of Hezbollah in Lebanon, with a massive arsenal of sophisticated weapons, to be used, in theory, if Iran and its nuclear facilities were attacked.
But in the last couple of weeks, Israel has decapitated the Hezbollah organisation, destroyed half of its weapons, according to American and Israeli authorities; and invaded Lebanon.
The deterrent Iran had, you could argue, is not just gone – it’s smashed into a thousand pieces. So I think the Israelis are feeling more free to act. And Joe Biden is moving another carrier battle group to the Mediterranean, signalling to the Iranians that if you hit Israel, you hit the US too.
jPeter Moss | October 1, 2024 at 1:07 pm
This brought to you by weak horses – Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama and Joe Biden – who have done their level best to back the mullahs and their 7th century nonsense.
The blood is on their hands.
Prayers for the good people of Israel as they (finally) take care of family business.
akebizlaw in reply to Peter Moss. | October 1, 2024 at 1:28 pm
Iran lighting candles for Jimmy Carter’s 100th birthday cake. 45 years of American pusillanimity and left wing cowardice.
oden in reply to Peter Moss. | October 1, 2024 at 1:49 pm
Carter lies at the root of the Iran menace. Way way back in the 1970s I attended a classified talk by Iranian expert. She was fluent in Farsi, and spent her career specializing in Iran. Iran was once a US ally and friendly towards Israel. We supplied high-end weapons to Iran. But Carter decided Iran had a human rights problem, and the Shah had to go. She went into details on how the Islamic revolution in Iran played out. The world, especially Israel is paying the price for Carter’s disastrous foreign policy. In my opinion, (and many others as well) Carter was our worst president in terms of the lasting damage he did. Others conclude he was not an honorable man. For example Robert Novak called him the biggest liar in Washington, which is saying a lot. Not being an insider, I have no idea if this is actually true. He would have a lot of competition.
We know from Genesis in the Torah that Abraham struck a deal with G_d. Sodom would be spared if he could find ten righteous men (down from 50). He couldn’t, so Sodom was destroyed. Well DC has about 1,000 times the population of ancient Sodom. Could we find 10,000 righteous men in today’s Washington? I don’t think so. I doubt we could even find ten.
UN Secretary General António Guterres:
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I condemn the broadening of the Middle East conflict with escalation after escalation.
This must stop.
We absolutely need a ceasefire.
1:26 PM · Oct 1, 2024
Israel ישראל @Israel
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We condemn your inability to string together a tweet which holds Iran responsible for firing 181 ballistic missiles at 10 million Israeli civilians.
1:52 PM · Oct 1, 2024
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You’ve gotta be kidding.
You condemn”the broadening”?!
You just aren’t able to blurt the simple words “I condemn the Islamic Republic of Iran who just shot roughly 180 deadly ballistic missiles towards the citizens of Israel.”
Quit.
2:10 PM · Oct 1, 2024
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Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon: "Let me be very clear: we will defend our people. We will act. Iran will soon feel the consequences of their actions. The response will be painful."
4:44 PM · Oct 1, 2024
If you’re an anti-Israel terrorist these days, it must be hard getting to sleep. There’s a good chance you won’t wake up.
Now, the Islamic Republic’s former president is admitting that the Israelis even managed to penetrate Iranian security services that were… wait for it… tasked with targeting the Jewish state’s intelligence service, Mossad. I’m sorry, but it’s hard not to laugh.
The head of an Iranian secret service unit set up to target Mossad agents working in the Islamic Republic turned out to be an Israeli agent himself, according to former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Speaking to CNN Turk, Ahmadinejad claimed Monday that a further 20 agents in the Iranian intelligence team tasked with monitoring Israeli spying activities also turned against Tehran.
The alleged double agents provided Israel with sensitive information on the Iranian nuclear program, according to his comments in the interview, which were widely picked up by international media. //
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You would think it is a joke, but it isn’t
Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in an interview with @cnnturk said that Iran’s secret services had created a special unit to combat Mossad operating in Iran. However, turns out the head of this unit was himself a Mossad agent, along with 20 other agents, who were responsible for multiple intelligence operations in Iran including stealing nuclear docs and assassinating several Iranian nuclear scientists before allegedly fleeing to Israel
I can’t stop laughing, that’s too bad*** even for you. [Laughing emojis]
9:07 AM · Sep 30, 2024
https://x.com/just_whatever/status/1840740215738060952
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The head of the counterintelligence unit was revealed as a double agent in 2021 but he and all of the other alleged Mossad moles were able to flee the country and are now living in Israel...
Brian | September 29, 2024 at 11:28 am
[QUOTE] Israel now finds itself with the threat from Gaza mostly neutralized and the opportunity to neutralize Hezbollah in the north. It’s unfortunate how we got here but maybe there can be a silver lining in the end. [/QUOTE]
Yes, I view the two, Hamas and Hezbollah, as the Iranian equivalent of a “fleet in being.”
A “fleet in being” is a naval force that extends a controlling influence without ever leaving port. Were the fleet to leave port and face the enemy, it might lose in battle and no longer influence the enemy’s actions, but while it remains safely in port, the enemy is forced to continually deploy forces to guard against it.” (Wikipedia)
Iran has lost the influence of it’s “fleet in being” as a force that could deter Israel.
So Iran is now isolated – naked as a Jaybird, one might say, to he whims or plans of Israel.
Brian in reply to Brian. | September 29, 2024 at 11:51 am
I might also suggest that under the Biden/Harris administration, the US removed sanctions from Iran and paid several billion $$ to them in ransom for a few Iranian/US hostages, and has consistently urged Israel to restrain itself and substitute negotiations and a ceasefire for definitive kinetic military operations.
If that wasn’t enough (!) to convince Israel that the US was an Iranian asset, Kamala’s snubbing of Netanyahu when he was in the US in favor of her addressing as sorority was proof beyond doubt that the US was not going to protect Israel from Iran.
So Israel (wisely) decided to abandon the US strategy of urging caution and negotiations rather than military operations.
And thus, behind the degradation of Hamas and now Hezbollah, did the final check on Israel’s restraint – US influence on Israel – collapse.
“And now, over the past six weeks or so, Israel has eliminated as many terrorists on the US list of wanted terrorists as the US has done in the last 20 years.” //
Former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and advisor, Jared Kushner, had some wise words yesterday about Israel.
Israel has to finish the job. Now. She cannot stop.
People have responded, “I don’t agree with you politically at all, but this is true!”
Kushner wrote:
September 27th is the most important day in the Middle East since the Abraham Accords breakthrough.
I have spent countless hours studying Hezbollah and there is not an expert on earth who thought that what Israel has done to decapitate and degrade them was possible.
This is significant because Iran is now fully exposed. The reason why their nuclear facilities have not been destroyed, despite weak air defense systems, is because Hezbollah has been a loaded gun pointed at Israel. Iran spent the last forty years building this capability as its deterrent. //
But today, with the confirmed killing of Nasrallah and at least 16 top commanders eliminated in just nine days, was the first day I started thinking about a Middle East without Iran’s fully loaded arsenal aimed at Israel. So many more positive outcomes are possible.
A White House official told CNN that the administration believes Iran will soon attack Israel with ballistic missiles.
Another official, don’t know if it’s the same one, told Fox News, “We are actively supporting defensive preparations to defend Israel against this attack. A direct military attack from Iran against Israel will carry severe consequences for Iran.”
IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari said “that as of now, no aerial threats have been launched at Israel from Iran.”
Israel has taken the gloves off and sent in the exterminators, and the rats are running for cover. One of the rats is Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has reportedly been moved to a "secure location" within Iran:
The Israeli Defense Forces confirmed the death of Lebanese Hezbollah leader and all-around terrorist Hassan Nasrallah Saturday following a massive Israeli airstrike on a Hezbollah command bunker Friday. //
Nasrallah died as he lived, cowering behind a shield of women and children.
If you were expecting outrage in the region, you need to think again.
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Syrians are handing out sweets and celebrating the elimination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah (his death is not officially confirmed)
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These people who suffered from Hezbollah's thuggishness and the perpetual war it created are not sad to see Nasrallah and his ilk destroyed.
It is too early to draw definitive lessons from Israel's post-October 7th campaign against institutional terrorism in the Middle East, but I think there are reasons to be hopeful.
When the much-maligned Jared Kushner undertook his mission to rearrange the strategic map of the Middle East, he intuited that attempting to negotiate with the "Palestinian" leadership was a dead end for the simple reason that those people knew the only way they could stay in power was by promoting victimhood and refusing to negotiate. When the farcical "two state solution" was abandoned, Israel was able to achieve normalized, or at least non-hostile relations with historic foes such as Saudi Arabia. //
If that strategic void is filled by anyone other than Iran's stooges, then the region's security structure could be reordered. I would argue the region is tired of fighting and would really like to do something else, and absent the Iranian-grafted cancer that is Hezbollah, change is possible.
Just two final points. First, Netanyahu's speech at the UN spelled out the issue in no uncertain terms. The region can stagger on in a state of poverty, terrorism, and warfare, or it can pull the plug on the old way of doing business and work together to lift up all nations in the region.
This is not hyperbole; this is a crossroads.
Second, the idea that warfare is an exercise in proportionality has been permanently discredited. I'm a Catholic, and before that, I was an ardent student of military history. I understand "Just War" theory, and I also understand why it is wrong. A proportionate response is guaranteed to prolong conflicts and increase casualties on both sides. As a Southerner, I think the South was much better off for Sherman's March to the Sea and Phil Sheridan's rampage up the Shenandoah Valley than it would have been if the war had extended for another two or three years as the Army of the Potomac ground its way through Virginia and North Carolina. Proportionality is a sop to the conscience; it is nothing more than virtue signaling. Israel's response to the October 7 Massacre is showing the very real possibility of ending the so-called "cycle of violence." //
Which brings me to my last point. Overwhelming violence works. While we may all prefer negotiations to violence, there are times when there is nothing to talk about. Slaughtering 1,200 Israelis brings about such a time. A lot of my friends during the early days of the Iraq War were fond of saying, "you can't kill your way out of a problem." That is false. There may be reasons you don't want to do that, or you may suffer from a lack of ambition or motivation, but to say you can't kill enough people to make the problem go away is fatuous nonsense.
In an impassioned speech before the UN General Assembly on September 27, 2024, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spelled out to the world that Israel is done with international efforts to placate or excuse Hamas and Hezbollah. He declared there would be no peace until the terrorist organizations dedicated to the mass murder of Jews and the eradication of Israel are themselves eradicated.
Netanyahu started his speech by stating he originally had zero interest in attending the UN meeting this year, but felt compelled to do so in order to combat the lies of those claiming Israel was unjustifiably aggressive in combating terror. //
Netanyahu stated to those gathered that Iran was and is a threat to not only Israel but the civilized world as a whole.
And that is the choice we face today: the curse of Iran’s unremitting aggression or the blessing of a historic reconciliation between Arab and Jew. In the days that followed that speech, the blessing I spoke of came into sharper focus.
Netanyahu reminded the UN that before the Hamas-committed obscene atrocities of October 7, 2023, the Middle East was close to enjoying genuine peace as it has ever been since Israel’s formation in 1948. //
I have a message for the tyrants of Tehran: If you strike us, we will strike you. There is no place—there is no place in Iran—that the long arm of Israel cannot reach. And that’s true of the entire Middle East. //
This is the map I presented here last year. It’s a map of a blessing.
It shows Israel and its Arab partners forming a land bridge connecting Asia and Europe. Between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, across this bridge, we will lay rail lines, energy pipelines, and fiber optic cables, and this will serve the betterment of 2 billion people.
He next displayed a map of the present reality.It’s a map of a curse. It’s a map of an arc of terror that Iran has created and imposed from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean. Iran’s malignant arc has shut down international waterways.
It cuts off trade, it destroys nations from within, and inflicts misery on millions. On the one hand, a bright blessing—a future of hope. On the other hand, a dark future of despair. And if you think this dark map is only a curse for Israel, then you should think again.
Because Iran’s aggression, if it’s not checked, will endanger every single country in the Middle East, and many, many countries in the rest of the world, because Iran seeks to impose its radicalism well beyond the Middle East.
That’s why it funds terror networks on five continents. That’s why it builds ballistic missiles for nuclear warheads to threaten the entire world. For too long, the world has appeased Iran. It turned a blind eye to its internal repression. It turned a blind eye to its external aggression. Well, that appeasement must end. And that appeasement must end now. //
And now I have a question, and I pose that question to you: What choice will you make? Will your nation stand with Israel? Will you stand with democracy and peace? Or will you stand with Iran, a brutal dictatorship that subjugates its own people and exports terrorism across the globe //
I have a message for you: Israel will win this battle. We will win this battle because we don’t have a choice.
After generations in which our people were slaughtered, remorselessly butchered, and no one raised a finger in our defense, we now have a state. We now have a brave army, an army of incomparable courage, and we are defending ourselves.
As the book of Samuel says in the Bible:
“נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר”
“The eternity of Israel will not falter”.
In the Jewish people’s epic journey from antiquity, in our odyssey through the tempest and upheavals of modern times, that ancient promise has always been kept and it will hold true for all time.
To borrow a great poet’s phrase: Israel will not go gently into that good night. We will never need to rage against the dying of the light because the torch of Israel will forever shine bright.
To the people of Israel and to the soldiers of Israel, I say: Be strong and of good courage.
“חִזְק֣וּ וְאִמְצ֔וּ אַל־תִּֽירְא֥וּ וְאַל־תַּעַרְצ֖וּ מִפְּנֵיהֶ֑ם כִּ֣י ה’ אֱלֹקיךָ ה֚וּא הַהֹלֵ֣ךְ עִמָּ֔ךְ לֹ֥א יַרְפְּךָ֖ וְלֹ֥א יַעַזְבֶֽךּ”
עם ישראל חי
The people of Israel live now, tomorrow, forever”.
The Islamic Republic imposes strict rules on Iranian life. This extended photo collection shows Iranian society prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution and, it’s obvious that Iran was a very different world.
It was also a world that was looking brighter for women. And, as everyone knows, when things get better for women, things get better for everyone. After the revolution, the 70 years of advancements in Iranian women’s rights were rolled back virtually overnight.
It turns out that, in the history of Twitter, now X, the most-liked Farsi (Iranian) language post on that platform came from a source that may surprise you - Donald Trump.
The post reportedly says in part: “I have stood with you since the beginning of my presidency and my government will continue to stand with you.”
Now, among the members of the Iranian diaspora - people who oppose the rule of the mullahs in Iran, many of whom fled the country after the Islamic revolution - are forming an "Iranians for Trump" movement. As unlikely as that sounds, it makes more sense than one might think. //
Iran - Persia - is a nation and a people with a long history. It wasn't always a nutcase theocracy ruled by Bronze Age lunatics. It was, as recently as 1979, a modern nation. It could be again. Under a Kamala Harris presidency, though, the Iranian advocates for dumping the mullahs and returning some sanity to Persia won't stand a chance. And as long as the mullahs remain in power, Iran will continue to be the world's number-one state sponsor of terror. //
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People with good memory recall that Obama refused to support the Green Revolution in Iran under the guise of "no interference in internal affairs of another country" but later interfered in Egypt and Libya.
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The State Department Inspector General has released a blistering report documenting how probable Iranian agent-of-influence Robert Malley was allowed to have access to highly classified information and meetings even after his security clearance was belatedly pulled by the Biden-Harris regime for mishandling classified information. Unlike former President Trump, Malley was never prosecuted for his mishandling of classified information even though he was closely affiliated with an Iranian-sponsored group dubbed the “Iran Experts Initiative” (IEI), a network of influential academics and researchers across the world who would advocate on behalf of Tehran on several important issues. //
In addition to lying, the State Department did not take action to limit Malley's access to highly classified information and meetings. Rather the opposite, the State Department's senior leadership hid Malley's lack of security clearance so it could not be enforced. //
It isn't clear exactly what resulted in the suspension of Malley's clearance, as the State Department has refused to explain it to Congress. What is clear is that Iranian media is the best source of information on his suspension. //
The Tehran Time’s article is just the latest in a string of scoops the outlet has published about the Malley affair, including U.S. government documents, audio recordings of the diplomat, and dates and reasons tied to his departure. So far, most have proven to be accurate. //
The long-term protection and coddling of Malley, a guy who can be described without malice or hyperbole as a hardcore Iranian sympathizer, shows the degree to which hostile foreign powers penetrate the Biden-Harris gang. The "investigation" of Malley of improperly handling classified information is both an exemplar and a warning. It is an exemplar in that the Department of Justice is pursuing a political prosecution of former president Donald Trump on that point, while the documents in question were stored in a place guarded by the Secret Service, but are unwilling to prosecute someone in Kamala Harris's circle who seems to have given classified information to Iran. It is a warning because if Harris is elected, Malley's investigation will go away, and he'll end up with a senior position at the State Department or the National Security Council.
But Iran? If Iran were to obtain a nuke, either by building their own or just buying one from North Korea or Pakistan, that might very well be the flashpoint. This is a line that has not been crossed since 1945, and was Iran to torch off a nuke in Haifa - or New York - that would almost certainly plunge the world into conflict.
Watch Iran. Watch the least stable players. Hopefully, reason will prevail, but as von Clausewitz famously said, "Only the dead have seen the end of war."