Iran threatens to escalate if Israel attacks, says nuclear or oil targets a ‘red line’

https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-threatens-to-escalate-if-israel-attacks-says-nuclear-or-oil-targets-a-red-line/

44 Comments

  1. “In late 2023, Iran — which insists its nuclear program is strictly peaceful — accelerated its enrichment of uranium to up to 60 percent fissile purity, close to the 90% of weapons grade, at two sites. In theory it has enough material enriched to that level for almost four bombs, according to a yardstick of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN watchdog.”

    Seems like it’s inevitable that Iran will have nuclear weapons, so attacking nuclear sites is a rational decision by Israel. They face a much more dangerous future if they don’t.

  2. supercyberlurker on

    Terrorist regimes like Iran/Russia are learning to play on western ‘fears of escalation’.

    So now they attack, then claim any response is ‘escalation’ – because useful idiots will swallow it up.

  3. Artysupport7757 on

    No! You can’t thwart out efforts to make nukes, we wanted to use it against you! -Iran

  4. Sim_Daydreamer on

    At least came up with something new, “red line” has very interesting meaning now.

  5. If you punch someone in the face you don’t get to dictate where they punch you back

  6. They allready have atttacked Israel several times, also, they have lost every war they have started against Israel, tell us more avout how you gona escalate anything against Israel

  7. and this is exactly why the nuke sites need to be targeted. This will be their go to for the future, is the Russia playbook and it works.

  8. I feel like this only encourages Israel to hit those targets because now if they don’t, it looks like they backed off in the face of IRI threats. Seems like a bad misreading of the Israeli state mentality or a deliberate move to telegraph that IRI intends to escalate the conflict but also wants to cast themselves as the victim.

  9. I don’t think Israel take much notice of terrorists red lines, I reckon Iran has been taking advice from papa Putin.

  10. At this point it would be better if Iran went all in. It’s coming anyway and it would finally give (I hope) Biden enough reason to grow a spine and help our ally.

    Zero reason why the US can’t demolish Irans entire fleet, Air Force, and take out radar and anti aircraft systems to let Israel do its thing.

    That regime is a cancer on Israel, the middle east, and the Iranian people too. Let’s not forget that the regimes favored pastime is tossing gay people off rooftops.

  11. captsmokeywork on

    Unless they test a nuke in the next few days, at the very least Kharg island is gone.

    I don’t see Bebe not hitting the nuclear sites after the speeches he has given on the subject at the UN.

    He can now see a legacy of weakening Iran for a generation. He is going to do it.

    Either now or Nov 6th.

  12. coalitionofilling on

    Iran launched 180 ballistic missiles into Israel and have the balls to say what a “red line” is? Israel could literally declare war on them immediately if they wanted to.

  13. This is the global political equivalent of “the slap” episode of how I met your mother.

    Israel: I owe you a slap
    Iran: *says a lot of things*
    Israel: one slap. You won’t know when.

  14. PolarizingKabal on

    Sweet. So taking out the ayatollah isn’t.

    Israel has shown they can reach out and touch anyone they want.

    Time for regime change.

  15. While they blindly launch 180 missiles …regardless of what they hit

    Double standard

  16. I don’t claim to be an expert on international relations, but I’m pretty sure that if you launch several hundred missiles at a country, they might get mad and attack back.

  17. CaptainOktoberfest on

    Maybe Iran shouldn’t have launched multiple different attacks at Israel both directly and through proxies.  

    Best way to deal with a bully is a punch to the mouth.

  18. I would be worried if I was in their position as well. You just fired a shit load of balistic missiles at another state and they have not retaliated, yet. You can bet they are planning something “extra special” for you, so you threaten them with the big stick. It is a bit different from beating up defenceless women for not wearing heads coverings. The problem Iran has with Isreal is that it is not defenceless or worried about the big stick.

  19. Minimum-Enthusiasm14 on

    Well, I don’t see any mention of the nation’s leaders. So maybe Israel should pay a visit to the house of the ayatollah.

  20. InnocentExile69 on

    What’s the escalation?

    Will they unleash their proxies? Already done.

    Directly fire off 100s of ballistic missiles directly? Did that already….twice.

    What exactly new do they plan to do to escalate?

  21. Can anyone explain why these countries start wars and then cry foul when their victim fights back?

  22. How about the largest ballistic missile attack ever in the history of the world fired at another country? Is that a “Red Line?”

    No country in the world would allow that. And this is the second time

  23. Masculine_Dugtrio on

    Guess they didn’t consider that they all crossed Israel’s redline? 🤷 181 rockets aimed at civilians will do that. (Fucking dip shits).