Official Israel Vs. Iran 2025 thread: First post updates! US, Israel attacks set Iran back months at best. Ceasefire in effect. Everybody wins(?)

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5 hr 34 min ago

Israel warns Tehran residents will "pay a price" as Iran calls for unity​

From CNN's Rhea Mogul and Eugenia Yosef
Senior Iranian and Israeli officials have responded to the latest wave of deadly strikes on their respective countries.

Israel: After a night of bruising Iranian missiles strikes, some of which hit residential buildings, Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz voiced his anger.

“The arrogant dictator of Tehran has become a cowardly murderer,” he wrote on X. “The residents of Tehran will pay the price, and soon.”

Iran: President Masoud Pezeshkian called for unity and defended his country’s nuclear program.

“The people of Iran must join hands and stand strong against the aggression that has been launched against us,” Pezeshkian said, saying Iran were “not the aggressors.”

“We have every right to benefit from nuclear energy and to pursue research aimed at better serving the interests and meeting the objectives of our society,” Pezeshkian said in a statement released through Iran’s state media.

 

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Few hours later...






1 hr 49 min ago

Israel has "no intention" to harm residents of Tehran, defense minister clarifies​

From CNN’s Eugenia Yosef

A wounded man looks at his shirt following Israeli strikes on Tehran, Iran, on Sunday.
Amir Kholousi/WANA/Reuters

Israel has no intention of harming the residents of Tehran, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Monday, appearing to walk back comments he made hours earlier.

“I would like to clarify what should be obvious: There is no intention to physically harm the residents of Tehran, unlike what the murderous dictator (of Iran) is doing to the citizens of Israel,” Katz said on X.

Earlier, after Iranian strikes on Israel killed at least eight civilians, Katz had said that the residents of Tehran “will pay the price, and soon,” for the Iranian attacks on Israel.

Clarifying his comment, Katz said that Tehran residents “will have to pay the price of the dictatorship and evacuate their homes in areas where it will be necessary to strike regime targets and security infrastructure in Tehran.”

The Iranian capital has come under heavy bombardment since Israel launched its attack on the country overnight into Friday.

Israel says it has killed several high-level Iranian military commanders in those strikes, but Iranian civilians have also been caught in the assaults. At least 224 people have been killed in Iran since hostilities began Friday, the country’s health ministry said Sunday.

 

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1 hr 5 min ago

Israel raids prison cells in crackdown on Palestinian inmates "celebrating" Iranian attacks​

From CNN’s Eugenia Yosef and Christian Edwards
Israel said it had raided its prison cells after officials heard inmates making “expressions of joy” during a round of Iranian airstrikes against Israel.

“During the recent round of fighting, sounds of celebration were heard from criminal inmates who are residents of the Palestinian territories” in a prison in central Israel, the country’s prison service said Sunday.

It said the prison service’s elite “Metzada” unit had been called in to raid the cells and remove those involved.

In a video shared by the prison services, armed troops were seen storming a prison, pointing guns at inmates as they took cover on the floor of their cell. One of the men was seen lying face down as an officer bound his hands with a zip tie. Another man was blindfolded. Several men were then marched out of their cells, hunched over, with their arms tied behind their backs.

The prison service said the inmates were brought before a disciplinary tribunal and “subsequently disciplined,” without saying how.

It said the operation was carried out as part of National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s “zero tolerance” policy for expressing support for Israel’s adversaries.

During a visit to Petah Tikva, the central Israeli city where four people were killed in overnight Iranian attacks, Ben Gvir on Monday reiterated that authorities will crack down on anyone making “displays of joy” over Iran’s strikes on Israel.
“There is zero tolerance on this matter. The police have arrested quite a few people, and I back them — this is precisely my policy,” Ben Gvir said Monday.



The far-right minister referenced the “images” of prison guards entering cells with shotguns to “restore order” in the prisons.


“This is the policy I want,” he said. “Zero tolerance for displays of joy. Zero tolerance for those who support Iran. Support for Iran is support for terror, and anyone who supports terror must be detained.”

 

[BigMan]

If you’re just joining us​

Here’s what’s been happening:

• President Masoud Pezeshkian has urged Iranian people to unite as waves of Israeli missiles continue to cause extensive damage across the country, including the city of Kermanshah, where a hospital was hit.
• Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz says residents of Tehran will “pay the price” for Iran’s retaliatory attacks on Israel.
• The death toll from Iran’s overnight attacks on Israel rose to eight, with dozens more transferred to hospital for treatment for minor injuries, according to medics.
• An Iranian missile hit near a US Embassy building in Tel Aviv, causing minor damage, according to Washington’s envoy.
• A Foreign Ministry spokesman says Iran’s parliament is working on legislation to pull Tehran out of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons

The last one

 

[Robbie3000]

They are the undisputed GOATs of playing victim. They’ve have been bombing civilians for a year and a half, but then cry about their civilians being bombed with a straight face.

 

[LeVraiPapi]

So you pro Israel? nikka basically admitting they buy your politicians. Trash ass culture of Zionism. They basically the KKK of Jewish people.

I’m not but like I say I like how he went at Tucker and Candace. Those are enemies of progress on this country and propaganda machines

 

[ORDER_66]

They are the undisputed GOATs of playing victim. They’ve have been bombing civilians for a year and a half, but then cry about their civilians being bombed with a straight face.

The bizarre twilight zone hypocrisy when you get caught on camera and STILL lie is insanity... did they not genocide palestinians now they are the victim when they started all this...

the whole world needs to tell them point blank: YOU STARTED THIS...

 

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Iran going it alone in the fight against Israel​

Lina Khatib, a Middle East expert at the Chatham House think tank in London, says Iran is squaring off against Israel without any regional or international backing.
“Iran is battling it out alone,” said Khatib.
Russia will not come to Iran’s aid, she added, pointing out Moscow didn’t help Iran last year when Israel destroyed Russian-supplied air defences or when Iran’s ally, former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was ousted.
Russia is likely to limit its support for Iran to “strongly worded statements” and will use the conflict to present itself as a mediator, Khatib said.

 

[Admiral Ackbar]

Second video is clout chasing. Why is she being filmed?

The ass fat

 

[Guess Who]

Israel is intent on imploding itself.

 

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‘New Middle East’ will need nations to chart path forward​

Former Justice Minister Yossi Beilin says the Israeli government likely understands it cannot destroy Iran’s nuclear programme through bombing and without US military support.
“At a certain point, we will have to declare that we succeeded to defer the moment of nuclearisation but not to eliminate it – unless the United States is entering the scene,” said Beilin.
He said a big question during the current fighting is “the morning after, what are we going to do in the Middle East”, as it’s now at a crossroads.
“It’s a new situation and all of us – the Arab and Muslim countries – we will have to decide ‘what are we doing?'”
He noted in 1991 that then-US President George HW Bush brought regional leaders together for “a milestone” moment in Madrid, Spain, on achieving stability in the Middle East.
“Eventually, there’s no real reason why Iran and Israel can’t have agreements and peace,” Beilin said.

 

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‘Difficult balancing game’ for Russia as conflict escalates​

We’ve spoken to Nikolay Surkov, assistant professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, about Russia’s approach to the escalating crisis.
“Russia’s position was always that this war is not Russia’s war – and I think this approach is still maintained by the Russian leadership,” he told Al Jazeera. “Though, of course, under the current conditions, Russia will do its best to prevent further escalation.”
Surkov noted Iran’s fall would be a serious problem for Russia in the long run as it is an important part of Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS, as well as a country that promotes “the idea of a multipolar world”.
He added, however, that Russia is also very careful not to completely alienate Israel because of the good relations between the two countries, especially in the economic domain over the past decade.
“So, it’s a very difficult balancing game that Russia is trying to play,” Surkov said. “And Russia is sincerely trying to achieve some kind of a political solution.”

 

[Leasy]

I’m not but like I say I like how he went at Tucker and Candace. Those are enemies of progress on this country and propaganda machines

Those two have seen the light I don’t if you seen their recent video and discussions. They realized they been used

 

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37 min ago

Israeli opposition leader calls for US involvement in Iran conflict​

Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid has urged the United States to become involved in the war in Iran, helping Israel strike heavily fortified sites such as the nuclear enrichment facility at Fordow.

Lapid, who heads the Yesh Atid party, said the decision is up to US President Donald Trump, but added: “This is a threat for the entire globe.”

“I think it will be in everybody’s interest — the region, the world, the United States, and of course Israel. We trust President Trump is going to do the right thing,” Lapid told CNN’s Nic Robertson at the site of a missile impact in central Tel Aviv on Monday.

Lapid said Israel “will have to continue until we are sure that Iran doesn’t have the capability of becoming a nuclear threat to the people of Israel.”

On Sunday, CNN reported that Trump rejected an Israeli plan to kill Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Some context: Israel has carried out sweeping strikes against several of Iran’s nuclear facilities, as well as its ballistic missiles. But the Fordow plant is heavily fortified and would likely require US involvement if Israel’s goal was to ensure its destruction.

 

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4 min ago

Iran rules out negotiations with US until it completes retaliation against Israel, regional diplomat says​

From CNN’s Mostafa Salem
Iran told Oman and Qatar that it will not be engaging in negotiations with the United States while Iranian cities “remain under attack” from Israel, and until Tehran’s response is complete, a regional diplomat told CNN.

The diplomat said media reports saying Iran asked Oman and Qatar to mediate with the US to secure a ceasefire with Israel and restart nuclear talks “are inaccurate.”

The diplomat did not say when Iran plans to complete its retaliation.

Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi said over the weekend that the sixth round of negotiations between Tehran and Washington scheduled for yesterday was canceled, but “diplomacy and dialogue remain the only pathway to lasting peace.”

The state-run Oman News Agency said today that Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told the Sultan of Oman Haitham bin Tariq Al Said in a call today that he “supports diplomatic solutions through dialogue and negotiation.”

On Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that negotiations with the United States are “unjustifiable” amid Israeli strikes on Iranian cities.