Official Israel Vs. Iran 2025 thread: First post updates! Ceasefire On! Iran launches their SEVENTH wave of missiles. Confirmed deaths/destruction

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Israel says it attacked several military sites in Iran​


More than 50 Israeli air force planes have carried out an attack in Iran, targeting alleged “centrifuge” and “weapons productions sites” in the country, the Israeli military said.
In a statement posted on Telegram, the military said the latest attack was carried out “under precise intelligence guidance” from the country’s intelligence.
The military claimed the attack was “part of the extensive effort to damage Iran’s nuclear weapons development programme”.
Iran, however, has denied that it is developing nuclear weapons, and the UN watchdog IAEA as well as US intelligence community have made similar assessments in their most recent reports.
The Israeli statement said that it also attacked manufacturing plants involved in the production “of raw materials and components” for assembling surface-to-surface missiles being used against Israel.
An Israeli fighter jet flies, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, as seen from Israel, January 14, 2025. REUTERS/Amir Cohen


Israel’s military said that more than 50 Israeli air force planes carried out a massive attack against Iranian targets on Tuesday night [Amir Cohen/Reuters]
 

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Analysis: Trump may be on the brink of a huge gamble​

From CNN's Stephen Collinson
It might be happening again. A president is being driven by events, fear of proliferating weapons of mass destruction, and the need to back up his own words, toward a shock-and-awe entry into a Middle East conflict with no guaranteed way out.

Expectations are growing in Washington that Donald Trump will soon heed Israeli calls to try to strike a decisive blow against Iran’s nuclear program, using bunker-busting weapons that only the US can deliver.

The president’s rhetoric took a sharp turn following the apparent success of Israel’s early barrage that wiped out top military leaders and nuclear scientists and severely degraded Iran’s capacity to defend itself.

Trump is warming to the idea of using US military assets to strike Iranian nuclear sites and souring on his previous unsuccessful attempt to settle the issue through talks with Iran. As always with Trump, we must ask whether his tough talk is for real. Perhaps he is trying to bully Iran back to diplomacy and the “unconditional surrender” he demanded on social media.

Trump may be on the brink of a huge gamble that would repudiate his own political principles.

His own scathing contempt for US presidents who pushed regime change played a huge role in the former reality star’s dive into politics. If he goes to war in Iran, Trump will be ignoring a loud sector of his MAGA movement. The “America First” president would become the kind of interventionist he despised.

Still, there is a loophole in Trump’s isolationism. He’s always insisted that Iran, given its threats to eradicate Israel and sworn enmity with the US, would never be allowed to get a nuclear weapon.

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:snoop: we just might we watching the start of WWIII

Other countries are gonna be scrambling for Nuclear armaments now. Why bother with an agreement or a treaty if Israel will just pressure the US into leaving the deal whenever?
Folks aren't letting that sink in for whatever reason.

shyt, we will know how much Netanyahu has on the US if AFTER this, we continue "Cleansing" the Middle East. You don't stop when you on a roll right? :francis:
 

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What’s in a US Navy carrier strike group?

From CNN’s Brad Lendon
The US Navy is expected to have two aircraft carrier strike groups, one led by the USS Nimitz and the other by the USS Carl Vinson, available for contingencies in the Middle East.

The USS Nimitz group left Southeast Asian waters on Monday to head to the region where it would join the USS Vinson group, which has been in the Middle East as part of a roughly seven-month deployment, according to the US officials.

Here’s a look at what a US carrier strike group brings to bear:

Both Nimitz and Vinson are Nimitz-class carriers, powered by two nuclear reactors. With a length of almost 1,100 feet and a displacement of almost 100,000 tons, they are among the biggest warships in the world, accommodating a crew of more than 5,000 people.

They can carry a mix of more than 60 aircraft including F-35 stealth fighter jets (on the Vinson only), F/A-18 fighter jets, EA-18 electronic warfare jets, E-2 airborne early warning and control planes, and helicopters.

Joining the carrier in the strike group are guided-missile destroyers and/or guided-missile cruisers, which are responsible for the group’s air defense and anti-submarine warfare.

The destroyers and cruisers are also armed with Tomahawk cruise missiles for hitting targets hundreds of miles from the carrier group.

A fast-attack submarine, which can also fire Tomahawk cruise missiles, often works with a strike group, but the US Navy rarely reveals its specific sub movements and locations.
 
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