Sunday, June 15, 2025

Iran Is Struggling To Comprehend What Just Happened

First up, a look at some of the headlines from another of Iran's semi-official news sites, Tasnim News Agency.

Immediately before Israel attacked:
Iran Fully Prepared for Any Scenario, IRGC Chief Warns 

And then:

Iran Attacked by Israeli Regime

Roger that, clock ticking.

Except, the people who would plan and direct Iran's response are dead. 

All of which led to what is perhaps the weakest official statement to ever come out of Tehran, here via the Times of Israel, June 15:

Iran FM says attacks on Israel will end when its ‘aggression stops’; US must condemn Israel to prove goodwill

There is no doubt that when Iran has a deliverable nuclear weapon the Jew-killing will begin at a speed that will make the efforts of the Nazis look amateurish. And that's saying something. As noted in an April 2021 post:

....fully 25% of the Jews killed in the six years of World War II, 1.47 million people, were killed in one bestial ~100 day period: August, September, and October, of 1942. 445,700 murders per month. What the Holocaust scholars refer to as Hyperintense Kill Rates.....

but at the moment the Iranian leadership is reeling. Unfortunately, as we wrote in June 2024 and repeated in September 2024:

Reminder: "War Between Israel and Iran Is Inevitable

Following on the double humiliation of the assassination of Hamas' Ismail Haniyeh in his Tehran guest house in July and the attack of the pagers yesterday, over 3000 wounded from another Iranian proxy Hezbollah, and including the now blind Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amini, a repost from June 26:Just as the Jews mean it when they say "Never again," The Iranians mean it when they say they will destroy, annihilate, eradicate Israel. Some examples after the jump. 

A twofer. First up, the Washington Post, June 19:

Iran signals a major boost in nuclear program at key site
Hundreds of new centrifuges would triple Iran’s uranium enrichment capacity at a deeply buried underground nuclear facility. 

A major expansion underway inside Iran’s most heavily protected nuclear facility could soon triple the site’s production of enriched uranium and give Tehran new options for quickly assembling a nuclear arsenal if it chooses to, according to confidential documents and analysis by weapons experts.

Inspectors with the International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed new construction activity inside the Fordow enrichment plant, just days after Tehran formally notified the nuclear watchdog of plans for a substantial upgrade at the underground facility built inside a mountain in north-central Iran.

And from the Wall Street Journal, June 25, the headliner:

The question is now or later. Strategy argues for now, even if the politics might be better later. 

Israel faces a strategic choice with regard to Iran—war now or war later. The political conditions for war now are poor. The strategic conditions later will only grow worse. 

Iran’s goal is to destroy Israel as a uniquely Jewish state through a strategy of attrition. The mullahs hope to bind Israel in a series of conflicts and pressure it from multiple angles while using diplomacy and media manipulation to prolong the conflict. Tehran understands the potency of Israel’s military, which has adapted well to difficult urban and subterranean combat conditions in Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces field formidable air, artillery and armored units that, if unleashed in the north, would threaten the existence of Hezbollah, Iran’s most capable proxy. The Iranian deterrence strategy couples pressure on the U.S. with the threat of large-scale rocket and missile attacks against critical Israeli infrastructure.

Hamas is the most apparent element of Iran’s strategy. Iran wants the terrorist organization not only to maintain control of Gaza but to catapult itself into control of the Palestinian movement. The best way to do that is to compel the Israelis to accept a cosmetically appealing “peace agreement” involving the Arab states that allows Hamas to integrate into the Palestinian Authority and co-opt its necrotic rival, Fatah. The West Bank could then become another axis of pressure on Israel....

....MORE

The absolutely first-rate translators at the Middle East Media Research Institute have been translating the Persian/Farsi threats into English for a very long time:

Israel's Eradication – An Ideological And Practical Goal Of Iran's Islamic Revolution Regime

....Iranian Regime Officials On Destroying Israel – From Previous Years 

As noted, the policy of Israel's destruction is a central tenet of the Islamic regime's ideology, and it has been expressed consistently since the founding of the regime. The following are some examples of such expressions, from previous MEMRI reports:

And more recently, August 5, 2024 - Iran: "Advisor to IRGC Commander: Zionist Regime Will Not See 80th Birthday, Heavy Blow Awaiting It"

Inevitable.

The last shot will be fired from one of the Israeli submarines, destroying Tehran.

But before that another six million Jews will die and Israel will have ceased to exist.
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