Trump Proclaims War Won’t Last ‘Too Long’ After Yesterday ‘Love-Tap’ On US Bases By Iran
Trump again reiterated in afternoon comments to reporters that the military campaign against Iran won’t last too long. Of course, we’ve heard this many times before, also amid reports that White House aides are urging ‘quiet’ related to the Iran…
Trump again reiterated in afternoon comments to reporters that the military campaign against Iran won’t last too long. Of course, we’ve heard this many times before, also amid reports that White House aides are urging ‘quiet’ related to the Iran conflict until at least after November midterm elections, after which operations could ramp up again.
“We blew up much more than their radar last night, it was a very heavy attack last night. And we’re prepared to do another one any time we want,” he stated.
“We hit them last night because they took a shot at our base in Jordan,” he continued, confirming the Iranian retaliation. “We hit them hard last night. They gave a little love-tap, but we hit them hard.”
He also described that “some defensive, some offensive” Iranian radars and capabilities along the Strait of Hormuz were taken out.
Trump says that while the US is ready to strike Iran “at any time”, he doesn’t expect the renewed fighting to last “too long”.
Another interesting moment below… these numbers keep getting inflated, despite there not being any evidence of large-scale protests and violent suppression on the ground in recent months:
Trump in Oval described Iranian actions against protesters. They use “machine guns and sometimes the snipers. They like the snipers better because all they do is have a crowd of 200,000 people, and a person goes down here right between the eyes, and they’ll have three snipers doing it, and it’s a horrible thing to watch.”
What’s the timeline on this? What is he talking about?
Netanyahu has also joined in from Israel, on Wednesday saying that Mossad continues to be active in Iran, and that the goal is regime collapse.
Iran is assessing the aftermath in terms of casualties and damage in the wake of the new flare-up in fighting, after the US launched a series of deadly attacks on the Islamic Republic Tuesday, focused in the south and Hormuz Strait area, and Tehran in expected fashion retaliated with drone-and-missile strikes against Gulf nations and Jordan.
Iran says the total death toll from the new American assault has risen to 18, especially following a an alleged mass casualty strike at a wedding celebration. It reportedly happened in happened Hormozgan province Tuesday night, with authorities having announced five were killed, including a child, and with at least 50 more wounded.
Regional media reports, “Six-year-old Amir Mohammad Karimi was among those killed, it said, adding that those wounded had been transferred to hospital in the nearby city of Minab.”
“Earlier, Reza Shahidiyan, the governor of Sirik county, told the IRIB state broadcaster that 63 people had been injured, including 50 women and children,” the report continues. “Other Iranian reporting has cited as many as 68 wounded.”
Tehran officials, as well as Iran’s Red Crescent Society, have made formal requests to global bodies, including the International Criminal Court, to take legal action for the civilian deaths and alleged war crimes.
BBC has cited the Pentagon as saying it is aware of reports about the strike but that US forces never targeted civilians.
As for known targets from the Iranian response, which saw an initial ballistic missile wave target US bases in Jordan, some of the following has emerged:
Videos which purport to show some of these strikes, particularly against NSA Bahrain (certainly not for the first time, as it’s already suffered significant damage), have been widely circulating but remain unconfirmed.
In the Strait of Hormuz, the Revolutionary Guard has announced that two foreign oil tankers hit sea mines and are on fire after attempting to transit the waterway earlier in the day Wednesday. The IRGC said it occurred while the vessels used an “illegal route” through the the strait, state TV reports. Simultaneously Al Jazeera issued the following:
Bahri, a shipping company in Saudi Arabia, says two Filipino crew members were killed on board the SIDR vessel in an “incident” while transiting Hormuz.
As for the broader US naval blockade on Iranian ports, Reuters outlines that “Iran has gone about seven weeks without shipping meaningful crude exports through the Strait of Hormuz, as a U.S. naval blockade succeeds where years of sanctions failed by cutting off one of Tehran’s main sources of foreign-currency earnings.”
Meanwhile, this is real…
The commentary adds: “Unlike previous sanctions campaigns, when Iranian crude continued reaching buyers despite restrictions, the current blockade has stopped fresh crude cargoes reaching China, Tehran’s only major remaining oil customer, increasing pressure on government finances and foreign-currency reserves.”
The world is now witnessing the seventh month of a “3-4 week” war, and the White House is still pushing this ‘the Iranian people will rise up’ narrative. According to a late Tuesday Trump Truth Social Post:
I’m not trying to force Iran to the bargaining table, as ABC Fake News reported. I couldn’t care less if they sign a worthless, to them, agreement. I like our position now much better, with almost total control of the Hormuz Strait, and their economy totally collapsing. They are just playing out the inevitable. When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight? President DJT
I’m not trying to force Iran to the bargaining table, as ABC Fake News reported. I couldn’t care less if they sign a worthless, to them, agreement. I like our position now much better, with almost total control of the Hormuz Strait, and their economy totally collapsing. They are just playing out the inevitable. When are the Iranian people going to rise up and fight? President DJT
In the opening days of Operation Epic Fury it must be recalled that Trump claimed “help is on the way!” – and yet now amid a stalemated situation US bases across the region have been degraded and destroyed.
Where is Secretary of State Marco Rubio these days?…
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is meanwhile touting that the US is ‘cutting off the head of the snake.’
“When I was a kid in South Carolina, we lived near a swamp, and as a result, we’d end up with a lot of poison snakes in our yard. And you would take either a rake or a machete, or a paddle from a boat, and you cut the head off,” he said Tuesday.
“But the snake, the tail kept wiggling, and you had to bury the head of the snake because the head of the snake was still poisonous, and there was venom there. So we are burying the head of the Iranian snake,” he continued. “The snake doesn’t know it’s dead yet, but it will stop wiggling when the sun goes down.” But as yet, there are no signs of a rapidly collapsing state system, and there are no masses rising up in the streets.
Iranian leadership is vowing not to back down, but to continue inflicting pain on Washington, on the military, economic, and political fronts.
Parliament speaker goes off…
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf on Wednesday has declared Iran does not reject negotiations but views them as a tool in its broader confrontation with the US and Israel, Tasnim reports. He is reiterating US must fulfill its commitments before Iran “takes steps” to reopen Hormuz – which suggests Tehran has not altogether abandoned the possibility of getting back to the negotiating table.
Source Zerohedge.Com