This post was republished with permission from Zero Hedge.
The mainstream media and US officials are collectively reporting it’s all over folks – and there’s currently a surprisingly open level of acknowledgement that this ‘retaliation’ on US bases was telegraphed and even coordinated between Iran and Qatar (and that yes, the US knew about it).
Tehran is saying the same number of missiles were used in the short-lived assault as were used by US bombers against its nuclear facilities.
“Iran’s missile attack on a US air base in Qatar was telegraphed well in advance, suggesting Tehran intended a symbolic show of force while offering a way to de-escalate after US airstrikes over the weekend,” Bloomberg is reporting. And CNN is currently even saying (based on its correspondent on the ground) that the skies over Tehran have grown quiet, after many days of constant strike waves by Israeli warplanes. The US military is saying all missiles were intercepted over Qatar. Airspace over Bahrain, Kuwait, and Dubai have already been reopened.
Certainly markets have reacted consistent to this off-ramp narrative as well, as if it was all baked in: “One official with knowledge of Western intelligence assessments said the attack was a typical example of an ‘off-ramp’ escalation and warned it was more difficult to understand whether — and at what point — Israel would stop its own military activities in the region,” Bloomberg continues. The same report cites Jonathan Panikoff, a former deputy national intelligence officer for the Near East, who points to the obvious: “It feels choreographed and intentional. The Iranians get to tell their population they struck a mighty blow against the US, even if they didn’t, and Trump has the room now to decide not to retaliate.”
The Trump White House is now signaling it currently has no plans to launch a ‘retaliation’ strike in the wake of today’s Iranian attacks on US assets in the Gulf. Most reports are claiming that no missiles actually struck the ground at a US base, but it could be that this information will get suppressed regardless. No deaths or injuries have been reported. Trump’s statement in the aftermath ‘thanking’ Iran, ironically enough…
President Trump is essentially saying ‘mission accomplished’ and has declared that the three nuclear facilities struck by US bombers over the weekend were totally destroyed. But the big questions remain:
1) Will Netanyahu and the Israelis play ball with the ‘off-ramp’ opportunity?
2) Most importantly, where is the estimated 400kg of Iran’s enriched uranium now?
To some degree, more ‘known unknowns’ (cue Rumsfeld) have been created in the wake of Trump’s alleged destruction of Iran’s enrichment facilities. Perhaps the Iranians will now hasten to begin the actual secretive nuclear bomb program?
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This is pretty much the way it went down last time. I wasn’t expecting anything lengthy or drawn out.
Annnnnnnnd … Iran surrenders. Annnnndd Zion-Donnie TOLD the Israelis to STAND DOWN. Annnnnndd we have world peace. Annnnndd no more “refugees” for poor PJW to moan and whine about … but do literally NOTHING about. Annnndddd the stock markets are all up and oil prices are down.
Yeah … Zion-Don has lost his MAGA base. I haven’t seen so much hilarious wishful thinking in my entire 70 years.
WINNING!!! … still.
Come on Britain! When are you going to find a leader with a pair? You’re running out of time to SAVE your country and culture. I’m rooting for you … but I’m not seeing it.
It was intentionally weak. Zion don is cowaring down because he lost most of his voter base now. The public know that over 100m dollars was spend on a mission against iran that was completely pointless and had 0 effect apart from drag everyone near ww3 but whats more important is it was an apocalypse. Everyone can now see that the usa is israels dog. The conspiracy theorists were right again. Now iran will destroy israel in two weeks under the current conditions so zion don has to make a deal. This has completely destroyed the usa’s reputation and it is now a rogue state of israel, another rogue state. The emperor has no clothes. This is actually embarrassing now. I never thought I would see the day when china has the moral ground over the usa. The usa is an evil terrorist zionist country run by satan. This really could not be any worse right now for the usa and having a war criminal as leader is makes it ten times worse.
So … you’re cheerleading for a nuclear Iran with rageaholic crazy Holy man at the helm bent on ushering in Islamic Armageddon?
Seriously. You need mental help.
I dont cheer lead anyone but Jesus. All governments are criminals entities and should be eradicated. There was nothing in what I said above that cheer leads iran. What I am cheer leading above is the apocalypse and everyone can see the usa for what it is. A genocidal evil country that has been the hammer destroying countries all over the word under the control of the synagogue of satan since 1913.
I find America-hate and America-envy to be really … precious. By really precious people.
It really irrelevant what you find. What you chose not to find is what should be relevant. America is the entire land mass including north, central and south America. You live in the united states OF America, saying the usa is America is narcissistic, elitist and egotistical. I dont hate a land mass and what I said was not hate, its factual. How many people have the usa murdered for israel anyway of did you lose count? How many children have your congress gone through?
Little Rocket Man is running a special this week. Buy one nuke, get one free.