Illustrative image. (Israeli Defense Forces)
Israel is preparing to quickly strike Iran if ongoing indirect nuclear talks between the United States and the Islamic Republic collapse, Axios reported on May 21, citing a pair of Israeli sources.
“Bibi is waiting for the nuclear talks to collapse and for the moment Trump will be disappointed about the negotiations and open to giving him the go-ahead,” said one of the sources, using the nickname for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Israeli intelligence community believes that the nuclear talks could collapse soon, after previously believing an agreement was close, according to the U.S. news website.
One of the sources that spoke with Axios said that the Israeli Defense Forces believe that the window to attack Iran may soon slam shut, requiring Israel to move fast if the negotiations do not pan out, without why the military reached that assessment.
A day earlier, CNN revealed that Intelligence obtained recently by the U.S. suggests that Israel is making preparations to strike Iranian nuclear facilities. According to the news channel, the intelligence was based on the public and private communications from senior Israeli officials as well as intercepted Israeli communications and observations of Israeli military movements.
Axios sources confirmed CNN’s report, adding that any attack on Iranian nuclear facilities would require a weeklong campaign and not be a one-off. Conducting such an operation would also pose great risks to the Israeli forces, the report noted.
“There was a lot of training and the U.S. military sees everything and understands Israel is preparing,” one of the sources was quoted as saying.
A U.S. source told Axios that Washington is concerned that Israel could go ahead with a strike without getting prior approval from President Donald Trump.
Other countries in the Middle East are also worried that an Israeli strike could release radioactive material that would spread across the region, according to the website.
The nuclear talks saw some progress earlier this month, then a serious disagreement on uranium enrichment was reported.
Washington stressed that in any deal Iran would not be permitted to enrich uranium, while Tehran vowed that it won’t give up its right to do so.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on May 20 that the U.S. demands that Tehran stop enriching uranium are “excessive and outrageous,” voicing doubts over whether the talks with Washington on a new nuclear deal would succeed.
Despite the disagreement, the two sides have reportedly agreed to hold another round of indirect talks in the Italian capital, Rome, later this week.
Any Israeli attack on Iranian nuclear facilities is guaranteed to spark a war. The U.S. will be dragged in, even if it was not involved in the attack.
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i don’t think so. iran likely already have a nuke. otherwise they’d be attackjng them already long ago.
they, chumpo is trying his best to please his masters, so this isn’t talks about enrichment, but rather of disassembling them. much like more or less to north korea. that would be some really massive war. if they attack, that would be the end of the world as we knows it. this psychopath maniac have no boundaries.
the jewish parasite always needs a goyim host to leech. without a goyim host, they are nothing. this is what scares the zionists most. when the globe turns its back on them
the christian parasites always need a jew tool to do their dirty work. they call 27 million russians for “jews”, and as thanks, russia confirmed the export of germans to palestine, russia have a strange relation to nazis, sometimes they spread them by fuck them, sometimes by fake ethnicity.
unit 8200 disinformation agent spotted here.
not necessarily. israel is still very vulnerable to ballistic hypersonic missiles and it’s a small country. iran has deep underground missile bases that can at least wipe out tel aviv. no nuclear weapons necessary
i would also assume they have access to russian hypersonic missile tech by treaty . sometimes i think israelis are on a suicide mission
this is an announcement of war . nothing less . greater israel cares for nothing but what it desires .
well at least they’ve given us a heads up that they are going to attack iran, never was much doubt for me, the entire ‘talks’ bullcrap was set up for that purpose. it was a done deal as soon as tramps witkoff did a 180 and said no enrichment. that was the go-ahead. in a way, i’m glad. iran can, should and hopefully will level that cess pit. tramp’s go ahead also means the u.s. is all in. those ‘further talks’? may never happen, it may be a ploy.
another zionist scheme to draw the usa into another enormously expensive mid-eastern war without the consent or support of the american people. the usa must purge the zionist deep state
consent of the “american” “people” 🤡 they murder anyone, like the witch burners. its because of that they have “vote” for a narcissist with messiah complex. its the same successful combination as adolf hitler rothschild.
you’re kinda smart ass around here, you with your fairy tale name from that fairy tale book.
bankers are necessary for wars of scale . this is ignored by the writers of history . senator prescott bush work at brown brothers harriman funding thyssen is a little example
trigger happy jewish swine always ready to play whak a mole. tell us how this has worked out for israel so far? no closer to peace as in 1948.
praying for millions of dead jews!
i love the smell of burning jews in the morning!
smells like….victory.
its americans you should smell if you want victory. else they will move on to next wedding to bomb. next civilian quarter. next peaceful people and so on. here are many that not even understand why the junta in south vietnam existed. you are exactly as the nazis, blame fictional jews, for your cannibalistic christian masters.
luciferian (33 club ) disinfo again. keep trying.
israel jamais deverá permitir que o iran desenvolva armas nucleares. se isso acontecer, seu povo estará seriamente ameaçado de existência. a índia cometeu o seu maior erro existencial ao negligenciar/permitir que os muçulmanos do paquistão desenvolvessem armas nucleares e agora terá que conviver com esse terror em suas fronteiras. jamais poderá fazer uma guerra contra aqueles muçulmanos pois se fizer isso será destruída.
if the israel defense forces were to capture sweida, it would benefit everyone involved.
except any human beings within 200 kilometers. or any life forms destroyed by their endless bombing and spreading depleted uranium and chemical poisons you mean…bibi will destroy everything to rule over the ashes.
i wish israel would strike iran very hard so the faction of government (pro – west) would lose face and be exposed to iranian people and all anti-imperialist people of the world, this pro-west faction dreaming of working with us against chinese state!
the largest imperialist pretending to side with anti-imperialist ? gtfoh with your bullshit.
when they killed ismail haniyeh in tehran, nothing should surprise us anymore.