re: Official US/Israel vs Iran war thread

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Meh, only the last few seconds were good.

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In this resurfaced clip, Rubio warned exactly what would happen if the Obama Iran deal went through:

• Iran uses sanctions relief cash to build missiles, swarm ships, arm terror proxies.

• They become the dominant regional power (outside U.S.), raise costs for our ops.

• Build anti-access weapons to sink carriers, fast boats to swarm our navy.

• Target U.S. troops via proxies, deny involvement.

• Develop long-range missiles that could hit America.

• Eventually go nuclear when they feel untouchable.

• Led by apocalyptic radicals who want global chaos.

He prayed the next president would reverse it, reimpose sanctions, and back it with credible military force, or history would judge us harshly

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JUST IN: A THIRD US Navy aircraft carrier strike group is surging to the conflict in Iran

Even MORE firepower to ensure total victory and counter any Houthi rebels in Yemen!

"In addition to dozens of strike fighters aboard the carrier, the guided missile destroyers in the strike group will also be available to hit targets, potentially in Yemen, should there be any signs of Houthi rebels launching attacks on Israel or international shipping."

"USS George H.W. Bush has completed her workups and is expected to deploy soon. She's expected to head to the eastern Mediterranean after the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford crossed the Suez Canal on Thursday and is now in the Red Sea."

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It’s a cock up.

“The Americans contacted UK officials on 11 February to ask about the use of the bases – 17 days before the offensive began, 17 days in which Britain could have done much more to prepare.

The request was not that Britain join the decapitation strikes but help to protect Gulf allies from likely Iranian retaliation.

Starmer and his ministers were shocked by the undiluted fury of their Middle East allies that more had not been done to protect them.

Jordan was ‘fricking furious’, a former minister with friends in Amman says. ‘The Emiratis and Kuwaitis are all asking, “What the frick are you doing? Whose side are you on?”’

The Emiratis pointed out that Britain was failing to help protect the 240,000 British citizens living in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.

After the initial US request, Britain could have sent two Type-45 destroyers, which have air defence capabilities, to the eastern Mediterranean to protect Cyprus and Jordan.

Instead, some military assets were withdrawn. ‘The Cypriots are incandescent,’ a security source reveals.
Only on Tuesday did it emerge that HMS Dragon will deploy – 20 days after the first US request for support.

The only available Astute class submarine was near Australia. ‘It passed through the Gulf area a few weeks ago and it could have been kept there as a contingency,’ a former commander says.

Security officials now fear Britain is ‘in an incoherent position’ by allowing the US to use our bases to attack Iranian missile sites as an act of self-defence but refusing to launch such attacks ourselves. One calls it ‘unconscionable’ and accuses Starmer of ‘free riding’. A former defence chief brands it ‘reprehensible’.

The fear is that the Americans will now cut out Britain and strike a deal of their own with Mauritius for the use of Diego Garcia.

In Whitehall, however, there is a fear that the intensity of Labour’s feelings is matched by their irrelevance. A former Downing Street adviser says: ‘The way we’ve behaved towards our allies in the last week means no one cares what we think and we have zero capacity to shape things.’

Tim Shipman

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