{"id":296865,"date":"2025-06-16T12:30:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=296865"},"modified":"2025-06-16T12:28:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T11:28:16","slug":"israel-attacks-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/06\/israel-attacks-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Attacks Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In an unprecedented and unprovoked military attack, Israel kills several top leaders of the Iranian military, targets the country’s nuclear facilities and commits yet another blatant crime.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

13 Jun 2025\u00a0<\/em>–\u00a0Overnight, the terrorist regime in Tel Aviv added another crime of aggression to its nearly endless list of the worst of all international crimes. This time, by attacking Iran in a massive bombing campaign, which Netanyahu says<\/a> will continue until he judges that what he calls a \u201cthreat\u201d from Iran\u2019s non-existent nuclear weapons has subsided.<\/p>\n

This is, of course, utter rubbish and reminiscent of the United States\u2019 excuse in 2003 to commit the same crime against Iraq under the pretext of Saddam\u2019s WMDs posing an \u201cimminent threat\u201d to the USA and the whole world. Netanyahu is conjuring up exactly the same phantom\u2014even using the terminology of this being a \u201cpreemptive\u201d strike\u2014but with even less reason. Not only is it a verified and accepted truth, even by Israel and the USA, that the Iranians currently have no nuclear weapons, but the Americans were in active negotiations with them and scheduled to hold another meeting on Sunday, when Israel decided to commit this blatant act of war.<\/p>\n

The Excuse<\/h2>\n

That the nuclear issue is nothing but a flimsy excuse to start an all-out war with Iran (and ultimately commit the United States to it) is shown clearly by the choice of targets. Israel didn\u2019t only go after the nuclear facilities and the missile system of the Iranians, but also targeted top military generals, killing the Chief of Staff of Iran\u2019s Armed Forces, Mohammad Bagheri, and General Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRG). Besides the civilian casualties, these strikes on the sleeping population of Theran caused the targeted assassinations of the leadership fit neatly into Israel\u2019s military playbook, in which they go for \u201cdecapitation\u201d strikes against nations they choose they must eradicate. They did so with Hamas in Gaza, with Hizbollah in Lebanon, and now they are going after the leadership of Iran, and, in the process, are terrorising the entire civilian population of the country.<\/p>\n

Netanyahu even had the audacity in his press announcement<\/a> to say that Israel was not targeting ordinary Iranians but only the \u201cdictatorship\u201d and that Israel wants nothing but peace and happiness in its neighborhood. Really, you can\u2019t go much more Hitler than with this unhinged framing of what clearly and utterly is a crime under all UN statutes. This is a direct infringement of the UN Charter\u2019s prohibition on the use of force and utterly inexcusable. Of course, no European country will dare to oppose this and just exclaim that they urge \u201call sides\u201d to stand down and \u201cavoid a war\u201d. I\u2019m so certain we will hear this from every capital in the EU, pretending that the war had not already been started by Tel Aviv.<\/p>\n

The Real Reason: Losing Narrative Control<\/h2>\n

The real reason why Israel is attacking Iran at this moment is that they are losing the propaganda war. The mood has changed decisively, especially in Europe, where large pro-Palestine protests are now a daily occurrence. The tremendous PR success of the Freedom Flotilla, together with the change in the press coverage of Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza, must have come as a great shock to the Tel Aviv regime. They know that the only thing that enables their genocidal military extermination campaigns is the unwavering support of the Collective West. That this support is eroding in front of their eyes is probably the largest threat to the Zionist project in 100 years.<\/p>\n

Israel is losing the victim card; nobody believes its \u201cwe are just defending ourselves\u201d BS anymore. And it wants the card back, desperately. Hence, this attack is geared to make it certain that Iran must strike back. And once the first Israeli gets killed in the counter-strike, Tel Aviv will cry at the top of its lungs that Iran is committing another holocaust, and that the Jews are being targeted by a new Nazi regime (he actually already made that connection in the above cited press briefing). Israel needs the media support of the West back; it also needs to drag the US (and maybe also the UK) into this new Middle Eastern War with Iran and commit as many foreign resources as it can to fighting the entire region, all at once.<\/p>\n

Israel is desperate, and it needs an all-out war with an all-out war narrative of the type and kind the Ukrainians have had for the past 3 years. It needs to somehow win back narrative control in the West. The terrorists in Tel Aviv know exactly that once they lose Europe and the USA, it\u2019s game over for their genocidal apartheid state.<\/p>\n

I can only pray that at least the Europeans won\u2019t fall for it again. But my hopes are slim.<\/p>\n