Report: Israel Delays Iran Counter-Strike After Leaked U.S. Intelligence On Military Plan
Also, Israel hits Hezbollah terror stronghold in Beirut despite Biden admin’s objections.
Israel has reportedly delayed plans to strike back at Iran after U.S. intelligence on the country’s military preparations and capabilities were leaked to the Iranians.
The intelligence leak has ‘forced’ Israel to put aside plans for a military response to Tehran’s recent missile attack, The Times of London reported Thursday. “Israel has delayed its retaliatory strike against Iran because of a leak last week of potentially sensitive military information from the US,” the British newspaper said.
Last week, highly classified U.S. documents on a possible Israeli counter-strike against Iran appeared on Tehran-affiliated social media channels. Documents showed U.S. satellite imagery and intelligence assessment on an impending Israeli military retaliation to the October 1 Iranian missile strike.
The Times of London reports:
The leak revealed Israel’s well-advanced plans to respond to a salvo of nearly 200 Iranian ballistic missiles fired against it earlier this month, which was a retaliation by Tehran for Israel’s attacks on its Middle Eastern proxy groups.
The top-secret document was published on a pro-Iranian Telegram channel last Friday and appeared to be a US assessment of Israel’s likely response, based on satellite imagery and other intelligence.
Israel has been holding military drills for a major ballistic missile attack on Iran, according to American satellite intelligence documents that have been leaked to pro-Iranian social media accounts.
The exercises involved at least 16 airborne missiles, 40 state-of-the-art “Rocks” missiles and refuelling tankers, indicating targets across the country.
The U.S. intelligence leak came days after President Joe Biden declared that he was looking for a “way that potentially ends their conflict in the Middle East for a while,” suggesting that Israel may have to abandon its retaliation plan.
On October 1, the Iranian regime launched more than 180 missiles, including long-range ballistic ones, at Israel. On October 19, the Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group came close to assassinating Prime Minister Netanyahu after it flew an explosive drone into the bedroom window of his private home. The Israeli PM and his family were not at their seaside residence in central Israel at the time of the Hezbollah strike.
Israel hits Hezbollah terror stronghold in Beirut despite Biden admin’s objections
Israeli fighter jets on Wednesday night hit Hezbollah targets in the terrorist stronghold of Dahieh near southern Beirut despite pressure from the Biden White House to agree to a ceasefire.
“Overnight, the IAF conducted intelligence-based strikes on several weapons storage and manufacturing facilities belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organization in the area of Dahieh, a key Hezbollah terrorist stronghold in Beirut,” the Israeli military said Thursday morning.
The Israeli strikes near Beirut came hours after Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Israel, pressing for a ceasefire with Hezbollah-dominated Lebanon. “Blinken Urges Netanyahu to Seek Truces in Gaza and Lebanon,” The New York Times noted Wednesday.
The Israeli news website YNET reported the details of the overnight IDF strikes:
Lebanese reports on Wednesday reported significant airstrikes were seen in Beirut’s Dahieh district, considered to be Hezbollah’s stronghold in Lebanon, following the terror group’s targeting of central Israel with four rockets fired at the area earlier.
The strikes come after the IDF’s Arabic Spokesperson Col. Avichay Adraee called on residents of the area to evacuate prior to the military’s actions. Footage from the scene showed massive explosions and smoke plumes.
Following Hezbollah’s firing toward central Israel, Palestinian sources reported late Wednesday one rocket fell in the West Bank town of Qalqilya, resulting in one man receiving minor injuries.
Israel does not hold back! After Hezbollah fires rockets at Israel on start of Simchat Torah holiday, IDF pounds Beirut!
[Photo: AP] pic.twitter.com/ICLibGEr9v
— Arsen Ostrovsky 🎗️ (@Ostrov_A) October 24, 2024
While Hezbollah has a long-standing strategy of hiding its terrorist command centers and weapons underneath Lebanese neighborhoods, the Israeli armed forces took every possible measure to minimize civilian casualties.
“All the sites are located by Hezbollah under and inside civilian buildings in the heart of populated areas, in yet another example of Hezbollah’s systematic abuse of civilian infrastructure and willingness to endanger the population in the area,” the IDF noted in its statement. “Prior to the strike, numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harming civilians, including advancing warnings to the population in the area.”
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they can only pretend trump is a threat to america
but the dnc proves daily THEY ARE THE ACTUAL THREAT
Shocking.
I used to get shocked by things Democrats do. They have startled, overwhelmed, troubled, dismayed, jarred, jolted, upset, offended, appalled, confounded, shaken up, thunderstruck, alarmed and flabbergasted me to the point where I can now take 110 volts without blinking.
I note however, bewitched, bothered, and bewildered, you aren’t.
/does guyjones know you are borrowing from his adjective supplies?!? (all in good fun, guy…)
You sound bearish today. You must work on wallstreet.
Head fake?
Israel has reportedly delayed plans to strike back at Iran
Have they?
The Times of Israel says the IDF is changing the details of the planned attack.
Really?
Only the IDF knows the answer to these questions. As we would have said in the military back in the day, “Iran’s shit is weak,” meaning they’re still in big trouble. Did they really think they could get world opinion to deflect Israel from retaliating? Mullahs probably make bad poker players.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-said-to-have-delayed-iran-strike-after-us-intel-leak-of-attack-plans/
A delay in attacking Iran (until after the election) because of USA leaking plans is fine with me. It gives Israel an excuse for delaying something – wider Middle East war – with unclear political effect on 11/5. For the time being, let the focus be on Biden-Harris incompetence in failing to identify the leaker and damaging relations with a key ally in the region.
I doubt they will delay it that long. Israel wants maximum surprise when they hit Iran. They now realize they have to conceal their preparations from the US, and that slows them down.
I want them
To take out the nukes ASAP
I was hoping it all was a head fake
The ability for Israel to take out Iran’s nukes has widely been said to be questionable … though I’m sure they can make a sizeable dent.
They don’t have to “take out the nukes.” They just have to make pursuing them sufficiently painful so as to discourage the pursuit, or to demonstrate in this (upcoming) retaliatory strike that they have that capability.
There is always the option of making Iran’s nuke installations so radioactive that they are inaccessible for a quarter million years. Iran must be stopped by any means necessary.
With Friends like the US who needs enemies.
Question: When the Israelis finally bomb ill they be exclaiming,
“Torah, Torah, Torah
That’s actually extremely similar to an old password of mine!
so wondering what the talking points/narrative that runs from the military leadership on down the chain of command to the troops?
how much is israel being talked down?
how much is the omar pov being considered the only allowable talk?
It would be gratifying to see a strike against Iran the day after President Trump wins the election.
You mean sometime in late December?
Sooner is better.
BTW, ponder the despicable moral bankruptcy of the Dhimmi-crat administration and its lackeys, always pressuring, vilifying, sabotaging and attempting to bully Israel into a “ceasefire,” but, never making the same demands of the goose-stepping, genocidal and fanatical Islamofascists, Muslim supremacists and terrorists who are the sole source of strife, bloodshed and war in the middle east, going on 1,400 years.
The first priority of any sovereign nation is survival. That means that constantly the leadership cadre of a sovereign nation should be evaluating what is happening in the world that would affect that survival. NO alliance is permanent if it threatens that survival.
I assume that the Israeli government has been conducting that constant re-evaluation. If it has not been, it is not doing its duty. But I assume that it has. Actions count more than words, always.
I would assume that the actions of the US government, or part of its intel establishment, have triggered such a reconsideration. in addition to a reasonable reticence to share any information with the US.
Israel’s alternatives are limited. If it is judged that the US is not a reliable ally [political administrations are not the only determinant, because the national security Apparat is permanent] then steps to allow Israel to survive in the face of US enmity, or deter it, or have to be considered by them.
Keeping in mind that Israel is already engaged and mobilized for a conventional war, its options are limited. But there is one thing that is a possibility.
It has long been assumed that Israel has a nuclear capability. This is not the time or place to go through the indications. But do not be surprised if we start hearing reports that such is expanded, and deployed for worldwide deterrence. I note that the same boosters used for the Israeli satellite programs meet the parameters for ICBM’s. We really do not need to have more enemies capable of deadly retaliation.
Subotai Bahadur
1. Israel currently has a program to make itself less dependent on other nations for defense materials. It is very much aware of its vulnerability in this regard.
2. Israel has submarines capable of launching cruise missiles. Against many potential enemies, the ability to launch weapons with an intercontinental reach is unnecessary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin-class_submarine#Armament_and_systems
Iran must be promptly neutralized, by any means necessary.