Iran State TV Says Every American in the Region ‘Now a Legitimate Target’
Hamas condemns ‘blatant U.S. aggression’ against regime’s nuclear program.
After the overnight U.S. strikes on nuclear weapons facilities, the Iranian state TV declared that all American citizens and servicemen in the region were legitimate targets for terrorist and military attacks.
“Iranian State TV commentator said that “Every American citizen or military in the region is now a legitimate target,” following U.S. strikes on nuclear facilities in Iran,” the Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.
Iranian regime officials openly called for attacks on U.S. military assets in the Middle East. Hossein Shariatmadari, a close confidante of Iran’s ‘Supreme Leader’ Ali Khamenei, demanded immediate missile strikes on the U.S. Navy stationed in the region. “It is now our turn to act without delay. As a first step, we must launch a missile strike on the US naval fleet in Bahrain and simultaneously close the Strait of Hormuz to American, British, German, and French ships,” said Ali Khamenei’s representative in Kayhan newspaper, Hossein Shariatmadari in reaction to the US attacks,” the UK-based Iran International news website reported.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi declared that the regime was considering “all options” in response to the strikes on its key nuclear weapons sites, threatening the U.S with “everlasting consequences.”
The British newspaper Guardian reports:
Iran’s foreign minister has condemned the US attack as a breach of international law which will have “everlasting consequences”.
In a statement posted to social media, Seyed Abbas Araghchi said:
The United States, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, has committed a grave violation of the UN Charter, international law and the NPT by attacking Iran’s peaceful nuclear installations.
The events this morning are outrageous and will have everlasting consequences.
Each and every member of the UN must be alarmed over this extremely dangerous, lawless and criminal behaviour. In accordance with the UN Charter and its provisions allowing a legitimate response in self-defence, Iran reserves all options to defend its sovereignty, interest, and people.
The Iranian nuclear agency confirmed U.S. strikes on three of its key sites, but vowed to press ahead with its weaponization program. “Iran’s nuclear agency on Sunday confirmed attacks took place on its Fordo, Isfahan and Natanz atomic sites, but is insisting its work will not be stopped. The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran issued the statement after Trump announced the American attack on the facilities,” The Associated Press reported.
Hamas condemns ‘blatant U.S. aggression’ against Iranian regime
Iran-backed Palestinian terrorist group Hamas was among the first to condemn the U.S. strikes, slamming President Trump’s act of ‘brutal aggression’ against the regime’s nuclear program.
The France24 TV channel reports:
Hamas condemned “blatant US aggression” against Iran after President Donald Trump said American warplanes bombed Tehran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities.
“The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) condemns in the strongest terms the blatant US aggression against the territory and sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the group said in a statement issued after Trump announced the United States had joined Israel’s bombing campaign against Iran.
“This brutal aggression is a dangerous escalation,” the Hamas statement added, calling the attack “a flagrant violation of international law, and a direct threat to international peace and security”.
Israel gears up for Iranian attack, raises threat level
Amid reports of Iranian missiles entering Israeli airspace, the IDF’s Home Front Command, responsible for protecting civilians in times of conflict, issued “immediate changes’ in its instructions to the public.
Footage of Iranian missiles over Israel a short time ago. pic.twitter.com/nGRQVgazbz
— Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman) June 22, 2025
“As part of the changes, it was decided to shift all areas of the country from Partial and Limited Activity to Essential Activity. The instructions include: a prohibition on educational activities, gatherings, and workplaces, except for essential sectors,” the Home Front Command announced.
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Judgment: The ability to effectuate a positive outcome for a given set of circumstance
Clearly they ain’t got it.
If their past rhetoric skewed Trump’s timeline from 2 weeks to 2 days, expect the regime’s decapitation any moment now.
If any American is harmed or any attempt to block the Strait of Hormuz, Hossein Shariatmadari should die. followed y crushing the rest of Iran’s leadership.
And this is a change … exactly how?
I have not forgotten how Americans in the middle east were kidnapped, tortured, murdered, or blown up by Iran-sponsored proxies.
FAFO.
“Iranian regime officials openly called for attacks on U.S. military assets in the Middle East.”
In other words, same as it ever was.
ChatBot, define ‘insanity.’
Since the regime is so hell-bent on getting a nuclear bombs, why don’t we give them some?
The next Democrat President might do that to make up for Trumps terrible attack.
Iran is damn lucky we are trying to save their people, tat could change to trying to save less people. If they are given nukes, their time to study them will be very limited.
It is better to give than to receive.
Here’s the thing:
Iran has lost all their proxy armies in Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria. They no doubt still have militia and suicide groups of course but no significant way to project power on the ground.They’ve also lost their air force.
They certainly can throw missiles and drones but their production capacity has been reduced and thus their supply is finite. Russia would be a likely supplier but they don’t have much spare stock thanks to the Ukraine situation. China has the capacity and the will….except that their economy is a mess right now, and they need the U,S, as a market. This makes sending arms to Iran a questionable choice. So, who’s left to help them fight? Perhaps North Korea but it’s a long trip for a boatload of missiles from there to Iran, and Kim must also question the wisdom of pissing off Trump right now.
So, some posturing and some missiles; perhaps som terrorist attacks, but ultimately Iran is going to have to negotiate on terms favorable to the U.S.
So
UN and Saudi Arabia report no radiation increase in surrounding areas
According to Abedini, Iran “didn’t suffer a major blow because the materials had already been taken out.”
The point was not to cause a radioactive mess. It was to destroy the equipment.
if so, where could the materials be taken for further enrichment?
To get back to the enhanced material now they’re gonna need a bigger shovel. And either expendable diggers or diggers with protection from exposure to loose high-grade radioactive material.
Given another few years of the same regime in power and everyone else leaving them unhindered to play radioactive Dig Dug – they could eventually recover the material. But they’d still have to re-refine it.
So – at the least – Trump and Israel bought us several years before the Mad Mullahs have the means to initiate their dream of triggering Armageddon to release / reveal the Mahdi.
Maybe we should drop a MOP on the well he (the 12th Mahdi) is supposed to come out of?
The whole point of deep underground facilities is that they ARE deep underground. The whole point of our heaviest Bunker Buster Bombs is that they will penetrate deep underground before exploding.
Which, if they do as intended – should at the least collapse the top (say) thousand feet of rock armour onto the target facility – sealing it in – hopefully also destroying the facility – but sealing any radioactive debris FROM the facility away instead of dispersing it into the environment like a traditional surface bomb would.
I have considerable doubt as to whether there would be any radiation leakage from a deeply-buried (and presumably heavily-shielded besides) quantity of uranium that had a mountain collapsed on top of it.
I also have considerable doubt as to the logistics of covertly moving something like uranium (a bit of google-fu tells me a shoebox-sized container of the stuff weighs upwards of 200lbs, and that’s not even counting shielding) and it was in a facility with both access points in plain view of devil jooo spy sats.
Even if they could smuggle it out through some top-secret underground tunnel, would they risk it? It was already in a spot where the devil jooos couldn’t get at it. Granted, the devil jooos knew where that spot was, but they’d also just spent the past week demonstrating they knew where a whole lot of supposedly top-secret ‘spots’ were, too. Unless they somehow managed to construct another deep underground facility without anybody getting wind of it, they’d be trusting the stuff’s security to the perilously thin reed of nobody diming them out to the Israelis.
True, deeply buried, their doing this made it much easer to destroy without radiation.
So what else is new? One big question: will Iran attack the US homeland in any way? Surely they must have sleeper agents here because our border was wide open for a long time, and millions of unvetted foreigners entered the US. We have killed their leaders and scientists. Does that make our nuclear scientists at our national laboratories targets? Sleeper agents could engage in acts of domestic terrorism, and create a mess domestically. Of course Trump would get the blame as he gets the blame for everything. This could affect the 2026 elections to the joy of the Democrats. Suppose gasoline goes to 8 dollars a gallon. How will the public react? If the public blames the GOP then the Democrats could get back into power. Then what? A really hot civil war?
If gasoline goes to $8/gallon because we ticked off the Iranians, we’re doing something very, very wrong. We can self-supply, once again.
I guess this fanatical terrorist state really is suicidal.
LMAO. They called for attacks on Navy Assets. Tell me you learned nothing from Operation Praying Mantis without telling me you learned nothing form Operation Praying Mantis.
Do not touch our boats, we have an extremely negative reaction.
I would guess they’re talking in terms of the ports we use over there.
If they want to attack Norfolk Naval Station, they’re welcome to try. They’ll be stuck in morning traffic for hours waiting to get to the gate.
“Iran State TV Says Every American in the Region ‘Now a Legitimate Target’ ”
Cue the Talking Heads: “same as it ever was.”
I think the biggest concern we have, at least initially, is the possibility of activation of Iranian sleeper cells in this country.
This is not to minimize risk to American troops in the region: the Iranians are still dangerous.
These are dangerous times but for better or worse, we need to be in it to win it.
The Iranian regime would be well advised to pump the brakes at this point and avoid attacks on US Citizens US interests and US military. I suspect the US response to any such attacks will be totally out of proportion and purposely so.
Like that wasn’t the case before
This is as opposed to illegitimate targets.
Those bastards!
For some subtlety on the matter, closer to Trump actually, is Derrida on taking sides:
“What appears to me unacceptable in the “strategy” (in terms of weapons, practices, ideology, rhetoric, discourse, and so on) of the “bin Laden effect” is not only the cruelty, the disregard for human life, the disrespect for the law, for women, the use of what is worst in technocapitalist modernity for the purposes of religious fanaticism. No, it is, above all, the fact that such actions and such discourse _open onto no future and, in my view, have no future_. If we are to put any faith in the perfectibility of public space and of the world juridico-political scene, of the “world” itself, then there is, it seems to me, _nothing good_ to be hoped for from that quarter. What is being proposed, at least implicitly, is that all captialist and modern technoscientific forces be put in the service of an interpretation, itself dogmatic, of the Islamic revelation of the One. Nothing of what has been so laboriously secularized in even the nontheological form of sovereignty (…), none of this seems to have any place whatsoever in the discourse “bin Laden.” That is why, in this unleashing of violence without name, if I had to take one of the two sides and choose in a binary situation, well I would. Despite my very strong reservations about the American, indeed European, political posture, about the “international terrorist” coalition, despite all the de facto betrayals, all the failures to live up to democracy, international law, and the very international institutions that the states of this “coalition” themselves founded and supported up to a certain point, I would take the side of the camp that, in principle, by right of law, leaves a perspective open to perfectibility in the name of the “political,” democracy, international law, international institutions, and so forth. Even if this “in the name of” is still merely an assertion and a purely verbal committment. Even in its most cynical mode, such an assertion still lets resonate within it an invincible promise. I don’t hear any such promise coming from “bin Laden,” at least not one in this world.”
“Autoimmunity: Real and Symbolic Suicides” _Philosophy in a Time of Terror_ p.113
He preserves the promise of a future in the name of political action even if the political action we have is corrupt, against a system open to no future at all.
Good heavens. What a crock of shit.
The Iranian nuclear agency confirmed U.S. strikes on three of its key sites, but vowed to press ahead with its weaponization program. “Iran’s nuclear agency on Sunday confirmed attacks took place on its Fordo, Isfahan and Natanz atomic sites, but is insisting its work will not be stopped.”
Hmm. I seem to remember that for over a decade or so Iran was promising that they had no weaponization program. Makes believing anything that they say about anything rather risky.
Subotai Bahadur
So… they’re admitting all their previous attacks on Americans in the region have been illegitimate? Let’s roll with that.
Last time they tried that we sank their pitiful navy.