The #ProvisionalIRA carried out a mortar attach on the Royal Ulster Constabulary on #ThisDayInHistory in 1985. The #NewryMortarAttack killed nine #police officers and injured 40 more. #SettlerColonialism & #AntiColonialResistance create extremely complex moral & practical issues.

Empire ‘sleepwalking’ into Iran war catastrophe

Over recent weeks, an ominous US military buildup throughout the waters and territories of West Asia has gathered pace. Concurrently, murderous mass protests – openly sponsored by Western leaders – have raged with fluctuating intensity throughout major Iranian cities. All along, President Donald Trump has issued dire threats of impending “bad things” if Tehran rejects curbs on its nuclear research and missile production. But as the drums of war reach a belligerent crescendo, urgent notes of warning are being widely sounded.

The Western media has singularly failed to question the ultimate objectives, let alone legality or morality, of US military action against the country. Instead, outlets have typically outlined the potential merits of “intervention”. The BBC has gone to the extent of publishing an explainer guide to different attack “scenarios”. On February 19th too, the British state broadcaster expressed bewilderment that efforts by Washington and Tel Aviv to intimidate Tehran into dismantling her vital national and regional security architecture have floundered:

“Why do Iranian leaders, at least publicly, remain defiant in the face of the world’s most powerful military and its strongest regional ally in the Middle East?”

The BBC attributed this intransigence to Iranian displeasure with the terms sought by Trump, noting that “from Tehran’s perspective, [US] demands amount not to negotiation but to capitulation.” However, senior officials in Washington precisely endorse this view. On February 21st, White House envoy Steve Witkoff spoke of how the President was “curious” as to “why, under this sort of pressure, with the amount of sea power and naval power” in West Asia, Iran’s leadership “haven’t capitulated.”

Two days later, an answer to the apparent enigma of Tehran’s refusal to be bullied into rendering herself a defenceless target for Judeo-American imperialism was provided. Axios, the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post published virtually identical ‘exclusive’ reports on how top US general Dan Caine has privately cautioned the Trump administration of “significant risks” attached to taking military action against Tehran; in particular, the very high prospect that even a “limited strike” would produce prolonged conflict, which would be deeply destructive for all concerned.

A scathing February 24th Financial Times editorial echoed Caine’s admonitions. A nameless “Israeli intelligence official” told the publication how despite the vast recent buildup, Washington only boasts military capacity to sustain a four- to five-day “intense aerial assault, or a week of lower-intensity strikes.” This raised the risk of sizeable “American casualties”, and resultant “domestic blowback”. Cited polling data indicates the overwhelming majority of US citizens oppose conflict with Iran. Meanwhile, think tank apparatchik Aaron David Miller laments:

“Nobody wants this. We’re sleepwalking towards a war, in search of a strategy…the President has put himself in a box. He has put himself in a situation where unless he manages to extract a considerable concession from the Iranians to avoid a war he doesn’t want, he’s going to be forced into one. This is a crisis of his own making.”

‘Available Forces’

Analysis published by ‘think tank’ the Center For Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) reinforces how for all the sound and fury, Washington’s overhyped military buildup in fact could neither fight nor sustain a vaguely protracted conflict. Of the US Navy’s 292 available battle force ships, “most are in port or in maintenance and training, with less than a fifth of the force at sea for operations.” Of this significantly truncated total, apparently just 41% are deployed to West Asia.

This force is “far smaller” than Washington fielded in 1991 and 2003 against Iraq, “for major combat operations and regime change.” The assets are more comparable in size and clout to Operation Desert Fox, a four-day bombing campaign against Baghdad in 1998. If all the US Navy’s 13 available destroyers are in range, they could only launch 150 – 250 Tomahawk missiles, “alongside long-range missiles from strike aircrafts.” The Tomahawk total is twice that expended during the disastrous, nine-month-long Operation Prosperity Guardian, which targeted Yemen’s AnsarAllah.

Even if the Empire was to burn through the entirety of its exorbitantly expensive and difficult-to-replace Tomahawk stockpiles striking Tehran, CSIS forecasts it “unlikely the US will attack Iranian leaders.” The Islamic Republic has repeatedly demonstrated considerable “resilience” in the face of relentless Judeo-American belligerence, suggesting “decapitation will not destabilize the regime.” Moreover, Washington is concerned about Iranian “retaliation” to such operations. “Available forces” in theatre are simply “insufficient for regime change beyond limited targeted strikes,” with “logistics for an extended air campaign” lacking.

CSIS also robustly dismissed any suggestion of a forthcoming US invasion of any kind. “The large number of cargo aircraft…and tankers” homing in on West Asia “does not indicate any deployment of ground forces.” These assets facilitate air operations exclusively, and are insufficient to support even “an extended, multi-week air campaign.” There will also be no repeat of the January lightning strike abduction of elected Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro. The US “lacks Marines [or] special operations forces for raids or ground operations.”

Unstated by CSIS, the Empire’s flaccid encirclement of Iran represents the absolute maximum force deployment possible. An official factsheet published by the Government Accountability Office paints an utterly damning picture of the US military’s parlous contemporary state. “Nearly two decades of conflict has degraded US military readiness,” it states, leaving America’s armed forces unable “to adapt to growing threats posed by major powers (such as China and Russia) and other adversaries.”

A welter of deleterious issues blight every component of the Empire’s bloated military machine, although the Air Force and Navy – which reap the bulk of US war spending – are particularly impacted. Although hundreds of billions are sunk into the pair annually, their fleets of air and sea craft are decrepit, with “a lack of parts, maintenance delays, and other problems” limiting. Moreover, US facilities for repairing weapons systems and equipment, and naval shipyards generally, are in “poor condition”.

‘Lethal Force’

Adding to the US Navy’s woes, there are “an insufficient number of sailors” in its ranks, leading to chronic understaffing, and in turn mass “service member fatigue”. On several occasions, this has produced “fatal ship collisions”. Yet, the most damning factor lethally impacting the Empire’s “military readiness” is unmentioned by the GAO. Namely, even Washington’s much-reduced roster of pilots and sailors aren’t prepared for a war in which an adversary can actually fight back.

In July 2024, the Associated Press published an extraordinary, little-noticed report on the US Navy’s return Stateside after nine gruelling months failing to crush Ansar Allah under Operation Prosperity Guardian. The outlet described the effort as “the most intense running sea battle the Navy has faced since World War II.” Pilots and sailors were “relieved” to be home, having been bombarded relentlessly by Ansar Allah drones, and ballistic and cruise missiles. And Yemen’s anti-genocide blockade of the Red Sea wasn’t disrupted one iota.

As such, the Pentagon was forced to investigate “counseling and treatment for possible post-traumatic stress” not only for all pilots and sailors involved, but their families too. Some sailors described seeing “incoming Houthi-launched missiles seconds before they are destroyed by their ship’s defensive systems.” Astonishingly, one pilot told AP the ship’s crew “weren’t used to being fired on given the nation’s previous military engagements in recent decades.” He described the experience as “incredibly different”, “traumatizing”, and “something that we don’t think about a lot.”

Undeterred, in March 2025, the Trump administration launched a fresh broadside against God’s Partisans [Ansar Allah]. US military and political chiefs were determined to avenge Operation Prosperity Guardian’s abject failure. The President bragged Yemen would be “decimated” via “overwhelming lethal force until we have achieved our objective,” while the Pentagon planned a ground invasion once relentless aerial assaults had wiped out Ansar Allah. Two grand aircraft carriers, a huge fleet of bombers and fighter jets, and air defense systems duly flooded the region.

After almost two months, the Empire beat a hasty retreat from the Red Sea yet again. Along the way, multiple MQ-9 drones costing tens of millions each were shot down by God’s Partisans, while several F-16s and F-35 stealth fighter jets were almost struck by the Resistance group. Pentagon planners were aghast at the threat of American casualties, and the wretched endeavour burning through billions in finite weapons and munitions, to the extent stockpiles were dangerously drained.

Any conflict with Iran will be considerably more bruising. Within minutes of any standoff erupting, US military bases across West Asia will be decimated by Tehran’s ballistic and hypersonic missile arsenal. The Strait of Hormuz, through which $500 billion in oil and gas flows annually, will be shut down, paralysing the global economy. Washington’s aircraft carriers – a redundant relic of a bygone, unipolar age – will be blitzed from every direction. And the Zionist entity could suffer a fate worse than the 12 Day War.

On February 25th, Politico reported that the White House “would prefer Israel strike Iran” before any US assault commences, as retaliation from the Islamic Republic would offer some justification, and manufacture public consent, for all-out war. Unstated by the outlet, outsourcing responsibility for starting the war to Tel Aviv would shift blame for an inevitable fiasco of historic proportions onto the Zionist entity. It is not just Trump, but the Empire, that is in every way stumbling into a “crisis of his own making.”

Kit Klarenberg
source: Al Mayadeen

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=29085 #aggression #antiColonialResistance #colonialism #imperialism #iran #resistance #zionism

Collapsing Empire: US Bows To African Revolutionaries

On February 2nd, the BBC published an extraordinary report on how the Trump administration “has declared a stark policy shift” towards Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, the governments of which have sought to eradicate all ties to Western imperial powers, and forged the Alliance of Sahel States (AES). The independent bloc is a revolutionary enterprise, with the prospect that further countries will follow its members’ lead. And Washington is under no illusions about the new geopolitical realities unfolding in Africa.

The British state broadcaster records how Nick Checker, State Department African Affairs chief, is due to visit Mali to convey US “respect” for the country’s “sovereignty”, and chart a “new course” in relations, moving “past policy missteps.” Checker will also express optimism about future cooperation with AES “on shared security and economic interests.” This is an absolutely unprecedented development. After military coups deposed the elected presidents of all three countries 2020 – 2023, the trio became Western pariahs.

France and the US sought to isolate and undermine the military governments, halting “cooperation” projects in numerous fields. Meanwhile, the Economic Community of West African States, a neocolonial union of which all three were members, first imposed severe sanctions on Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, before its combined armed forces prepared to outright invade the latter in summer 2023. The three countries didn’t budge, and in fact welcomed Western isolation, forging new international partnerships and strengthening their ties. ECOWAS military action never came to pass.

In January 2025, the trio seceded from the union and created AES. Western-funded, London-based Amani Africa branded the move “the most significant crisis in West Africa’s regional integration since the founding of ECOWAS in 1975,” claiming it dealt “a significant blow to African…cooperation architecture.” Meanwhile, Burkina Faso’s leader Capt Ibrahim Traoré has become a media hate figure. A disparaging May 2025 Financial Times profile slammed him as a cynical opportunist leading a “Russia-backed junta”, and his supporters a “cult”.

As the BBC unwittingly explains, such antipathy towards Traoré stems from establishing himself “as a standard-bearer in resisting ‘imperialism’ and ‘neocolonialism’.” Via “vigorous social media promotion, he has gained huge support for this stance and personal popularity among young people across the continent and beyond,” ever since seizing power in September 2022. Far from just talk, Traoré and his fellow AES “junta” leaders have systematically sought to neutralise malign Western influence locally, while pursuing left-wing economic policies for the good of their populations.

France and the US have proven markedly powerless to hamper, let alone reverse, this seismic progress. While officials in Paris and Washington hitherto relentlessly hammered AES’ members over “democracy and human rights” concerns, the BBC reports such considerations will be wholly “absent from the agenda” when State Department officials now visit Mali. In other words, the Empire recognises it no longer has the ability to dictate the composition or policies of regional governments and must engage administrations on their own terms.

‘Despotic Governments’

While generating only occasional mainstream interest, the push by Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger to rid themselves of Western imperialism has been remarkable in its scope and efficacy. French and US media programmes and channels have been blocked throughout AES. In August 2022, Paris’ forces were sent packing from Mali after a nine-year-long occupation. Two years later, Russian soldiers took over an airbase in Niger housing American forces at the government’s invitation, after authorities demanded Washington withdraw from the country.

These purges have had a knock-on effect in the wider region. For example, in November 2024, Chad abruptly terminated a military agreement, ending France’s long-running occupation of the country. Around the same time, Senegal demanded that the French close their military base in Dakar. The last troops departed in July 2025, leaving Paris with no permanent installations in Central or West Africa. Meanwhile, efforts by AES members to drive Britain, France, and the US out of every major sector of their economies are ongoing.

Right when Chad and Senegal were bidding bon voyage to French forces, Niger seized control of local mining firm Somaïr, a component of state-owned French nuclear company Orano. Somaïr provided a quarter of the uranium supply to European nuclear power plants. Resultantly, EU imports of uranium from Russia rose by over 70%, despite the supposedly crippling sanctions imposed over the Ukraine proxy war. In another bitter irony, Moscow has concurrently cemented itself as a close partner of AES member states in economic and military fields.

This burgeoning relationship has triggered a predictable chorus of condemnation and fearmongering from Western journalists, politicians, and pundits. Yet, a March 2024 poll published by the German Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Foundation found 98% of Malians approve of their country’s bond with Russia, with 83% being “very satisfied” and 15% “rather satisfied”. More generally, the same survey highlighted how Mali’s “junta” enjoys overwhelming public support, about which Western governments can only fantasise.

In all, 81% of respondents believed life in Mali had improved since the military administration took power. A staggering 99% expressed satisfaction with the work of security forces, 95% were optimistic about the country’s future prospects, and 87% rejected calls for an election. Similar results were found in a poll of Burkina Faso’s population in August. A stunning 66% of citizens said it was legitimate for the military to seize power, if “elected leaders abuse their power for their own interests.”

As a fascinating paper by Senegalese academic Ndongo Samba Sylla forensically details, ever since supposed independence was granted to Africa in the 1960s, France and other imperial powers have worked concertedly to ensure its constituent countries are ruled by pliant puppets. Along the way, the West has “shown no scruples in backing odious civilian or military regimes” favourable to their interests. This produces “choiceless democracies” across Africa, with “despotic governments” that come to power “through fraudulent elections and…do not create any welfare for their people.”

‘Lasting Solutions’

Sylla cites the example of Chad, where France sustained a corrupt, brutal dictator, Idriss Deby Itno, in office 1990 – 2021. Following his death, Emmanuel Macron diplomatically backed his son’s “unconstitutional succession”. The French President’s unabashed advocacy for an illiberal, nepotistic power grab is to be contrasted with Macron’s furious censure of the military coups in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger, demands they hold elections, and calls for “financial sanctions from African countries, the Wes,t and its financial institutions.”

France could impose sanctions directly on the trio due to Paris’ control of the Central Bank of West African States, the financial arm of ECOWAS. Membership ties states to the CFA Franc, a currency created after World War II that allowed Paris to maintain grossly iniquitous trading relationships with its African colonies, when its economy was ravaged and its overseas empire rapidly unravelling. The CFA Franc makes it cheap for members to import from France and vice versa, but prohibitively expensive for them to export elsewhere.

Such forced dependency creates a captive market for the French, and by extension, Europe, decisively blunting local development. Member states are impotent to enact meaningful policy changes, as they lack control over their own economies, forced to take orders from the IMF, World Bank, and Western investors. As Sylla remarks: “No matter who you elect, they will have to stick with the basic economic policy blueprint.” Creating a replacement currency is AES’ next major challenge – although its members have already started constructing a central bank.

AES’ continued existence and successes are anathema to Paris. Since “decolonisation” in Africa in the early 1960s, the French have launched 50 overt interventions in Africa, which doesn’t account for assassinations of anti-imperialist leaders, palace coups, rigged elections, and other skullduggery employed to maintain France’s mephitic, exploitative grip over its former holdings. Delusions of keeping the continent wedged under their heels have not faded, despite the dramatic collapse of French power locally. In April 2024, General Francois Lecointre, former French Army Chief of Staff, declared:

“What we Europeans have in common is the Mediterranean and Africa, where our destiny is at stake…Europe will have an obligation to return to Africa to help restore the state and bring back administration and development. It’s not China, Russia, or Wagner [Group] who are going to provide lasting solutions to the very great difficulties facing these African countries and their people.”

Residents of AES evidently beg to differ, and stand ready to defend their leaders from foreign destabilisation. US officials aren’t unwise to the region’s new power dynamic. In an October 2025 interview with Le Monde, Trump confidante and State Department senior advisor for Africa, Massad Boulos, rejected any suggestion Washington would criticise the Sahel’s military governments, as while “democracy is always appreciated…people are free to choose whatever system is appropriate for them.” The anti-imperialist struggle continues apace in Africa – and for now, revolutionaries are winning.

Kit Klarenberg
Source: Al Mayadeen

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=27969 #aes #africa #allianceOfSahelStates #antiColonialResistance #antiImperialism #burkinaFaso #mali #niger

Ansarallah Commander Sayyed Abdulmalik Badr El-Din Al-Houthi Speech January 15th

The enemies failed in their goal of killing the Martyr of the Quran [Hussein Al-Houthi] by thinking they could end his project; instead, he won by having his martyrdom linked to this sacred project, which is now stronger than ever. The primary cause of the weakness, dispersion, despair, and defeat of the Islamic Ummah today is the crisis of trust in Allah Almighty and His promises. The enemies’ culture and directions are based on permitting violations against us—permitting our killing, extermination, and permitting the violation of our honor, homelands, and wealth. The zionist enemy, planted by enemies in the heart of our Arab and Islamic region, is a forward front meant to penetrate our arena in its depth and impose total control. With the announcement of the second phase of the Gaza agreement, look at what the zionist enemy is doing in the first phase: the enemy does not fulfill most of what the agreement included, maintaining a state of continued siege, daily killing, aggression, and destruction. The zionist project moves with an American partnership and Western support, seeking to change the “Middle East” and dominate it completely. Normalization comes in the context of empowering the zionist entity in the region further and placing it in a position of leadership and control over the Ummah. The American failed in Iran due to the vigilance and consciousness of the Iranian people, who came out in majestic million-man marches expressing that they will not submit to America. The American direction globally is based on tyranny, exposed as happened in the aggression on Venezuela and the kidnapping of Maduro and his wife, with the open declaration of the goal to plunder wealth. The American openly declares his goal to control Greenland for the rare minerals and massive wealth within it; the bullying and tyranny of the US constitutes a danger to all peoples of the world. We are moving in this phase within the framework of “Preparation for the Coming Round,” because conflict is inevitable with the zionist enemy and with the American. I praise all existing activities within the framework of “Preparation for the Coming Round”—the general mobilization activities, military courses, and the tribal stands across all free governorates. We are steadfast in the framework of the Quranic Project, continuing and confident, moving in a liberational direction containing faithful pride and human dignity. The zionist entity seeks a presence in Somalia to threaten the Red Sea and Bab-el-Mandeb; we will not hesitate to target any zionist presence we can reach.

What the zionist entity has done in Gaza—the deliberate killing and collective genocide of thousands of children and women—has shocked the human conscience globally.

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=27153 #ansarAllah #antiColonialResistance #antiImperialism #freePalestine #gaza #palestine #us #usa #yemen

Kataib Hezbollah Warns US Against War on Iran Amid Threats

Kataib Hezbollah Secretary-General Abu Hussein al-Hamidawi said Monday that the region is entering what he described as a “new chapter of conflict between the fronts of right and falsehood,” arguing that the lines between the two camps have become increasingly clear.

In a statement, al-Hamidawi said the “front of falsehood” has revealed itself through criminal behavior and an aggressive approach toward free peoples who reject imperial domination. He warned that the leadership of this camp is moving toward preparations targeting the Islamic Republic of Iran, which he said was a pillar of strength for the Muslim world.

Al-Hamidawi stressed that religious and moral duty requires standing alongside what he called the besieged Iranian people, saying that defending the Islamic Republic amounts to defending the Muslim Ummah’s sanctities. Addressing Iranians directly, he said that Kataib Hezbollah stands with them “in hardship and ease” and remains committed to defending Iran and its sacred values.

Call for regional vigilance

He also urged Iraqis and members of the wider Axis of Resistance to remain vigilant, warning against complacency and against being influenced by what he described as traitorous voices, misinformation campaigns, and efforts to sow confusion.

Al-Hamidawi further cautioned the United States against launching a war on Iran, saying such a conflict would not be a “leisurely affair” and would carry high costs.

His remarks followed statements by US and Israeli officials, including US President Donald Trump and Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who have threatened military intervention against Iran under the pretext of “protecting protesters,” amid what observers describe as an intensified media campaign surrounding the issue.

Zionist entity heightens readiness as US weighs aggression

Reuters on Sunday reported that Zionist authorities have raised their security posture amid “concerns” that the United States could launch an aggression in Iran amid a wave of foreign-backed armed riots framed as anti-government protests by zio-imperialist elements.

Citing three Zionist sources, Reuters said the heightened alert stems from unease over a potential US escalation rather than any declared Israeli

Kataib Hezbollah Secretary-General Abu Hussein al-Hamidawi said Monday that the region is entering what he described as a “new chapter of conflict between the fronts of right and falsehood,” arguing that the lines between the two camps have become increasingly clear.

In a statement, al-Hamidawi said the “front of falsehood” has revealed itself through criminal behavior and an aggressive approach toward free peoples who reject imperial domination. He warned that the leadership of this camp is moving toward preparations targeting the Islamic Republic of Iran, which he said was a pillar of strength for the Muslim world.

Al-Hamidawi stressed that religious and moral duty requires standing alongside what he called the besieged Iranian people, saying that defending the Islamic Republic amounts to defending the Muslim Ummah’s sanctities. Addressing Iranians directly, he said that Kataib Hezbollah stands with them “in hardship and ease” and remains committed to defending Iran and its sacred values.

Call for regional vigilance

He also urged Iraqis and members of the wider Axis of Resistance to remain vigilant, warning against complacency and against being influenced by what he described as traitorous voices, misinformation campaigns, and efforts to sow confusion.

Al-Hamidawi further cautioned the United States against launching a war on Iran, saying such a conflict would not be a “leisurely affair” and would carry high costs.

His remarks followed statements by US and Israeli

Kataib Hezbollah Secretary-General Abu Hussein al-Hamidawi said Monday that the region is entering what he described as a “new chapter of conflict between the fronts of right and falsehood,” arguing that the lines between the two camps have become increasingly clear.

In a statement, al-Hamidawi said the “front of falsehood” has revealed itself through criminal behavior and an aggressive approach toward free peoples who reject imperial domination. He warned that the leadership of this camp is moving toward preparations targeting the Islamic Republic of Iran, which he said was a pillar of strength for the Muslim world.

Al-Hamidawi stressed that religious and moral duty requires standing alongside what he called the besieged Iranian people, saying that defending the Islamic Republic amounts to defending the Muslim Ummah’s sanctities. Addressing Iranians directly, he said that Kataib Hezbollah stands with them “in hardship and ease” and remains committed to defending Iran and its sacred values.

Call for regional vigilance

He also urged Iraqis and members of the wider Axis of Resistance to remain vigilant, warning against complacency and against being influenced by what he described as traitorous voices, misinformation campaigns, and efforts to sow confusion.

Al-Hamidawi further cautioned the United States against launching a war on Iran, saying such a conflict would not be a “leisurely affair” and would carry high costs.

His remarks followed statements by US and Israeli officials, including US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who have threatened military intervention against Iran under the pretext of “protecting protesters,” amid what observers describe as an intensified media campaign surrounding the issue.

‘Israel’ heightens readiness as US weighs aggression

Reuters on Sunday reported that Israeli authorities have raised their security posture amid “concerns” that the United States could launch an aggression in Iran amid a wave of foreign-backed armed riots framed as anti-government protests by zio-imperialist elements.

Citing three Israeli sources, Reuters said the heightened alert stems from unease over a potential US escalation rather than any declared Israeli plan to intervene. The sources offered no details on concrete security measures, a lack of specificity that underscores uncertainty over Washington’s intentions following remarks by US President Donald Trump, who warned Iran’s leadership against using force against those involved in unrest and said the United States stood “ready to help,” rhetoric Tehran views as thinly veiled interventionism rather than humanitarian concern.

The Israeli posture comes against the backdrop of the 12-day war in June, launched when “Israel”, with direct US participation, carried out air and intelligence strikes across Iran that targeted not only military infrastructure but also civilian and dual-use sites, marking a decisive rupture with years of indirect confrontation and prompting Tehran to warn that any renewed US-Israeli aggression would be met with forceful retaliation against US assets and “Israel” alike

officials, including US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who have threatened military intervention against Iran under the pretext of “protecting protesters,” amid what observers describe as an intensified media campaign surrounding the issue.

‘Israel’ heightens readiness as US weighs aggression

Reuters on Sunday reported that Israeli authorities have raised their security posture amid “concerns” that the United States could launch an aggression in Iran amid a wave of foreign-backed armed riots framed as anti-government protests by zio-imperialist elements.

Citing three Zionist sources, Reuters said the heightened alert stems from unease over a potential US escalation rather than any declared Zionist plan to intervene. The sources offered no details on concrete security measures, a lack of specificity that underscores uncertainty over Washington’s intentions following remarks by US President Donald Trump, who warned Iran’s leadership against using force against those involved in unrest and said the United States stood “ready to help,” rhetoric Tehran views as thinly veiled interventionism rather than humanitarian concern.

The Israeli posture comes against the backdrop of the 12-day war in June, launched when the entity, with direct US participation, carried out air and intelligence strikes across Iran that targeted not only military infrastructure but also civilian and dual-use sites, marking a decisive rupture with years of indirect confrontation and prompting Tehran to warn that any renewed US-Zionist aggression would be met with forceful retaliation against US assets and the entity alike.

https://abolitionmedia.noblogs.org/?p=26910 #antiColonialResistance #axisOfResistance #iran #iraq #kataibHezbollah #westAsia