WHAT A SHAME! WHAT AN IGNOMINY? WHAT IS DISGRACED FOR THE WORLD, FOR JUSTICE FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND MORALITY!

[Serge Pierre-Pierre]

JUNE 14, 2025

WHAT A SHAME!  WHAT AN IGNOMINY?  WHAT A DISGRACED FOR THE WORLD, FOR JUSTICE, FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE AND MORALITY!

RUSSIA WITH NO LEADERSHIP! PRESIDENT PUTIN NO LEADER OF THE STATURE OF THE POLITBUROS OF YESTERYEAR!!! SO BLINDED THAT HE M. PUTIN IS UNABLE TO DISCERN A GOLDEN "EXIT DOOR" OPENED BY THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WHILE FORMER BIDEN HAD SUCCESSFULLY AND CYNICALLY ISOLATED RUSSIA BIG TIME IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!!! 

CHINA WITH ITS HEAD SPINNING AND DIZZY TRYING TO PROVE IT IS THE FIRST ECONOMIC POWER AND BEING PRECIPITATED BY THE USA INTO ATTACKING TAIWAN ALREADY ACCEPTED BY THE CONCERT OF NATIONS AS ONE OF ITS PROVINCES!

THE WORLD HAS NO MORAL LEADER AS SUCH THESE TRYING DAYS!  WE ARE ALMOST LOST!

WHAT ABOUT OUR POOR AND HEADLESS HAITI WHICH IS SINKING DRAMATICALLY INTO OBLIVION BECAUSE OF THE IRRESPONSIBILITY OF ITS PEOPLE?

WHEN ARE WE HAITIANS GOING TO TAKE CARE OF OUR REAL, TRUE AND ONLY COUNTRY????????????????????????????????????

WHILE ISRAEL IS DEMONSTRATING TO THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD WHO IS THE REAL WORLD LEADER, AMORAL AND OR IMMORAL!

DARN!  DARN!  THE WORLD IS AT A LOSS AND OR LOST. 

AGAIN, HAITIANS ALL OVER THE WORLD, IT IS TIME THAT WE TOOK OUR DESTINY IN OUR TWO HANDS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWW!

SPP

Associated Press

Israel warns 'Tehran will burn' as Iran fires drones and missiles in response to Israeli strikes
JON GAMBRELL, MELANIE LIDMAN and JULIA FRANKEL
Sat, June 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM EDT·6 min read

Paramedics evacuate a woman from a site that was struck by a missile fired from Iran, in Rishon Lezion, Israel, on Saturday, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel’s defense minister warned Saturday that “Tehran will burn” if Iran continues firing missiles, as the two countries traded blows a day after Israel launched a blistering surprise attack on Iranian nuclear and military sites, killing a number of top generals.

Israel’s military said the strikes had also killed nine senior scientists and experts involved in Iran’s nuclear program. Iran’s U.N. ambassador said 78 people were killed and more than 320 wounded in the attacks.

Iran retaliated by launching waves of drones and ballistic missiles at Israel, where explosions lit the night skies over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and shook buildings. The Israeli military urged civilians, already rattled by 20 months of war in Gaza sparked by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, to head to shelter for hours. Health officials said three people were killed and dozens wounded.

Speaking after an assessment meeting with the army’s chief of staff, Defense Minister Israel Katz said that Iran will pay a heavy price for harming Israeli citizens.

"If (Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali) Khamenei continues to fire missiles at the Israeli home front — Tehran will burn,” Katz said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that his objective was to eliminate any Iranian threat to Israel, but he also urged Iranians to rise up against their leaders. Israel would welcome the government’s overthrow even if it is not actively seeking it.

Strikes could derail nuclear talks

Israel’s strikes also put further talks between the United States and Iran over a nuclear accord into doubt before they were set to meet Sunday in Oman. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei called further nuclear talks with the United States “meaningless” after Israeli strikes on his country, state television said.

However, he stopped short of saying the talks were canceled. The Mizan news agency, which is run by Iran’s judiciary, quoted him as saying: “It is still not clear what we decide about Sunday's talks.”

Iranian missiles strike Israel

Khamenei said in a recorded message Friday: “We will not allow them to escape safely from this great crime they committed.”

Iran launched waves of missiles at Israel late Friday and early Saturday, and Iranians awoke to state television airing repeated clips of strikes on Israel, as well as videos of people cheering and handing out sweets.

The Iranian attacks killed at least three people and wounded around 70, mostly in and around Tel Aviv, according to two local hospitals. One missile severely damaged at least four homes in the nearby city of Rishon Lezion, according to first responders.

The Israeli military said seven soldiers were lightly wounded when a missile hit central Israel, without specifying where the impact occurred. It was the first report of Israeli military casualties since the initial Israeli strikes.

U.S. ground-based air defense systems in the region were helping to shoot down Iranian missiles, said a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the measures.

In Ramat Gan, east of Tel Aviv, an Associated Press journalist saw burned-out cars and at least three damaged houses, including one where the front was nearly entirely torn away.

Residents of a central Israeli city that was hit Friday night told the AP the explosion was so powerful it shook their shelter door open. “We thought, that’s it, the house is gone, and in fact half of the house was gone, it fell apart,” said Moshe Shani.

Israeli police said debris from the interception of drones and missiles fell in dozens of locations in northern Israel, causing damage and fires but no injuries.

Israel’s main international airport said Saturday it will remain closed until further notice.

Indications of a new Israeli attack

Iranian state television reported online that air defenses were firing in the cities of Khorramabad, Kermanshah and Tabriz, signaling the start of what could be a new Israeli attack. Footage from Tabriz showed black smoke rising from the city.

An Israeli military official said Saturday that the military was poised to carry out more strikes in Iran, saying, “This is not over.” He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with official procedures.

Overnight, the sound of explosions and Iranian air defense systems firing at targets echoed across central Tehran. Iran’s semiofficial Tasnim news agency reported a fire at Tehran’s Mehrabad International Airport.

The Israeli military said it carried out overnight strikes on dozens of targets, including air defenses, “in the area of Tehran.”

Israel's ongoing airstrikes and Iran's retaliation raised concerns about all-out war between the countries and propelled the region, already on edge, into even greater upheaval. Israel's 20-month-long war with Gaza shows no signs of ending. At least 27 people were killed by Israeli fire in Gaza overnight, according to local hospitals.

Countries in the region condemned Israel’s attack, while leaders around the globe called for immediate deescalation from both sides.

‘More than a few weeks’ to repair nuclear facilities

Among the key sites Israel attacked was Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, where black smoke could be seen rising into the air.

Israel said it also struck a nuclear research facility in Isfahan, and said it destroyed dozens of radar installations and surface-to-air missile launchers in western Iran. Iran confirmed the strike at Isfahan.

The Israeli military official said that according to the army's initial assessment “it will take much more than a few weeks” for Iran to repair the damage to the Natanz and Isfahan nuclear sites. The official said the army had “concrete intelligence that production in Isfahan was for military purposes.”

Israel denied it had struck the nuclear enrichment facility in Fordo, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) southeast of Tehran, after an Iranian news outlet close to the government reported the sound of explosions near the site.

U.N. nuclear chief Rafael Grossi told the Security Council that the above-ground section of the Natanz facility was destroyed. The main centrifuge facility underground did not appear to have been hit, but the loss of power could have damaged the infrastructure there, he said.

Netanyahu said the attack had been months in the making and was planned for April before being postponed.

Among those killed were three of Iran’s top military leaders: one who oversaw the entire armed forces, Gen. Mohammad Bagheri; one who led the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Hossein Salami; and the head of the Guard’s ballistic missile program, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh.

Two of Bagheri’s deputies were also killed, Iran confirmed Saturday: Gen. Gholamreza Mehrabi, the deputy of intelligence for the armed forces’ general staff, and Gen. Mehdi Rabbani, the deputy of operations.

On Saturday, Khamenei named a new leader for the Revolutionary Guard’s aerospace division. Gen. Majid Mousavi will replace Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who was killed in Friday's airstrike. The Guard’s aerospace division oversees Iran’s arsenal of ballistic missiles.

Trump urged Iran on Friday to reach a deal with the U.S. on its nuclear program, warning on his Truth Social platform that Israel’s attacks “will only get worse.”

“Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left,” he wrote.

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Lidman and Frankel reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press writers Natalie Melzer in Nahariya, Israel and Nasser Karimi in Tehran, Iran contributed to this report.
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World reacts to Israeli strike on Iran over nuclear activity
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Fri, June 13, 2025 at 3:07 AM EDT·2 min read
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People look at a damaged building in the aftermath of Israeli strikes, in Tehran on 13 June, 2025.

Israel launched strikes on Iran on Friday, targeting its nuclear facilities, missile factories and killing the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards and top nuclear scientists. The strikes came amid growing tension over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear programme and ahead of the sixth round of US-Iran nuclear talks on Sunday in Muscat, Oman.

Israel's "Operation Rising Lion" involved the use of more than 200 fighter jets and more than 100 drones to strike more than 100 targets across Iran on Friday morning, the Israeli military said.

Calling it a "decisive moment in Israel's history", Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country was also targeting Iranian nuclear scientists in an operation that would "continue as many days as it takes".

Iran, which vowed to retaliate, has long maintained that its nuclear-related activity is for peaceful purposes.

Israel declared a state of emergency in anticipation of retaliatory missile and drone strikes by Tehran.

"It's not a war, it's a decapitation operation and an operation to stop the nuclear programme... which has been progressing in a very dangerous way recently," Joshua Zarka, Israel's ambassador to France told French radio on Friday. "We were obliged to stop this dangerous programme.

"The French state ...is not as close as it was before," Zarka, who was previously in charge of the Iran dossier at the Israeli foreign ministry, told RTL radio.

"It's an ally but not to the point to be pre-warned of such an operation."

"Let me be clear: Iran should not target US interests or personnel."


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Iran’s Stunning Incompetence
Arash Azizi
Fri, June 13, 2025 at 2:13 PM EDT·5 min read
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News of the Israeli attacks on Iran reached me in the United States just before 5 a.m. Tehran time. The city had been hit in multiple places, and strikes meant for Iran’s military commanders and nuclear scientists had brought down residential buildings across the city. So I figured my friends and family in the Iranian capital would be awake. I rushed to call.

To my shock, I woke several of my relatives. They hadn’t heard anything. No sirens had sounded; there had been no rush to shelters. The number of civilian casualties so far seems to be relatively low, but every lost life hurts. Online, the stories circulate—of a young woman who loved cycling and ecotourism, of children found under rubble. I spoke with a friend whose close relative suffered a miscarriage last night, in her eighth month of pregnancy.

Iranians have the right to condemn Israel for the attacks. But what was their own government doing to protect them?

Everything about the June 13 attacks speaks to the Iranian regime’s incompetence. Israel was able to hit major nuclear and military sites all over the country in the space of a day. It has taken out dozens of high-ranking military and nuclear officials. The list includes Ali Shamkhani, one of the most powerful men in Iran’s military, political, and economic firmaments. Among other portfolios, he was in charge of Iran’s nuclear talks. Shamkhani was also a longtime commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the militia that undergirds the power of the Iranian regime. The IRGC lost its chief and several of its top commanders in the Israeli assault. Consider this: The Islamic Republic wasn’t even able to protect its own brass, let alone the people of Iran, to whom it has long shown nothing but contempt.

The Iranian regime’s utter ineptitude is matched by a record of belligerent action and rhetoric. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was the only world leader who celebrated Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel. His state armed Hamas and a host of other militias in the region. For years, he has promised to bring destruction to Israel. In 2018, faced with the first Trump administration, he gave an ominous double pledge: “There will be no war; nor will we negotiate with the U.S.”

[Read: Israel’s bold, risky attack]

In the end, Khamenei was forced to negotiate and still couldn’t avoid war. Although the United States did not participate in the Israeli attacks, Donald Trump is now gloating about their success. The next round of talks between Washington and Tehran were scheduled for Sunday in Muscat; now Trump is telling Khamenei that he should have taken the president’s repeated threats more seriously and moved faster to reach an agreement.

Israel has only just begun a long campaign—one that it says will go on for at least two weeks. Iran has promised harsh retaliation, but it has woefully few options. The last time its territory was attacked at such a scale was when Saddam Hussein’s Iraq invaded Iran, in 1980. Now the regime appears to be in shock, taking the time to lick its wounds before it acts.

Iran has been facing down a crisis over succession to the 86-year-old Khamenei for some time. Now the old Grand Ayatollah appears to be watching feebly as Israel brings blow after blow on his regime and its so-called Axis of Resistance, the collection of militias Tehran has backed throughout the Middle East. Once celebrated as Khamenei’s crowning achievement, the Axis now lies in ruins. Last year, Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah. The group that was long Iran’s most powerful weapon against Israel is now so weakened that it has said it won’t join any counterattack on Iran’s behalf.

Could Iran see a change in leadership in the coming days? To imagine a new group of military commanders taking the reins, whether formally or informally, is not all that far-fetched. Given Israel’s apparently thorough intelligence penetration of Iran, one could even speculate that it might help engineer such changes itself.

Barring a dramatic transformation, however, Iran’s leadership will have a decision to make. The country has its back against the wall. As limited as its options are against Israel, it might still try to strike as hard as it can. It might attempt to launch cyberattacks on Israeli infrastructure. It could also make the fateful decision to dash for a nuclear bomb—but that’s a process that could take years. If Israel can figure out where the IRGC’s leaders live and how to kill them, surely it can also put a stop to such plans. Iran might hope that it can wear out Israel’s resolve over time, but that’s a gamble that hasn’t worked out so well for Iran thus far.

[Read: Why Israel struck now]

Iran might also attempt to attack American bases in the region, or to strike Gulf countries allied with the United States. The latter possibility explains why several Gulf countries have normalized relations with Tehran and strongly condemned the Israeli attacks. Taking the war to these countries could drive up oil prices and hurt the global economy. It would also involve the U.S. more directly and make still more adversaries for Iran.

Another course is possible. Maybe the time has at last come for the brittle, ideological, postrevolutionary regime to surrender. Maybe a new, pragmatic leadership will emerge—one that realizes that the time has come for Iran to stop picking fights, end its global isolation, and pursue its own development.

Despite all our differences, Iranians are a patriotic people. We don’t want to see our country so easily laid open to foreign aggression, so hopelessly incompetent in the face of fire. Iranians deserve a leadership that can defend its people and territory and that seeks peace with the region and the world. In the coming days, perhaps they will strike a path to get there.

Article originally published at The Atlantic

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