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These oil refineries need to be hit and hit hard because that is the source of cash for the regime,
U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said in a statement I think that the targets that will be selected, will be meticulously, very carefully selected,
said Avi Melamed, a former Israeli intelligence official and a negotiator during the Palestinian intifadas, or uprisings, of the 1980s and 2000s The Israelis have already blown through any number of red lines that we laid down for them,
said Richard Hooker, a retired U.S. Army officer who served in the National Security Council under Republican and Democratic presidents It would be unwise for outsiders to try to predict Israel's attack plan,
said Norman Roule, a former senior CIA officer who served as the U.S. intelligence community's top manager for Iran from 2008 to 2017. Whoever attacks us – we attack them,
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his security cabinet on Tuesday night, summing up his doctrine of deterrence There will be severe consequences for this attack, and we will work with Israel to make that the case,
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said on Tuesday, October 1. Iran has managed to reach a point where it can not only produce nuclear weapons on-demand but produce large quantities of WGU [weapons-grade uranium] quickly in a very hard-to-destroy enrichment plant,
expert David Albright noted I am surrounded by more men, guns, and weapons than I have ever seen before,
Trump posted on Truth Social last week Our resisting people in Lebanon and Palestine, you brave fighters, you loyal and patient people, these martyrdoms and the blood that was shed shouldn't shake your determination but make you more persistent,
A strike on Iran’s nuclear program may not fully destroy it and could provoke Iran to retaliate against US-allied oil infrastructure in the Arab Gulf, sending shock waves through global oil markets,
I do not put the blame for the whole event on Netanyahu. This is basically the fault of Hamas and Hezbollah and Iran behind them,
You can cause certain damage, but even this might be perceived by some of the planners as worth the risk because the alternative is to sit idly by and do nothing,
I think that a strong response is inevitable. That doesn’t mean it was written in heaven a year ago that it’s going to happen,
I think we might see something like that. It might be a massive attack, and it could be repeated more than once,
There are some commentators and even some people within the defence establishment who raised the question: Why the hell not hit the nuclear military programme?”
That’s not the case right now, because Iran is a de facto threshold country,
Israel has a compelling need, even an imperative, to respond. I think that no sovereign nation on Earth could fail to respond,
Barak said in an interview They’ve developed this sort of axis of resistance, and it allows them to keep the pressure on Israel without there being a direct conflict,
Israel can damage Iran's nuclear program without US assistance, but it is unclear if it can by itself carry out the type of sustained and penetrating conventional attack that would seriously set back the program,
Farzan Sabet, senior research associate at the Geneva Graduate Institute, told Business Insider The Israelis are more likely to attack logistics lines to the Iranian nuclear programme, which can be achieved in the same hour-by-hour timeframe as their military activities are currently governed by,