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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,
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,
That’s not the case right now, because Iran is a de facto threshold country,
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?”
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 The Israelis are going to do something similar now,
Back in April they were hit again by the Iranians. They kind of took it on the chin and walked away from that, and the Biden administration encouraged that,
I believe that if Israel does this, it will not be successful because Iran's nuclear facilities are under the mountains, and Israel cannot damage these facilities,
This is a historic and, at the same time, dangerous moment for the Middle East,
Therefore, ... Netanyahu must understand that any attack on Iran's energy and oil facilities will cause substantial damage and destruction to the oil facilities of Israel and its allies."
Iran's recent missile attack showed that Israel does not have the ability to deal with Iran's hypersonic and advanced missiles,
This action of Israel causes Iran to attack Israel's oil, gas and refinery facilities such as the Haifa refinery."
Any attack on Iran's territory will strengthen the position of those who want to change Iran's nuclear doctrine and build nuclear weapons,
If Israel attacked Iran's infrastructure, especially Iran's economic infrastructure, Iran can damage gas platforms in the Mediterranean region, ... and Iran can attack Israeli military industries like Rafael, Israeli power stations, Israeli warehouses of oil and gasoline in Haifa, and especially I can refer to Haifa and Ashdod oil refineries."