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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 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 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 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 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,
That’s not the case right now, because Iran is a de facto threshold country,
I think we might see something like that. It might be a massive attack, and it could be repeated more than once,
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 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?”
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,
The IDF will not allow the smuggling of these weapons and will not hesitate to act if forced to do so, as it has done throughout this war,
said Avichay Adraee, the Israeli military's Arabic language spokesman The road that leads to the main humanitarian crossing for thousands of Lebanese into Syria is now cut off after an Israeli strike,
I don't believe there is going to be an all-out war. I think we can avoid it,
Joe Biden told reporters at the White House when asked how confident he was that full-blown war in the region could be averted