The Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei
may not be having a happy 85th birthday as Israel responded to the
hundreds of drones, cruise and ballistic missiles fired by the Islamic
terrorist state into Israel with attacks of its own.
Details of the attack are still pending, but reportedly the targets are Iranian airbases, and the attack scope is limited.
While Israel had wanted to retaliate
immediately, there was immediate pressure from the Biden administration
not to “escalate” by fighting back.
My own guess would be that Israel targeted
some of the Iranian facilities where the attacks had originated from in
demonstration strikes meant to show that it could strike deep into Iran.
So while there’s speculation, I would
venture to guess this is far from the big one, it’s not a strike aimed
at taking out Iran’s nuclear program, but essentially the bare minimum a
country does when it’s bombed by another country.
Were the attacks deliberately timed for
Khamenei’s big day? It’s possible, but the window was also on the narrow
side. The Sabbath is coming up and soon afterward the holiday of
Passover (at which point you’ll see fewer updates from me as Jews around
the world commemorate the fall of a wicked tyrant and the Divine
liberation from an oppressive Middle Eastern country). Reports were that
the retaliatory attacks were going to happen after Passover, but it
looks like they were moved forward instead.
One possible reason is that Islamic terrorists, including Iran, would be more likely to attack on Passover.
Hamas had originally planned Oct. 7 for
the first night of Passover before having to call off the attack. A
strong show of force before Passover may have been calculated to send a
warning about further attacks.
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