{"id":46755,"date":"2019-06-19T11:36:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T16:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46755"},"modified":"2019-06-19T11:36:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T16:36:49","slug":"report-us-planning-massive-airstrike-on-an-iranian-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46755","title":{"rendered":"Report: US Planning \u201cMassive\u201d Airstrike On An Iranian Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/2019\/06\/18\/report-us-planning-massive-airstrike-on-an-iranian-facility\/\">Report: US Planning \u201cMassive\u201d Airstrike On An Iranian\u00a0Facility<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/caitlinjohnstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/medium-3-5.jpg?fit=800%2C505&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Middle-East\/Iran-News\/UN-officials-US-is-planning-a-tactical-assault-in-Iran-592832\">a new article<\/a>&nbsp;from English-language Israeli publication&nbsp;<em>The Jerusalem Post<\/em>, the Hebrew-language Israeli publication&nbsp;<em>Maariv&nbsp;<\/em>has reported that diplomatic sources in the UN are assessing a US plan to conduct a \u201cmassive\u201d airstrike on \u201can Iranian facility linked to its nuclear program\u201d in response to alleged&nbsp;attacks on two sea vessels in the Gulf of Oman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe sources added that President Trump himself was not enthusiastic about a military move against Iran, but lost his patience on the matter and would grant Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who is pushing for action, what he wants,\u201d&nbsp;<em>The Jerusalem Post<\/em>&nbsp;reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This news comes after&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/ken-walshs-washington\/articles\/2019-06-17\/pompeo-us-considering-full-range-of-options-on-iran\">public statements by Pompeo<\/a>&nbsp;that the US is considering a \u201cfull range of options\u201d against Iran. It also comes as 1,000 additional US troops are&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ActingSecDef\/status\/1140757987134496770\">being sent to the Middle East<\/a>&nbsp;to \u201caddress air, naval, and ground-based threats\u201d there. It also comes amid&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rabrowne75\/status\/1140736672251953152\">sightings of depraved war criminal Henry Kissinger<\/a>&nbsp;at the Pentagon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So that\u2019s great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thekarami\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/978756173624037376\/PEQIfNbZ_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thekarami\"><strong><\/strong><strong>\u2714<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thekarami\/status\/1140679708209635328\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>in response to unproven claim that Iran attacked a Japanese tanker in the Persian Gulf the US is going to bomb an Iranian nuclear facility. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ck5YtoVAOV\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Middle-East\/Iran-News\/UN-officials-US-is-planning-a-tactical-assault-in-Iran-592832\u00a0\u2026<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/like?tweet_id=1140679708209635328\">978<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thekarami\/status\/1140679708209635328\">1:56 PM &#8211; Jun 17, 2019<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/support.twitter.com\/articles\/20175256\">Twitter Ads info and privacy<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ck5YtoVAOV\">U.N. officials: U.S. planning a &#8216;tactical assault&#8217; in IranThe military action under consideration would be an aerial bombardment of an Iranian facility linked to its nuclear program, the officials further claimed.jpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rabrowne75\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1103692294648147969\/VMxR7qeu_normal.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rabrowne75\"><strong><\/strong><strong>\u2714<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rabrowne75\/status\/1140736672251953152\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Spotted today  at the Pentagon: former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many comparisons are being made today between the unforgivable Iraq invasion and the agendas that this administration is attempting to advance in Iran, and rightly so. But make no mistake, Iran is not Iraq. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Report: US Planning \u201cMassive\u201d Airstrike On An Iranian\u00a0Facility According to&nbsp;a new article&nbsp;from English-language Israeli publication&nbsp;The Jerusalem Post, the Hebrew-language Israeli publication&nbsp;Maariv&nbsp;has reported that diplomatic sources in the UN are assessing a US plan to conduct a \u201cmassive\u201d airstrike on \u201can Iranian facility linked to its nuclear program\u201d in response to alleged&nbsp;attacks on two sea vessels [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[17039,1049,18486,11226],"class_list":["post-46755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-caitlin-johnstone","tag-israel","tag-jerusalem-post","tag-us-pentagon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46756,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46755\/revisions\/46756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}