{"id":67198,"date":"2024-04-05T05:58:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T10:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67198"},"modified":"2024-04-05T05:58:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T10:58:08","slug":"israel-warns-iran-of-massive-regional-war-if-directly-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67198","title":{"rendered":"Israel Warns Iran Of Massive Regional War If Directly Attacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"ArticleFull_header__z0vIZ\">\n<h3 class=\"ArticleFull_title__FDrpw\" data-attribute-guid=\"88091\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/oil-pushes-higher-reports-uae-severing-aid-coordination-israel-bibi-puts-embassies\">Israel Warns Iran Of Massive Regional War If Directly Attacked<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"NodeContent_mainContent__2jyAd\">\n<div class=\"NodeContent_body__HBEFs NodeBody_container__eeFKv\">\n<p><strong><u>Update(1831ET)<\/u>:<\/strong>\u00a0With Israel&#8217;s embassies around the world on a heightened state of alert, and extra IDF reservists called up,\u00a0and home and weekend leave for all combat troops having been abruptly canceled Thursday, the Israeli population is anxiously awaiting a response &#8211; with some reports saying residents are already seeking the safety of bomb shelters.<\/p>\n<p>Tehran has vowed that vengeance is coming soon for the Monday Israeli airstrike on its embassy in Damascus.\u00a0<strong>Most pundits believe this will take the form of ballistic missiles raining down on Israeli cities<\/strong>. But Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly vowing that if the Islamic Republic launches missiles from its soil it\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/04\/04\/israel-iran-warn-attack-response\">will ensure<\/a>\u00a0<strong>&#8220;a strong response&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0from Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli officials have told\u00a0<em>Axios<\/em>\u00a0late in the day that such an act would\u00a0<strong>&#8220;take the current conflict to another level<\/strong><b><strong>&#8221;\u00a0<\/strong><\/b><em>\u2014\u00a0<\/em>which most certainly would involve a direct Israel-Iran war and thus the eruption of a broader regional conflict.\u00a0<em>Axios<\/em>\u00a0adds the following\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/04\/04\/israel-iran-warn-attack-response\">observations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Iranian proxies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Gaza have attacked Israel but there hasn&#8217;t been an attack from Iranian soil.<\/li>\n<li>A direct Iranian strike on Israel would be\u00a0<strong>unprecedented and could lead to a regional war in the Middle East<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Netanyahu informed his security cabinet Thursday that Israel&#8217;s forces have already been engaged with Iran\u00a0&#8220;both directly and via its proxies, and therefore Israel is operating against Iran and its proxies, both defensively and offensively.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A statement issued by the prime minister&#8217;s office laid out: &#8220;We will know how to defend ourselves and will operate according to the basic principle of whoever is harming or planning to harm us \u2014 we will harm him.&#8221; The White House has meanwhile issued a statement shortly after Biden and Netanyahu discussed the Gaza crisis, saying\u00a0&#8220;President Biden made clear that the United States strongly supports Israel in the face of those [Iranian] threats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel Warns Iran Of Massive Regional War If Directly Attacked Update(1831ET):\u00a0With Israel&#8217;s embassies around the world on a heightened state of alert, and extra IDF reservists called up,\u00a0and home and weekend leave for all combat troops having been abruptly canceled Thursday, the Israeli population is anxiously awaiting a response &#8211; with some reports saying residents [&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":[2,3,5],"tags":[189,441,1049,522,588,592,776,827,834,862,891,4318],"class_list":["post-67198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-damascus","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-middle-east","tag-oil","tag-oil-price","tag-syria","tag-united-states","tag-us","tag-war","tag-world-war","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67198","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=67198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67199,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67198\/revisions\/67199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}