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Israel’s Attack on Iran, and What it Means For the United States.
They’re trying to bait the U.S. into war.
Well, it has happened.
Israel has attacked the nation of Iran.
In spite of the President of the United States warning against it, Israel launched attacks deep inside the country targeting Iran’s nuclear sites overnight. Residential buildings were hit as well with the top nuclear scientist and a general dead.
Rob Picheta with CNN writes:
“The Middle East is hanging on the cusp of a generational conflict Friday, after Israel launched an unprecedented attack on Iran, killing three of its most powerful men and striking locations key to its nuclear program.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that the operation — whose scale already stands alone in history — is not over.
But Iran’s retaliation has begun. Tehran has fired more than 100 drones toward Israeli territory, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which said Israeli defenses were working to intercept the drones…”
I don’t think we can overstate the significance of this moment for the region and what it could mean not just their two countries, but the United States as well. After all, we all know they couldn’t…