Iranian Provocation and U.S. Consequences

"The Islamic Republic would decisively respond to any attack on the country, its interests and nationals under any pretexts."

Amir Saeid Iravani, Iranian ambassador to the United Nations

 

"Sometime, our enemies raise the threat, and nowadays we hear some threats in between words by American officials."

"We tell them that  you have experienced us, and we know each other. We do not leave any threat without an answer."

"We are not after war, but we have no fear of war."

Revolutionary Guard commander Gen. Hossein Salami

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows a military base known as Tower 22 in northeastern Jordan, on Oct. 12, 2023. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Iranians representing the regime are master provocateurs. They simply make use of their obedient and all-too willing proxy terrorists to launch raids, or rockets against those in the Shi'ite lexicon of enemy-aliens they wish to give notice to: after Israel, you're next. The United States is, after all, the 'big Satan' to Israel's 'little Satan', and deemed to be far more of an able military antagonist, but the Islamic Republic of Iran has its priorities. Neighbourhood business first, international business in due time.

 

In the interim, no harm in shaking things up, to make certain that those scheduled for obliteration don't fall into the false slumber of unconcern, for they are in the zone of threat. The Zionist entity, in the opinion of the Ayatollahs, has sealed its fate simply with its unwanted presence in a land consecrated to Islam, where the presence of the Jewish state defiles the area with its presence. Claims of the patrimony of heritage as the original inhabitants of ancestral land are without merit for the past one-and-a-half millennia. 

The United States of America sealed its own fate with its support of the Zionists. It will be next. Meanwhile, little reminders now and again work to ensure its enemies are aware that the Republic has a long memory; America's support of the Shah Reza Pahlavi and its weaponry and funding provided to the little Satan, its rash assassination of Brig.-Gen. Qasem Soleimani and hostility to the Shiite axis has earned it the future that awaits.

 

Iran is prepared to 'decisively respond' to any tactical method of response to the deaths of three American soldiers, at a military base in Jordan whose origin they link to the Islamic Republic. The fault lies with them, not Iran, for not having shot down the incoming drone targeting the U.S. base simply on the casual assumption that the drone was one of their own and not that of an enemy. 

 

From left, Spc. Kennedy Sanders, Sgt. William Jerome Rivers and Spc. Breonna Alexsondria Moffett, all from the state of Georgia, were identified as the three U.S. Army Reserve soldiers killed Sunday by a drone strike on their base in Jordan, near the Syrian border. (Shawn Sanders/U.S. Army/The Associated Press)

After due consideration the Biden administration that has linked Tehran to the killing of Americans and injuries sustained by many more, has signalled its intention to prepare for retaliation. The Sunday drone attack wounding 40 troops at Tower 22, a secretive base in north-eastern Jordan, critical to the U.S. presence in Syria, placed Iran on notice of its intent. Strangely enough, allowing Tehran to prepare for an attack, which was more than the U.S. got when the terrorist proxy group Islamic Resistance in Iraq launched the drone.

 

To the present, 166 attacks were launched by Kataib Hezbollah along with other Iran-linked militias, on American military installations since October 18. Of that total 67 took place in Iraq, 98 in Syria, and the single, most destructive launch of the deadly drone in Jordan, according to the U.S. military. In turn, the U.S. struck back a few times in the past three months; one event where U.S. fighter jets hit two weapons and ammunition storage sites in east Syria, used by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Iran-backed groups.

The Middle East has erupted in violence in a series of incidents radiating out from the source when Iran-backed Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad breached the separation wall between Israel and Gaza to flood thousands of terrorists into border communities where Hamas and other operatives went on a bloody rampage of rape, mutilation, and mass murder. All together some 1,200 Israeli citizens including children of all ages, their parents, their grandparents, foreign farm workers and other were slaughtered.

The raiders took 250 Israelis and others back to Gaza with them to be held as hostages for exchanges of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Hostages that were wounded, maltreated, threatened and abused, some half of whom, women and children, were returned in a November exchange, leaving Hamas still  in possession of about 130 hostages. Since that time eruptions of random and yet targeted violence have broken out.

Suez Canal

The Houthis in Yemen have targeted vessels in the Red Sea whom they claim have links to Israel. Their piratage has resulted in a total disruption of Egypt's Suez Canal passage. Another Iranian client terror group, Hezbollah, has attacked Israel sporadically in the north, to distract the Israel Defense Forces from its Hamas battle in Gaza in the south. Iran has also struck targets in Iraq, Pakistan and Syria, claiming it is disrupting Israeli operations there.

The U.S. and Britain have moved in to disrupt the Houthi attacks on maritime traffic, launching airstrikes targeting the Yemeni Houthis. Tehran is focusing on the threats made by the United States of imminent retaliation for the attack on its base in Jordan. A general in charge of air defences in Iran described them as at their "highest defensive readiness", raising concerns for commercial aviation through and over Iranian airspace. 

 

When an American drone struck Qasam Soleimani dead in 2020 Iranian air defence mistook a Ukrainian commercial passenger jet over Tehran killing all 175 people on board. 

In the Red Sea, Houthi rebels continue to attack marine traffic, recently targeting the USS Gravely, a warship, on Tuesday. The missile was shot down before hitting its target, according to the US. military's Central Command, with no injuries or damage resulting to the warship. Houthi spokesman Brig.Gen. Yahya Saree claimed responsibility for the attack, calling it "a victory for the oppression of the Palestinian people and response to the American-British aggression against our country."

 

Guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely (DDG 107) sailing in the Arabian Gulf Dec. 5, 2023.

Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Janae Chambers/US Navy