🇮🇱🇮🇷 - The city of Tabriz in northwestern Iran is currently under attack with at least five explosions heard, according to Iranian media. - NYT
🇮🇱🇮🇷 - Uhhhhh I think that now is your time if you're anti-regime and apart of anything in Iran.
🇮🇱🇵🇸 - The Israeli army has decided to seal off the entire West Bank. Millions of Palestinians are now living under a complete military lockdown.
🇮🇱🇮🇷 - Still waiting for any serious Iranian retaliation, notably on the Hormuz thing people speculated on for years.
🇺🇸🇪🇺 - I think that we, the realists, remained for too long in a post-Iraq and post-Afghanistan mindset marked by US foreign policy failures, and we often don't see the many successes the US foreign policy had, and I think we often overestimate the military potentiel of US foreign adversaries.
🇪🇺🇺🇸 - My guess (or at least, what I'm feeling like at the moment) is that the West has reached a level of technological advance in military affairs that will be imposible for the third world and allies club to join within a few years, thus ensuring years of US dominance over global affairs.
🇺🇸🇫🇷🇨🇦 - Those in the West who are still loyal to liberal democracy, notably in Ottawa and Paris, will have to adjust to this new geopolitical reality. Military projection is back.
I think being a realist is
1) Realizing that nuclear deterrence is still a thing, notably for Russia, China and North Korea.
2) BUT, also saying that Western technological advance is increasing by the day so we could see some change on that front.
1) Realizing that nuclear deterrence is still a thing, notably for Russia, China and North Korea.
2) BUT, also saying that Western technological advance is increasing by the day so we could see some change on that front.
🇮🇱🇮🇷 - Israeli airstrikes reported on Fordow fuel enrichment plant.
🇮🇱🌍 - Israel announced the closure of Israeli embassies around the world and the suspension of consular services.
🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will address the nation in a few minutes - Fars News Agency
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🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Israel has warned that if Iran targets Israeli population centers in its retaliation, Israel will respond by launching strikes on all of Iran’s oil refineries and natural gas facilities along the Persian Gulf, according to Israeli Channel 12.
🌍🇮🇷🇮🇱- Synthesis of the statements of major european institutions to the Israel-Iran conflict:
🇪🇺Neutral - urges both parties to deescalate.
🇮🇹Neutral - urges both parties to deescalate.
🇬🇧Critical - Affirms it won’t militarily back Israel.
🇷🇺Critical - Israeli attack unprovoked and illegal.
🇫🇷Neutral/Pro Israel - reaffirms Israel ‘’right to defend itself’’ but urges both parties to deescalate.
🇩🇪Neutral/Pro Israel - Condemns Iran drone Attacks on Israel but urges both parties to deescalate.
🇵🇱Don’t care, ready to evacuate polish citizens.
Sources: French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Statements by Italian Pm, Ursula Von der Leyen, Merz, The moscow times, the israeli times (🧐), German Federal Foreign Affairs, DW news.
🇪🇺Neutral - urges both parties to deescalate.
🇮🇹Neutral - urges both parties to deescalate.
🇬🇧Critical - Affirms it won’t militarily back Israel.
🇷🇺Critical - Israeli attack unprovoked and illegal.
🇫🇷Neutral/Pro Israel - reaffirms Israel ‘’right to defend itself’’ but urges both parties to deescalate.
🇩🇪Neutral/Pro Israel - Condemns Iran drone Attacks on Israel but urges both parties to deescalate.
🇵🇱Don’t care, ready to evacuate polish citizens.
Sources: French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Statements by Italian Pm, Ursula Von der Leyen, Merz, The moscow times, the israeli times (🧐), German Federal Foreign Affairs, DW news.