Israel launched a military strike on Iranian nuclear sites late Thursday night, June 12, further destabilizing an already volatile region and threatening to derail ongoing diplomatic efforts aimed at curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Oil in after-hours trading shot up. The price of crude oil in early trading on June 12 showed that Brent crude futures rose by $5.29, or 7.63%, to $74.65 per barrel, and US West Texas Intermediate crude was up $5.38, or 7.91%, at $73.42 per barrel, after the Israeli strikes on Iran.
The Israeli offensive was carried out without overt US military backing, comes just days ahead of a planned sixth round of nuclear negotiations between Iran and world powers, scheduled to take place Sunday in Oman. While the full extent of the damage remains uncertain, the attack marks one of the most direct military confrontations between the two longtime adversaries in recent years.
Iranian state media said Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps commander Hossein Salami was killed in the bombing in Tehran, a direct hit on Iran’s top military leadership.
“Tonight, Israel took unilateral action against Iran. We are not involved in strikes against Iran and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio. “Israel advised us that they believe this action was necessary for its self-defense. President Trump and the Administration have taken all necessary steps to protect our forces and remain in close contact with our regional partners. Let me be clear: Iran should not target U.S. interests or personnel.”
The air strikes targeted Iran’s expanding nuclear program and military leadership, killing the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and hitting dozens of sites in an operation that risks plunging the region into a new conflict with unpredictable consequences and possible global war.
According to Israel, dozens of aircraft completed the initial wave of attacks before dawn Friday.
Prime Minister Netanyahu said, “Moments ago, Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, a targeted military operation to roll back the Iranian threat to Israel’s very survival. This operation will continue for as many days as it takes to remove this threat.”
The situation is fluid and likely to change by the hour.
The US has insisted that Iran must abandon its uranium enrichment capabilities essential for building a nuclear weapon, a demand Iran has rejected, leaving talks stalled.
The timing of the escalation comes just as America faces its own internal insurrection from illegal immigrants and their enablers, many of whom are planning riots for Saturday, which is Flag Day.
And none of this would have likely happened if we hadn’t orchestrated that regime change decades ago. Just like Ukraine. And innocent people continue to suffer. When will it ever end? When we start standing up and demanding change. Eisenhower was so right and no one was paying attention. We better start paying attention but it may be too late. God help us.
Orrrr, this is God directing His chosen in their next step. That said, WWIII has not appeared so imminent in my 65 years.
Yep.
Note Bibi spoke in English not Hebrew, Israel’s official language.
He did.
When a head of State is making an address to multiple nations, it is smart for them to use a universally understood language. English is the language of international business and relations, so a Head of State uses it. Even the heads of state that are not fluent in English will at least use English a bit to start off.
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On the other hand, when a head of state insists on using their native language to address other world leaders, it shows disrespect.
Yes, under Jimmy peanut Carter! He had me, us, waiting in gas lines! Installed mullah power, which didn’t and doesn’t speak for the vast majority of Iranians.
Regime change is pending and long overdue! Make Iran a great place to live instead of a cesspool run by lunatics that hate the good people of Iran!
Yes, the “peanut guy”didn’t have the guts like Reagan to DO what he HAD TO DO, while”OUR” guys were held hostage in Iran..and our military had to leave everything behind and take emergency “trip”. I was living in Germany on a base at the time, got kinda “hot” for us also.
Now send in the “bunker busters”, end this nonsense!!
This should have happened before Obama sent a that money to our enemy, Iran. Long over do.
So it took all the way to the second sentence to bring the focus of this event to oil prices. I have long noticed how Alaskans hanker for and are always secretly gleeful when the Middle East heats up and oil prices rise. Blessed relief for the state budget! Maybe bigger PFDs!
People are being slaughtered for God’s sake, and the risk of major escalation is in the air. And you take it straight to oil prices? Sick. Shameful.
Exactly this. Israel has terrorized every nation for 75 years, it’s not a good thing.
ONLY to SURVIVE like the rest of us..They’re not terrorizing, they are only trying to live in what “peace” is available, when the other guys are rampaging war against them..Israel only strikes back when the”OTHER” guy strikes at them. Remember the Oct 2023 massacre, ??Hamas ATTACK, rampaged and slaughtered innocent cilvilians. Then continued to murder innocent children.
God bless Israel
“Russia would never have invaded Ukraine if I’d been President”, spoke Donald J. Trump. I wonder what he’s got to say now.
Hopefully, he says “Good. It is about time.”
Hopefully what he has to say is “Good job Israel, I should call PM Netanyahu and make sure they aren’t getting low on bombs.”
Israel has bought the US some time. We will know how much time was purchased when major American cities start disappearing under mushroom clouds.
“just as America faces its own internal insurrection from illegal immigrants and their enablers”
Meh, America didn’t collapse after the last insurrection, it’ll probably survive this boogieman.
Perhaps the last “insurrection” was not actually an insurrection. Despite what the news media tells you.
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Or are you referring to the conflict in 1861? And, yes, we survived that insurrection.
Bomb the dirty raghead camel jockeys back to the stone age and let them have their 72 virgins.
The world is a safer place without them.
Thanks to the Jewish state, Iran is now a nuclear free zone. Put that in your Koran and smoke it!
well said dave.
No support for zionists wars. Washington was right about no foreign entanglements. The state of Isreal is not our friend. They use us for their interests.
The fact that they threatened us with another terrorist attack if we don’t pay up, says everything we need to know, American needs to cut the purse strings to that little colony before it bleeds is completely dry.
I expect they will try a false flag, they already tried to claim “Iran was behind the trump assassination attempt” . If “Iran” killed him that would do the trick and get all the good ole boys to line up for war. It worked with 9/11, they blamed it on the Arabs. But Arabs wouldn’t have used precision demolition they would have maximized destruction, Israeli Realestate moguls use precision demolition though. It worked like a charm, we destroyed their neighbors in the Middle East so they can build the Greater Israel Project. Kill your enemies with another enemies knife.
The US wasn’t involved, but was also involved in refueling, but didn’t participate in attacks, but also launched fighter planes to shoot down drones, it didn’t cost anything, but the US spent almost $20 billion to make this happen, the US Senate didn’t vote to approve this, but once again Americans are in a state of war to protect the Likud party from a vote of no confidence.
Nope. Not one more US taxpayer dime unless they start filing IRS form 1040s.
Israel is 75% US taxpayer funded, the other 25% is Britain. They really tricked us in to taking care of their own little colony.
Oh, how horrible, Iran MAY have had (but all US intelligence agencies agree did not have) a nuclear weapons program.
Meanwhile, let’s all continue to pretend that we don’t know about Israel’s secret/not secret nuclear weapons stockpile.
This is the hardest-working Islamaphobia that exists. Israel deserves to be dismantled.
Trump’s presidency is literally going up in flames! He campaigned on ending the Russia/Ukraine war – still going. He vowed to stop the killing in GAZA – more bodies piling up everyday! He states that he doesn’t want war with Iran – allows Israel to attack Tehran with American weaponry and satellite intelligence, He was going to release the JFK files, the Epstein files, and declassify thousands of Deep State documents – nothing but crickets so far. Allowed Syria to be governed by a rebranded ISIS, If he keeps up this losing streak he will kill the MAGA movement before the year is out!