Israeli Colonel Jacques Neriah, a former intelligence official and a special analyst for the Middle East, warned on Sunday of an impending “second round” of war against Iran as Tehran weighs a revenge attack on Tel Aviv.

“There is a sense that a war is coming, that Iranian revenge is in the works. The Iranians will not be able to live with this humiliation for long,” Neriah told Udi Segal and Anat Davidov on 103FM.

“Israel must launch a preemptive strike against Iran in its present state, as a large part of its military capabilities is paralyzed,” he added.

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    I can’t help but laugh. “If we don’t attack Iran, they’ll attack us,” has now turned into, “Now that we’ve attacked Iran they’re definitely going to attack us!” There are no limits to their justifications for warmongering.

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    They don’t care about our “permission”, they want us to give them weapons for it.

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    Just like russian claimed that their genocide and occupation of ukraine was preemptive

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      Then we need to stop antagonizing them and giving them a reason to get nukes. At this point they have enough institutional knowledge and resources to make one so them not doing it is more them not wanting to, ie. The ayatollahs fatwa against them.

      If Israel and the US keep bombing them though and make them think the only path to safety is through nukes then maybe that fatwa goes away.