A piece of news that seems to have come out of a spy novel set in the times of Cold War It was reported by the Kuwaiti press and taken up, among others, by some important newspapers such as, in Italy, by Corriere della Sera.
Considering that the sources, Kuwaiti and confidential, are not verifiable, what could have happened last Thursday at Payam airport, 30 km north of Tehranshould be taken with a grain of salt.
According to what has been revealed, the secret meeting was used to deliver a message to Iran from White House Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. The first thing the American administration would have done was to point out that the White House had not been informed of the intention to eliminate the Hamas leader and that President Joe Biden is furious. US officials also advised the Ayatollahs to don’t fall into the trap of a large-scale attack because such a move would strengthen the position of the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But that’s not all: the US agents also showed both the carrot and the stick.
Let’s start with the carrot.
Let’s move on to the stick.
Unforgettable is his prayer of thanksgiving to Allah on the mat of the seven-star hotel in Doha while on a television the live images of Al Jazeera were shown filming the massacre at the NOVA festival. In any case, Biden would be furious, the position of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu should not be strengthened and Israel, at least for the moment, must not be touched, or at least touched in a light way so as not to create the Casus Belli with no way back.
This is because, at least for the moment, he is an important ally and at the same time impossible to manage, damn Netanyahu, even for the powerful USA.
For the record, it is necessary to report that a half-confirmation of the Kuwaiti sources came directly from the President of the United States. Joe Biden who tweeted on his X account (formerly Twitter) that he and his deputy Kamala Harristhe PresidentA in pectorewere briefed by their national security team on developments in the Middle East.
Is this the team that was in Iran? It is not known. “We received threat updates from Iran and its proxies, and discussed diplomatic matters, efforts to calm regional tensions, and preparations to support Israel if it is attacked again,” Biden tweeted.
Meanwhile the New York Times he learned from two Iranian officialsone of them a member of the Revolutionary Guards, that Tehran has asked Russia for air defense systems in preparation for a possible war with Israel. The two officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Moscow has begun supplying Iran with advanced radar and air defense equipment.
But not only that, because it is certain that at least two, but there could be more, transport Ilyushins discharged several batteries of 9K720 Iskander.
This news is confirmed and considering that there was no time to train Iranian personnel in managing such systems, if the Iskanders were to be used against Israel during the next crisis there would be the certainty of direct Russian intervention.
A situation that would make the scenario even more dangerous.
More voices, this time from American officialswhich have arrived at the Wall Street Journalconfirm that since last weekend in Iran there has been a significant traffic of missile-launching vehiclesmoves that signal the preparation of an attack in the coming days.
According to one of the many intelligence reports circulating these hours, the response to the assassination of Hamas leader Ismāʿīl Haniyeh and the leader of Hezbollah Fuad Shukr It is still a work in progress and Tehran, Hezbollah and Hamas are discussing what exactly they want to do.
If everything were true, we have to believe that they are studying the attack plans soft created for them by the Pentagon. Finally, as if there were not enough, the journalist Barak Ravid who works for CNN and is close to the Biden administration, reported on the Axios website that the president of the United States and his vice president Kamala Harris were informed by the national security team that American intelligence expects a scenario that includes two waves of attacks. One from Hezbollah and one from Iran, but it is not yet clear who will act first and what the attack will look like. Barak Ravid does not know, but the US secretary of defense is probably well informed.
The real litmus test in this situation, which to define as tangled is an understatement, is given by the Federal News Service or BND, the German secret service. The one that works in silence and does things well. Surely behind the decision to involve the Luftwaffethe German Air Force, to evacuate its citizens from Lebanon, over 2,000 people, there is the hand of German spies stationed in Lebanon. And if Berlin has decided to use the military to protect its citizens, it means that the time is ripe for the attack on Iran and all its proxies. It also means that regardless of what Biden wants, sorry Kamala, but what am I saying Obama, This time Israel will have to respond appropriately.The few official statements from the IDF General Staff that have been published in the last few hours all point in this direction.
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