Israel's 'extreme' option could include targeting Iran's nuclear programme | Maj. Gen. Rupert Jones
"Israel, of course, feels existentially threatened. Iran have just used military force against them. So there is a danger that they will respond."
Israel will be considering how to retaliate against Iran, including the option of attacking their nuclear programme, while also trying to prevent further escalation, Maj. Gen. Rupert Jones tells #timesradio
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I find it ironic for the Iranians to be crying foul over their consulate being attacked. Apparently they have very short memories!!! Does 1979 ring a bell for them? They can’t have it both ways. Zero sympathy here!
@TheMaddBlackMann
13 күн бұрын
You brought something up that happened 40 years ago to justify a war crime that happened last week. Somehow you’re always the victim.
@TuBeYou1118
12 күн бұрын
Dunce people say Dunce things
@timmonk47
12 күн бұрын
45 years ago?
@lordgamer4810
12 күн бұрын
@@TheMaddBlackMann of course they do, because the crimes of israel cannot be excused
@michaelmullins3396
12 күн бұрын
What happened in 1979 .?
The parallels are severely lacking. Iran attacking US military base, isn’t at all the same as attacking Israeli main land with a largest missile attack in the middle east history. The analogy seriously underestimates the importance of such an attack.
I wonder whether the abode of the Supreme Leader features upon the roster of considerations for IDF.
@sidenbigh8832
13 күн бұрын
you know 5 missiles got through 'the best missile defence in the whole world' ? Wonder where Bibi is sleeping?
@Rtg5637
11 күн бұрын
@@sidenbigh8832 Got through because they were not targeted intentionally since their trajectory was in the direction of open fields. In a couple of instances debris from shot down missiles fell down and hit something with minor damage.
Testing for censorship
@TheEnlightenedMalignancy
13 күн бұрын
I love my Jewish masters 😂
@hiyou1831
13 күн бұрын
@@TheEnlightenedMalignancyProbably probably he is a
Attacking a consulate is against international law, so therefore not wise.
@ekim000
12 күн бұрын
Conducting battlefield command and control activities from a consulate against a neighbouring country is similarly unwise.
@darkgalaxy5548
11 күн бұрын
The irony of Iran complaining about a consulate or embassy being violated.
Israel ❤
@LukVik
13 күн бұрын
🤡
@rizwanhussain645
13 күн бұрын
🇮🇷 ❤
@jaredvillhelm2002
13 күн бұрын
🤡
They need to call Maverick.😂😂😂
@MGold00
13 күн бұрын
Yeap😂😂😂
I can see the British braintrust on the Middle East has not improved much beyond its great insights from Sykes-Picot days.
*An exceptionally insightful, well informed narrator Gen Rpuert Jones is* [In contrast to the show designers which *persist* in running confusing exerpts at the start - That's unprofessionally poor] One element in counterpoint to Israel 'taking this in its stride' - Many in Israel will calculate 'This direct strike cannot become a precedent inviting further unresponded to acts'.
@jjboyd01
13 күн бұрын
kaptain obvious
Few people realize it, but Israel's attack against Iran's Consulate building in Damascus, Syria, twelve days ago was because of intelligence that a high ranking Republican Guard officer who had helped orchestrate the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack against Israel was in that building. He was killed in that attack. Iran felt it was in their national honor to respond. Now that they have fired a barrage of ballistic missiles and drones into Israel, who knows where all this will lead. Israel should not lose sight of its principal strategic aims, namely, to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.
@tallicadude
13 күн бұрын
No1 cares about feelings especially isrealis excuse to attack soveriegn soil this is isteal wanting what theyve been after for decades. An excuse.
@TheSaltyAdmiral
13 күн бұрын
Why does Israel get to decide who can have nukes or not? What if Iran doesn't want Israel to have nukes? Iran is a sovereign state, and if it wants nukes, it's none of Israel's business. Given the constant threats and sabre rattling from Israel and the US, how can anyone blame Iran for wanting the ultimate deterrence? If they didn't want Iran to have a nuke, they should not have betrayed the Iran deal, because that would have ensured they wouldn't.
@Tony-gy2gt
13 күн бұрын
Why is it that nukes are said to have keep the peace in Europe through MAD is such a bad idea if Iran han nuclear weapons.Maybe a balance of power would cause Israel to seek peace instead of war!
@leslie-annmills-gomez8763
13 күн бұрын
But Israel can't find their hostages in Gaza? You people are jokers
@jjboyd01
13 күн бұрын
and why should I believe Israel?
I wonder the effect of a nuke at a nuke site.
General Rupert Jones painted the Iranians as the only adult in the room.
@sophrapsune
13 күн бұрын
No, he was painting them as calculating, rational actors.
@1AstritIsm
13 күн бұрын
@sophrapsune But this implies, the other actor, Israel in this case, is not calculating and irrational.
It seems like there is a new sheriff in the Middle East ( Iran )
Geopolitics is an incredibly complex subject.
There is nothing extreme about Israel attacking Irans Nuclear program. What is extreme would be for Israel not to attack Iran’s Nuclear program and just hope that the psychopathic Ayatollah will not get nuclear weapons. Now that’s extreme!
@RoyalBlue292
12 күн бұрын
An the undeclared Nukes Israel posses, the apartheid, ethic clenching what do you say about that?
@GerardVaughan-qe7ml
11 күн бұрын
"Oh that's quite ok". Miserahell had its warning, now it seems they are going for (a) broke (n) military Nose !😅
Suspected? Are you serious? Who do YOU think attacked the consulate??? LIBERIA????COME ON, GROW A PAIR!!
That's the must level headed guest I've watch on Times Radio, the past Six Months.
Don't forget Iranian regime is angry about anything that is against them.
Israel ❤❤❤
Us & Israel braking up pandoras box
@barryhill1044
13 күн бұрын
I suppose the ‘Living’. Will find What it was like back in the Stone Age if this escalation goes Full Tilt …
To all those countries advising Israel to ceasefire, crank down any response, I have a message.... this is not a game of Ludo or Cards. The existence of an entire nation and millions of lives are at stake.
@Everyonehasanopinion
13 күн бұрын
If that were a concern there wouldn’t be 33,000 Palestinians who are no longer with us; many of them innocent women and children.
@chrisreynolds3351
13 күн бұрын
@@Everyonehasanopinion My heart sincerely feels for all the Palestinian innocents who are suffering. But HAMAS started this war. With one of the most brutal, evil attacks on Israel. HAMAS is using it´s people as human shields. HAMAS is not moving it´s ppl to safety when Israel warns of coming attacks. And since when was it the duty of the ones who were attacked to feed, water and care for the enemies civilians! Would HAMAS be doing that if the case was reversed? No!
@Rtg5637
13 күн бұрын
@@Everyonehasanopinion No innocents among them. Half Hamas members and the rest of natural causes.
@rizwanhussain645
13 күн бұрын
LOL
@BlackonBlack-
13 күн бұрын
@@Everyonehasanopinion so Hamás is not responsible?
Am I going to be killed? I am frightened.
Thank you for a very professional analysis much better than some of the other waffle on the channel over the last couple of days.
Iranian attack was show of force in Army language so don't play you destroyed it and blabla,they even warned 72 hours before ,in army language its show of force by real attack is no warning
it was not a consulate--- it was an annex structure near the official iranian consulate. technically, not the Iranian domain.
I wonder how many people around the world, including the Americans and Brits, are actually rooting for the Iranians in this mess. It’s kind of hard to tell since the main stream media’s reporting of the fight is pretty one sided.
@nonconformingegg
13 күн бұрын
No-one is rooting for our people, who actually despise the people in power and their decisions.
@jackduane5555
13 күн бұрын
Lol what? Obviously it's one sided. This is a war between good and evil
@stevecarr6175
12 күн бұрын
If you want to eventually convert to Islam, peacefully or forcefully, then go ahead and support them. The choice and the consequences will hopefully be yours alone.
@bowlingarry
12 күн бұрын
@@jackduane5555good being which side?
@jackduane5555
12 күн бұрын
@@bowlingarry if you can't tell then you're not intelligent enough to comment on the topic. It's extremely obvious
"Deja Vu Radio"..If you think you've heard it before you just have.
...and really, what would be the point on a limited response to the Iranian attack?
the consulate in Syria was a Legitimate target because some generals were there, but many more generals are in Tehran why dont you visit them there ?
@jjboyd01
13 күн бұрын
thee are always a military presence in a consulate.
They did not strike a consulate. That was military centre.
@jjboyd01
13 күн бұрын
They did strike the consulate. Israel now tells the world the size of their consulate properties? All Consulates have MILITARY ATTACHE TOO.
@jackduane5555
13 күн бұрын
@@jjboyd01it was being used for military purposes and was, thus, a military target and was perfectly justified and perfectly lawful under international law. Israel has the right to defend itself
When mother snake is gone. baby snakes will soon follow.
THEY'RE GOOD FRIENDS,THIS IS MERELY THEIR SUB STANDARD WEJ SCRIPT. BOTH ARE SWEJ. MEDIOCRITY IS THE BANE OF EXISTENCE.
fist minute is a repeat, highly annoying on TR
I believe that Israel will retaliate against Iran inside Iran, and not against proxies. Israel needs to show that they can reach Iran after all the missiles that Iran tried to hit Israel with. The question is what will Israel hit in Iran?
Sources say Israel wants to target the Iyatollah but they think his turban might actually stop the missile.
@user-vq7ju7qe6g
13 күн бұрын
😂
@ryanfarmer4882
13 күн бұрын
It's spelt Ayatollah
@_B.C_
13 күн бұрын
Ayatollah Assahollah
Proper order
This fellow seems to see war as a chess game. Perhaps it’s time the Americans and British start to play chess on their own soil and on their borders rather than other continents
Consululate annex
Jamie take it easy on the croissants, looks like ur gaining weight 😅...
Hamas said the same thing before Oct 7. We will respond at a time of our choosing.
"Anyone who knows Iran"... and British ex-military mouths - knows the voice of eunuchs.
Extreme no but realistic
Had to stop watching this channel as they waste my time duplicating the first 90 seconds every time... they still do it though !!!!! SO dumb
READ YA BIBLE. THIS IS NO GUESSING GAME. AS MR J CASH SANG. ITS GOING BY THE BOOK
So slippery for a military guy.
That’s one of the things I love about Israel; they’re always looking for a way to resolve things peacefully.
@Rtg5637
13 күн бұрын
Your country would react much more severe in the situation
@rizwanhussain645
13 күн бұрын
LOL😂
@Everyonehasanopinion
13 күн бұрын
@@Rtg5637my country wouldn’t do the things Israel has done; we wouldn’t stand for it.
@Rtg5637
13 күн бұрын
@@Everyonehasanopinion self delusion
@Everyonehasanopinion
13 күн бұрын
@@Rtg5637We’re civilized here. So obviously its not apples to apples.
Enter the speculators, looking for clicks offering nothing.
And with what is Iran is going to retaliate with ?
I'm Russian and I say. "ISRAEL HAS THE RIGHT TO DEFEND HERSELF". 💪💪💪
@Boujois23
13 күн бұрын
They have never defended only ever attacked
@ddhh1270
13 күн бұрын
So does Ukraine.
@rodneyfungus8249
13 күн бұрын
@rachelmorrell Try reading some history books
Oh yes and everything will b everything ok..iran will be quiet and surrender😮
Yo...🔱⭐✡️🇩🇪
Alexandria Cortez out if not all Chanel news spread and de
@ryanfarmer4882
13 күн бұрын
I can recommend a good English teacher
Gaza❤
Your guest needs to get his facts a little straighter, he’s making mistakes he doesn’t know he’s making.
With what? and they did not defeat Iran's attack. Two airbases were hit.
@Arnold_Slater1223
13 күн бұрын
And Iran has the fire footage from Chilie and Texas to prove it.
@bigal5750
13 күн бұрын
Including Iran's dogs in other countries, over 500 missiles and drones were sent from all directions. For the size of Israel and the toughness to take down ballistic missiles, 99% success rate is actually quite good. Unless you have hundreds of anyi-ballistics along every square mile of your border, you realistically would expect a lower success rate than Israel. When Israel retaliates, you will see what failure in a defense system looks like
Wishy washy general
@Rtg5637
13 күн бұрын
Iran achieved zero
It's ishreal not Alexandria Cortez politics
While the targets might be legitimate, striking targets in an embassy is NOT legitimate.
@stevecarr6175
12 күн бұрын
Not an embassy - an annex whose purpose was for military strategising. The victims obviously didn't think that they would be found out. In this game there are spies everywhere. They should have kept their strategising in their own country instead of using someone elses. Silly them!
It is extreme to target iranian nuclear facilities?
@tomasinacovell4293
13 күн бұрын
Iran is not an "Arab" country, it's a people and culture that have been snuffed out by Islam by Jihad against the Persians. The conflicts of the Middle East are Islamic, it's not the Jews it about Jihad against the West the Infidels, me you, democracy, human rights, etc.
@user-hw1mn7qk2n
13 күн бұрын
They are going for the nuke sights definatly the hard water sight maybe even the reactor but that could cause a Chernoble type incident very dangerous times these people don't bluff they mean it
@jamesreid8638
13 күн бұрын
It's nothing new, whether or not it's extreme. Israel has already bombed Iranian nuclear facilities in the past, and there was the clever "Stuxnet" virus, which probably gave the Iranian Nuclear Engineers quite a fright. That was twenty years ago. What's possible now?
Sanction 🇮🇱
@Farweasel
13 күн бұрын
Better yet ...... Sanction rizwanhussain
@Rtg5637
13 күн бұрын
Sanction Islam and Jihad
Nobody "has to" respond.. This childish "eye for an eye" type of retribution is how the middle east keeps going from one war to the next without ever coming up with a way to stop. It's time to get past petty squabbling over "but he hit me first", with the mentality of a four year old child. Worse, that way of legitimation using religious beliefs to uphold the childish behavior that defines Israeli government and IDF.
There should be no interview about Israel wo this question: when will the people in Gaza be promised, food, shelter and safety?
Lt.GEN PAK ARMY QUESTION?? Does “Pakistan” have NUCLEAR ☢️ WEAPONS ….. yes OR no ??? If anyone hurts us” do you think 🤔 we will use it OR not ??? Israel hits pakistan 🇵🇰 embassy in Damascus killing our ARMY DICTATORS with their fingers on the red button?? Third ?? What was the house price of an Israeli home back in (2005) ??? CAN YOU BUY A HOUSE IN ISRAEL 🇮🇱 cheaper today (2024) than in 2005???? You have given the Iranians 20 years to develop their nuclear ☢️ capabilities…when it took the Pakistani army 12?? It took North Korea 10??? 20 years later Israel is saying IRAN’ 🇮🇷 doesn’t have nukes … we have to take it out !!! SERIOUSLY AFTER 20 YEARS???????????Titanic didn’t know about the nuclear ☢️ armed ice’ until the Israeli ship 🚢 hit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lock Netanyahu up!!!
@Rtg5637
13 күн бұрын
Get a shrink
@Tony-gy2gt
13 күн бұрын
He is facing criminal charges in Israel for corruption so maybe he will be locked up
@Rtg5637
13 күн бұрын
@@Tony-gy2gt judges already told prosecution that they have no evidence to justify indictments
@kristofvandekerckhove6811
13 күн бұрын
find a job
@Tony-gy2gt
13 күн бұрын
@@Rtg5637So why are they still prosecuting..This has drag on for years.I think it is wishful thinking on Netamhanju supporters part that there is no evidence of corruption and fraud
Hail Trump
The general is wrong. Israel can perform miracles and take Iran by surprise.
@elias-zl6jj
13 күн бұрын
Even the otherside too can surpise you even more better than on 7. That showed how weak and paper tiger somepeople are
@richardsarabi2064
11 күн бұрын
What call what they are doing to Palestinian women and children a "miracle"!!?? How disgusting and sick of you!!! Shame isn't the word for what you should feel about yourself!!! Those are humans.....UNARMED CIVILIANS!!! YOU NEED HELP......
@Rtg5637
11 күн бұрын
@@elias-zl6jj like Iran with zero results
@Rtg5637
11 күн бұрын
@@richardsarabi2064 Hypocrite. It is called Islamic justice payback you should know from your background how conflicts are settled in the Middle East.
@Rtg5637
11 күн бұрын
@@richardsarabi2064 Hypocrite. Check out what your Islamic countries do. Take Syria as one example.
satanyahu
They didnt defeat iran what iran done was a show of what they can do plus the cost iran took for the attack to what israel had to pay being in iraq dose not get you ant medals you lost remember
@Arnold_Slater1223
13 күн бұрын
Can someone translate this to English for me?
There is no freedom of expression on KZread. The comment section is a waste of time. One can only hope the KZread monopoly is eventually dismantled.
@Andre_XX
13 күн бұрын
It has gotten ridiculous. Even the slightest criticism of certain entities gets struck out.