US Will Enter Israel’s War With Iran
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Published: 2025-06-16
Updated 2025-06-16: Addition sources added from Hedges and Parsi. Additional information on the state of the conflict was added in an update based on sources from Larry Johnson and Simplicius. Prof. Marandi provides information from an Iranian perspective in the latest episode of Nima Alkorshid’s Dialogue Works. Links to the news pages of The Cradle, Almaydeen English and Middle East Eye were affixed in an end note.
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Antiwar is the most commonly cited source of YesXorNo for a simple reason. It is the best English language news service which reports on the international military (mis)behaviour of the US empire.
Yesterday, on 2025-06-15, Antiwar published an article the like of which YesXorNo has not seen in 4 years of covering international affairs.
It is republished below, verbatim.
Sources: US Will Enter Israel’s War With Iran
Call the White House and tell them you do not want any part of this disastrous war
by Dave DeCamp | Jun 15, 2025
Sources familiar with the matter have told Antiwar.com Editorial Director Scott Horton that the Trump administration is poised to enter Israel’s aggressive war against Iran directly. US airstrikes on Iran could begin as soon as Monday.
Please contact the White House by sending an email or calling the comment line starting at 10 am EST on Monday (202‑456‑1111). Tell them that you do not want the US to enter this disastrous war, which could lead to heavy American casualties at US bases across the Middle East.
The US has supported the war by reportedly providing Israel with intelligence and helping intercept Iranian missiles and drones, but so far, there have been no direct US attacks on Iran. Iranian officials have warned that Tehran would hit US bases in the region in response to any US strikes.
Axios reported on Saturday that Israel is urging the US to join the war since Israel lacks the bunker-busting bombs necessary to do serious damage to Iran’s Fordow plant, which is buried deep underground. An Israeli official told Axios that President Trump had previously suggested the US could strike Fordow.
Trump himself said on Sunday that it was “possible” that the US would get directly involved in the war, which Israel launched early Friday morning with airstrikes across Iran.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu started the war under the pretext of preventing Iran from building a nuclear weapon. But it was the consensus of the US intelligence community that there was no evidence Iran was working toward a nuclear weapon, and Tehran made clear they were ready to make a deal with the US that would significantly lower uranium enrichment levels and increase oversight of its nuclear program in exchange for US sanctions relief.
Ali Larijani, an aide to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has previously said that the one thing that would make Tehran reconsider its prohibition on the development of nuclear weapons would be a US or Israeli attack.
“We are not moving towards (nuclear) weapons, but if you do something wrong in the Iranian nuclear issue, you will force Iran to move towards that because it has to defend itself,” Larijani said on April 1.
“Iran does not want to do this, but … (it) will have no choice,” he added. “If at some point you (the US) move towards bombing by yourself or through Israel, you will force Iran to make a different decision.”
[End Antiwar]
Update
The reason Israel is "crying Uncle Sam", to borrow Larry Johnson's phrase, is because it cannot achieve its objectives (regime change in Iran) without the US increasing its augmentation of Israel's military . Even then, the objective is far from even being likely.
The objective is illegal (regime change is not a part of the U.N. Charter). The Israeli and US manner of achieving it, war, is also illegal and immoral.
That which is known is, should the US choose to become even more directly involved, its presence in the region will be dramatically changed and it will suffer deaths of its military personnel, all for an illegal purpose via an illegal war. At least some elements of the US military leadership know the results of the war games which have been run. A war with Iran leaves the US mortally wounded, militarily.
The US risks an internal military coup.
A war with Iran, as Hedges has written, is folly. US overt entry will trigger a regional war which will involve Iranian allies like Iraq’s Kaitib Hezbollah. It has warned the US of its instant involvement should the US overtly join the war.
The conflict has moved beyond the initial "surprise" phase to Israel's advantage. Iran is responding effectively, carefully stepping up the escalation ladder:
Israel’s initial euphoria over its Friday morning strikes on Iranian targets is fading as Israeli inhabitants get a taste of their own medicine. Israel’s much touted Iron Dome is a total bust. I have posted a couple of videos below that show the Iranian missiles arriving unimpeded.
In his latest video, BORZZIKMAN reports that the Iranian strike yesterday on the IDF version of the Pentagon destroyed a THAAD air defense system that was deployed to “protect” the building.
Pepe Escobar was interviewed earlier today by Nima and provided some important news from his impeccable Russian sources. Israel, with help from the West, hit Iran with a cyberattack early Friday morning (Tehran time) that disabled Iran’s air-defense system. Israel and the West anticipated this would disable Iran’s ability to track and attack inbound missiles for several days. According to Pepe, Iranian technicians got the system up and running in 10 hours.
We are current in a "tit for tat" exchange, with each side attacking to destroy critical military or dual purpose infrastructure targets. The war seems currently to be one of attrition of infrastructure via remote attack.
As I write this, Iran reportedly has launched an eighth-wave of missiles. Iran is going to engage Israel in a tit-for-tat battle until Israel ceases its attacks on Iran.
[Larry Johnson]
If Iran possess the depth of missile and drone stocks, repeatedly and reliably reported, it can sustain this type of warfare for months on end, without resupply. But, it can resupply via land base trade networks which Israel cannot destroy. Israel must resupply via air or sea, transport networks already vulnerable to disruption.
Israel cannot win a war of attrition. Iran can fight one. Hence Israel’s plea for assistance. It knew it would be in this position.
Israel (and its US partners) always planned to have the US fight Iran. Will the US military leadership fall for the dishonorable trap?
End note
The following three news services are providing useful information on the conflict. Here are links to their news (as opposed to opinion) pages:
One must still be watchful for spin. MEE published “Israel and US modified F-35s to enable Iran attack without refuelling, sources say”. While it is possible that Israel is using “drop tanks”, it is certainly using Syrian airspace and its planes are almost certainly being refuelled by US tankers there. The article implies that the Israeli airforce is acting alone. It is not. It is using US intelligence. US refuelling is a near certainty.
As Laith Malouf noted to Dmitri Lascaris, Israel’s airforce is Iran’s primary target, Israel’s primary weapon.
Israel’s
"National Security" Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi acknowledged that Iran possesses “thousands of ballistic missiles,” a figure that vastly exceeds previous estimates of 1,500 to 2,000.
Hanegbi is vastly undercounting Iran’s stockpiles. Iran has multiple generations of multiple research trees of ballistic missiles. The total must be into the tens of thousands. Iran is one of the world leaders in drone technology. It has tens of thousands of drones of differing classes too.
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Sources
Sources: US Will Enter Israel's War With Iran; Dave DeCamp; Antiwar; 2025-06-15
The Folly of a War With Iran; Chris Hedges; Consortium News; 2025-06-15
Israel is not winning. Trump must not cave to new demands for help.; Trita Parsi; Responsible Statecraft; 2025-06-15
The Zionists are Crying, “Uncle Sam”; Larry Johnson; Archive.today; 2025-06-15
Iraqi resistance group vows to target US bases if Washington joins Israeli war on Iran; thecradle.co; Archive.today; 2025-06-16
True Promise 3: Iran Responds With Long-Awaited Hypersonic Retaliation ; Simplicius; Simplicius' Garden of Knowledge; 2025-06-15
Hanegbi: Iran has far more missiles than estimated; in the thousands; Al Mayadeen English; Al Mayadeen English; 2025-06-16
Mohammed Marandi: TOTAL SHOCK: Iran’s Response HUMILIATES Israel – U.S. Feels the Heat!; Alkhorshid interviews Prof. Marandi; Dialogue Works; 2025-06-15
Iran Strikes Back Against The West's Rabid Israeli Attack Dog; Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris; Reason2Resist with Dimitri Lascaris; 2025-06-13
Putin offers Iran off-ramp to Trump. US diverts Ukraine missiles. Zelensky cries lack of attention; Alex Christoforou; Alex Christoforou; 2025-06-15
Culture
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This is what happens when white suprenacy us allowed to run amok. They think they can get away with anything, anywhere.
And no its not about nuclear weapons Its about what is enshrined in US law: a "qualitative militarry edge" for Israel Or put differently, the zionists in the US insist that every nation in the middle esst can exists only in utter subservience to "Israel" - or be smashed. Because a world without white rule is unthinkable.