Iran hasn’t been having an easy time of it lately. Its economy is in free fall, with a 90% decrease in oil sales since 2018. The riyal has collapsed. Unemployment is skyrocketing. The coronavirus continues to kill many more than the country has admitted.
And there have been five mysterious explosions , some of them gigantic, in the country: one at the new centrifuge plant at Natanz, another at the ballistic missile center at Khojir Airbase, two more at power plants in Ahvaz and Shiraz, and a fifth at what was described as a “medical facility” in Tehran but that outside analysts believe may have been the site for a secret military operation. Iran at first downplayed the significance of these attacks, attributing them to “gas tank explosions” of little consequence; gradually, however, it has been compelled to admit what the world already knew – these were devastating attacks, and most likely ,the result of Israeli cyberwarriors putting on a display, in case Iran was in danger of forgetting, what they are capable of.
Iran now looks like a laughingstock, particularly in the Arab states that have reported enthusiastically, even admiringly, about the attacks on Iranian targets and their likely source — Israel. It has threatened, but so far not dared, to launch another cyberwarfare attack on the Jewish state. When it tried to damage Israel’s water system, instructing its computers to add toxic amounts of chlorine to the drinking water, the attack was caught by the Israelis within a few minutes and no damage was done. But Israel’s response was a cyberattack on Iran’s main port at Bandar Abbas that managed to snarl both sea and land traffic for many days, a costly disruption of the economy. It may be that Iran will not wage cyberwarfare directly against Israel, so as to avoid a response in kind, but engage in more conventional attacks, perhaps by lobbing some missiles at Israel from Iranian bases in Syria, or even launching attacks on Israel’s Arab allies, targeting UAE tankers in the Gulf, or Saudi oil production facilities..
The latest example of Israel’s technological prowess is its launch of the Ofek 16 spy satellite. The story is here.
Israel launched the new Ofek 16 spy satellite into orbit from a launchpad at Palmachim airbase in central Israel early Monday morning, the Defense Ministry announced.
“The Space Administration in the Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D), of the Israel Ministry of Defense (IMoD), and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), have successfully launched the “Ofek 16″ reconnaissance” satellite into space, today at 4:00 AM,” the ministry said in a statement.
The “Ofek 16” is an electro-optical reconnaissance satellite with advanced capabilities and was the first launch of an Israeli satellite since Spacecom’s Amos-17 took off from Florida in 2017….
Amnon Harari, Head of the Defense Ministry’s Space and Satellite Administration, told reporters that the earth-observing satellite will be “used to monitor threats facing the State of Israel which require constant monitoring.”
According to Harari, Iran’s space program is “a threat that we have to monitor” despite the failures they’ve had in recent years.
“Iran is investing a lot into building its space power and program,” he said. “The effort is there and we should assume that eventually, they will reach a significant level in this area. Although to achieve technology like Ofek 16 will take a long time, its a threat we have to monitor.”
The satellite, which sends engineers messages of proper functioning, will join other satellites already keeping tabs on Iran and other adversaries. While Ofek 16 is similar to Ofek 11 in terms of capabilities, there have been precise improvements that will give maximum operational output….
The Ofek 16 spy satellite is Israel’s latest technological feat. There have been so many: armed drones, anti-missile defense systems, vastly improved tanks, lasers that can shoot down incoming missiles. Such an Eye-In-The-Sky as Ofek 16 can pick up slight changes in the configurations of even small structures, and telltale signs of missiles being transported, and can make visible even faint tremors of underground activity. It’s a scary prospect for the Iranians, trying to keep up with the Israelis, who continually run technological rings around them. Hence the title of this piece: “Be afraid, Iran. Be very afraid.” It’s #2 in a series. There are many more to come.
Steve says
What can I say? You just do not F around with God’s chosen People 🙂
Sabri S. says
Chosen my ass….Chosen by whom? Themselves? They are colonizing europeans occupying the holy lands, and nothing more. Stop comparing them to the ancient black and brown hebrews that populated Samaria and Judea over 2,000 years ago. These current zionists have NO historical ties to the holy lands, except what they have stolen by force. They are propped up by a global banking system and the US Government. That is why they have to be zionists…duh? It is also why they cant create a just society which gives equal opportunities to ethiopians, arab jews, and indigenous berbers. If they had not been put there and given a mandate by Britain to displace the real owners and inhabitants prior to their founding in 1948, it would still be under Jordanian jurisdiction and authority. They are only chosen and approved of by Satan. And here is the real kicker, They KNOW it, and the honest ones will never claim to be jewish people that practice the torah of the old original jews of color indigenous to the region.
Norman Gardner says
Chosen by God to deliver the message of humility and devotion and improve the world. Look at the achievements of the Israelis and remember they are the descendants of Abraham and more than half of them were kicked out of Arab run lands. Jordan is hardly much of a nation and known best as being supported by external funds and run by sheepherders and protected by Israel.
Del says
Hate speech. For your own information, you should search Sections 318 and 319 of the Criminal Code of Canada and see how your Koran meets the definition of hate literature.
As every family grows, it needs more room. Your own family did as your cousins / mothers spewed out more spawn.
Jewish peoples all around the world are being killed and persecuted by Islam and Muslims every minute of every day. In order to save their lives from attacks by those violent Muslims, many have moved to Israel. The country is filling up and needs more room. Israel is being forced to survive.
If Muslims stopped their culture of violence laid down their weapons there would be peace. If Israel lays down their self defense weapons, there would be genocide.
Where there is violence there is likely Islam. Where there is Islam, there is violence.
R Thomasson says
@Dell. The Koran is compatible to Hitler’s book “Mein Kampf”, the way Allah is compatible to Adolf Hitler or an Aztec god who needs fresh innocent blood of people who hang another religion, or appreciate not to have a religion at all. There is nothing wrong with the way Muslims desire to live, as long as they are not staying at our property.
Carl -stealth Infidel- says
Sabri
If a Jew hid a bucket of poop in his back yard, you’d steal it in the dead of night!
James Lincoln says
Sabri S,
You have no credibility on Jihad Watch. Zero.
What you are is a “very devout” muslim.
Back in May, you posted that the father did the right thing by beheading his 13-year-old daughter.
Here’s the proof:
Islamic Republic of Iran: Father beheads his 13-year-old daughter in honor killing
MAY 27, 2020 11:00 AM BY ROBERT SPENCER
“Sabri S. says
May 28, 2020 at 5:49 am
No, they are not barbarians…far from it. What would be barbaric would be to allow teenage girls to run around like immoral whores, getting pregnant, spreading STDs, and becoming single mother welfare queens – just like in the US and Europe! This father did the right thing, as uncomfortable as it may be for westernized hypocrites to admit. He protected his family, stood up for his culture, and sent a definitive deterrent to any other dumb teenage whores that this behavior is not to be tolerated at any level. The alternative would be to allow the degeneracy, immorality and societal garbage in that has brought down civilizations since the beginning of time. America and Europe are doomed – period and fact. Islam is the best way to live. Look at the declining west and no intelligent, moral person would accept that decay. In fact, in America, muslims don’t and won’t!!!!!! count on it. We never submit or integrate into your garbage, inferior immorality. Allah U Akbar and onward muslim soldiers in the US, Europe and beyond!!!!!!!!!!”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/05/islamic-republic-of-iran-father-beheads-his-13-year-old-daughter-in-honor-killing
Larry A. Singleton says
Happened across your comment looking for the first article in this series. There’s no article that I can find marked “#1”. If you know of it I’d appreciate it.
That said, as I’ve mentioned before, I love, Love, LOVE when these guys post their comments. Give them a little credit for guts. Or stupidity, as they’re confronted with the facts.
I’ve tried for years to get Muslims, leftists, “reporters” “professors” and so-called “experts” on Islam and “Islamophobia” to discuss or debate Islam with this dumb-ass construction worker. Have never had any luck. As soon as they suspect I know something about Islam they mysteriously disappear.
Thing is here’s a perfect opportunity to confront this guy with the facts. He’ll either keep throwing out is bullshit fade back under the woodwork.
R Thomasson says
@Sabri S. Well with “Chosen”, I can agree with you. They are not chosen, but they are people who are choosing to survive a Darwinistic world, and stay alive. Most “Chosen People” had not survived Auschwitz, Sobibor or Belzec. The ones who did, understand that survival is only possible with technology and science. Endless pogroms in Eastern Europe and World War II. had proved to European Jews that the only place for them on planet Earth, is Israel. So, they went back to the country they belong too. A country where many of them had always lived in. By the way, only the Christian natives of the country have the right to call themselves Palestinians. They had always lived there. Most Muslims came at the end of the 19 century and early 20th century, when the country had started to develop. You write further: “Stop comparing them to the ancient black and brown Hebrews that populated Samaria and Judea over 2,000 years ago”. Since when were the ancient Hebrews a black nation? They were brown as the inhabitants of the Middle East. They were also as primitive, and had the same IQ level as the Einstein’s who are living today in the area. Thanks heaven this had changed in 2000 years. European Jews had developed themselves as did European nations in the countries they had lived in. They adapted also the skills of the strong European nations. You also write: “except what they have stolen by force”. Let’s ask two questions: a) what force could they have, if they had until 1948 no army of their own? Your buddies had six armies at their disposal plus massive aid from Britain. b) Stolen? Was there anything to steal? except of more or less desert? Look at the lithography’s of David Roberts from the 19the Century. The so-called Holy Land looked like an average Sahel country as Mali or Burkina Faso. In the lithographs you also see the mentality of your people: men sit on their lazy ass among sheep and goats, and women who do all the work.
Mobuyus says
Your ass… you say? That perennial loser in the islamic bum-darts Olympics? You’ll need to practice on many many goats to be a contender this year. God luck you odiferous five coil steamer.
gravenimage says
More from the vicious Sabri S.:
Chosen my ass….Chosen by whom? Themselves? They are colonizing europeans occupying the holy lands, and nothing more. Stop comparing them to the ancient black and brown hebrews that populated Samaria and Judea over 2,000 years ago. These current zionists have NO historical ties to the holy lands, except what they have stolen by force.
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Sabri S. has made this ludicrous claim before–why would native people living in the Levant be sub-Saharan Black Africans? Of course, this is claptrap.
But by pretending that Jews are not Jews, he can pretend that Jews are not native to Israel, and imply that it was invading Arab Muslims who are native to that land. What crap.
Besides, Muslims have never specified that that they only murderously hate one type of Jew–instead, their homicidal creed preaches the slaughter of *all* Jews.
More:
They are propped up by a global banking system and the US Government. That is why they have to be zionists…duh?
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What Sabri S. means here is that Israelis are actually productive and don’t enslave others as Muslims do. Bad dhimmis! Then, they actually ally with the United States as democracies–Islam cannot do that.
More:
It is also why they cant create a just society which gives equal opportunities to ethiopians, arab jews, and indigenous berbers.
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Were to start? Firstly, the Berbers are native to North West Africa–places like Morocco–not the Levant.
Then. it was *Muslims* who threatened to commit genocide against Jews in Ethiopia and Yemen. In fact, Israel went to a great deal of risk to rescue these people.
Meanwhile, right now Muslims are robbing the last tiny remnant of Jews surviving in Yemen, and expelling them from a place they have lived for millenia:
“Yemen: Shi’ite Houthis round up the country’s remaining Jews, force them to turn over property and leave country”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/07/yemen-shiite-houthis-round-up-the-countrys-remaining-jews-force-them-to-turn-over-property-and-leave-country
Of course, Sabri S. has no problem with this–robbing Infidels is perfectly Halal.
More:
If they had not been put there and given a mandate by Britain to displace the real owners and inhabitants prior to their founding in 1948, it would still be under Jordanian jurisdiction and authority.
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Sabri S. considers Muslims the “real owners” because they violently invaded the region. *Ugh*.
More:
They are only chosen and approved of by Satan. And here is the real kicker, They KNOW it, and the honest ones will never claim to be jewish people that practice the torah of the old original jews of color indigenous to the region.
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What rot. And where does it say in Islamic texts that Muslims exempt Ethiopian or Arabic-speaking Jews from oppression and murder? Of course, Sabri S. has got nothing.
Peter Buckley says
“Iran hasn’t been having an easy time of it lately. Its economy is in free fall, with a 90% decrease in oil sales since 2018. The riyal has collapsed.”
More details here:
https://en.radiofarda.com/a/iranian-currency-takes-big-hit-falling-to-new-record-low/30723466.html
FYI says
STUXNET
A name that strikes terror into the Iranians…
{That was the computer worm that ingeniously screwed up iran’s uranium processing capability by making their ultracentrifuges spin out of control}
STUXNET
A name in the Computer Security world that is surely as renowned as King David of Israel’s EPIC defeat of goliath.
The Iranians don’t know this, but their Arab god allah is NOT the Biblical YHWH:David prayed to YHWH,goliath ‘prayed’ to baal{the precursor god to al lah interestingly, was hubaal -the god of the kaaba}
STUXNET
Stay Away From Israel..
Henry Schalk says
Wonderful news! God bless and protect Israel!
Hugh Fitzgerald says
When I wrote this a few days ago, there had been five mysterious explosions in Iran. Now there have been eight. By next week, who knows what futrher damage Israel will have inflicted on the Islamic Republic?
gravenimage says
+1
Malcolm Jackson says
Got to love Israel.
I go along with China in believing the Jews are intellectual giants.
Pity that so much of that intelligence has to be wasted on combating the ever present threats from the inbred retards of Islam.
R Thomasson says
@Malcolm Jackson. “Pity that so much of that intelligence has to be wasted on combating the ever present thrreats from the inbred retards of Islam”. Intellectual capacity can only be develop as long as the need to combat is there. Without the need to find new ways to combat and development of new weapons, even the strongest nation will collapse. Think of the Romans, who were the most intelligent folk the world had even known. The German Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe could not perform the “Blitzkrieg”, and take one European country after the other, without all the years of work on technology and science. Germany had already TV in 1936 (broadcasting during the Olympic games in the summer of that year). The British had made during WWII the most remarkable inventions as Radar, sonar and the Enigma of Turing (the beginning of computer technology).
Chistopher Watson says
Just imagine what the result would be if the wealthier Arab states backed the Israelis. It would give the Europeans and the Americans a few problems. But it will never happen.The Arabs are too stupid to see the advantages.
mortimer says
Chris, The Sunnite Arabs ARE SUPPORTING ISRAEL in the fight against the mullahocracy! They cannot tell us that outright. They may be participating in undercover ops as well.
Westman says
No Sunni leader trusts Iran’s leaders. The only friends Iran has are those it pays or now, China, which will exact a price and create dependency. We’ve watched Iran run to Russia and China to find an ally ever since the US left the nuclear deal. Apparently it has nothing worthwhile to offer beyond oil.
elee says
Erdogan
Debra says
Except great food..music…architecture…language and beautiful people.
Iran…A great civilization corrupted like everywhere else.
gravenimage says
Unfortunately, Sunni Muslims hate Jews as much as do Shia Muslims.
mortimer says
A very good update from Hugh Fitzgerald. I doubt setbacks will deter the fanatical mullahocracy. Allah is simply testing their fanatical faith! They will carry on fighting the evil kufaar and the Sunnite ‘hypocrites’. The Hidden Imam will soon return and he will put things right!
If outside countries could continue the tempo of internal sabotage, then the local people and military commanders would be emboldened to attempt an all-out uprising. The local people would have to identify and destroy all the Basij and then the military could proceed to arrest or shoot down all the mullahs. Once set in motion, there is enough hatred of the mullahs to carry out a successful counter-revolution. I believe the army would switch sides, though there would be some fanatical holdouts. The troops would shoot fanatical officers in the back. The mullahs will swing from the lamp posts.
Muslims love revenge, because it’s a compulsory requirement in the Koran. They will take a horrible revenge.
Keith O says
The new Israeli satellite is aptly named.
The Iranian government will hear about it and say OH F#*K.
Sorry, couldn’t help myself, it was begging to be done.
Gork says
Ofek is the Hebrew work for Comet. And true to form, in Israel, where the writing goes from right to left, and so many other things are done backwards, they launched Ofek in a retrograde orbit. This was probably done so that if the satellite didn’t make orbit, it would land in international waters of the Mediterranean Sea, instead of causing an international incident by landing in a neighboring country.
And why does Israel do this? They’re getting tired of relying upon others to do their surveillance for them. The intelligence doesn’t always arrive in time to be useful. So now they will have timely intelligence.
This is what happens when you threaten Israel with the possibility of nuclear weapons.
Andrew says
Ofek means horizon. Shavit is comet. Aptly named still, they are on the dawn of a new horizon, or creating a new horizon from which they will act.
gravenimage says
Ofek 16 Spy Satellite Launched: “Be Afraid, Iran, Be Very Afraid” (#2 In A Series)
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Great news!
Political Oracle says
Very soon, I will be able to teach the Israelis even more advanced cyber warfare tactics.
Raja says
Israelis are watching all their enemies and they are in full control of their nation. When Saddam was secretly building nuclear weapons, Israelis did a clean job of destroying it in the right time. The same will be the fate of all plotters against Israelis . India is has been enjoying good relations with Israel since January 1992.
Israel is capable of defending herself from all murderous neighbors who hate Israel because of Islam.
infidel says
The only country in the world with Balls of steel to confront these vile creatures
OLD GUY says
Israel is doing what it needs to do to protect its self from the islamic threats. The U.S. needs to step up its support of Israel and a free world. Islam is the enemy, along with China and Russia all of which want to control the world through dictatorships.