US Sends Missile Sub to the Middle East as UK, France and Germany Ask Iran to Avoid Escalation

It’s unclear if America is on the way to war with Iran right now.

It certainly looks like that could be the case.

But who the hell knows?

I don’t know.

The Guardian:

Iran has insisted on its right to an “appropriate and deterrent response” against Israel as the Israeli defence minister, Yoav Gallant, told his US counterpart that Tehran was making preparations for a large-scale military attack.

It comes as the US announced it had ordered the deployment of the USS Georgia, a nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine, to the Middle East, amid mounting concern over the determination by Iran and its proxies to retaliate for Israel’s assassination of Hamas’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran.

With fears that an attack may be imminent, the Israel air force commander, Maj Gen Tomer Bar, issued an order forbidding career officers from travelling abroad for holidays, a day after it was reported that soldiers travelling in Georgia and Azerbaijan had been told to return to Israel immediately.

Wait, were the Jews on vacation on the submarine? Or in Atlanta?

I guess you’re going to say “obviously, they were vacationing in the former Soviet state of Georgia, and to that I will ask simply: “Why are so many things named ‘Georgia’?” I guess the word just rolls off the tongue.

Iran’s acting foreign minister, Ali Bagheri Kani, made the comments to his Chinese counterpart on Monday, according to state media.

Earlier, the leaders of France, Germany and Britain called on Tehran to refrain from any retaliatory attacks that would further escalate regional tensions after the killing of Haniyeh, and of a Hezbollah leader in Beirut last month.

A joint statement signed by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and the British prime minister, Keir Starmer, endorsed calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, the return of scores of hostages held by Hamas and the “unfettered” delivery of humanitarian aid.

“The fighting must end now, and all hostages still detained by Hamas must be released. The people of Gaza need urgent and unfettered delivery and distribution of aid,” the statement said.

Scholz also appealed directly to Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, to do everything possible to prevent a further military escalation in the Middle East in a phone call on Monday, according to a German government spokesperson

Why don’t they tell the Jews to do that? The Jews blew up an Iranian embassy, then they bombed a foreign dignitary in Iran (who happened to be the counterpart of the peace negotiations they’re supposed to be involved in).

Israel started this, and Israel is the one escalating. Telling Iran not to defend themselves is goofy.