© US Marine CorpsUS Marine Corps KC-130 tanker aircraft at Al Udeid Air Base on September 14, 2024
One of the bases the US is pulling troops from is the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, which Iran attacked in June in retaliation for the US bombing its nuclear facilities. Iran gave the US advanced warning ahead of the attack, giving the US military time to evacuate its forces and prepare to intercept the missiles.
Iranian officials have been warning they will strike US bases and ships in the region in response to any attack, and it's likely this time they won't give advanced notice.
Ali Shamkhani, who Israel tried to kill during the 12-Day War and an aide to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, wrote on X on Wednesday:
"The President of #America, who repeatedly mentions the futile story of aggression against #Iran's nuclear facilities, would do better to also mention the plowing of the American #AlUdeid base by Iranian missiles.On Tuesday, President Trump brushed off Iran's warnings, saying, "Iran said that the last time I blew them up." He also held a meeting with his senior advisors at the White House on Tuesday evening to discuss the situation in Iran.
"It will certainly help in creating a real understanding of Iran's will and capability to respond to any aggression."
US officials told The New York Times that US intelligence has assessed that if Trump orders strikes on Iran, Tehran would likely retaliate with missile strikes on Al Udeid and possibly US bases in Iraq and Syria, an assessment that was discussed at the White House on Tuesday.
The Washington Post cited a US official who said the Trump administration "just doesn't have the assets in the region to do a full kinetic strike without risking retaliation" since it pulled assets out of the Middle East for the attack on Venezuela. But the US does have at least three US Navy guided-missile destroyers in the region, and the B-2 bombers that it used to attack Iran back in June were flown from bases in the US.
Last time the USadmin bombed Iran nuclear sites, they bombed empty buildings and claimed a victory. The USadmin did the same making sand dunes in the iraqi desert. This sortie deception was also done during the Vietnam war that the USadmin lost so spectacularly.
Now the USadmin and the isreali apartheid regime are burying their spooks in Iran. This country has suffered from zionist policy for decades. Present day Iran will not go without a fight, ideology or no ideology. The true people of Iran showed their true colours well before regime change was inflicted on their country. That heart is still present by all accounts.