Extracts: Political elite under pressure from variety of sources
Amir-Hossein Sabeti, the ultra-conservative MP for Tehran, said on X:
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“Stable security depends on authority and a strong response to the smallest mistake of the enemy
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Although the mountain of the Israelis gave birth to a mouse, the violation of Iran’s red line and the invasion of the country’s territory must be answered at a level that will surprise them
The best time to respond is when they are engaged in an attritional war in Gaza and Beirut”
Operation True Promise 3
On social media there were calls for Operation True Promise 3 a reference to the code name given to Iran’s first two attacks on Israel
Nobody wants another war
By contrast, the former Tehran University professor Sadegh Zibakalam said:
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“Israel’s early morning air attack on Iran was, 1. more than a military achievement for Tel Aviv 2. it was a diplomatic success for Washington, which was able to force Netanyahu strictly to limit the attack 3. so that Iran does not have to retaliate 4. Americans have shown for the umpteenth time "they do not want war with Iran”
Many ridiculed Israel’s attack as weak, after the preceding week’s threats to attack Iran’s oil and nuclear sites
Ebrahim Rezaei, a member of the parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, wrote in the first minutes after the attack on X:
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“I entered Tehran through Mehrabad airport a few minutes ago and passed through a number of streets, I did not see anything unusual
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The Zionist enemy is like small change, it only makes noise but has no value or effect
They are too weak to seriously harm Great Iran”
Hesamoddin Ashena, an adviser to Iran’s former president Hassan Rouhani, wrote:
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“You played with the lion’s tail This is not Palestine, nor Lebanon, Iraq, nor Afghanistan. This is Iran”
Some of the big military and political players in Iran have yet to make statements
