Israel urges Iranians to revolt but privately assesses they'll be 'slaughtered'

[Zorro]

Source: Washington Post

Senior Israeli officials have told U.S. diplomats that Iranian protesters will “get slaughtered” if they take to the streets against their government even as Israel publicly calls for a popular uprising, according to a State Department cable reviewed by The Washington Post.

The cable, circulated by the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem on Friday, relayed an Israeli assessment that Iran’s regime is “not cracking” and is willing to “fight to the end” despite the Feb. 28 killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the ongoing U.S. and Israeli bombing campaign.

The regime killed thousands during wide-scale anti-government demonstrations earlier this year. If large numbers of Iranians return to the streets, Israeli officials say “the people will get slaughtered” because the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran’s principal military force, “has the upper hand,” according to the cable. The document’s authenticity was verified by two State Department officials.

Despite the grim forecast, Israeli officials said they hoped for a popular revolt and urged the United States to prepare to support protesters if that happens, according to the cable.

Read more: https://wapo.st/4bgy0mM

[RockRaven]

1. Once again selling the lives of "others" so cheaply...

[Chasstev365]

2. Bibi Netanyahu is like General William T. Sherman:

Advocated for killing, stating, "The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war" and calling for the "extermination" of the Sioux, including "men, women and children".

Oh how I want Netanyahu tried for war crimes at The Hague.

[pat_k]

3. Of course they'd be slaughtered.

The infrastructure and oppressive might of the IRGC/Basij gets way too little attention. They effectively operate independent of Ayatollah rule, and are nothing like the more traditional Iranian territorial defense force (which is the Artesh).

The notion that decapitating the leadership would somehow enable regime change was an insane product of a madman delusions..


Let's talk about the magnitude of the IRGC/Basij military, industrial, economic conglomerate
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221070279

[ChicagoTeamster]

4. So who are the racists? The ones who displaced hundreds of thousands in 1948 after waging a terror campaign ?

And then waged a war of genocide against the remaining members of the race they displaced ? And now encourage citizens of a different race in another country to rise up against their own government to get them killed ? All while bombing members of a different race in two other additional countries they share borders with?