Late on June 19, Ansar Allah (also known as the Houthis) carried out a new one “cruise missile” strike on Saudi Arabia. The missile strike targeted a major power plant in the area of al-Shuqaiq in the Kingdom’s southern province of Jizan.
Brig. Gen. Yahya Sari, a spokesman for the part of the Yemeni Armed Forces loyal to the Ansar Allah government said that the strike was a response to the continued crimes of the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. He also promised “great surprises” for “the Saudi regime” if it continues its invasion of Yemen.
This was the second cruise missile strike on southern Saudi Arabia in a week. On June 12, a cruise missile hit Abha International Airport. Then, Ansar Allah stressed that the missile hit the control tower and put it out of service. According to this version of events, the strike was aimed at a military-related part of the infrastructure. The Saudi side reported dozens of civilian casualties saying that the missile hit the arrival hall.
Since 2016, Ansar Allah has carried out at least 10 attacks on Abha Airport with ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and loitering munitions. The most recent took place on June 18 when the Yemeni resistance employed Qasef-K2 suicide drones paralyzing the work of the airport once again.
Ansar Allah and allied army units also carried out successful raids in the southern Saudi province of Asir on June 17th and 18th. In the course of the advance, they destroyed at least 11 vehicles of Saudi forces and captured loads of weapons.
Saudi warplanes and attack helicopters carried out several airstrikes on Houthi positions in southern ‘Asir in an attempt to repel the attacks. However, the airstrikes were not effective.
Over the past months, the province of Asir has turned into a battleground between Saudi and Yemeni forces with the Saudi military seemingly unable to stop Ansar Allah attacks and secure the border area.
On June 20, Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps said that it had shot down an intruding US spy drone near the Kouh-e Mobarak region, over the province of Hormozgan. According to US officials as quoted by mainstream media, it was downed over the Strait of Hormuz.
Just recently, the US accused Iran of attempting to shoot down an MQ-9 Reaper over the Gulf of Oman and of assisting Ansar Allah in downing another MQ-9 Reaper over Yemen.
Yemeni sources see the continued US military buildup in the region and its increased intelligence activity as signs of a coming escalation in the Persian Gulf region.
Imagine if an Iranian drone flew over US territory. The USA is the greatest force for Evil in history, and their lust for blood, anyone’s blood, is insatiable.
Suspect this whole venture will backfire on them.
The people running things these days arent very bright guys.
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Ain’t these Persians great strategists?
Maybe Bolton is playing checkers in a chess game. Let us pity the dead.
French defence e4 e6 opening, fight for 3 weeks and surrender in Paris :)
Iran punched good..bully is confused and scared..such fun!
From Rev.Nasr’Allah’s speech on this same issue; hitting the AZC where it hurts: the _profit infrastructure_ of Rothschild’s Saudi oil company. These Houthi initiatives have alarmed Rothschild’s CEO Bin Salman into calling a Gulf Summit at Mecca, to protest at this Sacrilege against the great god Mammon. Rev.Nasr’Allah comments acidly:
“I want to say to all those who have condemned the drone strikes against oil targets in Saudi Arabia, they condemned them, (but) I tell them to reconsider themselves on the moral, human and intellectual levels. You condemn a strike against oil installations, but you remained silent for 4 years about an Arab people, a Muslim people, an oppressed and destitute people who gets killed every night and every day, including children, women and men who are massacred, with neither living beings nor stones (constructions) being spared!
You have remained silent about the graves (of hundreds of thousands of Yemenis killed), and you have swallowed your tongue!
But when some oil pipes suffer damage in Saudi Arabia, you came out (from your silence), competing in ardor and in speed, to express your closeness and your adulation to the Saudis! Just look at your (abject) faces in a mirror, and assess your level of ethics and humanity.”
There’s always the possibility those oil pipes will find Jesus someday.
Let’s see a show of hands from those who think that evidence of the military defeat of the USG against Iran will be broadcast over the internet.
If the USG suffers catastrophic losses, I bet the public internet gets dim or goes dark.
I won’t enjoy wondering what’s happening after I can’t get Saker or Moon Unz or RT.
America lusts for war.
Behind all the patriotic propaganda about freedom and democracy, war is America’s true core value, as evidenced by its aggressions against Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Serbia, as well as normalized bombings of nations from Yemen to Pakistan to Somalia.
But in this case, the thing holding America back is the *fear* of the consequences–not only with the US Navy being sent to the bottom of the Persian Gulf but also American military targets being terminated in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. Also, the the likely possibility of facing Russian and Chinese covert support of Iran.
Finally, there is the economic blowback of American aggression, as Pepe Escobar had mentioned, with the popping of the quadrillion dollar derivatives bubble–not to mention the American Ponzi Scheme economy in particular.
This is a headline from the Times of Israel :
“Israel said worried US may not respond decisively to drone downing”
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-said-worried-us-may-not-respond-decisively-to-drone-downing/
Seems the blood-thirsty war criminals are huddled in Tel-A-Viv hoping and praying that Trump drags the US into yet another war against the perceived enemies of the Zionist entity.
In Israel there is zero – repeat zero – concern for what the potential costs that a war against Iran will mean for the United States.
The only thing that matters is that the US going to war with Iran is perceived as being in Israel’s interests, and that is all that counts.
Its the fate of the American goyim to wage Israel’s wars and bankroll the occupation state.
My question is; when will the average American, like those who voted for Trump, going to wake up and realise that with “friends” like Israel, America has no need for enemies?
For its part, Iran must continue to stand firm in defending its sovereignty and territorial boundries, and any violation must be dealt with in a decisive manner like this one.
Downing the drone has sent a clear and powerful meassage to Tel-A-Viv and Washington that the Islamic Republic has both the capacity and the will to defend its interests.
And if Trump should miscalculate and cave in to the hawks and warmongers around him and order “retaliatory” strikes, Iran should respond swiftly and forcefully.
Trump tore up the JCPOA to please his Zionist handlers like Sheldon Adelson, and by doing so he has brought the US into an unnecessary confrontation with Iran.
Trump and Pompeo acting on behalf of Israel bragged about putting Iran under “maximum pressure”. In reply the Islamic Republic must ensure that all this comes at a “maximum cost” for Trump.
Iran has inflicted a huge embarassment on the US military by destroying one of its prized $130M drone.
And word is, some in the Pentagon are “shocked” by the sophistication and precision of the Iranian missiles.
The IRGC Commander Hussein Salami said :
“Shooting down an American spy plane carries a clear, decisive, fast, explicit and precise message that the defenders of the Iranian Islamic homeland will respond with a firm, conclusive, and certain reaction to any foreign invasion of our territory”
I just dont see how Trump could confuse this decisive act by the IRGC with what he said was probably a wayward general acting on his own.
Unless, seeing how serious Iran is, Trump is being forced to rethink any rush to war on behalf of Israel.
Selah
No doubt the Zionazis and their US sayanim have billions invested in options etc, that will only produce a yield if there is war and oil prices rocket up, and the US economy tanks. And do remember-for the Talmudists, every dead ‘enemy’ (ie goy) civilian is a mitzvah, or good deed. A gift to their psychopathic God-themselves.
One hundred thirty million dollars for just one of these RQ-4’s — Good Lord Almighty.
An interesting assessment
This drone Iran downed costs twice as much as the new F-35A stealth fighter
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/iranian-forces-down-america-s-heaviest-and-most-advanced-drone-180-million-mq-4c-triton-lost
Trump sent message to Iran: Hold talks or we’ll strike — report
https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-sent-message-to-iran-hold-talks-or-well-strike-report/
arm chair ,morning quarter back,amateur ‘expert’ ,pundits are having all their panties twisted to keep us ,the sheeps ”well informed”on what happened ”thursday night” or what did not happen…laghable indeed.
what really happened is easy enough to SEE! global hawk pattern was well known by the mullah’s battery operators ,they know it was collecting info for immediate strike with P2 in tag ,some really smart man in iranian uniform must have heard one famous boxers fight tactic…”everybody has a plan until they are punched in the face”….they sent a recorded warning then shot down the poor hawk and spared the P2 as witness ,to strump.
does not these pundits, who have all their panties in twist know the capabilities of the downed bird,dank the empire is blind and deaf,it is back to the drawing board for the generals in shiny armours.Like the carter fiasco in the desert this is a DEFINING moment in warring in the mideast….make no mistake the empire was all loaded till it was bird punched…this is TRMP FIASCO….coming back will take another generation at least…what with 1000 dollars a hammer a piece…ww111 is postponed ….have a nice day.
Nice comment. Thanks for the insight.
That rings true.
And you are correct. It is truly amazing no so called expert is stating the obvious in the media.
Really it show the level of propaganda and mis information we are all subject to…
To support your point let s read that…
“Iran’s downing of the American drone came days after UN sources said the US was planning to carry out a “tactical assault” on an Iranian nuclear facility ”
https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/06/21/599068/Iran-US-drone-IRGC-Brian-Hook-war-diplomacy
“Responding to the hawkish US official, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi took to Twitter and asked, “Mr. Hook, do you call years of war and economic terrorism imposed on Iranian people and violation of treaties and resolutions as “diplomacy”?”
“The Iranian nation responds to diplomacy with diplomacy, respect with respect and war with firm defense.””
It is now crystal clear for me that the global Hawks was preparing US strike. Or potential strikes.
Thanks again for your comment it makes everything obvious !
The value of a downed drone does not consist in the flight technology that Iran might emulate in its drones, but rather in clues it might provide about the macrocosm in the microcosm to which Iran need but to respond asymmetrically. This is obvious but did not occur to me until now.
***He also promised “great surprises” for “the Saudi regime” if it continues its invasion of Yemen.***
I eagerly await those “great surprises”. The Saudis deserve them.