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2024-10-20 Home Front: WoT
Top Secret US Documents on Israel's Plans for Retaliation Appear on a Tehran-Linked Social Media Platform
Or maybe it's misdirection instead of asshole Biden/Obama tools begging Iran?
That would be nice.
[RedState] A Telegram account with ties to the Tehran regime posted highly classified US intelligence about Israel’s plans for retaliation against Iran on Friday. The Middle East Spectator included a report by the Department "detailing operations carried out in recent days at several Israeli air force bases, including the transfer of advanced munitions that the report said were intended for attacks on Iran." According to CNN, one person in the intelligence community confirmed the authenticity of the documents, thereby raising the level of seriousness of the breach.

This is how Middle East Spectator describes the sequence of events, keeping in mind that this is a regime-owned account:

Middle East Spectator is an open-source news aggregator. We are independent journalists, and are not tied to any government entity or organization.

On Friday morning at approximately 01:15 AM Tehran time, one of our acquaintances received, through an anonymous source on Telegram who refused to identify himself, two highly classified U.S. intelligence documents, regarding preparations by the Zionist regime for an attack on the Islamic Republic of Iran.

We have no connection to the original leaker, and we are not aware of his identity. We also have no knowledge of the alleged authenticity of the documents.

Furthermore, we assumed that the documents had been floating around elsewhere on Telegram, making them a part of the public domain.

We reject attempts by various Zionist and American media outlets to intimidate the reporters of Middle East Spectator, who are exercising their full and inalienable right of press freedom. Free Palestine.

The information was from one of the most compartmented areas, the so-called Five Eyes—Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. This information was not shared with NATO or with regional allies. The Biden regime is trying to downplay the significance but is not doing a great job: Another US official said, "These two documents are bad, but not horrible. The concern is if there are more.”

Relations between Netanyahu and the White House are already tenuous, with Israel holding back on sharing its plans with Washington for fear that they will be leaked to Iran by Iran-friendly and Israel-hostile staffers.

Both the Obama and Biden administrations have shown such deference to Iran that many suspect they were seeded with Iranian agents or sympathizers.

Obama's deputy national security adviser and failed young adult novelist, Ben Rhodes, was denied a security clearance for nearly a year over issues that have never been fully explained but were rumored to center around his relationship with the Iranian government.

Odds are that if Tehran leaked these documents, they would be a sign that a) Tehran has a lot more intelligence on Israel's plans, b) they are leaking it to try to throw off Israel's planning cycle, and c) we have a highly placed Iranian mole somewhere in the Intelligence Community.
The Times of Israel adds:
The two files were published by a pro-Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
Telegram account, the "Middle East Spectator," which claimed they were sent by a source in the Pentagon and detailed US observations of measures taken by the Israeli Air Force on October 15-16 in the lead-up to an attack.

The documents have not been authenticated by news outlets, and the Pentagon and the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence have not officially commented on the alleged leak.

However,
the hip bone's connected to the leg bone...
CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
reported that US authorities are investigating the apparent leak of highly classified information, citing three unnamed people familiar with the matter. The outlet quoted a US official casting the development as "deeply concerning."

Before that, a senior Israeli official told the Axios news site that the defense establishment was taking the leak very seriously. A US official said that the alleged leak, while extremely concerning, wouldn’t impact plans for an attack against Iran.

The documents, allegedly showing a visual intelligence report by the Department of Defense National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), noted observing IAF exercises using air-launched ballistic missiles (ALBMs), air-to-surface ballistic missiles, fighter jets, UAVs, and refueling tankers previously used during Israeli strikes on Iran's Houthi sock puppets
...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him...
sites in Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
According to the documents, the IAF has handled at least 16 Golden Horizon ALBMs and 40 IS02 (Rocks) ALBMs since October 8.
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