The government of Iran has issued another Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) clearing its air space on certain dates for "rocket launches."
According to information I received last night, Iran has ordered the clearing of its air space beginning November 18, and continuing through November 20.
This is significant for several reasons:
First, It is well known that Iran intends to retaliate against Israel for the Israeli attack a little over two weeks ago.
Second, Iran itself said they will retaliate against Israel "After the U.S. Election but before Trump is sworn-in."
Third, Iran issued warnings to the residents of Haifa and Tel Aviv over this past weekend, giving them "one week to evacuate those cities" while military guys blustered they were going to "remove Israel from the map."
It is worthwhile to recap how this tit-for-tat military attack situation developed.
April 1, 2024 – Israel strikes the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria
Iran’s consulate in Damascus was destroyed in an Israeli missile attack which resulted in the killing of 13 people including top IRGC commander Major General Mohammad Reza Zahedi and his deputy.
Israel has long targeted Iran’s military installations in Syria but this attack marked the first time it had targeted the diplomatic compound itself. Iran pledged to respond.
April 13, 2024 – Iran launches 300 missiles, drones towards Israel
Nearly two weeks after the deadly strike on the Iranian consulate in Syria, Iran launched a barrage of missiles and drones targeting Israel.
This was the first time that Iran had fired missiles directly into Israeli territory.
It is important to point out something which was revealed publicly much later: Iran contacted the United States hours PRIOR to this retaliatory attack, to warn the US what it was about to do. This was unusual in matters military, but signaled that Iran was going to be reasonable in its response to the Israeli Embassy bombing.
Having been warned in advance what Iran was going to do, the majority of the projectiles were intercepted outside Israel's borders with the assistance of the United States, the United Kingdom and France, according to the Israeli army. Jordan also helped to shoot down some missiles that were crossing through its airspace.
July 31, 2024 – Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh
Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Iran’s capital, Tehran, in the early hours of Wednesday, July 31, when what was initially thought to be an air strike hit the building in which he was staying. It was later revealed that Israeli Mossad had a Bomb planted in the building, which was remote detonated once Haniyeh was inside.
Haniyeh was in Tehran to attend the inauguration ceremony of Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian the day before.
Hamas’s armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, said Haniyeh’s killing had taken the war with Israel to a “new level” and warned of “enormous consequences for the entire region”.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei promised “harsh punishment.”
But the retaliation was delayed over and over again. It came out that the United States told Iran that if they held-off on retaliating against Israel, the US could get Israel to halt the attacks upon the Gaza Strip. Iran waited. The Israeli attacks on Gaza continued. Iran Waited. The attacks still continued. Iran waited some more. Israel simply didn't stop attacking Gaza.
Finally, Iran realized they had been lied to.
October 2 – Iranian missiles strike Israel
Iran said it fired approximately 180 ballistic missiles in response to Israeli assassinations of top Hamas, Hezbollah and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) leaders.
It claimed it had used a hypersonic missile against Israel for the first time.
That retaliation __should__ have been the end of it. Israel attacked Iran, and Iran attacked back. It __should_ have been over. It wasn't.
The Israelis have some severe and very obvious mental problem wherein they seem to think they can attack others, and no one has any right to attack them back. This delusion permeates almost all of Israeli society, as as such, Israel attacked Iran yet again.
Just this past week, at the Arab Summit, Syrian President Bashar Assad described Israel and its mentality this way:
"We are not dealing with a State in the legal sense, but rather with an outlaw colonial entity. We are not dealing with people in the civilized sense, but rather with herds of settlers that are closer to barbarism than to humanity.
The problem is not that the current colonial extremist government has lost its mind... They all have the same ideological mind.
A mind that is sick with bloodshed, sick with the delusion of superiority, a mind afflicted with schizophrenia between hating Nazism abstractly and loving it as an organic part of itself in practice."
A lot of observers of the Middle East situation, say President Assad hit the nail right on the head with this assessment.
October 26, 2024
Israel attacked Iran - AGAIN - when it launched three waves of strikes against 20 locations in Iran and other locations in Iraq, and Syria, in an Operation codenamed Operation Days of Repentance (Hebrew: מבצע ימי תשובה) . The attack marked the first time since the 1980s that Iran has faced a sustained assault from a foreign adversary.
So, here we are, on November 13 and Iran, which has already said it will strike back after the US Presidential Election (which happened Nov. 5) and before President Trump is sworn-in on January 20, 2025, has issued a NOTAM for "Rocket Launches" November 18, 19, and 20.
This __could__ be a simple military exercise. But it could __also__ be Iran's retaliation against Israel.
Russia and China
As all of the above events were unfolding, Russia announced to the world "Russia will NOT allow its main ally in the Middle East and fellow BRICS+ member, Iran, to be defeated and destroyed!"
Russia told the US and Israel, quietly, that it will step in if the West goes too far in the coming regional war…. (Story Here)
That same day, China told the world "If Iran and its allies are attacked by the United States, we will take countermeasures."
The United States has made clear to everyone it will "defend Israel."
So this ongoing situation between Israel and Iran is extremely dangerous, because it could pull-in the three most powerful, nuclear-armed nations on this planet. And it can happen fast. So fast, in fact, that everyone would be blind-sided.
Given we now know that Iran has issued another NOTAM for November 18, 19, and 20, prudence dictates that all of us be "prepped" for unforeseen consequences.
Have emergency food, water, medicines you need to live on for at least 30 days. A way to cook if electric or gas supplies are out; a Generator for electric or Barbecue Grill will full propane tank(s), or a "Rocket Stove" or "Solar Oven" - those last two being very inexpensive and easy to use.
Have a generator to keep your refrigerator running, and fuel for that generator. (Do NOT operate a generator inside your home. Their engines give off Carbon Monoxide gas which can KILL you if that gas fills you home while the generator is running.)
Have flashlights in each room of the house, or one for each family member, and spare batteries for those lights.
Have a portable AM/FM radio for news and information, and spare batteries for that radio.
Have a first-aid kit for small injuries or, God forbid, war wounds.
Have some CASH MONEY. If an attack happens here, the credit and debit card networks can go down and all those plastic cards we have in our wallets will be useless because there is no network through which to get authorizations on those cards. So having CASH MONEY will assure you can buy food, gasoline, etc. Since no one in their right mind will take Checks during a war scenario, cash will be king. Those who have it, will eat. Those who don't, won't.
We've all got a few days to get ready just in case. Use this time wisely to prepare.
One last thing, we have ALL seen the images and videos of stores with shelves wiped clean as people panic DURING a hurricane, earthquake, etc. That happens because the general public are "the masses who are asses." They don't stop to think to prepare. When something bad happens, they panic, run out and buy stuff, and the stores get wiped out within a couple hours. Those who come later, find empty store shelves.
Don't be like them. Prepare. Worst case: you end up NOT needing it, but you can still eat the food and have the other "preps" for the future anyway.
The clock is ticking.
