US-Israelische Militär-Intervention im Iran

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In der Nacht auf den 28.02.2026 starteten die USA und Israel massive Luftschläge gegen den Iran. Die Angriffe sind diesmal nicht nur auf das Atom-Programm gerichtet. Für die Zeit nach den Angriffen ruft Trump das iranische Volk zur Machtübernahme auf.



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Israels Aktion heißt "Lions's Roar", die der USA "Epic Fury".

Nach den Erfahrungen der Luftschläge gegen das Atomprogramm hat man diesmal offensichtlich beschlossen, am hellichten Tag anzugreifen. Man rechnet offenbar nicht mit einer ernsten Bedrohung für die eingesetzten Flugzeuge.

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Die Angriffe gehen weiter und Iran startet Gegenschläge mit Raketen: Neben Israel sind US Einrichtungen am Golf und im Irak die Ziele.

Angeblich US-Marinestützpunkt in Bahrain von ballistischen Raketen getroffen

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Katar hat mittlerweile eine neue Radarstation mit einem AN/FPS-132 errichtet (Reichweite: angeblich bis zu 5000 km):

https://www.google.com/maps/place/25%C2 ... 51.2547778

Eine visuelle Bestätigung dafür fehlt derzeit.

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Das Video zeigt diesen Teil des Hafens von Manama (hier das Schwimmdock im vorderen linken Teil des Videos, hier der weiße Turm hinter den Bäumen und die Antenne rechts daneben):

https://www.google.com/maps/place/26%C2 ... FQAw%3D%3D

Der ganze Hafenbereich ist definitiv Teil der Naval Support Activity Bahrain (siehe auch hier das Foto der Einfahrt auf S. 2 mit der Brücke, dem überdachten Tanklager, dem im Bau befindlichen Gebäude und diesem Turm im Hintergrund).

Wenn man nach diesen von CNN veröffentlichten Aufnahmen geht, scheint eher das Gelände eines an die Basis angrenzenden Futtermittellagers getroffen worden zu sein:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/26%C2 ... FQAw%3D%3D

• https://maps.app.goo.gl/dJLHTrTTZPhERn877

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Joint E3 Leaders’ Statement on Iran: 28 February 2026

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/join ... ruary-2026


Aus Großbritannien kommen ähnliche Töne wie vor dem Krieg gegen den Irak:



PM statement on Iran: 28 February 2026

As part of our commitments to the security of our allies in the Middle East we have a range of defensive capabilities in the region – which we’ve recently taken steps to strengthen.

Our forces are active and British planes are in the sky today as part of coordinated regional defensive operations to protect our people, our interests, and our allies - as Britain has done before, in line with international law.

We’ve stepped up protections for British bases and personnel to their highest level.

Iran can end this now.

They should refrain from further strikes, give up their weapons programmes, and cease the appalling violence and repression against the Iranian people – who deserve the right to determine their own future, in line with our longstanding position.

That is the route to de-escalation and back to the negotiating table.

https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/ ... ruary-2026


Und Deutschland wieder einmal Feuer und Flamme, wenn Völkerrecht gebrochen wird:




















"To defend the American people"?!? "Imminent threats"?!?

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The C.I.A. Helped Pinpoint a Gathering of Iranian Leaders. Then Israel Struck.

The killing of Iran’s supreme leader and other top Iranian officials came after close intelligence sharing between the United States and Israel, according to people familiar with the operation.

Shortly before the United States and Israel were poised to launch an attack on Iran, the C.I.A. zeroed in on the location of perhaps the most important target: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s supreme leader.

The C.I.A. had been tracking Ayatollah Khamenei for months, gaining more confidence about his locations and his patterns, according to people familiar with the operation. Then the agency learned that a meeting of top Iranian officials would take place on Saturday morning at a leadership compound in the heart of Tehran. Most critically, the C.I.A. learned that the supreme leader would be at the site.

The United States and Israel decided to adjust the timing of their attack, in part to take advantage of the new intelligence, according to officials with knowledge of the decisions.

The information provided a window of opportunity for the two countries to achieve a critical and early victory: the elimination of top Iranian officials and the killing of Ayatollah Khamenei.

The remarkably swift removal of Iran’s supreme leader reflected the close coordination and intelligence sharing between the United States and Israel in the run-up to the attack, and the deep intelligence the countries had developed on Iranian leadership, especially in the wake of last year’s 12-day war. The operation also showed the failure of Iran’s leaders to take adequate precautions to avoid exposing themselves at a time where both Israel and the U.S. sent clear signals that they were preparing for war.

The C.I.A. passed its intelligence, which offered “high fidelity” on Ayatollah Khamenei’s position, to Israel, according to people briefed on the intelligence.


Julian E. Barnes covers the U.S. intelligence agencies and international security matters for The Times. He has written about security issues for more than two decades.

Ronen Bergman is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, based in Tel Aviv.

Eric Schmitt is a national security correspondent for The Times. He has reported on U.S. military affairs and counterterrorism for more than three decades.

Tyler Pager is a White House correspondent for The Times, covering President Trump and his administration.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/us/p ... pound.html

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Jetzt behauptet das USCENTCOM, es wäre ein US-Luftangriff gewesen, der das Hauptquartier des IRGC zerstört hat:

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Hm. Die USA haben von Katar, Bahrain, Jordanien, Saudi Arabien, Israel, Zypern, Bulgarien und Diego Garcia aus angegriffen:


https://x.com/EGYOSINT/status/2027420690312478902


Und Saudi Arabien hat gemeinsam mit Israel für den Krieg lobbyiert:

Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran

President Donald Trump launched Saturday’s wide-ranging attack on Iran after a weeks-long lobbying effort by an unusual pair of U.S. allies in the Middle East — Israel and Saudi Arabia — according to four people familiar with the matter, as Israeli and U.S. forces teamed to topple Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei after nearly four decades in power.

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made multiple private phone calls to Trump over the past month advocating a U.S. attack, despite his public support for a diplomatic solution, the four people said. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, meanwhile, continued his long-running public campaign for U.S. strikes against what he views as an existential enemy of his country.

The combined effort helped lead Trump to order a massive aerial campaign against Iran’s leadership and military, which in its initial hour led to the death of Khamenei and several other senior Iranian officials.

The attack came despite U.S. intelligence assessments that Iran’s forces were unlikely to pose an immediate threat to the U.S. mainland within the next decade. Saturday’s attack on Iran was a break from decades of U.S. decision-making to hold back from a full-scale effort to depose the regime of a country of more than 90 million people. It also marked a stark shift from Trump’s own previous military forays, which until now have been far narrower in scope.

Now Trump will bear the risk of the bet he has placed: that a major military operation conducted from the air can achieve political goals on the ground.

“No president was willing to do what I am willing to do tonight,” Trump told Iranians in a video address posted as U.S. bombs rained down on targets across Iran. “Now you have a president who is giving you what you want, so let’s see how you respond.”

The Saudi push for an attack came as presidential envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner pursued negotiations with Iranian leaders over the country’s nuclear and missile programs.

As those talks proceeded, Riyadh issued a statement, following a phone call between the crown prince and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, that Mohammed would not allow Saudi airspace or territory to be used in an attack on Iran.

In his discussions with U.S. officials, however, the Saudi leader warned that Iran would come away stronger and more dangerous if the United States did not strike now, after amassing the largest military presence in the Middle East since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, said the people, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive situation.

Mohammed’s position was reinforced by his brother, Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman, who held closed-door meetings with U.S. officials in Washington in January and warned about the downsides of not attacking, the people said.

The Saudi leader’s complicated position probably reflected his desire to avoid Iranian retaliation against his country’s vulnerable oil infrastructure, weighed against his view of Tehran as Riyadh’s ultimate foe in the region, said those familiar with his thinking. Iran, dominated by Shiite Muslims, and Saudi Arabia, led by Sunnis, have long had an intense rivalry that has generated proxy wars in the region.

Following the initial U.S. attack on Saturday, Iran did retaliate against Saudi Arabia. Riyadh issued a furious statement condemning the attack and calling on the international community to “take all necessary and decisive measures” to confront Iran.

The Saudi Embassy did not respond to a request for comment.

Witkoff and Kushner had their final contacts with Iranian officials in Geneva on Thursday, their third high-level encounter since early February. They walked away believing that Tehran was playing games with them about its need for nuclear enrichment, according to a senior Trump administration official.

“It was very clear that the intent for them was to preserve their ability to do enrichment so that, over time, they could use it for a nuclear bomb,” the official said.

By Friday afternoon, when Trump arrived in Corpus Christi, Texas, for a campaign rally ahead of Tuesday primaries there, the president’s frustration — and his rhetoric — was escalating. He repeatedly declared himself “not happy” with Iranian negotiators.

“I’ve got a lot of things going on now,” he told the crowd toward the end of a rambling speech ostensibly focused on energy policy. “We have a big decision to make, you know that. Not easy, not easy. We have a very big decision to make.”

Later, he flew to Palm Beach for the weekend, where he mingled with supporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort Friday evening, looking tired but otherwise in good sprits before exiting to his private quarters to record a speech he would give announcing the attack, according to one person who was there and interacted with him.

The decision to launch the attack was in some ways foretold by the massive buildup of U.S. forces over the past two months. But there was little in Trump’s record to suggest that he would embrace a war of choice in the Middle East with the goal of regime change.

In explaining his decision, Trump on Saturday reached all the way back to Iran’s 1979 revolution. He described the U.S. attacks as payback for decades of conflict with Iran. He cited the 52 Americans held hostage for more than a year after the 1979 takeover of the American Embassy in Tehran; the deaths of 241 U.S. service members in 1983 bombing of their barracks in Beirut by Iran-backed Hezbollah during a Lebanese civil war; and the 2000 attack on the USS Cole, a naval destroyer docked in a Yemen, which Trump said Iran “probably” was involved in, although the United States has long attributed the suicide bombing to al-Qaeda.

Earlier Saturday, Trump said that the United States had faced “imminent threats from the Iranian regime.” Tehran was continuing to work toward producing a nuclear weapon and development of “long-range missiles that … could soon reach the American homeland.”

Both of those assertions have been challenged. Trump himself has vehemently maintained that the U.S. “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program with airstrikes this past summer. The International Atomic Energy Agency has said there is no evidence Iran has restarted its uranium enrichment program following those strikes or that it has an active bomb-building plan. In an assessment last year, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency cited no indication that Iran was embarking on development of an intercontinental ballistic missile. If it decided to do so, the DIA said, it would take a decade to produce.

“History is not kind to efforts to fundamentally alter and restructure the internal politics of a country using the air power alone,” said Aaron David Miller, a former U.S. diplomat who worked on Middle East issues for both Republican and Democratic administrations.

“This is very much Trumpian, in the sense that he’s tried to split the difference between getting bogged down in an interminable conflict which will undermine the American economy and cost Americans their lives, on one hand, and yet bringing to bear the power of the American military in a sort of roll-the-dice operation,” Miller said.

Months of planning for the 2003 U.S. toppling of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein included thousands of invading American forces that remained there for nearly a decade and a large cadre of civilian U.S. officials on the ground to organize a new government.

Top Trump officials — some of whom have been sharp critics of the Iraq effort and other U.S. forays into the Middle East — have insisted in recent days that this time will be different.

Vice President JD Vance on Thursday told The Washington Post that he still considers himself a “skeptic” of foreign military interventions — a description he said still applied to Trump, too. He said there was “no chance” any military operation by the U.S. in Iran would lead to a drawn-out war involving the Trump administration.

Vance on Saturday watched the military operation from the Situation Room at the White House, while dialed into a conference line that connected him to the president and his national security team, who were tracking Iran from Mar-a-Lago, according to a person with knowledge of the events. Vance was joined at the White House by Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, who has long campaigned against war with Iran. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent were in the Situation Room too, the person said.

Apart from Trump’s Saturday’s statements once the attack already started, the president has devoted little time to publicly justifying or explaining war with Iran, a break from previous practice of U.S. leaders.

Democrats on Saturday pushed Trump to explain his case to the American people.

“What was the imminent threat to America?” said Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Virginia), the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, in an interview. “I don’t know the answer.”

Warner, who participated in a classified briefing on Tuesday with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, said that senior lawmakers were given a “fair description of options” the administration was considering, but that he saw no threat that “would literally be worthy of putting our troops in harm’s way.”

In the briefing on Tuesday for the Gang of Eight, which consists of the leaders of the House, the Senate and each chamber’s intelligence committees, Secretary of State Marco Rubio indicated to lawmakers that the mission’s timing and goals were shaped by the fact that Israel was going to attack with or without the United States, according to a person familiar with the administration’s outreach to lawmakers.

“So the only debate that seemed to be remaining was whether the U.S. would launch in concert with Israel or if the U.S. would wait until Iran retaliated on U.S. military targets in the region and then engage,” the person said.

Now the question is what comes next.

For now, Trump says that he hopes that in the face of the death of Khamenei, Iran’s security forces and police “will peacefully merge with the Iranian Patriots, and work together as a unit to bring back the Country to the Greatness it deserves.” In January, those security forces killed thousands of Iranian protesters.

He vowed that “the heavy and pinpoint bombing, however, will continue, uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective of PEACE THROUGHOUT THE MIDDLE EAST AND, INDEED, THE WORLD!”

Ellen Nakashima and Noah Robertson in Washington; Matt Viser in Corpus Christi, Texas; and Greg Miller in London contributed to this report.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... ia-israel/