Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Iran/Israel News Updates Tues July 21

- Trump announces the US military will be striking Iran's Pickaxe Mountain nuclear facility, where Iran stores the nuclear centrifuges that were moved from other sites. "Normally I wouldn't say that...we'll be hitting that area pretty soon, very heavily, and there's not a thing they can do about it."

- Trump says Iran wants to "desperately meet." He adds that until Iran is willing to meet in a meaningful way, "we have no interest."

- President Donald Trump downplays concerns regarding a potential Houthi blockade of the Red Sea, saying that if it does happen the U.S. military will be forced to take action. "We take care of things. If something like that happens, we take care of it.” “We've done that with the Houthis before, and we haven't heard from them in a while since we did what we did."

- CENTCOM: "Since early May, CENTCOM forces have helped facilitate the transit of approximately 900 commercial vessels and 450 million barrels of crude oil."

- Iranian President Massoud Pazakhian: "Our relationship with the Supreme Leader is getting stronger day by day - and so we can solve our problems under his guidance"

- An Iranian official begins meetings with mediators in Pakistan as diplomats seek to salvage the collapsed interim deal between Iran and the United States, even as both countries continue to launch attacks for a 10th day of renewed fighting.

- Finance Minister Smotrich after the lengthy security discussion last night: “The State of Israel has no interest in joining the contained confrontation between Iran and the United States, the current situation is the best one for us.”(Amit Segal)

- Fox News from an official US source: Trump will decide within days on expanding the conflict against Iran. The US military is preparing strike options. Israel will likely participate in the operation if Trump decides to expand the war significantly.

- WP: US intelligence estimates that the latest strikes by the US military in Iran are not having a significant impact on the leadership in Iran and are unable to soften Tehran's stance in negotiations. Intelligence notes that the US and Iran are currently stuck in an undefined intermediate state between peace and war, and Trump's current path of escalating conflict leads to a "dead end."

- The Jordanian military says three ballistic missiles launched by Iran at the kingdom were intercepted.

- The Iranian army says it has targeted a US base in Kuwait with missiles, as President Masoud Pezeshkian said the conflict had morphed into a “full-scale war.”

- A Hamas terrorist who took part in abducting Nurit Cooper, Amiram Cooper, and Alexander Dancyg from Kibbutz Nir Oz during the October 7, 2023, onslaught was killed in a strike earlier this week, the IDF announces.

- Iranian Communications Minister Sattar Hashemi said that the US strikes in southern Iran have damaged mainland Iran's communications infrastructure with the Qashqai and Kharag islands in the Strait of Hormuz. He said that fiber optic infrastructure was attacked in parts of southern Iran, forcing authorities to use radio and satellite infrastructure to maintain communication continuity temporarily

- Air India extends the suspension of its flight services to and from Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport through September 30 amid ongoing geopolitical tensions.

- Lebanese army troops began deploying in the southern Lebanese town of Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh this morning after Israeli forces withdrew from the area, the Lebanese Armed Forces says in a statement, in line with a US-brokered plan for “pilot zones” in the south.

- Bahrain’s military says it intercepted a number of Iranian attacks.

- WSJ: Israeli intelligence estimates that Iran moved thousands of uranium enrichment centrifuges to tunnels at the mysterious nuclear facility on Mount Pickaxe, near the facility in Natanz, in the fall. This is a development that could increase concerns that Tehran is working and preparing to revive its nuclear program

7 comments:

  1. i am preparing a kinnus for the crisis of Iyar 1948, our dor must acept this tzar upon us that imprisons us for learnung Torah and that imposes tuma, toyeva and erva on us. we are strong we will survive the Zionists

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    1. No one imprisons anyone for leaving Torah. They are in prison for refusing to serve.
      If they don't like it, they can leave the country. Oh yeah, no other country will let you in. Even President Biden didn't let in too easily. Maybe Lithuania Poland Syria Morocco Iraq Iran will let you in.

      Toeva, tuma, and erva in all those countries. Well, maybe not Iran.

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  2. So since 1992 Bibi was threatening and he will finish Iran off he threatened for the last 30 years. Obviously it was Big talk because not only he couldn't do it the US can't. Or at least it's not worth it for them at this point.

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  3. Based on pronunciation etc,a large number of zionist posts comments here are obviously being posted by trolls who are guided here,and are obviously not members of our communities' type.
    Someone is likely paying all these trolls to sit here. [This is common elsewhere.]Might one of the zionist trolls come out and tell us who's directing them?

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    1. As someone who was accused of being a paid Zionist troll if you know of a place that is willing to pay me let me know where I sign up. I actually think that some of the comments here and much more so on Matzav are made by career anti-Zionists. Matzav for its part frequently does post my responses even when it is just a copy and paste of a Posuk, Gemorah or somewhere else in Chazal.

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    2. Hi! I’m a very well paid Zionist troll! Normally I charge the Zios a lot of money to troll folks, but in your case I make an exception.

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  4. That should read "Matzav for its part frequently does NOT post my responses (to anti "Zionists" comments) even when it is just a copy and paste of a Posuk, Gemorah or somewhere else in Chazal." I stopped posting there because they only want a echo chamber.

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