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Yeah, Iran sucks and everything, but didn't Israel start this by bombing their embassy in Syria? If Israel had been held to account for that, maybe we wouldn't be looking at yet another flashpoint involving a nuclear armed state.
I don't know what anyone expected Iran to do here.
iran is funding and arming hamas, hizballah and the houthis, all of which were attacking israel.
in addition to their attacks on usa bases.
don't forget that those fucks also support Russia with their drones...
Yup. I've seen a disturbing amount of people pretending Iran are the good guys just because Israel are also the bad guys, as if it's impossible for multiple sides in a conflict to be awful
The Good Guy Iran narrative is so bizarre. It's like applauding someone for "showing restraint" because they hired a hitman instead of killing someone themselves.
It’s also not covered within international law to fund an attack by independent groups, only sovereign nations.
Funding Ukraine makes it legally Ukraine’s action. Funding Houthis makes it legally Iran’s action.
Wait, now you motherfuckers understand how multiple sides can be bad?
All I keep hearing from people like you is how Israel must be fucking great because fucking did something wrong so Israel can’t do anything else wrong
That is absolutely not a popular sentiment here.
Cool it with the targeted language too
I don’t know who the fuck you think you are tell me to cool it, but you’re nobody.
I don’t give a shit if you’re a mod or the admin of this instance.
Ban and go about your damn day
Yes, it does, and it sucks. It's basically war over there. That said, attacking an embassy is a line where Israel's actions should have been condemned. The point is not that Iran is in the right in any way, the point is Israel is just as wrong here.
Iran's response isn't proportional though. Israel made a single strike on military leaders using a nearby embassy. Launching dozens of drones is an escalation.
It's not even a smart escalation. It allows Israel to claim they were attacked disproportionately and launch strikes on Iran's actual military in country. Iran has much worse defenses against cruise missiles and drones. Now they may lose what sympathy they had from other countries.
I predict the US will free the ship Iran took today within a few weeks. Maybe the Navy will knock out all Iran's anti-air radar in the south, just as a show of force, and then not attack anything. That would be a good way to tell them to stop without killing.
The US just tried to negotiate with Houthis over the attacks in the Red Sea, an ~~omission~~ admission that things aren't going so well. Iran is in a stronger position than Houthis, I think your over estimating the US right now.
Well the whole premise is that the US is trying to play middle ground seacop (shittily). Obviously if they wanted to they could delete the existing houthi command/regime. (And thereby creating Arab quagmire new, electric boogalo)
Have you already forgot Afghanistan?!
Do you need to be reminded how well the US "deleted" the Taliban Poshtun leadership?
Because the Houtis in Yemen is a very similar situation, even to the point of the Houtis also being a mountain people, and they've already been enduring American and British bombs delivered by Saudi planes for years now.
The reason the US and Britain, after an initial couple of days of heavy and loud chest pounding, very quickly went very quiet about their attacks on the Houtis following the latter's attack on shipping, is because it just wasn't working all that well.
America's ability to militarilly bully a group into compliance with American wishes relies on the targets being city people, who are pinned down and own shit they don't want to lose, and doesn't frigging work on mountain nomads.
Wasn't Hamas created in response to Israeli aggression?
Not defending Hamas, but they don't exist in a vacuum.
The religious extremism that became Hamas was funded and grew to power with Israeli funding.
The goal of Hamas is not “to stop aggression” but to destroy Israel. So it was formed as response to Israel existence, to which many Muslims never agreed.
Israel is born out of aggression