Iran has told the US via intermediaries that if it strikes Iranian soil directly, Tehran will itself hit back at American assets in the Middle East, drawing the two sides into a direct conflict.
Iran has told the US via intermediaries that if it strikes Iranian soil directly, Tehran will itself hit back at American assets in the Middle East, drawing the two sides into a direct conflict.
Tehran warns Washington but regime unsure of degree of support for interventionist foreign policy
Hot take: I feel like we owe Iran a mulligan after that whole "we purposely blew up your general" thing.
19That was the guy responsible for setting up Iran's network of proxies. I'd say we didn't blow him up early enough.
-9One has to have a brain as smooth as a bowling ball to think that normalizing assassinations around the globe is a good idea.
22I can't agree that we can just blow people up whenever- Well, obviously we can- we shouldn't. And if the network was already operational by the time he got exploded, seems kinda like shutting the barn door after the horse is already out, to say nothing of antagonizing Iran.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The warning comes as Iran waits on high alert to see how Joe Biden responds to the death of three US servicemen deemed by Washington to have been killed by a Tehran-backed militia based in Syria.
He said the White House knew well that “a political solution” was required to end the carnage in the besieged Gaza Strip and the current crisis in the Middle East.
With a US attack on Iranian positions inside Syria seen as the most likely option, Iran’s deputy interior minister, Seyyed Majid Mirahmadi, in a meeting with his Syrian counterparts discussed the crisis and insisted the so-called “axis of resistance” was on the verge of victory.
But Iran itself faces its own challenges: unrest has broken out across Kurdistan after the execution on Monday of four Kurds accused by the regime of co-operating with Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agencies.
Although support for Palestinians is widespread through Iranian society, the regime is worried that the state of the economy and general political disaffection could drive down turnout at parliamentary elections in March, undercutting its claim to legitimacy.
In an attempt to boost participation in the vote, the number of ballot boxes has doubled, and candidates are being given additional time on TV and radio to try to generate an atmosphere of excitement.
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3Already the coward starts retreating.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/30/middleeast/kataib-hezbollah-suspend-military-ops-us-intl/index.html
-5I'd love to see this happen. Ukraine combat footage is getting stale.
-6Hmm, so let me get this straight. If we say, send an ICBM or something directly into an Iranian military base inside Iran, Iran is gonna flex all of it’s big bad muscle and strike an asset of ours in the middle east? that’s supposed to make us tremble in fear? Sounds more like a threat you hear in junior High School from kids that are afraid to fight you.
-8The world does not need you. It does not want you. The people of the world have not asked for pity, and you will certainly not receive any.
15Are you trying to make this personal?
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Iran is much less bloodthirsty than the USA.
12That isn't the point. What they are in effect saying is if I hit them, they are gonna break my toy. That is cowardly for all their bravado in the past.
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You are not doing anything. Your government which refuses to regulate its policing, provide housing, tackle poverty, resolve immigration and has denounced socialism as evil foreign ideology is going to make the decision for you, you will pay the price though.
All Americans have to look forward to is killing, looting and more killing as their own living standards drop each year.
12Sounds like you’re very confident in your home team, which has brought home mostly Ls in the last 78 years.
11Teams have nothing to do with it. If I were to punch you in the face, I would expect you to punch me back. If instead you cowardly did nothing but later ran outside and slashed the tires on my bike. That's cowardly. Plain and simple. After all the bravado from Iran that would certainly lose them quite a bit of respect in the Muslim world for failing to stand up against the Great Satan.
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Second Thought: Are we the Baddies?