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Iran launches dozens of drones toward Israel

www.jpost.com Iran launches dozens of drones toward Israel

The drones are expected to take several hours to reach Israel.

Inb4 lemmy supports Iran

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Iran launched dozens of drones toward Israel - report

www.jpost.com /breaking-news/article-796838

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Supporting either side in this idiotic war over religion is stupid. That said, I don't know what anyone expected Iran to do after Israel bombed their embassy.
- You can just support international law, you don't have to choose between Israel and Iran. Embassies are considered soverign soil of the nation they represent and so bombing an embassy is a direct attack on another country. When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 they got sanctioned by the international community. There are plenty of other examples in recent history of consequences for aggression. The only question is why is Israel exempt from consequences that apply to other countries? That's what this false dichotomy (Israel vs. Iran/Hamas/Hezbollah etc.) is trying to mask- instead of asking why Israel is exempt from legal consequences it changes the dialogue to "if you don't support Israel then you support terrorism" and thereby nullifies international law since the law is applied selectively.
  
  What I see is that in general, the big powers, as in the US and China don't hold their close allies accountable. It's not like China held Russia to account for Bucha or Ukraine in general.
- Revenge for revenge for revenge, oh my!
  
  What exactly would you suggest a country does after another country bombs their embassy? Send flowers and say pretty please don't do it again uWu?
  
  What was Israel's rationale for bombing Iran's embassy in Syria and killing 12 Iranians? Revenge for what?
- Personally I think Iran kinda spoiled ever getting to complain about foul play involving foreign embassies, what I'm more interested in here is how far the US is gonna go in retaliation, because obviously they're gonna do something here, I'm just wondering how much it'll be and in what form.
  Personally if I was making the call, I'd sweep the IDF out of Gaza altogether and relegate them to "defensive line duty", or more accurately "DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE TOUCH ANYTHING YOU GENOCIDAL MORONS.", and then kill two birds with an army of drones, Iran just invited destruction onto all of their war material production shit and Russia is probably shitting bricks that their entire reserve strategy just got exposed to causus belli.
  
  Russia is gleefully rubbing their hands because they know the US public can literally only keep one thought in their heads at once and this grantees political apathy towards the Russian invasion.

Inb4 lemmy supports Iran
Lots of false equivalances related to this war but being against Israel bombing an embassy in another country is not the same as supporting Iran. You don't have to choose between Israel and Iran, you have to choose between Israel and international law / human rights.
Phrasing it as "if you don't support Israel then you support Iran (or Hamas, Hezbolla etc.)" is to disregard the importance of international law and the fact that it applies to everyone.
- This Article is about Iran bombing Israel, not anything else.
  Any Comment on here going "But what about Israel bombing the Embassy" is derailing the Conversation and defending Iran.
  You are allowed to be against indiscriminate Attacks without supporting the bombing of Embassies.
  
  Any Comment on here going "But what about
  <the direct reason for the attack>
  " is derailing the Conversation and defending Iran.
  this has been the zionist game forever, by the way do you condemn the genocide in Gaza?
  
  How is retaliation for an act of war indiscriminate? Bombing an embassy isn't like accidentally parking across two spaces. It's a gross violation of international law.
  Just remember that Israel started this.
  
  Your honor putting aside my crimes for a moment is it really justifiable to send me to jail for no reason? Remember now, we are only talking about sending me to jail we're not talking about all those things I did

Let me just say fuck anyone who targets civilians.
- Yes fuck Israel indeed.
  The Biden administration expects Iran will also launch dozens of cruise missiles and ballistic missiles targeting Israeli government sites, not civilians or religious sites, a U.S. official said.
  
  Let’s see how many of those are “good shots.” And not “accidentally schools and hospitals”
  Although, the irony would palpable.
- Israel has killed more civilians in the past six months than the rest of the world has in like 5 years. Absolutely ignorant to say "targeting civilians" is bad and not point that out.
- Iran targeted Israeli military facilities, not civilians.
  
  Did I say otherwise?
  
  And Israel got 99% of what was launched, is it not suspicious they suck at intercepting diy dumb rockets but somehow get near perfect intercepts on higher tech guided munitions?

This is just more tankie bullshit. Russia and Iran have been getting buddy-buddy like crazy, especially right before the whole Hamas attack on Israel thing in fall last year. And of course, Iran feeds Hamas war materiel.
Russia is trying to make a war on multiple fronts to exhaust the US and make Biden unpopular while also running a campaign on social media to make Biden look bad and interfere with the 2024 election.
In other words, Russia REALLY wants Trump to win so they can end their expensive and punishing war in Ukraine and come out looking like they won something. Also, trump has made it clear that Israel would get free rein to "finish the problem."
- Yeah israel committing Genocide and bombing the Iranian consulate is actually Putins masterplan to make Trump win.
  Libs reaching QAnon levels of cope. Vote for God Emperor Biden everyone! He was forced into supporting Genocide!
- These aide workers are actually Hamas
  Hamas is actually Iran
  Iran is actually Russia
  This is so disconnected from reality. The most obvious flaw is the blatant fact that nobody loves Trump and wants Trump to win more than Netanyahu. Israel is a chud-nation.

vigerously starts watching the Amazon Fallout series
- I just finished the first episode. If nukes start flying before I finish the series, I will be very annoyed.
  
  Me too! Pretty good episode. At least they had a good budget to replicate the world. It's very promising....assuming we all survive.
- When a fictional series becomes a documentary.
- I’m already at the 5th training video. Waiting to see if I get a certification at the end

I guess this is the next chapter in the endless middle-east war. The British & French got exactly what they wanted when they drew up those borders. It’s truly tragic how many people are going to die in the next decade because of religious and nationalistic despots and their egos.
- Even in that very long list of European crimes in history, Sykes-Picot really outshines the rest in how big of a fuckup it was.
- This has very little to do with the colonial borders drawn by the British and French almost 100 years ago. Rather it's animosity due to more recent events. In this case, Israel's betray of the Iranian people right before the revolution of 1979.

I support Iran’s defensive actions against Israeli aggression. I hope Iran chooses military and intelligence targets instead of civilian ones, in compliance with international law, despite Israel targeting primarily civilians in their war of conquest.
- You’re supporting widening the war. You’re supporting more suffering and death. There is no genocide against Iran. Iran is stirring up trouble, widening the war, involving more and more people. That’s bad
  
  Israel intentionally caused this, not Iran.
  
  Israel is trying to widen the war. The Iranian response fairly tame and measured as usual. Like when we illegally killed their general in Iraq and they casually hit our bases there.
- They'll go after nuclear facilities
- Iran going to get its ass kicked.
- Comedy gold right here. You couldn't be more biased or more wrong if you tried.
  
  I am biased against genocide, wars of conquest, and bombing civilians. You got me

A more militarily active Iran is never a good thing.
- As opposed to an active genocidal occupier in Palestine?
  
  shouldn't have pissed off the Israelis.. now go back to bed, there are missiles flying..
  
  It's literally been happening on and off for thousands of years there..
- Anyone taking action against a country committing genocide has my appreciation
  
  They do not care about the genocide, they care about reacting to the bombing of their own embassy.

The US House will vote on Israeli aid next week because of all this. Hopefully it'll include Ukrainian and humanitarian aid.

Big influx of Hasbara bots here today
- Ngl, I read Hasbro

I'm glad Biden's saber rattling, instead of attempting de-escalation when it was hand out on a silver platter was effective!
No one could have seen that coming though, obviously.
- If you are trying to be sarcastic, I don’t think you succeeded.
  
  And yet... Not two days ago I was here telling people that Biden's saber rattling was fucking stupid and was met with "no it's gonna be effective to stop Iran retaliating against an illegal attack on its embassy".

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