Nutshell:
- Iran has launched more than 100 drones toward Israel.
- The Biden administration expects Iran will also launch dozens of cruise missiles and dozens of ballistic missiles.
- It will be hours before the drones arrive.
The Biden administration expects Iran will also launch dozens of cruise missiles and dozens of ballistic missiles targeting Israeli government sites, not civilians or religious sites, a US official said.
TFW Iran is doing war stuff more humanely than Israel has been for the last seven months.
What if Israeli government sites were located inside the homes of Israeli civilians? What if Israeli military sites were located underneath Israeli hospitals? Would that grant Israel immunity against Iran? Because your line of reasoning would be that the only way to prevent war is to put civilians in harms way, as Hamas has done repeatedly.
There is no way that murdering top Iranian officials in an Iranian embassy
on Syrian soilwas ever going to be anything but a gauntlet thrown down. If it was almost any other country than Israel the world would be outraged. Countries like the USA and Germany didn’t pull support because of things like destroying hospitals and killing innocents, so bombing the embassy of a country as reviled as Iran inside Syria wasn’t going to stop them.Netanyahu knows his days in power are done very shortly after Israel leaves a condition of all-out war. Biden has told him that, his polls tell him that, and protestors tell him that. I think he’s poking the local bears to escalate and stay in power by extending the conflict. Both Biden and Trump have promised support so Netanyahu is acting with the backing of the world’s largest military no matter who wins. Pulling the USA and other Western countries into another war in the Middle East is his best bet of pushing that day of reckoning way down the road.
This was a completely blatant provocation in order to move the theater to Iran and keep the war footing going. If Iran were smart, they’d make a quick foray to quiet home pressure then just pull back and let Bibi wind down and face his corruption trial if he gets forced out of leveling Gaza because of international condemnation.
Israel, you can do better than this prick. Get your shit together or you’re going to get left to your own devices and the rest of the world will just come in and pick up the pieces afterwards.
Iran claims the matter is concluded assuming Israel doesn’t strike back in retaliation of their retaliation.
Of course Isreal is going to continue the matter though, they’re the one that started it by attacking the embassy.
It’s not retaliatory unless Israel has (recently) attacked Iran, which they haven’t. It should be considered revenge, not retaliation.
Presumably Israel will respond in force. I’d hate to be living in Tehran right now.
unless Israel has (recently) attacked Iran
Um, did you not see the part where they blew up a fucking Iranian consulate in Syria is which Iranian sovereign soil?!
If you don’t consider that an attack, what would your thought be if someone attacked a US or Russian consulate in another country.
Considering what the US did after Iran stormed their embassy in Tehran, this is all very ironic, but in the sad way
