Sorry, but Iran is not the aggressor here ( www.aljazeera.com )

On Saturday, April 13, Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Israel in retaliation for a deadly Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria, that took place on April 1. ****

The vast majority of the projectiles were intercepted by Israel’s air defence system, with assistance from the ever-helpful United States military, and damage was minimal. Having completed its retaliation, Iran has now declared that the matter can “be deemed concluded” – although Israel is not usually one to let anyone else have the last word.

avater , (edited )
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lol. This is not news but simply an oppinion of the editor in favor of a terrorist state...

FMT99 ,

I mean no one is saying Iran is the good guy here but Israel bombing embassies on foreign soil feels a best a bit terrorism-adjacent?

avater ,
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I mean no one is saying Iran is the good guy here but Israel bombing embassies on foreign soil feels a best a bit terrorism-adjacent?

have you read the "article"? Everybody else and their mother in the west is the bad guy and not a single word about how fucked up Iran's actions are. I mean what the actual fuck...

bobburger ,

There's a little nuance in the Israeli "bombing embassies" that you are leaving out.

It was a consulate that Israel bombed, not an embassy. They're similar, but consulates don't have the same levels of diplomatic protections as an embassy. Consulates are more like administrative offices than diplomatic missions.

The people killed in the bombing weren't in Syria supporting the consulate mission, they were there meeting with Hezbollah and other Syrian militias that are attacking Israel.

The bombing wasn't a terrorist bombing of a busy embassy in the middle day packed with innocent Iranian's trying to get their visa's renewed. It was a strike on an Iranian special forces safe house that Iran decided to call a consulate.

This article on Wikipedia has a lot of good sources about the attack.

That being said Iran was 100% justified in attacking Israel back, although it seems like it was just a show of aggression so that Iran could be seen to be retaliating. I don't think Iran actually expected their barrage to do any damage.

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