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Iran said it launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles towards Israel on Saturday in a major attack following days of acute tension building up in the region and warnings from the US and elsewhere about a wider conflict erupting.

Air attack warning sirens began wailing over Jerusalem just before 2am local time on Sunday after the weapons were fired a few hours earlier from Iran with US and Jordanian military assisting Israel’s air defenses in intercepting the first incoming barrage.

With weapons believed to be still in the air en route to Israel, Iran’s mission to the United Nations posted on X: “Iran’s military action was in response to the Zionist regime’s aggression against our diplomatic premises in Damascus. The matter can be deemed concluded.”

However, it threatened more severe action in the face of further Israeli aggression and warned the US and Jordan specifically not to assist Israel.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 months ago (2 children)

didn’t Israel start this by bombing their embassy in Syria?

Israel bombed their embassy in Syria as a response to Iran helping Hezbollah and Hamas. At one point an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps spokesman said October 7th was a response to the death of Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani, although they later retracted that. The Israelis wanted Soleimani gone because of his role in supporting Hamas and Hezbollah and earlier attacks on Israel, including his involvement in the 2006 war in Lebanon. Etc. etc. etc. on and on back to before Iran became Iran.

The middle-east is an illustration of the idiom "An Eye for an Eye Will Make the Whole World Blind".

[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If we keep going back, Israel has committed far too many hostilities that were never responded to. Hell, they bomb syria most weeks without any retaliation form Syria. They commit horrors against west bank citizens all the time.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

If we keep going back, Israel has committed far too many hostilities that were never responded to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_Nations_resolutions_concerning_Israel

Can you guess how many of these were vetoed by USA

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Uhuh.

Anyway, breaking news is that Iran has also launched cruise missiles, so now Israel's going to retaliate with a significant strike against Iran. And in case you haven't been paying attention, Israel are less than great on proportionality.

Never a dull day.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Israel doing more genocide. Disappointing but not surprising.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Come on dude, don’t dilute the word for every atrocity. Nothing between Iran and Israel is remotely a genocide , and using that word here diminishes the suffering in Gaza and other places

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago

Call it whatever you want, I literally don't care about emantics and I won't argue them. It doesn't discount the horror that Israel commits.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yep. Most places the UN would come in and try to settle everyone down, but the US basically blocks anything like that, and it's possible that's mostly because of mystical prophecies they believe.