• MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    No, Iran didn’t jump in with a haymaker. This was a response for Israel bombing a place in Iran and killing a general or some shit. This is distinctly not Iran injecting themselves.

    Israel has been by far the biggest aggressor and they are the ones risking a broader conflict.

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      8 months ago

      This was a response for Israel bombing a place in Iran

      Kinda worse, actually. Israel bombed an Iranian consulate in Syria. So they bombed Iranian diplomats (and consulates and embassies are, IIRC, legally part of the country that runs them) to kill someone that they said was part of the 7 Oct Hamas assault. That’s a really, really big provocation.

      Keep in mind that, despite everything, the US still has an embassy running in Moscow. So, yeah, bombing a consulate/embassy is a Really Big Fucking Deal.

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        7 months ago

        Iran was using consulate for its own military stuff, and the targeted person was commander of one of iranian proxies. That’s well beyond diplomatic standards of what is supposed to happen in consulates, but Israel could just as well target that general outside of consulate