Israel’s foreign minister threatened Wednesday that his country’s forces would strike Iran directly if the Islamic Republic launched an attack from its territory against Israel, as tensions between the rival powers flare following the killings of Iranian generals in a blast at the Iranian consulate in Syria.

“If Iran attacks from its territory, Israel will respond and attack in Iran,” Israel Katz said in a post on X in both Farsi and Hebrew.

The remarks came after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reiterated early Wednesday a promise to retaliate against Israel over the attack on its consulate in Damascus earlier this month.

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Israel attacks Iran, then immediately tries to claim they’re the victim like every other fascist group.

It’s fucking disgusting Biden is willing to risk letting trump win the election because Biden won’t stop supporting this genocide none of his voters want.

He cares more about Israel than America.

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Iran backs proxies who attack Israel, then immediately tries to claim they’re the victim like every other fascist group.

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Israel is starting unecessary fights that it will insist the U.S. back them on. We need to let Israel start and finish their own wars without us.

We were there to protect them against unprovoked attacks, not to help them start wars. It’s time to end this extremely expensive one-sided relationship.

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Iran has 85 million people, Israel has around 10 million. I guess they’re assuming big daddy Biden has their back, despite Netanyahu repeatedly ignoring him.

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They don’t share a border, so they will fight either completely aerial or on foreign lands like Iraq. Population is important of course but not on small scale aerial skirmishes.

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They don’t share a border,

I understand that but Netanyahu seems hellbent on starting a regional war. If this escalates I’m not sure that the lack of a shared border is going to mean a whole lot. It’s still a small country, hiding behind the US, picking fights with much bigger nations.

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A significant portion of the destruction will come from ballistic missiles.

As far as aerial combat, it will depend on who will let who fly over their respective countries. I can’t see a situation where Israel and Iran go at it directly and it doesn’t escalate to a regional war. I doubt it will remain between just those two countries for long.

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They’re going to get shut down in Gaza, so Netanyahu needs another distraction from his corruption trial.

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I wonder if a war between Israel and Iran would distract Israel enough to slow down the Gaza genocide.

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