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I support Iran’s defensive actions against Israeli aggression. I hope Iran chooses military and intelligence targets instead of civilian ones, in compliance with international law, despite Israel targeting primarily civilians in their war of conquest.

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Well said. Lawful engagement is the only way if anyone is going to hold that kind of power. American hegemony has proven itself thoroughly hypocritical, time and time again. It’s attack dog in the middle east is holding the leash. Rule of law must reign - but never forget its our collective responsibility to write and uphold just laws for the collective.

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Isn’t that the US’s fault though? Didn’t they help overthrow the previous government in Iran for the current one? Not say that makes Iran a good place, just that this is all because of the US.

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No that’s not the case. The US actually was a big fan of the pre-Khomeiny government in Iran. Of course Trump did make things worse by tearing up the Iran-nuclear deal.

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Pretty sure they chose military targets, yeah. There was never really a fear Iran would attack civilians here.

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Wait, did Israel attack Iran? What is “defensive” here?

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Violating the Vienna Convention is so hot right now.

Between Equador storming Mexico’s to Israel bombing Iran’s…

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I believe he’s referring to the Iranian consulate in Damascus that was targeted and blown up by Israel a few days ago

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Israel has attacked 4 different countries in it’s ‘war against hamas.’ It’s attacked, Syria, Lebanon, Iran and Palestine. They’re aggressively trying to escalate.

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Hopefully this retaliation will be enough to scare Israel straight. However, I am concerned that it will lead further escalation and greater US involvement…

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It won’t. Unfortunately this is not even a propportional response. I highly doubt attack on Gaza will be reduced, and I only hope Israel won’t use this as pretext to attack Iran even more.

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Maybe they shouldn’t bomb Iran if they don’t want them to strike back?

Like I want all of this conflict to end, but Israel just bombed Iran’s consulate in Syria, killing 2 generals and 5 officers. What did they think is gonna happen when they do that? Do they expect a country to just say “oh no don’t do it again please.”?

If it was US generals and officers the US would have went ape shit about it in response

Israel was striking their consulate in response to rockets that were fired at them, but the detail that people miss is that the rockets fired was in response to Israel previously striking them as well.

As another commenter said, Iran has the right to defend itself. If Israel wants Iran to stop attacking them, maybe they should try not attacking Iran?

(If this came off as sarcastic or combative it wasn’t intended, just trying to say how I see the situation between Iran and Israel but I suck at formatting)

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Iran went to UNSC and asked for Israeli attack on their embassy to be condemned, and they stated there would be no response if that happened. Thanks to the burger empire UNSC failed to condemn Israeli attack. Claiming that this is Iran escalating is the height of dishonesty.

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Why can’t western press call an embassy an embassy? WTF is an 'iranian diplomatic building ’

They blew up an embassy. Sovereign soil, and an act of war. Israel wants this war to widen.

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Technically, it was a consulate attached and right next door to an embassy. But yeah.

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Because that wouldn’t be true, but I don’t think you care much about being rigorously truthful.

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Love the username btw. Very human

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Great refutation, bravo, straight to the ad hominem. Nice try, don’t come back.

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32 points

USA should keep there feets and hands down on this one. This isn’t an affair that need their involvement.

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They are already shooting down drones so no chance of that.

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We could easily have spent enough to pay tuition for every engineering student in the US for the year this evening.

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You say this as if we’re supposed to feel bad about this. Given the barbaric way Israel behaves as a nation, let the country be eaten up. Israel deserves everything it gets.

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There’s an argument that the Moscow wing of the Republican Party has emboldened countries like Iran due to its lack of support for Ukraine. Just because the US might not get involved, it doesn’t mean its adversaries will also sit this one out.

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I think countries like Israel and the US enacting and enabling a genocide and constantly bombing countries in the middle east has “emboldened countries like Iran” (hmm, I wonder what you meant with that phrasing…). Israel just struck an Iranian embassy last week, and this is retaliation.

“There’s an argument” you have no idea what you’re talking about.

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Way to completely miss my point.

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When you totally understand both world politics and the domestic political parties of the US.

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I hope Israel does not use this as pretext for escalation. Wouldn’t be surprising if the genocidal state pursues this.

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let’s be real, the genocide would have continued regardless of the attack, this fued has been going for years this attack is a drop in the bucket really. It’s only going to be used an an excuse for international support at this point but, eventually I expect international support will waiver

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