• ryedaft@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Doesn’t Iran regularly shoot missiles and drones at Israel? I’m not really up to speed but I’m sure there was something about an Iron Dome?

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      2 days ago

      I might be wrong in this, but I’m pretty sure it’s exceedingly rare for Iran to directly fire missiles at Israel, it’s usually Iran-supplied proxies doing it (such as Hezbollah). It’d be like making the argument that anyone at war with a US backed nation/faction has a carte blanche to attack America

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          Iran said it was retaliation for the Israeli bombing of the Iranian embassy in Damascus on 1 April,[17] which killed two Iranian generals.

          Iran claimed that the attack was an act of “self-defense”[19][20] in retaliation for Israel’s assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and IRGC general Abbas Nilforoushan.

          Does it change anything if both of those attacks were after an Iranian embassy was bombed and an assassination in Iran’s capital took place?

        • belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1 day ago

          Brother, I have in laws in Iran. The regime is a brutal pile of dog turd, but at least they have the decency to just cultural genocide the kurds and not do an actual one.

          They aren’t the good guys, they are the smaller pile of shit.

        • febra@lemmy.world
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          2 days ago

          Right, so go on and support genocidal Israel, because it’s soooo much better than authoritarian Iran.