What's the west gonna do? Support Iran? LoL
-Israel probably
this post was submitted on 16 Feb 2024
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At this point that would be pretty badass. Fuck the Israeli death machine.
It's practically taboo to consider but Arab allies are lot more reliable than israel, which has become an unstoppable rabid attack dog.
Saudi and Egypt have been American puppets for ages now and MBS is even stopping his Yemen genocide. If not for israel setting the region on fire there wouldn't be much conflict.
Israel probably did this at the US's instigation. The US is still getting payback for attacks on its assets in Iraq and Syria but does not want to escalate by striking Iran directly. Using Israel allows for deniability.
It's not like Iran isn't pulling the strings for Hamas and the Houthis, I'm just glad they're attacking someone responsible for the war rather than murdering the shit out of some Gazan civilians.
Okay I'm not a fan of Iran, but the one responsible for the war is 100% Israel. Hamas did some unexecusable things on October 7th, but the "cause" still remains Israel's colonialist occupation of Palestine. Iran's position in the Palestine conflict as a whole is light gray, not black.
Following your logic, will you be glad when someone start attacking the usa too?
They already have been, keep up. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_U.S._bases_in_Iraq,_Jordan,_and_Syria_(2023%E2%80%93present)
Thats what you get when you invade another country. But im talking about when someone attacks in usa territory, like what happened to iran
Oh, so 22 years, 5 months ago?
Idk what date you are talking about, not everyone cares about the usa holidays
It's only September 11th, which resulted in a 20 year war ~300,000 deaths (~800,000 if you include Iraq).
Iran is welcome to screw around and find out. Operation Praying Mantis take two?
I wonder why that happened. Its a mystery that we will never know. Anyway, dont you have any intelligence agency who could have prevented that?
The US didn't invade Jordan FFS.
Jordan invited the US to send soldiers there.
Are you blindly innocent or talking in bad faith?
Nah, I'm just someone living in the real world and not a fantasy world constructed to conform to social media narratives.
You give jordan as an example of a legitimate invasion. Are you really trying to be taken seriously?
Netanyahu trying to escalate with both Hezbollah and Iran themselves.
He really is trying to start WW3 and pull in Biden.
Biden has already launched attacks in the middle east.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
But blowing up part of the country’s energy infrastructure, relied on by industries, factories and millions of civilians, marked an escalation in the covert war and appeared to open a new frontier, officials and analysts said.
“The enemy’s plan was to completely disrupt the flow of gas in winter to several main cities and provinces in our country,” Iran’s oil minister, Javad Owji, told Iranian media on Friday.
But Iran supports and arms a network of proxy militia that have been actively fighting with Israel and United States, including the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon and militants in Iraq and Syria.
“This shows that the covert networks operating in Iran have expanded their target list and advanced beyond just military and nuclear sites,” said Shahin Modarres, a Rome-based security analyst focused on the Middle East.
But his assessment was at odds with the comments of local governors and officials from Iran’s national gas company, who had described widespread outages of service in five provinces, forcing the closure of government buildings.
He noted that major pipelines in Iran, which carry gas across vast distances that include mountains, deserts and rural fields, are patrolled by guards in outposts along the length of the pipes.
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