with Bibi threatening Lebanon and now this, it's only a matter of time before the whole region is in conflict unless a ceasefire is put into place very soon.
lol, a ceasefire... right...
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And what happened to that last ceasefire, pray tell?
Both Israel and the US are desperate to drag Iran into this, so they can Bomb the place
Iran is quite capable of, and is, making itself involved in this.
This article literally has examples of Iranian backed attacks on US embassies.
Newsflash: Iran is a massively shit, fundie police state. Not everyone against the US is a victim or someone worthy of barracking for.
And how did Iran come to be what they are, hmm?
Yes America is largely to cause for the fundamentalists in charge of Iran.
But that doesn’t mean Iran is incapable of being its own regional actor today. And at some point Iran is responsible for its own actions, sanctions or not.
I’m sorry what? I think you should go check your Iranian history then come back.
Iran was a flourishing moderate country before their Islamic revolution, they were even an ally of the US.
They had a revolution by a sect of ultra conservative sharia law islamics that changed all that.
The US is responsible for many unfortunate changes of government and old friends turning enemy… but not this one.
They got the way they are through oppressing the female half of their population, poor foreign policy, corruption and being more concerned with hurting their neighbours than building and maintaining their nation.
So they are now an unproductive, backwards pariah state that kills teen girls for trying to get educated or not wearing a headscarf, Iran did that all by themselves how great!
Mate, that’s a pretty poor telling of events.
There wouldn’t have been a revolution if not for the US/Brit coup of a democratically elected leftist leader over the nationalisation of BP oil fields in Iran 20 years prior in favour of an authoritarian monarch.
It’s as good as you’re likely going to get from western sources. Yes, we have to “prove” leftist government can’t work by undermining it, always. Telling, isn’t it?
The current Iranian government has nothing to do with leftism. Focus on the world you live in today.
Pardon me for replying to what you said.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A rocket attack on the sprawling U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Friday marked a further escalation as Iraqi officials scramble to contain the ripple effects of the latest Middle East war.
Iran holds considerable sway in Iraq and a coalition of Iran-backed groups brought Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani to power in October 2022.
During a recent trip to the region, CIA Director William Burns warned al-Sudani of “harsh consequences” if Iraq doesn’t act to stop the attacks, an Iraqi official said.
A week after the Iraqi premier’s diplomatic efforts, the United States extended Iraq’s sanctions waiver by four months to purchase Iranian electricity.
Unlike Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, seen as Iran’s most powerful proxy in the region, Iraq’s militias have so far only played a limited role in the conflict.
Should Iran and allies choose to escalate, al-Sudani’s government will likely be unable to rein them in or prevent consequences on Iraqi soil, said Iyad al-Anbar, a political science professor at Baghdad University.
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