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Iran did not attack israel this is twisting facts.
Has America attacked Russia by supplying Ukraine?
An embrassy is not a valid military target to begin with. it's a blatant direct attack.
Umm, that's just factually wrong.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/iranian-forces-fire-rockets-at-israeli-military-in-first-direct-attack-ever-israeli-army-says/2018/05/09/62e3a526-52f7-11e8-a6d4-ca1d035642ce_story.html
That was in 2018. Things have been tense between the countries ever since.
Edit: Look, I'm not trying to defend Israel, here, I'm just pointing out the truth. Truth is all too often a victim of war, and if we pretend Iran has no history of violence directed at Israel, we do ourselves a disservice.
So this is in retaliation for something that happened 5 years ago? What took them so long?
Linkerbaan said Iran didn't attack Israel. I was just pointing out that Iran actually has a history of attacking Israel, and that Linkerbaan is factually incorrect.
A pretty arbitrary line to draw around 'factually incorrect.'
You could've gone on about Lebanon and Hezbollah too and easily gone back to 2006 without a hiccup, too.
But in this discussion it's pretty obvious the scope is well within the current events of the embassy being struck this month.
Yes, but that was in response to Iran sponsoring groups like the Houthis that have been committing terrorist attacks.
Which, yes, was probably in response to earlier actions by Israel. Which were in response to earlier actions by Iran. Which were...
I mean, you can probably see where that goes. There are no innocent parties in this, and it's intellectually dishonest to pretend that there are.
Embassy staff in the diplomatic service ARE civilian casualties.
I’m sure Israel thinks breaking international laws are worth it but there’s consequences.
I only read of the seven IRGC military casualties. If there were more, I didn’t know about them.
That’s all the media focused on but it wasn’t an empty embassy on a workday. It’s like how the world media focused on the WCK workers killed in Gaza but ignored the Palestinian drivers who also were killed.
I just read more, and you’re right. I’ll delete my comments. Thank you for prompting me to look for more information.