Suspected Israeli warplanes bombed Iran’s embassy in Syria on Monday, a marked escalation in a war pitting Israel against its regional adversaries, and Tehran said the strike killed seven military advisers including three senior commanders.
Reuters reporters at the site in the Mezzeh district of Damascus saw emergency workers clambering atop rubble of a destroyed building inside the diplomatic compound, adjacent to the main embassy building. Emergency vehicles were parked outside. An Iranian flag hung from a pole by the debris.
Israel has nuclear weapons. Iran doesn’t. Israel can get away with strikes like this. Iran uses proxies to do similar but deny involvement. Their proxy Hezbollah has obviously been busy since October, and the commanders killed were involved with that. Or maybe it’s a response to October 7th. Iran themselves have claimed that October 7th was retaliation for the killing of Soleimani:
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/middle-east/2023/12/27/Iran-s-IRGC-says-Oct-7-attacks-on-Israel-were-revenge-for-Soleimani-Hamas-denies
https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/12/27/iran-hamas-clash-motive-oct-7-massacre/
They have since retracted that statement and Hamas has always denied it, but yeah.
Obviously, bombing an embassy is bad, but it’s not as if they’re going to convince their detractors anyway, so why would they care about people who were going to hate them anyway hating them some more?
A bit like how Iran gets away with funding terrorists who target civilians, because anyone who hates Israel isn’t suddenly going to hate Israel any less because of it.
‘obviously bombing an embassy is bad but’
Yyyyyyyeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh ok
That but really annoyed me lol.
Do you disagree that bombing an embassy is bad?
Did you like Israel before they bombed this embassy?
Stealing land is bad but
Killing civilians is bad but
Killing children is bad but
Starving civilians is bad but
Committing a genecide is bad but
Just add a but and everything is okej.
Oh, you want to pretend I said bombing an embassy is ok, so you can entertain yourself arguing against that.
As soon as you start using your embassy to move weapons around… yeaaaahhhhh
How the fuck do you use a building to move weapons? Is the embassy on rails?
“Convince their detractors” of what?