Inb4 lemmy supports Iran

  • @[email protected]
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    1088 months ago

    Supporting either side in this idiotic war over religion is stupid. That said, I don’t know what anyone expected Iran to do after Israel bombed their embassy.

    • @[email protected]
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      208 months ago

      You can just support international law, you don’t have to choose between Israel and Iran. Embassies are considered soverign soil of the nation they represent and so bombing an embassy is a direct attack on another country. When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 they got sanctioned by the international community. There are plenty of other examples in recent history of consequences for aggression. The only question is why is Israel exempt from consequences that apply to other countries? That’s what this false dichotomy (Israel vs. Iran/Hamas/Hezbollah etc.) is trying to mask- instead of asking why Israel is exempt from legal consequences it changes the dialogue to “if you don’t support Israel then you support terrorism” and thereby nullifies international law since the law is applied selectively.

      • @[email protected]
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        68 months ago

        What I see is that in general, the big powers, as in the US and China don’t hold their close allies accountable. It’s not like China held Russia to account for Bucha or Ukraine in general.

      • @[email protected]
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        208 months ago

        What exactly would you suggest a country does after another country bombs their embassy? Send flowers and say pretty please don’t do it again uWu?

          • @[email protected]
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            8 months ago

            So continue to get walked all over. Makes sense. Israel has been illegally hitting Iranian targets in Syria for years and years, Israel had the US assassinate Soleimani, yet Iran never responded in kind. But bombing and embassy was an obvious last straw.

            • @kbotc
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              18 months ago

              Israel didn’t do shit to make us kill Soleimani. Soleimani was literally meeting with someone who we blamed for an attack on the US embassy in Iraq. He was the other person killed in the strike. Iran knew they fucked up there, which is why their response was throwing a fairly ineffective barrage at a military base and then shooting down their own civilian airliner.

            • @[email protected]
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              -128 months ago

              Well, Israel is gonna hit back. So, where does it end, since you seem to think my idea is bad.

              ))<>((

          • @Gabu
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            7 months ago

            Iran did just that. Israel spit on their faces. Now they get what they deserve.

            • @[email protected]
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              -17 months ago

              Well, Iran was providing weapons to various groups that were fighting Israel. The target Israel hit was a military target that supposedly was a meeting of high ranking personnel from various groups. Iran’s involvement is typically indirect and involves support through these proxies rather than direct confrontation. This strategy allows Iran to confront Israeli interests without engaging in open warfare.

              Again, I don’t think any country should be fighting or providing military aid to fight indirectly (this includes the US providing weapons to Israel). The world is a terrible place and we should be focusing on making it better, not having petty squabbles over land.

              • @Gabu
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                17 months ago

                Then you should campaign for the extinction of Israel, as the zionist state does nothing but cause suffering.

      • @[email protected]
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        118 months ago

        What was Israel’s rationale for bombing Iran’s embassy in Syria and killing 12 Iranians? Revenge for what?

        • @[email protected]
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          37 months ago

          Preface: I have no favorite in that conflict, I’m just answering your question. They’re all being children imo.

          On the broader topic, Iran’s significant support for Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, both of which are considered major security threats by Israel, has been a central factor driving Israeli military actions. Iran supplies these groups with financial aid, weapons, and training, enhancing their capabilities against Israel.

          Regarding the specific target in Syria, I assume this Israel’s attempt to prevent Iran from gaining a strategic position to launch attacks against Israel.

          There have been conflicts in this region for a very long time. They are pretty much always at war.

    • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin
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      -188 months ago

      Personally I think Iran kinda spoiled ever getting to complain about foul play involving foreign embassies, what I’m more interested in here is how far the US is gonna go in retaliation, because obviously they’re gonna do something here, I’m just wondering how much it’ll be and in what form.

      Personally if I was making the call, I’d sweep the IDF out of Gaza altogether and relegate them to “defensive line duty”, or more accurately “DON’T YOU FUCKING DARE TOUCH ANYTHING YOU GENOCIDAL MORONS.”, and then kill two birds with an army of drones, Iran just invited destruction onto all of their war material production shit and Russia is probably shitting bricks that their entire reserve strategy just got exposed to causus belli.

      • @Windex007
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        108 months ago

        Russia is gleefully rubbing their hands because they know the US public can literally only keep one thought in their heads at once and this grantees political apathy towards the Russian invasion.

        • @[email protected]
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          38 months ago

          Maybe not though. Russia needs all the drones they can get from Iran. Israel making Iran focus on them negates part of the supply support Russia requires for Ukraine.

          • @Windex007
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            08 months ago

            The only thing required for Russia to win is the US to continue not sending aid.

            Iran and China are no longer necessary. Russia’s wartime economy is in full swing.

            • @[email protected]
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              28 months ago

              Iran and China are 100% necessary. That’s where Russia is getting components from. Russia mostly doing final assembly. Reports nearly weekly bring up Chinese and even US made components being found in Russian equipment.

  • @[email protected]
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    628 months ago

    Inb4 lemmy supports Iran

    Lots of false equivalances related to this war but being against Israel bombing an embassy in another country is not the same as supporting Iran. You don’t have to choose between Israel and Iran, you have to choose between Israel and international law / human rights.

    Phrasing it as “if you don’t support Israel then you support Iran (or Hamas, Hezbolla etc.)” is to disregard the importance of international law and the fact that it applies to everyone.

    • Neuromancer
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      -47 months ago

      being against Israel bombing an embassy in another country is not the same as supporting Iran.

      Yep. I support Israel but they crossed the line. I fully expected Iran to attack back and Israel should let it go now.

      • Anas
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        238 months ago

        Any Comment on here going “But what about <the direct reason for the attack>” is derailing the Conversation and defending Iran.

        this has been the zionist game forever, by the way do you condemn the genocide in Gaza?

        • I do in fact condemn the warcrimes in Gaza.

          And no: you’re using the same tactics currently you always decry the “Zionists” using. You’re seeing a article about Party A and immediately cry “but what about party B, you Antimesites Zionists”

          You’re not a lick better than them, you just root for the other team.

          • Anas
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            108 months ago

            ???

            the reason for the attack is very relevant when discussing an article about the attack

          • Cethin
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            68 months ago

            More like seeing event B which was caused by event A and saying “check out event A.” It’s not whataboutism. It’s literally cause and effect. Israel has promised a response to these attacks. These attacks were a response to an attack. Which part of it should be ignored?

      • @peg
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        148 months ago

        How is retaliation for an act of war indiscriminate? Bombing an embassy isn’t like accidentally parking across two spaces. It’s a gross violation of international law.

        Just remember that Israel started this.

      • @jorp
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        78 months ago

        Your honor putting aside my crimes for a moment is it really justifiable to send me to jail for no reason? Remember now, we are only talking about sending me to jail we’re not talking about all those things I did

        • This is a deeply flawed analogy. We are not talking about the actions of Israel but the Response of Iran being illegal: targeting civilian targets, forbidden by the rules of war.

          A better analogy would be: The law says a criminal should be punished with a maximum of 5 years in prison, but the judge hands out 20 years.

          What the judge did was still wrong and illegal, no matter what the criminal did.

          If you want to live in a world where everyone can bomb everyone, just remember why we introduced those rules and how many nations have nukes today.

          • Cethin
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            67 months ago

            But youre still ignoring the context that it’s in response to an illegal attack by Israel. If Israel isn’t being held accountable then Iran knows that it won’t either, in which case what’s illegal have to do with it? Either that or Iran will be held accountable and Israel won’t, in which case illegal isn’t the issue here, rather hypocracy and favoratism.

              • Cethin
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                17 months ago

                No, I’m saying Israel has not right to complain. If you punch someone in the face, you don’t get to complain when they punch you back. You also shouldn’t get backup for it.

  • m-p{3}
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    378 months ago

    Let me just say fuck anyone who targets civilians.

    • @[email protected]
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      378 months ago

      Yes fuck Israel indeed.

      The Biden administration expects Iran will also launch dozens of cruise missiles and ballistic missiles targeting Israeli government sites, not civilians or religious sites, a U.S. official said.

      • @[email protected]
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        -58 months ago

        Let’s see how many of those are “good shots.” And not “accidentally schools and hospitals”

        Although, the irony would palpable.

        • shameless
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          58 months ago

          I can already see the headlines, “Iran targets hospitals, monsters!!!”

          Takes rage baiting to a whole new extreme 🙃

    • @[email protected]
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      27 months ago

      Israel has killed more civilians in the past six months than the rest of the world has in like 5 years. Absolutely ignorant to say “targeting civilians” is bad and not point that out.

    • @peg
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      18 months ago

      Iran targeted Israeli military facilities, not civilians.

      • @Madison420
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        -28 months ago

        And Israel got 99% of what was launched, is it not suspicious they suck at intercepting diy dumb rockets but somehow get near perfect intercepts on higher tech guided munitions?

        • @blackfire
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          98 months ago

          The Iran launches were a country away. So a lot more time to target, the diy stuff is coming from a lot closer so less time to prep. They can hit the stuff coming out of Lebanon pretty accurately too.

          • @Madison420
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            Simple question, is it easier to catch a baseball or a locomotive.

            Ed: also not to be pedantic but both are fired from another country.

  • @RememberTheApollo_
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    378 months ago

    This is just more tankie bullshit. Russia and Iran have been getting buddy-buddy like crazy, especially right before the whole Hamas attack on Israel thing in fall last year. And of course, Iran feeds Hamas war materiel.

    Russia is trying to make a war on multiple fronts to exhaust the US and make Biden unpopular while also running a campaign on social media to make Biden look bad and interfere with the 2024 election.

    In other words, Russia REALLY wants Trump to win so they can end their expensive and punishing war in Ukraine and come out looking like they won something. Also, trump has made it clear that Israel would get free rein to “finish the problem.”

    • @Linkerbaan
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      Yeah israel committing Genocide and bombing the Iranian consulate is actually Putins masterplan to make Trump win.

      Libs reaching QAnon levels of cope. Vote for God Emperor Biden everyone! He was forced into supporting Genocide!

        • @Linkerbaan
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          18 months ago

          Your reply has nothing relevant. “You are right Biden does Genocide but somehow this is Trumps fault and that’s all Putins masterplan”.

          Just accept that there is no difference between the Republicunts and Genocrats. When both are supporting literal Genocide it must require severe mental gymnastics to keep believing in that fairy tale of American democracy.

    • @[email protected]
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      27 months ago
      • These aide workers are actually Hamas
      • Hamas is actually Iran
      • Iran is actually Russia

      This is so disconnected from reality. The most obvious flaw is the blatant fact that nobody loves Trump and wants Trump to win more than Netanyahu. Israel is a chud-nation.

  • Pistcow
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    308 months ago

    vigerously starts watching the Amazon Fallout series

    • FenrirIII
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      158 months ago

      I just finished the first episode. If nukes start flying before I finish the series, I will be very annoyed.

      • Pistcow
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        58 months ago

        Me too! Pretty good episode. At least they had a good budget to replicate the world. It’s very promising…assuming we all survive.

    • @RGB3x3
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      68 months ago

      When a fictional series becomes a documentary.

    • @slaacaa
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      38 months ago

      I’m already at the 5th training video. Waiting to see if I get a certification at the end

  • @[email protected]
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    138 months ago

    I guess this is the next chapter in the endless middle-east war. The British & French got exactly what they wanted when they drew up those borders. It’s truly tragic how many people are going to die in the next decade because of religious and nationalistic despots and their egos.

    • @[email protected]
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      58 months ago

      Even in that very long list of European crimes in history, Sykes-Picot really outshines the rest in how big of a fuckup it was.

    • @00x0xx
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      28 months ago

      This has very little to do with the colonial borders drawn by the British and French almost 100 years ago. Rather it’s animosity due to more recent events. In this case, Israel’s betray of the Iranian people right before the revolution of 1979.

  • @[email protected]
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    108 months ago

    I support Iran’s defensive actions against Israeli aggression. I hope Iran chooses military and intelligence targets instead of civilian ones, in compliance with international law, despite Israel targeting primarily civilians in their war of conquest.

    • @AA5B
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      08 months ago

      You’re supporting widening the war. You’re supporting more suffering and death. There is no genocide against Iran. Iran is stirring up trouble, widening the war, involving more and more people. That’s bad

        • @kbotc
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          18 months ago

          Israel blew up a compound where the IRGC was training Hezbollah. Go look up who died in the attack, no one’s refuting that bit of data. Hezbollah’s been in open conflict with Israel for months now.

          • @[email protected]
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            37 months ago

            Are you really so naive to think that blowing up another country’s embassy on another country’s sovereign soil is all hunky dory because “muh terrorism”? Embassies are civilian objects. To not expect retaliation for such a thing is incredibly stupid. Israel knew what it was doing.

          • @[email protected]
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            -37 months ago

            To say Iran ordered Hamas to attack on October 8th is to show how much of an ignoramus you are.

            • @[email protected]
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              37 months ago

              Russia and Iran met to coordinate weeks before the attack. Hamas then executed an attack plan they had been holding back on for 2 years.

              It wasn’t a coincidence and acting like it was is idiotic. But you’re welcome to follow the crowd here and put your head in the sand.

      • @[email protected]
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        07 months ago

        Israel is trying to widen the war. The Iranian response fairly tame and measured as usual. Like when we illegally killed their general in Iraq and they casually hit our bases there.

    • @Rapidcreek
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      -38 months ago

      They’ll go after nuclear facilities

    • Skeezix
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      -148 months ago

      Iran going to get its ass kicked.

    • @MeanEYE
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      -248 months ago

      Comedy gold right here. You couldn’t be more biased or more wrong if you tried.

        • @AA5B
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          88 months ago

          Who’s committing genocide in Iran? Are they killing off Kurds again?

          Who’s trying to conquer Iran?

          Who’s bombing civilians in Iran?

        • @MeanEYE
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          -78 months ago

          And yet you support Iran bombing Israel.

          • @[email protected]
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            Did Iran do any of those 3 in it’s retaliation strikes? No.

            Right now Israel is doing all 3 of those however.

            • @kbotc
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              -48 months ago

              We have no idea what Iran was actually aiming at. So far they only managed to kill some people in Jordan and a Bedouin child in Israel.

              • @[email protected]
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                Cut it out with the misinformation.

                The US already said they were aiming for military targets, and nobody is reporting any deaths from these strikes that I have seen to date.

                What we have seen is Israel commit genocide, a war of conquest, and bombing civilians.

              • Anas
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                18 months ago

                Am Jordanian, nobody died here. I’m going to assume that the Bedouin child is also a lie.

        • @Atin
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          -128 months ago

          But you support Hamas who openly want to kill every Jew in the middle east.

          • @[email protected]
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            98 months ago

            I feel like you’re trying to play a game called “who has more blood on their hands,” and believe that game has a winner.

            • @AbidanYre
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              38 months ago

              The only winning move is not to play.

              • @hark
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                -27 months ago

                israel doesn’t stop playing.

          • @[email protected]
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            48 months ago

            No one reading your comment will take you seriously when you claim OP said something they didn’t say. You realize the comment is right there for us to read, right?

      • theodewere
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        -58 months ago

        shouldn’t have pissed off the Israelis… now go back to bed, there are missiles flying…

      • @conquer4
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        -68 months ago

        It’s literally been happening on and off for thousands of years there…

          • @kbotc
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            78 months ago

            The Palestinians had self rule before 1917?

            • @[email protected]
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              They weren’t colonized that’s for sure, they were (mostly) Muslim Arabs in a country where being a Muslim/Arab was normal and didn’t imply you had less rights or straight up didn’t deserve life.

            • @[email protected]
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              17 months ago

              I think I understand your point of confusion. The original comment said this has been going on for thousands of years, and I meant to say that it only began around 1917. Although there was an Ottoman occupation before the brief Arab rule period, the Ottoman occupation did not have the turmoil and issues associated with the Zionist occupation.

      • @Belastend
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        -18 months ago

        They do not care about the genocide, they care about reacting to the bombing of their own embassy.

  • @Rapidcreek
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    38 months ago

    The US House will vote on Israeli aid next week because of all this. Hopefully it’ll include Ukrainian and humanitarian aid.

  • @Linkerbaan
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    Big influx of Hasbara bots here today

  • @[email protected]
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    -278 months ago

    I’m glad Biden’s saber rattling, instead of attempting de-escalation when it was hand out on a silver platter was effective!

    No one could have seen that coming though, obviously.

      • @[email protected]
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        38 months ago

        And yet… Not two days ago I was here telling people that Biden’s saber rattling was fucking stupid and was met with “no it’s gonna be effective to stop Iran retaliating against an illegal attack on its embassy”.

            • @[email protected]
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              37 months ago

              Well, there are people who answer to him based on his job position. So, that’s not correct. But a more appropriate response to your ham-fisted comment, might be: Trump answers to more people than Biden.

              • @[email protected]
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                17 months ago

                Fair, what I should have said was that people don’t want to answer to Biden because he has no clue what he’s actually doing. It’s more likely that people are answering to Biden’s babysitters.

                • @[email protected]
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                  17 months ago

                  It’s not their job to answer to Biden. Also, they better not “answer” to any president, as it’s literally not the presidents job to control them.

                  Look, I get it, you don’t like Biden. I’m not a huge fan either. But if you don’t vote for him, you vote for Trump. And he is going to make things worse for you in unimaginable ways.

                  Aside: Trump has babysitters too.