Israel’s defense minister warned Saturday that “Tehran will burn” if Iran continues firing missiles, as the two countries traded blows a day after Israel launched a blistering surprise attack on Iranian nuclear and military sites, killing several top generals.
Israel’s military said the strikes also killed nine senior scientists and experts involved in Iran’s nuclear program. Iran’s U.N. ambassador said 78 people were killed and more than 320 wounded.
Iran retaliated by launching waves of drones and ballistic missiles at Israel, where explosions lit the night skies over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and shook buildings. The Israeli military urged civilians, already rattled by 20 months of war in Gaza sparked by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, to head to shelter for hours. Health officials said three people were killed and dozens wounded.
To be fair, Iran is an authoritarian theocracy that has called for the total annihilation of Israel. That may agree with what many crazy people on Lemmy want too, but it cannot really be called defensive. It’s not as Iran just wants to “be left alone”. In the eyes of Israel Iran is an existential threat, therefore the attack did not come out of a vacuum.
Pakistan is the other lone stander that absolutely refuses to recognize Israel and also happens to have nukes that can reach Israel, yet they’ve done jack on that sentiment, despite the ISI having a history of outplaying Mossad.
Iran wants nukes for the same reason everyone else has nukes. It’s just a gg ez ace up your sleeve that can be utilized to prevent this exact conventional warfare escalation by threatening to use your nukes, which is exactly what Israel does to the other surrounding arab states. Moreover it would be dumb to nuke Israel when they keep daydreaming about reconquering the holy land, which would be impossible if its covered in radiation.
Pakistan and India’s LoC is a massive militarized flashpoint that imo suprasses the DMZ, yet overtime they have a fight, it over after a few days when they nuke threat comes out and everyone signs a ceasefire agreement no questions asked.
Iran wants the same deal so they can be left alone to run their authoritarian regime in peace lol.
Israel engages in similar rhetoric. I wonder if the sentiment would be “Iran just preemptively defended itself” amongst our politics and media if Iran was to strike nuclear facilities and assassinate military leaders and scientists in Israel.
if we look at history then israel is a existential threat for not just all its neighbour but the entire humanity.
you do realize that apart from bombing school full of kids and sniping pregnant women, israel also supplies spyware and weapon to far worse countries than iran and even some of the most violent drug cartels of the world ? and they do so with full support of cia because they have hijacked both parties using the “aid” we give them.
You need to put down the propaganda. There are shades of gray between black and white and it’s white weird to think Israel is THE WORST considering all that is going on in the world.
Trump going crazy because of his birthday protests and lunching the nukes seems more of a “the whole world” existential threat than the hate of yet another small country in the Middle East at war.
and you think israel is not the major factor as why trump won the presidency ? netanyahu wanted trump as president and there is no doubt there was more pro-trump hasbara propaganda than russian. aipac has been funding spineless hacks in dnc local primaries vs strong progressives for decades. schumer has openly said that above all his job is to keep dnc pro-israel. harris chose to risk loosing the election than even say anything remotely critical of israel when they were burning people alive in hospitals and shooting UN. aipac has been doing all to support any legislation that give more power to trump to suppress any pro-palestine activity. and do they care if trump use it to kill a thousand anti-ice protestors ? no they will do all to help trump turn us into dictatorship if it ensures they don’t have to care about public sentiment against them (which it is overwhelmingly in both red and blue states)
Israel should be annihilated if the occupiers refuse to leave.
The world would be a better place.
The fact they have a reward for the death of Salman Rushdie is enough for me to know they are criminally insane.
Like WTF! Death penalty for writing a book?
The Iranian government cannot be trusted. But it’s the same for Israel. They deserve each other.
Why does Iran want total annihilation of Israel?
it’s a muslim country, check other muslim countries and their statements during any war.
this doesn’t answer the question!