Comment by UltraSane
19 hours ago
The US attack on Iran was wrong but don't forget that Iran loves to lob ballistic missiles at Israel civilians.
19 hours ago
The US attack on Iran was wrong but don't forget that Iran loves to lob ballistic missiles at Israel civilians.
> Iran loves to lob ballistic missiles at Israel civilians
Phew and I wonder why that might be!
Because they have a very deep and irrational hatred of Jews that stems directly from the way the koran talks about them.
Here's a comment to the contrary from another poster which I found illuminating: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47605903
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Yea, I do wonder, why that might be? Why is a country 1500 miles away, that doesn't even share a common border, preoccupied with the destruction of Israel to the point it invested hundreds of billion of dollars in its offensive capabilities and network of proxies on every side of Israel, had a special paramilitary wing (Quds Force) for operations inside Israel, had a public clock counting down the existence of Israel and called for the destruction of Israel on each and every opportunity?
What's the obsession with the destruction of Israel? Could it be related to the fact that an Islamic Republic of (...) could not accept a Jewish rule right in the middle of the great Muslim Ummah?
So you really can't see what the problem is that the Israelis have caused in this region, can you.
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Israel's first ally in the Middle East was the secular Iran government under Mossadegh.....
The US and Israel have killed over 3,000 civilians in this war, mostly in Iran and Jordan. Iran has killed like 30. Their attacks are literally a hundredth of what they got and we're still trying to portray them as the bad guys. Don't get me wrong, Iran sucks, but not because of this
Jordan is a US ally, I think you are confusing it with some other country
The Shia Theocracy controlling Iran has killed thousands of civilians protesting their oppressive regime.
Iran has killed thousands of its civilians. The only reason it has only killed a few Israelis (excluding Oct 7) is because they can't easily get past Israeli defenses.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide?wprov=sfla1
Not that long ago. Just a reminder.
If the USA and Israel had really wanted to stop evil regimes they could have gone to Sudan maybe?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Fasher_massacre?wprov=sfla1
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What? Iran was attacked by israel numerous times, including today. It has the right to defend itself.
If anything, it's israel here that has attacked almost all countries in the area and annexed land from them ("buffer zones").
Israel also gets to pretend it has no nuclear weapons.
How does shooting ballistic missiles with cluster warheads at residential areas help defend Iran?
If what you said was true, we'd have seen many, many civilian deaths in Israel over the course of the war - there have, officially, been less than 50 (note that in the same time period Israel - which has targeted civilian infrastructure such as hospitals in Iran - has killed over 3,000 Iranian civilians!).
But what you're saying isn't true - any of it! Iran has been hitting military targets. And they've been using MIRVs, not anti-personell cluster munitions (you know, of the kind Israel has dropped over 1M of over Lebanon). MIRVs split into multiple, independently targetable missiles when high above ground near the target zone. Cluster munitions wait until they are only some meters above ground, and then explode into bomblets.
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