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.
Shit like this keeps happening and Iran just shows incredible amounts of restraint.
Meanwhile, the “only democracy in the Middle East” is allowed to act like a rabid dog.
I was about to wonder who was this delusional, when I realized Hexbear’s infection had showed up again.
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.