Advanced weapons include precise missiles, surface to air missiles and air defenses transported mostly via Damascus airport which has come under repeated strikes attributed to Israel
As the U.S. was supplying Israel with military aid, so is Iran delivering weapons to its regional allies, in transports through the Damascus airport mostly, while other weapons transports arrive through other locations.
The frequent strikes on Syria in recent days, attributed to Israel, were for the most part intended to thwart such transfers from Iran, that were meant to increase the number of precise missiles, anti-tank missiles and air defenses including the Iranian made surface to air 358 missiles also called SA-67) that can intercept drones, planes low flying aircraft and missiles, available to Hezbollah.
Iran had already supplied its Lebanese proxy with a substantial stock of missiles which have been used by Hezbollah against Israeli drones recently but have thus far failed to shoot any down. Israel has been able to intercept the 358 missiles using its air defenses.
- fuck hamas
- fuck khamenei
- fuck netanyahu
also fuck assad, for good measure.
with that out of the way, ynet and jpost consistently drop these alarmist takes and rarely back up their claims with sources. now, i don’t doubt the shipment itself, nor israel’s awareness of it. but i can’t find a single other source reporting on this specific alleged escalation into a wider conflict, just ynet. if i had to wager a guess? because iran is continuously investing in their satellite groups. primarily hezbollah, hamas and the houthies, but certainly others, too. arms, funding, training, likely logistics support as well. especially now.
idk, the whole article just reads like padding to diminish that small part about bombing the fuck out of a neighboring country, on one of the last functional airports in the country, causing more devastation to lives and spreading their vengeance-fueled rampage out as far as they possibly can.
Shhhhhh you’re drowning out the propaganda…
Iran is biden legacy. He need to start a war otherwise he will never be remembered as president.
So you’re just gonna entirely ignore the fact that relations were slowly moving in the right direction during the late Obama years and that Trump basically flipped the table and reset everything to being fully hostile?
I also don’t think legacy chasing is really on the docket at this point, seems a history filled Presidency already
Tbh, wasn’t really trying to legacy chase; just pointing out that this particular failure isn’t reasonable to put entirely at Biden’s feet.
To be clear: I ended up being deeply disappointed in Obama on a lot of things, and am not trying to cheerlead. Also, I’m no fan of Biden, but he’s sure as shit better than Trump.
Meant to reply to the other guy, but I agree
Here is how it goes with US president.
One make it easy for Iran to build their nuclear power. The next butcher the deals - accelerate nuclear progress. The next says will, the last president fucked up but now we have to go to war.
It is the same cycle for many different things. The only people who benefit from this in the middle east are weapons manufacturers and Isreal.
Since Biden took office they been blaming Iran more frequently than usual which to me seems to indicate an attempt at justification for an attack.
Starting to feel like the whole middle East is going to be at war soon . I’m sure it’s going to get even messier soon .
More like the whole world. Damn, this is getting really scary.
It definitely does not bode well, and the U.S. will definitely get dragged in at some point.
The US is stirring the pot
Get dragged? US is already dousing the fire with most flammable assets, and also stoking it as hard as it can by giving Israel blank checks in any use of US weapons, forcing a “they deserve it” narrative on Palestinian genocide and land grab, pressuring its western allies to turn a completely blind eye and just say “Hamas is the only bad guy here” so making them an uncompromising block.
It could have turned out to be a mass murder of Israeli civilians, a hostage situation the can be diplomatically defused, then appropriate repercussions, maybe the same old oppression going on in Gaza for decades, and actual targeting of Hamas leaders. Instead, we have your fucking oil industry governed military industry executed facade of a civilized country leading every situation to a bloodbath.
What US interest in the Middle East left anyway? Is it time for gobbling Iranian petrol yet? So the US oil lobby can continue its planet-fuckery emissions full speed?
The US reluctantly dragged into war.
By the brothers Grimm.
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sounds like netanyahus plan is working perfectly
Yup, ensured reelection.
Iran needs to stay the hell out of this. The more they’re involved, the more Israel bombs their neighbors.
Lebanon was at relative peace until Hezbollah started stirring shit with Israel. Now I feel like it’s going to hit the fan. And Lebanon really doesn’t need this right now.
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Missile and bombs are never the answer, that should be pretty clear, American politicians get some kind of orgasm by destabilizing and killing hundreds of thousands of people every so often, summon Netanyahu for war crimes and all other fucks that support him
Look I get it, and you’re probably right, but this world doesn’t work in that way.
The US just side-stepped Congress to approve an arms shipment to Israel for the second time this month. Missiles and bombs aren’t the answer, but we have to remain consistent.
And what will summoning Netenyahu achieve? He’ll go to prison laughing (assuming the US ever let it get that far!), knowing his successor will reap the rewards of an uninhabitable Gaza full of a resentful, broken population fated to become the next Hamas for us to condemn in a few years’ time. Israel will win land and space for more illegal settlements that’ll go unchallenged because the US will continue to veto any action against them.
I don’t agree military action is the answer but in the middle of a war where one side is being heavily supported, it makes little sense why the other side wouldn’t seek some extra power as well.
If Iran gets involved, don’t you think the US will sit idly by? You don’t think anyone isn’t going to declare war on each other and that it might create a larger conflict?
I was all right with your comment until this:
broken population fated to become next hamas
Are you implying everyone there is future hamas?
Are you implying everyone there is future hamas?
No, and yes. If Hamas means resistance then sure. I don’t see any Palestinians condemning Hamas because Hamas are literally brothers and sons and relatives of the survivors who have been born into oppression and have no option but to rebel or die.
Let’s say you have a child, completely innocent, born into this world. Within a few years, he has survived multiple wars, seen violence and death dozens of times, and is already desensitised to mutilation and death by the time he’s 7 years old. His family is dead, he’s surviving on the good graces of strangers with no prospects for education and no moral compass in the form of parents to guide him on what’s right and wrong.
By the time he’s 17, he’s being recruited into Hamas, who under a 70 year occupation, comprises people just like him, that want a free Palestine where children can be children and oppression isn’t the norm. You’re not going to reform him without removing his raison d’etre. Until there’s Israeli oppression and no free Palestine, he’s Hamas.
Do I agree with what Hamas did on October 7th? No. But in all forms of media and in history, people who are oppressed and free themselves from imprisonment and oppression are seen as heroes (if they’re imprisoned unjustly, of course!), regardless of the number of people they kill in order to achieve their goals (like blowing up a Death Star, killing everyone on it).
The Star Wars’ rebel alliance is an example. So is Katniss in Hunger Games or the Na’Vi in the Avatar movies. In my mind there’s little difference between them. We don’t condemn them as terrorists so why is Hamas different?
I am a Neanderthal when it comes to games so I don’t really understand the analogy, but I do feel like we are somewhat on the same page now, but I don’t really see hamas as a ‘hero’ sure you could argue that they are the byproduct of Israels brutality and want to free themselves, but I feel like killing/torturing even one innocent person is too many, I would be completely fine if they blew up the IDF.
Similarly I don’t think Palestinians don’t condemn hamas (although my guess is a lot of them do) because they are the good guys, but because they literally have no option and are too busy trying to save their lives than trying to dissect which side is wrong or right
I hate to be the devil’s advocate, but he’s got a good point on that one. You don’t think anyone is Gaza will ever try to get revenge for what Israel did?
Remind me how they stopped Hitler. Did they ask him nicely?
The ZioNazis will never stop their genocidal campaign with diplomacy that much is clear to anyone paying attention the last 80 years.
Hitler stopped himself lol.
With enough pressure, which, contrary to propaganda articles, the US is not applying any pressure at all on israel.
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There is absolutely no parallel to make between these two conflicts other than Russia’s cruelty towards Ukrainians.
Thus the arty shells Biden directed to Israel.
