Am I the only one who thinks Israel should not act with such an impunity and he’ll they don’t seem to be trying to de-escalate anything and are trying to trigger a large scale war in the region.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Reporters at the scene in the Mezzeh district of the Syrian capital saw smoke rising from the rubble of a building that had been flattened, and emergency vehicles parked outside.
A Lebanese security source told Reuters that Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander of the Revolutionary Guards, was among those killed in the attack.
“Hossein Akbari, ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Damascus, and his family were not harmed in the Israeli attack,” the Nour news agency said.
The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said: “Israeli missiles … destroyed the building of an annexe to the Iranian embassy … in Damascus, killing six people.”
Syria’s official Sana news agency earlier reported that “our air defence systems confronted enemy targets in the vicinity of Damascus”.
The incident came days after the observatory reported Israeli strikes in Syria that killed 53 people, including 38 soldiers and seven members of Hezbollah.
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Fuck Israel.
Hopefully we can all just put this isolated incident quickly behind us.
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Wonder if they had America sign off on it.
If a consulate has similar status to an embassy, I’m guessing not. At that point they would be signing off on a direct bombing of Iranian soil, which is what they’ve been whisking around the Middle East trying to avoid.
There’s only been two attacks on embassies in modern history: the US on China, and now Israel on Iran.
It’s worth noting that this was apparently a consulate attached to an embassy, and the embassy next door was not targeted. That might be the technicality that’s covering their ass, but it’s unbelievably close to the line if so.
About China, for the curious. There have been other, less air-based incursions into embassies.
The US giving Israel a bunch of military equipment (including nearing the sale of 50(!) F-15s) a few days before what appears to be an intentional provocation of a regional enemy to the US is something a little bit too on the nose.
Even if it’s not the US helping these plans along, they certainly would love an opportunity for Israel to act as a proxy against the Iranian govt that they’ve been trying to justify war against for over a decade now.
Just like the US airstrike on China’s embassy in Serbia, I’m sure this was just an unfortunate accident.
This is a little bit silly, that pretty clearly was a mistake, it also led to new ROE regarding the safety cordon around approved targets. Additionally Serbia was a combatant nation, that’s why embassies often evacuate nations involved in hostilities. Israel routinely attacks 3rd country targets, they struck with multiple weapons. Syria and Iraq are not parties to the current situation in Gaza. The idea that countries with governments or general population that are not in favour of the IDF massacre of civilians means almost every country is “involved” according to Israeli targeting doctrine.
Such a loss. Who will pay for that to be cleaned off the sidewalk now?
