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Basically someone has to blink. My estimation is that the Israeli government has a lot more latitude since the Iranian governemnt is sort of fueled by this hatr
by HDThoreaun 3y ago
Basically someone has to blink. My estimation is that the Israeli government has a lot more latitude since the Iranian governemnt is sort of fueled by this hatred of Israel and the US so they really cant be seen to back down. Luckily this attack wasnt really that bad and to me signifies that Iran doesnt want to escalate so I think likely Israel blinks now with the excuse of focusing on Gaza.
- tguvot 3y agoattack was really that bad, it's just israeli air defenses were better
- HDThoreaun 3y agoIran knew that though, which was the point, and does make the attack not that bad. Maybe Im just being hopeful though but it really does seem like Iran did what they could to escalate as little as they realistically could and Israelis will respect that.
- tguvot 3y agoit's like if you wearing a bullet proof vest, i shot you. fail to kill. and my defense for attempted murder "he knew it was going to happen and had vest on. it's not that bad after all"
- mhb 3y agoAnd also you get charged hundreds of millions of dollars for using the vest.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoMore like "if I didnt try to kill you I would be killed myself, so I shot you in a place I knew it wouldnt kill you". Iran's government has positioned itself so that it needs to respond to avoid unrest. They could not have done nothing, and this wasnt much in the scheme of things.
- tguvot 3y agoisraeli news report now that israel intercepted ~100 ballistic missiles. this is in addition to cruise missiles and uav. this is "not that bad" ?
- HDThoreaun 3y agoI mean yea, launching a bunch of missiles that you know will never land isnt that bad.
- tguvot 3y agoyou do realize that it is literally first time that so many ballistic missiles are shot together and nobody even knew till today if it's possible in general to defend against such attack ?
- HDThoreaun 3y agoWhat do you think Iran shouldve done?
- nec4b 3y agoStop supporting terrorist.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoI dont see what that does to quell the domestic calls for a response to the embassy attack. Of course I want Iran to stop the bullshit, but the realty is that they couldnt let this attack go unless they wanted massive unrest. So the question remains, how should Iran respond to the embassy attack? To me this seems like just about that absolute minimum they couldve done.
- tguvot 3y agothere was no embassy attack. there was building next to consulate. with regards to "domestic calls", you should go and read some data on support levels of iranian government, etc.