Iran launches drone attack against Israel as Biden rushes to White House

Yeah, Iran sucks and everything, but didn't Israel start this by bombing their embassy in Syria? If Israel had been held to account for that, maybe we wouldn't be looking at yet another flashpoint involving a nuclear armed state.

I don't know what anyone expected Iran to do here.

So now the Zionist spam brigades have started infesting Lemmy as well judging from some of the comments here. Very sad to see that. Last time I checked on Reddit it was already unbearable there.

This is really bad news, and by no means do I support Iran. But the attack on Irans embassy should have caused sanctions and condemnations. Instead Biden rushed to defend Israel as if Israel wouldn’t have started this.

I can’t believe what a fucking tragedy this is. With the US elections upcoming, Biden being prepared to die on this hill is what may actually cause that Trump wins and the US turns into full on fascism. Needless to say Trump won’t do jackshit for Palestinians either.

It feels like watching the Cuban missile crisis. A sinking uncomfortable feeling. I think the news has legitimately traumatized me. Breaking news means the next horrible thing has happened.

Netanyahu picked this fight, he should fight it himself. Otherwise its just encouraging other US allies to create chaos in bids for additional military support. Turkey is probably taking notes right now.

I know Israel is a small country of only 10M people with a traumatic history surrounded by enemies...so they need to act tough in their neighbourhood, take no shit and all...but they start to feel like the tiny angry girlfriend who dates a big guy and picks up fights in every bar expecting everyone to be afraid that her date will come to the rescue every time...

I am going to take the US perspective in all this and ask why they fuck are we even getting involved? They are half a world away. Why are Israel and Turkey? US allies? What have they done for us? Because it seems like we give them an awful lot and don't get very much in return. The US should focus on defending the US and let Israel, Iran and all the rest of them have their part of the world with their conflicts. Just leave us the hell out of it.

Edit: And we need to stay the hell out of their business and leave them the fuck alone to run their countries the way they want to.

If it's just drones, this is just a tit-for-tat for the attack in Syria and not WWIII.

If ballistic missiles follow? Well....

So, uh, are we doing World War 3 now? Just asking because I need to know if I should be canceling my summer plans and investing in canned food.

Congratulations to the US for breaking apart any sort of pretension of support for international law by allowing Israel to do whatever the fuck they want. Now we're going to let the crazed leadership of Iran and Israel to drag everyone around them and abroad into further military conflict. Goddamn morons don't know how to say "this is too far".

The world is waking up to the fact that treaties are just papers and words mean nothing. Basically what Hitler did 80 years ago but now it's every leader.

Inflight Emergency (IFE) declared via squawk 7700 for USAF tanker, now returning to al-Udeid from over Iraq (electrical).

QUICK UPDATE:

• Iran names the operation "The Promise of Truth."

• Israeli aircraft are positioned over western Iraq.

• Interceptions have commenced over Jordan and Syria. A number of middle east Arab states announcing that they'll knock down anything in their skies

• Incidents of drones crashing in western Iraq have been reported.

• Iranian media suggests that ballistic missiles will be launched from Iran in the early hours of the morning.

• Airspace across the Middle East is closed

• Al-Arabiya reports that British fighter jets are now involved in operation to interceptal Iranian drones launched against Israel

• 6 p.m. ET Isreal should start to see missles, rockets and drones

https://t.me/pravdaGerashchenko_en/31824

Iran has officially declared the start of the attack on Israel. "The evil regime will be punished," its leader said.

Iran, the Houthis from Yemen, Syria, Hezbollah are performing massive strikes on Israel with drones and missiles. Over 200 combat drones and missiles are in the air - media.

Iran's defense minister: "We will also perform a strike on those who open their airspace or territory to Israel to attack Iran."

https://t.me/combatfootageua/15045

https://t.me/yigal_levin/65257

*iran defends itself after israel brazenly attacked their embassy in syria

Unfortunately, that wont deter them

Two shiteaters squabble. More at 6

How are those deescalation bombing missions going?

Oh.....

You mean, it didn't bring about a lasting peace in the region?

It's like anyone with 2 brain cells understood this was going to happen.

“Firing drones at” is a new phrase for me.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Joe Biden was rushing back to the White House on Saturday afternoon from a weekend trip to Delaware as Iran fired dozens of drones against Israel.

The US president had been due to spend the weekend in Delaware at his residence in Rehoboth Beach but early on Saturday afternoon set off at short notice to return to the White House.

This followed Biden saying on Friday that he expects an Iranian attack on Israel “sooner rather than later” and issued a last-ditch message to Tehran, saying: “Don’t.”

Earlier on Saturday, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard Corps in the strait of Hormuz, 50 nautical miles off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, seized an Israeli-affiliated container ship.

National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said the US strongly condemned the seizure and urged Iran to release the ship and crew immediately.

“We will work with our partners to hold Iran to account for its actions,” she said, warning that “seizing a civilian vessel without provocation is a blatant violation of international law and an act of piracy.”.

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Fuuuuuuuuck.

Iran has all the right in the world to do this and is justified in doing so, but I really wish they hadn't. Hopefully the attacks can be intercepted, and that's that. Escalation benefits no one at all except Netanyahu and the Ayatollahs.

The best case scenario here is that everything is intercepted and Israel stands down from doing anything else. And, Jordan and the US and the UK use this moment to force Netanyahu to stop the genocide. This attack highlights just how reliant Israel is on its allies, and why it should listen to them when they say it's time to stop.

We should be threatening to not act next time unless he completely capitulates and does a full withdrawal -- and if he refuses, we keep our word and leave them to themselves.

Capitalism / hegemony

Would you look at the time. It's april 13th the day history starts

I heard about this on the radio while I was eating and thought "fuck yeah, big news, looking forward to reading about it online in a bit!"

Totally forgot immediately and instead been looking at dank memes and making incendiary comments in posts about american political issues.

This is Iran trying to stir shit up to quell their internal rebellion.

I'll fix the title:

Iran launches more than 300 drones and missiles at Israel overnight drone attack against Israel as Biden rushes to White House

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/13/world/israel-iran-gaza-war-news

Archived source: https://archive.md/UPTOA

Iran has officially declared the start of the attack on Israel. “The evil regime will be punished,” its leader said.

LOL! Iran calling someone else evil is really something. I'm eager to see where this round of fuck around and find out ends, since Israel is not known for forgivness. Only good thing I see at the moment is that Iran maybe has to stop supporting the russians to save equipment for their own stupid war.

Iran government is a failing and trying to take down with it anything they can.

They thought that only Israel will defend itself , but also the power of the USA, Jordan, France and more where there to defeat it's evil attack.

I hope for peace for everyone and the best of the Israeli and Iranian citizens.

I know this is not the time for this typa comment, but I'm really annoyed that what I said last week is proven true

Imma be completely honest and say that Iran probably won’t do anything except maybe throw some cruise missiles from afar that hit some random outpost or send a drone because they don’t want to risk anything.

I’d love to see a competent air force take on the IAF, but I don’t think anyone in the middle east actually has one besides Israel and the USA’s own bases.

This attack is over hyped and kinda lame. When India and Pakistan had beef in 2019, they had a whole ass air skirmish which ended with a captured pilot, fratricide'd helicopter, a crap ton of artillery barrages, and possibly a second aircraft shot down.

Regardless of the poor reasoning behind it, at least they had the guts to fight each other properly.

Iran is just sitting back and sending a swarm of drones that will probably fail to deal any damage proportional to their embassy attack, all the while escalating with Israel which gives both Israel and the USA a reason to send even more weapons and supplies and finish their job decimating Gaza.

Coming soon to a US near you. Theirs no oppression like the oppression of a war on your homeland.

Weird world we're in. One country retaliating against another, and for some reason the reaction of a country on the other side of the world is the news. If only biden gave half as much of a shit about his own country.