Israel has not acknowledged its involvement, though it has been bracing for an Iranian response to the attack that was a significant escalation in their long-running shadow war.
Israel’s foreign minister threatened Wednesday that his country’s forces would strike Iran directly if the Islamic Republic launched an attack from its territory against Israel, as tensions between the rival powers flare following the killings of Iranian generals in a blast at the Iranian consulate in Syria.
“If Iran attacks from its territory, Israel will respond and attack in Iran,” Israel Katz said in a post on X in both Farsi and Hebrew.
The remarks came after Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reiterated early Wednesday a promise to retaliate against Israel over the attack on its consulate in Damascus earlier this month.
Israel attacks Iran, then immediately tries to claim they're the victim like every other fascist group.
It's fucking disgusting Biden is willing to risk letting trump win the election because Biden won't stop supporting this genocide none of his voters want.
Israel is starting unecessary fights that it will insist the U.S. back them on. We need to let Israel start and finish their own wars without us.
We were there to protect them against unprovoked attacks, not to help them start wars. It's time to end this extremely expensive one-sided relationship.
Sure, but it still seems logical to me that if Iran strikes Israel directly, Israel will strike Iran back. That's what literally any country would do if another country attacked them directly. I'm only surprised Iran hasn't already retaliated for Israel's attack on them in Damascus.
Iran has 85 million people, Israel has around 10 million. I guess they're assuming big daddy Biden has their back, despite Netanyahu repeatedly ignoring him.
They don't share a border, so they will fight either completely aerial or on foreign lands like Iraq. Population is important of course but not on small scale aerial skirmishes.
I understand that but Netanyahu seems hellbent on starting a regional war. If this escalates I'm not sure that the lack of a shared border is going to mean a whole lot. It's still a small country, hiding behind the US, picking fights with much bigger nations.
A significant portion of the destruction will come from ballistic missiles.
As far as aerial combat, it will depend on who will let who fly over their respective countries. I can't see a situation where Israel and Iran go at it directly and it doesn't escalate to a regional war. I doubt it will remain between just those two countries for long.
First they promised to punish Israel with "brave men", only to try to use the Palestinian suffering as a shield to get out of threats they didn't think through before making them.
Now Israel responds, as expected, that they are not backing down an inch.
One might wonder that if Iran was so keen on helping the Palestinians and having all those "brave men", why not attack Israel to help the Palestinians instead of hiding behind their suffering like a coward?
Yo, Iran... Maybe not sponsor terrorism and maybe not escalate the situation further? Maybe actually let your love for the Palestinians, and not your hate for Israel, guide you?
Truth down voted by offended tankies, who are so anti West and anti Israel that they will side with a literal autocratic theocratic terrorist state that kills its own people and brutally subjugates its women and dissenters and sponsors terrorism all across that region. It's apparent that these stupid fucks have never lived in an Islamic country.
Israel has fired on Iran and Syria. Criticizing Israel for fanning the flames of war is justified. Iran threatening to respond with violence is justified. Talking like an internet tough-guy is stupid.