In an interview with NBC News, Hossein Amirabdollahian refused to acknowledge that Israel was behind the recent attack on his country.
Iran’s foreign minister on Friday refused to acknowledge that Israel was behind the recent attack on his country and described the weapons that were used as more like children’s toys.
“What happened last night was not a strike,” the foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, said in an interview with NBC News’ Tom Llamas. “They were more like toys that our children play with – not drones.”
Amirabdollahian, who spoke to NBC News in New York where he was attending a U.N. Security Council session, said Iran was not planning to respond unless Israel launches a significant attack.
“As long as there is no new adventurism by Israel against our interests, then we are not going to have any new reactions,” he said.
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I wouldn’t thank it too much. It omits important details all the time. Try putting 12ft.io in front of the URL instead. Like this:
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You probably need to update your block lists then. Something is getting through.
You need to upgrade your browser skills.
Probably the best outcome. Both countries got to do their little show of force. Nobody loses face.
Well not the best outcome, obviously. That would be “everybody agrees to not be cunts and stop killing civilians”, but that’s not going to happen.
Great news, Iran isn’t killing any civilians. Only israel is doing that.
Well, they are killing civilians, it’s just that they’re locals.
Iran has constantly proved itself the more rational and mature actor in the Middle East compared to Israel.
Yet we allow Israel to have nukes while we sanction the fuck out of Iran.
Hmm 🤔
They launched a massive attack on Israel, Israel responded with a very small and limited strike. Iran have been funding terrorist proxy groups for decades. They also treat their own people and women horrifically.
Hate Israel all you want, but cheerleading for an Islamic theocracy is stupid.
It’s strange how you’re ignoring the fact that Israel attacked first. Iran retaliated, and did so after warning Israel of exactly what it was going to do so it could prepare. It did this even though Israel attacked Iran without a similar warning and assassinated an Iranian general.
Iran’s response has been tepid and measured because it doesn’t want to start WW3. Israel, on the other hand, very clearly does.
assassinated Iranian officials.
Bit disingenious to call (senior) Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ‘officials’ like they’re low level bureaucrats, not military personnel.
you’re ignoring the fact that Israel attacked first.
Why did they attack?
According to Al Jazeera, the IRGC initially claimed the october 7 attack on Israel was revenge for the killing of IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani, although they later retracted that statement.
In any case, the cold war between Israel and Iran didn’t start with Israel bombing an Iranian embassy. Honeslty don’t know who started it, but it wasn’t the first attack, not the first attack on an embassy either.
Iran retaliated, and did so after warning Israel of exactly what it was going to do
Iran claims they warned Israel. The US says they didn’t.
I mean, your user name suggests you’re queer and a communist. How utterly bizarre that you’re defending an Islamic theocracy.
It is possible to be critical of Israel and not defend Iran. Just so you know, I know Russian propaganda probably told you otherwise.
Look at you tripping over yourself to defend the indefensible. Sad shit, man. What happened to you?
He was always like that nothing changed.
You forgot to mention ‘genocide Joe’ or go on about ‘’‘Zionists’‘’ controlling all western media Linkerbaan.
Not the level of debate we expect of you. Fingers tired from copy-pasting Kremlin propaganda?
Looks like you didn’t reach the end of my comment:
It is possible to be critical of Israel and not defend Iran. Just so you know, I know Russian propaganda probably told you otherwise.
But hey, if people being critical of Iran or their terrorist proxies disturbs you, perhaps you should join the ghost of Russell Bentley on lemmy.ml
Ohh shit my bad you said the magic words I hadn’t realized it.
That’s literally what they are, your feelings don’t matter. I’m quite sure some country believes some of your nations leadership are outright terrorists as well should they be able to strike your country with impunity?
Its not a cold was when you launch a direct offensive strike…
And yet several countries and the UN including the third party intercontact disagree.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Sunday that Iran gave neighbouring countries and Israel’s ally the United States 72 hours’ notice it would launch the strikes.
Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said it had spoken to both Washington and Tehran before the attack, adding it had conveyed messages as an intermediary to be sure reactions were proportionate.
“Iran said the reaction would be a response to Israel’s attack on its embassy in Damascus and that it would not go beyond this. We were aware of the possibilities. The developments were not a surprise,” said a Turkish diplomatic source.
Who cares what their personal politics are, you need to see the forest for the trees.
That is indeed possible, its also possible not to out people and disparage them in defense of Israel.
Why did they attack?
To draw the US deeper into the conflict.
In any case, the cold war between Israel and Iran didn’t start with Israel bombing an Iranian embassy. Honeslty don’t know who started it, but it wasn’t the first attack, not the first attack on an embassy either.
Fair. Netanyahu has been provoking Iran for decades, this is just the latest escalation. But the fact remains that Iran was retaliating to an attack that came from Israel, Iran wasn’t just attacking out of nowhere.
Iran claims they warned Israel. The US says they didn’t.
And yet the US and Israel were able to perfectly defend against the attack and prevent any serious damage. 🤔
I guess we’re just supposed to believe that those defensive capabilities are god-like and can respond to any attack with zero warning!
I mean, your user name suggests you’re queer and a communist. How utterly bizarre that you’re defending an Islamic theocracy.
Y’all keep telling me to choose the lesser evil in the elections but you won’t do the same thing in a geopolitical context. 🤨
Israel identified the ring leaders of the October 7 event as Iranian military commanders who also happen to use an embassy as their base of operations to plan and execute their attacks.
The moment that was discovered, the embassy no longer became a neutral zone and was changed to be a target.
This is the same rules schoolyard bullies do to protect themselves from punishment by hiding behind their shitty parents after bullying you, and so do terrorists (including Hamas).
International law doesnt allow you to declare “not an embassy” because i want to kill a motherfucker in it. Countries in conflict will often have embassies filled with people the other country wants dead.
The whole point of embassies is that they are “off limits” so that matters of state can be solved by disgruntled parties via diplomacy, not warfare. Bombing an embassy is a direct call for war, exactly because it by definition has important leaders of that countires nation inside of it.
Bombing it is no different than bombing any goverment building staffed by that nation’s leadership in Tehran. It is in fact a huge provocation for war, and so far its only Irans restraint that has stopped this from escalating.
The fact that Israel has put the world into a position where Iran, a nation run by theocratic despots who brutalize women and sponsor terror, is the calmer actor, is absolutely surreal.
300 drones/missiles restraint? It was the largest single attack of its kind the world has seen.
International law is such a stupid concept to me since it’s literally pointless unless there is someone who can enforce it.
So don’t come at us with that bullshit, otherwise we wouldn’t be having this discussion at all and it would’ve already been handled by the “international police”
Israel and Iran and Russia will continue to conduct whatever they want, and there’s literally nothing you and I can do about it besides waste time arguing about it online.
Israel identified the ring leaders of the October 7 event as Iranian military commanders who also happen to use an embassy as their base of operations to plan and execute their attacks.
I’m not sure if you’ve been paying attention but Israel says this about literally every target they want to bomb. Then they promise to provide “concrete evidence” later, never do, and eventually their claim gets disproved.
A hatch that leads to Hamas tunnels
Gaza hospitals are terrorist bases, and that’s coming from CNN who runs their stories by the Jerusalem office before publishing, and has a list of words to avoid in order to further Israel’s narrative at the expense of the truth.
The list goes on but by parroting unconfirmed IDF talking points you are complicit in Palestinian genocide.
Edit: here’s another one from today
did you forget that irans attack came after israel attacked an iranian embassy unprovoked
“Unprovoked” is carrying a lot of weight here. Calling any punitive action in the Middle East unprovoked is absurd.
No one is cheerleading but just like Israel can protect itself so can Iran, your feelings about their politics aside if you strike a sovereign nation you should absolutely expect a stroke in return if not scale war.
In response to their Embassy being bombed they launched a few outdated rockets and drones that they gave a week’s warning of. Excuse me if I don’t view that as legitimate threat.
Anything is better than cheerleanding on a christofacist or abrahamic theocrazy state., yes, even cheering on the islamist lunatics. /S
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So you are saying Iran funds Hamas? That wasn’t my impression.
Hezbollah and Houthis are much better than Israel.
So you are saying Iran funds Hamas?
I thought Iran’s support for Hamas was widely acknowledged.
OK, funds - yes, I meant it’s not the only or the main controller of it.
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Brutality taking over yemmen is just a side quest.
They weren’t that brutal until being invaded by Saudis, just saying.
Hizpala main reason for existing in to kill Israel.
No, that’s Hamas. Hezbollah’s is to protect Lebanon from Israel.
If you really feel these are noble existences then I can only wish you a peaceful life.
One existence I know isn’t noble is to lie on the Web to reduce the expenses of a genocide.
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It usually takes much more to sincerely not care like this. Say, seeing all of your family butchered before your eyes and some raped.
No, what you do is pretend to be driven by some justified emotion, while in fact you were a supporter of a genocide from the very beginning.
This is very clear, because decent people driven by justified emotions usually try quite a lot to not stop caring about death.
All of them are national liberation struggles.
Ah yes, liberating a nation by establishing yet another radical theocratic dictatorship.
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Hezbollah and Houthi are Shia and very useful to disrupt Sunni dominance on the arabian peninsula. The Kurdish, Iranian and Baluchi lineratiom struggles got crushed by Iran, while their stqunchly supported Assad in crushing syrian national liberation struggles.
Yeah need some proxies to keep the Nazis at bay. Before they end up try to expand their Lebensraum into your country.
Bonus points for supporting people fighting against Nazis.
Nazionists
Thank god the houthis do not want tp commit a genocide. I mean, its not like death to jews is in their Motto , right?
Yes indeed that is not their motto. If you read their motto you would know that.
You’re rights its just God is the Greatest Death to America Death to Israel A Curse Upon the Jews Victory to Islam.
Thats sounds waaaaaaay less antisemitic
They found the word “death” twice.
Why not three times?
Why mention the jews at all, if the enemy is only the state of israel?
I hate that Israel has nukes, but I don’t know that it’s a matter of “allow.” Once a country has nukes, taking them away is not going to be very doable. Especially not now after Russia broke its nuclear weapons deal with Ukraine.
That’s the problem with nukes. Once the genie is out of the bottle, it doesn’t go back in. That’s why, if Iran does end up developing one, it will either be another MAD situation with Israel or they will both nuke each other into oblivion. There’s really no other option on the table.
I mean, I think the MAD situation between the USSR and the US had some success around mutual disarmament, no? Neither of them are devoid of nukes, now, but if I remember, the days of the world being nuked several times over in the event of ww3 is now long gone as a possibility. I dunno, this is obviously a pretty different situation, and that was kind of, not a fluke, but due to some pretty specific and complicated factors, I think. I dunno, I guess I’m just saying it’s more of a matter of degree than kind of being such an all-or-nothing thing, which is how most people would perceive it.
I mean, I think the MAD situation between the USSR and the US had some success around mutual disarmament, no? Neither of them are devoid of nukes, now, but if I remember, the days of the world being nuked several times over in the event of ww3 is now long gone as a possibility.
Yeah… I wouldn’t say that.
https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/Nuclearweaponswhohaswhat
Damn what the fuck
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By that token Israel should have lost its nukes after funding Hamas. Far too irrational for nuke privileges
My understanding is that Netanyahu allowed for funding from foreign nations to reach Hamas, but the money was largely coming from Iran. Did Israel directly fund Hamas?
Also, somewhat ironically, Iran is the nation who provided money to Hamas while Netanyahu facilitated the transaction. Most people probably thought we were talking about the Houthis in this context, who were allegedly created by Iranian intelligence operations in Yemen while Saudi Arabia was allegedly doing the same with a different group.
I fail to see the difference. Israel’s policy has been to help Hamas and hurt the Palestinian Authority. They have successfully blockaded incoming aid in recent months yet for years money and weapons flowed freely to Hamas in Gaza. All to divide Gaza and the West Bank and avoid statehood, while stating as much. Must Netanyahu hand deliver the bills, or may we take him at his word?
The difference is that Iran was doing the funding while Netanyahu was facilitating it. The comment above criticized Iran for funding terrorists, and you said that by that token Israel should lose their nukes for funding Hamas, but it was Iran who was doing the funding.
I agree that what Israel did was fucked up, and absolutely no way for a nuclear power to behave. But it seems relevant to the conversation that the government writing the checks was Iran.
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The truth is somewhere in the middle. Netanyahu allowed Iran to provide money to Hamas.
I wouldn’t say they are more rational and mature. They are just less evil. But what Israel does is also in its interest (in only one particular understanding of it, of course).
Its a pretty wild neighborhood to begin with…
Less evil? Maybe the external politics. I much prefer Israel as a country though. Just not the leaders and their genocidal tendencies vs Gaza.
Iran is a f mess run by religious freak males and they only haven’t done any genocide because they are too busy policing crazy stuff on their own people.
As far as I am concerned they need a delivery of some good old democracy
I was listening to someone give a potted history of Iran since the 1950s and it’s a cascade of western foreign policy mistakes. Starting with the backing of the 1953 coup, installing Saddam Hussain in Iraq, backing Iran against Hussain when he was a problem, removing a power structure in Iraq through war allowing Iranian powers to get footholds there. Same thing in Syria and the Assad regime. (I may have some bits wrong / out of order - go read up for yourself).
The end result is this sleeping tiger of a nation that has influence in several countries around it, yet we expect it not to escalate the situation when Israel is kicking off.
I much prefer Iran as a country.
Iranians have shown they’ll fight their government.
Israelis vote theirs in.
Both have shit leaders, one has shit people too.
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It is kind of crazy how americans can’t really get this through their heads very consistently, when it’s also the circumstance in which they find themselves. I dunno, make sense I guess, it’s just a very, very cynical and nihilistic view of america, I suppose. Not necessarily wrong, but damn.
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I must have tagged you as “F take” two months ago at least, and I’m right like every time. Thanks for all the free entertainment.
So gas prices are coming down, right?
Sanctions over Iran’s actions were only announced like 3 days ago, and trade in the region is still pretty upset over the ongoing Houthi Situation, so this news probably won’t have much impact.
On the other hand, who knows what Oil Futures are going to do.
On the other hand, who knows what Oil Futures are going to do.
They are going to go up… That’s what they always do. People drive more in the summer, they go up. People stop driving for the fall, they go up. Winter too cold, they go up. Hottest winter in recorded history, they go up.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Iran’s foreign minister on Friday refused to acknowledge that Israel was behind the recent attack on his country and described the weapons that were used as more like children’s toys.
“What happened last night was not a strike,” the foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, said in an interview with NBC News’ Tom Llamas.
Amirabdollahian, who spoke to NBC News in New York where he was attending a U.N. Security Council session, said Iran was not planning to respond unless Israel launches a significant attack.
Iran responded 12 days later, launching an unprecedented, direct military attack on Israel involving more than 300 missiles and drones.
In the following days, the Biden administration urged Israel to exercise restraint and not conduct a retaliatory attack that could trigger a full-blown war between the two adversaries.
The limited scope of the strike and the lack of public statements afterward appears to indicate that both sides are looking to ease tensions, experts said.
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“I’m not owned!!!” Iran insists, as F35s freely roam deep into their airspace
Diplomatically ignoring something to prevent a regional war isn’t exactly someone deep in a world of cope.
They know Israel attacked them, and they are being the “better man” diplomatically by playing at ignoring it.
The “like toys” comment is childish and does reek of ownage though.
It makes geopolitical sense to me. Don’t respond and take a dig at the same time. If Israel tries another, it will look even worse on them.
We should all be glad Israel went with such a small strike and not retaliated against Iran in equal force.
They literally flew 3 super small drones around some air bases and got their cheeks clapped, there literally wasn’t even an attack
Your submarine-convertible F35 Wünderwaffen also didn’t play any roles here
Launching hundreds of drones and missiles at civilian targets is not “being the better man”.
