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.

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    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. 🤨

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      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).

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        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.

        40 beheaded babies

        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

        https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/22/israel-unrwa-staff-terrorist-links-yet-to-provide-evidence-colonna-report

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        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.

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          300 drones/missiles restraint? It was the largest single attack of its kind the world has seen.

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          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.

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            That’s a lot of words to say “I don’t understand international politics.”

            Try my sentence next time. It will save everyone a lot of time.