• Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    By suggesting that this attack was real, but was thwarted by a collective defense, means that there is no need for the Israelis to retaliate because they already “took the win” as Biden supposedly told Netanyahu. In other words, be satisfied with how you handled led this with our help but don’t get cocky and try it again anytime soon.

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      That Jordan (who shot down some of the missiles) agrees that Iran gave warning, I think it’s clear that Iran wanted to retaliate without escalating. Israel saying we’ll reply when we’re ready feels like they’re happy to draw a line under it for now.

        • jonne@infosec.pub
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          1 year ago

          Why would you think they weren’t expecting that? Saudi Arabia and Iran have been rivals forever. That’s what their whole proxy war in Yemen is/was all about.

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      You do realize that Saddam’s Iraq is what kept Iran and Saudi Arabia from being so aggressive right? And that both of them wanted him gone for that reason?

      Because even after the Gulf War, it was still seen as a powerful enough military to take advantage of either two starting anything with each other.

    • Rapidcreek@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Oh, they have their own nuke resources according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. Same guys that said Iraq had nothing.

  • mhague@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Does anyone believe that Iran thought they were going to incinerate Jerusalem, only to be caught off guard that Israel’s allies swooped in to help?

    Or that Iran is incapable of working out the effects of their military operations?

    • MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      There is a delta between Irans military capabilities and Irans military commands.