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cardanometoday at 5:20 PM6 repliesview on HN

Accusing Iran of "lashing out" and being "reckless" by attacking US bases while the US and Israel literally murder school children, bomb hospitals and assassinate state leaders is rich.

It didn't have to be this way but they decided this to turn into a fight of survival for Iran and destroy any option for a peaceful resolution. Now they are going to pay the price.


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gizajobtoday at 5:30 PM

I can’t be an apologist for what’s going on but the Iranians seemed capable of killing tens of thousands of their own citizens in order to quash an uprising against the regime only weeks before the current events.

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einszweitoday at 5:48 PM

Your comment made me realise that while Iran has attacked a dozen countries, they have yet to attack a school or a hospital.

Not condoning anyone but shows the priority of both sides.

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JumpCrisscrosstoday at 7:21 PM

> Accusing Iran of "lashing out" and being "reckless"

I think it’s more that these attacks are counterproductive to Iran’s state goals, which reveals that we’re seeing a hardline faction in Iran use the war as cover for consolidating power.

netsharctoday at 5:26 PM

Unfortunately it's we who will pay the price, with "we" being the entire world, considering the destruction of a lot of oil production infrastructure will cause a price hike for everything.

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UltraSanetoday at 7:59 PM

Iran is actively murdering protesters including a 19 year old.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9mzn7k722o

dyauspitrtoday at 7:58 PM

You have to be pretty shit to get people to defacto support Iran. As usually Trump has led the US into the gutter.