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53769
From: shatterbrain, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Middle East's Archduke Franz Ferdinand Moment
URL: Iran readies more than 100 cruise missiles and drones for deadly Israel strike
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Iran has reportedly readied more than 100 cruise missiles as part of an 'imminent' strike on Israel after the US moved more forces into the Middle East over fears an attack could spark a full-scale war. Military officials briefed on the matter told both ABC News and CNN that the US has observed Iran readying at least 100 cruise missiles, indicating they could be ready to attack. ABC also reported that a large number of drones that could be used in an attack on Israel have also been readied by the nation. Pentagon officials said the US would beef up its presence in the region and the USS Dwight Eisenhower would be sent into the Red Sea in a warning to Tehran. Iran has publicly threatened to hit back at Israel over an attack in Syria last week, which Tehran say was an Israeli airstrike on a Iranian diplomatic building in Damascus. Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei vowed retribution in the wake of the Damascus attack, for which Tel-Aviv has yet to take responsibility. |
53775
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Israel provoked this by bombing Iran's embassy
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yet this is how the story is framed, way down below. "Israel was widely blamed for an April 1 attack that destroyed Iran's consulate building in Damascus and killed seven Revolutionary Guards, including the two generals." |
53790
From: old timer, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Israel provoked this by bombing Iran's embassy
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why did israel attack the iranian consulate? sure they are enemies and factions in syria are shooting at israel and iran hates israel and supports their enemies. but since no state of war existed that attack on the iranian consulate doesn’t seem to make sense. it is almost like they are trying to start a bigger conflict |
53794
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Israel provoked this by bombing Iran's embassy
URL: Netanyahu, Empowered by Biden’s Grant of Impunity, baits Iran into his genocidal Gaza War
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I think Juan Cole gets it. excerpt "Netanyahu for his part was attempting to provoke Iran, in the hope that Tehran would take the bait. He knew that even Washington had come to see Israel as the aggressor in Gaza, and that he was losing support in Congress. He knew that if the issue became an Iranian attack on Israel, the Western capitals would all rally around him and forgive him at least for a while for having brought the Israeli equivalent of Neo-Nazis into his cabinet and then gone Amalek on tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians. In the end, Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guards let their devotion to the late Gen. Zahedi sway their emotions and they fell for Netanyahu’s trick. Earlier on Saturday the naval section of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps boarded and confiscated a container ship in the Gulf of Oman that belongs to the company of one of Netanyahu’s billionaire backers. While this action violated the law of the sea and can’t be condoned, it was a wiser way of replying to the embassy attack than sending missiles against Israel. It hit Netanyahu where it hurts and no one would have cared about it in the outside world. Now, we have to suffer with Netanyahu proclaiming his victimhood (he started it) and suffering through statements of solidarity with his fascist government in the face of the ayatollahs, with the ongoing genocide in Gaza cast into the shade. As many observers are pointing out, this very dangerous situation was caused by President Joe Biden’s mishandling of the Gaza crisis. He should have cut Netanyahu off at the knees by January 1, once it became clear that the Israelis were implementing their notorious Amalek imperative, which implied genocide. By vetoing 3 United Nations Security Council resolutions demanding a ceasefire and by undercutting the only one he allowed to pass by branding it nonbinding, Biden let the butchery continue apace. It continued the past week, during which Israel continued to bomb the bejesus out of Gaza, to kill hundreds of innocents, and to starve them (despite phony pledges to let more aid in, on which Netanyahu did not follow through.) Biden, UK PM Rishi Sunak and other leaders could also have defused the deliberate provocation of Iran by Netanyahu by simply condemning the embassy attack of April 1 and defending the Vienna convention. Again, the Iranian mission to the UN said this plainly: “Had the UN Security Council condemned the Zionist regime’s reprehensible act of aggression on our diplomatic premises in Damascus and subsequently brought to justice its perpetrators, the imperative for Iran to punish this rogue regime might have been obviated.” Instead, Biden and his allies declined to condemn Netanyahu’s action, continuing the North Atlantic insouciance toward Israeli war crimes and continuing the implementation of their double standard whereby International Humanitarian Law applies only to white people. That is, there is not as much difference between Trumpian white nationalism and Biden’s foreign policy as it might seem on the surface, though the latter is of course worse." |
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53791
From: chatillon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: ‘Come out, you animals’:
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"...like they are trying to start a bigger conflict" Trying? Looks to me to be another one of those 'Let's you and him fight' dealies, this time egging a confrontation between US & Rus. So that their ancient Hebrew arch-enemy Persia can be eliminated once and for all. Which enemy of theirs is next? Nice to have someone else do your dirty work spilling their kids' blood. Their typical modus operandi. Anyone else ever wonder how come we never heard Haman's side of the story? |
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53771
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: DailyMail(UK): failed fact cks/CTs/propaganda/poor sourcing/low cred
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Overall, we rate Daily Mail Right Biased and Questionable due to numerous failed fact checks and poor information sourcing. Detailed Report Questionable Reasoning: Right, Propaganda, Conspiracy, Some Fake News, Numerous Failed Fact Checks Bias Rating: RIGHT Factual Reporting: LOW Country: United Kingdom MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: MOSTLY FREE Media Type: Newspaper Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic MBFC Credibility Rating: LOW CREDIBILITY |
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