Iran says missile attack against Israel was 'legal, rational and legitimate'
Iran fired at least 180 missiles at Israel in retaliation for the killing of several senior Hamas, Hezbollah and Iranian officials
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20957893
By MEE staff. Published date: 2 October 2024 11:34 BST
Legal? Probably not. But there has been little interest for Israels international allies to uphold legal principles when it comes to Israeli actions.
Rational? In order to assess that we would need to know, which information they had when they made the decision. Probably we'll have historians analyze and discuss this in a few years.
Legitimate? From what we know the strikes were aimed and hit military targets, in particular air bases. Weakening Israels ability to bomb people relentlessly like the continue to do in Gaza and Lebanon will prevent many more civilians being killed in those air raids.
Ultimately the problem with every military escalation is that there is only three possible scenarios. Either one side, or the other side miscalculated their strength and resolve compared to their enemies, or both sides miscalculated. If everyone involved calculated correctly, they wouldn't bother fighting.
Your assuming those involved are remotely rational. Once you get to the point where someone is willing to kill themselves to kill others it doesn't really matter about anyone else's strength and resolve.
Honestly, considering the whole "land invasion of Lebanon" thing, I'd even say it was gentle.
"With God's help, the blows of the uprising front will become stronger and more painful on the worn and rotting body of the Zionist regime," he said.
Sounds very rational.
Very cool, and very legal.
Following Friday's killing of Nasrallah, a former conservative Iranian MP told MEE that Israel was behaving like a "rabid dog", adding that it "must be controlled."
well, there's a first time for everything. i just agreed the first time with an Iranian conservative.
Its just as legal as israel's attacks. Not that I think those are legal.
They’re not at all comparable. Iran’s missile’s killed one person, a Palestinian man but were not targeting civilians.
This is in retaliation for Israel’s full year of genocide, terrorism and attacks on its neighbours.
Israel uses bunker busters, and the most cruel and gruesome bombs dropped directly on refugee camps, hospitals, schools, humanitarian aid vans, journalist’s homes.
So your saying that one is more legal than the other. Nonsense.
Edit: Its funny how many people confuse their personal sense of morality for legal and illegal.
By funny I'm saying pathetic.
Nope. Just as illegal as Israel’s.
Very legal, very cool
Very demeure very mindful
maybe stop harbouring terrorists and you won't get bombed by israel pre-emptive strikes??
i have no love for these terrorists but if they are all gathered at one place....i can deal with the diplomatic fallout later.
pre-emptive strikes
AKA literally state-sponsored terrorism. Or were those babies terrorists too?
"I'm sorry but we just can't not genocide. Anyone trying to stop us from genociding is anti-Semitic and will also need to be genocided. It just cannot be helped."
That's you.
Israel is the terrorist. They should go back to Germany and stop stealing Arab lands and this would all be over tomorrow.