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Originally Posted by ResAlien
Perhaps I'm not great at reading the news but what exactly did Iran do to provoke the initial bombing campaign against it by Israel? Outside of "they might have some nukes" I don't see anything acute that would seem to have been a flashpoint to start a war. This feels like "Iraq had WMDs" all over again
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I'm doing my best to stay out of the middle east discussions here but....Can people actually, with a straight face, say that Iran didn't provoke Israel?
Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis, Syria, constantly calling for Israel's destruction, etc...Hosting forums and inviting David Duke over to debate whether or not the holocaust happened.
Israel didn't act until now, because they couldn't. They were being threatened by Hezbollah and Hamas, and Syria had air defences that limited Israel's ability to strike Iran. Those threats have all been removed, paving the way to total air supremacy. Additionally, Iran stopped getting weapons from Russia and actually had to return some of them to Russia.
Regardless of what you think of Israel, how can anyone possibly look at Iran's actions in the region and not see provocation.