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Originally Posted by Itse
Why is this even news?
Israel has threatened to turn parts of Beirut into "an uninhabitable wasteland like Gaza", and seem to be actively pursuing that goal. A million Lebanese have needed to evacuate.
It's absurd.
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I don't see the two things as all that similar. You can disagree with the tactics, but at least the territories are within the region and related to the conflict with Iran and their proxies. Targeting civilian tourists around the world, in regions that have nothing to do with this conflict, is a whole different level of escalation and madness. They did it before in the past as well, so it's a credible threat. In 2012, Iran sponsored terrorists killed tourists in Bulgaria for example.
As for why it is news, I guess Iran thought it was newsworthy enough to notify the media about the threat and pretty much every major media outlet picked it up. In general, anything that points to escalation and the overall folly of Trump's war should be news worthy.