Alvin Flummux wrote:Israel bombing Iran's embassy to Syria was a straight up act of war. They're trying to draw Iran into a full war, which they know will inevitably bring in the US. They're emboldened to attack other countries like this because nobody is holding them accountable.
Absolutely. Nothing here - not to sound like a conspiracy nut - is what it appears on the surface.
In Oct, Iran (fighting for the Ummah's favour from an Islamist angle vs Saudi's MBS-led high-tech, relatively liberalising approach) activated its proxies Hamas and Hezbollah to attack on Oct 7th, knowing that Israel's insane response would cripple or at least put a pause on Saudi allies' Abraham Accord normalisation and what seemed like the eventual beginnings of Israel/Saudi ties.
Israel now has nothing to show for the last six months aside from severely testing their closest allies with a scorched earth policy in Gaza, and Netanyahu is facing pressure from the far right who want his job and hostage families who want a ceasefire. So he's decided to goad the side really pulling the strings, Iran, into a response that will lead to a further Israeli response and if Netanyahu gets his wish, a more daring counter-response from Iran that brings US directly into the conflict. You can tell by Iran's response - the attack and the reasoning - that they don't want to escalate and would rather buy time to build nuclear capability. But if Israel responds and Iran responds hard to that, we potentially have the first salvos of WW3 if Russia/China steps in to defend Iran. Fun times.