[bluefishinit]

This is in retaliation for Israel bombing the Iranian embassy in Damascus:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_bombing_of_the_Iranian...

[mupuff1234]

Which is a retaliation for Iran providing weapons, training, funding and guidance to multiple proxies attacking Israel (Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah, etc)

Not saying the retaliation is a smart move (honestly have no idea), but this didn't come out of the blue.

[belter]

From the link that you posted...

"destroyed the Iranian consulate annex building adjacent to the Iranian embassy..."

[klipt]

That's an impressively effective strike, took out 14 Iranian/Hezbollah commanders and only 2 unfortunate civilian casualties.

[bluefishinit]

It was an illegal strike:

> An Israeli airstrike carried out within Syria without its consent would be in contravention of Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter, which prohibits a state from using force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any other state... Unless Israel were able to justify any airstrike as an act of self-defense, it would be in violation of international law.

[seo-speedwagon]

What’s impressive about bombing an embassy? Like, pick a random embassy in a random country and bomb it, you’ll kill a bunch of people.

[mhb]

And what was that in retaliation for?

[halflife]

The military commander occupied the building with his subordinates was in charge of weapons transfer from Iran to hezbollah, which has been bombing northern Israel with thousands of rockets in the past 6 months.

[wootland]

Nothing, Israel is trying to broaden the war and drag the US and western countries further into it.

[2OEH8eoCRo0]

Decades of Iranian proxies killing Israelis?

[sfmz]

Warning bells are going off in the international community about an imminent attack by Iran on Israel. If it comes, it won’t come be because Iran was unprovoked, as Israel has been provoking Iran into an attack for the last three years by its regular bombing of Iranian bases in Syria, which so far has not worked. Seemingly to increase the provocation, In the first week of April, Israel bombed Iran’s embassy in Damascus, which is a clear violation of diplomatic immunity and which no nation does including in wartime out of respect to other nation’s diplomatic missions.

This bombing provocation went even further than violating embassy sovereignty by Israel killing several of Iran’s high ranking military officers which were meeting in an embassy annex at the time. Israel could not have known about this meeting without high level penetration of Iranian and Syrian governments by Israeli spies. So, just as the war on Hamas was started by inviting the attack by the IDF pulling out most of its soldiers from Southern Israel and leaving it wide open and vulnerable, Israel is apparently itching for a fight with Iran by provoking it. In short, if war comes, Israel will be just as responsible for it as Iran.

https://worldaffairsbrief.com/

[tzs]

> Israel bombed Iran’s embassy in Damascus, which is a clear violation of diplomatic immunity

That is not correct. Protection of embassies only applies against the host country.