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Iran launches drone attack against Israel as Biden rushes to White House

Iran said it launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles towards Israel on Saturday in a major attack following days of acute tension building up in the region and warnings from the US and elsewhere about a wider conflict erupting.

Air attack warning sirens began wailing over Jerusalem just before 2am local time on Sunday after the weapons were fired a few hours earlier from Iran with US and Jordanian military assisting Israel’s air defenses in intercepting the first incoming barrage.

With weapons believed to be still in the air en route to Israel, Iran’s mission to the United Nations posted on X: “Iran’s military action was in response to the Zionist regime’s aggression against our diplomatic premises in Damascus. The matter can be deemed concluded.”

However, it threatened more severe action in the face of further Israeli aggression and warned the US and Jordan specifically not to assist Israel.

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Edit: here are links to the NYT and BBC live feeds.

Edit 2: updated summary and archive to reflect article changes.

mlg ,
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I know this is not the time for this typa comment, but I’m really annoyed that what I said last week is proven true

Imma be completely honest and say that Iran probably won’t do anything except maybe throw some cruise missiles from afar that hit some random outpost or send a drone because they don’t want to risk anything.

I’d love to see a competent air force take on the IAF, but I don’t think anyone in the middle east actually has one besides Israel and the USA’s own bases.

This attack is over hyped and kinda lame. When India and Pakistan had beef in 2019, they had a whole ass air skirmish which ended with a captured pilot, fratricide’d helicopter, a crap ton of artillery barrages, and possibly a second aircraft shot down.

Regardless of the poor reasoning behind it, at least they had the guts to fight each other properly.

Iran is just sitting back and sending a swarm of drones that will probably fail to deal any damage proportional to their embassy attack, all the while escalating with Israel which gives both Israel and the USA a reason to send even more weapons and supplies and finish their job decimating Gaza.

aesthelete ,

This attack is over hyped and kinda lame

I feel so sorry for you, Internet poster, that this war isn’t living up to entertainment standards.

Linkerbaan ,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

Would you look at the time. It’s april 13th the day history starts

MrSpArkle ,

This is Iran trying to stir shit up to quell their internal rebellion.

Land_Strider ,

Of course it has no relation to Israel bombing their embassy in Syria. Of course Iran didn’t offer the not retaliate if Israel just fucking stopped their genocide.

Of course it is their internal shenanigans vs our valiant international justice movement.

Fuck off to Reddit or Xitter where you can keep on being the white or jewish supremacist troll.

MrSpArkle ,

When did I say it has no relation?

It’s related, but it’s an excuse for what Iran really wants. Similarly Iran does not really care about the Palestinians beyond their usefulness as a grudging pawn.

A proportional response from Iran would have been more rockets from Hezbollah, Hamas, or the Houthis. Or maybe a very limited drone attack on a specific target.

A response like this on the part of Iran is disproportionate, so there must be another motive. Iran isn’t so stupid as to think Israel won’t bomb the shit out of them, thus Iran must want to be bombed.

The only reason I can think of for Iran to want to be bombed is to quell their internal troubles. It feels like every other week another woman without a hijab is killed, or disappeared, or beat to shit, and every other month another protester is executed by the state. There is unrest in Iran, people are getting tired of the theocratic bullshit. So what better time to need an external threat?

Iran’s long-running narrative against israel, painting them as their great satan, could use a refresh, and what better way than to have israeli bombs fall on iran?

tocopherol ,
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You must have missed the Israeli attack on Iran that led to this. Do you think any nation would just allow themselves to be bombed and their military officials killed without a response?

Sam_Bass ,

Unfortunately, that wont deter them

dlpkl ,

Two shiteaters squabble. More at 6

Churbleyimyam ,

I heard about this on the radio while I was eating and thought “fuck yeah, big news, looking forward to reading about it online in a bit!”

Totally forgot immediately and instead been looking at dank memes and making incendiary comments in posts about american political issues.

speaker_hat ,

Iran government is a failing and trying to take down with it anything they can.

They thought that only Israel will defend itself , but also the power of the USA, Jordan, France and more where there to defeat it’s evil attack.

I hope for peace for everyone and the best of the Israeli and Iranian citizens.

ChippiChappa ,

The only evil the world see’s is Israels genocidal war of terror.

tocopherol ,
@tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

What was evil about Iran’s attack? It was in response to an attack on their territory, and only damaged military infrastructure with no deaths unlike every attack by Israel.

HuddaBudda ,
@HuddaBudda@kbin.social avatar

How are those deescalation bombing missions going?

Oh.....

You mean, it didn't bring about a lasting peace in the region?

It's like anyone with 2 brain cells understood this was going to happen.

TokenBoomer ,

Capitalism / hegemony

blazera ,
@blazera@lemmy.world avatar

Weird world we’re in. One country retaliating against another, and for some reason the reaction of a country on the other side of the world is the news. If only biden gave half as much of a shit about his own country.

aesthelete ,

Biden bad!

paraphrand ,

“Firing drones at” is a new phrase for me.

autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Joe Biden was rushing back to the White House on Saturday afternoon from a weekend trip to Delaware as Iran fired dozens of drones against Israel.

The US president had been due to spend the weekend in Delaware at his residence in Rehoboth Beach but early on Saturday afternoon set off at short notice to return to the White House.

This followed Biden saying on Friday that he expects an Iranian attack on Israel “sooner rather than later” and issued a last-ditch message to Tehran, saying: “Don’t.”

Earlier on Saturday, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard Corps in the strait of Hormuz, 50 nautical miles off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, seized an Israeli-affiliated container ship.

National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said the US strongly condemned the seizure and urged Iran to release the ship and crew immediately.

“We will work with our partners to hold Iran to account for its actions,” she said, warning that “seizing a civilian vessel without provocation is a blatant violation of international law and an act of piracy.”.

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speaker_hat ,

I’ll fix the title:

Iran launches more than 300 drones and missiles at Israel overnight drone attack against Israel as Biden rushes to White House

Source: www.nytimes.com/live/…/israel-iran-gaza-war-news

Archived source: archive.md/UPTOA

Daft_ish ,

Coming soon to a US near you. Theirs no oppression like the oppression of a war on your homeland.

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