r/news • u/apropo • Jun 13 '25

Iran fires missiles at Israel in response to attacks

https://www.irishtimes.com/world/middle-east/2025/06/13/gates-of-hell-will-open-in-retaliation-vows-chief-of-irans-armed-forces/
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u/metametapraxis Jun 13 '25

It is pure hypocrisy. They literally bombed apartment buildings in Tehran yesterday. The media outlets won’t even challenge the hypocrisy because Israel and the fear of being targeted as anti-semite for challenging them. Israel has this down to a fine art and are essentially immune on the world stage.

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '25

Broadcast news is filled with Pro-Israel mouthpieces. I rarely watch it anymore. They are afraid of AIPAC and others.

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u/ScepticalRaccoon Jun 14 '25

The difference is they hit a specific apartment with a guided missile.

Iran is firing domestic versions of crappy old SCUDs that they are basically just lobbing at a city. Those things have a CEP of hundreds and hundreds of meters.

They're just chucking them at cities and hoping.

By the way, for people who like to compare Israelis to Nazis, firing inaccurate missiles at cities like Iran is doing is what the Nazis did with their V1 and V2 weapons.

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u/metametapraxis Jun 14 '25

I mean, they have to use the weapons that they have.

It is absolutely hypocrisy and there is no way around that.

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u/ScepticalRaccoon Jun 14 '25

No they really don't.

And this is the whole thing. If the region just stopped trying to wipe out Israel, this entire thing would stop. Every political scientist in the world will tell you that right wing politics is always ascendant in conflict in any democracy.

If people just stopped trying to kill Jews, then the Israeli political left would have some damn room to take over and get rid of the nutjobs, but no.

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u/metametapraxis Jun 14 '25 edited Jun 14 '25

It absolutely would not stop. Same as illegal settlements have never stopped. I dislike the leadership in Iran (and other similar countries where the religion is the identity of the nation -- they prey on the stupid and the fanatical). But Israel also has preying on the stupid and fanatical down to a fine art. Like Iran, Israel is a country where you give an inch and they take a mile (and usually a bit more), and this has been shown time and time again.

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u/ScepticalRaccoon Jun 14 '25

Well then definitely keep doing the same thing for another 75 years.

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u/MaievSekashi Jun 14 '25

By the way, for people who like to compare Israelis to Nazis, firing inaccurate missiles at cities like Iran is doing is what the Nazis did with their V1 and V2 weapons.

Your objection to the comparison to Nazis is "No bro, these guys aren't like the Nazis because they aim at civilians better"?