Israeli strike on Iran's consulate in Syria killed two generals, Iranian officials say

Yeah, it seems they stopped even pretending to play by the rules.

Israel bombing Iran's embassy in a foreign country and killing personnel? Damn.

Will White House denounce this terrorist attack and impose sanctions? Hmmm.

International law? The Israelis tore that book up decades before October 7. Come to think of it, so did their accomplices. I wonder what's next on the list of the zionist scofflaws after this latest push of the envelope?There will be consequences and an eventual price to pay that will send them all to the "Wailing Wall", if not the place where they really belong - keeping their anti-semite patron company in their imagined "Rogues' Gallery" of Sheol.

Nethanyahus plan.

Anything to stay in power.

Aggravate the situation and then say we can't risk a change at this delicate stage.

Disgraceful

Imagine the reaction if Iran launched a drone strike killing a United States official at an embassy in Israel. There would be boots on the ground before the dust had even settled.

Why are Iranian military people in the IRANIAN Embassy ? some one asks.

Are there no US military/CIA people stationed in US embassies world wide ?

Double, triple, quadruple standards in peoples minds.

The countries seeing and agreeing with the western hegemonic narrative continues to shrink.

First hospitals, churches and mosques. Now diplomatic compounds. International pariah status confirmed.

Imagine the reaction if Iran launched a drone strike killing a United States official at an embassy in Israel. 

What was the reaction when Iran bombed Israel's embassy in Argentina?

The airstrike in Syria killed Gen. Ali Reza Zahdi, who led the elite Quds Force in Lebanon and Syria until 2016, according to Iran's Revolutionary Guard. It also killed Zahdi's deputy, Gen Mohammad Hadi Hajriahimi, and five other officers.

OK, so a dumb question.

What the heck were senior Iranian military officials doing inside of an embassy in Syria?

Were they engaged in diplomacy?

Or were they engaged in "diplomacy"?

@DT Thanks for the details. Now please share a link to a UN Security Council Resolution authorizing the now near decade long operation.

International rules based order, y'all.

And I'll add in the drone and air force bombings in Syria. That's a lot to explain for a rouge operation based on zero international law.

None of this will go "unpunished "....there will be another round of attacks on Israel both in Israel and abroad.

WWIII is starting.

WWIII is starting.

Iran has been taking this crap for decades; military officials, scientists, military and technology facilities.

And the West wonders why the resentment?

Why are there Iranian generals and officers in Syria? Is there an official military presence of Iran in Syria?

These two wars, Israel/Hamas, Russia/Ukraine are an open wound, a failure of competent global leadership to respond and ultimately to resolve conflicts.

It is important to focus on how these wars, are politically linked, and the attacks, the Israeli strike on Iran's consulate in Syria. A clear indication that this conflict, Israel/Hamas is spreading with direct strikes on Iran targets throughout the middle east, deemed to be a threat.

However, it would be wise to review the global picture, openly, with frank honesty.

And how yesterday the French Government lurched toward capitulation.

Appeasement, first the Minsk 2 agreement, now the humiliation, the begging, the kowtowing.

Just to remind the French Government.....  

Xi Jinping's key quotes on China-Russia ties

https://news.cgtn.com/news/2023-03-22/Xi-Jinping-s-key-quotes-on-China-Russia-ties-1imwjeB3dDy/index.html

Dictator to Dictator.

This Israel/Hamas war has ignited a clear division within the UN security council.   

Europe US UK Government needs, grow a spine, somehow and soon.

The US could well be re-electing Donald Trump November.

Yesterday, the French Government ludicrous offer, the promise of hundreds rusty armoured vehicles sometime next year, is an embarrassment after the empty boots policy.

Today Joe Biden government again appears oblivious to containing an Israeli government….

Israel has grown increasingly impatient with the daily exchanges of fire with Hezbollah, which have escalated in recent days, and warned of the possibility of a full-fledged war. Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen have also been launching long-range missiles toward Israel, including on Monday.   

Don’t say you have not been warned

I think the danger is what if these war/conflicts cannot be contained to Gaza/Ukraine?

International rules/laws in war, politically melt away in the fog of history's whataboutery.

The "you started it", global playground lunacy.

The Israeli government actions, has called Joe Biden Government bluff.

And China and Russia dictators are paying close attention.

Because Syria is a sovereign country (with US forces illegally occupying Syrian territory).

About 900 US Army soldiers occupy an oil field on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River to prevent Islamic State from taking it over. The oil field was taken from IS during the coalition operation to defeat IS in Iraq and Syria. IS would sell the oil to finance their "caliphate" and military operations. Taking it from IS deprives them of a lucrative source of funding. Stationing US forces there keeps IS from taking the oil field back. The oil fields are operated by the Kurds who sell the oil to the Syrian government (who are trying to run these very same Kurds out) and pockets the money to finance their regional government.

@DT Thanks for the details. Now please share a link to a UN Security Council Resolution authorizing the now near decade long operation.

UN Security Council Resolution 2249 dated 20 November 2015

"Calls upon Member States that have the capacity to do so to take all

necessary measures, in compliance with international law, in particular with the

United Nations Charter, as well as international human rights, refugee and

humanitarian law, on the territory under the control of ISIL also known as Da’esh,

in Syria and Iraq, to redouble and coordinate their efforts to prevent and suppress

terrorist acts committed specifically by ISIL also known as Da’esh as well as ANF,

and all other individuals, groups, undertakings, and entities associated with

Al Qaeda, and other terrorist groups, as designated by the United Nations Security

Council, and as may further be agreed by the International Syria Support Group

(ISSG) and endorsed by the UN Security Council, pursuant to the Statement of the

International Syria Support Group (ISSG) of 14 November, and to eradicate the safe

haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria"

Interesting. I would focus on this bit.

Calls upon Member States that have the capacity to do so to take all

necessary measures, in compliance with international law, in particular with the

United Nations Charter,

The UN is a useless organisation and it is getting worse

It has problems, but to say it's useless is the comment by someone with a limited world view.

The UN is a useless organisation and it is getting worse, there are countless thousands supposedly working for them, but doing very little if nothing. As for this latest attack in Syria, I for one, see the USA and Israel as the real terrorists in the middle east, and they have been for decades, this is why they both hated the world over.

Are there no US military/CIA people stationed in US embassies world wide ?

There are, and they occasionally get killed. It happens. And then we deal with it as I imagine Iran will do.

Is it possible that mandating the draft for Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel could be key to getting Netanyahu out and ending the war?

https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2024/Items/Apr01-8.html

Imagine the reaction if Iran launched a drone strike killing a United States official at an embassy in Israel. There would be boots on the ground before the dust had even settled.

Iranian backed militias have attacked US forces and personnel in the Green Zone where the US embassy resides along with attacking US forces at other bases on multiple occasions and the US has not responded by attacking Iran directly. That is fact. The US has so far restricted its retribution to attacking IRGC outposts in Syria.

Iran backed, Iran armed and Iran financed proxies in Yemen, the Houthis, attack US Navy ship and US merchant ships in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, both of which qualify as acts of war, and the US does not attack Iran directly.

To be fair I think if the US thought it could afford the weapons expenditure necessary to bring Iran to its knees and still have enough left over to fight a war with China the US would attack Iran. There is a widespread understanding that crippling Iran would prevent them from financing the Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah and a dozen armed groups in Iraq. Crippling Iran ameliorates a lot of the regions problems.

The reality is that recent modeling suggests the US might use up its entire stocks of certain missiles in a matter of weeks fighting the Chinese, so the US is careful with its weapons expenditures, keeping its gunpowder dry as many in the US at high levels seem to think China is going to make a move to take Taiwan very soon and the US will need every missile it has to defend Taiwan. The majority of US DoD energy is directed at preparing to defend Taiwan. The rest is peripheral.

Because Syria is a sovereign country (with US forces illegally occupying Syrian territory).

First hospitals, churches and mosques. Now diplomatic compounds. International pariah status confirmed.

I guess it doesn't pay to be a terrorist or terrorist supporter.

No sympathy for them. And if you sympathize with them, then you are simply a terrorist sympathizer.

Why would you want to be that?