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[–] Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I know not much about global politics. Could this be cheeky ww3? Or is this sort of thing pretty common?

[–] FreudianCafe@lemmy.ml 25 points 7 months ago

What israel did, attacking the consulate of iran inside Síria is really really fucked up. Iran played it cool and did this attack today, wich you could consider a very light response because attacking an embassy is casus belli (reason for war). But the usa will turn this into ww3 sooner or later, theres no doubt about it

[–] Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Likely just a common tit for tat attack in retaliation for the Israelis bombing the Iranian embassy in Syria

Here's a past example