US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

Yes as my screenshot showed it was Ireland, unusual to have a discrepancy but however 2 MEP's abstaining is not exactly uncommon when they were 2 of 148. They haven't stated their reasons so cannot assume what they were.

That’s very thin as Oman did not permit any access to their ports for this attack on Iran

They like many countries distanced themselves and still got attacked. They also have a history of neutrality and mediating with Iran which you think would have counted for something

It’s fascinating seeing how far people would bend over backwards to excuse the inexcusable

What’s next Ireland gets bombed because we have a McDonald’s Americans might eat in or a datacenter which was used in planning of this attack

It's good that Trump had the foresight to maintain good relations with the Kurds and did not famously sell them down the river a number of years ago.

The logic I see is that if Iran is legitimately allowed to attack Oman, for its quite benign and soft support of the US, then surely Israel is legitimately allowed to attack Iran, given the overt support Iran has given to groups like Hamas and Hezbollah?

Very strange Rubio saying they had to attack Iran because Israel had already decided to bomb Iran, themselves. I wonder why he revealed that information?

Wasn't Bibi supposed to be gone by now. What happened there, perhaps one of the israeli supporters here could answer that,?

That went very well for them in Syria in the last number of months. Completely stabbed in the back and they want to do the same again in Iran

The rules based order has been gone for a while and that can't just be blamed on Iran. Trump and Israel, genocide FC and their supporters here have been happy for this to be the case.

Its all about China and oil

I thought the post from Zelensky on Iran was very good and strong. I'll post it again.

But there is a grim irony that Iranian Shahed drones that have been targeting Ukraine for 4 years were universally condemned as war crimes, suddenly these same Iranian drones are targeting civilian infrastructure in the ME, are brushed of with a "what do you expect". I cant make heads or tails about it. But the only fact is that Israel is on side of the equation, which then fills in the rest.

I clearly detest that deplorable Trump turd this war he started may yet undo his own regime

But the Axis of Resistance Irans supreme leader embraced predates him back back to 2010s

They and their allied buddies in Russia and N Korea embraced same ideology in early 10s

A world without rules and laws where might is right and it’s ok to colonise countries in your “sphere of influence”

The problem for Iran and Co is that they now met someone worse than them in Trump and Netanyahu whom no longer care either about those concepts

You either

1. support democracy and rule of law and international order that gave us relative peace since WW2 with UN and EU etc our state participates
2. Or support a deplorable neoAxis on one side
3. Or support a the MAGA neoCons turds on the other side

I identify as 1 on this list

Many on this thread only think in binary terms and can not see past deplorable teams 2 and 3 bending backwards to excuse criminal behaviour, while bleating about Irelands neutrality without a shred of irony

I have heard that the CIA have passed a white list of IRGC members to leave alone, approx 10 people.
That is, they are not to be harmed or taken out. It may be that these are members who are corrupt enough or moderate enough (or both) that can be used to strike a deal.

There have also been rumours of infighting between the regular army and the IGRC.

All speculation, but who knows. The best case is that someone comes to power and makes a deal, and gets on with it.

They should tell him to f off. Lool what happened to them in Syria recently, USA were not there to help them.

Hearts and minds 🤣