US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

Iran's proxies have caused havoc in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Jordan among others. Since the start of the US/Iran war, Iran have launched strikes against civilian facilities in UAE, Saudi, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait and Azerbaijan.

And every man and his dog knows that Iran is the leading sponsor of terrorism in the Middle East, and that Iran kills tens of thousands of its own people and that Iran targets civilians and non-combatants, and that being female or homosexual in Iran is extremely dangerous, yet you want corrobative evidence of this, yet never demand the same about Israel.

Double standards.

Seems like a bit of stalemate going on according to the Iranian leaders senior military advisor. More time needed to get the framework deal sorted, before moving onto the nuclear treaty.

So escalation or capitulation of either side. Regardless, he has 2 months before the **** hit's the fan if the waterway does not open fully.

they wouldn’t need money if they didn’t build nuclear weapons you were earlier trying to claim they had

Yeah if Iran hang tough on that 'compensation' it's hard to see them reaching a deal.

Is this US humour or irony?

The United States is lobbying other countries on the UN nuclear watchdog's Board of Governors to back a draft resolution ordering Iran to inform the agency of the fate of its bombed nuclear sites and the enriched uranium that was stored there.

Israel strikes Beirut. In response Ebrahim Rezaei, Iran's spokesman for the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission:

“We will give a decisive and painful response to the Zionist regime's attack on the suburbs. This rabid dog must be disciplined and put in its place. Look at the sky of the occupied territories tonight.”

my god, here we go again. You’re like a stuck record with this rubbish.

You constantly accuse others of "picking a side" while you view every issue through a binary lens yourself.

When people criticise Israel, you ask why they're not talking about Hamas, Iran, Russia, China, the East, or whatever other comparison you've decided is relevant that day. Yet when people do discuss those things, you never seem to apply the same test in reverse.

You seem to have adopted this position where everyone else is supposedly ideological while you occupy some enlightened middle ground. It is the epitome of contrarian, edge lord posting. It offers nothing to any thread, just a repeat of the same tired old rubbish for months now.

And this obsession with labelling support for Palestinians as "far left" is particularly odd. Granted there is more than you who is doing it. Opposition to civilian deaths, collective punishment and genocide isn't a left-wing position. I would even go so far as to say you have absolutely no idea what “left wing” means. Not every issue has to be shoe horned into an American culture-war framework where you're either on Team Left or Team Right.

Sometimes people are simply responding to what they see happening.

I didn't say Iranian executions were rubbish. I didn't defend them. I didn't even mention Iran.

I commented on your tendency to reduce every discussion to "the left", "the West", "the East", and various ideological tribes.

You seem far more interested in arguing with a stereotype you've created in your head than with the people actually replying to you.

You consistently wade into every topic with the same predictable contrarian routine. Everyone else is supposedly a tribal partisan, a sheep, a "far leftie", or engaged in groupthink, while you seem to try cast yourself as the lone voice of reason standing above it all.

The irony being that your contribution is more repetitive than the people you're criticising. No matter what the subject is, sooner or later you drag it back to the same rant about "the left", Western self-loathing, and whatever edgy nonsense is occupying your attention that week.

There are posters on here who denied Iran's links with Hamas and Hezbollah, asking for proof.

Those posts have aged well in light of the weekend admissions by Iran of their alliance with Hezbollah. It may even be sufficient to justify the war against Iran.

Iranian retaliation for what Israel did to Beruit

The poster reduces it to a binary discussion when he consistently frames anyone who he doesn’t agree with as “the left”. Anybody who disagrees with what Israel is doing is not automatically “the left”. Criticism comes from all sides of the political spectrum.

I have never once downplayed Iranian treatment and killing of protesters either, fwiw. And I don’t think many on here have. It’s another convenient invention for some people to beat “the left” with.
But I also haven’t up played them like several (I’m open to correction but I am almost sure you jumped from 30,000 to 40,000 in the space of about an hour a few weeks ago).

Likewise I also am not bothered to engage with someone using the term “Israeli-haters”. It’s another nonsense. You might be ok to stand by and refuse to call out the murder of 20,000 kids, the displacement of hundreds of thousands more innocents, ethnic cleansing and genocide, but to insinuate that those calling it out are fuelled by hatred rather than genuine concern is rubbish. It’s a deflection and a way to dismiss criticism rather than engage with it.

Nobody says Israel is the source of all evil in the world. That's a caricature. But people are entitled to criticise those actions without being told they are "the left", "Israeli-haters".