#iranian consulate

[good-old-gossip]

Netanyahu wants to escalate this genocide into a regional war to bring big bad brother U.S. to fight Israel's battles

Benjamin Netanyahu continues to raise the risk of a Mideast regional war which could draw in the U.S. — and the mainstream media is hiding the danger from its audience. Israel’s provocative aerial assassination of a senior Iranian military leader in Damascus on April 1 is only Netanyahu’s latest effort to expand the fighting across the region, partly to put off his own painful day of reckoning. He knows that America has troops stationed all over the Mideast, and he hopes that Iran will retaliate against them, escalating conflict.

It is clear Netanyahu does not want an immediate end to the current conflict spreading throughout the Middle East. A permanent ceasefire in Gaza means Israeli voters would soon turn him out of office, end his shattered political career in disgrace — and re-start his corruption trial, which could send him to prison. 

Netanyahu’s real motivation is widely understood among those who follow the Mideast. But the U.S. media totally ignored that angle. The New York Times report at least smuggled in a comment from a former CIA official, who called Israel’s airstrike “incredibly reckless.” But the Times did not examine Netanyahu’s selfish personal motivation. The Washington Post report said nothing about recklessness. National Public Radio also played dumb, as did the PBS NewsHour. A CNN on-air report did say Israel ordered the killing, but no Netanyahu angle there either.

Meanwhile, the Iranian-American Mideast expert Sina Toossi told the truth, at the Center for International Policy website. His headline was: “Israel’s Damascus airstrike was a deliberate provocation.” 

He went on: “Netanyahu’s decision to green-light the airstrike on Damascus seems to be a calculated act to amplify the hostilities. Such a move sharply contrasts with international appeals for restraint and indicates a deliberate escalation strategy.”

Toossi didn’t hesitate to speculate about Netanyahu’s real motivation:

“Netanyahu seems to be aiming to provoke Iran and intensify the conflict to galvanize domestic and international political support and justify wider military actions, potentially in Rafah and against Hezbollah and Iran. This strategy risks drawing the United States deeper into the conflict. . .” 

Sina Toossi surely has a telephone and a computer and would talk to the New York Times and CNN. They don’t have to agree with his analysis — just recognize that their audience deserves to hear it. And if Toossi seems too risqué for the mainstream, they could instead turn to Amos Harel, the hard-headed military affairs reporter at the Israeli daily Haaretz, who just warned that Netanyahu “is actually seeking a forever war that will postpone the national settling of accounts for responsibility for the terrible failure of October 7, and possibly delay his criminal trial.” 

Netanyahu’s strategy is not new. This site has long reported on how he has instigated conflict between the U.S. and Iran, even before his own political survival was at stake. He tried to sabotage the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, and during the Trump administration Israel launched regular clandestine attacks inside Iran, including assassinations of scientists. Back then, Netanyahu wanted the U.S. to destroy what he argued was Iran’s march toward a nuclear weapon. 

Today, his selfish motivation must be part of any legitimate analysis. His foot-dragging over even agreeing to a temporary ceasefire in Gaza makes sense in that light. This does not mean that he’s conning an Israeli public that is actually peace-loving. It does mean that he could be making a terrible situation even worse — and the U.S. media are not telling the truth to the American public. 

[workersolidarity]

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IRANIAN LEADERSHIP SAYS REVENGE IS COMING FOR "ISRAEL"

📹 Definitive Revenge: a video published by Iranian news outlet, PressTV through their official Telegram channel.

In remarks made during a meeting Wednesday in a speech following his leading of Eid al-Fitr prayers, Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said that “Consulates and embassies of any country are regarded as the soil of that country. When they attack our consulate, it means that they have attacked our soil”

“The evil regime made a mistake and it should be punished and will be punished," the Iranian leader added.

“In this year’s Ramadan, the bloody events in Gaza embittered Muslims across the world," the Iranian leader went on, "God’s curse on the occupying Zionist regime which not only failed to stop the killing of women, children and defenseless people during this holy month but also did increase the killings.”

Speaking of Western support for the Israeli entity, Khamenei said “Western governments, over the years, have always helped and supported the Zionist regime, and backed it in international bodies, and provided all kinds of aid to this regime. They should have prevented the regime’s crimes during this disaster. But Western governments did not fulfill their duty.”

Khamenei went on point to Western governments' hypocrisy by claiming to support Gazans but in practice, not only failing to prevent the Israeli regime's war crimes, but actively helping it, “especially the arrogant and cruel governments of the US and the UK," and described Western governments as having revealed the "evil nature" of Western societies.

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[head-post]

Man arrested in Paris after incident at Iranian consulate

French police arrested a man who threatened to blow himself up at the Iranian consulate in Paris on Friday, according to Reuters.

Police officials reported that the man was seen around 11 a.m. (09:00 GMT) entering the consulate with something resembling a grenade and an explosive waistcoat. Police cordoned off the area.

The man later left the consulate, with no explosives found when he was searched, a police source reported. Several witnesses claimed the man dragged flags across the floor of the consulate and told them he wanted to avenge his brother’s death, according to French media.

Earlier on Friday, explosions were heard over the Iranian city of Isfahan, which sources described as an Israeli attack. However, Iran downplayed the incident and signalled it had no plans for retaliation, most likely to prevent the conflict from escalating.

Read more HERE

[xtruss]

UN legal experts said in a report that “Terrorist, Fascist, War Criminal Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐗 Isra-helli Military” personnel and civilian officials responsible for the country's deadly strike on Iran's consulate in Syria may have "committed crimes under an international counter-terrorism treaty of 1971, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons."

"All countries are prohibited from arbitrarily depriving individuals of their right to life in military operations abroad, including when countering terrorism," they said. "Killings in foreign territory are arbitrary when they are not authorised under international law."

Terrorist, Fascist, War Criminal Zionist 🐖 🐷 🐗 Isra-hell's attack consequently violated the prohibition on the use of armed force against another state under Article 2(4) of the Charter,' they added. "Illegal force was used not only against Iran's armed forces but also against Syrian territory. Israel's attack was partly launched from the Golan Heights, which is illegally annexed Syrian territory!"

The experts also said that Iran's retaliatory attack was "a prohibited use of force under international law." They argue that since Israel's attack ended on 1 April, Iran did not have the right to self-defence as the latter is "only lawful where is it necessary to stop a continuing armed attack."

"For the same reason, Israel's initial right of self-defence against the unlawful Iranian armed attack on 13 April no longer persists since the attack has been successfully repelled," they added.

[kirstythejetblackgoldfish]

Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian visiting someone who was wounded in the Israeli attack on the Iranian consulate building in Damascus

8 April 2024

[sayruq]

It's actually crazy talking to friends and relatives about what's going on because very few of them know that this is a retaliatory attack. I keep seeing people online call the attack unprovoked too.

So those who don't know, on April 1st Israeli warplanes bombed Iran's consulate in Damascus. The attack killed 7 of Iran’s military advisers including 3 senior commanders.

Reuters reporters at the site in the Mezzeh district of Damascus saw emergency workers clambering atop rubble of a destroyed building inside the diplomatic compound, adjacent to the main Iranian embassy building. Emergency vehicles were parked outside. An Iranian flag hung from a pole by the debris.

Iran's ambassador to Syria said the strike hit a consular building in the embassy compound and that his residence was on the top two floors. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement that seven Iranian military advisers died in the strike including Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in its Quds Force, which is an elite foreign espionage and paramilitary arm.

This attack on the embassy is against international law. Embassies are protected sites. But instead of condemning the attack and putting pressure on Israel, the US has spent the past week and a half calling West Asian countries to put pressure on Iran, with Biden going as far as to warn Iran not to attack Israel and saying that his support for Israel is 'iron clad'.

The West, the UN, and UN Security Council have largely failed to condemn the attack which means Iran has no choice but to retaliate with force in order to prevent future attacks. Otherwise, the country will look vulnerable and weak, especially to the Israeli occupation government which has spent months bombing neighbouring countries like Syria and Lebanon

[totallynotcensorship]

tags update: gaza, palestine, free palestine, free gaza, israel, yemen, tel aviv, palestine news, iran, jerusalem are all trending... 4 front page

QUICK psa

the attack on the Iranian embassy(just like israel's other attacks on syria, Lebanon, iraq, egypt, west bank, ect.) have been largely ignored by western media outlets so get ready for a ton of news headlines trying to act as if iran's actions were unprovoked

quick catch up:

a couple of weeks ago(april 1st 2024) israel bombed the iranian consulate annex building adjacent to the iranian embassy in Damascus... quick geography class, that is in syria. the attack killed 16 people

sense attacking a country's embassy constitutes an attack on that country's soil iran has started retaliatory attacks sense the 13th. and now israel is calling for an emergency meeting in the UN.. the same UN they ignored for months on end

DON'T STOP TALKING ABOUT INJUSTICE

[matan4il]

Update post:

Most of this will be about the unprecedented attack of the Islamist regime of Iran against Israel, but first I have to take a second to mourn a 14 year old boy, who was murdered in a Palestinian attack on Friday. At around 6 in the morning, teenager Binyamin Achimeir led his sheep herd out of the farm he lives in, but a few hours later, the sheep returned to the farm without him. At first, it was feared that he had some accident, or was dehydrated, and thousands of people voluntarily joined the search for him. On Saturday, at around noon, the IDF found his body, with signs of brutal violence on it. Based on the forensic evidence, he was murdered by several Palestinian terrorists, and he fought back. The army is still hunting down the murderers. May Binyamin's memory be a blessing.

Right, back to the Islamist regime of Iran's attack on Israel. I posted about it as soon as the news started being aired here, in case someone didn't know about it. The news broke past the normal time when people watch news on TV in Israel, I noticed it by chance right before I was about to turn in for the night. I'm physically okay, but I didn't get that much sleep, I had to wake up early to take care of some stuff, so I AM very tired, which is why I'm not going to do the usual thing I do, which is to look for English journalistic sources for everything, but I have no doubt even the stuff I won't look up can all be easily found online.

On a personal note, I can tell you that at 1:43 in the morning I heard the first explosion, but no sirens went off. A few more explosions followed, and only then did we hear the sirens. It was scary, for a moment we couldn't tell whether we're hearing explosions of missiles from neighboring areas, or whether something went wrong with the sirens, and we need to hurry into the bomb shelter. It seems like in Jerusalem specifically there was some issue with the sirens, I heard a reporter mention it. Also, the alert app didn't go off, even though it should have, at the latest when the sirens did.

This is what the Temple Mount looked like from an Iranian attack that could have easily destroyed the al-Aqsa mosque (it's not in the frame, but it's right next to where this was filmed):

Quick background: Iran is the biggest financier of anti-Israel terrorism for decades now, including funding Hamas, Hezbollah and the Houthis, all of which have been a part of a continuous attack on Israel since Oct 7 as Iran's proxies. Iran has sent its own military seniors to help and instruct those local terrorists, in places like Lebanon, Syria and Iraq. Israel has eliminated them whenever possible, this is not something new. On Apr 1, Israel carried out such a strike, in which it targeted 7 Iranian army seniors in Damascus, Syria's capital. Iran claimed Israel targeted the Iranian consulate in this city, but diplomatic buildings are all publicly listed. Iran has an embassy in Damascus (in a separate location) and no consulates. That's why the magnitude of Iran's response to this has taken Israel by surprise, because the Israeli strike wasn't that out of the ordinary. In fact, the US assassination of Iran's military commander, Qasem Soleimani, back in 2018, was a far graver blow for the Iranian regime, and yet it did not lead to an attack as massive as the one launched against Israel last night.

It is now known that some of the attack waves against Israel were intercepted by other countries, including The US, the UK, France and Jordan. It's been said that there's at least one more Arab country that helped in intercepting Iran's attack, but it can't be publicized. Many countries denounced Iran for attacking Israel.

We don't have numbers regarding the full size of the attack. Out of all the countries who participated in curtailing this attack, we know that the US has intercepted at least 70 suicide drones and 3 cruise missiles, while Israel has intercepted at least 185 suicide drones, 36 cruise missile and 110 ballistic missiles (that last one is the missile type that causes the most damage). Israel's interceptions are said to have been 99% successful, but like I said, no defence system is perfect. A small number of ballistic missiles did land inside Israel. One hit an Israeli air Force base in the south. There's over 30 people who got injured when rushing to the bomb shelter in the middle of the night (elderly people, including Holocaust survivors, have died from such injuries), and over 30 more ended up in hospital due to severe mental health reactions. On top of that, there's a 7 years old Muslim Bedouine girl who was injured by interceptors debris. A friend of her family that I heard being interviewed said the family wanted to go to the communal bomb shelter, but before they even had a chance to make it out of the house, the girl was hit by the debris piercing into their home, and she is suffering from severe head injuries. The hospital is currently fighting for her life.

The estimate of how much it cost Israel to defend its citizens from this one attack last night is 5 BILLION shekels (which is over 1.3 BILLION US dollars). That's for one night.

Israel will respond. According to one reporter I heard, that was decided as soon as it was clear how big the attack is, so this isn't about how much damage Iran caused, it's about how it crossed several red lines. This is the first time Iran itself attacked Israel itself, it's not an attack on an extension of Israel, nor was it done by using proxy terrorists. Israel has had terrorist organizations attacking it continuously since 2001, but this is the first attack from a fellow sovereign country since Iraq (led by tyrant Saddam Hussein) in 1991, so that in itself is crossing a red line. The size of the attack is also considered an escalation on Iran's part. In 2019, Iran launched a smaller scaled suicde drone attack on Saudi Arabia, and the latter's western allies refused to launch a counter attack, which led to these countries being seen as unreliable, and some Middle Eastern countries renewed their ties with Iran. That's why how it would seen in the Middle East if Israel doesn't react to an even bigger attack, and how it might drive more moderate countries to grow closer to Iran, is another consideration in why Israel must respond. Not to mention that launching such a mass attack basically caused a paralysis of the country once the first intel became known. For example, all educational activity (schools, universities, you name it) has been canceled, Israel's air space had to be closed, every single ambulance across the country had to be manned, and so on. That is not something any country can simply shrug off. Not to mention, Israel financially can't afford this reality to become normalized.

Not to mention, Israel tried to contain Hamas, PIJ and Hezbollah's rocket attacks for decades. What we got for it was the invasion and massacre on Oct 7. The lesson for most Israelis is that containing mass attacks on our population only leads to worse ones.

That said, there's also no desire here of getting dragged into a war on another front while we're still in the middle of one in Gaza and with Iran's proxies on several more fronts. So, Israel is looking for a balanced response, one that won't let this mass attack slide, but hopefully doesn't make matters much worse.

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

[palestinegenocide]

Key Developments 

Israel kills 59 Palestinians and wounds 83 in the Gaza Strip in 5 massacres against families

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says that Wednesday’s strike killing seven international WCK aid workers was “a mistake.”

U.S. President Biden demands Israel says that Israel’s investigation into the killing of aid workers “must be swift, must bring accountability, and its findings must be made public.” Human Rights Watch chief calls Biden’s remarks “empty words.”

UN: At least 195 international aid workers, including 175 UN staff have been killed in Gaza since October 7.

Axios: U.S. – Israeli differences growing over Rafah invasion. The reports come days after U.S. media reported that Biden pressed the Congress to approve $18 billion military package to Israel.

Journalists killed in Gaza since October 7 reaches 140

The U.S. says it had no information about Tuesday’s strike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus.

Thousands of Israelis protest in demand of a ceasefire to release Israeli captives in Gaza and calling for early elections.

West Bank: Four Israeli police officers injured in car-ramming attack near Qalqilya.

West Bank: Israeli forces arrest one Palestinian journalist during a night raid in Ramallah.

[zvaigzdelasas]

1 Apr 24

[captain-price-unofficially]

Palestinians in the West Bank tearing down the apartheid wall in a spontaneous act spurred by Iranian retaliation against Israel for bombing the Iranian consulate in Damascus. 14 April 2024

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

"Don't cheer on Iran! This could lead to a war!"

And I really hope it doesn't. Israel attacked the Iranian consulate; Iran retaliated and has said that will suffice unless Israel attacks again. I sincerely hope Israel does not attack again and start a war.

But the idea that it's on all other countries to simply take whatever Israel does and not retaliate lest a war breaks out is similar to saying it's a domestic violence victim's duty to not fight back because it will make their abuser more angry.

For months, people have been warning against the possibility of a world war. Israel has been attacking Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine. The US, the UK, and other countries have attacked Yemen.

And it's always, "Don't retaliate, (name of country)! You'll escalate tensions!"

The message is clear: The US, Israel, and other Western countries think Arab countries exist merely to be Israel's targets

Now Israel attacked a country with the means to defend itself. Iran defended itself in a reasonable fashion in accordance with international law. Unlike Israel, it did not bomb the shit out of an entire region. It did not use illegal substances like white phosphorous. And Iran has said it is content with this being the conclusion.

I hope this is it. But that is on Israel, the US, and any other country who is supporting Israel. It is not Iran's, nor Palestine's, Lebanon's, or Syria's, duty to become Israel's plaything every time Israel feels like attacking people.

[girlactionfigure]

Key Hezbollah and Hamas terror leaders eliminated:

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was in Tehran for the inauguration of the new Iranian president. He had completed key meetings with the Iranian Supreme Leader yesterday. He met with the head of the PIJ also. They likely coordinated actions against Israel. 

Haniyeh was killed overnight before he could go back to Doha. The context of this is important. Other terror leaders had gathered in Tehran. Also Israel has ramped up its elimination of key terror leaders in the last months 

Other key Iranian proxies were in Tehran over the last day, including Hezbollah representatives (the deputy Naim Qassem) and Houthis. 

Yesterday Israel eliminated Hezbollah terrorist commander Fuad Shukr "Sayyid Muhsan" in the wake of Hezbollah killed 12 children in Majdal Shams. 

Overnight there were also reports of an incident at a PMU base in Iraq where Kataib Hezbollah and other Iranian proxies stockpile weapons.

Haniyeh believed he was safe in Tehran. After October 7 Hamas leaders in Doha have travelled to several countries, including sending delegations to Turkey, Russia and China. Saleh Arouri was killed in January in Lebanon. 

In June the IDF targeted Muhammad Deif and a Hamas brigade commander in southern Gaza. As the days went by Israel became increasingly convinced that Deif, who has avoided many such strikes in the past, was actually killed. 

Key Hezbolah commanders have also been killed; Muhammad Nimah Nasser, who led terror group's Aziz unit in July; Taleb Sami Abdullah, head of the Nasr unit, who was killed in an airstrike June 11. Wissam Tawil, a senior Hezbollah commander killed in an Israeli strike in January. 

Mohammad Reza Zahedi, the IRGC commander was killed on April 1, 2024, Zahedi was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a building next to the Iranian consulate building in Damascus. Iran retaliated on April 13-14. 

Overall when we look at the big picture these are serious losses for Iran and its proxies. They believe they are winning in the wake of Oct. 7 and they have had successes. But they are also taking losses. Hamas celebrated Oct 7 in Doha, at least two of those who gathered in that room to celebrate are now gone. 

Seth Frantzman

@sfrantzman

[kirstythejetblackgoldfish]

Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mikdad and Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian opening the new Iranian consulate in Damascus today, 8 April 2024

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Summary

Iran launches attack on Israel. Iran launched hundreds of drones and missiles against Israel. In an unprecedented attack that came as retaliation to Israel’s raid on the Iranian consulate. Though 99% of missiles were intercepted by Israel and its allies, such as Jordan. The attack marked a significant escalation in regional tensions.

US vetos Palestinian membership to the UN. The United States vetoed a UN Security Council resolution recommending full membership in the United Nations for Palestine. Algeria introduced the resolution, garnering support from twelve countries. While the UK and Switzerland abstained from voting.

US university protests erupt. US Universities Yale, New York University and Columbia are on edge amidst arrests of pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Faculty at Columbia universities staged a walkout in support of the protests and calls for the resignation of the president of the university, continue to rise as the protest grows.

Drones play sounds of children crying to lure out Palestinians. Israeli drones have been heard playing the sounds of crying children around neighbourhoods in Gaza. In an attempt to lure out concerned Palestinians from their homes. Once out, the concerned Palestinians would be targeted by the IOF.

Settler violence on the rise. Settlers in the West Bank have become increasingly violent towards the Palestinians. Conducting raids in Palestinian towns and setting fire to property under the protection of IOF forces.

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[booasaur]

All of this happened yesterday

Israel left the burned out remains of Gaza's largest hospital, with many dead civilians and doctors, some tied up and run over by bulldozers. It does not matter if, as Israel claims, there were militants in the hospital, treating a hospital, patients, and doctors like this violates the Geneva Convention.

Israel attacked the Irani consulate in Syria, killing multiple people. Embassies and consulates are considered part of their home countries and to attack them is to attack that country's sovereignty. They are protected under the Vienna Convention.

Israel killed seven international aid workers (at this point, the number of Palestinian aid workers is in the hundreds), in THREE separate pinpoint strikes as they escaped from one car to the next, in a route that had been declared safe and vehicles that had been negotiated, with the IDF, to be safe.

Israel revealed a SIX MONTH assault plan of Rafah, after meeting with the US. This will result in so many casualties, it will be orders of magnitude worse than the carnage we've already been seeing. You can look up what a two week assault of a hospital left, please try to understand what it would mean what an army that doesn't care about killing international aid workers will do to 1.5 million Palestinian civilians.

Israel is banning Al Jazeera (again: it has killed multiple Al Jazeera reporters, but that's another story).

Concerning because that's the kind of thing authoritarians do, this whole list is what rogue states do! A single of these events by other countries would lead to outcry, serious condemnations, sanctions, let alone all of them, in one day! These international rules of engagement and Geneva/Vienna Conventions, as Tumblr loves to say about rules and regulations, these are written in blood. When they're violated, really terrible and bad things happen, as has been happening to Palestinians for half a year now!

But I wanted to point out one last thing that came out:

This is an entirely new, separate sale from all the previous ones they've been rushing over.

PLEASE understand how closely this is tying the US to Israel's innumerable war crimes, how bad that is for us, and also why it is simply false to claim Biden and the US have no significant power or complicity here.

Please use whatever pressure and leverage you can to push for an end to this, whether it's protests, calling up your reps, voting for uncommitted, sticking to boycotts and amplifying them, educating people in your peer group.