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No precedent was needed after 10/7. Even Hamas declared that the slain General was instrumental in Al Asqa flood plan. The man was one of the last of original group that built up HZ.
Nonetheless, why is IRGC sitting in a consulate room huddled together when Embassy is next door? If you want to escalate go sit in the embassy and really make Israel sweat the decision.
If not, then take OpSec seriously. There is no reason why Israel should know the time and meeting place of that many commanders. Nor is their any reason you should be sitting in a building that has that many eyes and ears on it at all times. I wouldn’t be surpised if there are cameras all outside the consulate and embassy monitoring who goes in and out operated by Israel and America. That’s just spy 101.
Saddam “got away it” (until he was hung by Iraqi tribunal)
Ghaddafi got away with it (until he got a knife up his ass)
Al-Saud family “got away with it” in Yemen
Imperial Japan got away with it in China
Russia got away with it in Grozny
Azeribajian got away with it in Armenia
Vietcong got away with it (America too) in Vietnam War
Etc. etc.
You act like Israel is first country to get away with war crimes. Happens all the time in history. Imperial Japan used to put a mother and her child into a burning contraception to see if the mother sacrifices herself first or uses the baby to shield her feet from the heat.
The only ones that pay are the weak that lose the war (Nazi Germany at Nuremberg).
You are wondering why Israel isn’t punished in a global order that it is a part of?
That is like a Roman gladiator wondering why the Collesum doesn’t play fair when he wins. Its laughable.
The same way Iran got away with Armarco attack —> Israel gets away with sabotage and assassinations. Those are literally the spy v spy acts. They go back to antiquity.
If you are able to attack your opponent in a plausible deniable way then your opponent has to respond in a similar fashion.
Can you name another country whose weapons are actively being supplied to other groups with the intention of killing American and Israeli soldiers?
Is Russia doing this? No
Is China doing this? No
IS Venzenula doing this? No
Is North Korea doing this? No
Damn, then how Is Iran able to indirectly kill so many Israeli/American soldiers since 1980s? Guess America and israel are also weak like Iran for taking it all these years.
Iran literally transformed Hamas from a bottle rocket group throwing rocks, RPGs, and AK47s to a group that inflicted more casualties than any Arab country did since Yom Kipuur war. Hamas didn’t magically wake up one day and learn to make deadly drones, rockets, tunnel network, and anti tank missiles. Why didn’t Israel level Tehran for that? How weak are they that they let Hamas build a rocket arsenal of 25,000 rockets?
Iran has a role to play in this conflict. It’s not like Iran just decided to take a walk in Syria and is being unfairly targeted while sight seeing.
That was deterrence that came with thousands of civilian casualties and Beirut destroyed. And only came because Iran supplied the weaponry and logistics to inflict severe damage on Israel. It was Iran and HZ that first kicked Israel out of South Lebanon and it was them who kept it from reoccurring in 2006.
As I said if Iran wants shadow war to stop it has to have a similar skirmish 1 v 1 with Israel. Only way you will make them stop is on the battlefield. I agree 100% with you here. Without a formal/informal agreement that can only come about from a UN ceasefire after a brief hot conflict (like in 2006), this shadow war will continue. That has been my biggest critic, this shadow war is draining resources from other branches of the military. Iran doesn’t have a 200B military budget. Everything destroyed needs money to be rebuilt. And Iran isn’t a nation of Santa’s Elves that can build everything for free and with magic.
What targets would you like to see hit that would equal those 7 individuals?
I will let you know such target doesn’t exist. IDF is mandatory military force, meaning they don’t operate in same way as IRGC. Nor do they have an IRGC-Quds force like division. Iran is only country in the world with a 2nd military (IRGC) who has its own military (Quds force) who by the way has its own foreign military (axis resistance groups).
It’s the reason why Pentagon war planners love simulating war with Iran. Iran is the only country on the planet with foreign legions numbering 200K+ there is simply no parallel in modern warfare to such an opponent.
Iran’s soil has not been targeted since the end of Iraq war. I’m not talking random gunmen or a quadcopter slamming into factory or a motorcycle bandit slapping a magnetic bomb on scientists car. I’m talking a nation directly striking Iranian soil overtly.
So I’m not sure why you think that this large scale bombing in Iran will occur. Or why you think Iran would sit idly by if it did.
Iran is building armies on Israel’s border. I don’t know what country on earth would accept that and just let it happen.
That being said, I think the time has come to end this shadow war and the only way to do that is by engaging in a hot conflict until Russia/China/US say enough and force both sides to go back to a Cold War.
