Did the Biden administration cook up an assassination attempt to provide Trump a pretext for invading Iran? Maybe, but Iran has a track record of provocations like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings

Iraq had no similar track record of attacking the U.S.

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oa335 6 days ago | parent [-]

> Iran has a track record of provocations like that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings

> I agree the U.S. does a lot of “unprovoked invasions.”

Sending U.S troops to intervene in a foreign civil war (1982) seems fairly provocative, along with fomenting a coup (1953), supporting a repressive regime, then harboring the illegitimate unpopular leader after he is overthrown (1979).

	▲	rayiner 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Nationalizing infrastructure that had been built by and at the expense of foreign countries was pretty provocative too.