The most important part of a false flag is to have media support pushing the false narrative before any alternative narratives have a chance, and Iran definitely doesn't have that. The uncertainty about who was attacking and these late revelations make it even less likely to be a false flag, IMO. Everybody was expecting this to be the Russians.

Exactly. France also has very few migrants from the countries 'Iran attacked': they're largely from North African and Francophone African countries. A lot of inconsistencies and half facts in that comment.

The US started to host US military personnel in civilian hotels after Iran targeted US bases and they weren't safe to stay there.

So, in essence, the US used the civilians as human shields.

Actually, after the regime came into power they also had good relations with Israel. As long as they thought they could win the Iran-Iraq war they kept good relations (Iran-Iraq war: 2 years of Iraq attacking Iran, 7 years of Iran attempting to conquer Iraq). In fact Israel saved many high ranking Iranian officials from Iraqi assassination.

Just shows: dictators will show no loyalty or gratitude. The second they can use you as a cheap excuse to stay in power and abuse that power, you better believe it will happen that very second.

Iran has shown they will abuse everyone every way they can. This is the regime that is SO pure in their religious beliefs they distributed "plastic keys to heaven" to their cheapest demining equipment (primary school children, to the point that one problem was sometimes the kids weren't yet heavy enough that they wouldn't trigger an anti-personnel mine that an adult soldier coming later would still not be safe)

There are about 9,100 Iranian Jews remaining in Iran, versus 320,000 Iranian Jews in the world more or less[0] who had all their property stolen, were attacked and forced to flee Persia, where they had lived for the past 2,000 years or so. The number under 10k remaining is very specific because it is so small. They are treated as second class citizens. They are not allowed any sort of real religious freedom, have even fewer rights than their oppressed Muslim neighbors (although in fairness, no citizen of Iran under the dictatorship has any civil rights). The other 300,000 Iranian Jews now live in Israel and America, where they were forced to flee to. The Jews remaining in Iran are (mis)treated as curiosities kept in a zoo for propaganda purposes, to prove that the Iranian regime is tolerant and multicultural.

It is not. Ask the Kurds or the Baloch. Unfortunately, neither has a homeland backed by military force. The world would be much better if they did. If you think the Palestinians are the only ones in a bad situation, you're missing most of the field.

The Iranian theocratic regime regularly hosts conferences of "Jews" who come to deny the holocaust and to say that Israel is an illegitimate country. If the remaining Jews in Iran beg to differ, they will be routinely executed.

Israel's bombing of an adjacent building which accidentally damaged one of the remaining synagogues in Iran was likely without thought, but if someone in Tel Aviv actually did think about it they probably signed off on it as a favor to the remaining Iranian Jews, to establish that they weren't helping Israel.

Would you want to be a Jew in Iran? I think it would be about the same as being Sioux in South Dakota in the 1890s.

How ironic to be bombed by the reservation you forced people onto, and to lose air superiority to it, so you can't even prevent those Iranian Jews from flying laps over Tehran. How sweetly ironic that you spent 47 years obsessing over hating the people you forced onto that reservation, wishing to destroy them, instead of improving your own country and your own people with all of that western oil money.

Maybe building an entire dictatorship on a "minute of hate", or having a national holiday devoted to calling for the murder of another ethnic group who you already expelled, is not actually a viable social or economic strategy.

Meanwhile, members of the Iranian dictatorship are free to live in Paris and send their daughters to college anywhere they want. Perhaps a few of them should flee, while the option is available.

The Jews who fled to Israel don't have anywhere else to flee, they are the ones living on the "Indian Reservation". So maybe if the Iranian government is so interested in removing the "colonialists" of Israel, it should offer back in exchange all of the property it stole from the Jews who lived there before 1979.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Jews

> Iran's strategy is what caused the GOP their worst electoral disaster in living memory.

I think that is only a win if you have an extremely american centric perspective of this conflict.

So they did that. Then what? Do you really think that is going to translate into anything significant on the battle field? It might have some marginal benefits but it probably won't matter in the big picture for Iran.

I don't think attacking France did anything to help that cause. Certainly we know from experience what attacking America would have done for them.

> I suppose you mean "not attacking only military targets"

I don't. I think it is extremely clear in context that that is not what was meant

I mean, i also do think they are doing that too, and it seems like most experts agree that their use of cluster munitions over populated counts as indiscriminate in the sense of international law, but that is not the sense of indiscriminate that was being used in the comments above.