France is pushing for a two state solution in Israel. So it was dumb to attack it to begin with. I don't know what they are trying to accomplish. Legitimize the recent US and Israeli attacks against Iran? The Iranian leadership probably doesn't want peace in Israel because if that ever happens, they cannot further instrumentalize the Palestinians and Lebanese muslims against Israel.

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bawolff a day ago | parent | next [-]

I don't think Iran particularly cares about the two state solution or Palestinians in general. They want to be the regional power of the middle east, which means they need to destabilize their rivials (Israel and Saudi Arabia) hence they fund their enemies.

It is no different than what America and the USSR were doing during the cold war just on a smaller scale. Playing cold war games is tricky though because its easy to over extend or let your proxies drag you into a conflicts you don't want. This is what happened to Iran and thus the cold war turned hot.

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noduerme a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Iran's beef with Israel is not because they care about the Sunni Palestinians or Palestinian land rights or something like that. They certainly don't want peace, they want Israel wiped off the face of the earth as a religious goal in itself, and for being the only non-Islamic country in the Middle East. Any concern expressed by Iran for Palestinians is purely for propaganda purposes: It's easier for Westerners to sympathize with than saying they'd like to destroy Israel and kill all the Jews simply for existing.

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za3faran a day ago | parent [-]

There are jews in Iran, which israel bombed their places of worship.

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noduerme 19 hours ago | parent [-]

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

	▲	za3faran 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A lot of what you wrote is speculative and rooted in media misinformation, not to mention the israelis doing exactly the same (e.g. milekowsky's son lives in florida). Although I am not Iranian, and I am against what their government did in places like Syria and nearby lands, I have seen enough western media manipulation and hasbara to question anything that comes out of such sources. The current war on them is what israel has been wanting to do for decades, and they got a dumb enough US president to do their dirty work for them. The same president who now realizes how much of a disaster the war was, given how it cost them the mid-terms. israel destroying places of worship and hospitals and schools is nothing new, and is well established.