53
submitted 7 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Tehran launched more than 300 missiles and drones at Israeli targets, raising fears of a major escalation in the Israel-Hamas war.

European leaders condemned the retaliatory attack by Iran on Israel late Saturday amid soaring fears of a major escalation in the Mideast conflict. 

Tehran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles and drones against targets in Israel, Iranian state media reported, in a move that could spark an escalation in the fighting in the Middle East. Iran had threatened to retaliate against a deadly Israeli strike on its consulate in Syria. 

The Israeli military said the launches numbered more than 300 but 99 percent of them were intercepted. U.S. President Joe Biden said American forces helped Israel down “nearly all” the drones and missiles and pledged to convene allies to develop a unified response.

European Council President Charles Michel said EU leaders “strongly condemn” the attack by Iran on Israel. “Everything must be done to prevent further regional escalation,” he said in a post on X.

top 25 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] Krzd@lemmy.world 60 points 7 months ago

Soooo if Israel bombs Iranian targets and an embassy that's okay, but if Iran retaliates we react??

[-] goferking0 19 points 7 months ago

As is tradition

[-] BaalInvoker@lemmy.eco.br 30 points 7 months ago

Well, I bet that if any country attacked one embassy from who is condemning, the strike back would be very worse.

[-] febra@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago

Well, Iran has the right to defend itself

[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 7 months ago

Condemning Iran because of attacking back but when Israel does it - it suppose to be okay?

Double standards.

Most (if not all) are hypocrites and cannot talk about “human rights” anymore. None of these presidents care about human rights. They only care when it is in their own benefit.

[-] HowRu68@lemmy.world 31 points 7 months ago

Condemning Iran because of attacking back but when Israel does it - it suppose to be okay? Double standards.

No, you are wrong. The EU condemned the atack on the embassy in Damascus, see link

"BRUSSELS, April 3 (Reuters) - The European Union on Wednesday condemned an airstrike on the Iranian embassy in Damascus on April 1 that killed seven people and called on countries in the region to show restraint."

Please respond in an informed way, instead of escalating things without any basis. Let's stay on topic.

[-] ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 7 months ago

I honestly did not know that, thank you. Can’t keep up with all the news while life goes on.

[-] WarlockLawyer@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

But did they do anything beyond empty words? Or did they keep supplying arms to Israel knowing that Israel will keep doing what it's been doing?

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago

The UN is toothless, and the few times it has intervened in geopolitical conflicts, it generally did not end well for anyone.

[-] Icalasari@fedia.io 0 points 7 months ago

So this is more the EU going, "Can everybody stop trying to kill each other for five minutes?" rather than them taking sides

[-] tostos@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah International Laws can fuck off right? Its Eu best democratic and humanist area.

[-] Tryptaminev@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And once more "the West"a leaders prove to the world that they are nothing but violent hypocrites. Barbaric acts of terrorism are perfectly fine, when carried out on "brown" people, but god forbid they fight back against blatant violations of international war.

The current generation of leaders is not only deeply reprehensible, they are destroying all the progress made towards a more peaceful and rule based international order over the past 80 years.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 1 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


European leaders condemned the retaliatory attack by Iran on Israel late Saturday amid soaring fears of a major escalation in the Mideast conflict.

Tehran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles and drones against targets in Israel, Iranian state media reported, in a move that could spark an escalation in the fighting in the Middle East.

U.S. President Joe Biden said American forces helped Israel down “nearly all” the drones and missiles and pledged to convene allies to develop a unified response.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen denounced “Iran’s blatant and unjustifiable attack on Israel,” in a statement on X.

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the Iranian strikes “risk inflaming tensions and destabilizing the region.” Tehran has “demonstrated that it is intent on sowing chaos in its own backyard,” he said.

The region had been on high alert for a possible retaliatory attack from Iran after an Israeli strike killed a senior Iranian officer at an embassy in Syria.


The original article contains 448 words, the summary contains 161 words. Saved 64%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[-] kokesh@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago
this post was submitted on 14 Apr 2024
53 points (87.3% liked)

World News

39231 readers
1285 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS