Israel bombs Iran.

[patsy999]

Breaking on BBC News.

O for goodness sake, I thought you meant something had happened. This was all hours ago and has been analysed to death already

No one was hurt. No one was going to be hurt. No one in any of the fly over countries are remotely bothered, presumably because they agreed and knew there were no risks.

Totally harmless and all for show. Nothing aggressive. Iran was probably warned in advance too

Your ridiculous, pathetic and alarmist title really made me think that there was actually something new and serious that had happened, rather than a bully got a firework thrown at them so the thrower can pretend they had done something

Please all, CALM DOWN

This attacked was expected by me as per my thread a week ago, IE Israel will inform Iran via third part re time and date on a very limited attack on an older, one of the many airlfieds that is set in square miles and is loosely linked to their nuclear workshops

I also said if anything is jhit it would be old, disused building on the whole and only smaller missiles will be used

Hopefully as predicted by me, Iran will rant and rave for public consumption and this saga will be over

IMO, Israel will now in the coming days eradicate the last stronghold of Hamas in the part of Gaza i IDF has not full addressed.

End

It's fine, Israel & Iran are ridiculous, like 2 kids poking each other in the back of a car. They just need to be careful that they don't poke too hard and somebody really kicks off.

It is quite weird, isn't it!

Iran retaliate with 150 missiles and 170 drones, but make sure that Israel could shoot them down.

Israel retaliate with just some drones, which have apparently caused no damage.

Iran plays it down so that they don't have to retaliate.

They're both trying to de-escalate, but in a way that doesn't leave them having been attacked last!

And all the way along, the US keep shouting as loudly as they can that they'll defend Israel but they aren't going to attack - so that no one else needs to get involved.

I wonder whether this will change the balance at all? Will Iran be any more cautious about using it's proxies against Israel in the future? That was presumably Israel's intention in assassinating the Iranian commander Mohammed Reza Zahedi who was heavily involved in previous proxy attacks against Israel, apparently including October 7th.

If only they were so careful when they bomb Gaza.

Exactly - this thread title is so irresponsible and alarmist. This OP is trying to drum up hysteria and massive drama.

To what end, you have to ask. Why does someone want to do that?

Are you hoping for some sort of outrage, or aggression on drama here?

@Devilshands I meant if Israel did. Which they did, in Syria.

I think they may actually want to provoke a wider conflict, that's the tragedy of it.

There is some fine gaslighting on this thread.

Provoke a war, then blame the people criticising it for causing alarm . Where did you learn to do that?

I think Israel was sending a message that they could get to Iran’s uranium enrichment if they wanted to.

Hence the choice of target.

They don't!

No not really, it’s a tit for tat. Iran has been funding attacks on Israel for decades (including Israeli embassies) it’s just that they use proxies who take their blow back for them. It’s a cowardly regime. This isn’t just about the last few weeks, this has been a quiet war for years.

I don’t approve of what Israel is doing atm. Thats separate from the actions of Iran which are insidious and destabilising.

Iran is pretending nothing happened precisely so they don’t have to respond.

Exactly, it’s a message.

Agreed

I'm confident that this episode will be over

Hamas will be good as eradicated soon
About Iran claiming any attack will result in them building nuke, IMO they already have a few

Hopefully, both Iran and Israels leaders understand the other

As in any conflict, the leader are comfortable in their bunkers, its the ordinary people that loose

Iran is controlled by a dictator and his cronies and Israel is not far off but the dangerous thing is both are lead by fundamentally weak leaders. Weak leaders always put themselves first and you last and both regimes need to be removed

This is the end of the saga apart from tomorrows press making something out of almost nothing.

Gaza will be a great place once war is over and Hamas gone and settlers from west bank removed by Israel as they removed them from Gaza

End of saga

I agree. UK intervention in the Middle East has never gone well & it wont now.
We should stop selling arms to anyone. We should stop being a USA poodle.
The only thing we should be doing is offering Aid to victims on all sides.
Russian & Israeli children bleed just the same as Ukrainian & Palestinian ones, whatever the rights & wrongs of the adults supposedly 'running' their countries. I have my opinions of who is morally 'better' o/c but what does that matter? Aid is the 1 thing we can offer.
But of course Cameron will keep trotting around with his 'concerned' face on. Thank God its not Johnson who would no doubt make things worse.

The thing which causes alarm is bombing other people's countries and threatening nuclear arsenals. As you well know. Stop gaslighting.

100% agree, unfortunately our incredibly stupid government will carry on supporting Israel, and giving zero fucks about the UK population.

Polls show that whilst most Israelis don't support Netanyahu they do support a lot of his war policies. The majority of Israelis support the war in Gaza, support the witholding of aid and don't support an independent, demilitarised Palestinian state. So although they may not like him a lot do support his politics and are pro Gaza war and are pro military occupation. I'm not sure there is reason to believe if Netanyahu went Israels policies would actually change all that much.

You're wrong we don't fund Isreal in anyway; we do supply them in weapons in exchange for intelligence.
Can't remember where I read or heard it the other day but in 2023 alone Isreals intelligence stopped 7 would be terrorist attacks on the UK.