Hezbollah asked Iran to attack Israel, Israeli and Western officials say

https://www.axios.com/2024/09/24/hezbollah-israel-iran-attack-us-intelligence

26 Comments

  1. If Iran did that I have no doubt the US carrier group in the area would proceed to flatten every airbase, every missile silo, and every ship in the Iranian military.

  2. LingALingLingLing on

    Israel is just waiting for that so they have a valid excuse to beat the shit out of Iran too. To anyone who thinks Israel is stretching themselves fighting 2 terrorist groups and 1 other country, Israel has had multiple times in its history where it was attacked by 4+ other nations. Their declaration of statehood basically resulted in a year war with 5 other nations trying to kill them… and they won.

  3. AffectionatePaint83 on

    Transcript of thr Hez’s call. ‘OMA, everything is exploding, send help please! We take back everything we said about the Jews!’

  4. It’s kind of hilarious watching all of Irans proxy groups scatter like mice, squeaking for help while Iran pretends not to hear.

  5. Ok-Improvement-3670 on

    If Iran attacks Israel, it would lead to one of two outcomes, nether of which will suit Iran: (1) it is feckless and shows Iran to be weak it (2) it massively escalates into a war.

  6. Hamas tried this trick too when their boy got blown away in Tehran. Iran made a lot of public noise about an “imminent counterattack!” Then, behind closed doors, they took one look at the two US carrier groups parked off their shore, and the other substantial US assets by Lebanon. They then secretly communicated to Hamas, “Na, we’re good fam.”

  7. SuspiciousFishRunner on

    The Islamic Republic of Iran is going into their third month of “hold me back bro” after Hamas-man went boom.

  8. IFoundTheCowLevel on

    …and Hezbollah realized that they were just a bunch useful idiots after Iran’s reply of “lol, no”.

  9. Hezbollah seems not to understand that the whole reason Iran funds proxies is so the the proxy does both the fighting AND the dying *for them*.

    Hezbollah is disposable to Iran, its a feature, not a bug. Iran will laugh as Hezbollah dies, issue a stern denouncement of Israel, and fund whatever group eventually starts to replace Hezbollah.

    Dumb bastards really thought Iran gave a shit, sad to see.

  10. Israel has experience fighting off multiple opponents more than once under less capable circumstances. Had Iran acted, it would have faced very angry, motivated country that would have loved nothing more than to pummel archenemy once and for all.

  11. Apparently Hezbollah called the attack a success after a lot of their rocket launching capabilities were struck by Israeli strikers. Hopefully things cool down for both Israeli and Lebanese civilians.

  12. I think part of the point of assassinating the Hamas guy inside Iran was to send a message to Iran’s leadership too.

    “We have the ability to do you the same way if you interfere”. Iran’s upper leadership doesn’t want unalived despite all their blustering about martyrdom. Brilliant strategy really.

  13. The proxy asks the funder to fight the war instead of them? 😀 how hilarious.. You are the proxy, you meant to die not the iranians.. 😀

  14. That’s the real kick in the nuts, Iran has to watch Israel beat their boy across the yard, and can’t/isn’t going to do shit. Iran loses a lot of cred with all of their proxies.

  15. Fragrant-Ad-5517 on

    How come the Houti rebels are running around blowing things up and still not getting punished by anyone?