• grandepequeno [he/him]
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      7 hours ago

      Iran didn't really retaliate against israel killing the leader of hamas on iranian soil, apparently this was because israel proposed that if they didn't retaliate there would be a ceasefire in gaza, a proposal which iran seemed to have accepted, since hezbollah probably knew about this deal it's speculated that they might've relaxed security a bit and left israel an opening to attack them and, of course, there's no ceasefire in gaza so they lied. And iran believed

      • sweatersocialist [comrade/them]
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        6 hours ago

        hold on a sec, i need to be brought up to speed here. something isn't lining up for me

        you're saying israel didn't tell the truth????

        alright, that's a wild one. next you'll tell me america was in on this lie with them

      • Autonomarx [he/him]
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        6 hours ago

        do you have a source? seems insane to believe that anyone would honour israel's attempts at negotiation

        • grandepequeno [he/him]
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          4 hours ago

          I saw it in the last megathread but going back to it it seemed to just be allegations so it may not be true

        • normal_user [none/use name]
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          4 hours ago

          i think he might have been talking about this https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/12/middleeast/israel-hamas-ceasefire-talks-iran-attack-intl/

        • Ivysaur [she/her]
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          6 hours ago

          Nobody really wants war. Nobody except Israel, apparently.

    • Autonomarx [he/him]
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      7 hours ago

      I assume not responding to Haniyeh's assassination and then the new president basically saying Hezbollah's gonna lose