Israel’s defense minister warned Saturday that “Tehran will burn” if Iran continues firing missiles, as the two countries traded blows a day after Israel launched a blistering surprise attack on Iranian nuclear and military sites, killing several top generals.

Israel’s military said the strikes also killed nine senior scientists and experts involved in Iran’s nuclear program. Iran’s U.N. ambassador said 78 people were killed and more than 320 wounded.

Iran retaliated by launching waves of drones and ballistic missiles at Israel, where explosions lit the night skies over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and shook buildings. The Israeli military urged civilians, already rattled by 20 months of war in Gaza sparked by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, to head to shelter for hours. Health officials said three people were killed and dozens wounded.

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      Israel does not want world war 3. They want to seize territory, establish regional hegemony, and build out their ethnically pure, fascist empire. All of that is terrible and they deserve to be wiped from the map for trying. They do want the US to fight their war for dominance for them, so they are trying to manipulate the US into ever more participation in the project. But, world war isn’t the goal.

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        Don’t Israel realize that China won’t accept the USA having another puppet regime that will give them more natural resources and economic power ?

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            Major powers like China don’t simply stand by and let rivals control vital resources like Iranian oil, especially when those resources are crucial to their own energy security and global strategy regardless

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              They absolutely do, don’t interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.
              USA is fucking up badly, and ruining it for their allies too, China doesn’t need to do anything right now.
              China may use the distraction to help Russia more, but they will probably just use such opportunities, and silently take over where USA fails.

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                Iran has no chance of winning against the USA, and Israel wants the USA to get involved. China’s biggest enemy is the USA, which considers Israel a bigger proxy than Ukraine.

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                  Yes that’s all true, except I don’t see how China would be behind Israel attacking Iran? The west is destroying itself right now because of Trump.
                  And here in Europe we are scrambling to find footing in this new reality where we cannot rely on USA anymore. But 100% Europe will NOT help Israel in this. And for now USA doesn’t seem too interested either.

                  China is definitely benefiting, but I don’t see any indications they are behind it.

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                    I never said that china is behind israel attacking iran.

                    Just look at france,uk, germany, canada reaction to the attacks. They are blamed iran. They are still supporting israel occupations while claiming they don’t