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submitted 7 months ago by Alsephina@lemmy.ml to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

Suspected Israeli warplanes bombed Iran's embassy in Syria on Monday, a marked escalation in a war pitting Israel against its regional adversaries, and Tehran said the strike killed seven military advisers including three senior commanders.

Reuters reporters at the site in the Mezzeh district of Damascus saw emergency workers clambering atop rubble of a destroyed building inside the diplomatic compound, adjacent to the main embassy building. Emergency vehicles were parked outside. An Iranian flag hung from a pole by the debris.

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[-] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 132 points 7 months ago

Okay, isn't bombing an embassy an absolutely insane escalation? Even throughout WW1, WW2, or any other war in the past century, no country was crazy enough to undermine the sanctity of diplomacy like this and antagonize everyone.

The only other time this has happened in history was when NATO bombed a Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 1999, and even here the US โ€” the most war-mongering nation on the planet โ€” apologized, said it was a mistake (though it definitely wasn't โ€” it was removed from the list of prohibited targets beforehand and struck 3 separate times), and paid for it to be rebuilt. Israel is completely unhinged.

[-] 4_degrees@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

The US has commissioned entire offices devoted to ensuring striking an embassy doesn't happen again. Millions are spent every year to update the (surprisingly ever-changing) locations of embassies around the world so they don't make the same mistake in the future. Whatever the thought process was that "allowed" a strike then has been eliminated and then some.

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