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🇮🇷 NEW: Iran has rebuilt Yahyabad railway bridge in Kashan, after it was bombed by Israel on April 7th
Reconstruction efforts around the country, especially of vital infrastructure, are progressing at a rapid pace.
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I imagine that Israel (rightfully) assumes China won't do anything about this but this is a whole new level of poking the bear.
Go on China, embargo them. Please? Don't even have to do war just stop buying their stuff.
Can you imagine if Chinese ports did not permit any ship that has been to Israel within the last 180 days? If China banned any good containing more 10% chinese parts from export to Israel?
Can a trade addict stop buying from Israel? Even in self defense? I guess we'll find out...
hm well technically they attacked the Trade with bombing the railway so the Trade-Addicts have a difficult choice to make
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China is going to delivery a bunch of defensive aid to iran at this rate
It really would be funny if they were just like ‘ohhh no what can we do, nothing like always aw shucks’ supplies hydrogen bomb
Iranian breakout time: 2-3 years
Iranian breakout time if China just starts giving them nukes: 2-3 hours
(This will not happen)
Also more air defense to the countries between Iran and China, eg. Pakistan
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It’s not just a strike on a Chinese asset. It’s very directly a strike against China by squeezing its access to oil.
This railway project aims to establish a strategic route for Iranian oil exports directly to China, circumventing traditional maritime passages controlled by the US and its allies. It is expected to significantly enhance the economic and political position of China and Iran in the region by reducing reliance on sea transportation.
Israel wants to squeeze China in the same way Iran is squeezing the west.
Squeezing your second largest trading partner who controls access to a lot of key materials is definitely a decision that can be made
Israel also shot at Italian troops in Lebanon so they’re also happy to scratch the EU pretty damn hard.
The only trade partner that seems to matter to Israel is the weapons trade.
Israel have killed European peacekeepers several times over the years and it gets covered up
They've killed americams before too when they blew up the u.s.s. liberty
At least they said "sorry" that time (even though the president allegedly ordered it covered up as an accident despite evidence that it was not)
They've killed Americans even besides that, and more recently: https://dawnmena.org/u-s-citizens-killed-by-israel-soldiers-and-settlers-in-palestine/
Journalists, aid workers, people just visiting relatives.
Squeeze them for what? China isn’t the one bombing Israel, they’re Israel’s second biggest trade partner, they’re one of the only things keeping Israel afloat.
Might not be quite “biting the hand that feeds you” but definitely biting the hand of the assistant zookeeper that feeds you on weekends.
they’re Israel’s second biggest trade partner
3rd. It goes US, Ireland, China. It's even more stark if you take the EU as a bloc which then makes it EU, US, China.
they’re one of the only things keeping Israel afloat.
No that would be Washington and Brussels and their billions in "aid" and massive diplomatic cover.
Also:
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Imagine bombing a railway China operates, that shit will be back up and running in days, completely fucking pointless.
That one clip from Family Guy of Peter repeatedly destroying the barn followed by the Amish rebuilding it.
Brace finally went too far and now the entity has targeted Belden Road
Usually China gives out strongly worded letters, but surely, attacking a Chinese asset should get China to start pursuing military actions of their own ... right?
I can't imagine them just letting this go.
They don’t even have to go that far, just cut off trade to Israel with a strong demand, like Israel doesn’t get to have missiles or a standing military.
This is far from the first time Chinese Belt and Road assets have been attacked. It's usually not this directly by a state actor, usually the US uses terrorist proxies to do it, but they have definitely been doing this for years and years. Chinese engineers have been killed and Chinese built infrastructure has been bombed by groups that are very clearly American backed proxies, across Pakistan, Myanmar and more. So China understands the game being played.
A part of me wonders if the US government is behind this to see what China would do if poked; they get Israel to do the poking and see how China reacts
If the American government was behind it, I'm sure China would know, but any reaction against America itself without evidence would just make China look irrational which would only harm their warming relationship with Europe
China will take it like the good industrialists they are
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I didn't even know China was building global rail connectivity. Fucking awesome project. Of course Israel + US oppose it.
china could potentially do something really funny
they'll probably just send a sternly worded letter though 
Attacking China like that SHOULD be suicidal, but...
I will never understand why Israel can just do whatever they want to nearly anyone.
Nukes
Furthermore, I will never understand why raining death, destruction, and misery on the world is what they want to do.
Well Netanjahu specifically has a strong incentive: as soon as the ceasefire started and the state of emergency ended, the trial against him resumed. He might avoid prison by lighting the world on fire.
But in general it's to stablize ruling class power by mitigating crisis tendencies from inherent contradictions in capitalism. Over-accumulation, overproduction, falling rate of profit - war helps with all of that. It helps materially by destroying value without cutting into profits, opening markets, stealing inputs, subjugating people for overexploitation, destroying competing productive capacity and preventing threats to imperial power. It also helps ideologically by legitimizing austerity and inflation, undermining democracy and increasing exploitation at home.
War is such an important way to temporarily dispell crisis tendencies or push them on someone else, that if US and Israel weren't doing it, the other imperial core countries (like Europe) would need to do it or risk seeing the end of capitalism.
America.
China could certainly cut off trade to Israel in response to this and America couldn’t do shit and wouldn’t even if they could.
Besides, America needs China 1000x as much as China needs America. We don’t produce jack shit. We’re valuable to China as a market for their production but honestly that’s imaginary, you could produce just as much and consume it domestically or even produce just as much and throw it directly into the sea and it wouldn’t change anything because America doesn’t give anything in return besides Monopoly money.
Fire when ready Chairman Xi
Please
They are trying to drag China in. China knows all the back doors. Might see some fun leaks in the near future. 
Itd be great if the full and unredacted epstein investigation including the names of investigators and everyone involved in the numerous clearly-to-cover-up redactions would just fall off the back of a chinese truck
They really want a world war
Most of the world has come around to the fact that Israel can not exist if you want humanity to have a future, trying to destroy everything is the only endgame they have left
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