Israel launched a major attack on Iran, drawing their long-running shadow war into the open conflict in a way that could spiral into a wider, more dangerous regional war.

The strikes early Friday set off explosions in the capital of Tehran as Israel said it was targeting Iranian nuclear and military facilities. Iranian state media reported that the leader of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and two top nuclear scientists had been killed.

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    2 months ago

    Iran

    having nukes

    Experts disagree

    Man, where have I heard this one before?

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        I misremembered it as being about Iran back then too, but yeah. It’s the War on Terror excuse all over again.