Iran Amok - 2024 Edition

After Israel attacked an consulate annex of the Iranian embassy in Damascus, Syria, claiming it was a building used by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard that was not part of the actual embassy, Iran attacked Israel with at least three hundred drones.  The Israelis, with help from the British, the Americans and the Jordanians, shot down all but a handful of the drones with the few that got through doing little damage.

President Biden asked Prime Minister Netanyahu to "take the win" and let the Iranians call it even, but Netanyahu has said that Israel will do anything it considers necessary to defend itself.

The mullahs who run Iran and the nation's Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have regarded Israel as an enemy and as a country with no right to exist since the Islamic Republic took over in 1979 after overthrowing the Shah.  Just one more example of how American efforts to contain Soviet influence in the Cold War affect us to this very day.  If we hadn't put the Shah back on the Iranian throne in 1953 after ousting the socialist prime minister Mossadegh to appease British oil interests, we wouldn't have the Islamic Republic of Iran threatening Israel with annihilation. And we're obliged to help protect and support the Jewish state, even as the Iranians are possibly making a nuclear bomb.  Oh, that's better.   😠