Source: Antiwar.com
by Jonathan Cook
“Suddenly, western politicians from US President Joe Biden to British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak have become ardent champions of ‘restraint’ – in a very last-minute scramble to avoid regional conflagration. Iran launched a salvo of drones and missiles at Israel at the weekend in what amounted a largely symbolic show of strength. Many appear to have been shot down, either by Israel’s layers of US-funded interception systems or by US, British and Jordanian fighter jets. No one was killed. … western leaders showed no restraint when Israel bombed Iran’s consulate in Damascus two weeks ago, killing a senior general and more than a dozen other Iranians – the proximate cause of Tehran’s retaliation on Saturday night. Under the Vienna Convention, the consulate is not only a protected diplomatic mission but is viewed as sovereign Iranian territory.” (04/18/24)