Let me explain why this is incredibly ignorant. 1) "Israel started" Tonight's strikes (which seem mostly focused on IRGC sites) are in direct response to the Islamic Republic launching hundreds of missiles directly at Israeli cities. An unprecedented attack which people like to downplay just because of extensive efforts to limit the effectiveness of that attack. 2) The Islamic Republic can't win any war and they know it. That's why they have proxies do their fighting. Their biggest concern is staying in power and that's what they prioritize in their actions. They have been at war with Israel for a year via proxies. People don't seem to understand the war for the past year has just been one country against another, just that the Islamic Republic uses their proxies instead of fighting directly. 3) WWIII Who is going to fight in this hypothetical world war? Each side in the current fight has support and backers. Israel buys weapons and gets support from the US while China/Russia have helped the Islamic Republic obtain weapons for their proxies, but no one is going to engage in a larger war on behalf of the regime in Tehran. China and Russia don't care enough about them and have their own problems. This is just a continuation of the current conflict, which the Islamic Republic and their proxies are losing by a large margin (at least militarily). There is no world war and Tehran will be desperate to limit the escalation because their regime is at-risk if they don't.
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