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[–] Lenins_Dumbbell@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Iran needs to stop holding back and demolish all universities in Israel. This is fucking ridiculous. They're setting your country back decades if not more. If you're still sticking to some abstract morality while the future of your people is stolen from them, you're a fucking idiot.

[–] PolarPirate@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

"Holding back" isn't really what they're doing. It's hard to justify attacking a school when doing so puts your already diminished resources at risk. Every time they launch a missile that launcher platform is highlighted for attack just like we've seen in Ukraine, but arguably even worse.

If you're going to risk losing valuable assets then you have to justify it with valuable targets.

[–] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I think military bases and data centers make better targets.

What Israel doing is provocation because they want a war.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 2 months ago

universities are also part of the military infrastructure.

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 1 points 2 months ago

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

should read their own book sometimes

[–] Blakey@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Destroying Israeli universities wouldn't actually advance Iran's cause but could well lose them some of the small amount of international support they're enjoying. I'm not saying they should be any more scrupulous than anyone else, or than they're currently being, but they should, and presumably would prefer to, concentrate their efforts on targets that could actually impact their enemy's ability to harm them.