US told Iran it had no involvement or advance knowledge of consulate strike in Syria, US official says

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN

Published 8:16 AM EDT, Tue April 2, 2024


Washington CNN — The United States told Iran it was not involved and had no advance knowledge of Monday’s strike on an Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria, a US official said.

The communication comes amid concern about the war between Israel and Hamas widening to a broader regional conflict. Iran has vowed retaliation after a strike it blamed on Israel killed two of its top commanders and five others at its consulate in Syria.

“The United States had no involvement in the strike and we did not know about it ahead of time,” a National Security Council spokesperson said.

The US has “communicated this directly to Iran,” the US official said. Axios first reported the US communication to Iran.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/02/politics/syria-iran-consulate-strike-us/index.html

[BlueMTexpat]

1. As long as we keep providing

arms to Israel, with literally no restrictions or oversight on their end-use, we have NO credible deniability.

It's been this way for decades.

[Basic LA]

2. Hey, U.S., clean up Israel's mess, Aisle 2

Now give them more bombs & billions, and be quick about it.

[BlueMTexpat]

20. Indeed! eom

[ripcord]

8. Why is it wrong for us to support Israel

But it is OK for Iran to sponsor terrorism around the world including Hamas and Hezbollah who have both attacked Israel? Iran is behind this entire episode and Israel is finally tired of their bullshit as they should be.

[slightlv]

9. Iran may, indeed, be involved, but only as a proxy for Russia.

Honestly, if the sovereign nations of the middle east would fight their own wars without other countries fighting through them, may haps something might be worked out diplomatically. We're fighting Russia on two fronts right now... Israel and Ukraine. And Bibi isn't doing Israel any favors. He's lost any moral high ground he might have engendered from the October attack. You can't commit genocide and expect to be looked kindly upon. Bibi is just Israel's Trump. And like us in the U.S., Bibi's protestors get just as far in their protests as far as accomplishing anything.

Used to be "kill all the lawyers"... now I'd say "kill all the kings."

[maxsolomon]

13. Iran is quite capable of acting on their own.

They've funded and directed insurgencies and terror in the ME for decades. Iraq, Yemen, Gaza, Lebanon.

[slightlv]

15. Oh, absolutely!

And therein we have even MORE proxy wars! What was that phrase in Dune... damn, my marbles today! (LOL) Something along the lines of plots within plots within plots... that's what I mean about everybody fighting their own damned wars. When it takes a score card, we've lost it.

[Basic LA]

21. Maybe the US is growing tired, too

Of Israel's b.s., always punching above its weight, always knowing the US will fight its battles. A consulate is like an embassy and an embassy is like the country itself.
Israel is the regional troublemaker .who needs to be defunded as Bernie has implored.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

3. Bibi, expanding the war...

Because he knows it’s war that’s keeping him in power; the war stops, he gets called to the mat.
So…hit the Iranians. If the US, and Biden get dragged in, so be it.
Orange pusbag waiting in the wings to blame Joe.
One hell of an ally, Bibi is.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. "Because he knows it's war that's keeping him in power"

His floating of the possibility of drafting members for military service from the ultra-Orthodox citizenry, whose parties are a part of his government coalition, is changing that possibility. I.e., they are not happy about that.

[Voltaire2]

4. no involvement other than the billions in military aid and sharing of intelligence data.

Israel appears to be determined to expand their war against the people of Gaza into a more wide spread conflict. Somebody ought to stop them, or at least stop giving them the military supplies they need to conduct their war.

[Firestorm49]

6. I smell bullshit. If our intel can gain advance knowledge of the attack on the Russian theater,

you can bet your ass that we also had knowledge of what Israel was planning. What a weak response to the attack.

[BumRushDaShow]

7. It may have been on a known "possible plan" check list

but I doubt the U.S. gave that any kind of green light and may have even said hell no, because we have been running around trying to keep Iran directly out of it.

[sybylla]

10. Which is exactly why the US was told nothing about it.

Or they would have told Iran and Syria.

I know this was your point. Just using the specific words for those struggling to follow along with this ego-triping, ass-saving conflict.

[BumRushDaShow]

12. Perhaps similar to

how Russia was warned about ISIS.

[slightlv]

11. I honestly am ambivalent about that.

Do you know who I THINK knew about this beforehand? Trump. There's been enough back channel (not to mention in our faces) contact among Trump and the other autocrats. I wouldn't doubt a bit *rump knew about it prior. Our administration? Not so much. We've been trying to "talk" to Bibi. But, like my Abnormal Psych said so long ago when I was in college... you can't deal rationally with an irrational person. Russia wants the entire middle east inflamed because he figures we'd totally take our eye off Ukraine and the other former USSR countries. It would give Putin the edge he needs to become the next Hitler, taking lives and land, before *rump can claim that prize. People aren't snapping to the new axis of evil power and treating them like we did in WWII. Meanwhile, the xtianists in our country are literally salivating at the thought that Bibi will throw the entire middle east into war and, hopefully start WWIII. That way, they see the opening for their imaginary god to return to earth. Oh... that there would be that one god. I'd love to see the look on their faces when he begins smiting those who've turned his words into hatred and words of war, and continually defame and fight against the "least of these" that he supposedly loves. This is all couched in my words of "supposedly", etc., because if there WERE a god, we'd have seen something by now of him. I'm rapidly becoming less agnostic and more an atheist. And these people and their wars against people are the whole reason.

I'd love to imagine a Goddess like Hecate or Lilith actually holding power. But even then, it's the concept anymore... I'm fast losing faith in all of it. Why did the world ever believe that men could aspire to their higher ideals? As far as I'm concerned, the testosterone all over the world is amply showing us their higher ideals - blood, power, subjugation, and death.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

19. So, basically,

you're calling the Biden Admin. liars?

[maxsolomon]

14. Plausible deniability. Biden Admin would never have signed off on an Embassy Strike.

Mossad is capable of tracking the targets themselves, and does.

Forgive me if I'm not spending time mourning multiple senior staff of the QUDS Force.

[EX500rider]

16. And actually not the Embassy but the consulate next door

New images published by Syrian media outlets show the aftermath of an alleged Israeli airstrike in Damascus a short while ago.

The strike targeted a building adjacent to the Iranian embassy in Syria, in the Damascus area municipality of Mezzeh.

Reuters cites Iran’s SSN news website as saying Israel targeted Iran’s consulate and ambassador’s residence.



Looks like they didn't even scratch the Embassy next door, impressive targeting IMO

[maxsolomon]

17. Is there an important distinction?

Maybe "the Embassy Complex"? Which we like to use for Terrorism coordination meetings.

[EX500rider]

18. I believe the Embassy proper is considered Iranian territory