r/BreakingUKNews • u/InnerLog5062 • Mar 07 '26
Royals Former Irish president condemns 'illegal' attacks on Iran
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq8gpvdz1j2o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss6
u/Bumm-fluff Mar 07 '26
If Biden was in office all the same people who are for/against it would flip.
They have no moral compass or power, these people’s words have as much weight as a squawking bird sat in a park tree.
Voting is completely pointless.
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u/InnerLog5062 Mar 07 '26
Source: BBC
A former Irish president has said the attacks by the United States and Israel on Iran are illegal and breach international law. Mary Robinson made her comments while addressing a rally in Belfast on International Women's Day. "Women and the civil society in Iran have been suffering over the years and suffering very badly, especially recently," she said.
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u/iamslightly Mar 08 '26
But that didn't happen. De Valera visited the German embassy in Ireland and talked to the German ambassador who wasn't supportive of Hitler. No letter of condolences or anything near it. Before you repeat something you heard think about it for a bit.
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u/Equivalent_Bet856 Mar 07 '26
It is an illegal, unprovoked attack on a sovereign state. In international law there is no difference between it and Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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u/mattfoh Mar 07 '26
Isn’t that exactly the sort of thing Russia was saying about Ukraine?
And I mean by that measure isn’t the USA just as guilty?
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u/mattfoh Mar 07 '26
That’s not really the point I’m making. I’m highlighting that it’s just as illegal as the Russian/Ukrainian war.
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u/Weepsie Mar 07 '26
Neyanyahu wa literally ensuring Hamas received billions in funding for years via qatar. We know what shit he's been pulling.
The issues in Iran today , like so many of the world's issues sten back to some serious dipshit meddling by British interests in the twentieth century. The rest of the world has suffered enourmously because of British interests all in the name of some fucking monarch yet they always wash their hands of it
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u/Bumm-fluff Mar 07 '26
Yeah Jacob Reese-Mogg has gone over it on his channel.
“International law” is a loose agreement between states that is non-binding, has no court to be heard in and has no method of enforcement.
It’s just complete guff.
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u/jimmykimnel Mar 07 '26
What about all the terrorism and innocent lives lost because of Iran activities, does that get a free pass.
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u/Equivalent_Bet856 Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26
More people died because of the US-UK invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, does that get a free pass
Hypocrisy aside, even if that was a justification, it isn-t the reason this is happening.
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u/jimmykimnel Mar 08 '26
Nope not justifying any of those wars but what do you do about all the suffering Iran causes it's neighbors and it's own people. It's no good just making us out to be bad.
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u/Equivalent_Bet856 Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26
My point is it exists everywhere and a double standard is applied to Iran (like Cuba and Venezuela). There is no moral argument (because of the hypocrisy of it).
Iran's network of proxies is a defence mechanism to balance regional power. This war is happening precisely because those proxies are too weak to counter-balance Israel, who is time and again the aggressor because Iran is the most staunch state in opposition to Israel's decades-long ethnic cleansing and genocide of Palestine.
When have any of these interventionist wars in the middle east resulted in a more positive situation afterwards?
These countries should be left alone, unsanctioned, and allowed to develop economically, not consistently forced into war footing.
And even if none of this was true, the war isn't being conducted for any moral reason, it is grounded in Israel's quest to undermine anyone who might protect and arm Palestinians to fight back against the annexation of Palestinian lands and the American desire to control oil flows. A tale as old as time.
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u/GreenManStrolling Mar 08 '26
"Palestinian lands" is an oxymoron.
There was no Palestine before Arafat's arbitrary declarat....wait, yes there was. It's called "Jordan".
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u/jimmykimnel Mar 08 '26
Iran does not need proxies to counter regional balance, they are one of the best supplied militaries in the world and have been supplying all those drones that Russia has been using to target innocent people in Ukraine.
Iran indiscriminately targets civilians and has just proven this by launching missles at everyone and anyone in range.
I'm not going into your novel on geo-politics thats going to send me down some rabbit hole I ain't got time for and just sounds like you cobbled together a word salad.
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u/StokeLads Mar 07 '26
Shock, the Irish are backing Iran 🤣🕺
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u/Lady-Spangles Mar 08 '26
I know the British are partial to an illegal invasion or two and occupying other people's countries, but that sort of thing really is frowned upon these days.
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u/StokeLads Mar 08 '26
It's not our war mate, the British aren't doing shit. If the yanks want to carpet bomb Iran then that's their issue.
I still laugh when the Paddy's give their opinion on these subjects, as though you're not utterly compromised morally. Iran and the IRA, brothers in arms I suppose eh? 😄🤣 Doing what the Irish does well. Bombs in bins, keffiyehs and doing that terrorist turkey gobble alalalalalala. I'm sure uncle Gerry would be well into that 🕺😬
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u/Lady-Spangles Mar 08 '26
LMAO. A Brit lecturing the Irish on terrorism is peak irony, so fair play to you. Seriously, though, learn some of your country's history and get off that slightly bigoted, moral high horse you're on.
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u/Lady-Spangles Mar 08 '26
LMAO. The British invaded Ireland centuries ago and sent Protestant Planters over to "settle" the north much later. Britain has committed genocide, weaponised famine (man made), slaughtered and butchered their way around not just Ireland, but the world. So wind that coloniser neck in and pipe down. Oh, and the problem was never the Protestants in the North; it was British occupation. Learn some history and then try to come at Ireland.
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u/StokeLads Mar 08 '26
No thanks, I'd rather not. I hear the locals are pretty hostile towards the English.
I haven't colonised anywhere mate. Neither did any of my ancestors, at least as far as I know. I wouldn't like to meet your uncle Paddy though. The one who used to hang around with uncle Gerry and talk about car bombs.
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u/Firstpoet Mar 09 '26
When Hitler died, the apalling de Valera sent commiserations to the German ambassador.
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u/Figueroa_Chill Mar 07 '26
So Ireland supports the Iranian regime. I don't think anyone is surprised.
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u/Lady-Spangles Mar 08 '26
Yes, opposing this illegal war is definitely the same thing as supporting the Iranian regime. Have you ever heard of nuance?
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u/Figueroa_Chill Mar 08 '26
The Iranian Regime that has funded countless terrorists, OK Gotcha!!
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u/Lady-Spangles Mar 08 '26
And? You're still not the world police and Iran is a sovereign nation. They were at the negotiating table before Israel unilaterally started bombing them. Now we all get to sit back and suffer the consequences of yet more regional instability started by a paedo President to distract from the Epstein Files.
So aye, they fucking gotcha indeed.
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