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The United States' top general on Monday warned Iran not to get involved in the crisis in Israel and said he did not want the conflict to the broaden, as Lebanese armed group Hezbollah fired a salvo of rockets onto northern Israel

The White House earlier on Monday said that Iran was complicit even though the United States has no intelligence or evidence that points to Iran's direct participation in attacks in Israel by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.

Asked what his message for Iran was, General Charles Q. Brown, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said: "Not to get involved."

Israeli shelling on Lebanon killed at least three Hezbollah militants on Monday, and Israel said one of its officers was killed during an earlier cross-border raid claimed by Palestinians in Lebanon.

The cross-border violence marked a significant expansion of a conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza to the Israeli-Lebanese border further north.

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[-] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago

I wonder how we would feel if a country like China or something told us not to get involved in conflicts as if they were the police of something. So if Iran isn't allowed to get in is the US also banned? Seems a bit whimsical to think that a Middle Eastern country would ignore a Middle Eastern conflict.

[-] bassomitron@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

Like someone else said, China does regularly say such things. Regardless, Israel is an ally of the US, which most definitely gives them a political reason to tell Iran to stay out.

[-] JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Nations regularly tell each other to mind their own business, only a few have the power to back up the subtle threats though.

For example, China tells Vietnam to mind their own business, Vietnam listens because it is vastly weaker.

China tells the US to mind their own business, the US doesn’t listen because it doesn’t need to, they have the power to back up their watchdog of the world claim and will do what they please.

[-] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 5 points 1 year ago

the US doesn’t listen because it doesn’t need to, they have the power to back up their watchdog of the world claim and will do what they please.

As Mao Zedong famously said "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.".

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