Israel’s defense minister warned Saturday that “Tehran will burn” if Iran continues firing missiles, as the two countries traded blows a day after Israel launched a blistering surprise attack on Iranian nuclear and military sites, killing several top generals.

Israel’s military said the strikes also killed nine senior scientists and experts involved in Iran’s nuclear program. Iran’s U.N. ambassador said 78 people were killed and more than 320 wounded.

Iran retaliated by launching waves of drones and ballistic missiles at Israel, where explosions lit the night skies over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and shook buildings. The Israeli military urged civilians, already rattled by 20 months of war in Gaza sparked by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, to head to shelter for hours. Health officials said three people were killed and dozens wounded.

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    It is pretty well established that the levels that they have enriched their uranium is above that deemed for “civilian use”. They have a highly scrutinized nuclear program, and we have a lot of information available to us about it.

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      Yeah, but it’s “the west” with this evidence and clearly we can’t trust anything they say, no matter how defensible the evidence is. Because west bad, or aomething.

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        Since we are going a little off topic, do you know what is interesting about the West vs East rhetoric?

        It can be traced back to Ancient Greeks and the Persian wars. The Greeks saw the Persian invaders as the “Barbarians from the East” and themselves as the “Democratic West”, and because Greek written language dominated at the time the rhetoric took quite the hold and is still a part of our rhetoric today.