The missile incident ‌reported by Turkey was the first time a NATO member has been drawn into the Middle East conflict, but U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said there was no sense that it would trigger NATO’s collective defence clause.

Haven’t the bulk of the NATO states already committed to aiding in the bombardment of Iran? Seems like everyone but Spain leapt on board as early as Monday.

Some Iranians have openly celebrated the death of the supreme leader, whose security forces killed thousands of anti-government demonstrators only weeks ago in the biggest domestic unrest since the ​era of the revolution. But Iranians angry with the government said ​there was unlikely to be much sign of ⁠protest while bombs are falling. “We have nowhere to go to protect ourselves from strikes, how can we protest?” Farah, 45, said by phone from Tehran, adding that the security forces “are everywhere. They will kill us. I hate this regime, but first I have to think about the safety of my two children.”

As the war drags on, I have to wonder how many Iranians are going to be in favor of the bombs landing on their homes and their schools and their hospitals.

We saw this in Iraq after the US invasion. People who’d “greeted the US as liberators” suddenly found themselves in the crosshairs of juiced up, trigger-happy, English-only speaking marines. The end result - best documented in the Collateral Murder video - was more and more Iraqi civilians radicalizing against the American occupation as they fought for their lives against US-backed warlords and bloodthirsty gangs of US-sponsored mercenaries.

The headline makes it sound like they found a new ayatollah in a missile shaped piñata