Because Iran attacks them relentlessly by proxxy? Hoothis, Hezbullah, Hamas, etc. It also wars with the kurds and had some fun in afghanistan?

Iran is not passive - iran is active, a wannabe us (lets call it micro-satan) - that wants to do what russia did along its borders.

My personal opinion is that, it's because with the previous political and cultural trends, West had (maybe still has) actually quite high chances of collapsing and falling in the long term due to its own indecisiveness, lots of words mixed a lack of actions against coordinated and targeted efforts of Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Belarus, Cuba, China, Syria and North Korea.

I remember national state TV in Russia talking about "we are ready to nuke United States if needed" in 2014 [1].

So, domestically, government made sure people believe that the West is the mortal enemy and we were are already at some kind of cold war since Crimea annexation, it's just West didn't notice, seems like.

Then, there were also artifical immigration crisis at EU borders created by Russia and Belarus.

And many other various hybrid and asymmetrical attacks.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA9mVLomYo8

So, USA recognized the danger and started dismantling the problem piece by piece, to ensure a long term peace and safety of its people. Could it be better organized and coordinated with allies? Probably, yes, but the meaning stays.

1979-1981 - Tehran, Iran — 66 Americans held hostage 444 days

1983 Apr - Beirut, Lebanon — 17 Americans killed (U.S. Embassy bombing)

1983 Oct - Beirut, Lebanon — 241 U.S. military killed (Marine barracks bombing)

1984 Mar - Beirut, Lebanon — 1 American killed (CIA chief Buckley kidnapped, later killed)

1985 Jun - Beirut, Lebanon — 1 American killed (TWA Flight 847 hijacking)

1989 Jul - Lebanon — 1 American killed (Col. Higgins murdered)

1995 Apr - Gaza Strip — 1 American killed (car bomb)

1995 Aug - Jerusalem, Israel — 1 American killed, 100+ wounded (bus bombing)

1996 Feb - Jerusalem, Israel — 3 Americans killed, 3 wounded (bus bombing)

1996 Mar - Tel Aviv, Israel — 2 Americans killed (shopping center bombing)

1996 May - West Bank — 1 American killed, 1 wounded

1996 Jun - Khobar, Saudi Arabia — 19 Americans killed, ~500 wounded (Khobar Towers)

1997 Sep - Jerusalem, Israel — 1 American killed, 7 wounded (mall bombing)

1998 Aug - Nairobi/Dar es Salaam — 12 Americans killed, thousands wounded (embassy bombings)

2001 Sep - New York/Washington D.C. — Iran facilitated transit of hijackers (2,977 total killed)

2002 Jan - West Bank — 1 American killed

2002 Jul - Jerusalem, Israel — 5 Americans killed (Hebrew University bombing)

2003 Aug - Jerusalem, Israel — 5 Americans killed (bus bombing)

2003 Oct - Gaza Strip — 3 Americans killed (diplomatic convoy bombing)

2003-2011 - Iraq — 603 U.S. troops killed (Iranian-backed militia IED/EFP campaign)

2011 - Washington D.C. — 0 casualties (assassination plot on Saudi ambassador foiled)

2019 Jun - Strait of Hormuz — 0 casualties (U.S. Global Hawk drone shot down)

2019 Sep - Saudi Arabia — 0 American casualties (Abqaiq oil facility drone strike)

2019 Dec - Baghdad, Iraq — 0 casualties (U.S. Embassy stormed)

2020 Jan - Ain al-Assad, Iraq — 100+ U.S. troops with traumatic brain injuries (ballistic missile strike)

2021-2022 - Iraq/Syria — ongoing U.S. base attacks by Iranian-backed militias

2023 Oct-Nov - Iraq/Syria — 60+ attacks in Iraq, 90+ in Syria; scores of U.S. troops wounded

2024 Jan 28 - Tower 22, Jordan — 3 Americans killed, 34+ wounded (drone strike)

2024 - Red Sea/Yemen — ongoing Houthi drone/missile attacks on U.S. naval assets

2024 Nov - United States — 0 casualties (Trump assassination plot foiled)

Oil.

> they aren't even attacking America

America never invaded Greenland. Nevertheless, we're facing blowback because we threatened it.

Iran has been chanting "death to America" for decades. That isn't casus belli. Not by a long shot. But pretending Iran hasn't been playing the part of belligerent for years is rewriting history.

It follows Trumps threats to destroy power plants, but predates the threat you quote. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/22/iran-says-dest...

AFAIK there is no exemption that says it is OK to commit war crimes if the other side does.

If attacking power plants and oil production is a war crime, then Russia, Ukraine, and many other countries are guilty of it.

> Wasn’t that in response to Trump posting that he’d hit theirs?

It's Iran. They haven't been following international law since 1979. That isn't an excuse to commit war crimes against them. But Iran really doesn't have any legs to stand on when it comes to complaining about targeting civilian infrastructure–they and their proxies have been doing this for decades.

Iran was having a water crisis before all this, to the extent of considering relocating the capital city away from Tehran's current location. Bombing Iranian water infrastructure will kill a lot of civilians, just as similar things happened in the Yemeni civil war (which Iran is a participant in). It's disheartening how much the prospect of mass murder is met with a shrug.

> do you blame them?

Blame is a weird word for geopolitics. I think Iran fucked up hitting those targets pre-emptively. Someone at home had to show their hard-liner boss that they were just as hard-line as he is. So they did something macho. The consequences be damned.

The mirroring of dysfunction on each side of this war is uncanny.

That would be true if they were keeping the native population there alive. We know they were importing presumably loyal people from deep Russia. What happened to original occupants? You can guess.

In fairness, Iran has also been conducting its campaign with missiles and the Shahed drones. The Iran-Israel war has killed a lot of people who are neither Iranian nor Israeli but happen to live in Palestine or Lebanon.

> Russia exchanges 20+ bodies for each received from The Ukraine

Source?

>>from The Ukraine

It's just Ukraine. Unless you're doing this on purpose.

>>and even a blatantly biased outlet is unable to prove such assertions like 20 people per hour

https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-grinding-war-ukraine

It seems to hover around 30k dead a month recently, so 1000 people a day, divided by 24, that's actually ~41 people an hour.

But you know, even if we assume these numbers are wildly innacurate and only half those given...that's still 20 per hour?

>>X and Telegram channels are full of videos of freshly dug graves in The Ukraine.

No doubt, but what does that have to do with anything.

>>Edit: since Hypocrisy News is rate limiting me I can't reply to the redditor asking for a source:

So on one hand you call BBC a highly biased source, and then you link an article from it? So which one is it? Is it biased, or is it the source of your information?

> The Ukraine

The fact you use this term makes it quite clear which side you’re speaking for.

The American people are already getting flogged when they buy fuel and groceries. The longer this war continues the worse it will get. Nonetheless, the American people themselves are mostly safe at home, the precedent for Iran launching any sort of attacks against the American homeland is basically nonexistent. Even sending terror cells, you'd think Iran would be on this for how often their western critics accuse them of funding terrorism, but in America? Crickets. This war is bullshit.

Russia’s economy and military have been flogged for years to get to the current point. The US is just on month two.

The two powers have wildly different militaries and strategies. Comparing body counts is never gonna be a super helpful metric by itself.