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Sinistra delenda est. on Nostr: Tell me what justifies rejecting the Westphalian diplomatic order, as well as taking ...

Tell me what justifies rejecting the Westphalian diplomatic order, as well as taking hostages of credentialed diplomats? Who else does that? And what sort of gratitude is it when Carter helped Khomeini take power?

I mean, _this is in the context of Iran's __only__ previous __direct__ (missile etc.) attacks on Israel coming from similar sovereignty violations!!!_ Isreal hitting their embassy in Syria, and a visiting Hamas leader while he was in Iran.

Again, these modulo perhaps the last are all considered to be acts of war; Carter's second terrible decision after getting rid of the Shah was not treating it as such.

Third was a fatally flawed from the beginning rescue mission. Compare to the reputed Soviet reaction when one or more of their own were kidnapped in Lebanon (they kidnapped relevant Iranians and started sending back fingers...).