Via LGF, this news:
Intelligence reports indicate the leader of Hezbollah is hiding in a foreign mission in Beirut, possibly the Iranian Embassy, according to U.S. and Israeli officials.
Israeli military and intelligence forces are continuing to hunt for Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s secretary-general, who fled his headquarters in Beirut shortly before Israeli jets bombed the building last week.
“We think he is in an embassy,” said one U.S. official with access to the intelligence reports, while Israeli intelligence speculates Sheik Nasrallah is hiding in the Iranian Embassy.
If confirmed, the reports could lead to an Israeli air strike on the embassy, possibly leading to a widening of the conflict, said officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Foreign embassies are sovereign territory and an attack on an embassy could be considered an act of war.
If this should happen, would there be a more ironic moment in history? Twenty-eight years after the Iranian “students” took over the United States embassy in Tehran, if the Israelis were to bomb the Iranian embassy to kill Nasrallah, I recommend they use the following excuse:
“Whoops! Some of our more revolutionary students took a few IAF jets and bombed the embassy. Sorry, we had no control over their actions—they were upset over Iranian support of Hezbullah.”
A related thought: Is it a war crime to give shelter to the leader of a terrorist army who is currently at war with a UN member state?
I’m pretty sure it’s not a war crime, but I’m almost positive it’s grounds for revocation of their diplomatic immunity. Not that the UN would condone that, of course…they’re probably on Iran’s side anyway. Furthermore, I think it qualifies as a legitimate casus belli with Iran, assuming Israel didn’t have that already.
Oh yes, wonderful irony. Bombing the Iranian embassy makes me giggle. I doubt it will happen, but I’ve got to say you’ve made my day just by suggesting it.
If they did that, I would hope we would send them a very strongly worded condemnation. And a dozen donuts.
I don’t know, there’s no situation that can’t be improved by a little humor, and I’d certainly find it amusing to watch the Iranians squeal about the Israeli affront to international law in attacking their embassies because embassies are…
I wonder if they’d have any sense of irony. My guess is not. They don’t seem to be big on putting yourself in the other fellow’s shoes. It’s OK when they do it because that’s advancing Allah’s cause but for anyone else, especially Jews…well, I’d like to see it.