[tristanj]

You addressed one item from a list of ten examples. Why ignore the rest of the list?

Dubai airport was struck four or five times. Qatar's LNG facilities. Kuwait's desalination plants. Bahrain's bridges. Saudi pumping stations. UAE power plants. Oman oil storage. You haven't mentioned any of these.

Back to Azerbaijan - your own explanation convicts Iran. Claiming the strikes were due to "bad intel about an anti Iran meeting" -- do you even realize what you are saying? That means that Iran chose to fire drones at a target on Azerbaijani soil. That's the definition of an attack. You are proving my point.

And Iran's FM denying it and blaming Israel is precisely what Iran does every single time. They've run that same story dozens of times on attributed strikes. Using that as your defense shows how gullible you are.

Iran denied they shot down Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, killing 176 civilians; do you believe them? Are you that gullible?

Iran denied launching missiles toward Diego Garcia, calling it an Israeli false flag attack; do you believe them?

Iran's denied its drones strikes on Omani ports, then a day later Iran's FM admitted it and apologized, then the next day Iran fired another volley of drones at Oman. Iran has given up pretending, and they now openly place mines in Omani waters.

Furthermore, your "false flag theory" is flawed. For your "false flag theory" to work, Israel not only launched the drones undetected, but Azerbaijan's own government is either complicit in the lie or they were duped. That's an extraordinary claim, requiring extraordinary evidence. Yet you provide zero evidence that Azerbaijan is lying, and zero evidence of Israeli involvement.

Azerbaijan's own Ministry of Defense confirmed the strikes by four Iranian drones. The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry confirmed a drone hit near a school. Iran denies it because that is their MO, not because it didn't happen.

[defrost]

There were two sentences. I looked into the second sentence.

It's the more interesting case precisely because it was an outlier with no US bases, US assests, et al.

> your own explanation convicts Iran.

Not my explanation, see the linked discussion.

> ... do you believe them? Are you that gullible?

Tell me more about when you stopped beating your wife.

> then the next day Iran fired another volley of drones at Oman.

I believe I looked into Azerbaijan which may have been hit by an independent IRG cell, IIRC Oman is an entire other country.

> Furthermore, your "false flag theory" is flawed.

Not my theory - see the linked discussion.