cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/33264
US military investigators have said it is likely its forces were responsible for a strike on a girls’ school in Iran that killed scores of children and has been condemned as a war crime, according to a report by Reuters.
The attack on the Minab girls’ school in southern Iran on Saturday is believed to have killed at least 165 people, mostly children under the age of 12.
The UN’s education agency, Unesco, said the attack was a “grave violation of humanitarian law”.
US war secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that the military was investigating the incident. Investigators have not reached a final conclusion and it is still unclear what evidence contributed to their assessment, Reuters reported, citing two unnamed officials.
It was also unclear what type of munitions were used and who was responsible, the outlet said.
An investigation by news outlet Middle East Eye determined that the attack on the school was a “double tap” strike – where a target is hit a second time in order to kill rescuers who come to the aid of the injured.
“When the first bomb hit the school, one of the teachers and the principal moved a group of students to the prayer hall to protect them,” a Red Crescent medic told the outlet, citing conversations he had with survivors.
“The principal called the parents and told them to come and pick up their children. But the second bomb hit that area as well. Only a small number of those who had taken shelter survived.”
The UK has joined the war on Iran – which is illegal because it was not approved by the UN or US congress – by allowing the use of its bases for strikes against the country.
Prime minister Keir Starmer has claimed the UK’s involvement is an act of self-defence, despite the fact the US and Israel started the war.
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I’m an atheist but I am really starting to believe in actual fucking demons, from hell, living on earth. We currently know them as “Americans”
Seriously, this is so fucking depraved. How do you get to the point that you can carry out a double tap strike on a fucking school?
“Human beings inhabit a universe that they would be justified in calling malevolent if it could be shown to have an author (which, to them, it does not).”
-Dienstagnah because this makes me believe Iran had it right with the baal statue
I’m an atheist too but have no problem believing that those responsible for these actions are demons, or at least non-supernatural analogs of demons. That they have their origins in a material world of ultra-privilige (within a system that rewards cruelty and encourages greed and fosters supremacism of the depraved) rather than having origins in a mythological netherworld seems irrelevant to me. They still epitomize cruelty, greed, sadism, satisfaction from the despair of the innocent, “blasphemy” against life and human thriving and joy. They are demons or ‘close enough as makes no difference.’
The part that I have come to struggle with as an atheist is that I desperately yearn for some kind of cosmic justice. I wish there was a hell for these demons to burn in for their crimes against humanity and life and the literal earth. Perhaps not for eternity but I want them to burn long enough that the suffering they have to endure is somewhat commensurate with the suffering they have caused, a bit longer still for the suffering that they delighted in causing.
But instead, most of them will live statistically long lives of oppulance, where all their needs and nearly all their wants are met, their demonic work praised by the other demons that surround them, smug and self satisfied only to eventually die while being coddled and cared for, ultimately facing the same neutral oblivion we all face.
It enrages me in a way I can’t ever find a release for. It eats at me. I know I “shouldn’t let it,” but that’s easy to say. I also know rationally that such an intense desire for revenge (or retributive justice) isn’t really conducive to the kind of future that communists want to build via socialism, and it isn’t conducive for my personal well-being. But I’d be lying if I said I don’t yearn to see these fucking demons suffer for what they’ve done, for what they are doing. But most of them proba ly won’t and I have to learn to accept that and focus on the small things that can be done now to help build a future where demons are never even allowed the opportunity to fulfill any of their evil fucking deeds let alone rule much of the earth through large scale terrorism like they do now.
They really went and double tapped a school. Not sure hell is a bad enough place for all of these people to go. Ffs…
And the narrative that this was on Iran’s own incompetence vanishes as the state department says oops but also what are you going to do about it, chump?
Boil every US Airforce member
fucking face it pigland, your theocratic holy warriors deliberately targeted the children of their enemies in their surprise attack to ensure maximum commitment to an engagement, with the intention of fulfilling the eschatology of the book of revalations.
Okay but seriously why admit it though? They’ve lied about not being responsible for a dozen incidents like this that I’m aware of, why not pretend it wasn’t us like usual?
Mask fully off
actually they have admitted something similar the past
Lesley Stahl (CBS 60 Minutes): “We have heard that a half a million children have died [because of sanctions against Iraq]. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?”
Madeleine Albright: “I think this is a very hard choice, but the price—we think the price is worth it.”
They are constantly pushing the envelope of how evil they can be without facing any consequences.
They’ve realised that no one cares
It feels like a “shotgun” approach. They’re claiming every possibility simultaneously, it was done by Israel, it was done by the US, it was an accident, it was a school on a military base and therefore an acceptable target, Iran did it to themselves as a false flag.
It lets people with 0 media literacy (or like 95% of the public in the west) pick and choose what version of events that they want to believe, and it means people will continue arguing about the minutia of it (and all future events like it) and prevent people from every actually analyzing the war properly and having a correct assesment of it, it just becomes a “team sport” thing, where their viewpoint has to “beat” the others. I think the US propaganda apparatus at this point is fully committed to getting people to reject reality as much as possible.
Hegseth is the kind of monster who wants to brag about and normalize war crimes like this
looking up at this and smilingSomething about Americans and school shootings
A surprising admission. I actually expected them to take the israeli approach of lying about it (which they did, to be clear) then saying they started an “investigation” that goes nowhere until people forget about it when the next giant atrocity happens.
I think that is what they are doing, but two people privy to the investigation spoke anonymously to the press admitting it was the US, resulting in this article.
this sounds ominous
Wtf how many people did the current administration piss off
where is the reuters report referenced? this has no sourcing
I’m surprised they admitted it
Bet no one’s calling the us the great satan now
