The building appears to be among many devastated in Trump’s ‘major combat operations’ as long expected attacks arrive
Iran’s parents had just dropped their children off for class on Saturday morning when they found themselves racing back to school gates, as bombs began to fall across the country in a joint US-Israel attack.
At one elementary school, according to Iran’s state-controlled media, they arrived to find devastation. At least 80 children had been killed in the strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, the IRNA news agency reported, with dozens more unaccounted for.
In one video circulating on social media, purportedly showing the immediate aftermath of the strike, smoke rises from the burnt-out walls, and debris lies spread across the road. Hundreds of onlookers gathered at the site, some in obvious distress. Screams can be heard in the background. The report of the bombing, its death toll and the video’s source could not immediately be independently verified by the Guardian. Persian factchecking service Factnameh was able to cross-reference the video with other photographs of the school site, and concluded that the video was authentic. Reuters said it had also verified the footage as being from the school.
How can you live with such a callous disregard for childs lives? What has become of your country?
Become?
We’re talking about the only UN member that hasn’t ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child, because they don’t want to have to stop executing children.
Hurting children has always been a core value of the USA, up there with shooting each other, rampant egoism, and their twisted version of christian fundamentalism.
I wonder how you will feel after you realize you and your allies have been a big part of the American empire, too?
See history of the US dollar and international trade.
Your country likely contributes a significant amount to the US economy, and we go to war together, too.
how do you live with that?
We live with it by having gun laws which have prevented the rash of mass shootings you’ve had, and maintaining foreign aid programs to the countries around us, and many further away.
Yes, we trade with you, and China, and Israel, and everyone we can, because trade historically opens up opportunities for diplomacy and allows leverage for achieving human rights goals. We are part of the greater US empire, yes indeed, we’ve been too close to the US in the past. But when we found that our special forces had killed civilians in Afghanistan, for example, it resulted in national scandal and ongoing reform, inquiry, etc. In the US that’s just the norm.
We do not participate in US military actions that may result in civilian deaths. We do not refuel your planes when they do that, for example.
We are sitting over here, trying to be friends, while being ever more horrified with your country and trying to remember the good times.
Ok, so in essence you are saying the person who sold shoes to a murderer is equally guilty of the crime committed?
No, I’m in essence saying that the person who murders with the murderer is equally guilty of murder.
You should look up who arms Australia, by the way. Can you guess who?
And what do we do with those arms?
yeah i know. Australian politicians have fallen for the evil empire’s propaganda
I’m not an American
The pronoun ‘you’ doesn’t mean you specifically; how can you tell it wasn’t about ‘you’ specifically?
Because they didn’t change the subject to you specifically, of course. The ‘you’ is a pronoun replacing “The United States Military”, “USAF” “US and Israeli combined forces”, etc.; the subject is who the ‘you’ is referring to, not actually you the person.
The pronoun is used in English to avoid having to specifically refer to the subject by name over and over.
Now, go forth, and SIN NO MORE