The attackers’ ability to spare newly established adjacent facilities (such as the Martyr Absalan clinic) and their glaring failure to avoid an elementary school operating at full capacity and packed with 170 girls leaves us with two scenarios, both unequivocally condemnatory: Either US and Israeli forces relied, in striking the vicinity of the Asif Brigade, on a very old, outdated intelligence target bank (dating to before 2013), which would constitute grave negligence and reckless disregard for civilian lives; or the strike was carried out deliberately and with prior knowledge to inflict maximum societal shock and undermine popular support for Iran’s military establishment.

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    inflict maximum societal shock and undermine popular support for Iran’s military establishment.

    It’s the opposite motive. Israel wants a long war, and Iranians rallying around the flag over how despicable this is. Israel has attacked before to derail nuclear negotiations with Iran. Purpose of the war is purely to permanently weaken and destabilize Iran so that its opinion of Israel never matters again. It’s not about forcing women and gays into miniskirts and open smoking liberalism, and never will be. Only pure dysfunctional chaos. Whether or not the US is the one who bombed would only show their servitude to Israel’s agenda.