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condemnatory: Either US and Israeli forces relied, in striking the vicinity of the Asif Brigade, on a very old, outdated intelligence target bank (dating to before 2013), which would constitute grave negligence and reckless disregard for civilian lives; or the strike was carried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.

  • itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 hours ago

    It makes sense that it was deliberate. Israel doesn’t want regime change, they want a failed state in Iran. And the rally-round-the-flag effect the bombing and martyrdom of 165 school girls, and the subsequent longer war it will cause, gives them just that