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I'm not clear how it is tech related. There are plenty of other ways to get general news, hacker News is not your all-purpose News feed...
If this turns out to be true, which seems increasingly likely day by day, this will be the humanitarian price against which the rest of the campaign will be measured. The US will have ceded much of the moral high ground they claimed in avenging the slaughter of innocent protesters.
The IRGC's strategy in this conflict has been to blow up civilian targets in nearly all nations surrounding it. It appears the IRGC has chosen civilian targets (eg: high rise apartments, airports, oil fields) on purpose, but if not, then they have such poor technology that their strikes are random. Killing people in 11 nations to put pressure on the two nations that actually attacked you is a good demonstration of th…
I get the feeling AI will be blamed for this, but I would not rule out the hypothesis that this was done intentionally in order to incite Iran to do something that bolsters support for the US regime’s actions. They desperately need domestic political support for this war and right now even the hardcore MAGA people are against it.
Reporting from the CBC mentioned that the school was located within an area surrounded by other military buildings. The building housing the school was used for military purposes in the past. I think it's more likely that the US was going off of outdated intelligence.
While Israel has enough intelligence to track where the Ayatollah is hidden away after the initial strikes on Iran. Does that sound believable to you? Either Israel and USA are pisspoor at coordinating intelligence, or Israel wilfully let the US attack the place and take the flak for it.
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Reporting from the CBC mentioned that the school was located within an area surrounded by other military buildings. The building housing the school was used for military purposes in the past. I think it's more likely that the US was going off of outdated intelligence.
Here is a bit more info: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/3/questions-over-minab... "It can be said with a degree of confidence that, in 2013, the site was used exclusively as a military barracks with a strict security character, as there was no indication of an independent civilian use of any part of the complex. But this changed radically in 2016. Satellite images dated September 6, 2016 capture the main turni…
If this turns out to be true, which seems increasingly likely day by day, this will be the humanitarian price against which the rest of the campaign will be measured. The US will have ceded much of the moral high ground they claimed in avenging the slaughter of innocent protesters.
The IRGC's strategy in this conflict has been to blow up civilian targets in nearly all nations surrounding it. It appears the IRGC has chosen civilian targets (eg: high rise apartments, airports, oil fields) on purpose, but if not, then they have such poor technology that their strikes are random. Killing people in 11 nations to put pressure on the two nations that actually attacked you is a good demonstration of th…
I can understand why Iran considers most gulf states complicit.
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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/hegseth-insists-the-iran-... "No stupid rules of engagement, no nation building quagmire, no democracy building exercise, no politically correct wars. We fight to win, and we don't waste time or lives," Hegseth said. Words of your Secretary of War, not mine. This is not a woke war. This is a war where you bomb schools and kill children.
And? It's quite a leap to take from that statement that they intentionally bombed a school. In fact, if they were trying to bomb schools, then it's quite the coincidence that they missed all the rest, and just happened to hit the one that used to be a military base.
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Sounds too convoluted, and implies that those in power in the countries attacking Iran have a grand plan that goes beyond killing people in Iran. The explanation is simpler. They want death, so they are bombing shit indiscriminately Hitting a school was not a mistake, it was the point.
This is real life not cartoon villany. The US administration is not a kind one, but their goals are not just 'death for people in Iran'.
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The IRGC's strategy in this conflict has been to blow up civilian targets in nearly all nations surrounding it. It appears the IRGC has chosen civilian targets (eg: high rise apartments, airports, oil fields) on purpose, but if not, then they have such poor technology that their strikes are random. Killing people in 11 nations to put pressure on the two nations that actually attacked you is a good demonstration of th…
Although the UAE and everyone else Iran has attacked may not have directly attacked Iran, they are hosting the American infrastructure making the attacks possible. I can understand why Iran considers most gulf states complicit.
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/b7ef/live/f6673...
That's: Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and Oman.
There is no point for the IRGC to do this other than to create such chaos and fear that the world pressures America to relent.
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Although the UAE and everyone else Iran has attacked may not have directly attacked Iran, they are hosting the American infrastructure making the attacks possible. I can understand why Iran considers most gulf states complicit.
Here's a map of the 'complicit' nations the IRGC has been bombing: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/b7ef/live/f6673... That's: Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and Oman. There is no point for the IRGC to do this other than to create such chaos and fear that the world pressures America to relent.
I believe Iran leadership are aware of geo politics much better than the American and even European.
They are experts at the new type of war fare, war with low cost kamikaze drones.
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And? It's quite a leap to take from that statement that they intentionally bombed a school. In fact, if they were trying to bomb schools, then it's quite the coincidence that they missed all the rest, and just happened to hit the one that used to be a military base.
They made it as clear as possible they don't give a shit about collateral damage. You have some very immense reading difficulties.
"Hitting a school was not a mistake, it was the point."
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"This is not a woke war. This is a war where you bomb schools and kill children."
I also never said they especially cared about collateral damage, try not to project your opinions onto other people's comments.
