#Iran #WarCrimes #USpol

"Placing U.S. Troops in Middle East Hotels May Violate Laws of War

U.S. commanders have kept many troops away from bases in the region to protect them from Iran’s ballistic missile attacks.

The U.S. military’s decision to move troops away from bases under Iranian attack to hotels and office spaces in civilian areas may amount to violations of international humanitarian law and the U.S. military’s own laws of war, human rights officials and experts say.

The constellation of American bases in the Persian Gulf region has been essential to the U.S. military’s execution of the air war over Iran. But commanders have relocated many of their troops because the sprawling compounds did not have adequate defenses to protect from Iranian ballistic missiles and drones, U.S. defense officials said.

The move illustrates the U.S. military’s lack of preparedness for a war that the Trump administration started on its own terms, military experts said.
'This is the first war the United States is facing where we see the implications of democratized air power and the long-range persistent strikes from their adversary,' said Kelly Grieco, a senior fellow at the Stimson Center. 'And the lack of preparedness is not limited to this theater.'

This lethal puzzle continues to complicate U.S. war planning after thousands of airstrikes, as Iran still retains the ability to launch ballistic missiles throughout the region. This has kept American forces away from bases and dispersed among the civilian population."

https://archive.ph/wFUxv#selection-4517.0-4521.122

#Israel / #IDF are allowing at least 300 innocent civilians to be killed in order to assassinate a single person who is deemed a significant enough target in #Gaza according to #Channel4, in testimony from ex IDF analysts.

That's 300 innocent civilians murdered by choice, by the IDF in a single "precision targeted" strike.

When they say "precision" they are talking about mass murder, and #KierStarmer supports this.

#WarCrimes #ICC #UKLabour

"Trump’s speech came under attack as soon as he had finished...

“Two takeaways... 1. That so many still pay attention to what he says, which has no link to reality or to what he might or might not do; 2. that he so cavalierly threatens #WarCrimes (to bring #Iran back to the stone age) on behalf of an unlawful & unjustified #war.”

The “stone age’ threat was underlined by the defence secretary, #PeteHegseth, who posted on X: “Back to the stone age”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/02/trump-iran-war-address-backlash

#Trump #War #News #US

“According to the Iranian Red Crescent Society, basically the local Iranian equivalent of the Red Cross, Israel has damaged or destroyed a total of more than 90,000 residential units around Iran, more than three hundred health and medical facilities, more than seven hundred universities and schools, and a range of other civilian structures. That includes pharmacies, scores of police stations and other security sites, and the infrastructure used to pay officers, as well as a desalination plant that helps provide drinking water and centuries-old heritage sites. It has also targeted Iranian nuclear facilities with bombings at least three times since the start of the war, risking a terrible accident. Both Israel and Donald Trump have since threatened to destroy Iran’s other energy infrastructure.

Israel has bombed oil facilities in Tehran in what amounted to a chemical attack, causing clouds of toxic fumes to linger over the city and choke its air for days and black acid rain to pour onto those below. It has now also targeted infrastructure crucial to Iran’s food supply and a cancer drug facility, as well as its steel production, critical to both the country’s economy and its ability to rebuild after the war.

There is strong evidence that at least part of the reason for the indiscriminate and lawless carnage is the reliance on artificial intelligence for targeting…”

https://jacobin.com/2026/04/israel-gaza-iran-war-crimes

#Israel #Iran #Gaza #WarCrimes