MicroWaveDeath toll from Iran school bombing reportedly rises to almost 150
panda_abyssThis is tragic and there needs to be answer for it.
It’s a girl’s school, it’s not a military target, there weren’t “militants” inside and this isn’t Hezbollah where they can claim it was being used as a base. What the fuck happened here, and who specifically is responsible?
Wikipedia says 600, but I have not independently verified that.
Edit: I have indepdendently verified. From the school to the nearest perimeter of the thing that looks like an airfield, 200+ meters. To any structure likely to be targeted, more. I would say there was something military “in town”, and the school was not in the middle of military stuff. It was in a civilian area of the town.
Photo obtained with Wikimapia. Several hundred meters off the possible mark (air field).
Possible clue from Time magazine:
According to Amelirad, based on reports from locals in Minab, the school had previously been used as a military facility but was later converted into a school attended by children from a mixture of military and civilian families attracted by lower tuition.
Source:
Shiva Amelirad, a Canada-based representative of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations, a network of teachers’ unions in Iran
Speculation: the US targeted the school deliberately, because their software marked it as a military object. The software was not receiving timely intelligence updates. The building had been converted into a school years ago.
B-TR3EThat implicated with bombing cities. What the fuck do people expect to happen if you’re throwing a couple tons of explosives on densely inhabited urban areas?
BlackmistAnd people will blame Iran or Hamas for putting military targets near civilians, but that happens everywhere. Where’s the Pentagon? Where’s the White House and the Capitol? Smack bang in the middle of a massive population centre.
I don’t think it’s even possible to have war without a load of civilian deaths. At least not since “new advanced weaponry” meant “a slightly longer sword”.
Isnt it right next to an IRGC base or something? Been seeing speculation it could have been a faulty missile of their own launching
Isnt it right next to an IRGC base or something?
No. That’s Zionist propaganda akin to the “Hamas is hiding in hospitals”.
As for the “their own failed launch”, Israel literally made this up about the hospital in Gaza they blew up, as we found out later.
By default, always assume that Zionists lie.
I mean, the Iranians (IRGC) arent exactly honest-to-daisy sweethearts themselves
They’re not committing genocide or invading neighboring countries, already orders of magnitude better than the Zionists
They are involved in a ton o’ bad, fucking annoying, destablising geopolitical bullshit. Come now.
And to have morons on the internet trying to convince people that it was not then, not their fault. As if they weren’t child fuckers.
I am really bothered by the fact that claims like this are echoed by media outlets unchecked, while making them seem like journalism by appending ‘according to [directly involved party] sources’, maybe even ‘can’t be independently verified’.
I mean, Reuters has confirmed that this strike happened and that the video material is credible. Okay, so far so good. That’s bad, and you can report on it and raise questions based off of it. You have something to investigate, you can generate tons of content by discussing adjacent topics, but no, media decides to go for round 2 and report some unverified death toll.
Whether there are 2 or 200 dead children, the story is the same. Why give inherently unreliable sources a stage and credibility by echoing their claim? It’s so frustrating that the wider media landscape is based on grabbing peoples attention, rather than good journalism.
You made no similar comments complaining of the Zionist “Iran murdered 30.000+ protestors!!!” propaganda (even Washington-based NGOs give numbers around 7.000).
This may come as a surprise to you, but I don’t copy paste this under every single article in existence that prominently features questionable numbers. Also, I can’t recall having seen the claims you mentioned at all and if I did, I would have felt the same way about it.
And to think the most recent recruiter for a defense contractor to email me about a job, didn’t like my encouragement for him to swallow a shotgun. Some people 😂
The casualty numbers have risen - it’s already 165 people dead from this strike. :(
Re “Hamas tunnel” - there was an IRGC base 600 meters away.
Since the US military is unlikely to release the data, we probably cannot know if a weapon malfunctioned or the strike planner clicked on the school.
In an ideal world, if a strike planner knowingly clicks on a school, they go to prison. If they aren’t given the information to tell apart a school, their boss goes to prison. Unfortunately in the current-time US, as things are - nobody will be held accountable. :(
This president has done way worse to children then bombing them unfortunately.
Who one? The one in Mar a Lago or the one in Tel Aviv?