Mastodawn

b9AcE Mar 17

"CPT reports 307 Iranian attacks on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq since the beginning of the war"
https://english.anf-news.com/kurdistan/cpt-reports-307-iranian-attacks-on-the-kurdistan-region-of-iraq-since-the-beginning-of-the-war-84431

CPT reports 307 Iranian attacks on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq since the beginning of the war

According to a report by the Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT) – Iraqi Kurdistan, IRGC and affiliated groups have carried out 307 strikes on the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) since February 28, lea...

ANF News

b9AcE Mar 17

Trump and Netanyahu's Iran "War conditions worsen the treatment of prisoners in Rojhilat" (Iran-held part of Kurdistan)
https://english.anf-news.com/human-rights/war-conditions-worsen-the-treatment-of-prisoners-in-rojhilat-84435

War conditions worsen the treatment of prisoners in Rojhilat

Harsh conditions have been imposed on prisoners, particularly political prisoners, in prisons across Kurdistan since the beginning of the war between the US–Israeli coalition and Iran, the Kurdista...

ANF News

b9AcE Mar 17

"The camp of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDP-I) in the Koye district of Hewlêr (Erbil) province [of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq] has been bombed for the second time today.

The camp had been targeted earlier in the day by Iranian state forces and affiliated groups."
More: https://english.anf-news.com/kurdistan/kdp-i-camp-in-koye-bombed-for-the-second-time-84439

KDP-I camp in Koye bombed for the second time

The camp of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDP-I) in the Koye district of Hewlêr (Erbil) province has been bombed for the second time today.The camp had been targeted earlier in the day ...

ANF News

b9AcE Mar 18

"Israeli airstrike targets Zuqaq al-Blat in Beirut"
https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/lebanon-news/915691/israeli-airstrike-targets-zuqaq-al-blat-in-beirut/en?src=rss&utm_source=TheWALL360&utm_medium=Rss-articles&utm_campaign=rss&utm_term=Rss
AFP: https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/lebanon-news/915678/new-israeli-strike-on-central-beirut-without-warning/en?src=rss&utm_source=TheWALL360&utm_medium=Rss-articles&utm_campaign=rss&utm_term=Rss
"Lebanon’s health ministry says 12 killed, 41 injured in Israeli strikes on Beirut areas"
https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/lebanon-news/915730/lebanons-health-ministry-says-12-killed-41-injured-in-israeli-strikes-on-beirut-areas/en?src=rss&utm_source=TheWALL360&utm_medium=Rss-articles&utm_campaign=rss&utm_term=Rss

"Israeli airstrike targets car in Sidon, South Lebanon"
https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/lebanon-news/915713/israeli-airstrike-targets-car-in-sidon2c-south-lebanon/en?src=rss&utm_source=TheWALL360&utm_medium=Rss-articles&utm_campaign=rss&utm_term=Rss

Israeli airstrike targets Zuqaq al-Blat in Beirut

| Lebanon News

LBCI Lebanon

b9AcE Mar 18

Picture essay:
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‘We want change but not like this’: Iranians describe daily life under air attack
[...]
“We don’t want this war. We want change, but not like this,” she says, adding: “We’re against the Islamic Republic, but we don’t want the monarchy back either.

“When people protested in January, it wasn’t because we supported Pahlavi,” she explains, referring to Reza Pahlavi, the US-based exiled son of Iran’s last shah, who has said he would be prepared to lead a transitional government for a new Iran if the Islamic Republic fell.
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/18/iranians-daily-life-under-air-attack

‘We want change but not like this’: Iranians describe daily life under air attack

Tehran residents try to stay safe from bombing and cling to their livelihoods as war stretches into third week

The Guardian

b9AcE 6d ago

"Since the outbreak of war and amid the continuing nationwide internet shutdown, IHRNGO has received alarming reports regarding the situation of prisoners in Iran.

Reports indicate a pattern of serious human rights violations, including food shortages, the closure of prison commissaries, denial of adequate medical care, unsanitary and degrading detention conditions, severe restrictions on prisoners’ access to basic necessities, arbitrary transfers and the increasing militarisation of prisons.

In at least two prisons, these conditions have led to protests by prisoners and collective hunger strikes. At least one prisoner has died as a result of being denied medical care."
https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8654/

Alarming Prison Conditions and Human Rights Violations in the Shadow of War in Iran

Since the outbreak of war and amid the continuing nationwide internet shutdown, IHRNGO has received alarming reports regarding the situation of prisoners in Iran.

b9AcE 5d ago

"Lebanon's health ministry said Thursday that Israeli attacks have killed 1,001 people in the country [...]
79 women, 118 children and 40 health workers, with 2,584 other people wounded"
AFP: https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/lebanon-news/916230/lebanon-says-death-toll-from-israel-hezbollah-war-rises-to-12c001/en?src=rss&utm_source=TheWALL360&utm_medium=Rss-articles&utm_campaign=rss&utm_term=Rss

b9AcE 5d ago

Donnie, the Diplomat.

b9AcE 5d ago

"EU leaders call for moratorium on strikes against energy and water facilities in Middle East"
https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-leaders-call-moratorium-strikes-against-energy-water-facilities-middle-east-2026-03-19/
So, a PAUSE on attacks that cause widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment, and on attacking, destroying or rendering useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population.
A pause, on war crimes.

"Rule 45. The use of methods or means of warfare that are intended, or may be expected, to cause widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment is prohibited. Destruction of the natural environment may not be used as a weapon."
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule45
…and…
"Rule 54. Attacking, destroying, removing or rendering useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population is prohibited."
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule54
…while…
"Rule 44. Methods and means of warfare must be employed with due regard to the protection and preservation of the natural environment. In the conduct of military operations, all feasible precautions must be taken to avoid, and in any event to minimize, incidental damage to the environment. Lack of scientific certainty as to the effects on the environment of certain military operations does not absolve a party to the conflict from taking such precautions."
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule44

A pause.

"Condemnation of the Terrorist Attacks by the Islamic Republic of Iran against Refugees and Political Parties in the Kurdistan Region [of Iraq]",
from the recently formed "Alliance of Political Parties of Iranian Kurdistan",
via alliance-member "Free Life Party of [Eastern, Iran-held part of] Kurdistan" (PJAK):
https://pjak.net/en/1775

Condemnation of the Terrorist Attacks by the Islamic Republic of Iran against Refugees and Political Parties in the Kurdistan Region | PJAK English

Right-wing authoritarian Starmer-regime approves joining Trump and Netanyahu's crimes against peace, planned and chosen war of aggression, by giving "authorization [...] for the U.S. ‌to use military bases in Britain to carry out strikes on Iranian missile sites", which does make at least those military bases valid targets for the attacked Iran-theocracy insofar as to end those attacks.
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/uk-approves-us-use-british-bases-strike-iran-missile-sites-targeting-ships-2026-03-20/
Calling a war of aggression "defensive operations" does not magically transform it from being a war nor a war of aggression at that, just as it didn't and doesn't for Putin's exactly as much crimes against peace "special operations" in Ukraine. Starmer also remains a sniveling spinless elitist sycophant no matter how hard Starmer works at socioeconomically assaulting the productive classes in the U.K. to pleasure tRump.

That the Iran-regime is imperialist murderous reactionary oppressors, etc and must fall does not change the previous.
State vs State war is not for the people, it's for the rulers crushing the peoples for their own thirst for bloody prestige and power.
Only the people can liberate itself. Imperialism doesn't, no matter under which flag.

"Lebanon war intensifies as Israel splits fronts, opens third front in Syria"
https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/news-bulletin-reports/916575/lebanon-war-intensifies-as-israel-splits-fronts2c-opens-third-front-i/en?src=rss&utm_source=TheWALL360&utm_medium=Rss-articles&utm_campaign=rss&utm_term=Rss

Lebanon war intensifies as Israel splits fronts, opens third front in Syria

| Lebanon News

LBCI Lebanon

"Iraq declares force majeure on foreign-operated oilfields over Hormuz disruption"
Reuters: https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/middleeastnews/916670/iraq-declares-force-majeure-on-foreign-operated-oilfields-over-hormuz/en?src=rss&utm_source=TheWALL360&utm_medium=Rss-articles&utm_campaign=rss&utm_term=Rss

Iraq declares force majeure on foreign-operated oilfields over Hormuz disruption: Reuters

| Lebanon News

LBCI Lebanon

"Lebanese healthcare workers and officials say Israeli bombings have deliberately targeted medical workers and facilities in south Lebanon, including through the use of double-tap strikes, in what they describe as a systematic effort to make the area unlivable.

Since the war began on 2 March, Israel has struck at least 128 medical facilities and ambulances across south Lebanon, killing 40 healthcare workers and wounding 107, according to the Lebanese ministry of health."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/21/israel-targeting-medical-facilities-south-lebanon-health-workers

Israel deliberately targeting medical facilities in south Lebanon, say health workers

Medics and officials say there is systematic use of double-tap strikes in campaign to make the south uninhabitable

The Guardian

Trump publicly threatens to commit more crimes against humanity scale deliberate indisputable war crimes, targeting civilian essential infrastructure
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-threatens-iran-with-power-plant-strikes-over-hormuz-blockade-2026-03-22/

"Rule 54. Attacking, destroying, removing or rendering useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population is prohibited."
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule54

As if to prove "hey, we're as shit as Trump is!", Iran's military threatened in return that if Trump fulfills the threat to attack the power plants in Iran, systematic mass-scale intentional aw crime, crimes against humanity, then they too will attack "all energy, information technology and desalination infrastructure belonging to the US and the regime in the region", which does very strongly imply intentionally mass-targeting civilian objects, war crimes, crimes against humanity,
and those impacted are the civilians, which neither USA/Israel's nor Iran's rulers care one iota about
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/21/middle-east-crisis-live-iran-war-trump-eases-oil-sanctions-israel-strikes?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-69bf40bf8f08c1f048aff5a7#block-69bf40bf8f08c1f048aff5a7
https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/middleeastnews/916988/iran-army-says-will-target-energy2c-desalination-infrastructure-after/en?src=rss&utm_source=TheWALL360&utm_medium=Rss-articles&utm_campaign=rss&utm_term=Rss

Projectile strikes vessel off coast of UAE - as it happened

This blog is now closed

the Guardian

"Every government, regardless of its flag or slogan, becomes the same machine in the moment of war: a machine that defines security by creating insecurity for the masses."
https://anarshy.social/@anarchism_perspective/116269687190050572

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What could be considered as a distinct sub-subject continuing from (and long before) the huge December/January protests in Iran crushed by the theocracy mass-murdering the people to prevent themselves from losing their precious personal totalitarian power, then continuing through statements linking the two by repeat war of aggression culprit war criminal culprits' promises and the public's thereupon based betrayed and impossible expectations,
that has now reached such a point that the State vs State war is indistinct from USA's previous Gulf Wars, the Iran-Iraq War, etc and keeping it going as a singular thread no longer makes sense,
so this is the end of this thread.

J.H.Noyes 3d ago

@b9AcE It's going to be very difficult for the governments of Persian Gulf nations to maintain control of their people if that desalination machinery is destroyed.

@noyes If so, and if the consistent occurrence of the several recent years of spring and summer ⪆50℃ heat waves does recur this year, then it's going to be very difficult for the peoples of the Persian Gulf to maintain existence.