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The US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, in southern Iran overnight. At least two people were killed according to local reports. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03/26/us-iran-mines-israel-village-missile-munitions-weapons-war-conflict/?utm_source=mastodon

Evidence Points to US Scattering Mines over Iranian Village - bellingcat

US appears to have deployed the Gator Scatterable Mine system over Kafari, a village near Shiraz, Iran.

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Darker Knight 1d ago

@Bellingcat

Aka anti personnell mines

NAZIS DID THIS TOO, LAST CENTURY.

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Inky says "What the hell?!"1d ago

@darkerknight @Bellingcat According to the article it SEEMS to only be anti tank mines.

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Darker Knight 8h ago

@InkySchwartz @Bellingcat

So who has tanks there?

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Thorium 1d ago

@Bellingcat We in the US are in a full fascist state and with a criminal military 🤬

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GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺1d ago

@Bellingcat Testing their toys, are they?

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DJ Sexy Fresh 1d ago

@Bellingcat isnt this super illegal

that's what a terrorist organization would do.
and a terrorist organization is exactly what the US is.

a terrorist org so rich and powerful very few people go on record calling them what they really are.

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robloblaw 1d ago

@djsf @Bellingcat
America never signed the Ottawa treaty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Treaty

And that is only for anti-personnel mines.

Ottawa Treaty - Wikipedia

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Chewie 19h ago

@djsf @Bellingcat not to the US it isnt - they never signed up to the Mine Ban Treaty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Treaty

Ottawa Treaty - Wikipedia

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DJ Sexy Fresh 17h ago

@chewie @Bellingcat awkwarddd

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Nazo 1d ago

@Bellingcat Isn't this very specifically the kind of war crime that involves international warrants for arrest?

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CLT/Linux

1d ago

@nazokiyoubinbou @Bellingcat yes. except for the US and allies. because we live in bizarro world.

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Nazo 1d ago

@capeta @Bellingcat I'd give almost anything to get back to the real timeline.

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CLT/Linux

1d ago

@nazokiyoubinbou @Bellingcat same

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sortius

1d ago

@Bellingcat Nazis doing Nazi stuff

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Embrace Civil Disobedience 1d ago

@Bellingcat The U.S. is participating in more indiscriminate murder of civilians. This time in Iran.

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Eric Bono 1d ago

@Bellingcat

Trump never learned the lessons of the Vietnam War since he weaseled his way out of it. You'd think he would have made it count, his life being spared and all, but no. He didn't even stop to consider for a moment that he should try to understand what went wrong there. When they talk about taking America back, they're talking about taking Americans back to a time where they didn't loudly criticize wars.

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Jake 1d ago

@Bellingcat aren't mines a warcrime? Not that the US cares about such things

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Badger Ben 1d ago

@Permanent_Dinner @Bellingcat If memory serves, the US never signed that treaty. Not that it would stop them if it were to be otherwise, of course.

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peachfront 1d ago

@Permanent_Dinner @Bellingcat

came to type this, i see you got there first

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kΔ 1d ago

@Permanent_Dinner @Bellingcat Yes, to all the civil countries in the world the use of anti personnel mines is a war crime. The US do not consider themselves humane. They also don’t agree with the international court of justice. So Vladimir Putin can go to Disney Land in the USA for a holiday and have no fear of arrest, but set foot in Europe or any other civil country and he will be arrested.

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robloblaw 1d ago

@kDelta @Permanent_Dinner @Bellingcat
Not a lawyer, but - it would be a treaty violation, not a war crime. Attacking Iran as a war of aggression is a war crime though.

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