MissConstrue20h ago

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/03/26/us-iran-mines-israel-village-missile-munitions-weapons-war-conflict/

RED FUCKING ALERT

The United States is dropping land mines around villages in Iran. Images posted to social media Thursday show what experts said are U.S. land mines dispersed across a residential area in southern Iran, in what appears to be the first instance in more than two decades of American forces using the weapons.

The photos show American BLU-91/B anti-tank land mines, which are released from an aircraft as part of the Gator mine scattering system, according to four munitions experts who reviewed the imagery at The Washington Post’s request. The United States is the only party in the Iran war known to possess the system.

LAND MINES ARE A WAR CRIME! What in the actual fuck are we doing here? This is a violation of law, of sense, and of humanity. Den Hague for everyone involved.

#landmine #us #warcrimes #iran

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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Show threadrexi

@MissConstrue

there may be an attempt here to segregate zones, in the hope of internal conflict, or at a minimum force protection for troops on their way -- using civilians (coastal high ground with a 'missile to the straight view').

expect to see lots of leaflets fall, and in-smuggling of starlink bases with cell capability.

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Show threadMissConstrue16h ago
@rexi it may be, but this is still a civilian area, and even though we didn’t sign the treaty banning them outright, it has been international law for half a century or more that you cannot deploy them in civilian areas.
Show threadFelis_Catus_Domesticus10h ago

@MissConstrue @rexi

this is still a civilian area

clearly that is a matter open to interpretation by military lawyers..