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Analyses and video evidence emerged over the weekend showing that the air strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls’ Primary School on February 28—that killed over 160 girls aged 7 to 12—was carried out by the US military.

The girls’ school in Minab is in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province close to the Persian Gulf. The school was effectively pulverized by multiple blasts, and many of those killed were obliterated and could only be identified through DNA analysis. Footage showed bodies and body parts partially trapped under collapsed floors, alongside scattered schoolbags, notebooks and dust‑covered textbooks.

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[–] crank0271@lemmy.world 178 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Could you even imagine our response if the situation were reversed?

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 135 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

Yeah. We might bomb their schools and assassinate their leaders.

Edit: On second thought... we didn't bomb Saudi Arabia for 9/11.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 56 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, that's the fun thing about doing the worst shit you can think of on the first day, doesn't really give you any options after that. We can really threaten Iran with actually we haven't done.

Of course that is the MAGA Hallmark: evil, selfish, AND stupid.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You think this is the worst that could be done? I admire your optimism.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 25 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Once you start killing peoples kids, the only escalation is killing more of them.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

How about causing lingering pain and suffering on a populace, including children. Theyre not dead (yet) but they suffer for as long as possible until they do.

Like Gaza.

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[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Also isn't it kind of funny that Iran had nothing to do with 9/11 and it was in fact Saudi Arabia and yet we keep peddling this trope about Iran...?

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Have I caught the Iran-Iraq confusion in the wild?

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[–] BenjiRenji@feddit.org 57 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Thoughts and prayers? That's usually what happens when US school children die.

[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The only thing that could've saved them was a good guy with a ~~gun~~BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missile!!!

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[–] DandomRude@piefed.social 22 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Given the fact that the rape of more than 1,000 young girls by Epstein and his billionaire friends had no consequences whatsoever, and that the cold-blooded murder of these innocent Iranian schoolgirls, which is part of the US regime's cover-up efforts, also has no consequences for those responsible, I would say that the US response would probably be to elevate the culprits to government office.

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Straight to WWIV. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200.

[–] bonsai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 108 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Amerikkka: Tired of killing kids in its own schools, now killing kids in other countries' schools

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 weeks ago
[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 9 points 3 weeks ago

What's the point of schoolchildren if the president can't fuck them?

[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

who tf downvoted you? Butthurt USians who couldn't handle the truth?

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[–] kboos1@lemmy.world 99 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (11 children)

Trump killed school girls

Let's not forget who specifically ordered this war to be started. All headlines should start with Trump ordered children to be murdered or Trump is getting people killed or Trump has raised oil prices and people are beginning to starve or Trump closed off shipping lanes

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 48 points 3 weeks ago

He has raped school girls too. I need to replace the pic inside the helmet to one with both Jeff and Don in it.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes, but don't give the soldiers that pulled the trigger a pass. They're legally required to not follow illegal orders. All of them should be court marshalled and charged with war crimes.

[–] ChadGPT2@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

It’s unclear to me whether they would have known about this. I presume cross checking the targets should be done at each level down to the person pulling the trigger.

Is it confirmed that everyone in the chain knew?

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 15 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Compartmentalization. They get told "here is an Iranian military target, hit it". So they do. Asking questions is strongly discouraged.

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[–] MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (22 children)

For what? How could they possibly know that it was a school? They aren't privy to the intel. They are on a boat or a base, maybe hundreds of miles away. They receive an order to fire on a location and follow the order.

That's exactly what they signed up for. Grunt work. Following orders.

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[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 19 points 3 weeks ago (27 children)

Trump

Nope, the United States of America.

You’re responsible for who you elect.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 10 points 3 weeks ago

Despite my town, my county, my state all voting strongly against the shitstain in the white house, you're right. And it's fucking embarrassing. US voters are, collectively, the worst.

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[–] Ziggurat@jlai.lu 50 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

School shootings have been a long USian tradition

(Sorry for the dark humour)

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[–] clot27@lemmy.zip 37 points 3 weeks ago

Americans have done thousands of 9/11 and yet they arent satisfied with their bloodlust

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 35 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Those missiles could have gone to Ukraine to defend against russian tanks, but for some reason the current US administration said we couldn't afford it...

Weird...

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[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

According to Iran it was a double tap strike. The girls all gathered in a single location after the first strike and then the US bombed them again around 40 minuten later.

[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 12 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I mean, you don't blow up a school if you don't want to kill as many kids as possible.

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[–] peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world 24 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

America not content with the school massacres on it's own soil. smh

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[–] liuther9@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

Someone pressed the button to kill children, then pressed again to kill more. I am not mad at dt but at that human who pressed the button. Why cant every soldier just say no and kill the one who told him to do the war crime

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago

The ones with morals already left the force

[–] MerryJaneDoe@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Because soldiers follow orders.

How would that soldier know that the school was filled with children? He's sitting 100 miles away, on a boat. His commanding officer gives him a set of coordinates to fire upon. The soldier follows orders, because that's his only job.

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Every person involved has more than earned their place in Hell.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 weeks ago

well, yeah. that's what the bad guys do.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It was no fucking accident!

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[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Headline is misleading, sounds like it was actually multiple missiles.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

According to the survivors it was, they said they the first blast made the principal move everyone to the common room for shelter, and the second one struck and killed almost everyone in the shelter.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

Double tapped a school. Let that sink in.

[–] StormMission907@piefed.ca 10 points 3 weeks ago

The Trump Americans dont care. Hell every year kids get murdered in their schools and all they say is prayers and thoughts. Seriously despicable people.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)
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[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

The USA killed hundreds of thousands of children in Iraq, they are just warming up to SAVE DEMOCRACY, which requires many thousands of stacked up baby bodies

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