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‘The most bitter news’: Iran reels as more than 80 children reportedly killed in school bombing (www.theguardian.com)

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The building appears to be among many devastated in Trump’s ‘major combat operations’ as long expected attacks arrive

Iran’s parents had just dropped their children off for class on Saturday morning when they found themselves racing back to school gates, as bombs began to fall across the country in a joint US-Israel attack.

At one elementary school, according to Iran’s state-controlled media, they arrived to find devastation. At least 80 children had been killed in the strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran, the IRNA news agency reported, with dozens more unaccounted for.

In one video circulating on social media, purportedly showing the immediate aftermath of the strike, smoke rises from the burnt-out walls, and debris lies spread across the road. Hundreds of onlookers gathered at the site, some in obvious distress. Screams can be heard in the background. The report of the bombing, its death toll and the video’s source could not immediately be independently verified by the Guardian. Persian factchecking service Factnameh was able to cross-reference the video with other photographs of the school site, and concluded that the video was authentic. Reuters said it had also verified the footage as being from the school.

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[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Help us murder people in Iraq and Afghanistan and you're beefing up your navy to go to war with your biggest trading partner at America's behest.

[–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

We did help you kill people in Afghanistan and Iraq, but at least in Afghanistan we were killing Taliban, who aren't exactly nice people to have around. And we made the place better for the people while we were there, even though it all went to shit when we left. I have talked to Australians who fought there, read stories from the locals, heard the words of a few of the people who left Afghanistan to escape the Taliban.

In other words, we are imperial vassals who try to do the right thing in the situation directly in front of us, while we indirectly serve the overall goals of Western hegemony. I cannot argue that we're on the right side of history.

Most of our politicians clearly want to distance ourselves from the mask-off fascist US government, because it's obvious even to their neoliberal eyes that this is too far, but we are tied by a million arrangements. The military ties you mention, the economic ties which are thanfully less important, the language, the cultural similarities, and the shared history of alliance. Most unfortunately, the Five Eyes alliance.

If we start leaving all that, we will be stomped on by the US, and our people still believe we need a good friend with a big army to protect us from Chinese aggression. Which is bullshit, as you and I both know, but they do believe that.

So it's easier to just uncomfortably remain closely allied with an unreliable partner, and politely refrain from actually helping the US commit atrocities, and hope they sort it out electorally.