cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/33264
US military investigators have said it is likely its forces were responsible for a strike on a girls’ school in Iran that killed scores of children and has been condemned as a war crime, according to a report by Reuters.
The attack on the Minab girls’ school in southern Iran on Saturday is believed to have killed at least 165 people, mostly children under the age of 12.
The UN’s education agency, Unesco, said the attack was a “grave violation of humanitarian law”.
US war secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that the military was investigating the incident. Investigators have not reached a final conclusion and it is still unclear what evidence contributed to their assessment, Reuters reported, citing two unnamed officials.
It was also unclear what type of munitions were used and who was responsible, the outlet said.
An investigation by news outlet Middle East Eye determined that the attack on the school was a “double tap” strike – where a target is hit a second time in order to kill rescuers who come to the aid of the injured.
“When the first bomb hit the school, one of the teachers and the principal moved a group of students to the prayer hall to protect them,” a Red Crescent medic told the outlet, citing conversations he had with survivors.
“The principal called the parents and told them to come and pick up their children. But the second bomb hit that area as well. Only a small number of those who had taken shelter survived.”
The UK has joined the war on Iran – which is illegal because it was not approved by the UN or US congress – by allowing the use of its bases for strikes against the country.
Prime minister Keir Starmer has claimed the UK’s involvement is an act of self-defence, despite the fact the US and Israel started the war.
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By all means, your position is valid if during the primaries; it's not valid once primaries are over and the outcome of the election is all but guaranteed to be one of the candidates on the ballot. After that, however, one begins making an accelerationist argument, and I cannot abide because along that pathway a lot of people will suffer. We are closer to the brink of WWIII or nuclear war than ever before when that wasn't always an assured outcome.
I also cannot fault the hero who didn't fight well enough versus the villain who made it necessary to fight perfectly.
I will always be on the side of anti-fascism above all. Even if that means choosing a lesser evil, or lesser poison. If only to save one life; if only to give access to abortion for one more woman; to promote one better vaccine policy, etc.
Otherwise, letting the fascist in leads to an acceleration of Entropy.
I hope one makes the case during these primaries actively and supports said candidates (do you have some in mind in any particular races), but after that we all join together to fight the much greater inevitable danger that is the Republican party.
I have followed and advocated for the practice you are describing for 40 years. I was literally making phone calls for Dukakis before I was old enough to vote. I say these things into emphasize my next point to you any anyone in party leadership that might hear my words.
You have already lost me. I’m not doing it anymore. You have to convince me that you’re worthy of my support through POLICY. Nothing you say about political dynamics is going to sway me anymore. I’m done with it. Now, maybe I’m an aberration. But, if the reporting on the DNC post mortem on the Harris campaign is accurate, I don’t think that is the case.