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.
Our actions in Afghanistan were bad enough we made the Taliban seem like the lesser of 2 evils to enough of Afghanistan that the Taliban won.
For every “I gave a child water” story, there’s another executing random civilians. For every village protected from the Taliban, there’s a region placed under the thumb of a gang of US-armed child rapists. Its hard to be perceived as helping when the guys you are putting in power are use power drills to torture and ransom random people.
Individuals may have different experiences, but when you’re waging an imperialist war, you’re not there to help the people.
Abandoning the US would be better for everyone except the US and Australian billionaires, so I would be surprised if it actually happened.