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.

  • Dankob@lemmy.world
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    And Iran killed 30,000 of its OWN PEOPLE IN JANUARY. Incomparable number

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      And the answer to that is murdering children?

      Whataboutism is stupid enough as is, you don’t need to aspire to make it dumber.

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      Google? What say you?

      Based on reports from early 2026, there have been allegations and estimates suggesting a high death toll during crackdowns on protests in Iran, with some sources, including reports cited by TIME magazine, indicating that over 30,000 people may have been killed by security services on Jan. 8 and 9, 2026. However, this figure is highly disputed and the subject of intense media contention:

      High Estimates: Reports from Iranian interior ministry sources and TIME suggested over 30,000 deaths in a massive, rapid crackdown, with bodies reportedly transported in trucks and the exhaustion of body bags.

      Government Denials: The Iranian Foreign Ministry has dismissed reports of a 30,000+ death toll as a “Hitler-style BIG LIE”.

      Official Figures: The Iranian government has acknowledged a much lower death toll of 3,117, claiming this number includes civilians, security forces, and those they termed “terrorists”.

      Other Estimates: Other reports have indicated varied, yet still high, estimates, including over 16,500 dead, 7,000 killed according to activists, or a lower figure of around 1,300, as reported in other updates during that volatile period.

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      Sure, Israel managed to kill 72,000 Gazans in like 2.5 years of genocide, but Iran managed to kill half as many in only a few weeks. Get a grip.

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      Since it’s a fake number, just make it bigger. then, you have two fake numbers to compare.

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        Like the 100 million alleged victims of communism when literally the only source of theirs (the black book of communism) doesn’t even say that… And they sometimes even say it is 200 million with zero evidence.

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          Communism has killed literally BILLIONS of people, while capitalism helps build strong bodies 12 ways!

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    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

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      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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      The person pushing the button was probably deliberately NOT told it was filled with children but that it was a high value target.

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      In this case, it sounds like the school used to be part of the neighboring base, so the US intelligence was just very outdated. So the guy with his finger on the trigger was probably told it was a military target.

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        The guy with his finger on the trigger wasn’t told a goddamn thing. Conversation went like this:

        “Fire on these coordinates.”

        “Yessir.”

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        That’s the thing with wars, when you start one, innocents die and suffer. There are no clean wars, no surgical strikes, nothing of that bullshit. When you do this, you’re ok with innocents paying the price. It’s especially vile when you do it from across the globe nonchalantly.

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    The only person denying this is Donald Trump. Even the US military isn’t disowning this incident.

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      Not just that. He’s suggesting that it was false flag op by Iran using their own “tomahawks”, because everybody has them.

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        Because that is what Israel lied when they blew up that palestinian hospital and the president thought he could get away with it too. Fucking dumb piece of shit that he is.

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    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.

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      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.

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

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

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          Don’t forget pressing child soldiers into Zero Units - groups trained, armed, and directed by CIA and JSOC to torture, rape, and kill entire families and terrorize entire villages.

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        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…?

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        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.

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          “We can really threaten Iran with actually we haven’t done”

          What?

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              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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              It is anti christian to attack the family of the person you want to kill. That was a founding principle of christianity, to end blood feuds.

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                Christianity was founded because it made it easy for rulers to control their population because they could make people accept a miserable and short life in exchange for intangible rewards later. It is not hard to figure out who benefits from a religious concept that nothing that happens to you in reality is important.

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                  First they tried to suppress christianity, they couldn’t keep the crazies at bay so they rewrote it to be a better slave religion, cherrypicking biblical texts to include in the Bible.

                  That it promised to end blood feuds is also true, even if the birthplace of christianity in europe has long been the most famous for such blood feuds.

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    Why is the press obsessing over schoolgirls? The whole country is being bombed, none of it is good.

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      Uhhh … Probably because killing children is universally considered worse than other crimes?

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      Pretty sure they know nothing of consequence will happen for all the raping they did, this little religious war is just fun for them.

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

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    If a single church was damaged, Iran could just start calling Trump the murder of Christians and destroy his entire base and undermine the US military in a devastating way

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      No, those would be them A-rab Christians, not real ones. I know that Iranians aren’t Arab, but they don’t.

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        It doesn’t matter in terms of optics, it is about breaking the support chain and a single church is all that it takes (if the event occurred on a Sunday it would be even more effective)

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          They shrugged it off when churches were damaged in Gaza, why would this be any different?

          There’s this city in the West Bank called Bethlehem, I guess some famous dude was born there. The churches in Bethlehem weren’t able to have Christmas celebrations for two years due to Israel’s genocide.

          How did evangelicals respond? Polling says 65% support Israel’s military action in Gaza, even after two years of indiscriminate bombing, death marches, forced starvation, and torture camps.

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            It is not about the MAGA cult supporters but the evangelical church ecosystem that is much larger

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              How many supposedly Christian values has he broken? (all of them)

              How many Evangelical churches have disavowed him?

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          Been asleep 11 years now? Literally every possible crime is known to be committed by trump. None of them care. The list is way too long to type out but among his crimes: he killed tens of thousands with COVID misinformation/inaction, he is known to have raped many children and women, and also he called veterans losers and suckers for being in the military. He said he could grab any woman by the pussy and she would like it. He mocked a disabled reporter. He gassed protestors to take a fake picture with him holding an upside down bible. He led an insurrection of the US Capitol. He asked an official in Georgia to “find X more votes,” which is as close as you can get to explicitly asking him to commit voter fraud. None of them care about any of this shit. They would be tripping over themselves to excuse his “grave mistake” if he killed a bunch of Christians in a church. They wouldn’t even pause to do so. This is the most prolific cult in human history. There are psychos in other countries that are in it even. Again I ask… Where you been?

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      Our christians on his side don’t care. If they aren’t already opposed they are on a dark trip and won’t be turned aside. Israel targeted the family of a former tea party us representative, Justin Amash, one of the only republicans to vote for impeachment in prez’s first term, they were huddled in their eastern orthodox church in Gaza and Israel wiped them out. I know it was on purpose.

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    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.

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        Apparently it was due to old intel pre-2015 (when the building was repurposed as a school) where that building was allegedly an ammo depot of the military complex besides… bombing with 10 year old intel, for sure a lack of care for human lives

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          That would be seriously lazy intelligence though…

          No parents, students or teachers in Minab ever posted a picture or video of the school since 2015?

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      That information mashes me sick to my stomach. I hope to God that’s not true, but like, it’s totally believable without any empirical evidence

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        I think it is true because killing 180 people with two missiles is almost impossible unless they are all gathered very closely.