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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    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.