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"These actions constitute the deliberate commission of the most heinous crimes of international concern. Indifference to this ongoing and extreme injustice will only further darken the future of humanity by jeopardising the shared values upon which our global community stands,” he wrote in a post on social media.

Pir Hossein Kolivand, the head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society, wrote a letter publicised late on Sunday to the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), demanding an explicit condemnation of attacks impacting children and educational and medical centres.

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 95 points 2 days ago (3 children)
[–] throbbing_banjo@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Holy fuck I hate how accurate this is

[–] orlyowl@piefed.ca 24 points 2 days ago

So bleak and so accurate at the same time.

[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 85 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Good luck, we can’t even hold companies accountable for shooting up our schools, or our own government for executing people in the street and we’re the ones launching the missiles

Iran better hurry up and make some billionaire friends fast

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

"Iran opening up Epstein Island 2.0 and free girls for anyone who builds an AI datacenter in Tehran."

[–] gressen@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Teheran is quickly running out of water even without new datacenters.

[–] andallthat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

That's what would make it so appealing, apparently

[–] nullPointer@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

whoa, did i miss somehting? what company shot up a school?

[–] NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social 22 points 3 days ago

Lockheed Martin

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 54 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Schools and Hospitals bombed? Israel aggression confirmed.

[–] DillDough@lemmy.zip 29 points 2 days ago (2 children)

US aggression. Israel wouldn't be able to do any of this is it weren't for the money, advancements,data, and protection it receives from the US... anything you blame Israel for you must blame the US for as well.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 0 points 17 hours ago

I think the point was the Trump regime will conveniently blame the worst of it on Israel

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Oh yes... the USA is a cursed hellhole in my books

[–] the_armchair_potato@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Makes me wonder if they are intentionally bombing schools and hospitals or bombing cowardly Iranian leaders hiding under schools and hospitals. I often wonder what is worse 🤔

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

What I would say is that they are trying to simplify the narratives so that things are as simple as Iranians are the kind of people who hide under schools and hospitals so we don't have to reflect upon anything deeper about colonialism, jingoism and reflected ethnic conflicts being driven into a genocidal overdrive by cynical forces intent on nothing but destruction for profit and distractions for answers.

What matters is that children died who didn't have to, and that this was a choice by US and Iraeli leaders.

There was easily a timeline where those children didn't die, and I think it is a better one than this, both for Iranians and for jews and Israelis. I mean I don't need to qualify it, that timeline is better for all of us, this war is bullshit and the US and Iran started it. That is just the reality of it, as frustrating and heartbreaking as it is.

I return to a central point that no matter what happens in Iran, this attack was undertaken with ZERO internal, domestic accountability and independent of how you feel about Iranian leaders and Iranian politics, supporting this without massive reservations risks normalizing an absolutely evil precedent. Further even if it is revealed at a later point that Democrats were totally onboard with how these strikes went down, that is if anything even more damning of US politics.

We must all say no, and it doesn't really have to do with how evil or not evil the Iranian leadership was or is, it has to do with how we are all so obviously getting played for fools here. If nothing else, you should feel deeply condescended because you have been by this turn of geopolitical events no matter where you live on earth.

[–] firelight@startrek.website 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"What's in it for us?" - the international community

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 hours ago

We need to band together against the Untied States now before it picks us off one by one

[–] lnxtx@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fricking Hamas commanders. /s

But for real, it's called a Dahiya doctrine.

[–] urandom@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Seriously, why is Israel the way it is

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago

Because it was a colonialist apartheid project from the start. Colonialists gonna colonialist.

[–] theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

Should happen highly doubt anyone will do anything and that's not doomerism just recognizing the people in power won't intervene in something like this unless forced to.