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Source: https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2026/03/02/kurdish-iranian-opposition-groups-say-iran-targeted-them-in-northern-iraq-claim-operations-in-iran/

Kurdish Iranian opposition groups said on March 1st that they have been targeted by drone and missile attacks in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq. The attacks took place after the US and Israel carried out strikes on Iran on February 28.

Several other Kurdish opposition groups also said they were targeted. Kurdish Iranian opposition groups have forces in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq, and five of the groups recently agreed to form a coalition against the Iranian regime.

The attackers’ ability to spare newly established adjacent facilities (such as the Martyr Absalan clinic) and their glaring failure to avoid an elementary school operating at full capacity and packed with 170 girls leaves us with two scenarios, both unequivocally condemnatory: Either US and Israeli forces relied, in striking the vicinity of the Asif Brigade, on a very old, outdated intelligence target bank (dating to before 2013), which would constitute grave negligence and reckless disregard for civilian lives; or the strike was carried out deliberately and with prior knowledge to inflict maximum societal shock and undermine popular support for Iran’s military establishment.

More pointlessly cruel policy changes from the UK's Labour government.

This won't even be taken to a parliamentary vote because the party knows it wouldn't pass.

Imran Hussain, from the Refugee Council charity, told the BBC that reviewing the status of refugees - who were successful, not failed, asylum seekers - would be costly and distract the Home Office from speeding up the system.

He also warned that if refugees felt they "had one foot in the departure lounge" even though their asylum claim had been accepted, then this would make it more difficult for them to hold down employment and to integrate.

So this genuinely helps no one. All it does is pander to the far right, who will never vote Labour.

Photo of Pedro Sánchez, ~~president of Spain~~ Spanish Prime Minister and leader of a class-traitorous social democratic party that has succeeded in getting the US to break off trade relations with Spain.

::: spoiler From Aljazeera

“Spain has been terrible,” Trump told reporters during a meeting with German ⁠Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

The president ⁠added he told US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to “cut ⁠off all dealings” with Spain.

“We’re going ⁠to cut ⁠off all trade with Spain. We don’t want anything to ‌do with Spain,” said Trump.

Source: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/3/3/iran-live-news-israel-bombs-tehran-beirut-trump-says-war-to-last-4-weeks?update=4360162

Tehran directly pointed the finger at the Israeli occupation for being behind the aerial attack that targeted the facilities of the Aramco oil company in Saudi Arabia this Monday morning. Sources quoted a military official as saying that the operation falls under the category of a 'false flag,' through which Tel Aviv seeks to stir up regional affairs and divert attention away from the military operations it is conducting against non-civilian targets within Iranian territory.

Iranian military sources confirmed that Aramco facilities have never been among Iran's target bank until this moment, despite previous warnings to place all American and Israeli interests in the region under fire. The official explained that Iran does not hesitate to claim responsibility for any strikes it carries out, noting that intelligence data warns of similar Israeli plans that may target the Port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates in the coming period.

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When those bombs fall, they ... change politics in the target. They inject Nationalism into the regime. They inject nationalism into the society. And they essentially fuse the regime and society against the air power attacker.

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The Banality of Artificial Intelligence

What happens when an AI hallucination leads to bombing an elementary school?

By Michael Altfield
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/

It appears likely that the US government is using Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and/or xAI data models for processing signals intelligence (SIGINT), for AI-generated "kill lists" to determine where to drop their bombs.

[right] This AI datacenter is a machinery of war. Its LLM hallucinations decide which children to assassinate [left] This IG Farben (Bayer/BASF) factory in Auschwitz produced Zyklon B for the Nazis, who murdered over a million children

In Apr 2024, +972 (an Israeli news outlet) published a >9,000 word article describing how the Israeli military had been using Artificial Intelligence to decide which (residential) buildings, hospitals, and schools to bomb in Gaza.

In Feb 2026, the US (and Israel) bombed Iran -- killing over 100 schoolchildren (and Ali Khamenei).

In Mar 2026, it appears that the US has likely built a similar system, leveraging US AI companies' tech to decide which (school) buildings to bomb, false-positive hallucinations be damned.

Who targeted the Shajareh Tayyiba girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran? Could it have been an AI hallucination? A false-positive?
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Read the full article here:

• https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2026/03/03/ai-venezuela-iran/

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Apple appears to have prematurely revealed the name of its rumored lower-cost MacBook model, which is expected to be announced this Wednesday. A regulatory document for a "MacBook Neo" (Model A3404) has appeared on Apple's website. Unfortunately, there are no further details or images available yet. While the PDF file does not contain the "MacBook Neo" name, it briefly appeared in a link on Apple's regulatory website for EU compliance purposes.

I mean, the fall of USSR was the biggest happening of the 20th century, if it were reversed, the world would return to being the same, thus proving that nothing ever happens.

Why? Why would you brag about this? What possibly could this do other than destablize Iran and push it into further violence and chaos?

Oh right, that is exactly what the US and Israel wants...

Make no mistake, Trump doesn't give a fuck about the Iranian people, he and the other forces alligned here want Iran to turn into a Libya-type failed state situation.

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/61269574

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/42885501

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