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[–] Wataba@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Shitty, aboslutely.

How many American school children have Iran bombed?

Dont try to give America a free pass by diluting the narrative.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Iran has long supported terrorist organizations that have killed many innocent people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terrorism

Nobody gets a free pass.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 0 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Cool. So Iran supports and donates to Terrorist organizations. That's 100% true.

America straight up skips the middle man and does the terrorism themselves. One of the first targets the USA bombed was an elementary school in Iran. Why fund terrorism when you can just do it yourself?

[–] abc@suppo.fi -2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

One of the first targets the USA bombed was an elementary school in Iran.

Do you really think they did that knowingly? It was the greatest single PR loss of the whole war for them. Who knows, could be that that one horrible mistake made them lose the whole thing.

Iranian backed terrorists do the shit they do knowingly for 100% sure.

Even if consequences may be as shitty, intent matters.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Do you really think they did that knowingly?

It was targeted, so yes. It was to put pressure on the Iranian government from the start by killing children and innocents first instead of military targets.

Last I checked, the USA has a rather long track record of bombing civilians to pressure government surrender.

See: Japan.

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Please cite the part where I gave America a free pass.

[–] qevlarr@lemmy.world 14 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Please cite those Lemmy users rooting for women to be lashed for singing

[–] Photonic@lemmy.world -5 points 17 hours ago

Apparently you’re trying your very best to defend Iran here with multiple comments under mine. And nowhere have I said people were rooting for women to be lashed, my dear straw man. I said they were rooting for the regime.