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[+] -39 points 8 months ago (22 children)
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    Ryan Grim is an investigative journalist who has a strong track record of accurate and groundbreaking reporting. Whatever semantics arguments you have doesn’t make him any less reputable or this statement any less correct.

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  • [+] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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    He’s providing context to help people understand what a Kurdish Iranian imam was saying about a washed up son of a former dictator. I’m not sure what’s more pathetic, your lack of reading comprehension or that you genuinely think Pahlavi is an “Iranian opposition leader”. lol

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  • [+] -1 points 8 months ago (1 child)
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    Yeah sure, the guy cheering on as the US and Israel murder Iranian children and civilians is such an outstanding leader. He’s so good at opposing Iran, he claps when the blood of Iranian children is spilled. That will surely show those mullahs! What else can you expect from son of a dictator. His father committed mass atrocities against the Iran people after overthrowing Iranian democracy with the support of the CIA. Those are definitely the qualifications Iranian people want in a leader. It’s certainly not just the US, Israel, and a number of bitter exiled monarchists pretending Pahlavi is king.

    Also it’s really hilarious that you linked pieces by Jeremy Scahill. The guy is an even better journalist than Ryan Grim. He won a number of awards for his on the ground reporting on American wars in the Middle East. How arrogant do you have to be to assume you know the region better than he does?

    Also he’s not saying the protests were “inorganic”. Thats just a lie. He’s trying to understand to what extent Israeli and American assets acted as agent provocateurs which isn’t a crazy thing to try and investigate! It’s a known fact that the CIA and Mossad operate in Iran and have carried out acts of sabotage and assassination. Do you really think on the advent of a war the US and Israel wouldn’t try to take advantage of internal unrest? Amazing lol

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (14 children)

    They mean striking civilian targets when they say carpet bombing, they don't mean WW2 style mass dumb bombing.

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago* (12 children)

    Bro two hospitals and a school where they haven't shown a valid target nearby is three civilian targets too many for the most technologically advanced military in the world.

    Double tapping is just fuel on a bonfire but sure if prevaricating for fascists is your deal then carry on.

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    Keyword used to be, we have the largest Intel apparatus of any nation, combine that with Israel being at the very least top ten especially when it comes to Iran.

    They knew, stop trying to make excuses for the inexcusable.

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

    I still don't think they knew, or at least mistakes were made. I don't see any reason to stike like 500 military targets and then just that particular school.

    People give the US too much credit

    edit: as a mod seems to have deleted my post for some vague reason, here's the article I referred to

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    So you're under the impression we know how to find their nuclear program, is exact storage locations, the defenses in place, how much rock and concrete it's under but somehow some way can't use a telephone book to find out it's a girl's school or use satellite photography to see school children going in and out on a daily basis?

    Really that makes more sense to you then people taking part in a self proclaimed holy war striking civilian targets?

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago* (7 children)

    Yeah, I do indeed think intel on that other stuff you mentioned might get more attention

    How do you explain that out of, say, 5000 schools, they attacked just the one?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (6 children)

    I don't need to explain that, no school should be targeted.

    How do you explain the fact they double tapped it if it were in fact mistaken?

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    You're trying to misrepresent the question

    If saying that this wasn't an error, how do you explain them hitting (almost) no schools and (almost) exclusively military targets? Why would they add just the one school?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (4 children)

    We've gone over this, they say it's a holy war. How do you get war powers? You piss off Iran enough to do some actual damage to us personnel either overseas or here at home.

    Why just one? Because one allows you to have sycophants or useful idiots to excuse it as a mistake like for instance what you are doing.

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    You believe they've bombed a singular school so it would be discussed on Lemmy?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    No they bombed a school to spur terror attacks throughout the region and especially in the USA. And you really think it's just lemmy people are talking about it.

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