The people running the military are incompetent as fuck.

The only good thing about this.

fighting militia who can barely fight back vs someone with actual resources you cannot just blow up with air superiority

Hegseth has been dispatched to your location to test the rigidity of your penis.

But how is the DOW?

Vaccine Status?

There is supposed to be. AUMF (authorization for use of military force) broke it by delegating to the President the authority to unilaterally engage in military action without Congressional approval.

AUMF should be repealed.

Yeah, Iran's unmatched in respect for human rights and the laws of war.

Civilians in Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are at grave risk from ongoing Iranian strikes in response to US and Israeli military attacks on Iran, Human Rights Watch said today. Many of the Iranian attacks have struck civilian residential buildings, hotels, civilian airports, and embassies, and have unlawfully targeted civilian objects such as financial centers.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/17/iran-unlawful-strikes-across-gulf-endanger-civilians

“If our security is not ensured, no infrastructure will be safe.” - Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, July 22

I get the sentiment, but Iran did shoot down a passenger plane in 2020. Most of the passengers were Iranian, and 176 people were killed.

The background is that after the assassination of Qasem Soleimani in 2020 Iran responded by striking a NATO base with missiles. The whole thing was telegraphed to the NATO troops so nobody got seriously hurt (lots of concussions though). It was the first time that Iran's missile capabilities was displayed like that, and it shocked a lot of people back then. Iranian media said it was a "proportional response", but of course it really was very careful and underwhelming considering what had just happened.

It's difficult to imagine now, but back then this was a major escalation and everyone was super tense. Iran did not know how NATO would respond. Apparently an air defense soldier was so nervous that in the coming hours, he misread the radar, and fired two air defense missiles at the passenger aircraft.

Obviously the plane going down took all of the power out of the messaging that Iran was a force to be reckoned with, owing to it's missiles that had just hit the NATO base, which itself was a highly successful operation. So it really had a massively negative impact on the narrative for Iran.

Most US propoganda just goes away when you look at a map.

Iran is run by the bad guys, and I’m not talking about iranians.

This was reported in major news a few years ago.

It is entirely infiltrated by a certain countries intelligence apparatus. No not the cia(but kinda).

Not weighing into specific numbers but causality includes wounded and deaths

https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/conflictCasualties/oo/byCategory

This is Overseas Operations, the new category they added as the first paragraph in the article says.

Yes, you are a more credible source than the Guardian, and their army of lawyers vetting every headline for potential legal exposure.

Technically a "casualty" should be a soldier that is not able to go back to combat, so shouldn't include light injures. It's still an impressive number if we consider there are no boots on the ground.

It's definitely a thing in the Palestine conflict, as well as Ukraine-Russia, no doubt others. But Iran? Do you have a source?

Same vibes as losing ships to a country with no navy.