TEHRAN, IRAN—As groups of families and others gathered Sunday evening at cafes around Niloofar Square—a middle-class area in eastern Tehran—after breaking their fast for Ramadan, a series of explosions struck the area, leveling several buildings and killing over 20 people, according to witnesses at the scene and later reports from local news sources.

Witnesses who spoke to Drop Site said two explosions hit the area—a smaller strike in the vicinity, followed by a larger one that devastated much of the neighborhood, a tactic known as a “double tap” strike that is used to inflict maximum casualties.

Videos of the immediate aftermath of the attack showed several individuals dead and wounded as well as massive destruction on the street outside. In Cafe Ahla, next to the square, blood and debris soaked the floors. Several patrons who had been sitting there when the attack struck could be seen dead on the floor or with their mutilated bodies still sprawled across their seats.

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[–] 102 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Oh, good. The US and Israel are deliberately targeting civilians during a holy period. This won't come back to bite the US at all.

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

    It's like they have zero idea what caused 9/11 in the first place.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago

    They want nothing more than another 9/11 as an excuse to do some military adventurism, the project 2025 assholes to be clear, the president is their bitch, and Israel's obviously.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago

    The fuckers driving this stuff are so mustache-twirling stupidly evil that they are probably doing it on purpose to ensure that part of their legacy is that the next generation can be convinced to treat entire nations' worth of people as violent animals.

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  • [–] 76 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Well, Pete did say the US was no longer going to be following those pesky "rules of engagement" anymore. I guess this is what he meant.

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  • [–] 74 points 8 months ago (15 children)

    And we're still claiming to be doing this because the Iranian people were stuck living under a murderous and repressive regime? Or has he just dropped the act?

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  • [–] 41 points 8 months ago* (4 children)

    tonight radio-canada (the french-speaking counterpart to the CBC) was interviewing a lot of people from Iran, and one of the questions the interviewer asked was "so, with Khamenei dead, do you think people will go to the streets to protest their government and bring about regime change?" to which the interviewee just answered "no people are hiding and fleeing, Tehran is being bombed!"

    so idk about the usa but canadian state media certainly seems to want to spin it as an act of liberation 🤮

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Right now everyone in the resistance is saying to stay inside while the bombing campaign is happening. They will wait for the signal to start the uprising. Because obviously taking to the streets when there's a bombing campaign happening is a really dumb thing to do.

    Consider that this site might not be giving you all of the information about what's happening in Iran.

    No way to know how many will take to the streets when they're told "it's time". Last time it was millions. The regime machine gunned down tens of thousands, bodies piled up in the streets, really horrific. This time I'd guess the resistance is going to have weapons air dropped to them and some drone support and intel. Should even things up.

    There are very few people in Iran that don't know someone that was executed by the regime and the IRGC is being decimated. If the members of the IRGC were smart, they'd get out while they can, though I don't know who would take them. I suppose Russia is always looking for some more criminals to send to the front lines.

    Best of luck to the resistance when the time comes.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago*

    They aren't here for regime change they are here for PR points and to distract from domestic problems.

    A) They aren't going to ever tell you it's time because your needs never meant anything to them

    B) There will be no weapons air dropped to you because your revolution is a non-goal for them.

    C) The remaining military is still going to be mostly alive and capable of machine gunning you down again

    D) The new leader will be as bad as the old in fact it will probably be one of his deputies who have already been largely running the show

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago

    There are Iranian grifters with relatively large followings (they do artificially inlfate their numbers though) among the diaspora still making this claim. When they talk I just hear: "Bomb my family harder , Daddy!"

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Well, strictly speaking the dead are now free from the Iranian Regime.

    I mean, if you look at the list of all the nations Trump started wars with or authorized attacks in, he's clearly big on bringing Peace ... Of The Grave.

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  • [–] 148 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    Known "tactic" previously employed by the Israelis in Palestine, as well as by Assad in Syria, and by many other mindless butchers. They're not interested in mission objectives or the safety of the world, they just want to watch their enemies burn. And some keyboard warriors in Europe and the US cheer this evil on. What has the world come to?

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

    Sorry, but I'll have to disagree with you. The gradual disassembly of rules-based order has done something to the world in the 21st century. Recommended reading:

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    [–] 33 points 8 months ago

    Double taps are designed to kill civilians, then kill responders.

    Fucking war crime.

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  • [–] 25 points 8 months ago

    That's fucked up. Just targeting civilians like any other mad dictator. No pretense of going after military targets.

    I guess this is what hegseth meant by "no stupid rules of engagement." Just unmitigated war crimes, in plain view...

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago

    I recall Trump was bestowed the FIFA Award of Peace. There was a gold trophy and award ceremony and everything.

    Who on Earth could have foreseen such a reversal?

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I'm an idiot that doesn't understand facial expressions. What is this meant to convey? Or is it meant to be a commentary on many Americans being too large and sick to worry about what the government is doing to people?

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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago

    As well as being too large and sick to do anything about what the government is doing, the photo is supposed to convey that they also look sad (teary eyes) and hopeless (distant gaze despite being close to camera and faint smile that isn't really a smile).

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

    Aren't these the people the shag wanted to fight for him against the IRGC?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    There was a time where I would have attributed such tactics to terrorist groups, but in this time, it could be both, US or Israel.

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    they been doing it for decades

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

    How is it different from Vietnam and Iraq?

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    [–] 9 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    They purposefully target civilians, and make sure there are no survivors by targeting rescue crews. Unfathomable evil.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    May the empire burn to the ground so all of us can grieve and rebuild

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