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by lelanthran 104 days ago
Theres pictures online confirming that it was an Iranian misfire that killed the school.

Will you now redirect your outrage over innocent children to the incumbent Iranian government?

Will you continue entering threads to signal your outrage to the world?

Will you keep quiet, double down or practice the morals you claim to have?
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roenxi 104 days ago
While this is a minor point; whether or not it was an Iranian misfire doesn't move the moral responsibility away from the invaders. Unless the IRGC took advantage of the chaos to purposefully hit the school (seems unlikely) then the entire situation was teed up by the external aggression and can still pretty reasonably be blamed on them.
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lelanthran 104 days ago
Of course it does.

If you try to shield your armed forces using children, and then accidentally kill them because you used them as a shield, you can't blame someone else.

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roenxi 104 days ago
... I'm just going of Wikipedia here but it seems to have been a standard small city [0]. Attempting to educate Iranians in Iranian cities isn't really trying to shield armed forces. Is the expectation here that Iran should send their students out into the wilderness to make it more politically convenient for US/Israeli to launch unannounced strikes on them?

Apart from the fact that Iran is a bad place to be right now it actually looks like a pleasant city to visit. Sounds like they have lots of fruit, warm weather and have some interesting history vis a vis the Mongols. Very middle eastern.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minab

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lelanthran 104 days ago
Instead of looking at the entire city, just look at the google maps data for proximity of their armed forces to their school.

Look, maybe it was a school specifically for the children of army personnel, but that's a long shot. From the geolocation data, the school was right at their missile launch site.

They had choices.

Locate the school or the launch site elsewhere, for one.

Evacuate the school before they tried to launch munitions, for another.

This is on them.

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__m 104 days ago
Why does that seem unlikely? It makes people argue that the price is not worth it. After killing thousands of protesters you think they would shy away from killing some dozens of kids?
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heavyset_go 104 days ago
Weird that you're so delighted to shift the blame for the tragedy of children being blown up in school, even more so that you're relying on unsubstantiated claims to do it.

Since you know more than the rest of the world about this, please update Wikipedia with a reliable source for your claim as has already been requested by admins here[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:2026_Minab_school_airstri...

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lelanthran 104 days ago
> Weird that you're so delighted to shift the blame for the tragedy of children being blown up in school, even more so that you're relying on unsubstantiated claims to do it.

Where in my message does it seem that I am delighted?

No doubt the truth will eventually come out, what I have seen is that the school was sited unusually close to an Iran launch site.

You can judge me all you want for "being delighted", whatever the hell that means, but I'm not advocating that schools be used as shields for rocket launchers, am I?

I'm advocating the exact opposite.

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heavyset_go 104 days ago
Damn you really got up on your high horse because you read some spicy tweets lol
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lelanthran 104 days ago
You said

> you're so delighted

Then you said

> lol

Okay, I get it - for you this is a laughing matter; your goal is something other than discussion.

But I gotta know - you are talking about a regime that had no problem gunning down thousands of innocent citizens in the streets just a month ago, why are you so sure that they won't use other innocents as shields for their soldiers?

Where is this confidence coming from?

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