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by thomassmith65 98 days ago
The IRGC's strategy in this conflict has been to blow up civilian targets in nearly all nations surrounding it.

It appears the IRGC has chosen civilian targets (eg: high rise apartments, airports, oil fields) on purpose, but if not, then they have such poor technology that their strikes are random.

Killing people in 11 nations to put pressure on the two nations that actually attacked you is a good demonstration of the Iranian regime's morals.

If the USA or Israel bombed this school, it clearly was an accident, since the only party it benefits is the Iranian regime.

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Although the UAE and everyone else Iran has attacked may not have directly attacked Iran, they are hosting the American infrastructure making the attacks possible.

I can understand why Iran considers most gulf states complicit.

Here's a map of the 'complicit' nations the IRGC has been bombing:

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/b7ef/live/f6673...

That's: Syria, Lebanon, Cyprus, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, and Oman.

There is no point for the IRGC to do this other than to create such chaos and fear that the world pressures America to relent.

And why do you believe the USA doesn’t have bases at these locations?

I believe Iran leadership are aware of geo politics much better than the American and even European.

They are experts at the new type of war fare, war with low cost kamikaze drones.

I agree, but it is still very unfortunate. It’s a lot less compelling to argue “but we killed fewer civilians, and it was only on accident”