In Iran, the U.S. and Israel are employing tactics used in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the “War on Terror” and Trump’s recent attacks on alleged drug boats in the Carribean.

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.

  • mastertigurius@lemmy.worldEnglish
    141·
    21 days ago

    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?

  • Jeremylikesbourbon@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    93·
    21 days ago

    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.

      • hector@lemmy.todayEnglish
        14·
        20 days 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.

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
        9·
        20 days ago

        I remember 9/11 and the TV interviews on the street. People had NO IDEA why terrorists would fly planes into US buildings. “Irrational” and “Crazy”.

  • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    68·
    21 days ago

    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?

    • Chloé 🥕English
      37·
      21 days ago

      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 🤮

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        20 days ago

        “no people are hiding and fleeing, Tehran is being bombed!”

        The same people who marched in Toronto begging Trump to invade Iran carrying King Pahlavi signs?

        Help is on the way.

    • MythraEnglish
      13·
      21 days 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!”

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      20 days ago

      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.

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.caEnglish
        6·
        20 days ago

        But the plan is to install their bitch Pahlavi back as Shah, resetting the cycle back to the 1970s. Good time to be in the gold toilets and toilet accessories business.

  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    25·
    20 days 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…

  • TerdFerguson@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    20 days 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?

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      20 days ago

      excuse me but if you want me to enact changes i need all kinds of specific assurances that you are not prepared to give

  • Gsus4@mander.xyzEnglish
    3·
    21 days ago

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

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    18 days 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.