The attackers’ ability to spare newly established adjacent facilities (such as the Martyr Absalan clinic) and their glaring failure to avoid an elementary school operating at full capacity and packed with 170 girls leaves us with two scenarios, both unequivocally condemnatory: Either US and Israeli forces relied, in striking the vicinity of the Asif Brigade, on a very old, outdated intelligence target bank (dating to before 2013), which would constitute grave negligence and reckless disregard for civilian lives; or the strike was carried out deliberately and with prior knowledge to inflict maximum societal shock and undermine popular support for Iran’s military establishment.

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    They hate education, they hate children, they hate women. If it weren’t deliberate on their part, it would be serendipity.

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    Of course it was deliberate: Israel wouldn’t have been involved unless it was able to bomb children.

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    Given what I have read, I agree with Al Jazeera’s evaluation. Either highly outdated info and no effort to update it (colorful murals on exterior walls, regular traffic by parents --> chances of updating the designation of the object)…

    …or just people who give zero damns, or even worse, some form of AI generating target lists which people blindly rubberstamp, Israeli style.

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      Or whatever random Israeli asset gave a suggestion, and then they rubberstamped it.

      Making shit up is a popular tactic to not get your blackmail file released or get paid or whatever.

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    Israel, having done this multiple times in Gaza, knew with absolute certainty that they’ll get away with it once again.

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    It makes sense that it was deliberate. Israel doesn’t want regime change, they want a failed state in Iran. And the rally-round-the-flag effect the bombing and martyrdom of 165 school girls, and the subsequent longer war it will cause, gives them just that

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    Yep but given the elites lining up behind this from the news cheering it to Britain, Germany, NATO,Canada and France are aligning with the US blatantly and supporting this with base sharing rhetorical support.

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    The world most moral army, does everything deliberately, make no mistake, and killing children is their most profound mortality