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Trump Threatens To ‘Blow Up’ Iran’s Desalination Plants – antiwar.com
Ah! Isn’t that a nice way to start Holy Week? Dumpy and his clan of demons must have been doing some heavy duty praying to Beelzebub, (Jesus doesn’t listen to dogshit human beings headed to Hell from all I’ve been told) you know, praying for “overwhelming violence against those who deserve no mercy”, as the war lover Pete Hegseth does.
President Trump on Monday added Iran’s desalination plants to the list of infrastructure he may “blow up” if a deal isn’t reached to end the war, threatening attacks on the country’s water supply, a clear war crime under international law.
“The United States of America is in serious discussions with A NEW, AND MORE REASONABLE, REGIME to end our Military Operations in Iran,” President Trump wrote on Truth Social, though Iran continues to deny negotiations are taking place.
“Great progress has been made but, if for any reason a deal is not shortly reached, which it probably will be, and if the Hormuz Strait is not immediately ‘Open for Business,’ we will conclude our lovely ‘stay’ in Iran by blowing up and completely obliterating all of their Electric Generating Plants, Oil Wells and Kharg Island (and possibly all desalinization plants!), which we have purposefully not yet ‘touched,’” Trump added.
No matter that he’s committing a war crime with his threats. Why would he care…the fricking pansy-ass Congress won’t be taking any action to 25th-amendment-his-ass out of office. They have more important things to do, like taking a vacation with all this going on.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked later in the day why President Trump was threatening what would amount to a potential war crime. “Look, the president has made it quite clear to the Iranian regime at this moment in time, as evidenced by the statement that you just read, that their best move is to make a deal, or else the United States armed forces have capabilities beyond their wildest imagination, and the president is not afraid to use them,” she said.
Did you know that Miss Karoline is the youngest White House press secretary ever? Isn’t that special?
Following the strike on the desalination plant in Qeshm Island, Bahrain said that an Iranian drone struck one of its desalination plants. On Sunday, a desalination plant came under attack in Kuwait, killing an Indian worker. For its part, Iran denied it was responsible and claimed it was some sort of “false flag” operation.
The US’s Gulf Arab allies are extremely reliant on desalination plants for their water supply, much more so than Iran, meaning that any large-scale targeting of such facilities in the region could cause a major humanitarian crisis.
In other shitty news:
US Used a New Missile in a Strike in Iran That Hit a Sports Hall and an Elementary School – antiwar.com
At least 21 civilians were killed in the bombing, which occurred on the first day of the US-Israeli war against Iran
The US used a new missile in a strike on the first day of the US-Israeli war against Iran that hit a sports hall and an adjacent elementary school in the Iranian city of Lamerd, killing at least 21 people in the area, The New York Times has reported.
The report, which cited weapons experts and analysis of footage of the strikes, said the sports hall, school, and nearby areas were likely hit by a short-range ballistic missile called the Precision Strike Missile, or PrSM (pronounced “prism”), which had not been tested in combat before the February 28 strikes.
The PrSM missiles are designed to detonate just above their target and blast small pellets outward, which is consistent with the footage and pictures reviewed by the Times. The missiles completed prototype testing last year, and Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of US Central Command, has said that the PrSM was used for the first time in combat in US strikes on Iran.
Aftermath of the US strike on a sports hall in Lamerd, Iran (Tasnim news agency)
Drop Site Newspublished a report on the strike on the sports hall on March 1. The report said that dozens of teenage girls were attending regular training sessions in volleyball, basketball, and gymnastics at the time of the strike.
“Within seconds of the missile strike, the windows shattered into thousands of fragments. Sports equipment, balls, tables, barriers flew through the air. Black smoke filled the space. The smell of gunpowder made breathing almost impossible. The screaming began immediately, layered with the sound of debris collapsing and concrete falling from the ceiling,” Mohammed Saed Khorshedy, a worker at the sports hall who witnessed the attack, told Drop Site.
According to Iranian media, at least 21 civilians were killed by strikes on the sports hall, the school, and nearby residential areas. The sports hall and the school are next to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) compound, but according to an analysis from the BBC, the IRGC base appeared to be undamaged after the strikes.
Negin Bagheri, a journalist based in Iran, said that two young girls, Helma Ahmadizadeh, a fourth-grader, and Elham Zaeri, a fifth-grader, were killed in the US attack, which struck as they were practicing volleyball. A boy in sixth grade who was playing soccer outside was also killed, along with his coach.
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