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If this turns out to be true, which seems increasingly likely day by day, this will be the humanitarian price against which the rest of the campaign will be measured. The US will have ceded much of the moral high ground they claimed in avenging the slaughter of innocent protesters.

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You forget the UI killed a million Iraqis and also had a torture prison. I don't think the US has every had the high ground.

> The US will have ceded much of the moral high ground they claimed in avenging the slaughter of innocent protesters.

It will be forgotten soon.

> It will be forgotten soon.

it won't. Opposing US political side will weaponize this incident in their interests.

I hope you're right, and one day we don't read 20 or 30 years from now the biography of a terrorist, and it starts out with their experience being the sibling of a child injured at one of these schools.

In the US, but not in Iran and elsewhere.

Yeah, but that does not influence US politics.

I’d argue that Iran has a huge influence on US politics, as the US is currently at war with them.

The fate of Iranian civilians does not impact US politics.

A majority of Americans are completely unconcerned by the suffering of victims of the empire abroad.

the "concern" of US civilians in general is different from the result of their nations behaviours

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.

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”

Can't cede moral high ground when that moral high ground is a claim no one believes in anymore. If they ever did.

It’s basically like North Korea calling itself “democratic peoples republic”. Just roll your eyes and move on.

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