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In my opinion, a more responsible government would probably not continue to using an abandon military base as a school for this reason. I'm sure the thought had crossed someone's mind that something like this might happen.

I'm not trying to make excuses for the USA here, it's an abhorrent thing and I do agree, much more care should've been taken.

No one is suggesting other kids schools are "fair game" so just calm down a bit?

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> a more responsible government would probably not continue to using an abandon military base as a school.

The UK, the US, Germany, et al are therefore not "responsible government" ?

Iran is an old country, leaving aside the assorted historical and urban settlements dating back to some 7,000 years before present time, the Median and Achaemenid Empires there data back to ~ 600 BC.

A lot of buildings and places have prior history.

The age of the country has nothing to do with a 10 year old conversion by, let's a face it a murderous thug regime who kills its own citizens for not wearing Burqa's, who are you kidding?

It wouldn't put it past me if the IRGC steered the USA towards the school for this to happen, that's the kind of people they actually are. They kill protestors, why wouldn't they kill a school full of kids, what's the difference to them?

Age of a country has everything to do with it, even Australia a young country with vast open spaces is repurposing former (WWI -> near present) military sites in urban areas.

Iran with 7,000 years of history can't really leave unused sites idle - and everywhere there has history.

> It wouldn't put it past me if the IRGC steered the USA towards the school for this to happen, that's the kind of people they actually are.

Uh-huh. Okay. That's quite the long con child sacrifice conspiracy theory you're projecting there to cover up for what's more likely to be general incompetence caused by a rushed strike order in the context of a POTUS with no plan.

I will reiterate, a government who is fine killing woman for not wear head scarfs is just as capable of such an atrocity.

Not sure why you're such an IRGC apologist but do it somewhere else?

You do realize the US qualifies as a murderous thug regime by many measurements. We're actively waging war against Iran for no discernible reason, we're blowing up boats in the Caribbean with zero proof they're drug boats, and we have masked thugs pulling residents off and shipping them to 3rd world nations with zero legal recourse.

Just because Iran has a fucked government (that we helped install, by the way) doesn't let us off the hook or justify stooping to their level.

Both things can be true, no need to take sides.

Now that you mention it, I did go to school in the US for years at a military base that was abandoned after the Cuban missile crisis had died down.

We still continued to have Civil Defense drills in case of nuclear attack.

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