Shahid Baqaei Hospital, a children's cancer treatment centre in Ahvaz, was evacuated last night after the US attacked a nearby location.
This barbaric attack, reminiscent of Israel’s atrocities against healthcare facilities, caused severe suffering and anxiety upon the hospitalized children, and forced the emergency evacuation of 211 patients undergoing chemotherapy.
This constitutes a cowardly war crime against the most innocent of human beings — children who are bravely fighting for their lives.
Those who ceaselessly preach human rights, yet deliberately turn a blind eye to the targeting of hospitals and health centers, have forfeited every shred of moral credibility.
As I wrote on February 28th, the first day of aggression:
"Mark my word: Iran has outlived each & every aggressor over millennia. It won't be different this time"
"The great error of nearly all studies of war, an error into which all socialists have fallen, has been to consider war as an episode in foreign politics, when it is especially an act of interior politics, and the most atrocious act of all", so observed the French philosopher Simone Weil.
From this perspective, targetting the drinking-water tanks in Sirik, southern Iran, strips the mask from the true nature of the power; a power that has spent decades cloaking itself in the language of 'human rights', 'international order', and 'moral responsibility' reveals its essence when it deliberately destroys the drinking water of Iranians. In that moment, it does not merely attack a target — it strikes at the very foundation of the noble narrative it has built about itself.
Empires do not fall when their enemies grow stronger; they fall when they can no longer sustain the bridge between what they proclaim and what they do.
The moment of decline is not the collapse of city walls; it is the collapse of the credibility of words that have long concealed reality. What remains is what T.S. Eliot so hauntingly described:
"Shape without form, shade without colour, paralysed force, gesture without motion."
From @TheAthleticFC: When the Iran team landed in Mexico for the World Cup, players wore pins that read "#168."
The design commemorates the number of children killed at a school on the first day of the U.S.-Iran conflict. https://t.co/PGL50Lkw5y
Bernie Sanders:
It's not just the right-wing extremist and racist government of Israel.
When you look at American foreign policy over the years, what do you have in Saudi Arabia? You have MBS—a guy who, according to American intelligence sources, is a murderer. He killed Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
In Qatar, how many people know this, 90% of the people in that small country are migrant laborers.
And then you have the UAE, another dictatorship.
You have these dictatorships that do not tolerate dissent and treat women as third-class citizens.
So I think, to say the least, that our policy toward the Middle East needs some fundamental changes.
More than 150 people, including 120 children, were killed in Iran when an airstrike hit a school in Minab.
Although a preliminary US military investigation determined Washington was responsible, the Trump administration is yet to formally accept responsibility.
Sky's @DominicWaghorn is the first international journalist to visit Minab.
Warning: contains distressing content.
Saying "a whole civilization die tonight" is not a threat of a genocide, it's threat of a holocaust. Genocide is killing a race or religion, in whole or in part, what happened in Gaza. Holocaust is killing a whole race or civilization. Even the threat is a moral stain on America.
This is a threat of genocide and merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing and cannot be trusted.
To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat.
Trump woke up this morning threatening genocide against a country of 90 million people.
We should be back in DC RIGHT NOW to stop this deranged madman from blowing up the world. Does this seem urgent to you, @SpeakerJohnson? How can you sleep at night??