This denial of the U.S. military strike on a wedding ceremony in Kouhestak, southern Iran, which claimed five civilian lives and injured 68 others, is even more telling than an admission of guilt.
Despite shameless claims from the U.S. Vice President, the U.S. military has repeatedly targeted civilian populations, and will continue to do so, as pledged by its President, amid total impunity. The facts speak for themselves:
- The massacre of 168 schoolchildren in Minab, southern Iran, with two Tomahawk missiles: an unequivocal war crime.
- The testing detonation of a PrSM over a sports hall in Lamerd, southwestern Iran, showering civilians with thousands of tungsten fragments and leaving 21 dead and 170 injured: an indisputable war crime.
- The massacre of over 3,500 civilians and the injuring of 40,000 others, alongside damage or destruction to 117,000 residential units: an unmasked war crime.
- Direct and indirect strikes against 50 hospitals and over 300 healthcare and emergency facilities, including the complete destruction of the Pasteur Institute of Tehran: a blatant war crime.
- The record of decades of unilateral economic terrorism targeting the entire Iranian population, particularly the most vulnerable: utterly criminal.
- And historically, the 1988 shootdown of Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, which killed 290 civilians: absolute criminality.
No doubt that this administration has set a new record for gross hypocrisy, violating int. law, the UN Charter, and int. humanitarian law.
Most alarming of all is the global silence, a silence that effectively normalizes these atrocities and enables continued impunity of the U.S. regime.