03/12/2026
So then, where is global accountability? Where are the sanctions, the boycotts and retaliatory tarrifs like what were placed on Iran for their support of Hezbollah and Hamas, or against Russia for Ukraine?
The hypocrisy of Western nations smells as bad as the smoking oil refineries. There is no democracy currently in the USA with Congress sitting on its hands and closing their eyes to the governmental abuses, and none in Iran. They are currently fundamentally the same, yet the world will watch Iran burn and bleed because they obviously disapprove of an undemocratic nation achieving a 98% literacy rate amongst teenage girls and a first place standing globally for women in STEM.
If the international community as a whole doesn't step up and place, at the very least, symbolic sanctions on the USA and Israel, and going forward on Saudi Arabia and Quatar for their support of ISIS, Al Qaeda, The Taliban, TTP and Boko Haram, (terrorist cells who target civilians and have killed around 100,000 people), then all our nations, no matter how noble they are in spirit, are EQUALLY complicit in this illegal war.
No nation, no matter how powerful, or important on the world stage should be allowed to start illegal wars under false pretences, and murder world leaders, their spouses and children with impunity.
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"The U.S. and Israel have been bombing Iran for over a week. The death toll has surpassed 1,230, hundreds of them children. More than 6,000 wounded. The U.S. has struck nearly 2,000 targets across the country.
And just as in Gaza, it is not only schools. The WHO has verified 13 attacks on healthcare facilities in Iran, including direct strikes on Khatam al-Anbia Hospital and Gandhi Hospital in Tehran. Motahari Hospital, a burn victims facility, was damaged. Valiasr Hospital was rendered inoperable. Nine Red Crescent centres have been hit. UNICEF reports that 12 additional children were killed at schools across five other locations, with at least 20 schools and 10 hospitals damaged overall. A sports hall in Lamerd was bombed during a girls’ practice, killing 18. Two more schools in Parand, southwest of Tehran, were reportedly struck on Thursday.
UN human rights experts have specifically condemned the targeting of hospitals, schools, and Red Crescent facilities, calling it “a grave violation of international humanitarian law.”
When evidence like this starts to pile up, as it did in Gaza, honest observers cannot call all these strikes a “mistake.” They are the policy.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth hinted as much, telling reporters: “We are punching them while they are down, which is exactly how it should be.”
"Death and destruction from the sky, all day long” he added.
Not wanting to be outdone, the White House X account has posted a series of propaganda videos showing targets being blown up, with one headlined, “No pause. No hesitation.”
This is not the language of a government concerned about civilian casualties.
Why the Lie Persists
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People keep repeating the claim that Iran bombed its own school because it shields them from confronting the possibility that their own government is engaged in actions they would call terrorism if any other country did the same. That the point of these strikes is to engineer societal collapse.
The historical record is not ambiguous. The U.S. invasion of Iraq killed hundreds of thousands, with a Lancet estimate reaching 600,000. Israel has bombed schools and hospitals for over two years in Gaza, in what the International Court of Justice has determined presents a plausible case of genocide. Yet people still search for ways to explain it away, because accepting that one’s own government commits atrocities is psychologically difficult. So the mind invents justifications and alternative stories that allow the bloodshed to continue.
The arguments — “Iran bombed its own school,” “it was a failed rocket,” “the IRGC confessed” — function as distractions. They are not offered in pursuit of truth. They are offered in pursuit of comfort. And that comfort comes at the cost of 165 dead schoolchildren in Minab, a thousand dead across Iran, seventy thousand dead in Gaza, and the uncounted dead across decades of American military operations.
The United States has been killing civilians with a litany of Orwellian excuses for decades — in Vietnam, in Iraq, in Libya, in Gaza, and now in Iran. It is the most thoroughly documented pattern in modern geopolitics, and it is the one Americans are least willing to name.
We have a word for it when other governments do it. Terrorism. And that is the truth.
But when our government does it, first we say “officials are looking into it” and “investigations are still pending.”
When the evidence becomes undeniable, we shift to justification: they must have been hiding weapons, there was a base nearby, it was an “intelligence failure.”
When justification fails, we fall back on intentions: we’re spreading freedom, we’re protecting the world.
When intentions ring hollow — when it becomes obvious this is yet another war for oil and imperial dominance — we pivot to comparison: Iran is worse, they massacre their own people, as if “they do it too” has ever been a defense for killing children.
And when even that wears thin — when the “liberated” country is left in ruins, when the installed government turns out to be just as brutal as the last one — we simply stop talking about it and move on to the next war.
This is the pattern. The U.S. overthrew Iran’s democratic government in 1953 and installed a dictator whose secret police tortured dissidents for 26 years.
It destroyed Iraq on the basis of lies and left behind a shattered state, sectarian war, and the rise of ISIS. It bombed Libya into a failed state that still has open-air slave markets a decade later. Vietnam, Afghanistan — the list goes on.
Not one of these interventions delivered the freedom that was promised. Not one. And yet each time, Americans believe it will be different, because the alternative is confronting what their government actually is.
If the U.S. succeeds in toppling Iran’s government, history tells us exactly what comes next: not democracy, but chaos, or a new theocratic regime loyal to Washington, or both. The people of Iran — who rose up against their own regime and were massacred for it — are not being rescued. They are being used as a justification for a war that was planned decades ago, which has already killed over a thousand people.
The excuses will keep coming. They always do. But at some point we have to ask what it means to spend decades condemning terrorism abroad while funding, arming, and carrying out terrorism ourselves — and never once applying the word to our own actions. We don’t get to call ourselves the good guys while bombing schools and hospitals. We don’t get to condemn extremism while practicing it at industrial scale.
At some point, the denial itself becomes the extremism — a willful, sustained refusal to hold our own government to the standards we demand of everyone else. And in that refusal, we become the very thing we claim to oppose." — Tim Hjersted
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[This is an excerpt from "No, Iran Did Not Bomb Its Own School. Here Is What Actually Happened."
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