A United Nations fact-finding mission has concluded that the U.S. committed war crimes in two attacks on Iran that killed scores of civilians, including over 120 children, on the first day of the war.

In a report released Thursday, the UN’s Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran said that the U.S. violated international human rights laws regarding civilian harm in its attacks in Minab and Lamerd.

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    All i’m seeing is word salad being tossed around by organisations that are trying to make it seem like they are “fighting” injustice so that later they can say “we tried, but we couldn’t do anything”.

    Without consequences for the perpetrators it’s all just empty words.

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      I can’t think of a single way to do this without (a) having the US government willingly abdicate or (b) the UN fighting and winning a war against the US.

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          …how? The US owns the infrastructure of international trade and finance. Either the US government would have to sanction itself which is analagous to (a) above, or the UN would have to create and maintain an entirely separate international financial infrastructure, which is analogous to (b) above.

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    So who flew the planes, who deployed? the missiles? Who gave the orders? Start with the little fish, work your way up.

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    This UN factvm finding mission sound like a bunch of amateurs who didn’t even bother to get off their seats

    Intent was further established by the Trump administration’s “mental element of recklessness” in conducting military actions, it says. The group specifically points to actions and statements by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth that dismiss practices to avoid civilian harm

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      Its fine, the US and Israeli militaries are neck and neck for being the most moral armed forces in the world. Ask anyone.

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      Don’t hold your breath, use what breath, what life you have to speak out, generally, and more specificly to your representatives. Also check your voter registration, and vote.

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          Ok, hold your breath if that makes you happy. Fascism doesn’t respect borders. Best of luck to all of us. At least we’re not on corp.soc.med. Do you have representatives in your homeland? I hope so.

          Also "not’ goes with “nor” in English. There’s so many stupid rules in this amalgam of a language.

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        yes, because the US Democrats would not participate in Netenyahu’s wars. Right? They’d reject those bribe checks so fast.