In Iran, the U.S. and Israel are employing tactics used in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the “War on Terror” and Trump’s recent attacks on alleged drug boats in the Carribean.
What a jerk -- "We fight to win and we don’t waste time or lives." Clearly we are wasting LOTS of lives. And he left out financial costs and the damage to the planet and international/humanitarian law.
"Rise up and overthrow the regime," say the warmongers of Israel and America. But, of course, you might get bombed to oblivion if you go out on the street. The lying and hypocrisy is so blatant!
My youngest brother said he thought that the pager attack in Lebanon was brilliant. He said: BRILLIANT!
I said to him: you think that was brilliant? What about 9/11?? THE major most amazing military feat ever. And it only cost them airfare tickets to martyrdom.
Every one of the war mongers and hawks should be ON THE FRONT LINES. No exceptions. No age limit, no "bone spur" excuses, send them ALL. Preferable unarmed and unarmored. These are some seriously sick people.
Bombing our way to peace and democracy. Such a ridiculous farce. I'm not even sure the Iranian diaspora believes this now that it's obvious the war criminals Trump and Netanyahu are targeting civilians. The USA got rid of a democratically elected Iranian administration in 1953 and installed the western friendly Shaw of Iran. Now its just a repeat performance only this time, they want to destroy Iran. "The democratically elected leader of Iran in 1953 was Prime Minister Mohammad Mossaddegh. As a popular, elected leader, he nationalized the Iranian oil industry, which was previously controlled by the British, leading to a CIA- and MI6-orchestrated coup (Operation Ajax) in August 1953 that removed him from power." It's all about who controls the oil. Freedom and democracy are just a ruse. They want Iran to become another failed state like the rest of the region so they can steal the oil just like they did in Venezuela. All a bunch of psycho criminals. When the sanctions, bullying and the 2025 bombing didn't work, it's now an ILLEGAL mass killing spree.
It has been mixed signals from the start. Trump does not know what a good reason is for anything. And his Defense Secretary has no interest in a moral justification for war. That's how I read his remarks. Ethics is clearly taking a back seat in this Administration. It's saying, Don't confuse me with rules. Don't confuse me with the depth of humanity's spiritual convictions about war and peace. Rev Dr Kenneth D Stephens
Videos and images verified by The New York Times showed that at least half of the school was destroyed. It was not immediately clear why the school was hit, or which country’s forces had fired at it.
WHY??? because this what the Zionists do. in Gaza. In Lebanon. soon they may do it to Amerika.
“No stupid rules of engagement, no nation building quagmire, no democracy building exercise, no politically correct wars. We fight to win and we don’t waste time or lives. As the president warned, an effort of this scope will include casualties. War is hell and always will be.”
He sure is proud of the murder ethos he's instilled at his Department Of Netanyahu.
And the genocide in Gaza just rolls right along, looking more and more like the **presently** ambiguous "plan" for this war on the Iranian people.
Horrible and inhumane. I sent this article to my 2 US Senators and my Congressman along with a demand that they fight Trump's perversion of US foreign policy and military
The descriptions coming out of Niloofar Square are unbearable — not because they are abstract “casualties,” but because they are intimate. People breaking their fast during Ramadan. Friends holding hookahs. Families sitting in cafes. And then a second strike designed to hit whoever survived the first.
A “double-tap” is not just a military tactic — it is a message. It tells civilians that even running to help the wounded can make you a target. We saw this logic in the so-called War on Terror. We’ve seen it repeatedly in Gaza. And now it appears in the heart of Tehran.
If hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and historic squares are being hit, the claim that this is narrowly focused on military infrastructure collapses under its own weight. When officials shrug and say “war is hell,” they are admitting civilian suffering is not a tragic accident but an accepted cost.
The most haunting line in this piece isn’t political — it’s human: “You tried to hit the police and you killed average people.” That’s the moral center of this story. Ordinary people, with no control over nuclear policy or geopolitics, are paying the price.
Whatever one thinks of the Iranian government, collective punishment of civilians cannot be normalized. If the international community doesn’t draw a line here, then we are simply watching the expansion of a doctrine that treats dense urban life itself as a battlefield.
No one sitting in a café deserves to be turned into a warning signal.
Please report more about what Iran is doing in return! I'm surprised people are sitting in cafe's, given that these are exactly the barbaric tactics against civilians and medical facilities used by these outlaw nations against the Palestinians, Lebanese, etc. Do the Iranians not have the missiles or drones to stop these bombs?
well, the Supreme Leader was in his home, at his desk, doing work. he said ordinary Iranians have no place else to go so he isn't going anyplace else either.
So Iran shouldn't sit in a cafe because we are savages? Do you REALLY want Iranian missiles? What do you KNOW about what Iran can and will do in reaction?
We are knee jerk reacting to something that demand US to figure out what WE are doing! What do you THINK they will do? All I can say is don't YOU sit in a cafe. We attacked them, they did nothing to us.
You missed my meaning and question entirely. There's no need to attack me.I couldn't agree with you more. I know nothing - I was trying to find out more.
I apologize. I hate reading comments and writing my first reaction. I owe you an apology. THis is what I fear from this act of war. People like myself going off before we take in what others are saying. I needed to be called out on this.
It's an emotional time. I WILL do better thanks to you. I am grateful.
That's so kind of you Rosanne. We're all on edge, and more, distraught. It's so incredibly painful to watch this beautiful Country of Iran being bombed and all the death and destruction USrael et al have wreaked in our world and feel so helpless to stop it!!! I'm grateful to you and to all who feel as passionately about it as we do. ❤️✊🏼❤️
Thank you for your kindness. It is heartbreaking. I feel for you and grateful for your understanding of how helplessness can turn into careless acts and words. I am so sad and so distraught for the world. Thank you again for turning what was a thoughtless moment into a wonderful way to connect.
And you are in mine. Maybe it's all the little real connections like these happening all around the world that will turn the tide on this sick and perverted dying beast.
The attack confirms what Avi Schlaim, the Jewish historian at Oxford experienced as a child when his family reluctantly left Iraq for Israel---that Arab Jews are looked down on by the European Jews who colonised Palestine. Tehran has the biggest Jewish population outside Israel, but obviously they don't matter.
"Double tap"? This isn't Shirley Temple; this is the good ship drop/level. Nor Gregory Hines shuffle ball tap; it's slice, decapitate, incinerate. It is the dehuman perpetrator, Lord Jim, the savage who declares victory coming out of a shower after a bloodbath of natives.
What a jerk -- "We fight to win and we don’t waste time or lives." Clearly we are wasting LOTS of lives. And he left out financial costs and the damage to the planet and international/humanitarian law.
Double tap = terrorism!
Trump and Netanyahu are using tactics apparently to eliminate all doubt they are committing war crimes.
EXactly! There are no rules. War crimes are for winners.
"Rise up and overthrow the regime," say the warmongers of Israel and America. But, of course, you might get bombed to oblivion if you go out on the street. The lying and hypocrisy is so blatant!
We deserved 9/11.
What will be the next 9/11?
My youngest brother said he thought that the pager attack in Lebanon was brilliant. He said: BRILLIANT!
I said to him: you think that was brilliant? What about 9/11?? THE major most amazing military feat ever. And it only cost them airfare tickets to martyrdom.
Every one of the war mongers and hawks should be ON THE FRONT LINES. No exceptions. No age limit, no "bone spur" excuses, send them ALL. Preferable unarmed and unarmored. These are some seriously sick people.
Iran did not start this war and went out of their way to prevent it but now they should finish it by ending this genocidal regime in Israel.
Bombing our way to peace and democracy. Such a ridiculous farce. I'm not even sure the Iranian diaspora believes this now that it's obvious the war criminals Trump and Netanyahu are targeting civilians. The USA got rid of a democratically elected Iranian administration in 1953 and installed the western friendly Shaw of Iran. Now its just a repeat performance only this time, they want to destroy Iran. "The democratically elected leader of Iran in 1953 was Prime Minister Mohammad Mossaddegh. As a popular, elected leader, he nationalized the Iranian oil industry, which was previously controlled by the British, leading to a CIA- and MI6-orchestrated coup (Operation Ajax) in August 1953 that removed him from power." It's all about who controls the oil. Freedom and democracy are just a ruse. They want Iran to become another failed state like the rest of the region so they can steal the oil just like they did in Venezuela. All a bunch of psycho criminals. When the sanctions, bullying and the 2025 bombing didn't work, it's now an ILLEGAL mass killing spree.
It has been mixed signals from the start. Trump does not know what a good reason is for anything. And his Defense Secretary has no interest in a moral justification for war. That's how I read his remarks. Ethics is clearly taking a back seat in this Administration. It's saying, Don't confuse me with rules. Don't confuse me with the depth of humanity's spiritual convictions about war and peace. Rev Dr Kenneth D Stephens
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/world/middleeast/girls-school-strike-iran-video.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QFA.eZAk.Znmjt3Y1ViF1&smid=url-share
Videos and images verified by The New York Times showed that at least half of the school was destroyed. It was not immediately clear why the school was hit, or which country’s forces had fired at it.
WHY??? because this what the Zionists do. in Gaza. In Lebanon. soon they may do it to Amerika.
This preening little fancy boy, Peter Hegseth:
“No stupid rules of engagement, no nation building quagmire, no democracy building exercise, no politically correct wars. We fight to win and we don’t waste time or lives. As the president warned, an effort of this scope will include casualties. War is hell and always will be.”
He sure is proud of the murder ethos he's instilled at his Department Of Netanyahu.
And the genocide in Gaza just rolls right along, looking more and more like the **presently** ambiguous "plan" for this war on the Iranian people.
Horrible and inhumane. I sent this article to my 2 US Senators and my Congressman along with a demand that they fight Trump's perversion of US foreign policy and military
The descriptions coming out of Niloofar Square are unbearable — not because they are abstract “casualties,” but because they are intimate. People breaking their fast during Ramadan. Friends holding hookahs. Families sitting in cafes. And then a second strike designed to hit whoever survived the first.
A “double-tap” is not just a military tactic — it is a message. It tells civilians that even running to help the wounded can make you a target. We saw this logic in the so-called War on Terror. We’ve seen it repeatedly in Gaza. And now it appears in the heart of Tehran.
If hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and historic squares are being hit, the claim that this is narrowly focused on military infrastructure collapses under its own weight. When officials shrug and say “war is hell,” they are admitting civilian suffering is not a tragic accident but an accepted cost.
The most haunting line in this piece isn’t political — it’s human: “You tried to hit the police and you killed average people.” That’s the moral center of this story. Ordinary people, with no control over nuclear policy or geopolitics, are paying the price.
Whatever one thinks of the Iranian government, collective punishment of civilians cannot be normalized. If the international community doesn’t draw a line here, then we are simply watching the expansion of a doctrine that treats dense urban life itself as a battlefield.
No one sitting in a café deserves to be turned into a warning signal.
Please report more about what Iran is doing in return! I'm surprised people are sitting in cafe's, given that these are exactly the barbaric tactics against civilians and medical facilities used by these outlaw nations against the Palestinians, Lebanese, etc. Do the Iranians not have the missiles or drones to stop these bombs?
well, the Supreme Leader was in his home, at his desk, doing work. he said ordinary Iranians have no place else to go so he isn't going anyplace else either.
Now, he sits with MLK and Gandhi and Jesus.
So Iran shouldn't sit in a cafe because we are savages? Do you REALLY want Iranian missiles? What do you KNOW about what Iran can and will do in reaction?
We are knee jerk reacting to something that demand US to figure out what WE are doing! What do you THINK they will do? All I can say is don't YOU sit in a cafe. We attacked them, they did nothing to us.
You missed my meaning and question entirely. There's no need to attack me.I couldn't agree with you more. I know nothing - I was trying to find out more.
I apologize. I hate reading comments and writing my first reaction. I owe you an apology. THis is what I fear from this act of war. People like myself going off before we take in what others are saying. I needed to be called out on this.
It's an emotional time. I WILL do better thanks to you. I am grateful.
That's so kind of you Rosanne. We're all on edge, and more, distraught. It's so incredibly painful to watch this beautiful Country of Iran being bombed and all the death and destruction USrael et al have wreaked in our world and feel so helpless to stop it!!! I'm grateful to you and to all who feel as passionately about it as we do. ❤️✊🏼❤️
Thank you for your kindness. It is heartbreaking. I feel for you and grateful for your understanding of how helplessness can turn into careless acts and words. I am so sad and so distraught for the world. Thank you again for turning what was a thoughtless moment into a wonderful way to connect.
You are in my thoughts.
And you are in mine. Maybe it's all the little real connections like these happening all around the world that will turn the tide on this sick and perverted dying beast.
Pete? What, exactly are we "winning"? Iran did nothing to us, we were not at war.
I think the price for stupid greedy leaders is going to be far beyond what most people
can even imagine. A profane and evil act. You killed citizens, children and for what?
Trump's losing power, that is for what. The lengths this man will go continues to horrify me.
The attack confirms what Avi Schlaim, the Jewish historian at Oxford experienced as a child when his family reluctantly left Iraq for Israel---that Arab Jews are looked down on by the European Jews who colonised Palestine. Tehran has the biggest Jewish population outside Israel, but obviously they don't matter.
"Double tap"? This isn't Shirley Temple; this is the good ship drop/level. Nor Gregory Hines shuffle ball tap; it's slice, decapitate, incinerate. It is the dehuman perpetrator, Lord Jim, the savage who declares victory coming out of a shower after a bloodbath of natives.