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Military strikes on water facilities in Iran may constitute a war crime, experts say
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Strikes on Bemani damaged key water reservoir for 20,000 people living in area amid a historic drought in the country
Military strikes that damaged two water storage facilities in southern Iran may constitute a war crime, military and legal experts say, after reviewing media reports and visual evidence of a 10 June strike on Bemani, a small district about 2 miles from the strait of Hormuz.
It’s unclear if the strikes deliberately targeted the district’s water tanks, or if they unintentionally destroyed a key reservoir for about 20,000 people living nearby. But if the tanks were the target, then the legal question becomes critical, Brian Finucane, a former state department lawyer, said. “It’s either a military objective or it’s a civilian object: attacking one is lawful, attacking the other is a war crime,” Finucane said.
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Bruh the administration has been like.. “We’re going to do war crimes”.. then proceed to do what they said.. and the lawyers are like “*Welll maaybeee its a bit war-crimey…*” while the administration is like yeah no dog we doing war crimes.
Well at least they followed through on what they said for once
Dunno why the voters who didnt do anything when they couldve are upset that the shitty govt they got isnt doing anything. Well duh.
That’s the part that pisses me off most. If kamala would’ve won, she’d be better than trump, for sure. But beyond that, this fucker would be rotting in prison right now.
Correct.
Now think on: If Bernie had won 2016, we could have been spared all of this madness.
I’ll do you one better: if the natives were able to kill the colonists that “discovered” the new world, we could have avoided the whole genocide and slavery thing.
yeah because genocide and slavery started in 1492?
pfftt hahaha… you ML guys either have tapioca for brains or actively ignore history…
wait, could it be both?
that said, " if the natives were able to kill the colonists that “discovered” the new world” coulda been cool af. But the Aztecs kinda already had a good grasp on genocide and slavery as their empire was built on outward expansion, acquisition of their neighbors and their property, and they were really into human sacrifice.
but yeah would be awesome to see the cortez and columbus types torn to pieces on the shores….
Genocide and slavery are abstract concepts. In history there are isolated phenomena of genocide and slavery we can pull out and discuss. But there is a single historical process of genocide and slavery that we are literally still participating in and we can generally call that historical process the Western European Empire. The Western European empire as we know it extends back in an unbroken line for at least 600 years and it integrated genocide and slavery into its core process of propagation. At it’s height, the Western European Empire dominated over 80% of the world population. The USA is the helm of the Western European Empire, and we could potentially call it the North Atlantic Empire, because some people get confused by the fact they think the USA is not Western European. Regardless, yes, if the indigenous people literally everywhere were able to send every Western European expedition packing, the world would be in a much better place. If the inhabitants of what we call the Western Hemisphere had done it, the world would be in a better place. But since they didn’t, it is up to all of us to do the work of decolonizing our homes and bringing about an end to this historical process.
Obviously I was talking about the genocide and slavery that America is well known for. I love tapioca!
Yeah unfortunately they didn’t get the Cook treatment, lol.
Biden’s AG didn’t, and she campaigned exclusively to republicans, no shot she’d appoint an AG who would, for fear of alienating the imaginary moderate republicans.
You do realize Jack Smith put together two bullerproof cases against him and they were both ready to go to court, and the only reason they didn’t was because the Scotus punted until after the election…?
You’re talking federal crimes though. If he didn’t become president again, it wouldn’t be up to the federal government. He had more than enough crimes against states to put him away for life.
Lmao. You think Kamala “fundamentally the same as Biden” Harris would prosecute trump, after Biden declined to pursue justice?
State crimes at least would have gotten him there.
Sure buddy, he’d be the first and only president to face any justice, lol.
Dunno why the voters would be so apathetic when both candidates were pro genocide and pro war. Weird.
war-crimey
I like that word.
May?
Exactly.. May?
No ‘may’ about it.
It’s even June, bro. May was last month.
Dude, the day before yesterday was already the 10th
Fuck. I’m travelling through time again.
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Hell it even started with a crime against humanity! (that school for those who have forgotten (there’s been SO MUCH going on))
I’m so sick of all the conditional language that lets trump continue to be a piece of shit that should have been imprisoned decades ago for rapes and tax dodging among other crimes or shot for war crimes today.
The crazier thing is that all these news organizations have lawyers on retainers and still they don’t use them. Call it a war crime, put your lawyers to work. A bunch of fucking cowards the lot of them.
Then you have “entertainment news” out there calling Obama a muslim born in Kenya for a decade. The world is upside down.
The fuck do they mean “may?” In what realistic context does it not?
I was thinking the exact same thing. This world has become a clownshow.
“may”. Lol
Have a fucking spine.
“Targeting civil infrastructure is a war crime… we destroyed civilian infrastructure”
That’s why the US is so adversary to the International Criminal Court.
US Presidents and war crimes go together like Republicanism and pedophilia, classic combo.
Being a billionaire pedo is a crime too according to some experts but here we are.
no shit?
and none of it matters because there will be zero consequences
Getting really sick of these headlines feigning ignorance
may constitute a war crime?!?
Bombing a school for young girls is a war crime. Still no punishments
Tired of all this limply worded tripe that comes from people’s mouths and headlines.
“War Crimes? What’s that? We’re no longer apart of NATO because it’s too WOKE now, so war crimes don’t exist!” – Trump, Probably
When did the US leave NATO?
Soon enough if they actually try to charge Trump with being a war criminal, lol
The NATO charges people with anything? Are you by any chance american?
No. The UN does iirc, I mistaked the UN for NATO, but I thought it made the quote funnier since Trump wouldn’t know the difference, would he? Yes though, I am an American
Funny how you thought its funny that Trump makes the mistake while making the mistake. He is so stupid amiright?
I mean, he’s said worse
Pretty sure they’re thinking of the UN (whose Geneva Convention first codified war crimes)..and still wrong about the US leaving 😄
This entire administration is a war crime
Put it on the pile.
That hesgeth ain’t no sissy. He’s a war criminal. Him and the whole administration. Fuck. These. Animals.
It’s never going to be enforced, so I guess this is just a footnote in history.
War crime? More like bore crime. It’s time for some cagefighting at the White House! WOOOOO!!!
The very war is a war crime.
MAY???
bro, whether or not if was the intended target should not affect if it was a war crime or not??
you can’t just say oops teehee 😇 and absolve yourself??????
Seems like every war I’ve been alive for has multiple war crimes and aside from a select few exceptions, nothing happens. We, the US, can’t hold our people accountable for domestic crimes, so I’m not holding out much hope for any consequences here either.
almost all the recent wars all the way to nixon was merely a distraction something domestic, this time its distraction from the cabal of pedophiles .
Try withholding 1$ of your taxmoney then xd
Nothing is going to happen either way, so we may as well dispense with the niceties like “it may constitute” and just be honest with each other. It is a war crime, but we don’t feel like there’s any realistic opportunity to do anything about it so, there’s no harm in saying it is, nothing will happen, and we’ll all move on.
Oh no! This WAR has risen to the level of war crimes! Well someone’s gonna answer for this now!
/s
Fucking may? What clown wrote this headline?
Just add it to the fucking pile, Jesus Christ
It pretty obviously is one. But who is really the governing authority to make it official?
WAR Crimes? FINALLY something to STOP the Law and Order Crowd! ANY Minute they’ll DENOUNCE these WAR CRIMES because it’s OPPOSITE Law AND Order! ANY Minute it will happen! SOON!
Good luck prosecuting when the US when it doesn’t recognize the ICC
Well, Trump is a convicted criminal so might as well add War criminal to that list.
It does create a war crime. It can’t yet be declared until the case is heard. Will it be heard and considered in court? Will Israels war crimes be heard and considered in court?
sure, right after they get to all of Russia’s war crimes in Ukraine. Any day now. Yep.
fuck
And Ukraine war crimes against Russia? They’ve been using unmanned “killbots” which don’t have the ability to accept a surrendering soldier.
yes, to kill soldiers; russia uses drones to hunt and kill civilians.
sorry, if russia hadn’t started the stupid war they wouldn’t be in this shitty position to start with. I have ZERO FUCKING SYMPATHY for putin’s shit show, slava ukraine!
Using mustard gas to kill soldiers is a war crime. The key determining factors for a war crime are typically excessive cruelty, and indiscriminateness. Mustard gas cannot tell the difference between a soldier holding up a white flag and one that is about to charge at you. Hence a war crime.
Some stuff that typically doesn’t factor into something being a war crime: is the other side really bad; is it used to kill soldiers; is it effective.
I’m not saying Ukraine is committing war crimes. I don’t know. But what I am saying is that “they’re using it on soldiers” is not a counterargument. And what I’m also saying is that just because they’re in the right in this conflict does not mean they’re incapable of committing war crimes.
if vatnicks didn’t want to fertilize ukrainian soil they should stay the fuck out of ukraine
Look, I’m not saying Ukrainians defending themselves is a bad thing. But, and I know this may be controversial, war crimes are a bad thing. And I’m going to get even more edgy and contrarian: I don’t think anyone should commit war crimes.
Do you think war crimes would be justified in Ukraines defense? Do you think it would be ok for Ukrainians to torture PoWs to get information? Do you think they should be allowed to keep ethnic Russians in concentration camps the same way America did for the Japanese? Because if Ukraine were to start doing these things (or if it turned out they were doing these things), that would be cause for me to start doubting whether they were the good guys in this conflict.
Russia does not have the capability to use unmanned drones to hunt and kill civilians. Killing a surrendering soldier is a war crime, full stop. You are just as bloodthirsty as your demented pedophile president. Good luck with all that.
Pretty sure you know the truth.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160016
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/28/world/europe/kherson-ukraine-drones-russia.html
https://ukraine.ohchr.org/en/2025-deadliest-year-for-civilians-in-Ukraine-since-2022-UN-human-rights-monitors-find
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-observers/20260221-ukraine-life-russian-drones-civilians
Meanwhile, Russian soldiers surrender to drones often:
https://factually.co/fact-checks/military/are-russians-surrendering-to-ukrainians-2026-613d1e
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/46155
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidkirichenko/2026/03/11/russian-soldiers-are-now-surrendering-to-ukrainian-drones-and-robots/
If you’re going to post bullshit, at least find something to back it up with.
Lol, I see you don’t know the difference between an unmanned killbot and a piloted drone. Get back to me after you do some more reading.