Originally Posted by
AAdvocate
Devils advocate myself here. If that same regime within the last 3 months killed 30,000 of their own citizens for the crime of protesting, would that make them less likely to attack themselves in the future? It's perplexing how one side of the isle totally ignored that atrocity.
I’m not even sure it’s a side-of-the-aisle issue. I don’t know which way the current leader of Iran leaned prior to the war. He might have had a privately held love for bourbon, rock and roll, and the F150. Or not. We know he spent months in the U.S. getting IVF for his wife. But after his wife, son, and father were turned into pink mist, and his brother and sister-in-law are only alive because they got buried under concrete - we can probably guess what his views are now. Not criticizing, but it is a factor.
Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Possible, but no indication that I've seen. IR isn't DPRK or Gaza... they don't have a tight enough hold on their own population to get away with pulling a stunt like that if they got caught. Too risky IMO.
Usually these kinds of things seem to blow up more on our end than anything.
The truth is likely in the middle. Allow a school to be housed abutting a major military HQ, with classes in session, during a major conflict is human shield adjacent behavior.