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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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[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 28 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Start up and work your way down.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Interesting hypothesis: How will we get the lesser fish to squeal(?) on the bigger fish, if we do it your way?

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world -1 points 5 days ago

Make the high ups the example maybe?

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 5 points 5 days ago

And the important part is that EVERYONE is held accountable from top to bottom. Gave the order and followed them, all.

[–] TheOriginalMattman@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'll just hold my breath while I wait for the consequences...

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] TheOriginalMattman@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm not American, or in America.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io -2 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Your words appear to encourage doing nothing. Is that the best you can offer?

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Like so many others I'm aggitating for the centrist dems to change-- if that means depressing the vote so they know they cant win until they give us something for our votes, so be it.

By your comment you appear to be sheepherding people to get in line and do as they're told. Thats not great.

And yes, thats probably the best I can offer, its its a hell of a lot more than you offer. If you find some other more direct way to alter the status quo please let everyone know, but smarter people than us have been trying to figure that out for a while and clearly they have not.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

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

[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] echolalia@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

...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.

[–] Malica@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 days ago

Incoming tantrum

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 4 points 5 days ago

Good shit, lets ship em out for trial.

[–] couldhavebeenyou@lemmy.zip 0 points 5 days ago

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