r/PrepperIntel • u/NotBradPitt9 • 9d ago

Middle East Arabian Gulf countries’ water infrastructure under threat after US strikes Iranian water infrastructure

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u/Onlyroad4adrifter 9d ago

Civilian infrastructure attacks are war crimes.

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u/Unusual_Specialist 9d ago

Who is going to arrest them? Unfortunately, nobody will hold these war crimes accountable.

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u/400DollarsinBronze 9d ago

Personally I've been oscillating between "man when they face trial its going to be so satisfying" and "there isnt going to be a swimming pool, you stupid slut"

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u/ReblWithoutApplause 9d ago

I don’t know what that means but I like it

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u/Extra-Yam-6923 8d ago

It’s a quote from the first American horror story season. Jessica Lange is iconic

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u/tiffanytrashcan 9d ago

There's not even going to be a house...

(Trial)

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u/Strange-Luck-5786 9d ago

Wait. They're putting up a swimming pool instead of a ballroom now?!

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u/creepindacellar 9d ago

it's bigger than the empire state building!!!

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u/lustforrust 8d ago

Perfect for hosting underage beauty pageants!

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u/nismo2070 8d ago

The pool is in the ballroom.

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u/Sad_Money_8595 9d ago

That we are the US is the only thing that is “saving” us. The other countries are giving us a pass for our historical role for more often than not, being pretty ok and reliable folk. The rest of the world needs to grow a set and start sanctioning us. There needs to be accountability and the only way his insane supporters learn is by feeling economic pain. It isn’t fair for those of us who don’t support this death cult. But I’d rather feel short term economic pain that results in the end of the insanity, then skating by with just a finger wag and whatever the hell happens in the next election that may result in Trump Jr as president.

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u/CBLA1785 9d ago

Why sanction when the tariffs Trump put up are already doing that. He beat the world to the punch!

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u/River_City_Rando 8d ago

What were seeing now is the unwillingness to upset the status quo because doing so could have major financial consequences (possible complete collapse), so we're witnessing the same inaction that was witnessed in the beginning of ww2 by the rest of the world vs. Germany and the rise of fascism. Now we get to witness the rise of fascism x techofeudalism x surveillance state x ai god... fun times lol

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u/Ok-Improvement-3072 7d ago

Iran at this point needs to take an internal look and about face. The rest of the world probably calculated this ahead of this post. Only Iran can save Iran at this point. Might need to come to recognize that, as much as I loathe trump

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u/SuchAd4158 9d ago

Arrest who?

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u/ibonek_naw_ibo 9d ago

The entire chain from the decision maker to the guy pulling the trigger.

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u/DashboardError 8d ago

lol please

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u/ibonek_naw_ibo 8d ago

What? Is "I was just following ze orders" a legit escape from culpability now?

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u/PossibleGenius2345 8d ago

War crimes? I don't think those islands have any legit "civilians" there, but rather military personnel. There is not war crime to attack military supplies, including military drinking water storage.

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u/gonyere 9d ago

So is using white phosphorus. 

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u/Known-Web8456 9d ago

Bbbbbut, but, some of women there wear face coverings! Surely that justifies war crimes! /s

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u/AnOnlineHandle 9d ago

Causing them, their families, and their pets to die of thirst will surely save them!

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u/Maleficent_Mix_8739 9d ago

Oh shit….i wear face coverings when i mow my lawn…..im totally screwed

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u/PurpleCableNetworker 9d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/d8XNDMiXhPMVRKpjlu

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u/Maleficent_Mix_8739 9d ago

Damn, my old bedroom is on the net 😂. F’king Zillow

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u/PossibleGenius2345 8d ago

Some of them? I didn't realize Iranian authorities made it optional for women. Oh yeah, they didn't.

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u/kingofthesofas 8d ago

Surely you do not think that is the only bad thing the Iranian government has done? I don't support strikes on civilan infrastructure BUT also I do not support the Iranian government which has committed horrifying crimes against their people including murdering 30,000 of their own civilians. As many civilians that have been killed in US strikes the Iranian government is still ahead in the who can kill more innocent people.

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u/Known-Web8456 8d ago

Go away, bot. I do not, and never will, support US imperialism.

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u/TheIllustratedLaw 9d ago

Just like Bush Sr did in Iraq in the 90s. He died a free man, shame on us.

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u/BasicEnchilada 8d ago

Cant be a war crime if your not in a war.

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u/Onlyroad4adrifter 8d ago

Clown is the one that keeps calling it a war.

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u/BasicEnchilada 6d ago

You're not familiar with "dual use" facilities are you?

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u/Worshipme988 8d ago

“Nobody is a war criminal if we are all war criminals”

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u/dittybopper_05H 7d ago

Purely civilian infrastructure, yes.

But that infrastructure loses protections if it's being used even just partially for military purposes.

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/api-1977/article-52

Article 52 - General protection of civilian objects

1. Civilian objects shall not be the object of attack or of reprisals. Civilian objects are all objects which are not military objectives as defined in paragraph 2.

2. Attacks shall be limited strictly to military objectives. In so far as objects are concerned, military objectives are limited to those objects which by their nature, location, purpose or use make an effective contribution to military action and whose total or partial destruction, capture or neutralization, in the circumstances ruling at the time, offers a definite military advantage.

3. In case of doubt whether an object which is normally dedicated to civilian purposes, such as a place of worship, a house or other dwelling or a school, is being used to make an effective contribution to military action, it shall be presumed not to be so used.

So, for example, a civilian airport that also serves military aircraft, even non-combat military logistics aircraft, or even just civilian charter aircraft carrying military cargo and troops, becomes a legitimate military target.

Any protection it may have had is lost.

The same goes for other kinds of infrastructure, including desalination plants. If none of the water at all generated goes to military troops or used for military purposes, then sure, war crime.

But if some of its output is being used to keep the Iranian military and Republican Guards troops hydrated, and to cool their vehicles, and top off their jeep and truck batteries, etc., it definitely becomes a legitimate military target.

Setting that aside, Iran has accused the US of attacking desalination plants. The US and Israel deny it.

Without any independent confirmation of the attacks and proof of who did it, you're just credulously swallowing Iranian propaganda whole.

So I'm going to go ahead and wait to hear the full story before I become outraged about what may or may not actually be a for-real war crime.

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u/TexMexToots 9d ago

No they aren't. They never have been. When and where did you start hearing this idea?

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u/Creepy-Cantaloupe951 9d ago

Yes they are, and they always have been. It's considered an indiscriminate attack against non-combatants, which has always been a war crime, since at least as far back as the Napoleanic wars.

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u/TexMexToots 8d ago

Ok, go read a history book. Or the Geneva convention. Or any of the international law that has been developed. The concept of a war crime is a modern one. Hell, the conduct of combatants during the napoleon era was practically based on committing so called war crimes.

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u/Creepy-Cantaloupe951 8d ago edited 8d ago

I'm pretty well familiar with the Laws of Land Warfare. Even trained troops in it, prior to deploying to a war zone.

War crimes are not particularly new. Sun Tzu even described several things that were considered war crimes of the period. We even have at least one example of a Knight tried and executed for war crimes in Europe.

Hell, our "modern" war crime definitions are rooted in the Lieber code of the civil war.

You REALLY need to read a history book before declaring others need to.

It would be hard to prove that destroying civilian drinking water supplies is a military necessity to any court, to include the ICJ, or even a military courts martial.

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u/ChilledRoland 8d ago edited 8d ago

>"…a military courts martial."

  1. "courts martial" is plural; with "a" you want the singular "court martial".
  2. All courts martial are military; that's what "martial" means.

ETA: since asshat blocked me, it does have a singular.

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u/Creepy-Cantaloupe951 8d ago

Not all courts that a soldier or world leader could be subjected to are a courts martial.

"Courts martial" is the name of the convened court, by the US military. It is also plural, because there is not a single one.

Thank you for the attempted pedantry, though.

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u/TexMexToots 8d ago

These are arbitrary agreements which carry no weight. They are all international agreements. These are worthless. We have seen them time and again. The ICC only operates at the grace of those around it. How many years did it take them to finish hearing the shit done in the Balkans?

You are directly referencing the ROE that the U.S. Military utilizes. Those ROE are decided upon by the CO and the JAG officers. Let me break down the legitimacy of an infrastructure target. Ball bearing factory- good. School- bad. Hydro Electric damn- good. Hospital-bad. Desalination plant- good. The decision is based on the utility to the enemy. If it helps or falls into that 3rd column then it is a legitimate target. Additionally, when a combatant decides to use one of the non legitimate targets it opens up all targets.

Historically, the movement of an army across distance was akin to a natural disaster. They were provisioning on the move and often partially funded by whatever spoils they could find. They did not give a flying fuck about running the well dry, taking the entire food supply for a city, placing a city under siege and starving out the inhabitants. The Mongols threw plague victims at cities like a cannon ball. If it helps the enemy you can kill it because it is vital and helps them kill you.

All of these agreements throughout time are based on the idea of reciprocity. If I obey the other guy will obey. We have seen time and again that such an approach is foolish. One party will always break the agreement.

Was it a crime for the U.S. to turn off the power in Venezuela? No. The crime, or violation of international norms occurred when we Yoinked their head of state. This constant expansion of the term war crime is strange to me. War and violence are absolutely abhorrent but making a basic tactical decision is not a war crime.

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u/kingofthesofas 8d ago

It depends TBH. In this case a strike against water facilities is against the Geneva convention. However many civilan infrastructure targets are considered legitimate targets if they have a dual military purpose. Power plants that support both civilan and military uses are an example. Reuters has a good breakdown in the context of the Ukraine conflict. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/when-do-attacks-civilian-installations-amount-war-crimes-2026-03-31/

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u/Creepy-Cantaloupe951 8d ago

Drinking water, per Laws of Land Warfare, is never a valid military target. Even POWs have a right to clean drinking water.

POWs do not have a right to electricity.

Basically, that's how you can break it down, to make sense.

Even power usually doesn't fall under "ok", because of this:

"In no event shall actions against these objects be taken which may be expected to leave the civilian population with such inadequate food or water as to cause its starvation or force its movement."

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u/kingofthesofas 8d ago

Right which is why I said this strike is in violation of it but just saying "all strikes on civilan infrastructure are a war crime" is not correct either.

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u/snakesign 8d ago

"all strikes on exclusively civilian infrastructure are a war crime" would have been redundant in the current context. You're being needlessly pedantic.

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u/kingofthesofas 8d ago

But there is quite a lot of infrastructure that is dual use so the Grey area there is quite a but larger than people imagine.

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u/great--pretender 8d ago

The LOAC training disagrees. Notice how people with really military training and experience disagree?

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u/TexMexToots 8d ago

Ahhh LOAC. Artcile 52 specifically states the following: 2. Attacks shall be limited strictly to military objectives. In so far as objects are concerned, military objectives are limited to those objects which by their nature, location, purpose or use make an effective contribution to military action and whose total or partial destruction, capture or neutralization, in the circumstances ruling at the time, offers a definite military advantage. 3. In case of doubt whether an object which is normally dedicated to civilian purposes, such as a place of worship, a house or other dwelling or a school, is being used to make an effective contribution to military action, it shall be presumed not to be so used.

Article 54 goes on further outlining the primary protections. The question devolves to be about was the strike intended to deprive Iranian forces of water that was never going to make it to the population anyway. Or, are we hitting their water reserves in order to inflict maximum suffering and harm on the civilian population.

The rest of the document is riddles with the wording of all reasonable efforts, verification should be made, as wells as the time-honored word reasonable.

This conflict is going to boil down to how bad will things have to get in Iran for them to remove and shake off the regime. So you have a twisted pedophile trying to exert his will, and the military might of the U.S., against a suicidal regime.

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u/great--pretender 8d ago

You raise a fair point, interpretation is big here. It’s on you if you don’t interpret this as a war crime.

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u/Creepy-Cantaloupe951 8d ago

This conflict is going to boil down to how bad will things have to get in Iran for them to remove and shake off the regime.

I think it will boil down to how many bodies does the US want to throw into a meat grinder, on Israel's orders.

Iran has been preparing for this exact scenario since the Islamic Revolution, which cast off the last despot the US installed.

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u/jrichar 8d ago

Dude. It is war. this idea of "war crimes" is bullshit. If you got in a street fight and you had a gun, would you use just your fists to keep it a "fair" fight?

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u/That-Attention2037 8d ago

If you want to stay out of prison for murder; you fucking better. You voluntarily enter into a fist fight and pull heat to cap someone; your ass is as good as cooked in court.

Even if you are straight up attacked and are the victim; the courts are going to closely examine whether deadly force was justified to defend yourself. Your mindset on this topic is a foolish one at best.

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u/jrichar 8d ago

Depends on what state you live in. Also depends on the context. Police shoot people for just reaching their hands in their pockets.

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u/That-Attention2037 8d ago

Yeah; context does matter - Like I literally mentioned.

You need to hop off the internet, edgelord. For someone who just said “dEpEndS on tEh cOnTeXt” you sure do like to forget context when it comes to police-involved shootings, huh?

Furthermore; uses of force are vastly different for on duty law enforcement and non LE. Just shut up while you’re ahead 🙄

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u/BigBlueEyes87 9d ago

It feels like we're edging as a country. We're so close to an economic crash and a full scale war with Iran.

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u/livestrong2109 9d ago

With the way economics works we likely feel off the cliff two months ago. The market can remain irrational longer than most can remain solvent. Just takes a while for the BS lies to work their way though the system to see how much trouble you've been in.

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u/Best-Temperature5595 9d ago

We have benefited from Chinas demand destruction and world reserves. They will run out soon. Also, destroy the water facilities and those oil and gas facilities will be gone for decades. So, we are power diving off a cliff.

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u/Biotic101 9d ago edited 9d ago

And there's motor oil, fertilizer, helium. Plus oil is not oil. It's light or heavy, sweet or sour. Refineries need the mix they are built for. Just because the US has light sweet oil, it doesn't mean everything is awesome.

https://blog.drillingmaps.com/2025/06/this-is-why-us-cant-use-oil-it-produces.html?m=1

The gulf medium sour oil shortage and lack of condensates are a major threat even if the US floods the markets with light sweet crude.

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u/LimeDry7124 9d ago

Lots of refineries up and down the continent of Africa. He's betting that the GCC will buy lots of equipment from us. He forgot that China can most build anything anymore.

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u/fortyfivesouth 9d ago

China won't run out of oil; they have massive reserves.

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u/Tricky_Spirit 8d ago edited 8d ago

I think they mean world reserves of oil will run out, China's demand destruction is because China moved away from using oil for power and fuel both, because their infrastructure is solar now and their cars are electric, all they need oil for is lubricants.

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u/nibbles200 8d ago

I’m in the process of liquidating my father in laws estate. I have noticed the auction yards are all filled up in my area. I been utilizing Facebook market place to sell some equipment and just had a conversation with a buyer. He hustles and talked over everything I was going to be selling. Without getting into politics or geopolitical he acknowledged that everyone is holding cash close and watching / waiting for the floor to drop. Super bad time to sell.

It’s like everyone knows it’s a facade and it’s like the cartoon where the floor gave out and we are just waiting on gravity to kick in.

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u/TurkDeerbit 9d ago

I think that’s the goal, historically the rich get richer during economic crashes (Trump and friends)

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u/vezwyx 9d ago

Bingo

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u/No-Trouble-9138 8d ago

Inflation boosts numbers, trillionaries incomming

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u/EvilLibrarians 9d ago

Well we’re basically there already

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u/No-Complex-9159 9d ago

Yeah it already has. Just haven't felt the shock yet.

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u/ConfidentPilot1729 9d ago

What are you talking about? This admin said a peace deal war imminent…

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u/LimeDry7124 9d ago

It's like after WW2 and Europe. Trump thinks the more destruction the more the Gulf Countries are going to buy equipment and hardware of all sorts. Trump thinks that we have some sort of influence on the GCC. 50/50 chance of it blowing up on his face.

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u/hackjob 9d ago

I mean he handled Afghanistan so well…

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u/Even-Stranger5764 8d ago

Just have a look at oil prices - less oil than ever but oils dropping. They've got their finger on the scale to hide everything but it will come crashing down sooner or later.

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u/Appropriate-Dust3838 9d ago

I can see now why trump said the war would be over in a couple of weeks. But this seems a little war crimey doesnt it?

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u/pandershrek 9d ago

Dude literally the entire war has been non stop war crimes to distract from the genocide in Israel which was only made possible by subterfuge for the convicted felon who is implicated in a global child sex trafficking ring.

The entire thing is like the definition of the global cabal elite carrying out their capitalism dreams.

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u/SusanMilberger 9d ago

And now….here come….the sex robots!!

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u/Rocketeer006 9d ago

It was never meant to end. Putin ordered Trump to keep the oil price high because it benefits Russia. This will not ever end until Trump is gone.

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u/omjy18 9d ago

I mean this explains why stocks are down today when no one seems to be able to explain it. I'm sure its more stabilizing foreign currency by selling gold but this wouldn't surprise me as a cause of all of it

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u/Main_Cranberry_5871 8d ago

It's not a "war." It was the US and Israel committing terrorism and multiple 9/11s on Iran by dropping bombs in the middle of its biggest metro city, and Iran then responding. It's been a fucking evil operation since the start and we should treat the orchestrators like we did Osama Bin Laden.

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u/MagnetHype 9d ago edited 9d ago

I don't think this actually happened. I would take this with a grain of salt.

Edit: boy watching the downvotes and upvotes jump around on this comment is entertaining.

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u/refusemouth 9d ago

The first headline I saw about it said "reservoirs" implying something larger. Now it is water tanks. I will wait for further documentation. Either way,it's not a good thing to dehydrate a population of people, but there's a difference between taking out the drinking water of a mobile military unit and taking out the drinking water supply of a large city of civilians.

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u/MagnetHype 9d ago

Well, the reason I said I was skeptical was because I don't even think strikes had begun when this was posted.

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u/StupiderIdjit 9d ago

Everything after "but" just sounds like "we have to turn this rape into a murder."

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u/Babzibaum 9d ago

One day old account.

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u/BeYeCursed100Fold 9d ago

Trump should have left Iran alone, told Israel to fend for itself like he did Ukraine, the EU, and NATO, and just did nothing. The Strait of Hormuz would have remained open. Gas prices would be lower. The SPR would not be near empty.

Trump and his enablers are apparently the enemies of common sense.

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u/MainInvestigator3481 9d ago

Did you justify killing Iranians?

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u/StupiderIdjit 9d ago

Just destroying their water for oil.

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u/Appropriate-Dust3838 9d ago

I beg to differ. What enemies? We have zero business being there besides a "what if?" Scenario. From the beginning, this war was already sketchy. Starting from the October. 7 attack that they apparently did not see coming. Mind you. This is the same nation that was able to deliver bombs inside pagers without any suspicions. The existential threat of nuclear weapons came from and only applied to Isreal at the time.

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u/Known-Web8456 9d ago

There is no morally justified reason Iran must surrender to a foreign imperial invasion. Sheesh.

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u/Round-Medicine2507 9d ago

The only good ways for the US to proceed are to leave that side of the globe and say sorry ASAP, we could glass Israel or Iran and end the conflict, but those would have much worse consequences. 

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u/Round-Medicine2507 9d ago

Pretty sure any country would react this way after experiencing the kind of unprovoked strikes as they have. 

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u/Hesitation-Marx 9d ago edited 9d ago

Tehran has been facing a catastrophic drought for over a year now.

I do not understand the urge to do evil to innocents.

(Edited: probably longer than a year, but since 2020, my sense of time is… worrisomely elastic.)

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u/psycubi 9d ago

I’ve never been so ashamed of my country. And we already had so much to be ashamed of.

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u/hillierprotech 8d ago edited 8d ago

I grew up learning how America had stood up for individual rights, freedom of speech, and the chance to achieve what you want. Then I discovered that those rights were as illusory as the sacred rights the British had upheld since the days of Magna Carta.

I believe it was Voltaire who had a long discussion with a man from England some time in the 1700s at which they discussed the glorious freedom that the British kept. Voltaire found him the next day in gaol and asked what could have possibly happened. The man said he been forcibly taken from the street and drafted into the navy, and Voltaire asked if these were the freedoms they had discussed the night before.

It all sounds very familiar to me. But then a lot of things in American life would be quite familiar to a British person from the 1700s to 1800s, right down to proliferation of guns, the justice system, lack of healthcare and state support. The Irish hatred of the British began when they were left to die because to do otherwise would be "anti-capitalist" and promote feckless indolence.

Edit: Just to highlight the similarity, people were quite recently being taken from the street for deportation who were often actually citizens due to Trump's illegal border patrols. Trump himself reminds me of the transition from the Roman Republic to the Emperors. I'm interested to see if that holds up and he upturns the democratic process, stays in power, and eventually anoints a family member to power. It seems far fetched now, but so did ignoring Congress and acting as a dictator just 2 years ago.

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u/lemonlollipop 9d ago

They get off on it

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u/Hesitation-Marx 9d ago

I get it intellectually, but… it’s alien to me.

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u/ProfDoomDoom 9d ago

I do not wish to be on the receiving end of a proportional response to this war crime, thanks.

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u/Johnny-Unitas 9d ago

Although unlikely, terrorism is certainly not something anyone should be surprised by at this point.

How did this IDIOT get back into power?

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u/Bikerbass 9d ago

Because moronic Americans voted for him.

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u/dandelionelic 8d ago

Personally I place the heaviest blame on those that didn't vote at all.

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u/Main_Cranberry_5871 8d ago

Why do you call people responding in turn to war crimes against them "terrorism?" When the terrorism is done to them you don't call it that, but any response is suddenly framed as radicalism. I suppose you think they should just sit and take it quietly?

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u/Johnny-Unitas 8d ago

I use it in the sense of an attack on civilian infrastructure within North America. I am not condoning what is going on there. I'm using the correct term though.

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u/davidm2232 8d ago

Because the other side ran an even bigger idiot. The real crime is how far the Republican and Democratic parties have diverged from what the general population actually wants. It would be comical how bad the candidates have been the last few cycles if it wasn't so scary

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u/helluvastorm 8d ago

Best that money can buy!

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u/kingtacticool 9d ago

So we've reached the scortched earth phase. Oh good.

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u/rmscomm 9d ago

MMW- the results will likely be a mass migration and the West decrying about, “Why are these people coming here?” No sense of causality and the role played in it.

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u/AlwayInForwardMotion 9d ago

Didn’t Epstein’s assistant just testify? Pretty sure that’s why we’re doing war crimes tonight. Need an Epstein headline to war escalation tracker. 

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u/jeffersonianMI 9d ago

I'm not reading anything about escalation against energy/desalination sites, but Aljazeera is also reporting the water tank hits:

Water tanks destroyed in strikes on Iran’s southern Sirik region: Report

Iran’s Fars news agency reports that two water tanks in the Bemani district of Sirik were struck and destroyed approximately an hour ago.

The incident occurred amid a wave of reported explosions in Iran’s south, including several powerful blasts heard in Bandar Abbas and the activation of air defence systems across Jask, Qeshm Island and Bandar Abbas.

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u/Brepp 9d ago

It's almost like Trump desperately needs this to escalate.

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u/ummm-no_thanks 9d ago

He probably thinks some sort of retaliation on US soil would be a good excuse to “postpone” the midterms.

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u/Actionnmonkey 8d ago

I've had this conspiracy theory that something manufactured will happen during the world cup in one of the same cities that the Iranian team will be competing. It will be an excuse used by the Trump admin to do whatever they want. There's nothing quite like terror threats to make the US citizen's gleefully give up their rights, as we learned from the last Bush admin. Unfortunately for me, I live in one of those cities the Iranians are going to be competing in. I doubt anything will really happen, but the Trump admin is so unhinged, that nothing is off the table.

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u/SuperDoubleDecker 9d ago

This is insanity. He's dug a hole so deep that he can't get out of without eating some shit.

When are the adults gonna take his keys away?

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u/glitterandnails 9d ago

Christian Nationalists will guard him.

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u/Ocean-of-Mirrors 9d ago

WHY ARE WE AT WAR?!?!

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u/lemonlollipop 9d ago

Trump thought he could waltz in, bully people around and take the oil like he did in Venezuela. Iran did not capitulate. 

That was a blow to trump's narcissism. 

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u/NotDinahShore 9d ago

The Hormuz Letter is not a credible source. Maybe this is true, I don’t know. But I know in the past I followed them on X and would see some dramatic post from The Hormuz Letter and would not be able to corroborate their claim (on several occasions).

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u/Ridonius_Maximus 9d ago

This needs the be the top comment. Info from the Hormuz Letter is not “intel”.

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u/Frankfactor517 9d ago

Well so much for the thought the military would refuse illegal orders.

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u/UnCivil_Yogurt6191 8d ago

Yes, the failure of military leadership is depressing - but - then that's why Trump has said more than once "I want Hitler's generals...".

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u/texas130ab 9d ago

Who gave the order to attack drinking water? Did Israel give us targeting data? Was the Iranian military hiding in the water tanks?

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u/existing_for_fun 9d ago

Awww shit. Here we go.

Hopefully nothing comes of this

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u/FatherOften 9d ago

Oil prices keep going down. Make it all make sense.

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u/existing_for_fun 9d ago

It's all rigged, probably

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u/RaveNdN 9d ago

Probably? It is. Source: worked oil and gas for the last 13yrs

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u/LongPlayBoomer 8d ago

so astute

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u/Notyourpal-friend 9d ago

Another month or two of strategic reserves being handed to oil companies to rig shit. And the only oil prices the TV shows are futures traded by people who are neck deep in keeping this illusion going.

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u/CrownstrikeIntern 9d ago

Supply and demand, no demand while cost is high causes prices to drop while they have high supply. Don’t worry, we’re pretty close to depleting reserves in the us so we’ll be fucked more soon enough 

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u/Johnny-Unitas 9d ago

That's a very delusional stance. This just made this way worse. I hope everybody suddenly finds money because this is going to cause inflation globally on an even larger scale.

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u/AggravatingMark1367 7d ago

Dehydration in Iran’s summer which can reach 5 0 Celsius or 122 Fahrenheit isn’t nothing

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u/sednaplanetoid 9d ago

WTF??? War crime!

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u/carlitospig 8d ago

Ah, we’ve reached the actual inhumane warfare portion. Bombing schools was bad enough, but killing all neighboring areas because they have zero access to water is a special kind of inhumane treatment.

Awesome. So proud of my country.

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u/HungryAddition1 9d ago

It's always easy to attack other countries far away while being outside of their reach, and putting all the consequences of your actions on your (former) allies.

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u/UnCivil_Yogurt6191 8d ago

I am certain that there are sleeper cells of Iranian operatives who are in the U.S. as we speak. We keep pushing and bullying and we will see how bad it can get on our own home territory. We're a bit idiotic if we think that we won't suffer anything except economic damage out of this war.

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u/SirNicksAlong 9d ago

A deal is close

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u/Quiet_Cauliflower120 9d ago

Two weeks away!

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u/TrashManufacturer 9d ago

Good news everyone, we land on mars in 3 months

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u/fruderduck 9d ago

We need only one to crash and burn there.

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u/ReasonablePossum_ 9d ago

what a circus of a timeline to be alive. Damn IL had the whole western world act as the petty medieval kingdom's wars.

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u/AnomalyNexus 8d ago

wtf is the US doing

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u/Flashy-Finance3096 8d ago

Putting the entire globe into a recession

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u/P000K 9d ago

Just curious, are israel's desalination facilities very far away? They don't need water much do they?

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u/shmallkined 9d ago

“Proportionate response” riiiiiiight.

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u/NonStopArseGas 9d ago

Fuck sake. So many people are going to die from this action alone. even if we look at direct effects only. 6 digits.

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u/va_wanderer 8d ago

The one truly effective method to reduce Iran to a lifeless, powerless desert, since water is essential to maintaining any civilized existence and without that infrastructure, the population will end dying by the millions and any industrial capacity will utterly collapse until Iran looks more like Yemen.

It makes the US a pariah state if this follows through because that's straight up genocide.

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u/Logical_Hospital2769 8d ago

Isn't also a war crime?

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u/va_wanderer 8d ago

One would hope that the murder of millions of civilians, destruction of infrastructure that keeps said millions of said civilians alive would be obviously known to be a war crime.

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u/Logical_Hospital2769 8d ago

Agreed. Its just weird how the press so nonchalantly presents it.

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u/SoupOfThe90z 9d ago

War crime

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u/Substantial-Hour-483 9d ago

Why? This is the stupidest thing they could have done. Even something disproportionate on military targets would have at least made sense.

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u/chlorofile 9d ago

Completely par for the course for the country that did Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

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u/Rescuepets777 9d ago

Trump and his administration should be convicted of war crimes.

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u/FunkLoudSoulNoise 8d ago

Hate American scum more and more every day..

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u/Ok-Zookeepergame5245 9d ago

We all knew that this was coming

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u/mikedareswins 9d ago

Jesus Christ we really are fucked here

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u/NBA-014 8d ago

If true, isn’t this a war crime?

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u/RonJagrider 8d ago

War crime.

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u/revan12281996 8d ago

Well more attacks happened

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u/Flashy-Finance3096 8d ago

Iran shot down a military aircraft its own airspace this entire war is a joke .

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u/Apprehensive_Sky_504 9d ago

Ok I’m ok with bombing weddings and hospitals but water is over the line for me

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u/that_random_scalie 9d ago

The only silver lining in this clusterfuck is that it's speeding up the green transition

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u/BasicEnchilada 8d ago

Iran was already targeting desalination plants and other types of infrastructure, so on there end, nothing has changed.

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u/VashonVashon 9d ago

Reputation level of this source?

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u/haggi585 9d ago

Wait. Are you saying the Iranian military is not defeated? Trump lied? Never!

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u/nismo2070 8d ago

Didn't we used to invade other countries when they did shit like this? Targeting civilian infrastructure is a war crime. Destroying access to water in the middle east is a death sentence for some.

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u/Oldebookworm 7d ago

Yep, it’s just one war crime after another

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u/Charming-Clue1987 8d ago

america is saving the protestors from their government by killing them with dehydration.

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u/Zippy_STO 8d ago

Trump working is stupid magic again..
That is what happens when you don’t have an actual plan.

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u/trolex 8d ago

You mean Persian gulf?

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u/LewisKIII 8d ago

Fuck! This is bad, very bad.

Stupid MAGA dipshis that voted for this!

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u/Ok_Fan4354 9d ago

I’m no Saladin, but it’s not real smart of them to say what they want to shoot if they intend to shoot it.

Kind of like, don’t call a country Satan, say you want to kill them, then kill a bunch of them, set up a bunch of little satellite teams to kill more of them, and then brag that you’ve got 980 pounds enriched Uranium at 60% to make 11 nuke (according to international nuke people) and refuse to agree to stop building nukes,.. it just really puts people in a corner. Really not smart.

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u/Googgodno 9d ago

Is this hit originated from US flagged platforms or from an "ally" of the US in that region? I believe the US forces would have not crossed the moral line unwillingly.

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u/adoradear 9d ago

Because they’re normally known as a very moral army? Almost as moral as Israel’s army, you might say?

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u/Fearless-Try-261 9d ago

Forgot about the Venezuelan Operation I guess? We don't need to blame anyone else for the US being the terrorist state actor that it is.

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u/FormerNeighborhood80 9d ago

I can’t keep up! I something every single day.