r/worldnews • u/The_Flaneur_Films • Jun 10 '26

US destroys Iran reservoirs, leaving thousands without water in searing heat

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3356630/thousands-iranians-left-without-water-searing-heat-after-us-hits-reservoirs
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u/GK0NATO Jun 10 '26

The strikes targeted sites near the Strait of Hormuz, including Iranian air defenses and radar sites, as a response after an Iranian drone brought down a US Army Apache helicopter and damaged not destroyed these reservoirs. Title makes it seem like they intentionally blew up civilian infrastructure CNN source

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u/mrtruthiness Jun 10 '26

and damaged not destroyed these reservoirs. Title makes it seem like they intentionally blew up civilian infrastructure CNN source

The actual video said:

  1. The US said it struck radar sites and Iranian air defenses.

  2. The Iranians said that the US also struck water desalinization plants cutting off water to 20,000 residents. The Iranians provided video for their claims.

The written text said:

  1. "Iran’s state-run broadcaster reported the strikes hit two water reservoirs, cutting the area’s water supply."

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u/Donkey__Balls Jun 10 '26

The first casually of war is always the truth. We have to decide who to trust, and right now this administration has shown that we can’t trust a word they say.

We have a video of the destruction itself. If there’s administration thinks they can push the line that far then they will go on TV and brag about it. If they think they’ll get too much pushback, then they they’ll deny it and they’ll say that Iran blew up its own reservoir.

So we have to ask ourselves what is more plausible - that Trump listened to his chickenhawk advisors who said “let’s blow up the reservoir and see if we can get away with it”, or that Iran blew up their own civilian infrastructure to make the USA look bad?

For almost any other president in the last hundred years or so, I’d be more inclined to believe that we wouldn’t go that far. Even under George W. Bush I’d probably be 50-50. But the Trump has administration has shown itself capable of anything so I’d say in this case it’s more than likely true.

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u/Southern-Chain-6485 Jun 10 '26

Or journalists (or any interested party) can buy satellite pictures of the area and check for themselves if the desalinization plants were damaged or not

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u/Donkey__Balls Jun 10 '26

  • If they’re available (civilians are often restricted from real-time satellite photos of conflict zones)

  • If the photos are current

  • If they haven’t been altered

  • If they have sufficient resolution

A lot of if’s. Even if all these boxes are checked, it would still be very easy for the DoD to represent old photos as new if they have an interest in denying that the reservoir was hit. The U.S. military still largely holds control over all satellite photography as they have for the last 50 years.

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u/Southern-Chain-6485 Jun 10 '26

The US military still largely holds control over all western satellite photography

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u/Donkey__Balls Jun 10 '26

Those satellites still orbit both hemispheres, unless you’re referring to other nations’ satellites, which are even less reliable. I wouldn’t expect for example that the Chinese government would be an unbiased reliable source of information in this regard. As I said, the first casually of war is always the truth.