• arsCynic@piefed.social
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    2 hours ago

    “Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei killed, senior Israeli official says” ―https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-supreme-leader-ali-khamenei-killed-senior-israeli-official-says-2026-02-28/

    One less religious despot, good. Too bad it took two other despots to do it though; would’ve preferred the Iranian people’s uprising had sufficed. But, I don’t understand the attack on an elementary school. Was it hit due to collateral damage?

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      War crimes such as striking schools and hospitals is a common Israeli military practice.

      Under Obama, the US famously made it so that anyone in a stike zone is automatically an enemy combatant, no matter their age or anything else.

      I’d be glad to see Ali Khamenei dead and I hope there is no power vacuum that makes this worse for the civilians in any country. However I can’t trust anything our media says anymore.

      Edit: It could have been a black flag by the Iranians, but I would not put it past USA or Israel.