Mass grave prepared for the school girl massacre, 165 souls

How bloody arrogant. There are lots of knowledgeable people on here.

tomorrow is never guaranteed, but on the balance of probability Iran is very likely to get a much improved position with a new regime. The past/current one is evil personified. Hopefully there will be arming of the Kurds and the new regime will be far more secular and progressive. Islamism needs to be ousted from the governments of the Middle East and replaced with a more progressive form of Islam and increased secularism within governments. Arming of the Kurds with back up military support is one way to optimise the chances of this happening, what is important that we don’t give up , We need to back up what has been started. The ME as is stands poses a significant risk to the West we need to prioritise neutralising that.

You haven't answered the question. But that's no surprise because nobody has answered it since 7/10/23. The Israelis acted in defence of their population to get all their hostages back and stop Hamas from repeating the massacres that they openly stated they would commit again.

Again a stupid post. It is not an opinion to think there are more than one way to deal with terrorists. That is a fact.

He's very consistently shown himself to be just that.

I cant believe that people are claiming Iran did this when the US and Israeli bombs are pouring down from the skies.

The options aren't just let terrorists run through or kill all of their children. There are plenty of other options. As I've posted before we didn't respond to the IRA terrorism by coming into Belfast and killing Catholic kids.

In your opinion. Have a nice day.

That's what happens in the West Bank and Palestinians are expected to put up and shut up.

Not because that would be a stupid binary view of the world.

Instead you'd just let terrorists run rampant over your country, killing maiming, torturing and kidnapping. Good to know.

I don't believe in an eye for eye justice.

Are you saying that the fact that the Iranian regime is not 'benign' means that the death of 160 or so school girls is justified? It should be pointed out that the killing of the citizens by the Iranians, which is not to be justified in any way at all, has led on from the deliberate US interference. Bessant has talked openly about the US aim to sink the Iranian economy in order to create unrest. The CIA have also been involved in creating unrest amongst the population.

Of course they have a valid point but that isn't the point.
Do you think that any country can simply attack any other country because they don't like the leadership and want to install a friendly leader? Is it fine to ignore international law and your own congress and simply launch weapons?
Presumably it is also fine for China to attack Taiwan or Japan? Is it also fine Russia to flatten Ukraine and then start on the Baltic states? Should they perhaps attack Western Europe too because they dislike the leadership? Does it matter that millions of civillians could be killed?

Iran: Growing Evidence of Countrywide Massacres | Human Rights Watch

Its pretty clear the Iranian government has killed thousands of its own population, some said 12,000 alone were murdered in January by the Iranian government.

Its a tragedy that the school girls were killed and violence is wrong, however this was not a benign regime. Its not black and white - anyone who thinks it is black and white is naive.

Trump and Netanyah were wrong to attack but the Iranian government were evil and the deaths of their leadership is not something to be sad about.

I despair at the lack of intelligence at some of these posts.
How on earth can you possibly guarantess that what comes next will be better than the CURRENT regime (they are still in power remember, despite the US politicians begging the Iranians to rise up and conquer them). Some of the Iranians are over the moon, some are not, many resent the US interference and do not want a US puppet imposed on them. There is a very good chance that what comes next could be much worse for the Iranians, the whole region and even the whole world. If this war is a long one, involving ground troops, the blockade of the S of H, attacks on energy and water infrastructure, etc, the economic consequences for the UK and many other countries will be immense. That's before you even start thinking about the longer term consequences.

If their political leaders gun them down in their thousands for merely protesting they might have a valid point.

Another chilling post, attempting to justify the aggression of the Israelis. One has to wonder at the character of some people. No wonder so many atrocities happen when some are prepared to shrug off so much murder and aggression.

Yeah, it's really not. I don't like him but he's not a monster.

Interesting how you merrily ignore the other posters's points about the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who have been murdered by the Israelis (and US) and make a separate point about the murder of the Jews. Your 'good memory' is very selective. Why are you unable to condemn the atrocities commited by Hamas AND the even worse atrocities committed since the Hamas attack, not to speak of all the other wars initiated by Israel, including this current one in Iran? As I said, it seems that only certain lives matter to some people.

I hope you are right. I am not saying this with rancour. Maybe you will be.

Oh is it? It looked like he had to retaliate when Hamas stormed into Israel on October 7 and massacred children.

And what did you expect Israel to do when their children were butchered in cold blood by Hamas on Oct 7?

It is a perfect summary of Netanyahu's view on the world.

What a despicable post. Would you shrug your shoulders if some terrorists decided to bomb your children's/niece's/nephew's school/your work place/town? Your lack of empathy is chilling.

Great - get back to class leave the adults to chat about this.