Iranian attack hit water desalination plant in Kuwait

Sounds like they were attempting to drop special forces in to rescue the pilots with the warthog providing cover and it hasn't gone to plan. I hope the rescue attempt doesn't result in more POW or deaths.

To be fully confirmed but it's looking like an A-10 warthog plane shot/targeted, potentially the third direct hit today by Iran, the Black Hawk sent to rescue the F15 pilots earlier was also targeted.

Bad day for the American airforce.

The IRGC is richer than ever, now that ships are paying £2M a pop to leave the straight. They have plenty of cash to pay the Chinese for parts to make drones. If America doesn’t find a way to cut this off, they will find the Iranians can go on indefinitely.

Capturing Kargh Island would be a less than a pyrrhic victory. I’ve read that 8,000 US marines and paratroopers are headed to Iran, if they aren’t already there. I expect Iran to lash out even more.

2nd plane is now down in Iran, no further details..

Should it have been shot down, then Iraq still has a great deal of capability or enough to cause the US a deal of problems.

Iran isn't rational, then again, any one (Hegseth) with a far right emblem and a Jerusalem cross tattooed on his arm and chest, probably isn't either.

Trump lost any rational thought years ago.

I do hope that criticism of the war isn’t being portrayed as support for the IRGC.

Because that would be disingenuous.

It is entirely possible to agree the IRGC is a force for terror AND also note that the war has not dislodged the IRGC or the nuclear material and is bringing much of the world’s economy to a halt which may lead to political/economic/humanitarian issues elsewhere (including in Iran).

Apart from Russia who seems to be doing nicely out of it all.

No support for the Iranian regime at all.

Contempt and horror at the current US government. (They also shot protestors recently)

This shouldn’t be overlooked.

It shows how far the US has fallen under Trump

I hope the pilot gets out ok too.

The suppression over what gets out is helping the IRGC hugely.

The IRGC aren’t rational when torturing or executing people, not at all.

Hopefully the pilot gets out ok.

Hegseth: “No mercy, no quarter” for US enemies.

Iran now: “US soldiers will be regarded as prisoners of war under the Geneva Convention.”

Who would ever have thought Iran would come across as the rational ones

Yes let's hope the remaining airman is rescued in time because God knows what the monstrous IRCG would do if they get to him first.

Very worrying that US intel did not know their target was a school.

According to the USA, the same USA who bombed a bridge and then went back again an hour later.... to get the rescuers...

Yes a war crime (if its the Iranians that did it) but when the US do terrible things, these are not war crimes, the word of the USA is taken as gospel... no such leeway is given to the Iranians is it...

This entire war should not be happening, Israel/USA are no better than Russia in Ukraine, along with a similar hotchpotch of justifications.

As i've said before, i ve no idea if the School was a target, a total mistake or most likely, a price worth paying to get the main IRGC facility next door.

Shooting down a modern US fighter indicates a great deal of capability, it wasn't done by a guy with a AK47...

Don't understand the "benefit of doubt" comment, there is no doubt, they did it....

Lets hope and pray the remaining airman is rescued.

Re the bombing of the school.

There is a legal responsibility to do everything feasible to verify the status of a targeted object before launch. The school had been established since 2016 - open source, public domain information. It is not enough to say ‘a mistake’ - by relying on old information or worse AI, they failed in quite basic duties.

Bombing of civilian infrastructure - be that a bridge or water plant - is a war crime. There seems to be a lot of it about.

The school wasn't a target though but an accident according to the US, who confirm they do not ever target schools. The desalination plant on the other hand... Iran have made it clear they are targeting infrastructure across the Middle East, particularly countries they consider allies of the US.

I'm glad you accept this attack was a war crime, but you give Iran the benefit of the doubt when you assume that because they have shot down a jet (an F15 not the F35 they said they had shot down, hence some confusion), that necessarily means they must "have a great deal of capability left".

They have some capability left which is obvious from their actions, but how much they have left we do not know.

Well, tbh Kuwait is a huge ally to the USA, so from the Iranian POV, Kuwait is a legitimate target.
After all, on the first day of this war, USA bombed a school... so a water treatment plant is very much in the scope of targets for the Iranians.

BTW Totally condemn this attack as a war crime as is the entire war, an illegal conflict from its start.

So the Iranians have managed to shoot down a jet, an F15, Iran clearly still has a great deal of capability left.

Reminds me of what happened in WW1, huge 72hour artillery bombardment "Nothing left of the Hun now lads, over the top we go..." into hail of bullets.

Agreed. But Kuwait is.

The US deliberately hit a bridge, 8 people dead and 95 injured.

Neither Iran or the US are innocent parties.

I’m not sure that the US accidentally hitting a school means that Iran has carte blanche to hit bystanders who have done nothing to them.

If anything, it would excuse Iran hitting a US school accidentally. Kuwait has nothing to do with anything.