Iranian attack hit water desalination plant in Kuwait

Sounds like minimising the actions of the IRGC to me.

It is awful what they have done and no amount of precedents changes that.

All the criticism that has been levelled against Israel's conduct in the Gaza war (some of it legitimate such as for striking civilian infrastructure, some of it not) - yet people get criticised for pointing out that Iran was wrong to hit a desalination plant in an uninvolved country?

Iran is not even at war with Kuwait. It's likely a war crime.

The IRGC are responsible for their own actions and bringing Israel into the discussion doesn't change that.

Did I miss "all that" ?

Who else in the US government apart from Trump - who we all know is a wild card on occasion - blamed Iran for it?

Theories, yes there were lots of theories flying around. Which blamed all 3 possible options - the US, Israel and Iran because nobody knew.

Because this thread is all about how awful it is that Iran has hit a desalination plant in an uninvolved country - it's very relevant for neutral bystanders to point out that such tactics are done by all of the hideous actors involved. That clear precedents were set by those that started this war.
Sticks used to beat a global superpower by a mumsnet commentator? Come on! It's just stating the truth.

You are not convinced that countries in the ME will want to distance themselves from Iran because the initial aggression came from the US and Israel.

I think the relationship will be soured for a long time after the war.

Iranian attacks pose existential threat, Gulf states warn

Gulf Arab states have told the UN Human Rights Council they face an existential threat from Iranian attacks on their infrastructure, which the UN human-rights chief said might constitute war crimes.

The war on Iran has sparked large-scale Iranian retaliation in the form of drone and missile strikes on energy and civilian infrastructure in Gulf countries, killing civilians and driving up oil prices.

"We are seeing an existential threat to international and regional security. This aggressive approach is undermining international law and sovereignty," Kuwait's ambassador Naser Abdullah HM Alhayen told the council.

Other Gulf states said Iran's actions were designed to spread terror. The United Arab Emirates' ambassador Jamal Jama al Musharakh denounced Iran's "attempt to destabilise the international order through reckless adventures of expansionism”.

Countries at the 47-member council adopted a motion condemning Iran's "unprovoked and deliberate" strikes, seeking reparations from Iran and asking the UN to monitor the situation.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-us-war-live-oil-trump-israel-strait-of-hormuz-peace-talks-b2945090.html

Trump in particular forcefully blamed Iran on more than one occasion - misfired missile from nearby Iranian base was the theory - with much comparison to the Alhili hospital misfiring in certain quarters

The giveaway was the film of the missiles involved which were undeniably American

Did you miss all that?

The school was hit 40 mins later in a double tap. The school isnt just any school but the daughters of military officers, that signals to be that it was highly unlikely to be an random accident twice.

If you agree that it was most likely an accident, why are you still bringing it up now as a stick to beat the US with?

Sorry what? I never said they’d deliberately target a school.
The Pentagon confirming it is good enough for me. I don’t need the only person above the Pentagon, Trump, to confirm it.

No and I believe it counts as a "War Crime".

Not that Iran will be bothered about that 🙄

OK - I was not aware they have officially taken responsibility for the hit, I thought they were still investigating it. Perhaps because it has not been confirmed.

I believe them that they would not deliberately target a school, you don't.

It's all just opinion which we won't change each other's minds on because it depends on our preconceived ideas of the US.

Well, actually,
The US admitted it.
Hegseth said but we would never have targeted a school (so it wasn’t deliberate)
Then Trump tried to blame Iran for it.

And this is just 1 school out of around 600 total Iranian schools hit by the US and Israel combined. Around 100 oopsies in six weeks.

I posted this on a previous thread

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/world/middleeast/us-precision-strike-missile-iran-lamerd.html
New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows

The Pentagon used missiles untested in combat in a deadly attack that struck civilian sites near a military compound on Feb. 28, according to visual evidence examined by The Times and weapons experts.

My statement is correct. It was a real politiks observation of when laws are not enforced, the crime becomes de facto permitted.

I'm glad we agree now that your statement What’s allowed for one, becomes permissible for all was not right and it's ok to criticise Iran for striking a desalination plant in Kuwait.

No. They admitted hitting the girls school but that it was an accident.
Saying they’d never target a school was saying they did not deliberately hit it.

The U.S. Pentagon has launched a formal investigation into a missile strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed at least 165 civilians, many of them children, which determined the U.S. was at fault, according to a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak publicly.

It wasn’t hit by a plane, the Pentagon probe showed it was hit (double tapped) by two US Tomahawk missiles.

Do you follow what Amnesty have said the IRGC are doing? There seems to be a general blank over that part.

They hit it nevertheless.

By mistake is just as bad.

No they didn't.

At first no one knew who was responsible for hitting the school so there were lots of opinions flying around that it was the US, it was Israel, it was Iran.

I don't think the US have "admitted" hitting the girls school in Iran.

They have explicitly said they would never target a school.

It seems likely that the school was hit by a US plane but that doesn't mean they purposefully targeted a school.

To suggest otherwise is misinformation.

The US admitted that eventually but iirc they tried to blame Iran.

2026 so far the US has hit:
Venezuela
Syria
Iraq
Iran
Yemen
Nigeria
Somalia

Maybe but the executions in Iran continue and they’re quite keen on their own horrors so if they do gain more power we’ll see where it goes.

Ah well. Be grateful it wasn’t a school, huh?

The US admitted hitting the 1 girls school with the high casualties.
US and Israel have admitted hitting the other 500 or so schools as well.