Iranian attack hit water desalination plant in Kuwait

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Cannot find a link yet but was on BBC as breaking news.

@AgingLikeGazpacho excellent post
I have learned a lot from you over the past couple of days. I also hope your friends and family in Iran stay safe ❤️

@AgingLikeGazpacho

Very powerful post. Thank you. My thoughts are with the Iranian peoples.

I live in a regime country that is very often the target of this sort of extreme rhetoric. Not from the US President though. When I hear the " bomb them all brigade", I think of DD. 13. who goes to a "Regime" school, and I think how these folk would make excuses if it were her School that was bombed. How they would call for more bombing, to punish the "evil regime". But it's not up to them. That's for my DD and her generation. And all the other generations who will outlive the current authoritarians in power. And hopefully they will all manage to change things to how they want. Not have a near alien culture bomb their country into what someone else thinks it should be.

My DD will be getting a bit of a tighter hug before bed tonight.

Best wishes to you, and the people if Iran.

Thank you Red, I've found your posts comforting over the past few days, knowing that I am not alone in my perspective and that other people can also see how concepts like human rights can be used as a weapon by western powers to make their military actions more palatable to their citizens. The cognitive dissonance is breathtaking.

This is happening right now in Iran, click on thread for more posts.

https://bsky.app/profile/newseye.bsky.social/post/3mivykbrxm22p
BREAKING: Extraordinary scenes as Iranian citizens start forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites.

This is Kazerun Power Plant in Fars province, southern Iran

(🎥 i24 News)

I hope they weren't coerced into this action, because it did make my heart swell with pride seeing them standing defiantly together

I hope they remain safe

I don't blame them. Because what choice do have. See their country destroyed by a madman, or try to keep going as they are. If Trump is stopped things can stay the same, get better, or worse. If Trump is not stopped, things can only get horrendously worse.

I read earlier today that young people were asked to do this by the regime.

I also hope they weren’t coerced into it in any way.

Synagogue hit in central Tehran, Trump threatening to wipe out an entire civilisation...

Trump and his side kick Netanyahu are criminals, thugs, outside of international law.

Much like Gaza, this is a very very one sided "war" to draw an equivalence is quite frankly shocking.

I would assume that they were coerced. And if not obvious coercion, certainly manipulation. How can a child make that choice independently? they are too young to understand the consequences.

Iran has a long history of treating its children as expendable in war. Child soldiers, child suicide mine sweepers, etc.

Just because Trump is bad, it doesn’t mean the IRCG is good.

Why assume this?

A Iranian woman on Sky now crying at the potential destruction of her country, they may well hate the Regime and the IRGC but they don't want their history, their infrastructure turned to dust.

@Twiglets1 do you mean children were asked?

The source I read just said "young people."

Edited to say, children are mentioned in the source which is the Independent.

Well that’s a very big assumption! Why would you think that Iranians don’t care if their Country is completely destroyed? Why would you think they would be happy for all their essential infrastructure and precious historical buildings to be razed to the ground? Is it incomprehensible that they might actually care about that infrastructure?

I found the source @EasternStandard it was the Independent:

Iran tells young people to make human chains around power plants ahead of Trump’s deadline

Iran called on “all young people, athletes, artists, students and university students and their professors” to form human chains around power plants ahead of the threatened strikes.

Alireza Rahimi, identified by Iranian state television as the secretary of the Supreme Council of Youth and Adolescents, issued a video call, saying: “Power plants that are our national assets and capital, regardless of any taste or political viewpoint, belong to the future of Iran and to the Iranian youth.”

Iran has previously used human chains around its nuclear sites during periods of heightened tensions with Western nations.

Later, a Revolutionary Guard general urged parents to send their children to man checkpoints, which have been repeatedly targeted in airstrikes.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-trump-strikes-power-plants-b2952793.html

Thanks for finding it

This is why assume so. They have a history.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/04/iran-recruitment-of-child-soldiers-as-young-as-12-amounts-to-a-war-crime/

https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/04/25/iran-security-forces-kill-torture-abuse-children

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/06/23/we-the-child-soldiers-of-the-people-s-mujahedeen-of-iran_6675506_4.html

english.alarabiya.net/perspective/features/2017/11/08/ANALYSIS-Iranian-regime-and-its-appalling-violation-of-children-s-rights

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_key_to_paradise

We know the IRCG are a horrific regime, that doesn't mean that the Iranian people deserve to be sent back to the stone age or have their civilization erased.

Yes, I very much agree.

We weren't the only ones to notice, TPF. They still skirt over the part where Radin said he'd be OK with nuclear weapons being used.

It is very suspect.

For anyone curious, this is the vanishing paragraph:

They made it clear that this was 'Radin's' personal opnion, not sure why they removed it.

The fact that he feels like that is the most upsetting

Yes, it is.

I would speculate keen eyed researchers. Check their archives to see if the fellas name appears in Iranian State Media. If it does, possible regime plant. Information and disinformation.

Things have moved on a bit since these posts ^.

Iran is now firing missiles at Israel.

This was after Pakistan said a ceasefire had been agreed and shipping was to be allowed through the Straits for a fortnight.

It's very difficult to know what to believe but I have seen live footage released by Israel of the Iron Dome in operation, intercepting missiles.

This is an unprovoked attack and I can't see Israel taking this lying down...

In fairness to the IRGC ( never thought I would say those words) they did warn that it would take time for the message of the ceasefire to reach everyone in their organisation.

I hope this is the case and that all attacks stop within a few hours.