Iranian attack hit water desalination plant in Kuwait

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

Her post was obviously a question in response to yours.

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I had asked for the link to the post on the plane crash!

Yes I was.

@logicisall you said: I'm sure that Iran's justification is not a hundred miles different from Trump's.

I replied: Why has Trump been attacking water desalination plants in countries he isn't at war with too?

A comma after the Why might have made it clearer, maybe a double question mark:

Why, has Trump been attacking water desalination plants in countries he isn't at war with too??

I did think it was obvious but it seems not.

There is are videos of US C-130 Hercules flying low over South Iran, dropping flares. Likely searching for the pilots of the downed F-15E fighter jet.

https://x.com/clashreport/status/2040024692124221628

Bit of a dodgy account, and not verified I think.

Kuwait hosts 12000 us troops and us has used Kuwait as a base to launch missiles at Iran. It's as uninvolved in this war as Lebanon.

They aren't involved in the war. Many countries have US military infrastructure, the US has sites all over the world.

Attacking a desalination plant or oil refinery which isn't a US military base is completely wrong so no excuse at all.

They are allowing missiles to be launched from their country. How is that different from say Lebanon?

I disagree. Kuwait doesn't have a very large terrorist group operating from their country and difficult to distinguish from regular citizens, even hiding out amongst regular citizens as in Lebanon.

The US don't go hide out in Kuwaiti family homes.

I don’t get why anyone would want Kuwait to be hit. Apart from the IRGC of course.

I'd say tgere wasn't. Some might think Iran are ok to do.that though 🤔

Analysis from BBC Australia correspondent, reporting from Doha:

Strikes on desalination plants could make arid Gulf unliveable

First an oil refinery, now a power and desalination plant, both in Kuwait.

That worries people here because as we’ve seen since this war started, the Gulf has suffered from retaliation by Iran.

This part of Middle East is so arid, it relies on power and desalination plants to run - around 90% of drinking water is from processed seawater and without the ability to desalinate, the Gulf fast becomes unlivable. It’s a huge worry for leaders across the region.

For so long, these small states have thrived on not being a part of conflict elsewhere in the Middle East - that is no longer the case.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cgj0gn36px8t

The IRGC are showing they are nothing but a murderous death cult. No different to Isis. The sooner they are wiped down the face of the earth the better everyone will be .

I really dont see the difference.

In fact of you compare the two - Kuwait agreed to host an aggressive imperialist world power with a history of launching wars of aggression.

Lebanon took in a few hundred thousand refugees fleeing their hones in 1948 and has never been able to see their return. Nearly 80 years on Palestinians in Lebanon dont have the right to work and arent citizens of Lebanon. They have been forced to cope with Hezbollah, no choice involved.

I agree.

Some might be just anti anyone who is friendly or on sympathic to Israel or the US? Who knows, therefore excuses for everything now.

BBC is reporting now that the IRGC are claiming Israel bombed the Kuwaiti desalination plants

IDF says it is 'not aware' of attack after Iran accuses it of hitting Kuwaiti infrastructurepublished at 15:02
15:02
Ghoncheh Habibiazad
Senior reporter, BBC Persian
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has accused Israel of targeting a water desalination facility and power plant in Kuwait, after Kuwait said Iran had targeted them.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told the BBC that it's "not aware" of the attack.
In a statement, the IRGC condemned the attacks and warned Middle Eastern countries to remain “alert” to US and Israeli “efforts to foment unrest, destabilise, and destroy the region”.
In the statement, the IRGC did not mention the oil refinery in Kuwait, which has also reportedly been targeted today.
Earlier this week, Iran also accused Israel of targeting a desalination facility in Kuwait.
Ebrahim Zolfaghari, spokesperson for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya, the country’s main military command, on Monday accused Israel of “brutal aggression” against the Kuwaiti plant and of attempting to “frame” Iran.
The comments followed an overnight attack on a power and desalination plant in Kuwait, which reportedly killed an Indian worker and caused damage.
Zolfaghari urged regional states to remain vigilant against what he described as Israeli and US “sedition” aimed at destabilising the Middle East.

Iran has denied responsibility and claimed Israel is behind the attack on the desalination plant. The aim being to build international support for the war against Iran and enable escalation.

It’s good the region now has the Abraham Accords. Iran is problematic for all of them.

If you think any of the three nations involved in this war have only been striking countries involved in the war, you haven’t been paying attention.

You don’t understand why anyone would hit a desalination plant in the Middle East, as a strategic move? There are a number of reasons for that.

Kuwait hasn’t recognised Israel under the Abraham Accords. They currently have no diplomatic relations.

Have the US hit anywhere apart from Iran? Which countries have they hit that I've not paid attention to?

Israel hitting Iran and Hezbollah/Lebanon. Any other in the region for this war? (Gaza Israel conflict a different conflict)

I get why the IRGC would as I posted. Who else would want it for Kuwait?

Do you believe what the IRGC say @AmberTigerEyes @Golden407 ?

They are a proscribed terrorist organisation in many, many countries and only not the UK because of some legal difficulty which the UK are working on, in order to be able to proscribe the IRGC.

Iran are the only people who would want to bomb Kuwait, as retaliation for them allowing missiles to be sent from US bases.

Can you give an example of what you mean specifically