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AverageOldGuy

(3,917 posts)
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 08:28 PM Monday

I'll just drop this here

Iran is not a Stone Age country. They have trains that run on time; high-speed interstate highways; internal air travel' schools, colleges, technical and trade schools, college, universities, medical schools. Look at video from Iran -- except for a few women wearing burkas and hajibs, the women look like women in the US. They have insurance companies, banks, hair and nail salons, barber shops, automobile dealers with their version of used car salesmen, traffic cops, guys who collect the trash, . . . .

Iran has hospitals. Some of these hosptials have a NICU -- Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit -- where premature babies are kept alive in incubators and on breathing machines. Many of those hospital have ICU -- Intensive Care Unit -- care for people who are seriously ill or injured and who require close 24/7 care, often on venitlators.

All these incubators, breathing machines, ventilators, heart-lung-machines operate on - - - electricity. I assume the hospitals will have emergency generators that use diesel fuel or propane. But the generators will not carry the entire electrical load of the hospital, so, some sections of the hospital must go without electricity. Will they shut down the NICU or the ICU when the power is out?

Then there's the problem of destroying water purification plants.

I'm so proud of our ignorant, shit-for-braiins, demented, incompetent President and SECDEF who are laughing about killing babies. Aren't you?



In 2029, when we have our version of the post-WW II Nuremberg Trials, I want to pull the handle on the gallows on those two human devils, but, I guess I'll have to stand in line. Maybe I could hang Stephen Miller.

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Skittles

(171,855 posts)
1. to Trump and MAGAts, ALL the Middle East is "stone-age"
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 08:30 PM
Monday

just like all countries in Africa are "shitholes"

MAGAts are RACISTS and don't know (or care to know) ANYTHING about the rest of the world.

Kingofalldems

(40,307 posts)
6. What exactly are you saying?
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 09:28 PM
Monday

Certainly has nothing to do with the OP.

BTW, Trump is threatening to murder millions tomorrow after murdering little girls.

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BidenRocks

(3,300 posts)
9. Iran has their 'they',
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 09:59 PM
Monday

America has chump.

I take zero responsibility for his War Crimes!
Like the majority of Iranians, most of whom used to like us.

meadowlander

(5,137 posts)
14. That the people who are about to be bombed "back into the Stone Age" are people
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 11:30 PM
Monday

and that they have a complex and sophisticated society which is about to be destroyed. The OP didn't say it was perfect. But they were pointing out that they aren't "savages" either (not that it would be acceptable to bomb civilian infrastructure even if they were savages).

I work with a few civil engineers who immigrated from Iran and earned their degrees there. I'm sure they have their issues with the current regime but are also having some mixed feelings about their life's work being decimated by a racist, demented old coot who gets off on blowing things up.

LuvLoogie

(8,826 posts)
10. I have no confidence that anybody in this regime will face justice. There isn't enough collective will
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 10:10 PM
Monday

to bring it to fruition. Too many people cheer that POS and GOP policy while our bombs blow up homes and wipe out families.

flashman13

(2,431 posts)
11. Fortunately for Iran, it relies on desalination for only a very small percentage of its water.
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 10:10 PM
Monday

Just a few locations are wholly dependent on desalination. However, the majority of Gulf states get 70% to 90+% of their water from desalination. If tit for tat gets out of control, Iran can render those states uninhabitable in very short order.

KPN

(17,397 posts)
12. Great idea -- pulling the handle on the gallows for fatass and GI Joe. I'm gonna contact my Congressman and suggest
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 11:03 PM
Monday

that they hold a lottery that we all can enter for a chance to enjoy that privilege!

Maru Kitteh

(31,806 posts)
17. We don't need to pretend that women are treated humanely in Iran to
Wed Apr 8, 2026, 02:37 PM
1 hr ago

state the obvious, what we are doing in Iran are atrocities and war crimes.

Iran currently ranks 140th out of 177 nations for women's inclusion, justice, and security. Women are NOT treated as autonomous beings under the religious fundamentalist government of Iran. Religious fundamentalism affects the daily lives of women in Iran through norms and more importantly, laws meant to repress and control all females according to the leader’s interpretation of their religion.

The system they live under is grotesque, and we are making it worse.


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