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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI'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.
Skittles
(171,855 posts)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.
Permanut
(8,408 posts)yellow dahlia
(6,012 posts)Great minds.
malaise
(296,427 posts)They are already guilty of war crimes.
WarGamer
(18,666 posts)So what exactly are you saying?
Kingofalldems
(40,307 posts)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)America has chump.
I take zero responsibility for his War Crimes!
Like the majority of Iranians, most of whom used to like us.
orangecrush
(30,498 posts)meadowlander
(5,137 posts)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.
dpibel
(3,969 posts)have you left no sense of...
Mblaze
(1,064 posts)LuvLoogie
(8,826 posts)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)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)that they hold a lottery that we all can enter for a chance to enjoy that privilege!
Ferryboat
(1,266 posts)Join me in the line to piss on their graves.
Maru Kitteh
(31,806 posts)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 leaders interpretation of their religion.
The system they live under is grotesque, and we are making it worse.