US strikes water desalination plant in Iran
(www.turkiyetoday.com)
Rogue_General
World NewsDoes the US really want to play this game? 90% of Israel's water comes from desalination plants, and now we've given Iran the justification to strike back in a similar manner.
Conventions on war crimes are a mutual agreement on restraints both parties place on themselves. They work, as long as neither party wants to lose face or support by being the one to break their word, and as long as both parties can afford to.
Trump never gave a shit about keeping his own word, let alone anyone else's.
I'm not sure Iran can afford to keep theirs now.
Attacking desalination plants is not a front the US wants to open. Another horribly idiotic strategic decision by the burger reich. Iran is 3% dependent on desalination, meanwhile US vassals in the region are at 40-90%.
Still illegal, still monstrous.
oh absolutely, it's a war crime plain and simple
Nothing Says "Trump Rapes Children" like...checks notes..."War crimes!"
New candidate for most pointless war in American history?
I thought we arent supposed to hurt civilians in a war according to international laws but yelp it is indirect and also US is above all those things
Oh that’s because this isn’t a war. I mean come on learn the difference.
Since it isn’t a war there are less rules and we ( the USA) can just do as we please with no repercussions at all. None at all.
Is it a special military operation?
Fucking shitters. There is no rock bottom.
Destroying critical infrastructure like that is a terrible idea. Like, I hate this war, fuck Israel and Trump/GQP but if you're invading somewhere, you don't want that infrastructure damaged/destroyed for your own use.
Nobody is invading
Following Israeli war tactics. Hust destroy it all.
Are they trying to invade with the purpose of taking over? I know it sounds stupid, but I consider this all a distraction from the Epstein files. I think they just want to take shots at somebody for a distraction and then leave a mess. It's the billionaire way.
From a US military perspective, this is actually perfectly in line with standard procedure. Holding ground, especially ground so far away, is costly and difficult. So the new strategy these last 15 years has just been to destroy civic infrastructure and collapse the state. It removes a country's ability to resist resource extraction, it creates a long-term "frontier" combat zone that's highly profitable for arms companies, and it serves as a petri dish for incubating new proxy forces to be used later, either as goons or scapegoats (or both).
"We are going to help Iranians with their water problems which are caused by their governent!"
Bombs desalination plant
NATO terrorism knows no depths.
the only ones that need to be worried right now are Iranians that think they're gonna live.
Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of War
Don't worry. It appears that there is a plan to help all of us with that, and it began a few days ago 😞
Been saying that for longer than this.
The decade of war crimes
century*
consequences of letting Israel get away with all their war crimes. they are now normalized.
That was dumb as fuck wow.
Not that it was every in question in this war but...
At this point Iran needs to realize this won't be an occupation, it's an extermination. They'll level all the critical infrastructure and watch them suffer.
a bit weird how the beacon of democracy will bomb schoolchildren and water supplies for the population, but the regime terrorists are only striking military facilities and infrastructure so far 🤔
beacon of democracy? when was that? it was always a shitty racist money first country from the beginning
The US briefly tried out democracy during Reconstruction but the white terrorists quickly defeated that experiment.
beacon of democracy? when was that?
They should have put that phrase in quotation marks.
Just because the US calls themselves that doesn't make it true.
We can already ascertain (I trust certain sources) that the US has likely lost more military personnel than the Iranians, to say nothing of the trade in production (including trade war limits making some hardware functionally irreplacable), cost, depletion of stockpiles, economic leverage of the strikes. They're really "smoking 'em while they've got 'em" since the Mossad network and Starlink strategy collapsed. Seems like they lost hope.
If anything this attack could be one last stab to slow the development of Iran, which is intruding into very high tech industries dominated by the US and western Europe, such as pharmaceuticals and even nuclear fusion in due time.
The west fears having to unleash the power of certified genius women (and men, but it's much more pronounced how their talents benefit Iranian industrial capacity and affect this war, they are a huge driver of the missile program) the way Iran and China have. Girlbossing and slaying is more about inflating the size of the high value service industry.
The future is bright, actually. Our horizons were limited. I think humanity will become something unrecognizable. One day all people will understand death on their own terms, without metaphor. Do not fear the genius women. Sexual selection is the reason we aren't scraping bugs out of tree bark. This will be even better.
I want to believe in this so I will
You mean there same country that vaporized two cities' worth of civilians?
Weak virtue signaling, real chuds know the firebombs were worse.
Yeah, firebombing of Japanese towns and cities was more atrocious given the majority of housing materials. As well easier for the USA to do at that time.
Really makes ya think.
hmmmmmmmmm 🤔 🤔 🤔 🤔
The strikes against Qatar and UAE are hardly military in purpose though...
they targeted US bases and equipment in qatar and UAE
Iran already had a water shortage, this is pushing a wounded critter into a corner and expecting it to not fight for its life.
Oh they are counting on it fighting for its life. Ideally an audacious "terrorist" strike on some liberal city before midterms.
Did they mistake it for an elementary school?
Learning war crimes from their daddy Israel
↔️
Ah yes, because nothing says "sound military strategy" like depriving civilians of fresh water.
Standard US tactic.
They've starved millions for decades with sanctions everywhere.
This is just more blatant
Remember that cruelty is the point with this administration
Stealing truckloads of cash from the working class isn't enough, they need to also see the poor and defenceless suffer needlessly in order to get their kicks.
Cruelty is the point with ANY administration when it concerns brown people.
That's genuinely some of the most despicable shit
Most despicable so far...
I would question if it's even top 5 when you take into account the atrocities committed by Amerikkka in Vietnam, Korea, Iraq etc.
Sounds like terrorism.
It's terrorism when you're brown. When you're white, it's a precision strike.
Sparkling terrorism
Smells Like Trump War Crime
US war crime.
nobody cares what face is in charge of that terrorist country
Something something Collective Punishment something something Geneva Conventions
Something something white exemption from the Geneva Conventions.
Iran so far has been the adult in the room. I get that a lot of things are fucked up there from economy to freedoms, but boy that's nowhere close to what the US/Palestine occupiers are trying to do to them. I come from a shithole too and I keep shitting on our government for a good reason, but I would definitely prefer them over being holocausted by US/Palestine occupiers.
The economic issues were a direct result of US foreign policy.
In a January 2026 interview at the World Economic Forum and his February testimony before Congress, Scott Bessent took credit for engineering a "dollar shortage" that triggered a currency crisis and mass protests in Iran.
Bessent used phrases such as "Making Iran broke again" and described the resulting economic turmoil as "economic statecraft with no shots fired."
Through sanctions, the dollar shortage and currency crisis/hyperinflation led to the collapse of one of Iran's major banks, which led to the protests prior to the war starting.
Iran's issues are literally because of US imperialism. Their economy isn't doing great because of insane illegal sanctions, and their paranoia comes from having been under siege their whole existence. I believe things will get a lot better for Iranians after the aggressors leave the region.
I was waiting for them to get it, but you know...
I get that a lot of things are fucked up there from economy to freedoms, but boy that's nowhere close to what the US/Palestine occupiers are trying to do to them.
🧐
In response to OPs question. I am really wondering if this the point at which the US, especially under Trump, plays the "blame the Jews" card.
We've been watching the right wing shift towards anti Israel views. The tucker Carlson crowd etc.
Maybe Trump is too demented. But, I feel like his defining characteristic is to be good at "reading the room".
I just don't know where it goes with the evangelical Christians that think this needs to happen to bring back Jesus. That's literally the 20% of people that always agree with Trump. But, honestly, at this point. I think they will follow Trump and the pastors will give them a reason to hate the "the Jews".
I just don't see how Trump gets out of this otherwise.
They (bipartisan USA plus UK, Germany and so on) have zero scruples right now about persecuting the antizionist Jews for opposition against Israel, so when the cannibalising of vassals finally hits Israel they will immediately drop all the pretense and go openly antisemitic.
they will 100% turn against Jews, even all those "I love Israel apartheid and genocide, if you're against it, you're antisemitic and hate jews"
I think he risks being returned to the Earth if he turns on Israel.
Israel is a piece. If this war ends up threatening the one true ruler of the US, Capital, it won't matter what Israel wants.
I think this is the part that a lot of people will eventually be shocked by. Because they are following the wrong "leader".
Israeli interest and Israeli leaders are absolutely interwoven in American foreign policy. But, if the interest of capital see it within their best interest to drop Israel, they will.
Now, I think this will be mostly symbolic, I don't think US military support would ever drop. Or even much in terms of capital investments in Israel. But, I can definitely see them using Israel, specifically Benjamin Netanyahu, as a scapegoat for the failures that have already occurred because of the war with Iran.
And, this would bring support in from a lot of Trump's base that he has lost to the Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, and Candace Owen narratives. If Trump played it well enough to capture their antisemitism, while at the same time, not entirely alienating his Christian Zionist base by using Netanyahu as "the problem" instead of directly blaming it on Israel.
It's just my though. My brain is rotted at this point though. I hate all of these people but am way too aware of how they shift and manipulate their narrative when things don't go as planned. It's a path forward I could see him taking.
This really is our generation's Viet Nam, isn't it?
that was real fighting with troops, even if with disproportionate means.
there is zero possibility of boots on the ground here.
This is the standard US tactic of cowardly bombing from a distance they use since then to avoid another US casualties trauma.
I think we re-enter the middle east in some capacity every 5-10 years since like desert storm. Its not new. People are just sick of it. It could be weapons, it could be troops. We never really take our hand off the wheel over there.
It's military keynesianism and the US economy has been running off of it since world war 2.
absolutely criminal
oh they’ll strike back. eventually. they’re hopefully gifting flight sim steam keys to an entire generation of newly radicalized teenagers.
I mean ... Good. Fuck Israel. I hope the entire country goes without water. And food. And medicine. And weapons. And electricity. Take the fucking air from their lungs if you can
It's understandable to be pissed at Israel for what they do to Palestine, Iran, Lebanon, but just like the critics of this very dick move: killing civilians is not going to solve anything. It just creates more resentment and hate.
Uhhh might need to reread that title
Did you misread the title? Or the article?
The article stated that this could set a precedent for Iran to strike Israel's desalination plants, and it is real relied on desalination for up to 70% of its water
You provided zero context for that quote in the first statement and it looked like you simple were commenting on the title, which of course refers to the current real scenario in which the US and Israel did another war crime.
In a stunning turn of events, Iran reveals rather than nukes they spent decades developing the ultimate WMD, Mega Maid.
