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US bombs Iran's water facilities

aljazeera.com

31 points by bhouston 5 days ago · 6 comments

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bhoustonOP 5 days ago

It is covered in the Financial Times and New York Times as well, but they are paywalled:

https://www.ft.com/content/155db8a4-f2ff-463b-9c6c-2b1a81047...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/world/middleeast/drinking...

  • JumpCrisscross 5 days ago

    Either of these sources much more precisely cover what happened. They provide the context that we already hit desalination assets on Qeshm before (U.S. denied), and that this time we struck two water-storage tanks. (Which we’re also denying, but the Planet Labs imagery provides concrete evidence in a way the free sources unfortunately can’t pay for.)

    • asdefghyk 5 days ago

      WHy is US denying this?

      • pseudohadamard 4 days ago

        Because targeting infrastructure like that is a war crime.

        Mind you so is starting a war of aggression, perfidy (attacking while under a flag of truce), and a bunch of other things the US has done, so I'm not sure why they're trying to cover this one up.

      • quantified 5 days ago

        Even true things like the imminent award of an honor are "fake news" (Mark Twain Award, to Bill Maher). War crimes are, well, unseemly.

      • JumpCrisscross 5 days ago

        No clue. You’d have to look for the pattern of things the U.S. almost certainly hit and later denied.

        The Al Jazeera article suggests hitting water infrastructure is always a war crime, and then references a non-binding memo, which hints at the fact that the claim is bullshit, something cursory searching confirms. That’s probably not it since both the U.S. and Iran have proudly owned up to and threatened war crimes throughout this stupid war.

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