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Strikes on Bemani damaged key water reservoir for 20,000 people living in area amid a historic drought in the country

Military strikes that damaged two water storage facilities in southern Iran may constitute a war crime, military and legal experts say, after reviewing media reports and visual evidence of a 10 June strike on Bemani, a small district about 2 miles from the strait of Hormuz.

It’s unclear if the strikes deliberately targeted the district’s water tanks, or if they unintentionally destroyed a key reservoir for about 20,000 people living nearby. But if the tanks were the target, then the legal question becomes critical, Brian Finucane, a former state department lawyer, said. “It’s either a military objective or it’s a civilian object: attacking one is lawful, attacking the other is a war crime,” Finucane said.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 115 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Bruh the administration has been like.. "We're going to do war crimes".. then proceed to do what they said.. and the lawyers are like "Welll maaybeee its a bit war-crimey..." while the administration is like yeah no dog we doing war crimes.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Dunno why the voters who didnt do anything when they couldve are upset that the shitty govt they got isnt doing anything. Well duh.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (5 children)

That's the part that pisses me off most. If kamala would've won, she'd be better than trump, for sure. But beyond that, this fucker would be rotting in prison right now.

[–] borkborkbork@piefed.social 14 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Correct.

Now think on: If Bernie had won 2016, we could have been spared all of this madness.

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[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Biden's AG didn't, and she campaigned exclusively to republicans, no shot she'd appoint an AG who would, for fear of alienating the imaginary moderate republicans.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

You do realize Jack Smith put together two bullerproof cases against him and they were both ready to go to court, and the only reason they didn't was because the Scotus punted until after the election...?

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[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 3 points 2 months ago

Well at least they followed through on what they said for once

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Exactly.. May?

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] partofthevoice@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It’s even June, bro. May was last month.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dude, the day before yesterday was already the 10th

[–] finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Fuck. I'm travelling through time again.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I’m so sick of all the conditional language that lets trump continue to be a piece of shit that should have been imprisoned decades ago for rapes and tax dodging among other crimes or shot for war crimes today.

[–] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

The crazier thing is that all these news organizations have lawyers on retainers and still they don’t use them. Call it a war crime, put your lawyers to work. A bunch of fucking cowards the lot of them.

Then you have “entertainment news” out there calling Obama a muslim born in Kenya for a decade. The world is upside down.

[–] godsammitdam@lemmy.zip 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The fuck do they mean "may?" In what realistic context does it not?

[–] Vinylraupe@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

I was thinking the exact same thing. This world has become a clownshow.

[–] ChetManly@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Have a fucking spine.

"Targeting civil infrastructure is a war crime... we destroyed civilian infrastructure"

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

That's why the US is so adversary to the International Criminal Court.

[–] Leviathan@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

US Presidents and war crimes go together like Republicanism and pedophilia, classic combo.

[–] magnue@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Being a billionaire pedo is a crime too according to some experts but here we are.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Bwaz@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

may constitute a war crime?!?

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 11 points 2 months ago

Bombing a school for young girls is a war crime. Still no punishments

Tired of all this limply worded tripe that comes from people's mouths and headlines.

[–] trackball_fetish@lemmy.wtf 15 points 2 months ago

Getting really sick of these headlines feigning ignorance

[–] pirate2377@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"War Crimes? What's that? We're no longer apart of NATO because it's too WOKE now, so war crimes don't exist!" -- Trump, Probably

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 3 points 2 months ago (6 children)

When did the US leave NATO?

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

This entire administration is a war crime

[–] NightTitan@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

That hesgeth ain't no sissy. He's a war criminal. Him and the whole administration. Fuck. These. Animals.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Put it on the pile.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago

The very war is a war crime.

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

It's never going to be enforced, so I guess this is just a footnote in history.

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago
[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Seems like every war I've been alive for has multiple war crimes and aside from a select few exceptions, nothing happens. We, the US, can't hold our people accountable for domestic crimes, so I'm not holding out much hope for any consequences here either.

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[–] nullspace@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

War crime? More like bore crime. It's time for some cagefighting at the White House! WOOOOO!!!

[–] cecilkorik@piefed.ca 5 points 2 months ago

Nothing is going to happen either way, so we may as well dispense with the niceties like "it may constitute" and just be honest with each other. It is a war crime, but we don't feel like there's any realistic opportunity to do anything about it so, there's no harm in saying it is, nothing will happen, and we'll all move on.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Fucking may? What clown wrote this headline?

[–] howdy@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

bro, whether or not if was the intended target should not affect if it was a war crime or not??

you can't just say oops teehee 😇 and absolve yourself??????

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Oh no! This WAR has risen to the level of war crimes! Well someone's gonna answer for this now!

/s

[–] Mannimarco@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Just add it to the fucking pile, Jesus Christ

[–] stickyprimer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

It pretty obviously is one. But who is really the governing authority to make it official?

[–] MrSulu@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (11 children)

It does create a war crime. It can't yet be declared until the case is heard. Will it be heard and considered in court? Will Israels war crimes be heard and considered in court?

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[–] Equinox1289@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Good luck prosecuting when the US when it doesn't recognize the ICC

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