More than 160 children were killed in a single attack on the first day of the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran Washington has denied responsibility for a strike on an Iranian girls’ elementary school that killed more than 160 children in the opening hours of the US-Israeli military campaign against Iran. RT’s Isabella Blumberg examines how the US has handled deadly strikes on civilians in previous wars. Videos of the February 28 bombing – verified by several news agencies – appear to show the school struck by what looks like a Tomahawk missile, a weapon used by US forces in the conflict. Investigations by Reuters, the Washington Post, the New York Times, AP, CNN and other outlets concluded that US forces likely destroyed the school in the southern Iranian city of Minab while striking nearby Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps sites. In previous wars – including the 2015 bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz and the 1991 strike on Baghdad’s Amaria shelter – s...
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Gold ix being sold to absorb the oil price shock – but no amount of tinkering with margin requirements can address physical shortages. The moment we all wondered about has come. Oil has surged past $100 per barrel and markets are coming under serious strain. When I wrote an initial reaction to the Iran war last week, markets were still clearly pricing a “nothing to see here” scenario. With the system of global governance in shambles and institutional checks conspicuously lacking, I wrote that markets may now be the only force left capable of imposing constraint. Think of markets as a congress that has to approve a continuation of war – except this congress can’t be bought off so easily. US officials, of course, are still downplaying the carnage (in markets, that is – the carnage in Iran is a source of pride). President Donald Trump called the oil spike a small price to pay for security, while the US Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the recent surge in oil prices reflects a tempo...
The Commission chief has used the Middle East escalation to question the global order and push for a more militarized security doctrine European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has failed to condemn the US-Israeli war on Iran, saying “there should be no tears shed for” Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in the initial strikes. Speaking at an annual conference of EU ambassadors on Monday, von der Leyen brushed aside debate over whether the attack on Iran “is a war of choice or necessity,” portraying it instead as opening “a path towards a free Iran.” “I believe this debate misses the point,” she said. “I want to be clear: there should be no tears shed for the Iranian regime. This regime has inflicted death and imposes repression on its own people.” AB Komisyonu Başkanı Ursula von der Leyen: ''İran rejimi için gözyaşı dökülmemeli. Bu rejim kendi halkına ölüm getirdi ve baskı uyguladı. 17 bin genci katlettiler. Bu rejim, vekil g...
More than 160 people, mostly schoolgirls, were killed by a suspected US-Israeli strike Videos released online and verified by a number of news agencies have amplified accusations that the US is behind the deadly strike on an Iranian girls‘ school that left over 160 people dead. The footage shows what appears to be a US Tomahawk missile impacting near the school in Minab, southern Iran. A video shared by Mehr News agency claims to show “the moment when Israeli and American terrorists struck Minab school” on February 28. Both the Washington Post and New York Times verified the authenticity of the footage, using satellite imagery, social media posts, and other geolocated videos. The Washington Post, citing eight independent munitions experts, described the clip as the latest indication of likely US involvement in the strike. It noted that the missile hit next to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) naval complex, which was adjacent to the school. CBS News reported, citing a p...
The Assembly of Experts says a consensus has been reached on Ali Khamenei’s successor Several members of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, the body responsible for selecting the country’s next supreme leader, have said they have reached a decision but did not disclose the chosen candidate. Supreme Leader Mullah Ali Khamenei, who ruled Iran for 37 years, was killed in a US-Israeli strike on Tehran on February 28, at the outset of a war which has now embroiled much of the Middle East. Israel has warned it would target any figure selected to replace Khamenei. “The most suitable candidate, approved by the majority of the Assembly of Experts, has been determined,” member Mohsen Heydari said on Sunday, according to the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA). Read more Khamenei killing: America and Israel cross a new line in international politics According to Iranian media reports, the group of scholars had a minor disagreement over whether their final decision must follow an in-person...
The cartoon depicts devastating Iranian retaliation against the American and Israeli military after a deadly strike on the Minab girls’ school Iranian media have shared a Lego-style video touting Tehran’s purported retaliation against the US and Israel, depicting the American and Israeli leadership in a panic. The animation, dubbed ‘Narrative of Victory,’ was widely circulated online on Sunday. It opens with a cartoonish figure of US President Donald Trump – accompanied by the Devil – reading the Jeffrey Epstein files. The US president is then shown going haywire and ordering strikes on Iran, apparently implying that the attack was meant to distract everyone from a domestic scandal involving the late sex offender’s ties with American elites. The video then depicts an attack on an Iranian girls’ school in Minab, which left more than 170 people dead, with a vengeful Iranian soldier examining the ruins and getting ready for retaliation. Tehran has blamed the attack on Israel and the U...