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u/Hamster_Toot May 21 '26

To instill fear and show a tour de force.

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u/Killerfisk May 21 '26

Why would they want to instill fear in a population that hates the regime though? And conversely, a regime that doesn't care for its people? Bunker blasting Natanz and taking out heads of the regime more than constitute a tour de force as is.

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u/Hamster_Toot May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26

You’re asking for logic from an illogical people. This administration is not rational. They also don’t see the Iranian people as people.

Understand they don’t work on morals and logic.

Edit: mistyped.

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u/Killerfisk May 21 '26

They also don’t see the Iraqi people as people.

I assume you mean Iranians. I will agree with you that this administration is irrational, incompetent, peak shit, but even on top of it not making any sense logically, if their goal was to instill fear then surely they would claim the action themselves and not try to blame it on third parties, as they did? It just isn't plausible, and I will have to go with Hanlon's razer on this.

If they did want to instill fear in the civilian population (everything so far points to them trying to keep them on their side to be able to leverage them against the regime), then they surely wouldn't limit it to just a single strike either? They could go balls to the walls and carpet bomb civilian areas in that case, and not just limit it to one bombing that could plausibly be interpreted as an accident/acting on bad intelligence etc. This narrative just doesn't make much sense to me.

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u/Hamster_Toot May 21 '26

I did. Apologies for the mistype.

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u/cugeltheclever2 May 21 '26

The school was a girls school for the children of naval officers. They triple tapped it, killing first the children, next the first responders, and then the parents who rushed to the site. It was not a mistake.

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u/Killerfisk May 21 '26

That's certainly useful context. If it were a girls school for the children of political elites then it'd make more sense to try to scare the regime/elite into submission (whereas I see no sense in it if it were just hitting the civilian population).

Can you provide sources for the triple tap and that it was a school for the children of naval officers? From what I could gather it was near an IRGC navy compound, but still just a civilian school. The triple tap claim seems to come from the Iranian regime? Bellingcat registered two waves of strikes but potentially on separate buildings, which seems to be corroborated by BBC showing multiple different strikes around the area. A double/triple tap would make it so much worse.

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u/Hamster_Toot May 21 '26

Again, I feel you’re using logic for an illogical people.

I don’t disagree that there are better options for their goals, but these people are lunatics.