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riversedge

(80,462 posts)
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 03:03 PM 12 hrs ago

🚨 THE US JUST BOMBED A WATER PLANT. READ THAT AGAIN: America just struck a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Isla

omg, THIS IS SO CRUEL!!!


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🚨 THE US JUST BOMBED A WATER PLANT. READ THAT AGAIN:

America just struck a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island, Iran.

Do you understand what that means?

– 30 villages just lost their water supply

– This is not a military base. Not a missile site. Not a radar station. A WATER PLANT.

– Iran's FM warned this will have "grave consequences"

– He said: "The US set this precedent, not Iran"

– That means Iran now considers ALL civilian infrastructure fair game

– Every desalination plant in the Gulf just became a potential target

– Saudi Arabia gets 70% of its drinking water from desalination

– UAE gets 90%

– Qatar gets almost 100%

– One strike on a Gulf desalination plant and MILLIONS have no drinking water within days

The US just opened a door that CANNOT be closed. And Iran is watching.


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🚨 THE US JUST BOMBED A WATER PLANT. READ THAT AGAIN: America just struck a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Isla (Original Post) riversedge 12 hrs ago OP
Exactly as predicted by this professor: LuckyCharms 12 hrs ago #1
I like this guy, but I am still cautious about his ties to the CPC. /nt artemisia1 11 hrs ago #37
What is the PPC? S/V Loner 10 hrs ago #47
"People's Party of Canada"? Another Jackalope 10 hrs ago #51
Thanks. I tried to look it up but couldn't find anything. n/t S/V Loner 10 hrs ago #55
Typo. CPC (Communist Party of China), whose approval is necessary to obtain and retain a professorship at a artemisia1 10 hrs ago #60
Is that any better than our system? paleotn 9 hrs ago #78
Not quite there, yet Red Mountain 9 hrs ago #87
Watch out, that guy's a JFK / Lunar landing / 9-11 nutter, amongst other things rictofen 10 hrs ago #50
Thank you! progressoid 4 hrs ago #115
What the stars foretell .... eppur_se_muova 2 hrs ago #123
This is not a legitimate news source SCantiGOP 8 hrs ago #100
Nah, he's just another internet nutter. progressoid 4 hrs ago #116
This has to be a war crime karynnj 12 hrs ago #2
Yes, it definitely is a war crime. wnylib 10 hrs ago #48
We need another round of "disobey.illegal orders" with specific examples pat_k 10 hrs ago #58
Put it on signs for No Kings rallies. wnylib 10 hrs ago #59
It was also a war crime to bomb a girl's school and a hospital Bayard 8 hrs ago #99
Didn't Gorbachev warn that the water wars will dwarf the oil wars blm 4 hrs ago #113
That's pretty much a war crime leftstreet 12 hrs ago #3
Immediately, no NJCher 11 hrs ago #26
The cruelty is a feature UpInArms 12 hrs ago #4
Warmongers need to go vapor2 12 hrs ago #5
I'd like to see a primary candidate running on a platform entirely consisting of RockRaven 12 hrs ago #6
They have no intention of getting arrested and LuvLoogie 11 hrs ago #35
Right out of the Putin/Bibi playbook. Wuddles440 12 hrs ago #7
"THE US JUST BOMBED A WATER PLANT" According to Iran you mean? EX500rider 12 hrs ago #8
Not so unbelievable after double-tap on a girls school. nt Ilsa 11 hrs ago #24
Yeah, I found that to be horrifying. And we did it, as confirmed by major US news services. patphil 11 hrs ago #27
Corporate media -0- coverage................ Lovie777 9 hrs ago #70
Trump govt says they're investigating, but all the evidence points to the US attack on a nearby naval base. patphil 5 hrs ago #112
There's a very special place in hell for the duo of evil carrying out such war crimes. vanessa_ca 12 hrs ago #9
We really need to decide on a single standard sarisataka 12 hrs ago #10
Assuming it even happened, (shows pic of undamaged facility) EX500rider 11 hrs ago #12
... ruet 11 hrs ago #28
Great response. Kingofalldems 11 hrs ago #38
Sure, who I am I to question some rando's post on X, must be true!! RT agrees!!! lol EX500rider 9 hrs ago #88
That's the Israeli/US JBTaurus83 8 hrs ago #97
After watching Israel bomb people inside a pen for two years straight, questionseverything 9 hrs ago #91
This claims the US did it, not the IDF EX500rider 9 hrs ago #93
Sadly, two peas in the same nasty pod. Israel could not have tortured the people of Gaza w/o our permission, help and questionseverything 9 hrs ago #95
When Iran does it, it's called asymmetric warfare rictofen 10 hrs ago #54
Who in your opinion would it be ok to do it? displacedvermoter 10 hrs ago #57
No, I am against the conflict as a whole sarisataka 10 hrs ago #61
But aren't we supposed to be "better" than them? displacedvermoter 9 hrs ago #64
One would like to think so sarisataka 9 hrs ago #67
I don't think Netanyahu is a moron. PufPuf23 9 hrs ago #94
Last time i checked, Netanyahu is not the US President sarisataka 8 hrs ago #106
Netanyahu plays Trump like a fiddle. PufPuf23 7 hrs ago #108
October 7 sarisataka 7 hrs ago #110
Oops my finger hit the adjacent key. nt PufPuf23 7 hrs ago #111
Murdering school girls wasn't enough dalton99a 11 hrs ago #11
School war crimes Whip-poor-will 11 hrs ago #17
Remove the rapist Whip-poor-will 11 hrs ago #13
The missile was allegedly launched from Bahrain vanessa_ca 11 hrs ago #14
"proof" Looking at the trajectory those look like interceptor missiles EX500rider 11 hrs ago #20
DU rules prohibit me from replying -eom vanessa_ca 11 hrs ago #22
Gosh if you can't trust RT who can you trust right LOL EX500rider 11 hrs ago #29
Russian propaganda sources sarisataka 11 hrs ago #32
Confirmation bias in its purest form EX500rider 11 hrs ago #33
You'll also find DU rules prevent RT from being used in late breaking news for some reason I wonder why EX500rider 11 hrs ago #31
Perhaps this was a reciprocal attack sarisataka 11 hrs ago #23
I like square circles. Igel 9 hrs ago #63
Kick dalton99a 11 hrs ago #15
Yeah, but most of that blather for the last week or so has been about Iran knocking out water supplies for Arab states. Igel 9 hrs ago #66
That was very educational for me. ananda 11 hrs ago #16
War on a whim. "Three days the most" Welcome to hell, world. usonian 11 hrs ago #18
This is the Putin playbook. The Madcap 11 hrs ago #19
I haven't been able to find a major US news source to confirm this yet. patphil 11 hrs ago #21
I'm sure they will- as soon as they find those WMDs -eom vanessa_ca 11 hrs ago #25
I tried four or five sources earlier. No joy. nt Ilsa 1 hr ago #127
debunked by AI... where's the evidence? WarGamer 11 hrs ago #30
Effin monsters malaise 11 hrs ago #34
This message was self-deleted by its author LudwigPastorius 11 hrs ago #36
People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Knock out Israel's desalinization plants and its agricultural artemisia1 11 hrs ago #39
According to Wikipedia, nearly 90% of Israel's drinkable water is from desalination. Incredibly stupid highplainsdem 10 hrs ago #40
Well, when you have an incredibly stupid ass running things in the Oval Office, calimary 10 hrs ago #44
So, are we being greeted as 'liberators' yet? RandomNumbers 10 hrs ago #41
To my veteran cohorts who followed illegal orders and deliberately or without questioning, Wonder Why 10 hrs ago #42
Trump, Stephen Miller CABAL are all Sadists popsdenver 10 hrs ago #43
True or not, I expect Iran to use this as a precedent Another Jackalope 10 hrs ago #45
Sure, if they want all those countries to add their Air Forces to the current attacks then great idea! EX500rider 9 hrs ago #65
They don't seem terribly concerned so far. Another Jackalope 9 hrs ago #75
"much air defense they have in reserve." EX500rider 9 hrs ago #77
Maybe they're just past giving a shit Another Jackalope 9 hrs ago #82
Iran didn't shot down any F-15's, that was blue-on-blue EX500rider 9 hrs ago #85
Seems you are rooting for a wider, regional war. AloeVera 3 hrs ago #120
Most people recognize sarcasm EX500rider 3 hrs ago #121
That was sarcasm? AloeVera 2 hrs ago #122
Well gosh I'm sure you know more of what I meant than I do LOL EX500rider 1 hr ago #124
Whether you can recognize sarcasm or not EX500rider 1 hr ago #126
But wait, didn't Iran just say that it wouldn't target them? Igel 9 hrs ago #73
They're in a fucking war. And the USA just did it to them. Another Jackalope 9 hrs ago #76
Who says the US did it to them other then some rando's X post? EX500rider 9 hrs ago #89
Well, Ynetnews is reporting it as factual Another Jackalope 8 hrs ago #98
Not, Ynet is reporting that Iran said it happened. Does not make it so EX500rider 8 hrs ago #105
Certainly answers our questions, (Will Military follow illegal orders) bluestarone 10 hrs ago #46
Hegshit will be releasing a new video any minute now in celebration, with Spongebob and Snoopi. OGBuzz 10 hrs ago #49
Iran is not the only place in the world . . . AverageOldGuy 10 hrs ago #52
Exactly. n/t rzemanfl 8 hrs ago #102
Winning their hearts and minds dflprincess 10 hrs ago #53
Right?!!! Kath2 10 hrs ago #56
Just when I think I couldn't hate this administration more cate94 9 hrs ago #62
Somebody posts it on X and everybody laps it up as the truth? confirmation bias much? EX500rider 9 hrs ago #68
News, schmooze sarisataka 9 hrs ago #72
The guy who posted it is a Middle Eastern bit-coin huckster, so legitimacy!! lol EX500rider 9 hrs ago #90
As with so many things these days, I am shocked, horrified, repulsed, outraged, appalled... and on and on. liberalla 9 hrs ago #69
you know.... i kind of felt some sympathy for the "i'm just following orders" rank and file military Takket 9 hrs ago #71
That's a war crime. Was it the US or Israel? Now our military has an obligation to arrest and try the officers who ChicagoTeamster 9 hrs ago #74
No ROE, remember? Another Jackalope 9 hrs ago #80
So bombing an Iranian water plant is a war crime sarisataka 9 hrs ago #84
Yes. But their only strategy is to make the cost for the US and Israel and the Trump administration and their allies in ChicagoTeamster 8 hrs ago #96
My ethics are not flexible enough sarisataka 7 hrs ago #107
Inhumane. War Crime, just like the girls' school. Evolve Dammit 9 hrs ago #79
Hearts and minds BeyondGeography 9 hrs ago #81
Democracy Is Untidy! Freedom Is Untidy! --- Donald Rumsfeld. ColoringFool 9 hrs ago #83
Why that island? Answer... AloeVera 9 hrs ago #86
I like your theory bluestarone 9 hrs ago #92
location certainly makes it more likely IMO EX500rider 4 hrs ago #114
Destroying vital civilian infrastructure to achieve war goals is a war crime. AloeVera 3 hrs ago #119
You are so right to be concerned 4bonhoffer 8 hrs ago #101
Trump... Dave Id 8 hrs ago #103
Iran did say they would respond "IN PROPORTION" Captain Zero 8 hrs ago #104
Peace? greblach 7 hrs ago #109
Surely that's a war crime. nt Trueblue Texan 3 hrs ago #117
"This is not a military base. Not a missile site. Not a radar station" -correct sarisataka 3 hrs ago #118
Is this even true? It's only off of a claim by Iran Melon 1 hr ago #125

artemisia1

(1,750 posts)
37. I like this guy, but I am still cautious about his ties to the CPC. /nt
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 04:19 PM
11 hrs ago

Last edited Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:22 PM - Edit history (1)

artemisia1

(1,750 posts)
60. Typo. CPC (Communist Party of China), whose approval is necessary to obtain and retain a professorship at a
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:24 PM
10 hrs ago

government university.

paleotn

(22,059 posts)
78. Is that any better than our system?
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:53 PM
9 hrs ago

It's not like we're the bastion of free expression or free flow of ideas anymore.

rictofen

(264 posts)
50. Watch out, that guy's a JFK / Lunar landing / 9-11 nutter, amongst other things
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:03 PM
10 hrs ago


(in the thumbnail moment of the vid I'm linking, he compares the shape of the roads in/around Dealay Plaza to a menorah ... not antisemitic at all...)

He's basically a slightly smarter version of Alex Jones who manages to fly under the radar a bit as he spews bullshit for hours. I wonder what "class" he's teaching; Anti-West Propaganda and Conspiracies 101? In any case, the Youtube algorithm has unfortunately been given him eyeballs lately. There's more troubling stuff about this guy I, but the CT nonsense was more than enough for me.

As for the specific predictions here, he also says this is now WW3 and the end of the world, and that Russia and China will enter on Iran's side. NOT just provide intel or support to Iran as we do Ukraine, but enter on their side.

I know how this stuff goes though; people latch onto the "correct" predictions and ignore everything else.

progressoid

(53,054 posts)
115. Thank you!
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 11:03 PM
4 hrs ago

I watched a few of his videos (time I wish I had back). Hopefully, he gets ignored and disappears soon.

karynnj

(60,905 posts)
2. This has to be a war crime
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 03:11 PM
12 hrs ago

Well before the war, there were stories of Iran having a water crisis, that could lead to areas including large cities being uninhabitable.

In a better world, the world's scientists would be working on this problem that affects or will affect so many countries, including parts of the US.

wnylib

(25,683 posts)
48. Yes, it definitely is a war crime.
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:02 PM
10 hrs ago

What in hell is wrong with the officer who ordered this strike and the pilot who was obligated to refuse to carry out an illegal order?

Bayard

(29,367 posts)
99. It was also a war crime to bomb a girl's school and a hospital
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 06:45 PM
8 hrs ago

trump probably got the idea from Bibi--who is so good at those tactics.

UpInArms

(54,751 posts)
4. The cruelty is a feature
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 03:18 PM
12 hrs ago

not a bug

these people are monsters

they want the end of the earth

they said it

now they are trying to bring it about

RockRaven

(19,125 posts)
6. I'd like to see a primary candidate running on a platform entirely consisting of
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 03:21 PM
12 hrs ago

turning Trump, Hegseth, Rubio, and the generals/admirals over to international courts for war crimes prosecution. Let's have that discussion loudly and thoroughly during the next campaign.

LuvLoogie

(8,767 posts)
35. They have no intention of getting arrested and
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 04:16 PM
11 hrs ago

turned over to criminal courts. The military has been inundated with White Christian Supremacists for decades. They have control of the nukes now.

patphil

(8,958 posts)
27. Yeah, I found that to be horrifying. And we did it, as confirmed by major US news services.
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 03:59 PM
11 hrs ago

vanessa_ca

(769 posts)
9. There's a very special place in hell for the duo of evil carrying out such war crimes.
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 03:23 PM
12 hrs ago

Demonic evil.

sarisataka

(22,515 posts)
10. We really need to decide on a single standard
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 03:25 PM
12 hrs ago

Just a couple days ago people were saying once the US and its allies ran out of interceptors Iran should take out the desalinization plants to cut water off to the Gulf states.

Is attacking water supplies a viable tactic or is it a crime

Or is it variable depending on who does it?

JBTaurus83

(1,158 posts)
97. That's the Israeli/US
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 06:29 PM
8 hrs ago

Answer to every sick action they take, so I’d say you are spot on.

questionseverything

(11,735 posts)
91. After watching Israel bomb people inside a pen for two years straight,
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 06:14 PM
9 hrs ago

Damaging hospitals, schools, churches, residential buildings there is very little I wouldn’t believe

questionseverything

(11,735 posts)
95. Sadly, two peas in the same nasty pod. Israel could not have tortured the people of Gaza w/o our permission, help and
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 06:25 PM
9 hrs ago

Support

rictofen

(264 posts)
54. When Iran does it, it's called asymmetric warfare
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:08 PM
10 hrs ago

And of course they ONLY do it because the Great Satan and JOOOOOOOZE force them to.

sarisataka

(22,515 posts)
61. No, I am against the conflict as a whole
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:24 PM
10 hrs ago

And particularly against attacking civilian targets.
Since we are doing "apparently"-

Apparently the regime that killed upwards of 30,000 of its own citizens this year has been rehabilitated and it is acceptable for them to attack civilian targets in any country they choose.

sarisataka

(22,515 posts)
67. One would like to think so
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:41 PM
9 hrs ago

But we are led by the moron who started this fiasco.

This still avoids my question. Why is Iran justified in attacking civilian targets? (Taking the lack of virtually even the slightest condemnation as tacit acceptance)

sarisataka

(22,515 posts)
106. Last time i checked, Netanyahu is not the US President
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 07:20 PM
8 hrs ago

I am not willing to give Trump a pass as a victim of a conspiracy.

PufPuf23

(9,796 posts)
108. Netanyahu plays Trump like a fiddle.
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 07:56 PM
7 hrs ago

Last edited Sat Mar 7, 2026, 09:26 PM - Edit history (1)

Israel's response to October 7 is why Biden or Harris are not POTUS.

Israel's response to October 7 why there is a huge Democratic divide now and why the USA has lost allies and World respect.

An Iran 100% surrender that satisfies Trump's fever dreams and allows Trump to pick a new leader of Iran will embolden Israel aggression to expand a Greater Israel, not end the conflict in the Middle East.

I am not willing to give Trump nor Netanyahu's Israel a pass.

That is an opinion held in common by most clear thinking and moral Americans, particularly Democrats.

No conspiracy, transparent propaganda and kinetic actions in plain sight for the past 2 1/2 years.

Whip-poor-will

(109 posts)
17. School war crimes
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 03:37 PM
11 hrs ago

Reports are four schools hit last week the first one, according Johnathan Pie 30 of the Ayatollahs 30 wives were at the school with their children

EX500rider

(12,440 posts)
20. "proof" Looking at the trajectory those look like interceptor missiles
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 03:49 PM
11 hrs ago

Also the "RT" on the footage makes it suspect.
Why & what type of missiles would the US be using when US bombers have free reign over Iran?

EX500rider

(12,440 posts)
31. You'll also find DU rules prevent RT from being used in late breaking news for some reason I wonder why
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 04:10 PM
11 hrs ago

sarisataka

(22,515 posts)
23. Perhaps this was a reciprocal attack
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 03:54 PM
11 hrs ago

By Bahrain for the Iranian attack on its civilian oil facilities. Infrastructure for Infrastructure

Igel

(37,489 posts)
63. I like square circles.
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:31 PM
9 hrs ago

One poster said the trajectories looked like interceptor missiles.

What would happen if you intercepted a large bomb as it flew over a desalination plant, so that lots of heavy burning debris hit the plant? Or even if interceptors went astray and struck the desal plant?

In that case I wouldn't blame the maker of the interceptors (the US), or the military firing the interceptors (Bahrain), but the military firing the missiles to be intercepted.

Sadly, this cannot be. It would blame the victim, and at no point is a victim ever in the slightest responsible for his/her victimization.

Note that millennia ago, in a language abroad program, some poor German came to class saying he'd been robbed. We asked--teacher had no objection, since the English, French, Bulgarian, and Italian speakers had scant German and the Germans' knowledge the above consisted of hand gestures, so musili jsme ji zeptali jenom cesky, jak mozna bylo, ze jeho, nemca, kriminalci cesti okradli!" And he had to answer that he'd been out drinking, made some Czech friends; different bar, drank more; maybe a third bar, but definitely drank more. And he woke up on a bench with a police officer asking if he was okay but he lacked his identification as a German legally in the country, had no money, etc., etc. We laughed at the poor, undeserving victim. The cop had more mercy on him--mostly because he was nemec and assumed to be so stupid and arrogant as to be a waste of carbon. But took him back to the dorm and made sure he was treated well, since he was obviously unable to take care of himself. Fortunately, he wasn't my German BMV automotive engineer roommate. (NB: I probably screwed up the Czech, it's been 30 years.)

dalton99a

(93,627 posts)
15. Kick
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 03:32 PM
11 hrs ago
Security experts have long warned that the Gulf's reliance on centralised desalination infrastructure represents one of the most dangerous pressure points in any Middle East conflict.

A leaked 2008 US diplomatic cable from Riyadh warned that Saudi Arabia's capital would have to be evacuated within a week if the Jubail desalination plant, its pipelines, or associated power infrastructure were seriously damaged, adding that the Saudi government's structure could not function without it.

The Jubail complex, located on Saudi Arabia's eastern coast, supplies more than 90 percent of Riyadh's drinking water through a pipeline stretching roughly 500 kilometres inland.

Qatar's prime minister warned last year that any attack on Iran's nuclear facilities could contaminate the region's waters and threaten life in Qatar, the UAE, and Kuwait, and disclosed that Qatar had once assessed it could run out of potable water in just three days in such a scenario, leading Doha to build 15 massive water reservoirs as emergency reserves.

Despite these fears, Iran has so far refrained from directly targeting Gulf desalination facilities during the current conflict, even as it has struck airports, hotels, ports, oil installations, and energy infrastructure across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, and Oman over the past week.

https://www.turkiyetoday.com/region/iran-condemns-us-attack-on-iranian-desalination-plant-issues-a-veiled-threat-3215797

Igel

(37,489 posts)
66. Yeah, but most of that blather for the last week or so has been about Iran knocking out water supplies for Arab states.
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:40 PM
9 hrs ago

Whether that would be the final breaking point in Iran's descent towards Putinistic 'let's bomb maternity hospital' type scheiss.

That didn't happen. But I'm not ruling out that the 'attack' on the desalination plant was parallel to when Israeli interceptors took out a Muslim-fired missile--whether God's Party, ZEAL, or the Iranian Ayatollah Shi'ite Shura as the agents of intended Israeli corpsehood--and it was clear that it was the remains of the interceptor-intercepted system that did the damage. Moreover, had the missile accomplished its goals, the death/destruction/etc. would have been worse. Few to none that I am aware of claimed it was the Israeli military intentionally destroying an Israeli apt. building.

Then again, had it fallen on Arabic speakers or Muslims, all bets are off.

The Madcap

(1,862 posts)
19. This is the Putin playbook.
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 03:46 PM
11 hrs ago

Strike fear into the hearts of the civilian population.

That's what Putin is attempting to do in Ukraine. At some point, the population is hardened to the constant attacks and will become dangerous for the attacker.

patphil

(8,958 posts)
21. I haven't been able to find a major US news source to confirm this yet.
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 03:53 PM
11 hrs ago

This doesn't mean it didn't happen, but I would sure like to see a major US network carry the story, other than just Arab sources.
I realize how important these plants are to the people of the middle east, Here's an article that talks about these plants:

https://www.wvnews.com/persian-gulf-desalination-plants-could-become-military-targets-in-regional-war/article_678a05b9-29bd-59f2-9cd7-6e6245c50acd.html

Destroying even one would be messing with innocent people's lives in a big way.

WarGamer

(18,481 posts)
30. debunked by AI... where's the evidence?
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 04:08 PM
11 hrs ago
No, not as claimed. Iran's FM accuses the US of striking a desalination plant on Qeshm Island, saying it cut water to 30 villages and sets a "precedent" for civilian targets.

Western reports (BBC, NYT satellite analysis) link it to confirmed US strikes on a Revolutionary Guards naval base there earlier this week—damage to military infrastructure, not a verified direct hit on a water plant.

The attached image appears to show an unrelated coastal industrial site (likely oil-related). Ongoing conflict has many unconfirmed claims on both sides.

Response to riversedge (Original post)

artemisia1

(1,750 posts)
39. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Knock out Israel's desalinization plants and its agricultural
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 04:20 PM
11 hrs ago

industry dies and its people will be rationing water in a way that makes the late-1970's California drought look like nothing.

highplainsdem

(61,493 posts)
40. According to Wikipedia, nearly 90% of Israel's drinkable water is from desalination. Incredibly stupid
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 04:32 PM
10 hrs ago

of the US to make a desalination plant a target.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in_Israel

calimary

(89,733 posts)
44. Well, when you have an incredibly stupid ass running things in the Oval Office,
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 04:50 PM
10 hrs ago

you’re stuck with what little you get. And you’re still expected to be grateful somehow.

Wonder Why

(6,815 posts)
42. To my veteran cohorts who followed illegal orders and deliberately or without questioning,
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 04:46 PM
10 hrs ago

committed any war crimes in Iran, I say you are a traitor to your oath, to the Constitution and to your country.

May God have mercy on you for surely, were I to be on your jury, I would not.

popsdenver

(2,138 posts)
43. Trump, Stephen Miller CABAL are all Sadists
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 04:50 PM
10 hrs ago

they would have bombed Minneapolis if they could have gotten away with it.......

Another Jackalope

(177 posts)
45. True or not, I expect Iran to use this as a precedent
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 04:52 PM
10 hrs ago

to start striking other nations' desal plants. That would hurt far more people than just bombing refineries. IMHO.

EX500rider

(12,440 posts)
65. Sure, if they want all those countries to add their Air Forces to the current attacks then great idea!
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:38 PM
9 hrs ago

Another Jackalope

(177 posts)
75. They don't seem terribly concerned so far.
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:49 PM
9 hrs ago

Going head to head with Israel and the Great Satan would seem to illustrate their level of resolve. Whether they would worry depends on how much air defense they have in reserve.

EX500rider

(12,440 posts)
77. "much air defense they have in reserve."
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:52 PM
9 hrs ago

Since it seems like they have shot down zero enemy planes over their country I am going to guess zero?

Adding the Air Forces of the Gulf States + Saudi certainly wouldn't make things better for them IMO

Another Jackalope

(177 posts)
82. Maybe they're just past giving a shit
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:57 PM
9 hrs ago

Conveniently ignoring the F15's, eh? "Over their country" isn't much of a qualifier in a modern air war.

EX500rider

(12,440 posts)
85. Iran didn't shot down any F-15's, that was blue-on-blue
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 06:01 PM
9 hrs ago
"Over their country" isn't much of a qualifier in a modern air war.
Certainly aren't any Russian or Ukrainian planes going much past the line of contact, why?
Because both countries have a robust & modern air defense network...Iran not so much.

EX500rider

(12,440 posts)
121. Most people recognize sarcasm
Sun Mar 8, 2026, 12:08 AM
3 hrs ago

Obviously stupid for Iran to try to entice more countries to attack them, but they keep attacking other countries it's going to happen

AloeVera

(4,165 posts)
122. That was sarcasm?
Sun Mar 8, 2026, 01:07 AM
2 hrs ago

I've found people will sometimes claim "sarcasm" when they've accidentally revealed more than they intended.

But I'm sure that wasn't the case here.

And THAT was sarcasm.

EX500rider

(12,440 posts)
126. Whether you can recognize sarcasm or not
Sun Mar 8, 2026, 02:04 AM
1 hr ago

Doesn't change the fact that it's actually a truthful statement, if Iran wants other Air Forces to start attacking them also, attacking their countries is a good way to do that.

Igel

(37,489 posts)
73. But wait, didn't Iran just say that it wouldn't target them?
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:47 PM
9 hrs ago

Oh, wait.

This is Iran.

I guess assuming that any unuseful promise is meaningless is standard and the lack of "truthity" without penalty.

Another Jackalope

(177 posts)
76. They're in a fucking war. And the USA just did it to them.
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:52 PM
9 hrs ago

The USA says it has no ROE, but you want Iran to keep all its promises?

EX500rider

(12,440 posts)
89. Who says the US did it to them other then some rando's X post?
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 06:06 PM
9 hrs ago

I mean they guy is a BitCoin huckster so that adds legitimacy...lol

Another Jackalope

(177 posts)
98. Well, Ynetnews is reporting it as factual
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 06:35 PM
8 hrs ago

Somebody not Iranian did it. That narrows the field, no?
The serious issue is what Iran will do in retaliation.
And shooting the messenger is not helpful. Understandable, but not helpful.

EX500rider

(12,440 posts)
105. Not, Ynet is reporting that Iran said it happened. Does not make it so
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 07:10 PM
8 hrs ago

However being the island at the mouth of the straights of Hormuz, Iran most likely has a large amount of the defense's there, so it would make military sense to knock out the islands electrical & water.
Only a few miles to the mainland so water can be brought in but it would complicate things for them.

OGBuzz

(219 posts)
49. Hegshit will be releasing a new video any minute now in celebration, with Spongebob and Snoopi.
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:03 PM
10 hrs ago

AverageOldGuy

(3,705 posts)
52. Iran is not the only place in the world . . .
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:05 PM
10 hrs ago

with water treatment facilities.

Now water treatment plants in cities, towns, villages in the US are terrorist targets.


It’s comforting to know that KashMeIn Patel and his counter-terrorism crews are on the job. They are on the job, right?

EX500rider

(12,440 posts)
68. Somebody posts it on X and everybody laps it up as the truth? confirmation bias much?
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:41 PM
9 hrs ago

With zero pictures of any actual damage to a water desal plant.
And then someone posts some RT footage of some random missile launches as "proof"

Any actual new sources covering this?

sarisataka

(22,515 posts)
72. News, schmooze
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:46 PM
9 hrs ago

Look how the claim the Iranian warships was unarmed even though officials Iranian news sources never made or supported that claim.

liberalla

(11,013 posts)
69. As with so many things these days, I am shocked, horrified, repulsed, outraged, appalled... and on and on.
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:42 PM
9 hrs ago

In absolute disbelief that WE (the USA) are committing these types of illegal, criminal, inhumane acts of war!

WTF is going on? The crazy people are in charge... Can no one grab the wheel to course-correct before we plunge over the cliff?

What the HELL??

This just can't continue like this, and yet... it just keeps going...

Come Onnnnn !!!!




Takket

(23,662 posts)
71. you know.... i kind of felt some sympathy for the "i'm just following orders" rank and file military
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:45 PM
9 hrs ago

but not anymore

fuck 'em.

everyone that participated in these war crimes should go to prison, right down to the lowest ranking person. only exception i'll make is for anyone that gets immunity for flipping on kegseth.

The Democrats tried to warn people with their video about not following illegal orders, and they didn't care. fuck 'em

ChicagoTeamster

(789 posts)
74. That's a war crime. Was it the US or Israel? Now our military has an obligation to arrest and try the officers who
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:49 PM
9 hrs ago

ordered the strike. When the legal structure of the offending country fail to comply then international law can take effect. Canadian prosecutors wrote charging documents for George Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.

I hope Iran bombs all the other countries water plants now. Then they'll all start reassessing their relationship with Trump. After Putin is overthrown and all the Arab countries turn on Trump and his family, There will be nowhere on this earth they can go to and expect to be safe, and everyone here will hate them and dump any involvement with any business they're involved in. They'll be pariahs everywhere they go just like Bernie Madoff's family.

Another Jackalope

(177 posts)
80. No ROE, remember?
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 05:55 PM
9 hrs ago

Hogsbreath probably thinks Geneva is just some quaint little town in Switzerland.

sarisataka

(22,515 posts)
84. So bombing an Iranian water plant is a war crime
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 06:01 PM
9 hrs ago

But you "hope Iran bombs all the other countries water plants now"

Would not those attacks be war crimes?

ChicagoTeamster

(789 posts)
96. Yes. But their only strategy is to make the cost for the US and Israel and the Trump administration and their allies in
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 06:28 PM
8 hrs ago

the US government so high that there will be no benefit obtained even if they succeed. Iran would have to fight a very long drawn out war to wear out the US and Israel militarily and the devastation inside of their country from such a war would be unrecoverable. Look at Syria. They will spend over 50 years rebuilding and it will never be the same. And that's in addition to their population recovering from all the death and mutilation. Same with Gaza.

I wouldn't suggest they retaliate in such a way if the US had not already bombed Iran's desalinization plant. This was an act of terrorism as was the deliberate double-tap bombing of the girl's school when taking into consideration the already illegal bombing campaign.

Terrorism is a tactic, not an ideology. And now that the US and Israel have used it. The Iranians are more likely to increase terror attacks. Also, martyrdom is a central, defining, and revered concept of the Shia sect of Islam.

Keep in mind, water has already been a source of resource contention and potential conflict between Iran and Afghanistan over the Helmand River and has escalated into serious, occasionally violent, confrontations affecting the Sistan-Balochistan region, aggravated by climate change, droughts, and the Taliban's construction of dams and canals.

This is known to military planners and they are trying to break the Iranian will by putting extreme strain on their population.

sarisataka

(22,515 posts)
107. My ethics are not flexible enough
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 07:33 PM
7 hrs ago

To excuse terrorism and attacks on civilians by claiming a country has no other choice. It is always a choice.

Iran has been attacking civilian targets in Israel and other countries who are not participating in the war. IMO that is wrong and not retroactively justified.

AloeVera

(4,165 posts)
86. Why that island? Answer...
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 06:01 PM
9 hrs ago

It is located in the Strait of Hormuz.

If people have no water to drink, they are forced to relocate, right?

An island without people is much easier to occupy. In order to control the Strait.

Just my theory.

EX500rider

(12,440 posts)
114. location certainly makes it more likely IMO
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 10:47 PM
4 hrs ago

Less to occupy though and more to make it hard for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to operate out of there while trying to close the straights

AloeVera

(4,165 posts)
119. Destroying vital civilian infrastructure to achieve war goals is a war crime.
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 11:49 PM
3 hrs ago

Not that that would make any difference to these two belligerents.

But depriving 150,000+ people of the basic right to water, necessitating their forced transfer from their homes and lands is a depraved thing to do. Unimaginable...oh wait, where have I seen this recently, on an even larger scale?

4bonhoffer

(175 posts)
101. You are so right to be concerned
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 06:47 PM
8 hrs ago

Something the mainstream media should be screaming about, but I doubt they will touch it.

Dave Id

(275 posts)
103. Trump...
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 07:00 PM
8 hrs ago

and everything in and about his regime is pure evil, simply for the sake of being evil.

Captain Zero

(8,860 posts)
104. Iran did say they would respond "IN PROPORTION"
Sat Mar 7, 2026, 07:02 PM
8 hrs ago

to whatever the US, Trump, and Israel did.
They said it right before this all started.
I guess Trump wasn't on his Adderall that day.

I sure wouldn't want to be on the West Palm Beach water system like Mara Loco is.

Melon

(1,430 posts)
125. Is this even true? It's only off of a claim by Iran
Sun Mar 8, 2026, 01:40 AM
1 hr ago

And Iran is well known for inflating or creating headlines. No major source is reporting it. The only US quote I could find said they know nothing about it. All articles are regional from an Iranian quote.

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