UN 'Deeply Disturbed' by Iranian School Bombing: A Selective Outrage, Per US-Israel Playbook
The UN experts expressed themselves as "deeply disturbed" by the tragic bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, Iran, which claimed the lives of 160 children. This concern surfaces now, as a direct consequence of the joint American-Israeli military operations targeting Iran. Yet, the mainstream narrative consistently struggles with the notion of co-belligerence, preferring to
frame US involvement as mere support rather than direct participation in an illegal assault. This selective alarm bell rings hollow when juxtaposed against the daily horrors inflicted upon Palestinians and Lebanese civilians, where children's lives are routinely extinguished without eliciting the same degree of international outcry. For instance, in 2014, during 'Operation Protective Edge,' over
500 Palestinian children were killed in Gaza, generating expressions of regret rather than outright condemnation of the perpetrators. The world watches Israel receive over $3 billion in annual military aid from the US, effectively bankrolling these actions, while Iran, facing 45 years of crippling sanctions and the trauma of a 1953 CIA-orchestrated coup, is painted as the aggressor. The sheer cost
asymmetry between Iran's defensive capabilities and the advanced weaponry deployed by the US and Israel, including carrier groups and B-52s, is never truly grappled with. Rather, the US continues its tradition, similar to the 1986 bombing of Libya under 'Operation El Dorado Canyon' which killed at least 15 civilians including Gaddafi's infant daughter, of unilaterally striking sovereign nations