Be Careful About Believing the “US Missile Blows Up Iranian School” Story

 The Iranian News came out with a story that 165 kids were killed by a missile sent from America or Israel.  Instantly the idiots at CBS, CNN, The Guardian, NBC, etc…ran with the story.  “US Missile Kills 165 Kids Sitting in School.”  And the Leftists devoured the story because they were looking for a reason to turn on their righteous indignation and start making their protest signs.

But why would anyone believe anything from the Iranian news which is paid for by the regime that just got destroyed?  The regime that just murdered 40,000 of its citizens.

Of course the answer is, “they want to believe it because they hate Trump so bad that they’ve become delusional.”

Maybe an errant missile did hit the school?  But after seeing video after video of missile hitting the exact target in Iran, it seems unlikely.  It would be more likely that an errant missile fired by Iran from a military installation close to the school was responsible.  Remember that Iran supported Hamas and taught them to launch missiles from school and hospital rooftops knowing that if Israel struck the target Hamas would celebrate with images of dead kids spooned out to the eager Leftist media.

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Among the headlines today are stories of precise Western strikes taking out the minister of defense, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s daughter-in-law among other senior officials. But the headline that many critics of U.S. power seized upon was an alleged officials. But the headline that many critics of U.S. power seized upon was an alleged U.S. strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab.

Certainly, it is possible a bomb went awry; the elementary school is close to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base. But, after decades of being deceived by Hezbollah “fauxtography” and “Pallywood” processions in which dead Hamas children get up and run off as soon as the Western cameramen or naïve human rights workers move on, news agencies should think twice about accepting at face value a claim that originated with the Islamic Republic News Agency and Tasnim, a hardline outlet.

As Combat Camera’s Dodge Billingsley, one of the world’s foremost experts of the Chechnya war, noted in lectures to the U.S. military, when Chechen rebels would attack Russian targets, they would always do so with a cameraman in tow. If the cameraman was wounded or killed, they would often abort the mission because spreading the imagery of the attack was often more important than the target itself.“

https://www.meforum.org/mef-observer/be-careful-about-blaming-the-united-states-or-israel-for-killing-iranian-schoolgirls