Strikes on Iran Damage Cultural Heritage Sites, Infuriating Iranians

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/world/middleeast/iran-heritage-sites-damaged.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SVA.2di_.gGMQIBXP-PUr

Revered cultural icons that have withstood the upheavals of history are being hit hard in the war being waged by Israel and the United States.

This is not how you install a friendly regime. It is how you create a dedicated ally for Moscow.

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UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 20 pts · 159d (3 replies)

Blowing up cultural sites, killing leaders, murdering school children. None of this does anything but radicalize and unify an enemy. Given that this appears to be ALL that the US is doing, its clear that the intent is to simply create a generational adversary to fight against.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 159d

ATTN Iranians:

Bombings will continue until you pick a leader Trump approves of.

Or until we get rid of Trump.

Big_Boss_77@fedinsfw.app · 2 pts · 159d (1 reply)

Cassus belli for attack/false flag on us soil...

silence7@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 159d

They don't care if there's an attack on US soil; the Trump Regime is already bombing Iran.

AmbientDread@piefed.social · 14 pts · 159d

Is carpet bombing antiquity a good idea? Those crafty Persians using cultural treasures as a shield. Tsk Tsk Tsk

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 159d (4 replies)

Reminds me of the death of General Solomani. The Iranian response was "We'd kill someone in America that your people love and value, but who would that even be?"

Americans can bomb Iranian cultural sites because they still have them. We paved over paradise and put up a parking lot.

BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 159d (1 reply)

Don't you lay a fucking finger on Keanu Reeves!!!

clockwork_octopus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 158d

Keanu is Canadian. But still, he’s a goddamn national treasure

ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 159d

Let's pretend we love trump just for a min... 🤢🤮 sorry I couldn't stomach it.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 159d

I honestly think we were spared a war with Iran after that because of COVID