I don’t like following links to other places, so here’s the text from reddit:
"There are about 10 million people living in the densely urban areas of Tehran and about 15 million total counting those residing in its immediate surroundings and suburbs.
It takes just one drop of oil to contaminate 200 liters/50 gallons of water. There are videos of soot and crude literally raining from the sky - houses and streets coated in oil, trees spontaneously catching fire.
Cancer rates will skyrocket, including birth defects from the massive volumes of volatile hydrocarbons released in the atmosphere. Every aquifer and underground water supply will be poisoned for the foreseeable future. Fauna - from household pets to birds and insects - will be eradicated, plants will wither and die and every crop growing there, if any survive, will end up contaminated by the soil. Tehran has, for all intents and purposes, been set on an irreversible course toward becoming a wasteland.
US and Israel essentially dropped the equivalent of a dirty bomb on Iran - just without the explosion or immediate effects. The fact that the news is reporting on this without commenting on its unthinkable consequences for the region is simply surreal.
This is arguably the biggest war crime committed by a sovereign nation since World War 2. If Western countries still had an ounce of moral backbone, they would be turning the US and Israel into pariah states at best or labeling them rogue nations after today’s act."
US and Israel essentially dropped the equivalent of a dirty bomb on Iran
That’s a good way to put it. The only reason it wasn’t politically unthinkable to do is that oil-related cancer isn’t as scary as radiation-related cancer, but it kills just the same. Death to America and Death to Israel.
This will take a decade to contain and a century to fix.
The words Man made horrors beyond comprehension get thrown around a lot but fuck.
The photos of the black clouds over the city really say it all:
Anybody who can look at this and see the justified actions of a righteous people needs to walk into the sea.
It is no different from a mushroom cloud, while the manner of death is slower acting it is just as insidious, but there’s barely a whisper in the news here about this environmental and human catastrophe carried out over a city of ten million people. I feel hollow looking at that image. If there’s no outcry at this, there will be none for the nuke. The collective West does not see Iranians as people.
I have gotten so jaded over the years that it’s hard for me to process my disgust and contempt for the society we live in.
Years of witnessing the atrocities in Palestine, then Yemen, then Lebanon, and now Iran had really worn down my mental health.
I hate these fucking people who keep getting away with it. These remorseless pieces of shit who commit atrocity after atrocity with not just callousness, but glee. They destroy both lives and land in equal parts, pushing us to extinction level events time and time again. I want them to experience the pain of every death of those they’ve condemned. Every politician, every soldier: may they all die horribly.
Is there any corroboration for this outcome beyond a reddit self-post? I too hate this fucking war, but I’m not a doctor of oil science so it’s hard for me to take this at face value.
The article comrade BodyBySisyphus posted links to a humanitarian report on the ecological fallout resulting from the burning of the Qayyarah oil field in 2016 in Iraq. I’m not sure if the scale matches 1:1 but it’s analogous enough to shed some light on the health concerns
Damage to oil refineries, wellheads, pipelines and other oil infrastructure has created localised hotspots of pollution. People are likely to have faced acute and chronic exposures to a range of toxic compounds, heavy metals and particulate matter, which may have serious implications for their health. Ground and surface waters have been contaminated with oil products from soot and oil spills, affecting the supply of drinking and agricultural water. Cultivated and grazing lands have also been contaminated, with serious implications for agriculture and livelihoods. Assessing, remediating and monitoring the health, environmental and economic consequences of these attacks will place a huge technical and financial burden on the Iraqi state.
The medical and environmental fallout is immediate and severe. The Iranian Red Crescent Society warned that the smoke contains high concentrations of toxic hydrocarbons, sulphur, and nitrogen oxides. The organisation noted that any rainfall passing through these plumes becomes highly acidic, posing risks of skin burns and severe lung damage upon contact or inhalation.
Instead Australia said it’s going to give a jet and some missiles to the US side. Disgusting.
I don’t get why its so hard for UK, France, Aus, and such to just say “we are staying out of this one”. France did it in '03, caught heat for like a year from literal burgerlanders, and came out looking better for it.
Just leave it alone! (Or give Iran missiles and jets, but yeah)
Australia is:
- Very racist
- Has a big ass US military base right in the middle of the country
I’m fucking sick of the West. I’m sick of feeling angry about this all the time. I’m sick of the death and destruction.
Please, please, please, just let the West fucking fall already.
A crime beyond denunciation, death to the west.
I hate the US and Israel so fucking much. Cursed countries dragging the whole world to hell.
I can’t stop thinking about it. The lack of outrage is unsurprising but also so so frustrating
Yeah we just did like a thousand 9/11s with no irony or hyperbole. I’m probably under selling it. This is world historic terrorism. Under the joke posts I’m a million times
This is probably literally worse than nuking Japan. Especially given Iran isn’t even a belligerent.
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