Trump’s Iran Strikes Raise Alarming Questions About Civilian Casualties

0:00Ben Meiselas:More horrific war crimes were committed yesterday by Donald Trump and his despicable regime during their attack on Iran. Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, Admiral Cooper, who's the CENTCOM commander, and everybody in the chain of command who were involved in these war crimes should be tried in The Hague for their crimes against humanity based on what took place yesterday. I'll get into it in a moment, as well as their mass slaughter of the little girls in Manab Elementary School, their mass slaughter of the little girls and little children in Lemaire at the beginning of the catastrophic war in Iran, their mass slaughter of people on the fishing boats off the coast of Venezuela, their mass slaughter of the sailors on the Dina ship off the coast of India after they attended a parade and they were unarmed and the Trump regime used a submarine to kill all of these unarmed Iranians at the beginning of the war.

0:56Ben Meiselas:And then Pete Hegsip spiked the football and gloated how he killed all of those sailors. The Trump regime is a gang of war criminals who need to be tried in The Hague. We are not going to mince words here. The United States is run by a gang of war criminals and predators as they continue to cover up the child sex trafficking ring that is the Epstein files. And if you think about their behavior targeting elementary schools, volleyball halls, weddings, these are sick, sick predators. Yesterday, the Trump regime targeted a private residential area where a wedding was taking place in southern Iran in the Syriq County area, killing at least five individuals at a wedding and severely injuring or injuring about 68 others.

1:48Ben Meiselas:We believe the death toll and the overall casualty amount is going to increase significantly. We know that the hospitals in the nearby area, including the Manab Hospital, which also saw the mass slaughter of the little girls in Manab Elementary School, is treating lots of people who were severely harmed by this attack on a wedding. The New York Times was able to geolocate what took place, and also they were able to identify some of the parts of the weapons that were used to strike the area where the wedding was taking place. And sadly, we can confirm, indeed, these were U.S. weapons, slammer weapons.

2:33Ben Meiselas:We'll get into what they were in a moment. Clearly came from the United States. The Trump regime and the Netanyahu regime tried to immediately claim it was Iran striking its own people. That's the same excuse or same claims they tried to make about Manab. Iran used a tomahawk against their own people. Iran doesn't have tomahawks, okay? Stop the BS. The Trump regime is a bunch of gangster war criminals who are engaged in this behavior. Let's take a look at the reporting right here. Malike Brown explains, one CENTCOM strike from yesterday hit this residential area, reportedly hosting a wedding. It's 150 yards from a comms tower that was hit in a separate strike.

3:18Ben Meiselas:Multiple casualties, including children, being treated for injuries in Iran's hospital. And let's not forget that there had been a lot of previous reporting how Pete Hegseth destroyed and cut the United States military's programs that dealt with limiting civilian casualties in war. And people were warning him against that. Do not cut this program. We have to use programs like this to avoid war crimes. And Hegseth said, nope, I don't care. Our only focus is on lethality and just engaging in all of these horrific war crimes. Christian Tribart posted the following images. Weapon remnants said to have been recovered from tonight's strike, this was yesterday, on a wedding ceremony in Kushtakaran, that's in Syriac County, have been identified by the Easy Bake Ovens account as slammer components.

4:21Ben Meiselas:manufacturer Boeing touts this cruise missile as the most accurate weapon in the US Navy's inventory. You can see right here, look at the tail end of the slammer and you can see the component parts that are on the missile and you can see the component parts on what was recovered from the site of the wedding. Two other components were ID'd. One was a thermal battery. You can see it right there in blue and part of the missile casing red along with parts of a cable raceway. Example annotated by Trevor. Take a look right here. You can see for yourself. Once again, at least five killed, 68 wounded.

5:03Ben Meiselas:That number is increasing in the strikes. A direct hit on a residential area where the wedding was taking place. It also appears to have been a double tap strike as well. There was an initial strike, and then you'll hear another strike again. There's surveillance footage from this area where you can kind of see what went down. Let me share it with you right now. This is security camera footage showing that there were at least six explosions in the Kusatek area tonight, as Christian Taubart explains. The sound you're about to hear suggests that it is consistent with this slammer type weapon. This is of U.S.

5:44Ben Meiselas:origin. Iran doesn't have these type of weapons. I want you to listen to it. Now, there was a comms tower 150 yards away. But again, the same thing with Manab. The elementary school was somewhat close to where there was a military facility, but the Trump regime just bombed it all. Similarly, right Right here, you have this private residence was somewhat near the comms tower. The Trump regime bombed it all and killed all these people in the wedding. Let's play this clip right here, the security camera footage. I want you to watch and listen for yourself. Play this clip.

6:56Ben Meiselas:I'll show you another angle right here. This is footage of the moment that the Trump regime struck this wedding in Iran. I want you to watch this here play this clip

7:42Ben Meiselas:More footage right here of the wedding that was hit in Iran. One of the individuals who was killed was a four-year-old child. Play this clip.

8:09Ben Meiselas:I'll show you right here what the hospitals looked like. And again, this is what was touted by the Trump regime and Boeing as the most accurate missile out there, the AGM-84 Slammer precision cruise missile. The US Navy touted this as so accurate, striking. this wedding in Kusatek, killing five civilians and injuring 63. Play this clip.

8:49Ben Meiselas:Now, Barack Revee, Donald Trump's personal stenographer and one of the chief propagandists of this war, posted the following. CENTCOM spokesperson Captain Tim Hawkins responded, we're aware of the reports which originated from Iranian state media. The U.S. military never targets civilians, unlike the IRGC. Just stop the bullshit. Seriously, stop it. Y 'all have made it very clear that the United States Trump regime is a bunch of war criminals. Stop the cover-up. You still are all pretending that the Trump regime didn't slaughter the little girls in Manab or didn't slaughter the little children at the volleyball hall in Lemaire.

9:34Ben Meiselas:It's really sickening that you're saying, oh, we don't you do target civilians. It's sad for me to say that you target civilians, you kill little children. That's who you go after. And it is a sick thing to even observe right here as an American to see this is where our taxpayer dollars are going to right now. Here's a photo you can see for yourself. Al Jazeera doing good reporting on this as well. Dozens of people are injured, at least five killed, including a child after the strikes. Play this clip from Al Jazeera.

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12:13Ben Meiselas:Now, as I note, this is part of a series, a consistent pattern of war crimes from the Trump regime throughout the world, and specifically in the catastrophic war in Iran. Let's remember the New York Times expose from a few months back. New evidence further implicates U.S. missiles in the strike that killed 21 civilians in Iran. Additional images and video build on an earlier analysis, which the Pentagon has disputed, showing precision strike missiles hit a sports hall, a volleyball hall, and residential areas in the Iranian city of Lemaire and that this took place at the beginning of the war. U.S.

13:01Ben Meiselas:tested experimental tungsten pellet missiles on a female volleyball team of young girls. A New York Times analysis of security camera videos, aftermath photos, and satellite imagery and munition experts found that U.S.-made precision strike missiles, the PRSM's, struck a sports hall used at the time by a female volleyball team in Lemaire in southern Iran. On the first day of the conflict, Iranian officials reported 21 killed, particularly damning is one of the videos that showed the explosion over the sports hall. The experimental missile never tested before for the first time tested on these little girls playing volleyball, deployed an airburst, clearly visible mid-air detonation above the target that disperses a dense cloud of 180 ,000 preformed Tugston fragmentation pellets, creating a distinctive pockmarketing damage patterns rather than large impact craters.

14:06Ben Meiselas:Lockheed Martin's own product material illustrates this preformed fragmentation effect. This is what it looked like the tungsten pellets from the U.S. strike on La Mer that took place on February 28th. The PRSM's designed to detonate above the target and disperse thousands of these pellets that slaughtered the girls playing volleyball. Look at the hand. Christian Tribert, who is reporting, shows you what these pellets, these tungsten pellets look like right there. So that was La Okay. And then, of course, we also know about what went down in Manab, where the elementary school girls were slaughtered.

14:45Ben Meiselas:It should be noted about Le Maire. U.S. Central Command released its statement March 31st denying the U.S. missile was used, instead saying that the footage of the attack was consistent with an Iranian Hovzei cruise missile. And CENTCOM said, several media outlets recently reported accusations of U.S. forces striking a sports hall. After looking into the reports, CENTCOM has determined Iran struck its own people. That's what they say. Iran struck Manab. Iran struck the private wedding. No, you did. You did. The United States did. The Trump regime of war criminals is the one engaged in this behavior right here.

15:27Ben Meiselas:And then that finally brings me to the Dina ship. This was an Iranian naval ship. The Iranian Navy was doing the Iris Dina. This frigate was in India. They were doing a parade in India. They weren't allowed to bring weapons to be part of this parade. The U.S. actually was supposed to be a part of this parade, but they pulled out. Then the U.S. submarine torpedoed the ship, the Iranian ship, and it killed all of these people. And then the Sri Lankan Navy had to save some of the people, but there was like what, like close to 100 Iranian sailors who died because the United States refused to save the people on the Iranian ship who were drowning because Hegseth ordered, show no quarters, let them drown, let them drown, which again is yet another war crime.

16:32Ben Meiselas:I'll remind you what Iran's foreign minister Aragchi said at the time about the Dina ship, the Iris Dina ship. Play this clip. What type of military would allow a battleship into the ocean with no weapons on board? Well, because it was, you know, the goal was not, their aim was not going to war they went for an exercise you know which was arranged by the Indian Navy there are so many other guests who went there and they you know took part in a parade and you know everything was a peaceful you know training course or peaceful training process so they didn't need you know weapons they actually went to that mission long before the war started.

17:23Ben Meiselas:Here's what Hegs had said at the time, so you can hear for yourself. Let's play it. Pick your adjective. In fact, last night, we sunk their prize ship, the Soleimani. Looks like POTUS got him twice. Their Navy, not a factor. Pick your adjective. It is no more. In fact, yesterday in the Indian Ocean, and we'll play it on the screen there, an American submarine sunk an Iranian warship that thought it was safe in international waters. Instead, it was sunk by a torpedo. Quiet death. The first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since World War II. Like in that war, back when we were still the War Department, we are fighting to win.

18:11Ben Meiselas:And then I'll show you the cross-examination of Admiral Brad Cooper the war criminal head of CENTCOM, when you had combat veteran Congressmember Crow was cross-examining Cooper about the statements from Hegsitt, the defense secretary, saying that we show no quarter, which is a war crime, showing no quarter. You're not allowed to show no quarter in a war. And then Brad Cooper, who's again, proven himself to be a war criminal. He's proven himself to be a Trump bootlicker. And he's one of the disastrous forces. He's revealed himself to be one of the most disastrous forces, the worst CENCOM commander imaginable.

19:01Ben Meiselas:Bent the knee, kissed the gangster ring, destroyed the United States military. That's going to be your legacy, Brad Cooper. I speak to top military leaders. Everyone knows how pathetic you are. You've destroyed the military. You've destroyed our credibility. You've destroyed the power and you're a freaking war criminal engaged in this behavior. Watch Congress member Crowe cross-examine Brad Cooper recently here playing this clip. I just read it to you. I just read it to you. Yes, sir. You're a combatant commander. You're one of our most senior military officers with tens of thousands of service members under your command.

19:36Does the law of war manual state that it is prohibited to utter, to declare that no quarter be given? It prohibits a large number of things. No, no, I've asked you. I just read the provision to you. I just literally read the provision to you. Does it prohibit you or anyone else from declaring that no quarter be given? I just read it to you. We will follow everything that's in the law. Answer the question, Admiral Cooper. You have tens of thousands of service members under your command. I literally just read a provision from the Law of War manual, our own manual. Will you not just say what I just read to you?

20:15I will say that we will follow the law of armed conflict to the T. This is just unbelievable to me. I find the same thing, sir. This is just unbelievable to me. We will follow the law of armed conflict very calmly. You have tens of thousands of service members under your command, I literally verbatim just read a provision from our own law of war manual, and you will refuse to say what that provision says. Will you agree that it is prohibited under our own manual that you and all the people under your command are obligated to follow to declare that no quarter be given? I will agree consistent with my constitutional responsibility to follow the law of armed conflict to the T.

20:59And I expect everyone working for me to do that. This is not leadership. This is not leadership. To not be able to say something as basic. The people, the men and women who we represent, who are under your command, deserve leadership. Mr. Chairman, I object. This is a personal attack. This is unfair. And I appreciate that very much. It's a Navy dad. This is well within the purview. This is well within the purview of my questioning. It's the gentleman's time. I reclaim my time. Can I reclaim some additional time? I'm going to give you some extra time. Go ahead. It's our job to make sure the law is being followed.

21:36That is literally the obligation of this Congress. I read to you a provision of our own law of war manual, and all I want you to say is what the provision says, that it is prohibited, it is prohibited, this is the title, this is what the title says, to declare that no quarter be given. I will follow the law to the T and expect everyone to do the same. This is extremely disappointing. Our service members deserve far better than this. I yield back. Yeah, well, there you have it, folks.

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