US/Israel conduct airstrikes on Iran again

You also have Hezbollah committing war crimes by recruiting children as young as 12 and 13 to operate as child terrorists. If those terrorists are killed, we have outrage about Israel killing children, but there is never anything said about the war crimes of recruiting them.

https://rietjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/EN_RIET_2022_N7_Child-soldiers-in-Palestinian-groups-forced-recruitment-and-use-of-minors-as-a-violation-of-International-Humanitarian-Law_daniel-perez-garcia_art2.pdf

Interesting article here about the activities of Palestinian groups in this regard.

Nothing is as simple as it is seen.

So Iran have admitted to killing 2,900 of their own civilians, while the US has killed 1,255 Iranians, including soldiers and Ayatollahs etc., yet you have greater condemnation of the US, given those figures?

And we know that far more of their own civilians were killed than the Iranians admitted to. Human rights groups have verified around 10,000.

You are now stalking me on several threads with the same questions.

Can you send us the sources to these human rights groups please?

If they verify 10,000, as you say, why do you continue to state it to be over 30,000?

Any deaths by a regime are horrific but multiplying the dead and using it as a propaganda tool to push your own agenda just shows no respect to those actually murdered.

A quick check on the marine traffic website is showing more ships passing through, nearly all with cargo bound for India and China. China already has a 12% discount on the market price for Iranian oil in return for long term investments, and India most likely has been in touch in the days after the US sank an Iranian ship in their waters.

No doubt Iran has more leverage now that Trump has undermined the US security guarantee in the region and it's very likely individual gulf states are now negotiating with Tehran regarding permission slips.

This perception of US weakness is going to undermine every US protected regime in the region, so still scope for plenty of regional turbulence ahead in the aftermath.

How many ways can you find to avoid answering questions?

I'm asking for your evidence for the human rights groups that have verified 10,000 deaths.

If you take this to be true why do you continuously use the figure of over 30,000? It's a simple question.

Are you trying to avoid answering the point made in my most recent substantive post, by referring back to previous claims.

Accepting the Iranian figures, we still have a situation that they have killed far more of their own civilians than the Israelis and US have.

You realise the irony of going on about self sufficiency while ignoring what our fellow friendly EU member states have done on that subject while remaining green, and hitching the carriage to China?

Also;

1. them East Asian countries often just repackage Chinese manufactured products to bypass tarrifs and don’t actually manufacture anything
2. China driven out of business (or about to) every EU manufacturer of solar panels, turbines and batteries

As you can see I have thought about this for more than a minute

The only options for EU left are either massive switch to nuclear

or massive subsidies to renewable companies not yet fully bankrupted (like Orsted) companies that been driven to brink of extinction by China while placing massive tarrifs on non eu renewables tech imports (like Trump done in US)

I suspect the lefties and environmentalists would balk at both options so we just endup replacing dependence from one authoritarian bunch on another, yet again

Once we have sufficient solar installed we become less reliant though?

In simple English my PV is belting away at the moment indifferent to the market turmoil.

If things went bad then the installed PV in Ireland would last a lot longer than just 90 day oil reserves.

That’s not how the grid works, especially since solar in Ireland only has a 10% capacity factor over the year with long periods of no to little solar radiation, and without spinning reserve that can bring grid down like happened so famously in Spain

Which is precisely why our grid is so reliant on gas as backup for majority of time wind and solar doing f all

For example right now our 7000MW of wind and 2000MW of solar is nowhere meeting 5600MW of demand leading to gas being burned as backup

with us producing 6x co2 of France this morning at multiples of the electricity price