Transcript of Trump’s Iran Strikes Raise Alarming Questions About Civilian Casualties New

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 Lomerd 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. And then Pete Hegseth 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 in southern Iran in the Sirik County area, killing at least 5 individuals at a wedding and severely injuring or injuring about 68 others. 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, uh, that were used to strike the area where the wedding was taking place. And sadly, we can confirm indeed these were US weapons, slammer weapons. 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. Malachy 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. Multiple casualties, including children, being treated for injuries in Iran's hospital. And let's not forget that, uh, there had been a lot of previous reporting how Pete Hegseth, uh, 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, um, and just engaging in all of these horrific war crimes.

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 Sirak County, have been identified by the Easy Bake Ovens account as SLAM-ER components. 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. 2 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 5 killed, 68 wounded. That number's increasing. in the strikes, a direct hit on a residential area where a, 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 6 explosions in the Kuchyatekh area tonight, as Christia— as Christian Taubart explains. The sound you're about to hear suggests that it is consistent with this slammer-type weapon. This is of US origin. Iran doesn't have these, uh, 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 here you have this private residence was somewhat near the comms tower. The Trump regime bombed it all and killed all these people, uh, 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.

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.

More footage right here of the wedding that was hit, uh, in Iran. Um, one of the individuals who was killed was a 4-year-old child. Play this clip. I'll show you right here what the hospitals looked like. Um, 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 Kushtek, killing 5 civilians and injuring 63. Play this clip. Now, Barack Raveed, 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. It's really sickening that you're saying, oh, we don't talk— 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, uh, to, uh, right now. Here's a photo you can see for yourself. Al Jazeera are doing good reporting on this as well. Dozens of people are injured, um, at least 5 killed, including a child, after the strikes. Play this clip from Al Jazeera.

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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 exposé 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 Pentagon has disputed, showing precision strike missiles hit a sports hall, a volleyball hall, volleyball hall, and residential areas in the Iranian city of Lomerd. And that this took place at the beginning of the war. US 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 US-made precision strike missiles, the PrSMs, struck a sports hall used at the time by a female volleyball team in Lomerd 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.

burst, clearly visible mid-air detonation above the target that disperses a dense cloud of 180,000 preformed tungsten fragmentation pellets, creating distinctive pockmarking damage patterns rather than large impact craters. Lockheed Martin's own product material illustrates this preformed fragmentation effect. This is what it looked like, the tungsten pellets from the US strike on LeMayr that took place on February 28th. The PRSMs designed to detonate above the target and disperse thousands of these pellets that slaughtered the girls playing volleyball. Look at the hand. Christian Treibert, who is reporting, shows you what these pellets, these tungsten pellets, uh, look like right there. So that was Lemaire.

Okay.

And then of course, we also know about, uh, what went down in Manab where the elementary school girls were slaughtered. It should be noted about Lemaire, US Central Command released its statement March 31st denying the US missile was used, instead saying that the footage of the attack was consistent with an Iranian Hoveze cruise missile. This— and CENTCOM said several media outlets recently reported accusations of US forces striking a sports hall. After looking into the report, 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. And then that finally brings me to the Dena ship. This was an Iranian naval, naval ship. Uh, the Iranian Navy was doing the, uh, had an IR— the IRIS Dena. 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 US actually was supposed to be a part of this parade, but they pulled out. Then the US submarine torpedoed the ship, uh, that, uh, the Iranian ship, and it killed all of these people.

And then, um, the Sri Lankan Navy had to save some of the people, but there was like, what, like close to 100 Iranian sailors who died. 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, uh, war crime. I'll remind you what Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi said at the time about the, uh, Dina ship, the IRIS Dina ship. Play this clip. What type of battleship? What Minister, excuse me, but 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.

Here's what Hegseth 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.

And then I'll show you the cross-examination of Admiral Brad Cooper, the war criminal head of CENTCOM, when you had renowned— when you had combat veterans and Congressmember Crow was cross-examining Cooper about these statements from Hegseth, the Defense Secretary, saying that we show no quarter, um, which is a war crime— showing no quarter. Uh, you, 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. Um, he's revealed himself to be one of the most Disastrous forces. The worst CENTCOM commander imaginable. 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 Congressmember Crow cross-examine, um, uh, uh, Brad Cooper recently here.

Play this.

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. Does 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, and 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?

I will say that we will follow the law of armed conflict to the This is, this is, this is just unbelievable to me. I find the same thing, sir.

This is just unbelievable to me.

We 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, 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, and 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, Deserved leadership. Mr. Chairman, I object. This is a personal attack. This is unfair. And I appreciate that very much. This is well within the purview of my questioning, if I may.

This gentleman's time, he's wasted time.

I reclaim my time. Can I reclaim some additional time?

I'm gonna give you some extra time.

Go ahead.

It's our job to make sure the law is being followed. That 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.

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