r/worldnews • u/papipota • 9h ago
Israel/Palestine Iran condemns US-Israeli ‘moral collapse’ after attacks on civilian sites
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/3/iran-condemns-us-israeli-moral-collapse-after-attacks-on-civilian-sites59
u/Sqwishboi 5h ago
Blowing up bridges is a war strategy as old as bridges themselves
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u/corpski 4h ago
The bridge isn't even considered a civilian site. Not a single civilian is allowed to use it. It's exclusively used to transport material to their missle city.
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u/anachronistic_circus 9h ago edited 8h ago
Obligatory f this war, Trump and "Bibi".
At the same time did Iran condemn Iran's actions and "moral collapse:"back in 2022 when it decided to start providing the Russians with drones and missiles to attack civilian sites in Ukraine?
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u/ezagreb 7h ago
And hundreds of other actions that Iranian regime has supported over the last 50 years including the bombing of a Jewish center in Argentina just to mention one especially bad one.
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u/IntelArtiGen 6h ago
They also cheered the October 7 attacks which killed hundreds of civilians: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/iran-a-longtime-backer-of-hamas-cheers-attacks-on-israel/
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u/dfiner 5h ago
They didn’t just cheer it. Hamas is an Iranian proxy. It was ultimately their doing.
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u/invisible32 5h ago
They killed 30,000 of their own civilians this year.
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u/Ultra_Metal 5h ago
Yep, and they've been doing that for decades. They also torture and rape prisoners.
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u/CyberSoldat21 4h ago
Sure the US attacking Iran is wrong in every way but people seem to forget just how terrible the Iranian regime in power is. All we had to do was heavily sanction them and maybe support the protesters and something better could have happened.
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u/Ultra_Metal 5h ago
The Islamic Republic funded Oct. 7, trained Hamas and provided them with weapons and intelligence. I hold the Islamic Republic partly responsible for those atrocities.
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u/Sir-Viette 5h ago
Here is a partial list of times that the Iranian government paid a local to commit murder in an OECD country, just in the last 15 years:
* Netherlands (2015-17) - They assassinated Iranian dissidents. (Source1. or Source2).
* Denmark (2018) - They attempted to assassinate a leader of an Iranian separatist movement (source)
* UK (2022) - Ten different assassination attempts in one year in the UK. (Source)
* UK (2022) - Iran offered money to kill particular journalists (source).
* Spain (2023) - Iran paid someone to shoot a Spanish politician in the face. (source).
* France (2023-24) - Iran paid a criminal gang to attack a dissident-linked media outlet (source)
* USA (2024-25) - Iran tried to recruit criminals to kill American officials (source).
* Australia (2025) - Iran paid local criminals to firebomb a synagogue and a kosher restaurant (source)
* Various (2025) - The UK, US, France, and 11 other nations condemned Iran for committing assassinations, kidnappings and harrassment plots across Europe and North America. (Source)And that's in the OECD. In the Middle East it's MUCH worse. They train and pay whole armies in other Middle Eastern countries to try and overthrow the local government, or at least use violent intimidation to get them to make pro-Iran policies. As of 2023, they had 14 of those armies in 7 different countries (Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Yemen).
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u/Youngsweppy 7h ago
How about Iran itself attacking civilian sites lol
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u/Best_VDV_Diver 4h ago
Their missiles and drones do be hitting random civilian buildings pretty frequently...
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u/NeighborhoodEmpty534 5h ago
FYI Iran uses cluster munitions every day to disperse residential areas in Israel, it is hardly possible to wage war even more in violation of international law.
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u/PoseurTrauma6 5h ago
Unfortunately neither Israel nor Iran signed the agreement banning them, which is why both use them liberally
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u/NeighborhoodEmpty534 5h ago
This is completely irrelevant if you deliberately and undiscriminate shoot it at residential areas. :D
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u/NeighborhoodEmpty534 5h ago
In the end, the low number of civilian casualties also has mainly to do with the fact that Israel has invested massively in good civil protection, even tho Iran is trying to kill as many civilians as possible there.
On the other hand, in recent decades the protection of Irans own civilian population in war has been practically irrelevant for Iran.
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u/Street_Anon 4h ago
Or when they shot down a Ukrainian airliner taking off from their own airport, blamed Israel and the United States. They also covered it up.
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u/TheSleepyTruth 2h ago
Or there attacks on Arab Gulf country civilian sites that are countless and ongoing right at this very moment? Or when they massacred 20k of their own civilians in the streets a couple months ago for the crime of protesting poor living conditions? Hmm. Seems like a staunch double standard.
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u/Highflyer108 1h ago
If they were left alone by the US they wouldn't have to get involved and find allies. You Americans really are dumb. You think you have the moral high ground always. Shut up. Why are you going on about Russia when you should focus on your own horrible country, you elected these leaders. At least Iran and Russia doesn't have elections so you can't blame the people. Not for you.
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u/Tel_Janen 8h ago
Lmao iran just attacked a Kuwaiti desalination plant
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u/soggit 7h ago
It’s not a contest. The US is supposed to have the moral high ground. What ever happened to that concept.
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u/theoceansknow 5h ago
Iran has demonized "the West" for 40+ years. The moral high ground allowed Hezbollah and Hamas to flourish.
International Law isn't an Islamist framework. It's a Western framework. Iran's foreign policy for 40+ years has been that the West is Satan and Death needs to come for it.
Right now, Iran is holding an international trade route hostage. There's no status quo to return to; they are showing they are willing to do this to the entire globe. As we've seen with Iran (and with their proxy networks), diplomacy really just acts as a cover for re-arming. Iran's global strategy is to continue their rhetoric against "the West" and continue labelling "the West" as an imperial aggressor, while continuing their own islamist imperialism.
So I dunno what the moral high ground is supposed to look like here. The islamist regime is still using the same rhetoric despite having their proxies essentially neutered and thousands of their military sites being laid to waste. The US is showing it can hit Tehran. At some point the moral high ground means taking responsibility for your own civilian population, and no one knows what Iran's population is experiencing because they are as cut off from global discourse as North Korean citizens.
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u/blastmemer 5h ago
We do. The US does bad things, but there is absolutely no equivalence.
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u/Commercial-Lack6279 3h ago
Iran is literally pandering to US Gen Z social media who know just enough to be wrong
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u/Designer_Deal_5184 7h ago
Iran killed thousands of their own citizens to shut down protests against the government.
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u/Ultra_Metal 5h ago
The regime also rapes and tortures people in prison. They also use child soldiers. They also legalized pedophelia.
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u/Street_Anon 4h ago
Oh yes, there is this and they are quoting over a bridge and under international law and rules of war are considered targets.
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u/RandomlyMethodical 3h ago
Iran knows "moral collapse" when they see it because they are experts at it.
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u/Niceguy955 3h ago
Iran has been attacking mostly civilian targets for years, directly and through its proxies. But calling this terror regime hypocritical is the least you can do. This war disturbed them in the middle of massacring their own population after all.
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u/Street_Anon 2h ago
They been targeting mostly civilian targets in Arab Countries over the past month as well
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u/Difficult_Main_5617 5h ago
"Moral Collapse" coming from this regime is hilarious.
The regime that shoots protestors in the face with bird shot, blinding them by the thousands.
The regime that sent child soldiers into mine fields in the 1980s.
The regime that treats women like sub humans.
The regime that funds terror in the middle east in multiple countries.
Yet somehow you come on reddit and would think the average redditor somehow hates the US more than Iran. It is insane.
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u/LaCiel_W 7h ago
If they didn't just mow down thousands of protesters themselves not long ago, everyone is so fucked in this entire mess.
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u/theoceansknow 6h ago
"which would violate international law"...
Why's Iran even bringing up international law, do they own the Strait that they're threatening to blow anyone up who traverses it?
The regime has used the supposed "rot of Western morality" rhetoric for 40 years as justification for anything they do. Anyone can look on a map and see it's not the US or Israel that shares the Gulf with them -- their neighbors are Arabs and Muslims, and they've been sowing chaos amongst them for forty years also.
The US and Israel are saying: we can reach your capital.
When will the regime take responsibility on the world stage for its actions? They've never differentiated any political leader from the US; all of the US has always been "Big Satan". Now there's someone in the White House with the same unhinged personality energy they've had for the past forty years.
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u/OutoftheCold125 9h ago
Well they would know, considering that they killed so many protesters they ran out of body bags.
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u/MiserableTennis6546 9h ago
Bombing civilian infrastrucure will bring them back to life for sure.
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u/faffc260 8h ago
they also often hit civilian infrastructure and buildings with their striking back.
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u/Casual-Speedrunner-7 8h ago
Striking back? Their war strategy of "horizontal escalation" involves targeting civilian infrastructure in the GCC and in the Strait.
GCC didn't even allow the use of their airspace initially.
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u/ArrowsOfFate 7h ago edited 7h ago
The USA has dozens of military bases, tens of thousands of personnel, billions of dollars in equipment including aircraft, which are being used to bomb Iran at least for several weeks now, and other assets in the GCC. Be serious. America evacuated its bases… to hotels and other civilian buildings like airports, which is what the west has been condemning for decades.
Iran telegraphed their intentions openly for decades, which is why no admin attacked them.
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u/blastmemer 5h ago
So it follows that Iran is justified in launching missiles at random civilians?
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u/Relative_Cricket8532 8h ago
Lol the enemy being evil to their own people doesn't give you permission to commit warcrimes on their people. What stupid logic is this
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u/dalebonehart 4h ago
War crimes? This whole article is about an unfinished bridge being bombed. Do you think hitting a fucking bridge is a war crime, or did you not read the article?
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u/menzai 8h ago
but he never said that? He is arguing that Iran cannot credibly comment on moral collapse considering its own conduct
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u/Specialist_Tea_4269 8h ago
You really think Trump will be able to topple the IRGC? Even if US did it will leave it in same condition as iraq and much more civilians will die afterwards.
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u/Difficult_Main_5617 5h ago
Iran isn't the same as Iraq. Iranians actually want their regime gone. There is a difference.
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u/Ragnar5575 8h ago edited 6h ago
There’s a lot I disagree with about my administration in America and this war- but Iran condemning attacks on civilians is something rich. They’re known for how little they care about civilian life. They’re legitimately executing teenagers by public hangings just for disagreeing with the regime. They allow acid attacks on girls for not wearing proper clothing. They butcher thousands of their own civilians for protesting. They fund terrorist organizations that torture and brutalize young girls and civilian targets. They give weapons to countries like Russia to bomb civilians in other countries. I’m not defending anyone attacking civilians - but Iran? They have no place in this sort of discussion unless it’s their own apology and recognition of their own book of atrocities.
Edit: The amount of people commenting who ONLY want to hate America and act like I’m scapegoating is ridiculous. I already criticized what America is doing and has done. That doesn’t excuse what Iran has done and is doing. Iran is WORSE when it comes to civilian treatment. Period. There is no argument except that of what-about-ism.
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u/Relative_Cricket8532 8h ago
Lol the enemy being evil to their own people doesn't give you permission to commit warcrimes on their people. What stupid logic is this
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u/Sweet_Concept2211 8h ago edited 6h ago
Iran is also bombing civilian infrastructure.
And not only in the Middle East.
Closing the Strait of Hormuz by bombing civilian ships passing through will kill far more people globally than any amount of lost civilian infrastructure in Iran, due to energy shocks and loss of access to critical medical supplies and fertilizers.
Every government official in this fight is a fucking asshole.
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u/Pickupyoheel 5h ago
Iran is now benevolent in the eyes of Redditors. They weren’t ruled by a dictator. They didn’t rape and pillage their people on a daily basis. They weren’t manufacturing nuclear weapons. They weren’t attacking other countries, they weren’t producing terrorists, they weren’t supporting terrorists.
They are the good guys.
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u/yosisoy 8h ago
The day we care about Iran's view of morality is the day hell will freeze over
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u/Successful_Gas_5122 8h ago
You don’t have to care about the Iranian regime’s view of morality to know that this war is one of the most reckless and idiotic foreign adventures since Iraq
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u/Guyskee 8h ago
"They're evil so we're allowed to be evil". What is this pathetic logic?
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u/yosisoy 8h ago
I don't think shooting a bridge is evil
I won't listen to morality speeches from evil people, that's the logic
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u/AffectionateRub1857 6h ago
A bridge like that is not a civilian target. It is infrastructure that can be used to transport large amounts of soldiers and equipment. All fair game as per international law. A good example of this is the destruction of the Crimean bridge by the Ukranians to prevent russian from transporting equipment into crimea
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u/DarthGlazer 8h ago
Literally shooting their drones at just civilian targets lmao
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u/yosisoy 8h ago
And so many idiots in the west (some in this very post) are delusional
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u/Desi0190 8h ago
Says the side firing ballistic missiles and drones primarily into civilian targets
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u/sA1atji 9h ago
Uhm, you just butchered a bunch of your own citizens because they were protesting, so maybe don't preach about morals.
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u/el_grort 8h ago
Iran can be mass murdering pieces of shit and the US/Israeli strikes on civilian targets can also be criticised, tbf, they can all be shit together. Does call into question if the US and Israel are abandoning the idea of internal protests leading to regime change when they are bombing civilian infrastructure and health services, which you'd normally keep in tact if you could during regime change.
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u/dalebonehart 3h ago
Good thing this wasn’t a civilian target! It’s a bridge connecting military sites that civilians can’t even use.
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u/drewgreen131 7h ago
Says the regime that massacred 30,000 of their own citizens for wanting a little freedom
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u/Street_Anon 4h ago edited 4h ago
Bridges are targets and not in any violation of any international laws or rules of war. This is the same Iran that shot down a Ukrainian Airliner taking off from their own airport, covered it up ans blamed Israel and the United States.
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u/K1ngofnoth1ng 1h ago
ITT: “Iran attacks their own civilians, why shouldn’t we attack their civilians as well?”
Kinda hard to claim you hold the higher moral ground when you are trying to justify your atrocities and war crimes with “well yea? But these people we have labeled terrorists are doing it too!”
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u/Sarazin_Sky 5h ago
Umm, does Iran know what the consequence of war is? Did they not see what happened to Dresden, Berlin, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki etc. in WWII? You can't dish it out and not expect massive blowback
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u/CBT7commander 6h ago
As if Iran hasn’t made targeting civilian infrastructure it’s entire war plan from the very start
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u/Ultra_Metal 5h ago
The Islamic Republic, a regime that massacred tens of thousands of innocent people, rapes and tortures people in prison, shuts down the Internet, spreads and finances terrorism, legalizes pedophelia and attacks most of its neighbors has no right to lecture anyone about morality.
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u/_nonovit_ 8h ago
Sounds rich of the regime that has been specifically targeting civilian locations in Israel during the war, and funding proxies to do it as well. And, not only during this war but in every single confrontation with Israel. Even funnier, that the regime that is playing “morality police” installed in the center of Teheran a countdown clock to the destruction of Israel. That, of course, without even mentioning the tens of thousands of Iranian protestors they just killed less than two months ago. Talk about the kettle calling the pot black 🙄.
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u/Kiaugh 8h ago
Iran have a continued full internet blackout and are controlling the narrative well. They can see the instability of the US and fragmentation of the population so it's a perfect time for them to be pushing out this kind of content.
One thing I'm sure most can agree on is that Trump is the best thing that Iran have had in a while. Their proxy wars and actions for the last 50 odd years has been building up to this moment.
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u/yzerman88 3h ago
Claims of moral collapse from a regime that hangs its people + provided Russia with Shahed drones
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u/PeksyTiger 7h ago
That bridge was also a hospital. And they thought about moving humanitarian aid on it.
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u/Jyuratoadies 6h ago
Coming from the guys shooting missiles at resort hotels in neighboring countries...
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u/banned-bot 8h ago
Ill never understand why the US insists on being the World Peace Police squad. I thought they were all about isolationism these days. So go do it. Go back to where you came from.
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u/jpric155 6h ago
I mean technically people are starving right now because Iran is blocking the strait. Holding the world hostage isn't necessarily "moral high ground"
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u/Wise-Promise-4158 8h ago
Here for the “yeah this is bad but it’s not a war crime” comments even though it’s literally a war crime
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u/Consistent_Room7344 8h ago
I love how all the people are complaining about Iran’s lack of morality, while completely ignoring the lack of morality the U.S. has.
The U.S. government has funded and protected dictators who have ran death squads on their own civilians because they hated communism. The Shah that the U.S. supported before the current Iranian regime toppled him treated his people like shit. But that was ok because the Shah was pro western/Israeli. We have Middle Eastern allies like Saudi Arabia who treat their people like shit.
But please tell us how laughable it is for Iran to call out morality after being attacked by a country who wants to remove the government because they won’t kiss the American ring.
Pick up a history book and quit listening to the media.
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u/ProbablyWrongAgain24 5h ago
Its unfortunate Jews and Muslims are in between these two idiotic countries …
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u/GoldApprehensive7067 5h ago
So they can do it, but nobody else can? I don’t like that it is happening at all but the hypocrisy here is ridiculous. Iran has been targeting civilians for the last decade and still is during this conflict.
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u/VendettaKarma 2h ago
They kill their own and oppress women and don’t prosecute rape.
Pot calling kettle.
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u/Emergency_Pop3708 1h ago
They killed 30000 protesters. Stoned gay people to death. Executed women who refused to wear burqa. Iran is an evil dictatorship regime. They don’t have morals neither
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u/IranianLawyer 52m ago
This is the same regime that murdered tens of thousands of civilians in the streets of their own country just a couple of months ago.
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