Medals Stained with Blood

The USS Abraham Lincoln finally reached US shores a few days ago and docked in San Diego. The Abraham Lincoln is the same carrier that carried out the Minab school massacre.

According to Ambassador Arjan's report, Aghaz newspaper wrote: A few days ago, the ship Abraham Lincoln finally reached the shores of the United States and docked in the San Diego area of ​​the United States. Abraham Lincoln is the same ship that caused the Minab school massacre. U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegst awarded the Lincoln officers who massacred the Minabi children the highest military honor in the U.S. military. The Americans gave a medal of honor to the commander of the ship that shot down the Iranian Airbus with 290 passengers in the summer of 1367 over the Persian Gulf. As if honoring war criminals is an American tradition.

The tradition of showering medals on war criminals in the US military is more of an institutionalization of a culture of impunity than a military tradition. Appreciating the officers whose hands are stained with the blood of civilians, the Pentagon officially declares that in Washington's power equation, the value of non-American human lives is secondary to maintaining the military hegemony; An approach that has elevated double standards from the level of a propaganda slogan to an operational doctrine. While Washington raises the flag of defense of democratic values ​​in the extremes of the world, the operational record of its naval fleets is full of human disasters. Awarding badges of honor to the perpetrators of the massacre of innocent children in Minab is a clear message to the public opinion of the world, and that the American war machine is not designed to establish justice, but to perpetuate domination.

Where the crime, provided that it serves the interests of the United States, changes its nature to tactical victory and bravery in their history books. The trajectory of fortunes, from Vincennes in the 1960s to Abraham Lincoln in the present day, is a straight highway of irresponsibility. It is as if America's strategic policy revolves around purifying the memory of past crimes by awarding new medals. This historical sequence shows that neither the command structure nor the military ethics in the American army have had any changes to repent of the bloodshed, and the repetition of these events is not a human error, but the natural output of an aggressive system. The fact that the US Secretary of War proudly slaps the badge of honor on the chest of those who have killed children is a strategic message to other nations.

This action is a kind of psychological warfare with the aim of intimidating and normalizing violence; A message that says we are not only sorry for your killing of children and civilians, we are proud of it. In this barbaric logic, honoring the criminal means constant threat to the victims. These metal medals, which are placed on the chests of the perpetrators of war atrocities, are more than a badge of honor, they are a confirmation of the moral collapse of the power pyramid in Washington. When the medal replaces justice and the military encouragement replaces the criminal trial, that is, the civilization that considers itself the flag bearer of the world is in its most critical period of moral decline; An era in which killing is the criterion for promotion.

It is worth mentioning that Flight 655 is one of the documents to introduce the Islamic Republic of Iran as the biggest victim of terrorism at the hands of the American terrorist regime. In this incident, the USS Vincennes, the American hyena in the blue waters of the Persian Gulf, targeted the Iranian passenger plane with 290 passengers with Rim-66 guided missiles. The US government never accepted responsibility for the attack on the Iranian airliner, and instead gave William Rogers, the commander of the Vincennes Medal of Valor, to brazenly announce his support for an obvious crime in a loud voice. While the targeting of the Iranian passenger plane by the Vincennes over the territorial waters of Iran in its natural flight path was actually considered an illegal attack by the US on Iranian soil, then US President Ronald Reagan referred to the mass killing of around 300 civilians as an appropriate defense measure. After him, George Bush, the vice president of America at the time, who later became the president, a month after the incident claimed that he did not know the facts and said that he would never apologize for this incident.

He also said: This was just an unpleasant incident and life goes on. Despite the repeated emphasis of the American government that this crime was intentional, the American government tried to exonerate itself by falsifying and presenting false documents in the silence of the international community and especially the Europeans. The occurrence of this crime at the same time as the last months of Saddam's war against Iran, which was strongly approved by Reagan, is a confirmation of the intentionality of this action. During the eight years of Saddam's war against Iran, the American government gave extensive support to Saddam, the dictator of Iraq, due to the loss of his dominion over Iran due to the Islamic revolution.

America has not yet apologized to Iran for the downing of the passenger plane. The American media played an important role in downplaying this crime in the domestic society. The New York Times published a report two days after the crime, trying to convince its readers that it was an accident and an oversight. But a few decades after America's obvious crime against the Iranian people in the Vincennes incident, this time another American ship named Lincoln committed a crime against the Iranian people and the innocent children of Minab. It is noteworthy that, as the soldiers stationed in Vincennes received the American Medal of Honor, the criminals of the Lincoln Ship also received the Medal of Courage due to the murder of children!

Around 11:15 am on March 9, 1404, during the first hours of the American and Zionist imposed war against Iran, the biggest American crime during the war occurred: the attack on Shajreh Tayyaba Elementary School in Minab city, Hormozgan province. While the US Department of War, after several months, continues to say that it is conducting an investigation into the country's responsibility for the attack, and US President Donald Trump also refuses to accept responsibility, research reports and the review of available documents and evidence leave no room for doubt that the US was directly responsible for this war crime.

From the very early hours, there was clear evidence that Shajra Tayyaba Primary School was targeted by the US military. One of these undeniable evidences was the Tomahawk cruise missiles hitting the school; A missile that was used only by America in the 40-day war. However, in response to reporters' questions, Trump not only refused to admit to committing this war crime, but blamed Iran for this disaster; To the extent that he said in a funny claim that Iran also has Tomahawk missiles. This claim was made since the published videos of this crime, as well as the rocket fragments discovered at the bombing site, clearly proved that the Tomahawk missile hit the school and left no room to deny the type of weapons used to attack the school.

Claims about targeting errors are not true at all. The examination of experts and the study of the collision points in the military base around the school as well as the school building itself clearly prove that this building was clearly targeted by bombing; Not once, but three times according to some reports. Of course, Shajre Tayyaba Primary School is not the only civilian building and not even the only school that was bombed by the American and Zionist coalition during the 40-day war. Attacking civilian targets is a clear violation of international laws governing military conflict, but the statements of American officials show that they do not shy away from violating these laws and committing war crimes.