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Saturday, August 01, 2026

The US destroyed a family home on Iran's Qeshm Island, killing a husband and wife and their two-year-old son with a 2,000-pound munition called a Mark-84, one of the largest conventional bombs used by the US military; the couple's two other children were miraculously pulled from the rubble alive.

Unit cost of a single Mark-84: $16,000

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From Wiki:

"On 3 July 1988, during the Iran-Iraq War, the USS Vincennes (CG-49) shot down a civilian Iran Air Airbus A300 (Iran Air Flight 655) just south of Qeshm Island, killing all 290 people on board."

"On 7 March 2026, Tehran reported that the US bombed the water desalination plant in Qeshm Island during the illegal war against the Iranian people, disrupting the water supply to 30 villages."

Map: Qeshm Island

Link: Cost of Operation AIPAC FURY to peace-loving, non-Islamophobic hardworking American taxpayer

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-01 12:07 PM | Reply

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