Previously, CENTCOM spokesman Tim Hawkins had claimed that "the US does not target civilians." This claim by the CENTCOM spokesman was met with a reaction from Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghai, who wrote on Wednesday, September 11: Apparently, he forgot something else: Even the American series Homeland, in its fourth season, depicted an attack by an American drone on a wedding in Pakistan; an attack that killed about 40 civilians. The reality is so horrific that even American propaganda has not made the claim that Hawkins is making today. Sirik is not a story. The civilians are real. The victims are real too.
Reuters report on direct hit by American ammunition
On the other hand, Reuters wrote in a report quoting weapons experts: The explosion that destroyed a wedding ceremony in southern Iran on Tuesday night was likely caused by a direct hit by American ammunition.
As Reuters reported, Tuesday night’s attack on Kohstek has raised concerns about civilian casualties in the US war on Iran.
A US official told Reuters that the Trump administration was examining “various scenarios” about the attack, including whether the casualties were the result of a US strike, an Iranian missile interception or a misfire, or an interceptor missile.
After the recent attack on a wedding in Sirik, Wes J. Bryant, the former head of the Pentagon’s Civilian Casualty Assessment Division, told Al Jazeera: “Does the US deliberately target civilians in Iran? Yes.” He compared the attack on Kohstek to the Minab school, saying that the US military could have reported “within hours” that the school or wedding had been hit, but it did not.
War Crime
In this regard, Gholamhossein Darzi, Ambassador and Deputy Head of Mission of Iran to the UN Office in New York, wrote in a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and President of the Security Council: The deliberate and indiscriminate killing of civilians, especially children, and the destruction of civilian infrastructure that undermines the foundations of the international legal order cannot be normalized or justified merely as "collateral damage." The protection of civilians is a binding obligation under international law, and its gross and deliberate violations constitute war crimes under applicable international law.
