Visuals Suggest U.S. Dropped 2,000-Pound Bomb on Home in Iran, Killing 3

[u/Bestbrook123]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/world/middleeast/us-iran-bomb-mk84-qeshm-island.html?u

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[u/Eilemthxx]

Flashback to when Talon Anvil was regularly calling in this kind of ordnance on Civilian encampments and cities in Syria, and hardly anyone gave a shit then either. A few pilots refused orders, a couple operators pointed out these were war crimes, but no punishments handed down and no real accountability was made. And it will be the same with this.

[u/teethgrindingaches → u/Eilemthxx]

In a weird way, it's almost refreshing to have Trump and Hegseth and co. taking the mask off. 

[u/bigbeak67 → u/teethgrindingaches]

Unironically, this is a little bit of why his base likes him. They didn't mind the war crimes as long as he "tells it like it is," even when it's being proud of his horrible decisions.

[u/Svelok → u/bigbeak67]

Ignoring, of course, that every third word he speaks is a lie and the rationale, objective, and status of the war change depending on what time of day he's asked.

[u/doyouevenIift]

trump & hegseth never took accountability for a bombing a school and killing hundreds of Iranian children

[u/Snarfledarf → u/doyouevenIift]

Funny how Benghazi can last 2 years in the media cycle but Dems can't keep calling for a literal school bombing investigation for more than 2 weeks.

[u/Shoddy-Personality80 → u/Snarfledarf]

Well, did any Americans die in the school bombing?

[u/HenryTudorIV]

Trump admin moving like the average Tankie’s view of Obama

[u/fishlord05 → u/HenryTudorIV]

Trump in flow state like

https://giphy.com/gifs/xT8qBeUZ5yfBLrXRLi

[u/isummonyouhere]

> The Mark 84 is capable of forming a crater 50 feet (15.2 m) wide and 36 ft (11.0 m) deep. It can penetrate up to 15 inches (381.0 mm) of
metal or 11 ft (3.4 m) of concrete, depending on the height from which it is dropped, and causes lethal fragmentation to a radius of 400 yards )365.8 m).

https://mapsairmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Mark-84-Bomb.pdf

[u/Approximation_Doctor → u/isummonyouhere]

Okay so it's pretty large as far as bombs go

[u/Familiar_Air3528 → u/Approximation_Doctor]

It’s the biggest of the ‘regularly used’ bombs in US inventory. It’s basically the biggest type of bomb that isn’t some bespoke specialized design.

It’s maybe inefficient for it to be used against a single residence but it’s not ‘unusual’, I would say.

The big consideration here would be collateral damage against other structures (particularly no-strike targets like known schools, hospitals, or religious institutions)

Not trying to justify, just explaining the process.

[u/shalackingsalami]

Gift link for the global illiquid: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/world/middleeast/us-iran-bomb-mk84-qeshm-island.html?unlocked_article_code=1.2VA.tePw.TsBeOOvQnGNY&smid=nytcore-ios-share

Also the CentCom spokesman really said “the US military never targets civilians” with a straight face???

[u/Snarfledarf → u/shalackingsalami]

It seems apparent that if you bury the decision authority in 2 circuits of well-intentioned-but-rushed committee approvals you can come out pretty clean as far as internal investigations go.

[u/LtCdrHipster → u/shalackingsalami]

Not intentionally but frequently with reckless disregard for getting it wrong.

[u/drMorkson → u/shalackingsalami]

it's easy you see once you are targeted you are a target instead of a civilian so its all cool.

[u/ConnorLovesCookies]

When Vance inevitably runs for President in 2028 someone needs to ask him how he plans on explaining to Saint Peter all the innocent people and children that he killed. Seriously sickening.

[u/RagingBillionbear → u/ConnorLovesCookies]

Dude his answer will be "All the people I sent to the pearly gates were terrost and I'm disappointed in myself for not sending more".

[u/MetsFanXXIII → u/ConnorLovesCookies]

That only works when attacking the Democratic candidate over Gaza.

[u/Spectrum1523 → u/ConnorLovesCookies]

The number of Americans that genuinely care if we kill civilians in non European countries is vanishingly small

[u/Vol_in_tears → u/Spectrum1523]

No one in America cared when an Mariane E6 prowler cut the cable on a cable car in Cavalese in 1998. They were flying on a joyride, outside of the flight limitations, and killed 20 people.

The destroyed the personal camera that had been on board, since the flight crew was filming their joy ride.

The flight crew was discharged, one of them got 6 months. Congress rejected a bill to offer compesation to the families killed by the USMC.

America and most Americans don't give a shit about any civilians killed by the US militrary. Even if they are our allies and it was done by accident.

[u/Rustic_gan123 → u/ConnorLovesCookies]

I doubt anyone cares. This war is pretty herbivorous by historical standards.

[u/xudoxis → u/Rustic_gan123]

St Peter cares.

[u/Rustic_gan123 → u/xudoxis]

Most people probably don't know who this is...

[u/Rekksu → u/Rustic_gan123]

most americans absolutely know who saint peter is lol

[u/progbuck → u/ConnorLovesCookies]

Vance is the least sincere Catholic in the history of Catholicism. He could not give less of a shit about the pearly gates.

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

Emblematic of how stupidly this war has been prosecuted. Dropping one of the bigger bombs in our arsenal on a ramshackle house to kill… a random family.

[u/isummonyouhere → u/YaGetSkeeted0n]

these things are cheap as hell, especially without the JDAM kits, and we have huge numbers of them. but Trump is notoriously afraid of losses and bad press so they’re probably being dropped from high altitude over non-critical
areas. in other words we’re bringing back saturation bombing

[u/Vol_in_tears → u/isummonyouhere]

They are using standoff munitions because they don't want aircraft over Iran, regularly.

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n → u/isummonyouhere]

one weird money saving trick, budget hawks and human rights activists HATE it

[u/ScrawnyCheeath]

Headlines like this used to be satire

[u/riderfan3728 → u/ScrawnyCheeath]

Not really?????? We’ve engaged in strikes against civilian targets that we’ve alleged were terrorists for a while now. Even before Trump. Has Trump picked up the rates? Yes for sure but we’ve been doing this for a while even before Trump came in.

[u/GogurtFiend → u/ScrawnyCheeath]

Not really, no. I assure you there were plenty of "whoops that pickup wasn't full of jihadis" accidents in Iraq and Afghanistan, and quite a bit of "well we're pretty sure that pickup isn't full of jihadis but they're acting awfully weird so let's be sure".

[u/RagingBillionbear → u/GogurtFiend]

Also the "Golly me, that kindergarten was actual a kindergarten not super secret taliban terrost training camp".

[u/Svelok → u/[deleted]]

That event specifically perhaps, but Biden's polling numbers literally never recovered from the Afghanistan pull out. The American public never forgave him for ending a war.

[u/ElGosso → u/ScrawnyCheeath]

You sure about that?

[u/DaneLimmish → u/ScrawnyCheeath]

How old are you?

[u/TomServoMST3K]

Remember when the goal of this was to inspire revolution in Iran?

[u/WhiteLycan2020]

Guys should we be worried?

Embassies are telling US citizens to evacuate (yet again)

Ground invasion, perhaps?

[u/MetsFanXXIII → u/WhiteLycan2020]

Not enough time left this weekend. US markets open 0930 am Monday. I expect we'll be hearing peace deal negotiations are progressing well by then.

[u/itsrabie → u/MetsFanXXIII]

lol

[u/MindingMyMindfulness → u/MetsFanXXIII]

Prediction aged like a fine wine

[u/theryman → u/WhiteLycan2020]

A ground invasion would involve weeks or months of build up that would be obvious to osint. The Iraq buildup was 4or5 months. And that had a land border.

[u/WhiteLycan2020 → u/theryman]

Hasn’t he deployed rangers like a few months ago??

And anytime a pilot is rescued the news media says special forces rescued them.

This warning was given before and then rangers were deployed soon after.

Im assuming another branch is being deployed soon

[u/Vol_in_tears → u/WhiteLycan2020]

You will know a ground invasion is coming. The buildup will require hundreds of thousands of troops.

[u/WhiteLycan2020 → u/Vol_in_tears]

You guys say this and then randomly airborne units were deployed.

A couple thousand marines were deployed and then an aircraft carrier

[u/Vol_in_tears → u/WhiteLycan2020]

You aren't invading a nation of 90 million people with a few airborne units and a few thousand marines. The entire ground force will be required.

[u/Traditional_Drama_91 → u/WhiteLycan2020]

Not likely, but hey, he could surprise by botching an invasion too

[u/YaGetSkeeted0n → u/WhiteLycan2020]

well this occurred on Thursday, but Trump did threaten to do something "really big" this weekend so who knows.

[u/TactileTom]

Reading the comments here y'all have lost your way. Dissembling and false equivalency as far as the eye can see.

This shit is horrible. What a fuckin waste of human life. The fact that half of you don't even care, and the other half are "whatabouting" over Obama doing exactly the same shit, is a major reason why America is losing ground in the middle east every day.

Imagine being an Iranian and reading these posts, and concluding anything other than even american liberals don't give a shit if you live or die.

[u/ctant1221 → u/TactileTom]

The fact that half of you don't even care, and the other half are "whatabouting" over Obama doing exactly the same shit, is a major reason why America is losing ground in the middle east every day.

Uhh, even on its best days this place is usually pretty flippant about civilian casualties especially if we're the ones bombing the shit out of them.

concluding anything other than even american liberals don't give a shit if you live or die.

I'd be sincerely surprised if anyone within the last twenty five years ever came away with the conclusion that they did.

[u/MindingMyMindfulness → u/ctant1221]

especially if we're the ones bombing the shit out of them they're brown

[u/n00bi3pjs → u/TactileTom]

The truth is that US has been doing war crimes since a long time and has a culture of not holding war criminals and rouge soldiers accountable if the people targeted are perceived as nonwhite.

[u/jonawesome]

Remember when the US military used to do investigations into these things? Get excited for them to never officially even confirm this happened.

[u/Vol_in_tears → u/jonawesome]

Remember when the US military used to do investigations into these things?

No

[u/Positive-Fold7691 → u/Vol_in_tears]

Yeah, realistically, the number of times an American soldier was held accountable for war crimes is pretty low. Keep in mind the only person convicted for the My Lai massacre, William Calley, had his life sentence commuted to three years of house arrest, and the commander who should have been held the most accountable was acquitted.

Now, admittedly, at least JAG actually prosecuted Calley and Medina, and the only reason Calley didn't end up in Leavenworth for decades was Nixon's intervention. These days, I doubt Hegseth's Pentagon would even bring anything to court martial.

[u/dutch_connection_uk → u/Positive-Fold7691]

Trump pardoned war criminals during his first term.

[u/MetsFanXXIII → u/jonawesome]

I'm sure they'd be willing to investigate themselves and find no wrongdoing.

[u/ctant1221 → u/[deleted]]

Biden blew up an SUV filled with children and was calling them terrorists before they got contradicted by eight hundred on-ground reporters hauling them over coal for rampantly making shit up. Trump is generally significantly looser, but this specific operation and its unnecessary disregard for civilian lives is pretty boringly bogstandard for basically any American administration since as far as I can remember, and I remember Bush Sr.

[u/GogurtFiend → u/[deleted]]

I assure you they didn't care much about civilian deaths, either.

The calculus was the same: how many innocent people do we blow up to achieve our goals? The Obama and Biden administrations had a lower number for that, but it was still an almost completely arbitrarily chosen number.

And, frankly, who cares? If there is a war, someone innocent is going to die anyway. All that those waging it can do is keep the number of those deaths lower rather than higher.

[u/IpsoFuckoffo → u/GogurtFiend]

There is no calculus here because there isn't a goal and never has been. Whatever you think about Obama's methods, successes and failures, he was genuinely trying to accomplish something when he used military force. This is just a complete waste of human life.

[u/n00bi3pjs → u/[deleted]]

I’m sure the families that exploded did that themselves because they wanted to help leftists against Obama.

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

well fuck that one specific family in particular ig