Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said the agency has deployed “on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action.”
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink said the agency has deployed “on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action.”
After a back-and-forth legal battle over the USPS rules that dragged on for months, the nation’s highest court issued the 7-2 ruling without elaborating on its legal reasoning, though right-wing Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas issued dissents in favor of President Donald Trump’s side.
The ruling in USPS v. California was in response to a legal challenge brought by the League of Women’s Voters, the attorneys general of numerous states, and others who argued that newly-announced rules by the Postal Service regarding mail-in ballots, changes prompted by an executive order issued by Trump, would prevent people from having their ballots counted and cause chaos for those trying to administer this year’s elections.
In response to the ruling, the plaintiffs’ legal team said the decision was “a critical step to ensuring free and fair elections this November by maintaining access to mail voting for millions of eligible voters across the United States and lifting the dire threat that the Postal Service would disenfranchise them.”
“Mail voting is safe, secure, and reliable—and the Trump administration has presented no evidence to the contrary, as the courts have repeatedly recognized,” the statement continued. “We will remain vigilant in countering threats to free and fair elections and ensuring that every eligible voter is able to cast a ballot and have it count.”
“Today’s decision is a victory for our democracy and a powerful affirmation of the rule of law,” said California Attorney General Rob Bonta in a statement. “The stakes in this litigation could not have been higher.”
Virginia Kase Solomón, president and CEO of Common Cause, was among the other pro-democracy advocates who welcomed the decision.
“Today’s decision is a major win for the millions of everyday Americans who count on vote-by-mail—our seniors, service members, busy parents, rural voters, and voters with disabilities,” said Solomón in a statement. “Vote-by-mail is safe, proven, and vital; even the president uses it. This executive order was a blatant power grab designed to silence voters and undermine our elections, but it failed because the people and the law were on our side. Our Constitution is clear: states run our elections, and voters choose their leaders—not the other way around. No administration can strip the people of their power.”
Michael McNulty, senior policy director for Issue One, a nonpartisan group that works to defend free and fair elections, also welcomed the ruling, but said vigilance would still be necessary going forward.
“The fight to preserve states’ authority to administer elections is far from over,” warned McNulty.
“President Trump continuously and falsely claims fraud in mail-in voting without evidence,” he added. “Despite voting multiple times with this method, he remains obsessed with centralizing control over elections to tilt the playing field. However, for now, one piece of that centralization effort is blocked, and it ensures that mail-in voting for the midterms won’t be disrupted.”
In den USA sind die Benzinpreise ein sehr wichtiges Thema und US-Präsident Trump hat die Wahlen vor zwei Jahren unter anderem deshalb gewonnen, weil er Biden für die damaligen Rekordpreise an den amerikanischen Tankstellen verantwortlich gemacht und eine Senkung der Preise in den USA versprochen hat. Allerdings sind die Benzinpreise in den USA infolge der […]
Apesar das muitas artimanhas, Donald Trump não está conseguindo aumentar sua popularidade, que permanece baixa e estagnada. A alta nos preços do petróleo — causada pela guerra dos Estados Unidos contra o Irã, um conflito interminável e sem qualquer estratégia de saída — e as políticas tarifárias de Trump aumentaram significativamente os custos do dia a dia do cidadão comum, independentemente de suas inclinações políticas. Além disso, ele enfrenta a possibilidade real de perder o controle da Câmara dos Representantes nas eleições de 3 de novembro deste ano e, talvez, até mesmo do Senado.
Ainda assim, Trump segue em frente. Ele compreende que, sem seu nome na cédula nas próximas eleições, muitos de seus apoiadores menos fervorosos podem não se dar ao trabalho de votar. Por isso, o presidente dos EUA faz todo o possível para restringir o direito de voto daqueles setores da população com maior probabilidade de votar nos Democratas.
Sua iniciativa mais recente é tentar limitar o uso do voto pelo correio — modalidade utilizada por um terço de todos os eleitores aptos — sob o argumento de que imigrantes não cidadãos podem votar nas eleições dos EUA e de que o processo é vulnerável a fraudes. Nesta semana, a Suprema Corte dos EUA decidirá se Trump pode prosseguir com a tentativa de usar o Serviço Postal dos EUA para definir quem tem direito a receber a cédula de votação pelo correio. Ironicamente, os esforços de Trump podem acabar sendo contraproducentes, uma vez que, até pouco tempo atrás, os republicanos eram mais propensos a votar por correio do que os democratas e os eleitores independentes.
Para mobilizar sua base, Trump convocou uma convenção eleitoral na semana passada, no Texas, estado que tem sido um reduto republicano sólido há décadas. O presidente escolheu Dallas como palco de seu mais recente comício de mobilização em grande parte para fortalecer seu candidato ao Senado, escolhido a dedo: Ken Paxton, o Procurador-Geral do Texas. Em 2023, a Câmara dos Representantes do Texas, de maioria republicana, votou (por 121 votos a 23) a favor do impeachment de Paxton sob acusações de suborno, obstrução à justiça e abuso de confiança pública, embora o Senado do Texas o tenha absolvido das acusações.
Após derrotar de forma avassaladora seu rival John Cornyn — um poderoso senador que cumpre seu quarto mandato — nas primárias republicanas, ele agora enfrenta James Talarico, um jovem e carismático cristão progressista que lidera as pesquisas eleitorais com uma vantagem de vários pontos. Se esses números se confirmarem, uma vitória de Talarico poderá significar o controle democrata do Senado.
Os cheques “sem fundos” de Trump
Aparentemente em pânico com uma possível derrota eleitoral em nível nacional, Trump prometeu emitir um cheque de 5 mil dólares para cada cidadão adulto dos EUA após as eleições de novembro, caso os republicanos mantenham o controle da Câmara e do Senado. Economistas argumentam que isso custaria 1,2 trilhão de dólares e inevitavelmente alimentaria a inflação, além de aumentar o déficit federal.
Além disso, apesar de Trump afirmar que tem o direito legal de emitir os cheques, o Congresso precisaria aprová-los, e alguns políticos republicanos já sinalizam que a proposta poderia não obter votos suficientes no Senado para ser aprovada. Os democratas classificam a proposta como um suborno ilegal, embora decisões recentes da Suprema Corte possam invalidar essa alegação.
Apesar da promessa poder soar bem para apoiadores ingênuos de Trump, jornalistas o questionaram por que não envia o cheque antes das eleições, já que atualmente controla ambas as casas do Congresso, conta com uma Suprema Corte favorável e detém a caneta presidencial para transformar essa medida em lei.
A resposta de Trump tem sido um amontoado de justificativas e inverdades, variando desde a alegação de que os democratas iriam se opor à medida — apesar de os republicanos controlarem o Congresso — até a mentira de que o governo dos EUA recebeu “trilhões de dólares” de sua política tarifária, recursos que poderiam custear os cheques.
Ademais, Trump fez promessas grandiosas semelhantes no passado e jamais as cumpriu. No início de seu segundo mandato, enquanto Elon Musk desmantelava programas governamentais e eliminava empregos de 300 mil funcionários federais, o presidente prometeu distribuir 20% da economia do orçamento federal aos cidadãos americanos. Ele nunca o fez.
No final de 2025, Trump prometeu enviar 2 mil a cada pessoa — exceto àquelas de alta renda — com base nos supostos “trilhões de dólares” que o governo teria arrecadado com tarifas. Isso também nunca aconteceu.
Ao mesmo tempo, Trump continua a utilizar a tática de fazer declarações escandalosas, concebidas, em parte, para desviar a atenção pública de suas vulnerabilidades atuais. Isso envolve oferecer gestos simbólicos vazios, destinados a agradar à sua base de apoio MAGA (do inglês Make America Great Again, Tornar a América Grande Novamente), como renomear o Lago Ontário para Lago América e o estado do Novo México para Nova América. Trump calcula que esses gestos mobilizarão seus apoiadores leais, o que será essencial para evitar uma grande derrota eleitoral em novembro. A estratégia também desvia o foco da mídia de outras ações condenáveis de Trump.
A trajetória de um canalha e seu mentor
Como podemos compreender as manobras de Trump — que parecem tão irracionais e insensatas — senão insistindo que as capacidades mentais do presidente estão em declínio e que sua conexão com a realidade é cada vez mais precária? Na biografia recém-lançada, Canalha Americana: A trajetória sombria de Roy Cohn, de Joe McCarthy a Donald Trump (no inglês, American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump), o biógrafo vencedor do Prêmio Pulitzer, Kai Bird, oferece insights importantes sobre como e por que Trump age da maneira que age.
Roy Cohn (1927-1986) permanece uma figura controversa na história dos EUA. Homossexual que não assumia publicamente sua orientação sexual, ele se envolveu, ainda na casa dos vinte anos, no famoso caso Rosenberg, no qual Julius e Ethel Rosenberg — membros do Partido Comunista dos EUA — foram julgados, condenados e executados por repassar informações à União Soviética sobre o programa de bombas nucleares dos EUA. Posteriormente, ele apoiou as investigações televisadas de 1954 do senador de Minnesota, Joseph McCarthy, sobre a suposta influência comunista nas Forças Armadas dos EUA. Uma característica dessas audiências era o interrogatório agressivo — ou, como alguns diriam, intimidador — por parte de Cohn, o que acabou por desacreditar as ações dele e as de McCarthy.
Cohn tornou-se então advogado de clientes ricos de Nova York, de políticos e de chefes da Máfia. Simultaneamente, manteve laços com os presidentes republicanos Richard Nixon e Ronald Reagan. Ele também se tornou mentor e conselheiro informal de Trump, conversando regularmente com o empresário imobiliário nova-iorquino.
Sob a orientação de Cohn, Trump aprendeu a nunca admitir um erro e a sempre culpar seus adversários por qualquer problema ou irregularidade. Cohn ensinou Trump a evitar o pagamento de dívidas, a ignorar regras tradicionais, a negar a verdade quando fosse inconveniente e a nunca deixar rastros documentais. Ele também mostrou a Trump como manipular a mídia, um talento que Trump aperfeiçoou com os tabloides de Nova York.
Cohn desprezava o movimento LGBT e opunha-se à presença de gays e lésbicas no funcionalismo público e no governo federal. Ele morreu devido a complicações da Síndrome da Imunodeficiência Adquirida, a AIDS. A premiada peça de 1991 de Tony Kushner, Anjos na América (Angels in America), incorpora Cohn à trama com maestria. Assombrado por Ethel Rosenberg, ele busca desesperadamente medicamentos para combater a doença.
As comparações entre Cohn e Trump são inúmeras e alarmantes, sugerindo que o atual presidente dos EUA, embora pareça errático, opera com uma estratégia política sofisticada.
Trump emulou a imoralidade e a falta de ética de Cohn, combinando-as com um talento para enganar as pessoas e tirar-lhes dinheiro. Nesse aspecto, ele personifica o vendedor de “elixires milagrosos” do Velho Oeste — figura do século 19 que viajava de cidade em cidade promovendo tônicos inúteis, supostamente capazes de curar todo tipo de enfermidade, do reumatismo à dor de dente. A comercialização, por parte de Trump, de produtos de marca com preços inflacionados — como carnes, vodca, água, gravatas, perfumes, relógios, Bíblias “God Bless the USA”, cards digitais e “Moedas da Vitória” de ouro maciço de uma onça — revela seu talento contínuo para ludibriar consumidores ingênuos.
Um aprendiz de maus hábitos
A sobrinha de Trump, Mary L. Trump — psicóloga clínica e autora do livro de 2020 Demais e Nunca o Suficiente: Como Minha Família Criou o Homem Mais Perigoso do Mundo (Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man) —, oferece perspectivas adicionais sobre a personalidade de Trump que nos ajudam a compreender sua estrutura psicológica.
Segundo Mary Trump, o pai do presidente, Fred Trump Sr., era emocionalmente abusivo. Ele ensinou o filho a nunca demonstrar fraqueza, a mentir, a trapacear, a intimidar os oponentes e a roubar, desde que pudesse sair impune. Ela argumenta que o narcisismo extremo do presidente dos EUA reflete inseguranças profundas e não resolvidas que regem seu mundo emocional. O amor e a admiração que o presidente busca junto a líderes mundiais, segundo ela, servem para compensar a falta de afeto e o sentimento de indignidade, moldados pelos maus-tratos psicológicos impostos por seu pai.
A autopromoção de Trump, personificada por seu reality show de 15 temporadas, O Aprendiz (The Apprentice), criou uma figura imaginária que era, ao mesmo tempo, brilhante nos negócios e implacável nas decisões executivas. Isso também ocultou o fato de que muitos de seus empreendimentos financeiros fracassaram e de que ele declarou falência empresarial quatro vezes.
Para seus apoiadores leais, ele é um irreverente que quebra as regras para tornar o país grande novamente. Até mesmo seus fervorosos apoiadores cristãos evangélicos revelam infidelidades conjugais, relações com profissionais do sexo, fixação por mulheres menores de idade, longa e estreita amizade com Jeffrey Epstein e condenação por agressão sexual.
Eles aderiram ao seu culto e votam.
Resta saber se isso será suficiente para Trump manter o controle do Congresso. Enquanto isso, para a maioria dos residentes dos Estados Unidos que sofrem com o alto custo de vida, o melhor seria não gastar os 5 mil dólares na expectativa de um cheque que jamais chegará pelo correio.
This story originally appeared in Common Dreams on Sep. 14, 2026.It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) license.
In what environmental advocates describe as “another gift to the fossil fuel industry,” the Trump administration plans to end rules limiting the release of planet-heating emissions from power plants that burn coal and gas.
In 2024, the EPA under the Biden administration used the Clean Air Act to require that many new gas plants and existing coal plants reduce their carbon emissions by 90%, including by installing carbon capture technology, by 2032.
The EPA estimated that the rule would reduce the amount of CO2 emissions by about 1.38 billion metric tons over the next two decades, the equivalent of about a year of emissions from the entire US electric power sector.
Another gift to the fossil fuel industry! The US will allow power plant polluters to dump unlimited planet-warming pollution that power plants pump into the air while burning coal and gas.@maxinejoselowhttps://t.co/ZeiSaFkEpC
— Safe Climate Campaign now @safe-climate.bsky.soc (@safe_climate) September 14, 2026
On Monday, Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator under President Donald Trump, announced an end to this policy at a meeting of energy ministers at the Group of 20 conference in Houston.
Not only will this prevent the enactment of a policy that the EPA has estimated would prevent around 1,200 premature deaths and 360,000 asthma cases by 2035. But the administration is also rolling out a proposal seeking to prevent future administrations from regulating carbon emissions as a health risk.
It is an effort that runs parallel to the administration’s rescission of the 2009 “endangerment finding,” which allowed the EPA to regulate vehicle emissions under Section 202 of the Clean Air Act on the grounds that they are harmful to human health. That move is also being challenged in court.
Power plants are regulated under a different section of the Clean Air Act, Section 111, which allows the EPA to regulate facilities that “cause, or contribute significantly to” dangerous air pollution.
But whereas the courts have previously interpreted this statute to regulate the outputs of entire facilities, the Trump administration is asking courts to adopt a novel reading of the statute which says each individual chemical under scrutiny must “contribute significantly” to climate change.
As Meredith Hankins, legal director for climate and energy at the Natural Resources Defense Council, explained in a policy memo last week, it likely won’t be easy for the administration to prove that the CO2 emissions from US power plants aren’t a significant driver of climate change.
“Power sector emissions account for a quarter of total US emissions, so if they cannot be counted as significant, it’s hard to conceive of any emissions that would,” Hankins wrote. “In fact, if the US power sector were a nation, it would be the world’s fifth-largest emitter after China, the United States, India, and Russia. That’s a pretty ‘significant contribution’ to the problem.”
The effort to gut power plant regulations comes after the hottest meteorological summer recorded in US history and amid a year with one of the largest numbers of climate disasters on record, including widespread drought, destructive wildfires, and repeated flooding and tornado outbreaks.
As the planet has warmed over the last half-century, the US has seen a sharp, near-sevenfold increase in weather disasters costing over $1 billion, according to data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
“While wildfires rage, floods devastate communities, and families struggle to afford skyrocketing electricity bills and insurance premiums, the Trump administration is handing the fossil fuel industry a license to keep polluting,” said Holly Bender, chief program officer for the Sierra Club, following news of the EPA’s rollback of power plant rules. “This is full-throated climate denial while the climate crisis happens in real time and a shocking betrayal of the American public.”
She added that “the Sierra Club will fight back against this reckless and dangerous proposal with everything we have in the courts, in Congress, and in communities across the country.”
If successful, the reversal of the power plant rules would be one of the most significant steps in Zeldin’s push to eviscerate the EPA’s authority to combat climate change on behalf of the fossil fuel industry. Earlier this summer, during a meeting of the National Coal Council, he bragged that “many of the items” on the industry’s “wish list are now done.”
He has put the wheels in motion to roll back virtually every Biden-era regulation on the coal industry, including rules limiting pollution from mercury and toxic metals, controls on toxic wastewater from coal plants, and limits on coal ash.
And while seeking to undermine the legal basis to regulate greenhouse gases, Zeldin’s EPA has also taken a sledgehammer to its practical ability to do so, dismantling offices that collect climate data, erasing information about human-caused climate change from the agency’s websites, and filling research panels with scientists employed by the fossil fuel industry.
Former State Department energy official Alan Eyre noted that on the world stage, the US “has always been obstructionist” when it comes to climate policy. Under Trump, he said, “we’re actively malevolent.”
The tariffs on Irish whiskey were imposed months ago as part of his standard tariff imposed by Trump on European Union imports, which was reduced to 10 per cent in July.
The tariffs on Irish whiskey were imposed months ago as part of his standard tariff imposed by Trump on European Union imports, which was reduced to 10 per cent in July.
U.S. President Donald Trump says Canada wants a deal with Washington “very badly” and suggested an agreement could come “fairly soon” if trade concerns are resolved.
U.S. President Donald Trump says Canada wants a deal with Washington “very badly” and suggested an agreement could come “fairly soon” if trade concerns are resolved.
Obwohl ich diese Woche wieder in Moskau zu tun hatte, haben wir es trotzdem geschafft, am Donnerstag eine neue Folge von Tacheles mti Röper und Stein aufzuzeichnen, die nun online ist. Sollte YouTube die Sendung löschen, finden Sie sie auch hier bei NuoViso.
The White House ballroom project is wildly unpopular. Donald Trump doesn’t care. Ben Terris reports on Trump’s obsessive bid for architectural immortality, which is now barreling toward completion, and captures the breathtaking sycophancy required to work for this president:
“We had asphalt going into here,” Trump says, standing on the pathway leading to the residence of the White House. “Now you have the best stone.” He points at a pile of square-cut granite—the type being used to replace the asphalt walkway—and looks to his communications director, Steven Cheung, who is accompanying us on this impromptu tour of the White House grounds en route to the construction site.
“That’s some stone, huh, Steven?” he says.
“It’s incredible,” Cheung concurs.
“Look at the thickness of it,” Trump says. “Normally, you use one inch, as thin as you can. It’s the White House—I said, ‘Fuck it, what’s the best you have?’ They said, ‘We have one that’s four inches.’”
“You’re restoring glory to the White House,” Cheung says, shaking his head in apparent awe.
The Strait of Hormuz ultimately places Trump in a dilemma of choosing between only two ways to lose: to forgo it and bury his career, or to go through with it and bury the hegemony he claims to be preserving. In any case, these two options are inextricably linked, so that choosing one is implicitly […]
Nach einer Woche Pause, weil NuoViso letzte Woche sein Sommerfest gefeiert hat, haben Robert Stein und ich am Donnerstag wieder eine Tacheles-Sendung aufgezeichnet, die nun online ist. Sollte YouTube sie löschen, finden Sie sie auch hier bei NuoViso.
by Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio – Gospa News founder and director
UPDATE ON SEPTEMBER, 7, 2026
Iranian Judiciary Findings: The Bombing on a wedding ceremony by a Raytheon Weapon
«The Iranian judiciary has released the initial findings of an investigation showing that weapons used in a US bombing attack earlier this week on a wedding ceremony in the south of the country were American-made», Iranian Press TV Reported yesterday.
The head of the Iranian judiciary’s local branch in the southern province of Hormozgan said on Saturday that projectile fragments scattered around the site of a wedding ceremony on September 1, killing five people including a children, had been examined as part of the investigation, showing they were manufactured by US company Raytheon.
“The nature of the weapons used in the terrorist attack on civilian gatherings in Kohestak, Sirik, has been fully documented using advanced technical analysis tools and image data processing,” said Mojtaba Ghahremani.
Ghahremani said investigators had carried out a meticulous examination of the inscriptions, barcodes, and other details engraved on the projectile remains, leaving no doubt that the munitions belong to the US military.
He said the type of military thermal battery used in the ammunition revealed that it is from a series of high-voltage batteries used exclusively in the flight guidance systems of precision-guided bombs operated by US military forces.
The official said a military identification code, CAGE Code: 96214, registered on the projectile fragments directly links it to the weapons company Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a major US defense contractor and industrial corporation that manufactures weapons as well as military and commercial electronics.
The Massacre perpetrated by an AGM 154-C 500 lb Thermal Glide-Bombe
Much more important than official release is the image and the video from wreckage that at first had induced the experts to identify the weapon as am AGM-84H SLAM-ER cruise missile (read below).
The wreckage of the weapon shows that it is an AGM 154 C glide-bomb produced by Raytheon
On the tiny identification plate there is in fact the writing AGM – I 154 C-I which corresponds to the glide-bomb AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) produced by Raytheon under the stamp NAVAIR which is the matrix of the American weapons used in the joint activity formed by the US Navy and US Air Force.
The AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) is a glide bomb that resulted from a joint venture between the United States Navy and Air Force to deploy a standardized medium-range precision-guided weapon, especially for engagement of defended targets from outside the range of standard anti-aircraft defenses, thereby increasing aircraft survivability and minimizing friendly losses.
It is intended to be used against soft targets such as parked aircraft, trucks, armored personnel carriers (APCs), and surface-to-air missile sites (SAMs). Prior to launch, it is given a destination through either a predesignated waypoint or a point marked through a targeting pod. It glides, using two wings that pop out for added lift, to the marked destination and dispenses submunitions in a short, roughly linear pattern.
The designation of the Joint Standoff Weapon as an “air-to-ground missile” is a misnomer, as it is an unpowered bomb with guidance avionics, similar to the older GBU-15.
The AGM-154C is Designed to Attack Hardened Targets
But in this specific case, a more sophisticated weapon was used for the attack on the wedding ceremony…
The AGM-154C uses an Imaging Infrared (IIR) terminal seeker with autonomous guidance. The AGM-154C carries the BROACH warhead. This two stage 225 kg (500 lb) warhead is made up from a WDU-44 shaped augmenting warhead and a WDU-45 follow through bomb. The weapon is designed to attack hardened targets. It entered service with the US Navy in February 2005.
The use of this projectile minimally mitigates the implications of the attack ordered by the US Navy by US President Donald Trump; in fact, autonomous guidance oriented by the target’s heat source implies the possibility of an error that the SALM-ER guided cruise missile does not allow.
Below is a live-fire video released by the Royal Australian Air Force demonstrating the actual use of an AGM 154-C glide bomb
But at the same time, it appears to be a completely disproportionate weapon to hit a transmission tower, which, according to leaks from US officials, was the target of the attack (read detaisl below).
Therefore, the hypothesis of a targeted bombing to destroy a civilian home, as on Qeshm Island, remains valid.
This is why Iran has filed an international complaint for war crimes…
Iranian Red Crescent calls for ICC to investigate deadly US wedding attack
Iran’s Red Crescent Society (IRCS) has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate a US missile attack on a wedding reception in the country’s southern province of Hormozgan, which killed at least five people and wounded 68 others.
The deadly incident occurred when shrapnel from a US attack struck a residential building where a wedding reception was being held in the city of Kouhestak, in Hormozgan’s Sirik County on Tuesday.
In a letter to the ICC’s Office of the Prosecutor, the IRCS said the attack raised serious concerns under international humanitarian law and warranted an independent, impartial, thorough and effective investigation.
“Given the reported civilian character of the location as the venue of a family wedding ceremony, as well as the presence of civilians at the site, the incident raises serious concerns under international humanitarian law and warrants an independent, impartial, thorough, and effective investigation,” the organization said.
The IRCS said preliminary information initially indicated that four people had been killed and 67 others wounded. Iranian health officials later raised the toll to at least five fatalities and 68 injuries, with a child among those killed.
The IRCS warned that the number of casualties could rise because some of those wounded were in critical condition.
FIRST POSTED ON GOSPA NEWS ON SEPTEMBER, 4, AT 7,28 AM GMT + 2 (Italy)
A US-made AGM-84H cruise missile among the wreckage after American strike on a wedding
A US-made AGM-84H SLAM-ER cruise missile has been identified among the wreckage following the American strike on a wedding ceremony in Sirik, southern Iran, late Tuesday, adding further evidence of the US military’s role in the attack that killed and wounded civilians.
Weapons analyst Trevor Ball identified the remnants as belonging to the SLAM-ER, a precision-guided, air-launched cruise missile manufactured by Boeing, according OsintWarfare which posted on X the first video of wreckage and was quoted by Al Mayaeedn English Lebanese TV.
Boeing describes the SLAM-ER as being the most accurate air-launched munition in the US Navy’s arsenal;
Enlargement of the piece of a U.S. AGM-84H SLAM-ER among the wreckage in the wedding massacre in Sirik posted on X by @OsintWarfare
Trevor Ball, a former US Army explosive ordnance disposal technician who now works as a weapons technical analyst for Armament Research Services, was among the experts asked by Reuters to examine the photographs and video.
“The damage seen appears to be from a munition which detonated on contact with the roof, or just above the roof,”he said, adding it was apparently a direct hit.
The strike in the small town of Kuhestak on Tuesday killed five people and injured at least 70 others.
The Exclusive Video of the Wreckage
VIDEO LEGEND:
1st footage – The US-made AGM-84H SLAM-ER cruise missile has among the wreckage following the American strike on the wedding cerimony
2nd footage – Children’s slippers lie scattered in the aftermath of the US aggression at a wedding in Sirik, where civilians, including children, were killed and dozens more were injured. Footage from the scene shows slippers belonging to women and children amid the destruction.
After this initial analysis, both Iranian and international sources tried to identify the weapon, with some ballistics experts even launching the bizarre hypothesis that it was a ricochet shot, a hypothesis considered unlikely by most, however.
The Reuter Experts confirmed our Investigation
But one thing seems certain…
«A US munition struck a home hosting a wedding celebration in southern Iran directly, rather than ricocheting from another target, weapons experts who reviewed images and video verified by Reuters revealed» Al Mayadeen reported.
The strike in the small town of Kuhestak on Tuesday killed five people and injured at least 70 others.
So on Thursday, US Vice President JD Vance he was induced to declare that Washington was investigating the incident, despite the initially Pentagon deny of any responsibility…
“We’re investigating it because obviously we care. We want to know,”Vance said during a White House press briefing.
«Four military weapons experts who checked visual material told Reuters that the damage was consistent with a direct strike rather than secondary damage caused by a munition ricocheting from another target. Three of the experts stressed that the weapon was likely American rather than a misfired Iranian air defense missile» Al Mayadeen added many hours after its and our first articles posted on September 4, at 7,28 AM GMT + 2 (Italy)
The main room of the weddin cerimony in Sirik
Two US officials, speaking anonymously, said the US military had conducted strikes near Kuhestak on Sept. 1, with the town’s telecommunications tower as a specific target.
Satellite imagery places the tower about 135 meters from the wedding site. Iranian media reported that the tower was struck at about 9:30 pm local time.
But the same expert Trevor Ball debunked US Official speculation…
“The visible blast damage could not result from fragments from the nearby strike on the communications tower striking the area,” he stressed.
A Likely Trump’s US Navy Deliberate Massacre on Iranian Wedding
AGM-84H SLAM-ER cruise missile is a weapon designed for precise strikes and can be retargeted during flight by a human operator.
Therefore, if it were confirmed that this very powerful rocket, the wreckage of which was found on site, was used, the issue would take on an unprecedented gravity.
But in Tehran, there is a very serious religious theocracy, armed above all with hypersonic missiles, and perhaps even nuclear ones, donated by Russia, China, or North Korea…
Speaking about the attack, Head of Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council Sheikh Amoli Larijani said, “The crime in Sirik and the killing of unarmed women and children embody the savage nature and deceptive self of the United States, and expose the falsehood and audacity of those who trade in human rights.”
Sirik mourns victims killed in US attack, including a 4-year-old
A four-year-old child was among four people laid to rest in the southern Iranian city of Kuhestak on Thursday, as grieving families and residents gathered to bid farewell to loved ones killed in a US attack on the area, Al Matadeen Lebanese TV reported.
The funeral ceremonies in Kuhestak, in Sirik County of Hormozgan Province, began at 4 pm from a street at the city’s entrance, with mourners walking together toward the city’s Martyrs’ Cemetery, where the victims were laid to rest.
The authorities identified the four victims as four-year-old Amirali Karimi, 16-year-old Mohammad Mollahi, 43-year-old Kolthoum Mollahi Nezhadnia, and 50-year-old Zarkhatoun Taheri.
According to the announced figures, the US aggression left 68 people injured, several of whom remain under medical treatment. Al Mayadeen’s correspondent reported that the death toll from the US aggression targeting the wedding ceremony in Sirik had risen to five.
VIDEO – “Horrific, appalling”: Iran urges UN Security Council to condemn deadly US attack on wedding ceremony
Iran has called on the UN Security Council to condemn an unprovoked and deadly US attack on a residential home hosting a wedding ceremony in southern Islamic Republic that led to the martyrdom of five civilians, including a four-year-old child, and injured more than 70 others.
Gholamhossein Darzi, the Islamic Republic’s ambassador and chargé d’affaires to the United Nations, made the appeal in a letter addressed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and the president of the Security Council on Wednesday following a new wave of such American strikes targeting southern Iranian cities, which together claimed the lives of at least 18 people and wounded 108 others.
IRGC vows Revenge for US wedding attacks: “will never go unanswered”
The chief commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has said that the blood of those killed in a US attack on a wedding ceremony in Kouhestak, Hormozgan Province, “will never go unanswered” and that it will ultimately “catch up with those who ordered and carried out this heinous crime.”, Iranian Press TV wrote.
State media reports debris recovered from a home attacked in southern Iran during a wedding celebration was “most likely” from a US-made, AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon – a guided-glide munition, also Al Jazeera reported before the exatly identification as pieces of a US-made AGM-84H SLAM-ER cruise missile
Broadcaster IRIB said images released by US Central Command of attacks in southern Iran showed a F/A-18 Super Hornet loaded with a similar munition.
Another Trump’s Heinous War Crimes in Iranian Genocide caused US Troops Deaths
The targeted house was 200 metres (650 feet) from a communications tower, and the strike could not have been an error given the munition’s accuracy, reports said.
The Sirik strike came amid a renewed wave of US aggression against Iran, with American forces targeting sites across the country’s southern provinces.
Iranian authorities reported attacks on Bandar Abbas, Jask, Minab, Chabahar, Konarak, Lengeh, Qeshm Island, and other areas, including communications and service infrastructure.
The escalation prompted Iran to launch retaliatory missile and drone strikes against US military positions across the region, including bases in Jordan, Bahrain, Kuwait, the UAE, and Erbil, in which several US troops lost their lifes in the name of Trump’s Zionist.
The heinous Trump’s Military strikes on civilians in Iran caused a genocide of more than 7 thousand people.
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