US destroys Iran reservoirs, leaving thousands without water in searing heat
7d 9h ago by lemmy.world/u/EatingOnions in world from www.scmp.com
Some 20,000 residents lost access to safe drinking water after the strikes damaged two reservoirs in Sirik.
War crime
And we add it to the pile....
Another day another war crime from this piece of shit country...
What is this from?
No idea lol I just googled "gigantic pile of papers image"
The faint "dreamstime" watermark led me to search for that name. Looks like a stock photo company.
Dreams in the name almost guarantees ai.
Looked around more, Tineye followed it back to Adobe stock photos where they say it is AI.
anytime anything new comes up with epstein, he starts bombing iran.
Crime against humanity
You are right. It is more adequate term
Not a single mention of that in the article.
Attacking a reservoir is illegal (war crime) as it is a piece of civilian infrastructure. All attacks on civilian infrastructure are crimes of war and can be punished under the Geneva Conventions.
Deliberately starving a civilian population by destroying or blocking access to food, water, and other survival necessities is a war crime. This includes interfering with humanitarian relief supplies. A 2019 amendment to the Rome Statute extended this prohibition to non-international armed conflicts, closing a significant gap in the law.
Unless they can prove that the reservoir was being used as part of the military or military support operations,it's off limits.
Since the usa was in negociations and even said that it was a retaliation against the shooting for the helicopter. The principle of necessity and proportionality is not there.
It's also just stupid. All they're doing is turning more Iranians against them and increasing support for the regime. It's toddler tantrum shit.
Isn't Iran the one that needs to prove that it was not used as part of military operations? They are after all the ones doing the accusing.
I understand that. I'm making a statement that there were no mentions of war crimes. Let's do another round?
They bombed a reservoir.
That is a war crime.
The article doesn't need to explicitly say "they gone and done some war crimes" for that to be the case.
Almost certain that the person you're replying to is saying that the article should say that it's a war crime, not that it isn't one because the article doesn't say so.
This exactly. For the mouth-breathers out there who don't understand why it's a bad idea to bomb reservoirs, it's important to state clearly this is a war crime.
Of course, the fucking US Government has done countless war crimes and not been prosecuted. So... yeah.
Ah my mistake
Crazy how people missed that one lmao
and can be punished under the Geneva Conventions
Laughs in Hague invasion act
So you need a news reporter to declare its a war crime before you will use your own brain and understand the definitions of war crimes, is that whats going on here?
Yes. For the dummies, you do. What is hard to understand about this? Not everybody is well informed or educated enough to know what is and is not a war crime.
They are criticizing the article for being non-comprehensive.
You are criticizing them because you misunderstood their point and I guess you felt the need to keep digging until you started throwing insults.
You know - I don’t think I need to offer further commentary. The facts are in evidence.
Take a deep breath. Think of something you’re grateful for, and tell someone you care for them. That is your penance.
The comment I replied to is:
Not a single mention of that in the article.
Which was itself a reply to mrdowns comment:
War cimes
Its pretty straight forward. Then look at "orbituary"s other comments and you see stuff like this:
Yes. For the dummies, you do. What is hard to understand about this? Not everybody is well informed or educated enough to know what is and is not a war crime.
So if you want to dick-waggle at someone about nuance and not understanding, talk to your buddy Orbituary. Its a lame point made poorly, and your assigning ire to me on it is another lame point. You have yourself a nice day, and get off your dumb high horse assigning people "penance". Who the eff do you think you are?
edit: Monument, I do see that the pattern of your comments is exactly this in many instances-- its what you are here for, accusing people of not understanding things, then calling them names on a high horse to make yourself feel smart. This is your whole shtick. Its Pathetic and Tedious. You must be real fun in real life.
Oh, you’re right! You did jump to insults right off the bat.
Then you stalked my account to try to create more personalized attacks.
I mean, you can keep arguing but you will have to do better than to accuse me of trying to be a good person. Unless you were trying to say I’m fake, but
I actually care. And the same sort of toxic user behavior that ruined Reddit long before the administrators did is something I try to meet with good humor and a sense of silliness. Maybe the Lemmy community can keep that at bay.
If your antipathy and rage at other people is such that you cannot break through it to realize someone is cracking a joke, then… I don’t know. I don’t have a constructive suggestion right now.
No joke here: Are you physically in pain? Maybe something you don’t realize is bothering you? Possibly some other drain on your psyche? You’re putting out a lot of hate for being random text in my phone.
I read the headline and was the same like, isn't that a...
I quess water infrastructure is on the table now. Good job, America.
Iran will offcourse retaliate by hitting the water infrastructure in the Gulf States, causing massive issues in the Arab world.
This is Russia level incompetence.
Huh, wouldn't expect that from someone who regularly passes cognitive tests (/s)
Man, horse, Iran, missile
Sounds like a fun night
Worse than russia
Look, it's bad, but Russia is striking civilian housing daily in Ukraine, which is impossible to even argue are strategic targets. They're both doing bad things. Let's just leave it at that.
The usa stroke iranian civilians daily during the war too. Billions of dollars are given to israel to commit genocide
And Russia gives (or gave, since they're now barely able to fund their own war) billions to fund conflict too. Neither one is really above the other. The sooner we stop squabbling about our favorite nations, as if they're sports teams, and figure out how to work together to better the regular people the better.
The sooner we stop squabbling about our favorite nations
We both do not deny that both countries are terrible so I nobody is squabbling about his favorite nations here but I am sorry but it is a fact that the USA did more damage to the world than Russia. The usa hold the title of the country who is involved in the biggest number of military coups , the title of who finance the biggest numbers of genocides and the title of the country who is involved in creating the biggest numbers of failed states.
Russia is funding the undermining of democracies all over the west (and probably elsewhere too). I disagree that either is worse. They're nation-states. Their entire goal is power.
The US has more influence globally, so it has almost certainly done more harm, but not because it's particularly worse. It's only because it has the capability. Russia is managing to do as much harm as it can. They don't give a shit about the people, let alone their people.
Russia most of time spread propaganda using social media and to undermind the so called western democracies. The united snakes most of the time fund the terrorists or help them with intel to overthrow non western so called democracies to put puppets
America genocided Korea.
Oh but that would be "terrorism".
I do not understand why Gulf states aren’t pulling out every possible stop they have to get Trump and Israel to stop this buffoonery. Like I don’t see how any possible outcome of this war could even possibly benefit them?
What levers would they pull? Most are barely more then a set of wealthy oligarchs playing at a nation. Not really having a tonne of cards to play in this stupid conflict with the us/israel and not the spine to stand up against them.
The leadership is too busy being obscenely rich and banging hookers.
This is Russia level incompetence.
well when your nation becomes a vassal state to Russia, that is to be expected.
Russia's economy is smaller than California's, don't be silly.
have you been paying attention recently?
If we've been paying attention, then the US is a vassal state of Israel and likes to support authoritarians globally (like Russia).
Russia doesn't need to buy a country.
They need to buy exactly 1 person.
The guy is clearly insane and out of control. This is squarely on the heads of JD Vance and Marco Rubio for not invoking the 25th amendment. This was obviously not a military target and was designed to cause mass civilian casualties and death.
OH HELL NO! Not in our name!
As a Native American I regret to inform you that
This was obviously not a military target and was designed to cause mass civilian casualties and death.
is entirely typical of the US government.
It's straight up our SOP
Totally get it and totally agree.
Custer, in his arrogance, ignorance and obstinance got what he deserved at Little Bighorn.
No one can deny that we stole this land from the native Americans. It wasn't me or my ancestors, but here were are.
I hope we can make the most of it with the time we have left here together.
Respect!
What world are you living in that you think the 25th amendment would work right now? Vance and Rubio are pieces of shit. But why would they throw away their lifelong careers of being pieces of fucking shit for something that would get them ostracized from their tribe, and leave the other side also hating them?
The world i live in is the one that warns Vance and Rubio that they will lose their jobs if they don't listen to the people.
Trump has left such a bad taste in everyone's mouth that they would do well to heed the warning that they will be out of power in congress for 40+ years (like 1950's - 1990's) and they will lose the Whitehouse for the next 12-16 years, if they don't change their ways.
This Reagan Republican is voting straight blue this time around. This wackjob has to be stopped. Period. Full stop.
These democrats are not going to stop the republicans from fixing elections, let alone be popular enough to dominate politics for decades, get real.
It's kind of the definition of what the US does and has done effectively since the day after independence.
Yep. We need a pitchfork party or we need to remove most of the dems from the democratic party. And all zionists need to be removed from every role of influence in our society. Then we need to gut the GOP like a fish.
If any of that is not possible we need accelerationism and then to rebuild until it is.
Sorry, full on all of your names, just like all the Germans that allowed the Nazis to do what they did, or any of the other examples. Unlike other countries y'all can actual buy weapons too, so it's even worse - at least the Russians can't just go and buy a gun around the block.
Oh look: more war crimes.
Why wouldn't other countries just not sanction us?
seriously this and the killing random people in fishing boats with no due process in international waters are war crimes.
If China, Russia, EU and everyone else said nah fuck you we won't buy any of your shit or sell you any of our shit would that not fix the problem in like, one months time?
Seriously why isn't this happening?? Couldn't the ICC make its members do something like this? Or is that not how that works?
I'm just trying to understand. There must be something the world can do that doesn't involve war why don't they do that?
Why wouldn’t other countries just not sanction us?
Because the vast majority of countries are dependent on the USAs financial system, odds are very good your country is dependent on that same system in thousands of ways. Especially Europe.
They hate America even as they depend upon it... and it's even worse than that, as the USA is controlled by banking interests that have been around since the slavery days. Should America disappear tomorrow, another "financial center" will replace it, it's an international web of financial interests.
Their only goal is profit, national concerns are irrelevant to them.
The USA is not part of the ICC and does not recognize its jurisdiction.
https://asp.icc-cpi.int/states-parties
These are the states that signed the Rome Statute.
I know that and about the Hague act thing basically saying they will invade if they ever try to do something but if they did invade them that would be WW3 surely so that has to be a bluff.
I guess I couldn't expect them to force other countries to isolate the USA economically but damn it would be awesome if they had the power
American exceptionalism is a cancer and must be stamped out.
Exchanging one hegemony for another.
China hasn't dropped a bomb in 50 years. How many bombs over how many countries has the US bombed since then?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War
Quyet Thang.
Still working on that list?
47 years ago, you sure showed me!
Edit: I assume you're still compiling the list of American bombings, I won't hold my breath but I'm looking forward to it!
I think they're all too reliant on the US and they notice, the US kinda has them by the balls, strategically. They all seem to be quiet quitting / ghosting, and that seems to be all the power they have. What they're doing will be felt for decades, it's more of a slow burn, they are kinda sanctioning, in the sense of removing reliance of all US products. The US govt has built itself up as an evil superpower, with tendrils of control over other countries, military posts, strategic assassinations. What do they have on Australia, that makes them defund supports for disabled people, just to be able to bomb Iran along with the US. There's some deep seeded control going on there, and in many other places.
Murdoch basically, and theres like 178billionaires in australia alone of 38mil people. seems AUS is a good place for billionaires to flee.
Yeah we need to change that!
What do they have on Australia, that makes them defund supports for disabled people
Are you talking about the NDIS, or the DSP?
Ndis.
Russia is already sanctioned/sanctioning due to the Ukraine War. China maybe could, but they are more focused on renegotiating a trade deal. The EU is already in the process is strategic decoupling and can't go that much faster. Any other country is likely going to either have enough economic consequences that they can't afford to or are doing so little trade that it doesn't mean anything any way.
I guess the closest thing to this that's happening is BRICS and their efforts to do less international trade in dollars. De-dollarization freaks out the US ruling class, so you know it's a good thing. Just wish it would happen faster.
China and Russia are not members of the ICC.
Also most of them are pretty happy that Trump is busy bombing Iran and not them. But also all of them are lowering dependence on the US as much as possible, but are quite about it. At least the EU also does not like the Iranian regime terribly much.
Sadly, EU is too much depending on the US. Just think about Mastercard and Visa.
Which is currently in the process of being fixed. Just takes some time to set everything up, and get 27 countries to agree to the details.
I know, but it takes times. In the meantime we need to play cool
The U.S. is very powerful. It has the third biggest population in the world and has a lot of economic influence, including all the damage trump has done to it.
So more war crimes. Yay. Proud to be an American were at least I know I’m shackled to a government run by pedophiles, corporations, and foreign interests.
Let’s make everyone in the U.S. vote and see what happens. I feel like at least once before the great experiment totally implodes we should just try that once since we are so fucking free and are the best fucking democracy ever……
The one thing putting the brakes on the far right in Australia is the fluke that we put compulsory voting into our constitution (it was an experiment at the time, I'm inclined to think it worked out). While we have, perhaps, more than our share of fucked up rabid racist assholes, they have to get over the hump of the majority of not shitty people, and so far it's failed to happen. The Overton window, neoliberals and Murdoch media have done significant damage but some sense of sanity prevails.
After your revolution you might consider it but I suggest Open Democracy (no elections, random selection yearly or so from the populace to form government bodies. Ala the original Athens democracy. Representative has shown itself to be not representative and easily corrupted, we should move on. )
Problem is there's maybe ten out of a few hundred million Americans I trust running agencies like the FDA or EPA, yoinking randos from some podunk town to legislate on the national scale is guaranteed to go down in flames.
I think we're just too big. Too much power is centralized at the federal level trying to balance interests that are too far removed. I think we should break up in ~6 smaller chunks with far more autonomy while maintaining EU style trade and travel so there's still a sense of cohesion.
We want a technocracy, randomly selected individuals picked to fill roles in government based on their area of expertise. If all education is free and accessible, nobody is at a disadvantage. The bar for expertise can be pretty low too, like x years of work experience or any post-secondary education. There will still be that 30% of the population, who would normally vote as right as possible, to fuck shit up. But the majority will actually rule. You can only serve once and are compensated fairly for the damage it will do to your career. Representative Democracy is a failed experiment.
You are the best democracy ever?
Big fucking LMAO!
Poe’s law rears its head once again. Here is the /s.
Who would you stop from voting?
Just typing this on the fly but one major concern is Trump is literally sending his private army to “watch the polls.” There’s also a whole lot more going on. I’m not saying this to be a dick but you should look up everything that’s happening with voting rights and the midterms and scotus and how voting works in the U.S and the various mechanisms of voter suppression state by State.
If you count all the war crimes committed by US soldiers, regardless of who was president, you will come to the conclusion that the US is an imperial, colonial, exploitative power.
Previously, they hid behind diplomacy, the UN, "freedom", "democracy". Donald Trump has portrayed the US as it has been all these years after the Second World War, selfish, greedy, without a shred of empathy.
That is why some Americans cannot stand Trump because he exposes them for what they are.
My news didn't tell me this. Total dick move, if Iran hit an aquifer of an allied country our media would cry foul. Fucking cunts.
This isn't even unusual, I'm surprised they didn't do it sooner.
The USA is hopeful that there will be a civilian uprising, and will do anything in its power to make life in Iran as miserable as possible. Even as they complain about Iran's killing of civilians, they will murder those same civilians.
Recall that over 500K Iraqis died to topple Hussein for the crime of killing 20K Iraqis.
The deaths for the Iraq war number far closer to a million.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world thinks that it's okay to remain entirely silent when the US breaches the Geneva Convention.
they are silent because ISRAEL INSTIGATED It, and they dont want to offend either country right now.
Most countries remain silent but are very much against the US.
The thing is, most countries are digitally dependent on the US, like on Microsoft. The vast majority of enterprises and governments use stuff like Windows and Microsoft Teams and switching to FOSS alternatives can take years. So the fear is that countries criticize Trump and the US too harshly, that Trump could just cut them off, and governments and enterprises would have their digital infrastructure bricked.
I don't understand how people can follow a command like this and then go home and sleep at night.
This is literally what the US has been doing for 70 years.
Doesn't change the question.
The answer is propaganda.
The answer is most normal people cannot. There are sociopaths that can and they are concentrated in our military of murderers.
People with thoughtful morals don't join the military. Sociopaths, moral LARPers, and desperate people do.
Well as a subordinate who is given illegal orders they're kind of fucked there's no good choice so that's why it was so important for commanders to only issue legal orders. So they don't put their men in a bad legal situation.
If a solider doesn't follow the command they're given probably going to be found guilty of insubordination, regardless of whether it is illegal or not. They'll probably be called a criminal, lose all the benefits that come from service, or possibly be executed according to this administration.
If a soldier follows illegal orders like these then they can be charged as war criminals and executed.
The ONLY way to be able to refuse illegal orders is to have an enormous amount of support from other soldiers and the judge advocate General's office. Which are resources your average soldier doesn't have. Yes the Uniform Code of Military Justice says following illegal orders is illegal but the reality is very different.
Humanitarian law is also designed to protect civilian objects, including those indispensable to the survival of the civilian population. Article 29 of the Convention on the law relating to the non-navigational uses of international watercourses [available on http://www.un.org/],adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1997, stipulates:
“International watercourses and related installations, facilities and other works shall enjoy the protection accorded by the principles and rules of international law applicable in international and non-international armed conflict and shall not be used in violation of those principles and rules”.
General protection under the law applicable to armed conflicts extends to more than international watercourses, and the four main prohibitions laid down in that law are worth noting:
the ban on employing poison or poisonous weapons; the ban on destroying, confiscating or expropriating enemy property; the ban on destroying objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population; the ban on attacking works or installations containing dangerous forces.
The four prohibitions, to which should be added the provisions on environmental protection, are expressly mentioned in the instruments relating to international armed conflicts, and the last two are also laid down in the law applicable to non-international armed conflicts. Starvation as a method of warfare is explicitly prohibited regardless of the nature of the conflict, and the concept of objects essential for the survival of the civilian population includes drinking-water installations and supplies and irrigation works. Immunity for indispensable objects is waived only when these are used solely for the armed forces or in direct support of military action. Even then, the adversaries must refrain from any action which could reduce the population to starvation or deprive it of essential water.
https://casebook.icrc.org/case-study/water-and-armed-conflicts
The targets that were hit are not being reported in the US at all as far as I can tell.
Just "strikes in Southern Iran".
US just made it Total War, IRGC are hardcore fundamentalists, they're not above poisoning an entire states water supply and you just gave them casus belli.
Good work Orange Man.
Uh, in case you weren't aware, they are poisoning all of our water here in the US as well.
Israel and the US had already struck schools, hospitals, bridges, desalination plants and other civilian infrastructure. The "hardcore fundamentalists" of Iran have shown massive restraint considering what had already been done to them before the supposed ceasefire. They have more respect for the civilian life of their enemies than the US ever has in it's history.
Exactly this. Iranians have been known to be philosophically opposed to using nuclear and chemical weapons, and attacking water supplies. Meanwhile, the US... has done and continues to do all of those.
Where is the UN ?
Where is the UN when russia sends drones straight in Chornobyl confinement unit for shits and giggles and proceeds to brag about it for months? Same shit, pal.
Probably writing strongly worded letters to Iran telling them to capitulate to the US.
Eh in this case its not really that. Most members are staying out of it or condemning the axis of evil (us+israel). Now when I say "condemning" I mean some interview with a government person saying something along the lines of "well it is not a good thing blatant war crimes are going on but we in insert nation would never do such things"
That's crazy...
The UN and what army? The UN is nothing more than neutral ground where diplomats and envoys can safely talk to each other. It has no more power than the member states are willing to give it. The US, China, Russia and Israel will never give it the power to intervene in their wars.
The UN has no execurive power and stste members pretend veto really matter so they don't act
Trump replaced it with his own pay to play version. Since he no longer cares about what the UN thinks, he's no longer bound by what the UN says.
let's not pretend he's the first president to do so. the lineage of presidents not giving a shit what UN says is rather long. Like every president since Truman.
America never was, lol.
International doesn't apply to the powerful.
Watching the world police exterminate Iranians
Okay, those laws of war run on "as long as you don't do it, I won't either". America's allies in the region also need water, what if Iran strikes at their reservoirs in retaliation? Trump may have escalated the war into terrifying new territory.
This. People forget that "war crimes" have more to do with escalation of collateral damage than anything else.
"Hey! You possibly shot down a military helicopter from us while it was performing illegal operations within your territory! That goes too far, fuck the Geneva convention, you will pay!"
fresh war crimes. The US needs to sign onto the ICC so our leaders can go explain themselves in court.
Aka, more war crimes committed by the regime in charge of the USA.
The US waged war on Iraq’s infrastructure and destroyed large numbers of public assets setting the country back decades simply to make war on a budget. The funny part is the amount of money that the US had to spend to rebuild some of it. Trump is following others footprints but much more wildly and without any idea of what the endgame is.
Siphoning taxpayer money to Haliburton and other “rebuilding” corporations was one of the main purposes of the Iraq war. This is how imperialism works.
The US literally bombed Iraq to a "preindustrial" state and were never able to get infrastructure anywhere near what it was before the war.
Electricity is water is life.
I wonder if the Israelis were somehow involved in shooting down the chopper. The crazy fucks want the damn war to rage on so they can steal more land from Lebanon and the West Bank.
The helicopter was illegally in iranian territory. It doesn't matter if iran or iarael shot it down. The usa had no right to bomb Iran again
Really pushing for that Greatest Satan moniker.
Oh, so now Americans can't commit war crimes? Who's next? Zionists? You? Me?
First they came for the African warlords with child soldiers, and I did not speak up, because I was not an African warlord with child soldiers.
Unnecessary. Trump is not fit for office.
Going through the Geneva checklist, i see
US commits another WAR CRIME.
Hey this happened in Spec Ops the Line
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imperialism <---> terrorism
We didn't get 9/11ed enough. We deserve way more.
Goliath holding open auditions for the role of David
To prepare mentally for if and when Iranians target US civilian infrastructure, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDhuDBjZIkg
I love America. Every time I see them helping kill someone I get a boner!!!! /s
... something something war crime ...
Obviously Trump wants Iran for the oil, and wanting to accomplish where Reagan didn't carried out -- neutralizing Iran. But then Iran is larger than Iraq, and likely would be bigger than Fallujah in terms of human cost should he decides to invade. That at the same time he'll have a new Bin Laden emerging to get his head.
Iran is the size of Afghanistan and Iraq combined. Both in population and area. The difference being that none of the former allies will help out with that in any meaningful way, besides maybe using their air space and the current US bases in Europe.
That'll do... oh wait..
Didn't Trump start this war to protect the very people he's going to harm and kill directly by destroying their water supplies.
No he started the war to distract from the Epstein files, what you're referencing is one of the many lies he sells to his... mentally challenged based. I'm doing my best to be kind here, but we both know what word I actually mean.
Imperialist USA and its ally Europe
Not even beneficial to being ally of the US at the moment. Might as well be there enemy at least you know where you stand.
Ukraine destroys russian refineries...
Russia destroys Ukrainian power plant.
If Iran bombed the US/their allies we wouldn't complain because they're not the aggressor.
Ahhh yes, those refineries that are essential to human life. That's definitely a fair comparison to depriving people of water in a desert country.
And to stop that happening all Russia has to do is go home. It's not complex which really calls into question the intelligence of those who won't understand it.
This is told as being the truth, but the actual source for this framing is Iran, and the news site that is reporting this is controlled by China. Possibly propaganda by exaggeration.
Take a deep breath and think. Don't just 100% believe everything they say.
You posted this comment at least 20 minutes after someone responded to your similar comment in another post offering a US imperialist news source reporting the same news:
Fuck off with your bullshit.
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/10/middleeast/iran-water-reservoir-us-bomb-hnk-intl
the actual source for this framing is Iran, and the news site that is reporting this is controlled by China. Possibly propaganda by exaggeration.
As opposed to the American propaganda by straight up lying.
The propaganda that you recognize as propaganda is probably not targetted at you. The propaganda that makes you go "those fucking assholes" is the one that's probably targetted at you.
What are you talking about?
If it happened 2 years ago I would have agreed with you and dismissed any statement from Iran as propaganda, but now...
Do you think the iranian government has become more credible because they're in state of active war? Why would that happen?
US government has of course taken a nose dive in terms of honesty, no argument from me there.
the cheeto in charge already boasted to wanting to destroy the civilian water infrastructure and nonchalantly do war crimes, so this news is not that unbelievable https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/01/politics/trump-iran-water-plants-strikes
Seems to me that the guy is incapable of telling the truth, but who knows, perhaps that one is an exception.
Why are you keeping denying facts confirmed by american investigations. You aretrying to hide crimes against humanity
No more or less credible than they've always been. Why should they lie about this? The US has spy satellites in orbit. If the water infrastructure was fine, it'd be a very easy thing to prove. And, as others have pointed out, this very thing has been talked about by the US leadership.