The United States and Israel launched joint military strikes against Iran, sharply escalating regional tensions and causing grave humanitarian disasters. An airstrike on a primary school in southern Iran reportedly left 165 people dead, many of them children. Yet when speaking about the military attacks against Iran, U.S. President Trump claimed that these operations were intended to bring "freedom" to the Iranian people.

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