It’s been a couple of days since comedian Omid Djalili launched a bizarre attack on Zack Polanski, accusing the Green leader of spreading “misinformation” on Twitter. Polanski had called out the Epstein axis over the bombing of a girls’ school in Minab, southern Iran. His post clearly upset Djalili, who offered a bizarre conspiracy theory that the Iranians deliberately bombed their own school and filled it up with bodies they had kept on ice after the recent protest violence.
Djalili’s rant gained a ton of traction which I hope was down to bot activity rather than real people being fooled. Djalili is a regular on the BBC where he pushes the narrative that Iranians want this regime-change war, as though he speaks for them all. Well, Djalili now looks foolish because the side responsible for levelling schools in Gaza has finally admitted to bombing this school too. I can sense your shock.
Reuters is reporting that the preliminary assessment of military investigators is that the US was likely behind the attack. The US had initially blamed a misfired Iranian rocket, but that story has fallen apart following investigations from outlets like BBC Verify.
Analysis of video footage and satellite imagery shows the school was hit by multiple near-simultaneous strikes. Horrifically, this appears to have been a double-tap where you bomb once, wait for rescuers to arrive and bomb again.
Even BBC Verify conceded the missiles likely came from the US, based on the precision munitions and alignment with US operations near the Strait of Hormuz. Don’t forget the BBC initially started every headline with the words “Iran says” to cast doubt on a story it is now conceding is true. This is a pattern we have seen through over two years of genocide in Gaza.
As the evidence became undeniable, the US stopped denying responsibility, but says it’s still investigating—as if it doesn’t know exactly what happened. Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio insist there was no deliberate targeting of civilians, but the truth is somehow even more chilling: multiple outlets are reporting that Anthropic’s Claude AI likely selected the school as a target. Yes, we’ve entered the nightmare era when machines decide on kills. My thoughts are with Sarah Connor at this difficult time.
The Guardian and WSJ report that Claude played a direct role in target selection for the Iran strikes, including intelligence assessments and battlefield simulations. Claude is integrated into Palantir’s Maven Smart System which crunches intel, prioritises targets, and runs simulations. The Washington Post says Claude generated over 1,000 targets on day one alone, supplying GPS co-ordinates, weapon suggestions, and even legal justifications. Why not just rename the damn thing Skynet?
It seems likely Claude flagged the Minab site after mistaking the school for part of the nearby IRGC base by relying on old maps and flawed data. Reports suggest Claude made errors that led to 168 innocents dying because human operators either didn’t bother with oversight or didn’t care. Either way, that would be a war crime.
Journalists are now asking who we could prosecute when AI kills civilians, as though this is a profound question. But the answer is simple: the designers of the system, the people who allowed it to choose targets, and the leaders who launched this illegal war. The International Criminal Court should be issuing arrest warrants for all involved.
The irony is that Anthropic has recently clashed with the Trump administration over military use of its AI. The company rejected demands for unrestricted access and refused to enable fully autonomous weapons or mass domestic surveillance. In retaliation, Trump ordered all federal agencies to immediately stop using Anthropic’s tools.
The president denounced the firm as a “Radical Left AI company” and a “supply-chain risk to national security” because it still maintains a shred of morality. Trump imposed a six-month phase-out for embedded systems and blacklisted Anthropic from military contracts. He also pressured contractors to drop the company, yet hours later, Claude was still powering strikes in Iran.
Media reports suggest the military used Claude because it was too deeply embedded in systems like Maven, meaning the US can’t do away with AI, even when it wants to. Isn’t that a reassuring thought?Clio the cat, ?July 1997-1 May 2016 Kira the cat, ??2010-3 August 2018 Jasper the Ruffian cat ???-4 November 2021 Georgina the cat ?2006-4 December 2025 Toni the cat ?2005-25 March 2026
Rick Nobinson! Lasted about a minute as they both started in on how "the regime" has been killing thousands of its own people for years and years and how an illegal attack by the US and the zionazis is the way to go.
It's easy to see the sort of values Nobinson is interested in discussing!"I won't dignify the attacker's words by repeating them, they are horrific and vile."
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All the propaganda channels have had him including this BiBiC but not the BiBiC shit show
The Newsagents. Fulfilling the same role as Rachel Maddow in the US; making liberals feel intellient by feeding them nuanced propaganda bollocks with a journalistic veneer.
Thankfully most places I've seen Omid on Twitter with this shit he's getting blasted (other than the bot support of course).The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
Re: All the propaganda channels have had him including this BiBiC but not the BiBiC shit show
I went to the link and watched the first part with the sound down...can't stand to listen to Sopel or that quisling Omid. I noticed at the end of Sopel's "Intellectual handwaving" introduction, he has a little smile/laugh...no doubt at Marandi's expense. Disgusting fuckers...Sopel has been one of my all time hates from the BiBiC...it's his posturing and body language. He used to get 230k a year from the BiBiC for this sort of bollox. "I won't dignify the attacker's words by repeating them, they are horrific and vile."
Trump is now claiming the Iranians killed their own schoolkids!
The same way, presumably, the Palestinians killed their own kids, blew up their own hospitals, starved themselves and what have you.
Unfortunately, there's a ready audience for this stuff. My neighbour rushed at me the other day to inflict on me the devastating news that Putin had a mistress. This was a riposte to me telling him the previous day that a nuclear missile could strike his house 8 minutes after leaving Russia and there isn't a damn thing he could do about it. So best NATO gets the hell out of Ukraine. This neighbour's the type of guy who would have been very impressed, back in the day, when the Guardian pointed out that Noriega had purple underpants.
I may have to move house.
Follow the apartheid state model. Declare his house a protected military zone
then bulldoze it. Remember, if you don't steal it, someone else will.
On a serious note, this sort of encounter (I've had plenty of them myself) shows how the corporate/mainstream media propaganda still works well for its creators.The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
on March 6, 2026, 3:08 pm