00:02The UN fact-finding mission on Iran says there are reasonable grounds to believe the United States
00:09committed war crimes in at least two attacks during its assault on Iran, one on a school in
00:14Minab and one on a sports stadium in Lomert. Washington denies this but has offered no
00:21evidence. Most American analysts that oppose the war, way more Secretary Pete Hexeth or President
00:28Donald Trump. They believe removing them would prevent future massacres but US history is full
00:36of war crimes abroad. My Lai is one older example. In March of 1968 US troops in South Vietnam killed
00:46more than 500 unarmed civilians, mostly women, children and the elderly in a hamlet. They also
00:53committed rapes and burned homes. When the story first broke, the military blamed individual
01:00soldiers. Eventually however, the chain of command and political leadership were implicated. Similar
01:08atrocities happened in American wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The common factor among all
01:14these wars is that US taxpayer money buys the ammunition and funds the forces committing
01:21the crimes. Yet most Americans, except for a number of activists, do not lose sleep over
01:27their government killing civilians. When it comes to Iran for instance, many Americans worry
01:33more about gas and diesel prices which have risen because of the war than about the children killed
01:39in Minob. That disconnect has led to a growing debate over what responsibility Americans have for crimes
01:47committed in their name since they elect their government.
