🚨It's raining toxic oil in Tehran, Iran this morning after the United States and Israel blew up massive oil refineries and depots
After lying for months about wanting to liberate the people of Iran, the United States and Israel now admit their only goal is mass destruction.
(Please stop everything and first watch this video from a brave reporter from CNN, Frederik Pleitgen, OK?)
For months, Donald Trump and his administration have been lying about how much they want to liberate the people of Iran and free them from their government. Trump literally admitted yesterday that he never meant that. Now they are slaughtering entire schools full of children and destroying the civilian infrastructure.
And it’s literally raining oil.
And I’m not speaking in metaphors. I mean that literally.
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Iran’s Red Crescent Society warned rainfall in Tehran—home to about 10 million people—could be “highly dangerous and acidic.”
Let me be blunt: when you bomb fuel storage in a city of 10 million, you are not “targeting a regime.” You are targeting the people’s lungs, their water, their survival.
This is what it looks like when modern war stops pretending it has limits.
It’s raining oil in Tehran — and we’re expected to read that like a headline, not a scandal
If you’re not furious yet, I don’t know what to tell you.
Because the phrase “raining oil” should not exist in the vocabulary of the modern world. It should be a dystopian sentence from a novel, not a description of a real city full of real families trying to live.
This isn’t “precision.” This is collective punishment with a clean PR wrapper
Last night Israel and the United States targeted and bombed three fuel depots and an oil refinery in Tehran and another in Karaj there in Iran. The facilities were near residential neighborhoods.
I want you to understand what “civilian infrastructure” means in plain language:
It means the systems ordinary people need to survive—fuel, power, water, hospitals, and transport. When you target these, you are not “surgically removing military capability.” You are manufacturing civilian suffering on purpose, at scale.
And this is where my disgust turns into something sharper: the lie.
They told the world this was about liberation. But you do not liberate people by making their air toxic. You do not free mothers by flooding their city with smoke. You do not save children by turning rainfall into a hazard.
This is the oldest imperial tactic on earth: punish the population until they break, then call it strategy.
Acid rain isn’t a metaphor. It’s chemistry — and it lands on human skin
When large quantities of fuel burn and toxins fill the air, rain can carry that poison back down—onto people’s skin, into their lungs, into water sources. That’s why the Red Crescent issued guidelines for residents in case they were exposed.
So understand what we’re normalizing:
A major world capital is engulfed in smoke.
The air is dangerous.
The rain may be dangerous.
Families are being told: stay indoors.
If this were happening to London or Paris, it would be treated as a civilization-level emergency. It would be the only story. It would be covered like a moral rupture.
But it’s Tehran. And the world has been trained to see Iranians—especially Muslim Iranians—as less human, less grievable, less worthy of outrage. That training is not accidental. It’s propaganda. And it works.
When the world accepts targeting that makes a city’s air toxic and warns families about acid rain, it is announcing something terrifying:
There is no enforceable limit anymore.
And when there is no enforceable limit, every powerful country learns the same lesson: do what you want, then control the story.
The guardrails are gone. And the people who will pay first are always the same: children, the elderly, the poor, the sick, pregnant mothers, families who can’t flee, and people with nowhere to go.
This isn’t “liberation.”
This is destruction.
And I refuse to let it be narrated as anything less.
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Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun
I'm furious!
It's appalling the asshats who voted for this imbecile don't even understand their own demise and continue cheering. 🤬