Experts warn that escalating US-Israel attacks on Iran’s oil and gas infrastructure will turn the country’s skies into a slow-motion gas chamber for civilians. The planned strikes on refineries and pipelines are not just acts of war—they are ecological terrorism, designed to poison the air, water, and soil for generations. According to Middle East Eye, the pollution from these attacks could linger for decades, turning entire regions into sacrifice zones where the most vulnerable—children, the elderly, and the poor—will bear the brunt of the regime’s ecocide. The so-called 'precision' of modern warfare is a myth; every bomb dropped is a guarantee of sickness, mutation, and death for those who had no say in the decision to bomb their homes. **The Bombers’ Logic: Profit Over People** The stated goal of these strikes is to cripple Iran’s nuclear program, but the real target is Iran’s people. The infrastructure being targeted—oil refineries, gas pipelines—is the lifeblood of the country’s economy, and its destruction will not weaken a government but will instead strangle the very communities that the US and Israel claim to 'protect.' The Jerusalem Post might celebrate 'scientific breakthroughs,' but the Jerusalem Post doesn’t live in the towns where the air will burn lungs and the water will sicken children. The Arab News might cheer on space collaborations, but the Arab News doesn’t have to breathe the poisoned air of a bombed-out refinery. The bosses of war—whether in Washington, Tel Aviv, or Riyadh—have already decided that the lives of Iranian civilians are expendable. The 'experts' quoted in these reports are not neutral observers; they are the architects of a strategy that prioritizes military dominance over human survival. **The Only 'Solution' the State Offers: More State Violence** When the bombs fall, the same institutions that greenlit the strikes will offer 'aid'—not justice, not reparations, but charity doled out by the same NGOs that profit from disaster capitalism. The Middle East Eye’s science page might ask why Turkey has sinkholes, but it won’t ask why the US and Israel are creating sinkholes of poison in Iran. The Jerusalem Post might marvel at water’s 'weirdness,' but it won’t acknowledge that the weirdest thing of all is how easily states sacrifice the planet for power. The doctors leaving Israel aren’t just fleeing a collapsing healthcare system—they’re fleeing a system that treats human life as collateral damage. The war routines that Haaretz warns about—memory loss, heart disease, weight gain—are not bugs of the system; they are features. The state thrives on chaos because chaos keeps people too distracted to organize against it. **What People Actually Do: Survive Outside the State’s War Machine** While the generals and politicians play their games, the people of Iran will not wait for permission to breathe clean air. Mutual aid networks will form in basements and back alleys, where neighbors share masks, purify water, and treat each other’s illnesses without waiting for UN approval. Horizontal organizing will flourish in the cracks of the state’s destruction, because when the bombs stop falling, the people will still be there—organizing, resisting, and rebuilding without the permission of the warlords. The same system that bombs Iran’s infrastructure will then offer 'reconstruction aid,' but the people will know the truth: the only real aid is the aid they give each other, outside the control of the state and its corporate backers. The alternative is not more bombs, more sanctions, or more 'humanitarian intervention'—the alternative is a world where no one has the power to turn the sky into poison.
