Iran Says It Hit Oracle Facilities in UAE(gizmodo.com) |
Iran Says It Hit Oracle Facilities in UAE(gizmodo.com) |
The Dubai government denies this strike happened https://gulfnews.com/uae/dubai-denies-reports-of-an-irgc-att...
And the Oracle live status report webpage says everything is online, and there are no active incidents in Dubai. The history page reports no incidents in Dubai since the start of the conflict.
https://ocistatus.oraclecloud.com/#/
As an example of fake claims, Iran claimed to have struck the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln with hypersonic missiles three times already. But the ship is still sailing and launching sorties. They then post AI generated pictures and videos as 'evidence' that the strikes were successful.
In the UAE it's illegal to talk about the strikes, or post videos of them online. $55,000+ fine and 2+ years in prison. Over 100 people have already been arrested.
When the two different governments said contradictory things, in other situations a journalist would arrange for a local correspondent to head over to the Oracle building and see if it's visibly damaged, maybe get some photos.
In any case, in turns out I was mistaken: apparently in UAE the wave of arrests are not framed as operational security, but a wider ban on information that could "spread misinformation", "cause panic", "affect national security", or "damage reputation". So it's a wider legal framework with more complicated implications - less of a no-brainer than I initially thought!
Maybe we can check something hosted in Oracle Cloud as the tiebreaker?
Then Iran then claims the attack was successful for domestic propaganda purposes, and since there is no internet in Iran, nobody can verify if it was actually successful.
I guess we'll see what the consequences are to warcrimes. Massive worldwide demonstrations in favor of the people committing warcrimes, like usually?
It's not as if the US and Israel are restraining themselves from committing war crimes. Certainly the UN isn't going to step in and do anything.
This war started with the US committing a war crime (blowing up a girl's school).
Apparently the hotels that were struck in Dubai etc were attacked because US military personnel were working remotely there due to US bases being damaged.
If Oracle's providing services to your enemy's army aren't they a "legitimate" target just like a tank factory?
We all know why: 99.99% of warcrimes on Iranian territory were committed by Iran's islamist regime.
So Rome statute warcrimes are a legal impossibility in Iran. The Rome statute, that law and that definition of warcrime does not apply to anything happening in Iran.