All Modern Warfare Is Chemical Warfare

"On the night of Saturday, March 6, Israeli forces struck three sets of oil depots ringing Tehran - west, east, and south - simultaneously. The explosions were massive. Nearby residential areas were destroyed. Millions of liters of gasoline, diesel, and petroleum derivatives ignited, sending columns of black smoke thousands of feet into the air."

"Hamid's father is a survivor of chemical warfare from the Iran-Iraq War, one of the hundred thousand Iranians who breathed what Saddam Hussein's forces put into the air in the 1980s. For five years, Iraq dropped hundreds of metric tons of chemical weapons on Iran with the full material and intelligence support of Western Europe and the United States."

"It's like the sky itself is sick. And my father can hardly breathe. Hamid's father is always connected to oxygen now, his lungs too weak to sustain breathing. The last time I saw him, he was recovering from his 20th eye surgery, trying in vain to stop the blinding caused by his exposure to mustard gas three decades prior."

Israeli forces simultaneously struck three oil depot complexes surrounding Tehran on March 6, causing massive explosions that ignited millions of liters of fuel and released enormous quantities of black smoke and toxic particulates into the atmosphere. The smoke-laden rain that followed deposited a greasy, toxic film across the city. This environmental disaster posed severe health risks, particularly for vulnerable populations such as Hamid's father, a survivor of chemical weapons exposure from the Iran-Iraq War who depends on oxygen support due to severely compromised lungs. The incident exemplifies how military actions create prolonged health consequences for populations already suffering from previous chemical warfare exposure.

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