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A little excursion, we had to take this little, a couple of weeks, a few weeks, excursion, but it's been incredible.

Our military is unbelievable, the job there doing.

As President Trump calls the war on Iran a little excursion, Iran is escalating its attacks on ships in the Gulf up

ending global markets as the price of oil soars. Meanwhile, a preliminary Pentagon report

confirms the U.S. was responsible for the strike on an Iranian girls girls school that killed 168 children and 14 teachers

in southern Iran.

We'll speak to Johns Hopkins University professor Nargis Bajoglund.

And we remember the life of the Iraqi feminist Yonar Muhammad, recently assassinated in Baghdad.

The story that does not reach to this part of the world is how the women are treated in the post-war Iraq.

What happened to us, how our, let's say, destinies were totally devastated by this war.

We'll speak to Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Calamard about Yonar Muhammad, the U.S.

war on Iran, and a major UN meeting taking place this week to promote gender equality.

All that and more coming out.

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The War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. The United States and Israel are continuing large-scale bombings across Iran, where officials say nearly 1,350 civilians have been killed in 12 days of attacks. Among the dead are at least 40 people, most of them civilian,

killed in their homes when an airstrike ripped through a residential neighborhood in eastern

Tehran. Survivors said three residential buildings were bombed simultaneously while a missile

struck a nearby police station. Iran's health ministry reports

over a dozen hospitals and clinics across Iran have suffered damage, including the Gandhi

hospital in Tehran. Meanwhile, U.S. and Israeli strikes have damaged some centuries-old locations

designated by the United Nations as world heritage sites,

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