Whose Airstrike Bombed a Girls’ School in Iran? The U.S. Says It’s Still Investigating.

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Anonymous wrote:The US needs to own this and express remorse and contrition for its awful mistake. If we don’t, if we lie or obfuscate, then we’re little better than the regimes that we criticize for treating their people with contempt. We’re better than that, aren’t we?

If that happens it will be the first time that this administration apologizes for anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Iran doesn’t even need to kill 180 American schoolchildren as revenge, Americans will do it themselves.

Iran callously slaughtered hundreds of its own kids in the protests a few weeks ago. That deeply undermines their credibility and moral authority.

Exactly. It just boggles the mind that these posters seem to have no recollection of that. More likely, they have selective memory. Utter hypocrites.

The ones attacking the US with nothing to say about Iran's many evil acts are willfully dishonest, unserious posters. We should just flag them as trolls and move on.

The US strengthens the hardliners in Iran with these bombings. They aren't helping the protestors by destroying hospitals and slaughtering children.

Slaughtering kids is pretty bad but somehow I doubt the protesters will have all that much sympathy knowing the kids at Minab were the kids of IRGC officers who without a second thought ordered Basij thugs to slaughter the protesters and their kids in the streets, ordered hospitals to refuse them medical care, arrested shot kids arriving at hospitals and then beat them to death, and then held their bodies for ransom. That all happened.

You're justifying the slaughter of children, just FYI. This is an attempt to excuse what we did, and it's wrong. They can be wrong and we can be wrong. Kids are out of bounds.

You’re either blindly wrapped in your own arguments or are willfully and deliberately distorting what others are saying. Describing why protesters might lack sympathy for IRGC‑connected families is not at all the same thing as justifying killing children. It’s an explanation of political and emotional context, not a moral endorsement of the strike. There is a clear difference between saying "people affected by years of state brutality may not feel compassion for regime elites" and saying "it was right to kill kids." The former is analysis. The latter is something no one here said.

Pointing out that the IRGC and Basij have committed atrocities against children does not mean anyone is arguing that children are legitimate targets. It means the regime’s own actions have created a climate of rage and trauma that shapes how protesters react. That is not justification. That is cause‑and‑effect. If you want to argue the strike was wrong, that’s a valid moral position. But accusing someone of defending the killing of children when they clearly did not is grossly inaccurate and shuts down any serious discussion.

We've seen you do this repeatedly throughout this thread. You are not debating in good faith.

I love how you throw around Basij like you had ever heard that word in your entire life before two weeks ago, though.

The regurgitation of propaganda is just on another level right now.

Your insulting of other posters' knowledge is on another level. You make unhinged rants, yet when others respond with well reasoned and fact based analysis you ignore the actual substance and attack with insults. We've heard of the Basij many times - Iran/Iraq war, where the regime used them for mine clearing and meat waves vs Iraq, decades of violent "moral policing," the brutal crackdown on the 1999 student protests, and again in 2009 for the Green Movement, where we saw videos of Basij gunmen on motorcycles firing at protesters. Do you think we're stupid? Uneducated? Unread? Seems you're the grossly underinformed one here. And the fact that the Basij have been the violent and brutal shock troops of this vicious regime for decades makes it all the more imperative that it end now.

Oh, here we go again with the “there’s only one poster critical of xyz” nonsense.

Are you the same person in every thread who insists that there’s just one critic of U.S.. foreign policy posting over and over again?

Are you the same person in every thread who keeps insisting that the US intentionally targeted the school with a "double tap" in order to deliberately murder children over and over again?

No, I’ve not once used the term “double tap” in this or any other thread.

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Video appears to show it was an American missile

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/iran-school-strike-us-tomahawk-missile-minab-video-munitions-experts-rcna262391

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If only the US had decided to skip this target because the school was too close. It’s not like this was an important target in a targeted rich environment.

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Targeting a school is pretty sick. This is what you get when you have no rule of engagement.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup looks like we the Americans killed a school of little girls.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-investigation-points-likely-us-responsibility-iran-school-strike-sources-say-2026-03-06/

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali

No it was the Iranians. Trump said the Iranians inaccurate weapons double tapped the school.

Do you have a more legitimate source than Reuters for this? Trump lies daily.

The Iranians play chess we play GTA.

That may be your opinion, but Reuters is quoting Pentagon sources who say that the US is responsible for bombing these little girls to death.

Funny that you didn't post your source. This is what they're actually saying:

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent ​strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation, ‌two U.S. officials told Reuters.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military matters, did not rule ​out the possibility that new evidence could emerge that absolves the U.S. of responsibility and point to another responsible party in the incident.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-investigation-points-likely-us-responsibility-iran-school-strike-sources-say-2026-03-06/

Additionally, if it turns out the U.S. was responsible (and the jury's still out on that, as you can see), that doesn't mean it was intentional. The school is right next to the naval base, which *was* the target.

Who said the US intentionally killed the little girls? I am not happy with what my country is doing in Iran, but I don't think we've descended to the level of sociopaths. I do however think there's an increased level of incomptence at the Pentagon such that they would mistake a school for a naval base and kill so many children.

It doesn't matter whether it was intentional or not. What matters is that there will be no accountability for it, and that makes the question of intent irrelevant.

What accountability is Iran offering up for the murder of tens of thousands of its own people? They just appointed a senior leadership figure to the group that did all that killing to be their Supreme Leader. And here you are, completely whitewashing what happened, refusing to acknowledge it and are only demanding accountability from the US. It's dishonest of you and you know it. If the US needs to take accountability (and I'd be more than happy to see Hegseth impeached and removed) then so too does the Supreme Leader on down. Can you say the same about Mojtaba Khameini and the IRGC and Basij leadership? And can you not deflect with dishonest BS about "that's what they want you to believe?"

So what I'm reading you say is that it is okay to kill elementary school girl students if they happen to live in a regime governed by a Supreme Leader. If they were daughters of the regime that had accountability, then you would have objected to their death with full vigor. But in the absence of that, you will not, because the fact that these girl children are daughters of a regime run by Mojtaba Khameini makes them an acceptable, unregrettable target.

That is very good to know, to have this clarity of thought.

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By killing schoolchildren en masse, we are giving Iranians the freedom and liberty that Americans have enjoyed in Sandyhook, Columbine, Parkland, and Uvalde.

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Anonymous wrote:Targeting a school is pretty sick. This is what you get when you have no rule of engagement.

And if you must target a school (don't ask me why) then do so in the middle of the night when there are no children there.

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We have seen this time and time again in Gaza. Why is everybody so surprised?

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Our tax dollars at work, my fellow Americans, to kill 150 little girls in Iran. I didn't vote for these senseless killings

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/world/middleeast/iran-minab-school-strike.html
U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows
The evidence contradicts President Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children.

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Anonymous wrote:Our tax dollars at work, my fellow Americans, to kill 150 little girls in Iran. I didn't vote for these senseless killings

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/world/middleeast/iran-minab-school-strike.html
U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows
The evidence contradicts President Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children.

I guess the children of military officers are legal targets with no rules of engagement. Unless it happens to the US?

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Anonymous wrote:We have seen this time and time again in Gaza. Why is everybody so surprised?

I know. Number one cause of death for people under age 10 in 2025 is ….. US backed Zio regime aka Israel. Yikes.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup looks like we the Americans killed a school of little girls.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-investigation-points-likely-us-responsibility-iran-school-strike-sources-say-2026-03-06/

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali

No it was the Iranians. Trump said the Iranians inaccurate weapons double tapped the school.

Do you have a more legitimate source than Reuters for this? Trump lies daily.

The Iranians play chess we play GTA.

That may be your opinion, but Reuters is quoting Pentagon sources who say that the US is responsible for bombing these little girls to death.

Funny that you didn't post your source. This is what they're actually saying:

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent ​strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation, ‌two U.S. officials told Reuters.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military matters, did not rule ​out the possibility that new evidence could emerge that absolves the U.S. of responsibility and point to another responsible party in the incident.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-investigation-points-likely-us-responsibility-iran-school-strike-sources-say-2026-03-06/

Additionally, if it turns out the U.S. was responsible (and the jury's still out on that, as you can see), that doesn't mean it was intentional. The school is right next to the naval base, which *was* the target.

Who said the US intentionally killed the little girls? I am not happy with what my country is doing in Iran, but I don't think we've descended to the level of sociopaths. I do however think there's an increased level of incomptence at the Pentagon such that they would mistake a school for a naval base and kill so many children.

It doesn't matter whether it was intentional or not. What matters is that there will be no accountability for it, and that makes the question of intent irrelevant.

What accountability is Iran offering up for the murder of tens of thousands of its own people? They just appointed a senior leadership figure to the group that did all that killing to be their Supreme Leader. And here you are, completely whitewashing what happened, refusing to acknowledge it and are only demanding accountability from the US. It's dishonest of you and you know it. If the US needs to take accountability (and I'd be more than happy to see Hegseth impeached and removed) then so too does the Supreme Leader on down. Can you say the same about Mojtaba Khameini and the IRGC and Basij leadership? And can you not deflect with dishonest BS about "that's what they want you to believe?"

So what I'm reading you say is that it is okay to kill elementary school girl students if they happen to live in a regime governed by a Supreme Leader. If they were daughters of the regime that had accountability, then you would have objected to their death with full vigor. But in the absence of that, you will not, because the fact that these girl children are daughters of a regime run by Mojtaba Khameini makes them an acceptable, unregrettable target.

That is very good to know, to have this clarity of thought.

"Clarity of thought" - that's ludicrous, coming from you. You’re being willfully dishonest, are grossly misrepresenting what everyone else is saying and are NOT AT ALL arguing in good faith.

No one here said it was "okay" to kill kids, and you know that. NOBODY said that. That's a straight up lie on your part. What kind of "clear thought" allows outright lies?

What was actually said was that Iran’s leadership has spent years murdering its own people with total impunity, and that any conversation about accountability has to include their actions too. You’ve twisted that into a claim that children are legitimate targets, which is something nobody here ever said, never implied, and certainly not something I would ever defend. So you need to apologize for that - which is ironic considering you are going around demanding apologies from everyone else. You can apologize for your lies and bad faith distortions.

Your argument only works if you erase the actual words and replace them with a cartoon villain version of what you wish we’d said. That’s not debate. That’s fabrication.

Here’s the reality you’re dodging:

Iran’s regime has killed tens of thousands of its own citizens.

The Basij and IRGC have beaten, shot, tortured, and disappeared protesters, including minors.

The new Supreme Leader was chosen from the same apparatus that ordered and carried out those killings.

Pointing out that history is not "whitewashing" anything it’s acknowledging the FULL moral landscape at play. You’re the one selectively applying outrage by pretending only one side has transgressions and moral obligations.

If you want to argue the strike was wrong, fine. That’s a legitimate moral position and guess what - the rest of us agree that striking a school is wrong. That's not even the point here.

Your continual dishonest accusing others of endorsing the killing of children is a dishonest smear designed to shut down discussion instead of engaging with what was actually said.

You don’t get to win an argument by inventing a position for the rest of us and then attacking your own strawman. If you want to continue this conversation, start by responding to the arguments actually being made by posters, not your own dishonest fabrications. But if you want to refuse to acknowledge your dishonest tactics and to stick with your fabrications then you need to absolutely own the fact that you are a dishonest troll who does not deserve any honest engagement.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup looks like we the Americans killed a school of little girls.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-investigation-points-likely-us-responsibility-iran-school-strike-sources-say-2026-03-06/

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali

No it was the Iranians. Trump said the Iranians inaccurate weapons double tapped the school.

Do you have a more legitimate source than Reuters for this? Trump lies daily.

The Iranians play chess we play GTA.

That may be your opinion, but Reuters is quoting Pentagon sources who say that the US is responsible for bombing these little girls to death.

Funny that you didn't post your source. This is what they're actually saying:

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent ​strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation, ‌two U.S. officials told Reuters.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military matters, did not rule ​out the possibility that new evidence could emerge that absolves the U.S. of responsibility and point to another responsible party in the incident.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-investigation-points-likely-us-responsibility-iran-school-strike-sources-say-2026-03-06/

Additionally, if it turns out the U.S. was responsible (and the jury's still out on that, as you can see), that doesn't mean it was intentional. The school is right next to the naval base, which *was* the target.

Who said the US intentionally killed the little girls? I am not happy with what my country is doing in Iran, but I don't think we've descended to the level of sociopaths. I do however think there's an increased level of incomptence at the Pentagon such that they would mistake a school for a naval base and kill so many children.

It doesn't matter whether it was intentional or not. What matters is that there will be no accountability for it, and that makes the question of intent irrelevant.

What accountability is Iran offering up for the murder of tens of thousands of its own people? They just appointed a senior leadership figure to the group that did all that killing to be their Supreme Leader. And here you are, completely whitewashing what happened, refusing to acknowledge it and are only demanding accountability from the US. It's dishonest of you and you know it. If the US needs to take accountability (and I'd be more than happy to see Hegseth impeached and removed) then so too does the Supreme Leader on down. Can you say the same about Mojtaba Khameini and the IRGC and Basij leadership? And can you not deflect with dishonest BS about "that's what they want you to believe?"

So what I'm reading you say is that it is okay to kill elementary school girl students if they happen to live in a regime governed by a Supreme Leader. If they were daughters of the regime that had accountability, then you would have objected to their death with full vigor. But in the absence of that, you will not, because the fact that these girl children are daughters of a regime run by Mojtaba Khameini makes them an acceptable, unregrettable target.

That is very good to know, to have this clarity of thought.

"Clarity of thought" - that's ludicrous, coming from you. You’re being willfully dishonest, are grossly misrepresenting what everyone else is saying and are NOT AT ALL arguing in good faith.

No one here said it was "okay" to kill kids, and you know that. NOBODY said that. That's a straight up lie on your part. What kind of "clear thought" allows outright lies?

What was actually said was that Iran’s leadership has spent years murdering its own people with total impunity, and that any conversation about accountability has to include their actions too. You’ve twisted that into a claim that children are legitimate targets, which is something nobody here ever said, never implied, and certainly not something I would ever defend. So you need to apologize for that - which is ironic considering you are going around demanding apologies from everyone else. You can apologize for your lies and bad faith distortions.

Your argument only works if you erase the actual words and replace them with a cartoon villain version of what you wish we’d said. That’s not debate. That’s fabrication.

Here’s the reality you’re dodging:

Iran’s regime has killed tens of thousands of its own citizens.

The Basij and IRGC have beaten, shot, tortured, and disappeared protesters, including minors.

The new Supreme Leader was chosen from the same apparatus that ordered and carried out those killings.

Pointing out that history is not "whitewashing" anything it’s acknowledging the FULL moral landscape at play. You’re the one selectively applying outrage by pretending only one side has transgressions and moral obligations.

If you want to argue the strike was wrong, fine. That’s a legitimate moral position and guess what - the rest of us agree that striking a school is wrong. That's not even the point here.

Your continual dishonest accusing others of endorsing the killing of children is a dishonest smear designed to shut down discussion instead of engaging with what was actually said.

You don’t get to win an argument by inventing a position for the rest of us and then attacking your own strawman. If you want to continue this conversation, start by responding to the arguments actually being made by posters, not your own dishonest fabrications. But if you want to refuse to acknowledge your dishonest tactics and to stick with your fabrications then you need to absolutely own the fact that you are a dishonest troll who does not deserve any honest engagement.

I love how you think you’re entitled to impose rules regarding when it’s acceptable to pursue accountability.

Who TF are you?

And where have I seen such entitlement before?

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Anonymous wrote:Kudos to that journalist who called Trump out as being the only person who thought that Iran could have gotten their hands on a tomahawk and fired it at their own school.

Iran doesn't have Tomahawks. But they do have a number of KH-55 variants like the Soumar that looks even more like the missile in the video than a Tomahawk.

Too bad they found the American parts of the Tomahawks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/world/middleeast/iran-school-strike-us-missile.html

Oh, Iranian state media says so? That's who NYT cites, that's the only source. As though Iranian state media has any credibility...
I have no doubt they have Tomahawk parts pulled from other military targets.

I'd rather trust Iran then any Hasbara zionganda coming out of Israel.

DP. Yes, we know. And the fact that you actually admit that shows what an utter lunatic you are.