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

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Anonymous wrote:Just ur routine reminder: every accusation is basically a confession.

Israeli shows Israeli school being used as military base: "The reserves are using it pretty much as a base."

https://x.com/abierkhatib/status/2031575054366933401

Iran does it and you are apparently totally fine with anything Iran does so why the outrage if anyone else does it?

Also, Russia bombed hundreds of schools all throughout Ukraine and the world stood by silently and did nothing. I seriously doubt the outraged "They bombed an Iranian school" poster posted anything at all about that in any of the threads here.

I have yet to find a single major social media pundit leading the outrage commentary about Minab who also condemned the Russian bombing of schools in Ukraine for the last 5 years. Why is that?

Because you're lying and trying to deflect. Almost everyone, except for our dear leader, has condemned Russia's attacks on civilians in Ukraine.

When did the pro-Palestine people do this? When did the pro-Iran posters here do that? And I don't recall threads going on for 10 days straight over every Ukrainian school like the drumbeat here over Minab.

I can't tell you what the phantoms in your head say or explain your inability to remember events from just a few years ago. There has been widespread coverage and condemnation of Russia's attacks on schools, hospitals, and apartment buildings.

General condemnation and by other accounts, yes. But not specific condemnation by the same accounts that are currently the loudest to condemn the Minab attack.

You've created your own strawman. Get off of twitter, it's warping your mind.

It's no strawman of my own creation. I've done the searches. The top accounts doing the loudest moralistic tweeting about the Minab bombing were silent when schools in Ukraine were being bombed. That's nothing of my own doing. I'm merely exposing online hypocrisy, lopsided astroturfing and trolling. And I'm pretty sure it's happening here on DCUM as well.

Congratulations, you just discovered that twitter is a cesspool of manipulation and in no way representative of reality. The rest of us have know that for years.

People are upset because of what happened not because some random account on twitter says to be upset. It happened, it was unnecessary, it was not faulty navigation, and it was a war crime. Not as bad a war crime as what Russia, Israel, or Iran have done but a war crime nonetheless. We're supposed to be the white hats. Those other three countries wear their black hats with pride.

The more interesting question, is why did it happen? I do not think we deliberately blew up a school, even though we did deliberately blow up a building that was a school. Did AI create the target package? Did Israel give us the target packages? I don't know but we do need to find out why so it doesn't happen again.

Pretending that it didn't happen, or that it wasn't us, because twitter bots are amplifying the story is counter productive.

I think it was intentional. Pete Hegseth has said no rules of engagement. He has a history from his time in Iraq.

In Iraq in 2006 four members of his company were court-martialed for killing unarmed detainees and by his own recent admissions that he instructed his platoon to ignore legal advice regarding the rules of engagement. Sounds like he ordered the killing of detainees and civilians in Iraq. I do not know what purpose killing detainees or civilians serve other than to make them fight harder and not surrender.

He ordered the blowing up of civilian boats and the killing of shipwreck survivors.

This fits his pattern of operations. There will be more as long as he and his people are in DOD. I am sure they have committed other crimes in Iran we will hear about eventually. I am sure the Iranians will not surrender because it means sure death.

NP. I can’t imagine why someone would purposely target a school, even with changes to the rules of engagement. But I just read an interesting article with a lot of background on how decisions to gut the military programs tasked with preventing harms to civilians could contribute to mistakes of this kind.

https://www.salon.com/2026/03/11/the-us-had-a-blueprint-to-avoid-civilian-war-casualties-trump-officials-scrapped-it-partner/

The article is long and a little disorganized. As someone who doesn’t usually pay attention to military/war news, I read the whole thing and appreciated all the background, but for a tl;dr the parts that seem most relevant here are the beginning about how they fired 90% of the staff responsible for preventing civilian casualties and the very end where they mention the normal procedures for mapping military vs civilian movement patterns in an area in the days or weeks before a bombing.

Agree that Trump and Hegseth have made a lot of drastic changes for the worse which is likely impacting US military conduct and use of the US military in force projection.

But by the same token there are clearly posters here who want to instead just broadly bash the US and label us all evil even when many of us did not vote for this and do not support it. It's a deep, dishonest pattern that repeats all across social media right now.

I'm not sure how you really get to that conclusion. Nobody is saying that Iranian citizens are evil just because they're living under an evil government. Same with Russian citizens and their evil government. And same with US citizens and our evil administration.

Unfortunately the same cannot be said for Israeli society where the majority of the population had supported genocide/ethnic cleansing of Gaza in addition to preemptive war with Iran. That is one society that is truly evil.

Yeah, I left them out. They don't seem to follow the same pattern as others.

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Anonymous wrote:No outcry over Iran blowing up Arab villages in Israel?

Only Iranian lives matter?

Some of the posters here should be starting to feel pretty foolish for constantly whitewashing, downplaying, gaslighting and deflecting what Iran does to only focus on the US.

Our first point of order should be holding ourselves accountable for our own behaviors. I know that this is entirely foreign as a concept to MAGA (that is conduct oneself with integrity and responsibility), but the rest of us will focus on how we can be better people before pointing fingers at others to rationalize our misdeeds.

It seems to be a concept alien to most of the world - Iran, Israel, Russia, etc.

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182 dead (mostly children, all innocent non-combatants as far as we know) and there’s at least one poster in here who is not only refusing to just say “It looks like we F’d up, that’s horrendously tragic, and we need to hold ourselves to a higher standard when we’re attacking other countries and expecting the world to view our conduct above that of a rogue regime”, but REPEATEDLY engaging in Whataboutism and intentionally misrepresenting what others have said and done throughout the thread.

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Anonymous wrote:182 dead (mostly children, all innocent non-combatants as far as we know) and there’s at least one poster in here who is not only refusing to just say “It looks like we F’d up, that’s horrendously tragic, and we need to hold ourselves to a higher standard when we’re attacking other countries and expecting the world to view our conduct above that of a rogue regime”, but REPEATEDLY engaging in Whataboutism and intentionally misrepresenting what others have said and done throughout the thread.

20-30 thousand innocent non-combatants were hunted for sport and shot in the streets of Iran by Basij and IRGC and there's at least one poster here who repeatedly keeps trying to minimize and deflect from these kinds of far greater tragedies inflicted on the Iranian people, while shrieking that talking about it is dishonest and whataboutism, who keeps persistently calling us names, accusing us of being "Zionists" and otherwise trying silence and control the conversation, attacking anyone who doesn't side with their "intentionality" framing around the Minab school bombing. Nobody here has denied the bombing happened, nobody here celebrated it, nobody here has said it wasn't a tragedy; if anything they've questioned the narrative (probably from this same poster) insisting that kids were targeted knowingly and intentionally and that "we" are "killing civilians for sport" despite the lack of any concrete evidence for that to date.

We also are apparently not going to be shushed and scolded and yelled at if we talk about the hundreds of innocent non-combatant civilians killed in Israel, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia etc by Iran's barrages of ballistic missiles and waves of drones, we aren't allowed to suggest that Iran f'ed up and what they are doing is horrific. And only some of us are supposed to own up to mistakes made by leadership we didn't even vote for, while the poster himself expects to be given a pass and refuses to own up for repeatedly making false and outrageous comments like suggesting we think it's "ok to kill kids" and many other things, which are absolutely not misrepresentations.

That pretty much sums up the last bunch of pages here...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No outcry over Iran blowing up Arab villages in Israel?

Only Iranian lives matter?

Some of the posters here should be starting to feel pretty foolish for constantly whitewashing, downplaying, gaslighting and deflecting what Iran does to only focus on the US.

Our first point of order should be holding ourselves accountable for our own behaviors. I know that this is entirely foreign as a concept to MAGA (that is conduct oneself with integrity and responsibility), but the rest of us will focus on how we can be better people before pointing fingers at others to rationalize our misdeeds.

It seems to be a concept alien to most of the world - Iran, Israel, Russia, etc.

Not sure. But follow the money. it was our tax money that was used to kill those kids and we should do something about it. Obviously the children are gone but we paid for it and we should pay to try to make amends as much as possible.

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U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/politics/iran-school-missile-strike.html
Outdated targeting data may have resulted in a mistaken missile strike, according to the ongoing military investigation, which undercuts President Trump’s assertion that Iran could be to blame.

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Anonymous wrote:182 dead (mostly children, all innocent non-combatants as far as we know) and there’s at least one poster in here who is not only refusing to just say “It looks like we F’d up, that’s horrendously tragic, and we need to hold ourselves to a higher standard when we’re attacking other countries and expecting the world to view our conduct above that of a rogue regime”, but REPEATEDLY engaging in Whataboutism and intentionally misrepresenting what others have said and done throughout the thread.

20-30 thousand innocent non-combatants were hunted for sport and shot in the streets of Iran by Basij and IRGC and there's at least one poster here who repeatedly keeps trying to minimize and deflect from these kinds of far greater tragedies inflicted on the Iranian people, while shrieking that talking about it is dishonest and whataboutism, who keeps persistently calling us names, accusing us of being "Zionists" and otherwise trying silence and control the conversation, attacking anyone who doesn't side with their "intentionality" framing around the Minab school bombing. Nobody here has denied the bombing happened, nobody here celebrated it, nobody here has said it wasn't a tragedy; if anything they've questioned the narrative (probably from this same poster) insisting that kids were targeted knowingly and intentionally and that "we" are "killing civilians for sport" despite the lack of any concrete evidence for that to date.

We also are apparently not going to be shushed and scolded and yelled at if we talk about the hundreds of innocent non-combatant civilians killed in Israel, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia etc by Iran's barrages of ballistic missiles and waves of drones, we aren't allowed to suggest that Iran f'ed up and what they are doing is horrific. And only some of us are supposed to own up to mistakes made by leadership we didn't even vote for, while the poster himself expects to be given a pass and refuses to own up for repeatedly making false and outrageous comments like suggesting we think it's "ok to kill kids" and many other things, which are absolutely not misrepresentations.

That pretty much sums up the last bunch of pages here...

you're a sociopath--there is nothing in the world that justifies killing innocent schoolchildren.

Nobody here is a sociopath, but you're a liar and are perhaps mentally unwell.

Here's the fact: NOBODY HERE SAID KILLING KIDS WAS JUSTIFIED.

Yet you've just now lied and made that accusation yet again. Yet again.

Please, just leave, and don't come back if you're just going to constantly lie and make false accusations. You've already been called out for it repeatedly, by multiple posters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No outcry over Iran blowing up Arab villages in Israel?

Only Iranian lives matter?

Some of the posters here should be starting to feel pretty foolish for constantly whitewashing, downplaying, gaslighting and deflecting what Iran does to only focus on the US.

Our first point of order should be holding ourselves accountable for our own behaviors. I know that this is entirely foreign as a concept to MAGA (that is conduct oneself with integrity and responsibility), but the rest of us will focus on how we can be better people before pointing fingers at others to rationalize our misdeeds.

It seems to be a concept alien to most of the world - Iran, Israel, Russia, etc.

Not sure. But follow the money. it was our tax money that was used to kill those kids and we should do something about it. Obviously the children are gone but we paid for it and we should pay to try to make amends as much as possible.

I am certainly not suggesting there is a price that can be put on a dead child. I'm not sure how else to take responsibility for such an evil misdeed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:182 dead (mostly children, all innocent non-combatants as far as we know) and there’s at least one poster in here who is not only refusing to just say “It looks like we F’d up, that’s horrendously tragic, and we need to hold ourselves to a higher standard when we’re attacking other countries and expecting the world to view our conduct above that of a rogue regime”, but REPEATEDLY engaging in Whataboutism and intentionally misrepresenting what others have said and done throughout the thread.

20-30 thousand innocent non-combatants were hunted for sport and shot in the streets of Iran by Basij and IRGC and there's at least one poster here who repeatedly keeps trying to minimize and deflect from these kinds of far greater tragedies inflicted on the Iranian people, while shrieking that talking about it is dishonest and whataboutism, who keeps persistently calling us names, accusing us of being "Zionists" and otherwise trying silence and control the conversation, attacking anyone who doesn't side with their "intentionality" framing around the Minab school bombing. Nobody here has denied the bombing happened, nobody here celebrated it, nobody here has said it wasn't a tragedy; if anything they've questioned the narrative (probably from this same poster) insisting that kids were targeted knowingly and intentionally and that "we" are "killing civilians for sport" despite the lack of any concrete evidence for that to date.

We also are apparently not going to be shushed and scolded and yelled at if we talk about the hundreds of innocent non-combatant civilians killed in Israel, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia etc by Iran's barrages of ballistic missiles and waves of drones, we aren't allowed to suggest that Iran f'ed up and what they are doing is horrific. And only some of us are supposed to own up to mistakes made by leadership we didn't even vote for, while the poster himself expects to be given a pass and refuses to own up for repeatedly making false and outrageous comments like suggesting we think it's "ok to kill kids" and many other things, which are absolutely not misrepresentations.

That pretty much sums up the last bunch of pages here...

you're a sociopath--there is nothing in the world that justifies killing innocent schoolchildren.

Nobody here is a sociopath, but you're a liar and are perhaps mentally unwell.

Here's the fact: NOBODY HERE SAID KILLING KIDS WAS JUSTIFIED.

Yet you've just now lied and made that accusation yet again. Yet again.

Please, just leave, and don't come back if you're just going to constantly lie and make false accusations. You've already been called out for it repeatedly, by multiple posters.

Who are you talking to? Your imaginary enemies? This is the first time I posted on this thread. You should seek medical treatment and let them know about your delusions where you believe you can identify who is posting on an anonymous message board with thousands of posters per day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:182 dead (mostly children, all innocent non-combatants as far as we know) and there’s at least one poster in here who is not only refusing to just say “It looks like we F’d up, that’s horrendously tragic, and we need to hold ourselves to a higher standard when we’re attacking other countries and expecting the world to view our conduct above that of a rogue regime”, but REPEATEDLY engaging in Whataboutism and intentionally misrepresenting what others have said and done throughout the thread.

20-30 thousand innocent non-combatants were hunted for sport and shot in the streets of Iran by Basij and IRGC and there's at least one poster here who repeatedly keeps trying to minimize and deflect from these kinds of far greater tragedies inflicted on the Iranian people, while shrieking that talking about it is dishonest and whataboutism, who keeps persistently calling us names, accusing us of being "Zionists" and otherwise trying silence and control the conversation, attacking anyone who doesn't side with their "intentionality" framing around the Minab school bombing. Nobody here has denied the bombing happened, nobody here celebrated it, nobody here has said it wasn't a tragedy; if anything they've questioned the narrative (probably from this same poster) insisting that kids were targeted knowingly and intentionally and that "we" are "killing civilians for sport" despite the lack of any concrete evidence for that to date.

We also are apparently not going to be shushed and scolded and yelled at if we talk about the hundreds of innocent non-combatant civilians killed in Israel, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia etc by Iran's barrages of ballistic missiles and waves of drones, we aren't allowed to suggest that Iran f'ed up and what they are doing is horrific. And only some of us are supposed to own up to mistakes made by leadership we didn't even vote for, while the poster himself expects to be given a pass and refuses to own up for repeatedly making false and outrageous comments like suggesting we think it's "ok to kill kids" and many other things, which are absolutely not misrepresentations.

That pretty much sums up the last bunch of pages here...

You realize that 100,000 Palestinians were killed, 200,000 more were injured, and millions were starved during an ongoing 2.5 year campaign of daily war crimes and crimes against humanity?

Iran is facing an existential threat. Trump has basically said that he plans on sending them back to the stone age (the simple pronouncement of which can be constituted as a war crime by the way).

Israel's genocidal campaign is inexcusable and America is protecting that decrepit place. You can't compare that with Iran's reaction to a psyops campaign by Mossad/CIA to foment domestic chaos followed by an asymmetrical defensive war against 20 nations and counting.

I'm not sure how you can call all the Arab countries that host American forces as innocent. Look at the map. They have been attacked from almost all of those countries.

So in your zionist worldview. "Preemptive self-defense" is okay when you drop bombs on schools, hospitals, airports, and downtowns. Literally a Pearl Harbor job. However, "reactive self-defense" in response to the aforementioned war crimes by a more formidable adversary is somehow bad.

No one is claiming that Iran is a great place. But they are a sovereign nation with an elected president, and are one of the member nations of the UN. We have no business conducting a war against a country that poses no threat to the homeland. Should we also invade North Korea? They're actually the only country that poses a semblance of a real threat to America since they have ballistic missiles that can hit us.

History will judge and Americans have not been kind to the war crimes that America has committed in the past. How can Americans even hold their heads up high knowing that this is happening? And it happened in Venezuela. And is happening as a proxy in Mexico. And will happen in Cuba and probably Iraq and Afghanistan again as well. We need to remove the traitors from the government.

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Anonymous wrote:U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/politics/iran-school-missile-strike.html
Outdated targeting data may have resulted in a mistaken missile strike, according to the ongoing military investigation, which undercuts President Trump’s assertion that Iran could be to blame.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/politics/iran-school-missile-strike.html

Striking a school full of children is sure to be recorded as one of the most devastating single military errors in recent decades. Iranian officials have said the death toll was at least 175 people, most of them children.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No outcry over Iran blowing up Arab villages in Israel?

Only Iranian lives matter?

Some of the posters here should be starting to feel pretty foolish for constantly whitewashing, downplaying, gaslighting and deflecting what Iran does to only focus on the US.

Our first point of order should be holding ourselves accountable for our own behaviors. I know that this is entirely foreign as a concept to MAGA (that is conduct oneself with integrity and responsibility), but the rest of us will focus on how we can be better people before pointing fingers at others to rationalize our misdeeds.

It seems to be a concept alien to most of the world - Iran, Israel, Russia, etc.

Not sure. But follow the money. it was our tax money that was used to kill those kids and we should do something about it. Obviously the children are gone but we paid for it and we should pay to try to make amends as much as possible.

I am certainly not suggesting there is a price that can be put on a dead child. I'm not sure how else to take responsibility for such an evil misdeed.

Congress needs to step in and start acting like grownups.

Meanwhile, so too does the UN and every other international body. Not just about the girls school, but about the even bigger atrocity of the protesters that were massacred. I truly don't understand how anyone can still believe a regime that evil should be allowed to continue in Iran. Or, how the Israeli regime should be allowed to continue after their handling of Gaza. The Islamic Regime of Iran needs to be removed, Netanyahu and his enablers need to be removed, and Trump and Hegseth and all who enabled them need to be removed. And, anyone sitting complacent in the UN right now, who is being sociopathically hypocritical in condemning certain atrocities while ignoring others - also needs to be removed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No outcry over Iran blowing up Arab villages in Israel?

Only Iranian lives matter?

Some of the posters here should be starting to feel pretty foolish for constantly whitewashing, downplaying, gaslighting and deflecting what Iran does to only focus on the US.

Our first point of order should be holding ourselves accountable for our own behaviors. I know that this is entirely foreign as a concept to MAGA (that is conduct oneself with integrity and responsibility), but the rest of us will focus on how we can be better people before pointing fingers at others to rationalize our misdeeds.

It seems to be a concept alien to most of the world - Iran, Israel, Russia, etc.

Not sure. But follow the money. it was our tax money that was used to kill those kids and we should do something about it. Obviously the children are gone but we paid for it and we should pay to try to make amends as much as possible.

I am certainly not suggesting there is a price that can be put on a dead child. I'm not sure how else to take responsibility for such an evil misdeed.

Congress needs to step in and start acting like grownups.

Meanwhile, so too does the UN and every other international body. Not just about the girls school, but about the even bigger atrocity of the protesters that were massacred. I truly don't understand how anyone can still believe a regime that evil should be allowed to continue in Iran. Or, how the Israeli regime should be allowed to continue after their handling of Gaza. The Islamic Regime of Iran needs to be removed, Netanyahu and his enablers need to be removed, and Trump and Hegseth and all who enabled them need to be removed. And, anyone sitting complacent in the UN right now, who is being sociopathically hypocritical in condemning certain atrocities while ignoring others - also needs to be removed.

I can't fix everything. But I can try to insist that my tax money not be used to pay to bomb school girls.

[Anonymous]

This is a whole lot of government agencies that share some blame for killing a school full of little kids.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/politics/iran-school-missile-strike.html
Satellite imagery reviewed by The Times showed that watchtowers that once stood near the building had been removed, three public entrances were opened to the school, ground was cleared and play areas including a sports field were painted on asphalt, and walls were painted blue and pink.

The Feb. 28 strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was the result of a targeting mistake by the U.S. military, which was conducting strikes on an adjacent Iranian base of which the school building was formerly a part, the preliminary investigation found. Officers at U.S. Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, people briefed on the investigation said.

In addition to the Defense Intelligence Agency and Central Command, investigators are examining the work of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, known as the N.G.A., which provides and examines satellite imagery of potential targets.

[Anonymous]

Doubling down even after the military released its findings and confirmed that the school was struck by the US.