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

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Anonymous wrote:On the second day of a war that no one in the US government has elaborated a clear justification for, we the American taxpayer killed 150+ kids.

Incredible what damage an incompetent and value-free administration can do.

So there is this thing that the Israelis started to do years ago. If you claim there is a high priority target in the area you can avoid war crime charges. It has been very successful for the Israelis. You blow up a hospital…well senior leadership was using the hospital as a hidden bunker. No proof is needed. You just need to claim it. There are a few independent journalists in Israel who have constructed the history of this.

Very surprised the US military owned up to this. A lot of careers died with the release of this report.

It took a few days but they have owned up to it. Agree, some people may see their military careers end over this mistake. If only that were to include Hegseth, we can only hope. That said, the IRGC base in Minab was indeed and undeniably a high priority military target, serving key naval functions, serving as a missile base, and key logistics coordination point. It supported Fast-Attack Craft operations, a key component to Iran's strategies for controlling the Strait of Hormuz, and other functions. Independent OSINT confirmed numerous direct hits on various base facilities which shows it was in fact the main target, not the school. It can also be seen in aerial imagery that the school was not even 150 feet from the current base footprint and that it was built in very similar style and construction to the other buildings on the base - because it not long ago was part of the base. Far too close for safety. In a wartime footing, the children should have been evacuated to a safer location. Yes, the US has schools for soldiers' kids on military bases, but there are clear protocols and guidance, in the event of a war threat, evacuation of the kids to a shelter, hardened location etc is one of the installation's top priorities. The US put that protocol into action in Iraq numerous times, in Turkey in 2016, in Japan during Fukushima etc. The IRGC on the other hand had no evident plan or protocol for the safety of kids.

Your analogy of the US evacuating bases with schools when wars occur in foreign countries is not valid. Where do you expect Iran to evacuate its children to when the country is under attack? It's not like the US flying a few kids and embassy staff out of the Middle East back to the safety of America.

This bombing happened on day TWO of the US strikes on Iran. It wasn't an expected conflict, and it's not like Iran had much time to adapt and evacuate kids out of the city.

Oh, PLEASE!! Day two of strikes *obviously* means, don't send your kids to school! Especially one on a military base! Good grief, I don't think I've ever heard such stupidity.
DP

You're the stupid one, because you are incapable of reading news articles that say that the school wasn't ON a military base. Not sure where you expect people to go when their whole city is being bombed unexpectedly.

Um, stay at home, you utter imbecile?? Would you send your kids to school on day two of bombing strikes, when that school was co-located with a military base? JFC.

Stop lying you stupid amoral troll. The school was not co-located with a military base. This was massive mistake by the US military.

I will paste the same news articles that many other posters have posted, but clearly you want to do nothing else but blame little girls for their own death because they had the audacity to go to elementary school.

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

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.

A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.

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.

It was colocated AND it was a mistake.

The school was less than 150 feet from the base.

150 feet from a base is not co-located. Stop trying to justify the killings of little kids.

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.

A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:On the second day of a war that no one in the US government has elaborated a clear justification for, we the American taxpayer killed 150+ kids.

Incredible what damage an incompetent and value-free administration can do.

So there is this thing that the Israelis started to do years ago. If you claim there is a high priority target in the area you can avoid war crime charges. It has been very successful for the Israelis. You blow up a hospital…well senior leadership was using the hospital as a hidden bunker. No proof is needed. You just need to claim it. There are a few independent journalists in Israel who have constructed the history of this.

Very surprised the US military owned up to this. A lot of careers died with the release of this report.

It took a few days but they have owned up to it. Agree, some people may see their military careers end over this mistake. If only that were to include Hegseth, we can only hope. That said, the IRGC base in Minab was indeed and undeniably a high priority military target, serving key naval functions, serving as a missile base, and key logistics coordination point. It supported Fast-Attack Craft operations, a key component to Iran's strategies for controlling the Strait of Hormuz, and other functions. Independent OSINT confirmed numerous direct hits on various base facilities which shows it was in fact the main target, not the school. It can also be seen in aerial imagery that the school was not even 150 feet from the current base footprint and that it was built in very similar style and construction to the other buildings on the base - because it not long ago was part of the base. Far too close for safety. In a wartime footing, the children should have been evacuated to a safer location. Yes, the US has schools for soldiers' kids on military bases, but there are clear protocols and guidance, in the event of a war threat, evacuation of the kids to a shelter, hardened location etc is one of the installation's top priorities. The US put that protocol into action in Iraq numerous times, in Turkey in 2016, in Japan during Fukushima etc. The IRGC on the other hand had no evident plan or protocol for the safety of kids.

Your analogy of the US evacuating bases with schools when wars occur in foreign countries is not valid. Where do you expect Iran to evacuate its children to when the country is under attack? It's not like the US flying a few kids and embassy staff out of the Middle East back to the safety of America.

This bombing happened on day TWO of the US strikes on Iran. It wasn't an expected conflict, and it's not like Iran had much time to adapt and evacuate kids out of the city.

Oh, PLEASE!! Day two of strikes *obviously* means, don't send your kids to school! Especially one on a military base! Good grief, I don't think I've ever heard such stupidity.
DP

You're the stupid one, because you are incapable of reading news articles that say that the school wasn't ON a military base. Not sure where you expect people to go when their whole city is being bombed unexpectedly.

Um, stay at home, you utter imbecile?? Would you send your kids to school on day two of bombing strikes, when that school was co-located with a military base? JFC.

Stop lying you stupid amoral troll. The school was not co-located with a military base. This was massive mistake by the US military.

I will paste the same news articles that many other posters have posted, but clearly you want to do nothing else but blame little girls for their own death because they had the audacity to go to elementary school.

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

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.

A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.

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.

People keep repeating lies to justify the deaths of little kids. This was obviously a school. It was not co-located with a military base. And even if it were (like the 150+ DoED American schools that are co-located with a military base), bombing a school would still not be ok.

AGAIN: it was located adjacent to the base. It was struck *accidentally* when the base was the intended target. You're going to have to deal with those facts. Best of luck.

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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.

Iran uses them as human shield for military , the guard

Nearly all of the 161 US DoDEA schools are located directly on military installations. Is the US government using students in DOD schools as human shields?

+1 Schools are located next to all sorts of buildings. We don't drop bombs on little kids. That there was a defense plant near the school that was bombed back in 2013 or 2016 does not excuse these killings in the slightest.

It's gross incompetence by so many parts of the US government, killings of kids, funded by the US taxpayer.

+2 I attended an American elementary school 400 feet from a defense plant. I am pretty sure that my parents wouldn't have ever excused my school to be bombed as a target as a normal part of war.

DoDEA has protocols to get the kids to safety when war breaks out and the base becomes a target. IRGC's protocol was apparently "it's fine, we'll just call the dead kids martyrs for propaganda" - that was taken directly from a longtime pro-Iranian-regime poster at the beginning of the war.

Why do you bring up DoDEA protocols when this is an American attack on a foreign country? What's the protocol to evacuate American kids when our city is under attack? Having lived through 9/11 in NYC, no one evacuated all the American school children of NYC to safety.

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Hegseth is a boastful and reprehensible fool.

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Anonymous wrote:On the second day of a war that no one in the US government has elaborated a clear justification for, we the American taxpayer killed 150+ kids.

Incredible what damage an incompetent and value-free administration can do.

So there is this thing that the Israelis started to do years ago. If you claim there is a high priority target in the area you can avoid war crime charges. It has been very successful for the Israelis. You blow up a hospital…well senior leadership was using the hospital as a hidden bunker. No proof is needed. You just need to claim it. There are a few independent journalists in Israel who have constructed the history of this.

Very surprised the US military owned up to this. A lot of careers died with the release of this report.

It took a few days but they have owned up to it. Agree, some people may see their military careers end over this mistake. If only that were to include Hegseth, we can only hope. That said, the IRGC base in Minab was indeed and undeniably a high priority military target, serving key naval functions, serving as a missile base, and key logistics coordination point. It supported Fast-Attack Craft operations, a key component to Iran's strategies for controlling the Strait of Hormuz, and other functions. Independent OSINT confirmed numerous direct hits on various base facilities which shows it was in fact the main target, not the school. It can also be seen in aerial imagery that the school was not even 150 feet from the current base footprint and that it was built in very similar style and construction to the other buildings on the base - because it not long ago was part of the base. Far too close for safety. In a wartime footing, the children should have been evacuated to a safer location. Yes, the US has schools for soldiers' kids on military bases, but there are clear protocols and guidance, in the event of a war threat, evacuation of the kids to a shelter, hardened location etc is one of the installation's top priorities. The US put that protocol into action in Iraq numerous times, in Turkey in 2016, in Japan during Fukushima etc. The IRGC on the other hand had no evident plan or protocol for the safety of kids.

Your analogy of the US evacuating bases with schools when wars occur in foreign countries is not valid. Where do you expect Iran to evacuate its children to when the country is under attack? It's not like the US flying a few kids and embassy staff out of the Middle East back to the safety of America.

This bombing happened on day TWO of the US strikes on Iran. It wasn't an expected conflict, and it's not like Iran had much time to adapt and evacuate kids out of the city.

Oh, PLEASE!! Day two of strikes *obviously* means, don't send your kids to school! Especially one on a military base! Good grief, I don't think I've ever heard such stupidity.
DP

You're the stupid one, because you are incapable of reading news articles that say that the school wasn't ON a military base. Not sure where you expect people to go when their whole city is being bombed unexpectedly.

Um, stay at home, you utter imbecile?? Would you send your kids to school on day two of bombing strikes, when that school was co-located with a military base? JFC.

Stop lying you stupid amoral troll. The school was not co-located with a military base. This was massive mistake by the US military.

I will paste the same news articles that many other posters have posted, but clearly you want to do nothing else but blame little girls for their own death because they had the audacity to go to elementary school.

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

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.

A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.

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.

It was colocated AND it was a mistake.

The school was less than 150 feet from the base.

150 feet from a base is not co-located. Stop trying to justify the killings of little kids.

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.

A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.

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.

+1 There is no excuse here. This was a massive FU by the US military for a war that had no justification in the first place within 48 hours of the war starting.

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Anonymous wrote:On the second day of a war that no one in the US government has elaborated a clear justification for, we the American taxpayer killed 150+ kids.

Incredible what damage an incompetent and value-free administration can do.

So there is this thing that the Israelis started to do years ago. If you claim there is a high priority target in the area you can avoid war crime charges. It has been very successful for the Israelis. You blow up a hospital…well senior leadership was using the hospital as a hidden bunker. No proof is needed. You just need to claim it. There are a few independent journalists in Israel who have constructed the history of this.

Very surprised the US military owned up to this. A lot of careers died with the release of this report.

It took a few days but they have owned up to it. Agree, some people may see their military careers end over this mistake. If only that were to include Hegseth, we can only hope. That said, the IRGC base in Minab was indeed and undeniably a high priority military target, serving key naval functions, serving as a missile base, and key logistics coordination point. It supported Fast-Attack Craft operations, a key component to Iran's strategies for controlling the Strait of Hormuz, and other functions. Independent OSINT confirmed numerous direct hits on various base facilities which shows it was in fact the main target, not the school. It can also be seen in aerial imagery that the school was not even 150 feet from the current base footprint and that it was built in very similar style and construction to the other buildings on the base - because it not long ago was part of the base. Far too close for safety. In a wartime footing, the children should have been evacuated to a safer location. Yes, the US has schools for soldiers' kids on military bases, but there are clear protocols and guidance, in the event of a war threat, evacuation of the kids to a shelter, hardened location etc is one of the installation's top priorities. The US put that protocol into action in Iraq numerous times, in Turkey in 2016, in Japan during Fukushima etc. The IRGC on the other hand had no evident plan or protocol for the safety of kids.

Your analogy of the US evacuating bases with schools when wars occur in foreign countries is not valid. Where do you expect Iran to evacuate its children to when the country is under attack? It's not like the US flying a few kids and embassy staff out of the Middle East back to the safety of America.

This bombing happened on day TWO of the US strikes on Iran. It wasn't an expected conflict, and it's not like Iran had much time to adapt and evacuate kids out of the city.

Oh, PLEASE!! Day two of strikes *obviously* means, don't send your kids to school! Especially one on a military base! Good grief, I don't think I've ever heard such stupidity.
DP

You're the stupid one, because you are incapable of reading news articles that say that the school wasn't ON a military base. Not sure where you expect people to go when their whole city is being bombed unexpectedly.

Um, stay at home, you utter imbecile?? Would you send your kids to school on day two of bombing strikes, when that school was co-located with a military base? JFC.

Stop lying you stupid amoral troll. The school was not co-located with a military base. This was massive mistake by the US military.

I will paste the same news articles that many other posters have posted, but clearly you want to do nothing else but blame little girls for their own death because they had the audacity to go to elementary school.

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

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.

A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.

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.

It was colocated AND it was a mistake.

The school was less than 150 feet from the base.

150 feet from a base is not co-located. Stop trying to justify the killings of little kids.

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.

A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.

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.

DP. If you're going to continue repeating the same nonsense over and over, I'll just continue reposting this picture showing the school right there on the very edge of the base. Or, more simply: CO-LOCATED.

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Anonymous wrote:On the second day of a war that no one in the US government has elaborated a clear justification for, we the American taxpayer killed 150+ kids.

Incredible what damage an incompetent and value-free administration can do.

So there is this thing that the Israelis started to do years ago. If you claim there is a high priority target in the area you can avoid war crime charges. It has been very successful for the Israelis. You blow up a hospital…well senior leadership was using the hospital as a hidden bunker. No proof is needed. You just need to claim it. There are a few independent journalists in Israel who have constructed the history of this.

Very surprised the US military owned up to this. A lot of careers died with the release of this report.

It took a few days but they have owned up to it. Agree, some people may see their military careers end over this mistake. If only that were to include Hegseth, we can only hope. That said, the IRGC base in Minab was indeed and undeniably a high priority military target, serving key naval functions, serving as a missile base, and key logistics coordination point. It supported Fast-Attack Craft operations, a key component to Iran's strategies for controlling the Strait of Hormuz, and other functions. Independent OSINT confirmed numerous direct hits on various base facilities which shows it was in fact the main target, not the school. It can also be seen in aerial imagery that the school was not even 150 feet from the current base footprint and that it was built in very similar style and construction to the other buildings on the base - because it not long ago was part of the base. Far too close for safety. In a wartime footing, the children should have been evacuated to a safer location. Yes, the US has schools for soldiers' kids on military bases, but there are clear protocols and guidance, in the event of a war threat, evacuation of the kids to a shelter, hardened location etc is one of the installation's top priorities. The US put that protocol into action in Iraq numerous times, in Turkey in 2016, in Japan during Fukushima etc. The IRGC on the other hand had no evident plan or protocol for the safety of kids.

Your analogy of the US evacuating bases with schools when wars occur in foreign countries is not valid. Where do you expect Iran to evacuate its children to when the country is under attack? It's not like the US flying a few kids and embassy staff out of the Middle East back to the safety of America.

This bombing happened on day TWO of the US strikes on Iran. It wasn't an expected conflict, and it's not like Iran had much time to adapt and evacuate kids out of the city.

Oh, PLEASE!! Day two of strikes *obviously* means, don't send your kids to school! Especially one on a military base! Good grief, I don't think I've ever heard such stupidity.
DP

You're the stupid one, because you are incapable of reading news articles that say that the school wasn't ON a military base. Not sure where you expect people to go when their whole city is being bombed unexpectedly.

Um, stay at home, you utter imbecile?? Would you send your kids to school on day two of bombing strikes, when that school was co-located with a military base? JFC.

Stop lying you stupid amoral troll. The school was not co-located with a military base. This was massive mistake by the US military.

I will paste the same news articles that many other posters have posted, but clearly you want to do nothing else but blame little girls for their own death because they had the audacity to go to elementary school.

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

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.

A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.

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.

It was colocated AND it was a mistake.

The school was less than 150 feet from the base.

150 feet from a base is not co-located. Stop trying to justify the killings of little kids.

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.

A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.

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.

+1 You would think the sports field might have given the US military a clue that this shouldn't have been a target.

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Anonymous wrote:On the second day of a war that no one in the US government has elaborated a clear justification for, we the American taxpayer killed 150+ kids.

Incredible what damage an incompetent and value-free administration can do.

So there is this thing that the Israelis started to do years ago. If you claim there is a high priority target in the area you can avoid war crime charges. It has been very successful for the Israelis. You blow up a hospital…well senior leadership was using the hospital as a hidden bunker. No proof is needed. You just need to claim it. There are a few independent journalists in Israel who have constructed the history of this.

Very surprised the US military owned up to this. A lot of careers died with the release of this report.

It took a few days but they have owned up to it. Agree, some people may see their military careers end over this mistake. If only that were to include Hegseth, we can only hope. That said, the IRGC base in Minab was indeed and undeniably a high priority military target, serving key naval functions, serving as a missile base, and key logistics coordination point. It supported Fast-Attack Craft operations, a key component to Iran's strategies for controlling the Strait of Hormuz, and other functions. Independent OSINT confirmed numerous direct hits on various base facilities which shows it was in fact the main target, not the school. It can also be seen in aerial imagery that the school was not even 150 feet from the current base footprint and that it was built in very similar style and construction to the other buildings on the base - because it not long ago was part of the base. Far too close for safety. In a wartime footing, the children should have been evacuated to a safer location. Yes, the US has schools for soldiers' kids on military bases, but there are clear protocols and guidance, in the event of a war threat, evacuation of the kids to a shelter, hardened location etc is one of the installation's top priorities. The US put that protocol into action in Iraq numerous times, in Turkey in 2016, in Japan during Fukushima etc. The IRGC on the other hand had no evident plan or protocol for the safety of kids.

Your analogy of the US evacuating bases with schools when wars occur in foreign countries is not valid. Where do you expect Iran to evacuate its children to when the country is under attack? It's not like the US flying a few kids and embassy staff out of the Middle East back to the safety of America.

This bombing happened on day TWO of the US strikes on Iran. It wasn't an expected conflict, and it's not like Iran had much time to adapt and evacuate kids out of the city.

Oh, PLEASE!! Day two of strikes *obviously* means, don't send your kids to school! Especially one on a military base! Good grief, I don't think I've ever heard such stupidity.
DP

You're the stupid one, because you are incapable of reading news articles that say that the school wasn't ON a military base. Not sure where you expect people to go when their whole city is being bombed unexpectedly.

Um, stay at home, you utter imbecile?? Would you send your kids to school on day two of bombing strikes, when that school was co-located with a military base? JFC.

Stop lying you stupid amoral troll. The school was not co-located with a military base. This was massive mistake by the US military.

I will paste the same news articles that many other posters have posted, but clearly you want to do nothing else but blame little girls for their own death because they had the audacity to go to elementary school.

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

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.

A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.

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.

It was colocated AND it was a mistake.

The school was less than 150 feet from the base.

150 feet from a base is not co-located. Stop trying to justify the killings of little kids.

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.

A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.

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.

DP. If you're going to continue repeating the same nonsense over and over, I'll just continue reposting this picture showing the school right there on the very edge of the base. Or, more simply: CO-LOCATED.

You can paste pictures from "bellingcat.com" and accept us to take it as fact. I pity you for being so eager to share lies.. The smart people on this thread will read what the NY Times says:

[quote[A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.

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.

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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.

Iran uses them as human shield for military , the guard

Nearly all of the 161 US DoDEA schools are located directly on military installations. Is the US government using students in DOD schools as human shields?

+1 Schools are located next to all sorts of buildings. We don't drop bombs on little kids. That there was a defense plant near the school that was bombed back in 2013 or 2016 does not excuse these killings in the slightest.

It's gross incompetence by so many parts of the US government, killings of kids, funded by the US taxpayer.

+2 I attended an American elementary school 400 feet from a defense plant. I am pretty sure that my parents wouldn't have ever excused my school to be bombed as a target as a normal part of war.

DoDEA has protocols to get the kids to safety when war breaks out and the base becomes a target. IRGC's protocol was apparently "it's fine, we'll just call the dead kids martyrs for propaganda" - that was taken directly from a longtime pro-Iranian-regime poster at the beginning of the war.

Why do you bring up DoDEA protocols when this is an American attack on a foreign country? What's the protocol to evacuate American kids when our city is under attack? Having lived through 9/11 in NYC, no one evacuated all the American school children of NYC to safety.

Because they were military kids going to school in a converted military building directly adjoining an important operational military base that is one of the keys to the Iranian regime's strategy of controlling the Strait of Hormuz (thus a clearly important target). These weren't just some random public school students miles across the city from where 9/11 happened, which itself wasn't a legitimate military target. There's a HUGE set of different circumstances to the bogus analogy that you just threw out here.

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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.

Iran uses them as human shield for military , the guard

Nearly all of the 161 US DoDEA schools are located directly on military installations. Is the US government using students in DOD schools as human shields?

+1 Schools are located next to all sorts of buildings. We don't drop bombs on little kids. That there was a defense plant near the school that was bombed back in 2013 or 2016 does not excuse these killings in the slightest.

It's gross incompetence by so many parts of the US government, killings of kids, funded by the US taxpayer.

+2 I attended an American elementary school 400 feet from a defense plant. I am pretty sure that my parents wouldn't have ever excused my school to be bombed as a target as a normal part of war.

DoDEA has protocols to get the kids to safety when war breaks out and the base becomes a target. IRGC's protocol was apparently "it's fine, we'll just call the dead kids martyrs for propaganda" - that was taken directly from a longtime pro-Iranian-regime poster at the beginning of the war.

Why do you bring up DoDEA protocols when this is an American attack on a foreign country? What's the protocol to evacuate American kids when our city is under attack? Having lived through 9/11 in NYC, no one evacuated all the American school children of NYC to safety.

WTAF are you lying about now? Now it's obvious you're a troll (although to be fair, it's been obvious throughout this thread.)

On Tuesday, September 11, 2001 in the midst of chaos and a relentless unfolding of tragedy, professionals of the Board of Education safely evacuated all 9,000 students without injury. They also ensured that all 1.1 million school children, in every part of the city got home safely, reunited with family and loved ones. They did this as transportation around the City was halted, subways, roads, bridges were closed, and airspace over the United States was shutdown except to military flights.

https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D89P3911

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Anonymous wrote:On the second day of a war that no one in the US government has elaborated a clear justification for, we the American taxpayer killed 150+ kids.

Incredible what damage an incompetent and value-free administration can do.

So there is this thing that the Israelis started to do years ago. If you claim there is a high priority target in the area you can avoid war crime charges. It has been very successful for the Israelis. You blow up a hospital…well senior leadership was using the hospital as a hidden bunker. No proof is needed. You just need to claim it. There are a few independent journalists in Israel who have constructed the history of this.

Very surprised the US military owned up to this. A lot of careers died with the release of this report.

It took a few days but they have owned up to it. Agree, some people may see their military careers end over this mistake. If only that were to include Hegseth, we can only hope. That said, the IRGC base in Minab was indeed and undeniably a high priority military target, serving key naval functions, serving as a missile base, and key logistics coordination point. It supported Fast-Attack Craft operations, a key component to Iran's strategies for controlling the Strait of Hormuz, and other functions. Independent OSINT confirmed numerous direct hits on various base facilities which shows it was in fact the main target, not the school. It can also be seen in aerial imagery that the school was not even 150 feet from the current base footprint and that it was built in very similar style and construction to the other buildings on the base - because it not long ago was part of the base. Far too close for safety. In a wartime footing, the children should have been evacuated to a safer location. Yes, the US has schools for soldiers' kids on military bases, but there are clear protocols and guidance, in the event of a war threat, evacuation of the kids to a shelter, hardened location etc is one of the installation's top priorities. The US put that protocol into action in Iraq numerous times, in Turkey in 2016, in Japan during Fukushima etc. The IRGC on the other hand had no evident plan or protocol for the safety of kids.

Your analogy of the US evacuating bases with schools when wars occur in foreign countries is not valid. Where do you expect Iran to evacuate its children to when the country is under attack? It's not like the US flying a few kids and embassy staff out of the Middle East back to the safety of America.

This bombing happened on day TWO of the US strikes on Iran. It wasn't an expected conflict, and it's not like Iran had much time to adapt and evacuate kids out of the city.

Oh, PLEASE!! Day two of strikes *obviously* means, don't send your kids to school! Especially one on a military base! Good grief, I don't think I've ever heard such stupidity.
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You're the stupid one, because you are incapable of reading news articles that say that the school wasn't ON a military base. Not sure where you expect people to go when their whole city is being bombed unexpectedly.

Um, stay at home, you utter imbecile?? Would you send your kids to school on day two of bombing strikes, when that school was co-located with a military base? JFC.

Stop lying you stupid amoral troll. The school was not co-located with a military base. This was massive mistake by the US military.

I will paste the same news articles that many other posters have posted, but clearly you want to do nothing else but blame little girls for their own death because they had the audacity to go to elementary school.

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

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.

A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.

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.

People keep repeating lies to justify the deaths of little kids. This was obviously a school. It was not co-located with a military base. And even if it were (like the 150+ DoED American schools that are co-located with a military base), bombing a school would still not be ok.

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Anonymous wrote:On the second day of a war that no one in the US government has elaborated a clear justification for, we the American taxpayer killed 150+ kids.

Incredible what damage an incompetent and value-free administration can do.

So there is this thing that the Israelis started to do years ago. If you claim there is a high priority target in the area you can avoid war crime charges. It has been very successful for the Israelis. You blow up a hospital…well senior leadership was using the hospital as a hidden bunker. No proof is needed. You just need to claim it. There are a few independent journalists in Israel who have constructed the history of this.

Very surprised the US military owned up to this. A lot of careers died with the release of this report.

It took a few days but they have owned up to it. Agree, some people may see their military careers end over this mistake. If only that were to include Hegseth, we can only hope. That said, the IRGC base in Minab was indeed and undeniably a high priority military target, serving key naval functions, serving as a missile base, and key logistics coordination point. It supported Fast-Attack Craft operations, a key component to Iran's strategies for controlling the Strait of Hormuz, and other functions. Independent OSINT confirmed numerous direct hits on various base facilities which shows it was in fact the main target, not the school. It can also be seen in aerial imagery that the school was not even 150 feet from the current base footprint and that it was built in very similar style and construction to the other buildings on the base - because it not long ago was part of the base. Far too close for safety. In a wartime footing, the children should have been evacuated to a safer location. Yes, the US has schools for soldiers' kids on military bases, but there are clear protocols and guidance, in the event of a war threat, evacuation of the kids to a shelter, hardened location etc is one of the installation's top priorities. The US put that protocol into action in Iraq numerous times, in Turkey in 2016, in Japan during Fukushima etc. The IRGC on the other hand had no evident plan or protocol for the safety of kids.

Your analogy of the US evacuating bases with schools when wars occur in foreign countries is not valid. Where do you expect Iran to evacuate its children to when the country is under attack? It's not like the US flying a few kids and embassy staff out of the Middle East back to the safety of America.

This bombing happened on day TWO of the US strikes on Iran. It wasn't an expected conflict, and it's not like Iran had much time to adapt and evacuate kids out of the city.

Oh, PLEASE!! Day two of strikes *obviously* means, don't send your kids to school! Especially one on a military base! Good grief, I don't think I've ever heard such stupidity.
DP

You're the stupid one, because you are incapable of reading news articles that say that the school wasn't ON a military base. Not sure where you expect people to go when their whole city is being bombed unexpectedly.

Um, stay at home, you utter imbecile?? Would you send your kids to school on day two of bombing strikes, when that school was co-located with a military base? JFC.

Stop lying you stupid amoral troll. The school was not co-located with a military base. This was massive mistake by the US military.

I will paste the same news articles that many other posters have posted, but clearly you want to do nothing else but blame little girls for their own death because they had the audacity to go to elementary school.

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

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.

A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.

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.

It was colocated AND it was a mistake.

The school was less than 150 feet from the base.

150 feet from a base is not co-located. Stop trying to justify the killings of little kids.

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.

A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.

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.

DP. If you're going to continue repeating the same nonsense over and over, I'll just continue reposting this picture showing the school right there on the very edge of the base. Or, more simply: CO-LOCATED.

You can paste pictures from "bellingcat.com" and accept us to take it as fact. I pity you for being so eager to share lies.. The smart people on this thread will read what the NY Times says:

[quote[A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.

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.

I'm not by any means excusing the bombing of the school but I do have to call out that there's some serious embellishment going on there. Aerial photos of the school show no such "playground / sports" markings on the asphalt and photos of the building itself certainly don't reflect any narrative of it being painted a playful blue and pink. Instead it looks like a military building. This isn't the first instance of the Times taking things directly verbatim from the regime's state-run media.

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Anonymous wrote:On the second day of a war that no one in the US government has elaborated a clear justification for, we the American taxpayer killed 150+ kids.

Incredible what damage an incompetent and value-free administration can do.

So there is this thing that the Israelis started to do years ago. If you claim there is a high priority target in the area you can avoid war crime charges. It has been very successful for the Israelis. You blow up a hospital…well senior leadership was using the hospital as a hidden bunker. No proof is needed. You just need to claim it. There are a few independent journalists in Israel who have constructed the history of this.

Very surprised the US military owned up to this. A lot of careers died with the release of this report.

It took a few days but they have owned up to it. Agree, some people may see their military careers end over this mistake. If only that were to include Hegseth, we can only hope. That said, the IRGC base in Minab was indeed and undeniably a high priority military target, serving key naval functions, serving as a missile base, and key logistics coordination point. It supported Fast-Attack Craft operations, a key component to Iran's strategies for controlling the Strait of Hormuz, and other functions. Independent OSINT confirmed numerous direct hits on various base facilities which shows it was in fact the main target, not the school. It can also be seen in aerial imagery that the school was not even 150 feet from the current base footprint and that it was built in very similar style and construction to the other buildings on the base - because it not long ago was part of the base. Far too close for safety. In a wartime footing, the children should have been evacuated to a safer location. Yes, the US has schools for soldiers' kids on military bases, but there are clear protocols and guidance, in the event of a war threat, evacuation of the kids to a shelter, hardened location etc is one of the installation's top priorities. The US put that protocol into action in Iraq numerous times, in Turkey in 2016, in Japan during Fukushima etc. The IRGC on the other hand had no evident plan or protocol for the safety of kids.

Your analogy of the US evacuating bases with schools when wars occur in foreign countries is not valid. Where do you expect Iran to evacuate its children to when the country is under attack? It's not like the US flying a few kids and embassy staff out of the Middle East back to the safety of America.

This bombing happened on day TWO of the US strikes on Iran. It wasn't an expected conflict, and it's not like Iran had much time to adapt and evacuate kids out of the city.

Oh, PLEASE!! Day two of strikes *obviously* means, don't send your kids to school! Especially one on a military base! Good grief, I don't think I've ever heard such stupidity.
DP

You're the stupid one, because you are incapable of reading news articles that say that the school wasn't ON a military base. Not sure where you expect people to go when their whole city is being bombed unexpectedly.

Um, stay at home, you utter imbecile?? Would you send your kids to school on day two of bombing strikes, when that school was co-located with a military base? JFC.

Stop lying you stupid amoral troll. The school was not co-located with a military base. This was massive mistake by the US military.

I will paste the same news articles that many other posters have posted, but clearly you want to do nothing else but blame little girls for their own death because they had the audacity to go to elementary school.

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

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.

A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.

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.

It was colocated AND it was a mistake.

The school was less than 150 feet from the base.

150 feet from a base is not co-located. Stop trying to justify the killings of little kids.

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.

A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.

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.

+1 You would think the sports field might have given the US military a clue that this shouldn't have been a target.

There is no sports field in this satellite picture. What are you talking about?

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Anonymous wrote:On the second day of a war that no one in the US government has elaborated a clear justification for, we the American taxpayer killed 150+ kids.

Incredible what damage an incompetent and value-free administration can do.

So there is this thing that the Israelis started to do years ago. If you claim there is a high priority target in the area you can avoid war crime charges. It has been very successful for the Israelis. You blow up a hospital…well senior leadership was using the hospital as a hidden bunker. No proof is needed. You just need to claim it. There are a few independent journalists in Israel who have constructed the history of this.

Very surprised the US military owned up to this. A lot of careers died with the release of this report.

Who could they have blamed for the error? None of the warring parties used Tomahawks except for the Americans. It was a pink and blue colored school with asphalt playing fields and the New York Times shows photos that it had been a school since 2016 at least.

They means our military maps have been wrong since 2016 then.

Whose talkng bets on whether it shows up on Google Maps?

The New York Times is gently calling it "human error that occurs in wartime." Others would call it a war crime caused by gross negligence.

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Anonymous wrote:On the second day of a war that no one in the US government has elaborated a clear justification for, we the American taxpayer killed 150+ kids.

Incredible what damage an incompetent and value-free administration can do.

So there is this thing that the Israelis started to do years ago. If you claim there is a high priority target in the area you can avoid war crime charges. It has been very successful for the Israelis. You blow up a hospital…well senior leadership was using the hospital as a hidden bunker. No proof is needed. You just need to claim it. There are a few independent journalists in Israel who have constructed the history of this.

Very surprised the US military owned up to this. A lot of careers died with the release of this report.

It took a few days but they have owned up to it. Agree, some people may see their military careers end over this mistake. If only that were to include Hegseth, we can only hope. That said, the IRGC base in Minab was indeed and undeniably a high priority military target, serving key naval functions, serving as a missile base, and key logistics coordination point. It supported Fast-Attack Craft operations, a key component to Iran's strategies for controlling the Strait of Hormuz, and other functions. Independent OSINT confirmed numerous direct hits on various base facilities which shows it was in fact the main target, not the school. It can also be seen in aerial imagery that the school was not even 150 feet from the current base footprint and that it was built in very similar style and construction to the other buildings on the base - because it not long ago was part of the base. Far too close for safety. In a wartime footing, the children should have been evacuated to a safer location. Yes, the US has schools for soldiers' kids on military bases, but there are clear protocols and guidance, in the event of a war threat, evacuation of the kids to a shelter, hardened location etc is one of the installation's top priorities. The US put that protocol into action in Iraq numerous times, in Turkey in 2016, in Japan during Fukushima etc. The IRGC on the other hand had no evident plan or protocol for the safety of kids.

Your analogy of the US evacuating bases with schools when wars occur in foreign countries is not valid. Where do you expect Iran to evacuate its children to when the country is under attack? It's not like the US flying a few kids and embassy staff out of the Middle East back to the safety of America.

This bombing happened on day TWO of the US strikes on Iran. It wasn't an expected conflict, and it's not like Iran had much time to adapt and evacuate kids out of the city.

Oh, PLEASE!! Day two of strikes *obviously* means, don't send your kids to school! Especially one on a military base! Good grief, I don't think I've ever heard such stupidity.
DP

You're the stupid one, because you are incapable of reading news articles that say that the school wasn't ON a military base. Not sure where you expect people to go when their whole city is being bombed unexpectedly.

Um, stay at home, you utter imbecile?? Would you send your kids to school on day two of bombing strikes, when that school was co-located with a military base? JFC.

Stop lying you stupid amoral troll. The school was not co-located with a military base. This was massive mistake by the US military.

I will paste the same news articles that many other posters have posted, but clearly you want to do nothing else but blame little girls for their own death because they had the audacity to go to elementary school.

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

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.

A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.

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.

It was colocated AND it was a mistake.

The school was less than 150 feet from the base.

150 feet from a base is not co-located. Stop trying to justify the killings of little kids.

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.

A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.

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.

DP. If you're going to continue repeating the same nonsense over and over, I'll just continue reposting this picture showing the school right there on the very edge of the base. Or, more simply: CO-LOCATED.

You can paste pictures from "bellingcat.com" and accept us to take it as fact. I pity you for being so eager to share lies.. The smart people on this thread will read what the NY Times says:

[quote[A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.

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.

I'm not by any means excusing the bombing of the school but I do have to call out that there's some serious embellishment going on there. Aerial photos of the school show no such "playground / sports" markings on the asphalt and photos of the building itself certainly don't reflect any narrative of it being painted a playful blue and pink. Instead it looks like a military building. This isn't the first instance of the Times taking things directly verbatim from the regime's state-run media.



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It's pretty appalling that the NYT is using Iranian propaganda and not verifying it before claiming it as fact. It's completely obvious that the school was hit unintentionally in the targeted strike on the base. It's clear there are some trolls here trying desperately to spin a different narrative.