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

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Why did these parents send their girls to a school next to a military facility. So close it used to be part of the facility?

No one on this board does that. I guarantee.

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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?

Exactly. This is the school in Google Maps. The aerial imagery shows no sports field or playground features.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/TNhtXJaGGhXwT8i68

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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.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why did these parents send their girls to a school next to a military facility. So close it used to be part of the facility?

No one on this board does that. I guarantee.

Really? Why don't you send your name and what you'll pay with your guarantee since you're incorrect. There are 150+ Department of Defense schools co-located with military bases that thousands of American kids attend.

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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.

If you're putting yourself forward as one of the "smart people on this thread," try again. Bellingcat is a Netherlands-based open-source firm which largely works to expose human rights abuses. If you think they are somehow doctoring the satellite imagery, you're even more of a quack than originally suspected. Meanwhile, you're trusting Iranian propaganda that apparently the NYT has published as facts. Also, your NYT article that you repeatedly quote from is behind a firewall.

Do continue lumping yourself in with the smart people though. That was entertaining.

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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.

What's your source that the NY Times is using Iranian propaganda and that what you say is fact? Bellingcat.com is not a legitimate news source. Sorry that your education was so poor that you can't see that.

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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.

If you're putting yourself forward as one of the "smart people on this thread," try again. Bellingcat is a Netherlands-based open-source firm which largely works to expose human rights abuses. If you think they are somehow doctoring the satellite imagery, you're even more of a quack than originally suspected. Meanwhile, you're trusting Iranian propaganda that apparently the NYT has published as facts. Also, your NYT article that you repeatedly quote from is behind a firewall.

Do continue lumping yourself in with the smart people though. That was entertaining.

Sorry you can't afford to pay for a legitimate news source. And the New York Times article is behind something called a "paywall" since it's a legitimate news source that people pay to read. Perhaps you can google the difference between a firewall and a paywall, or ask a 4th grader to explain it to you.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd never heard of bellingcat.com until you posted pictures and lies from there. But a quick google shows that they've faced ample criticism for lies and political bias and close ties to Western security interests.

But you clearly want to believe a biased online aggregator rather than a legitimate news source. There's no arguing with those who are blind and will not see.

Consider yourself both under‑informed and misinformed. Bellingcat is not some fringe "online aggregator" - it’s a Netherlands‑based investigative organization whose work is widely cited by major newspapers, academic researchers, human‑rights bodies, and even courts. Independent media‑rating organizations like Media Bias/Fact Check, Ad Fontes Media, and FactCheck.org consistently rate Bellingcat as highly reliable, with a mild left‑of‑center bias, not as deceptive, partisan, or untrustworthy.

They specialize in open‑source intelligence (OSINT) and have broken major investigations into war crimes, chemical‑weapons attacks, covert operations, and state‑sponsored disinformation. Their methodology is transparent and replicable, which is exactly why their findings hold up under scrutiny.

As for the claim that they’ve been "caught lying": that accusation overwhelmingly comes from the governments and political actors whose covert activities Bellingcat exposed. A prime example is their work on the so‑called "separatist uprising" in Donbas. Bellingcat was instrumental in identifying the supposedly "local separatist" fighters as Russian active‑duty military personnel, including the network commanded by Igor Girkin (Strelkov) - an FSB commander who later openly admitted his role. Their investigations also helped document the movement of the Buk missile launcher used to shoot down MH17, which was later confirmed by multiple independent inquiries.

It’s not surprising that Russian state media and its online proxies have spent years trying to discredit Bellingcat with fabricated accusations. That’s what happens when an investigative outlet exposes operations that were never meant to see daylight.

So no, dismissing Bellingcat as "biased" or "lying" isn’t even a valid argument. It’s just repeating talking points from the very actors whose misconduct Bellingcat has documented with verifiable evidence. If anything you should start questioning the "aggregators" that you are getting your information from, because you clearly picked up some disinformation and propaganda there.

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Anonymous wrote:Why did these parents send their girls to a school next to a military facility. So close it used to be part of the facility?

No one on this board does that. I guarantee.

Really? Why don't you send your name and what you'll pay with your guarantee since you're incorrect. There are 150+ Department of Defense schools co-located with military bases that thousands of American kids attend.

Don’t forget the base daycares and family housing located on our military bases that are nestled in or adjacent to civilian communities.

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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?

You mean in the scam pictures from "bellingcat.com" that a poster is showing as legitimate? Read the NY times website--they have multiple satellite images posted.

OMG. Now you're claiming Bellingcat has produced "scam pictures"? Here, sweets. Educate yourself.

From Reuters:
"In just over half a decade this unconventional news organisation, dubbed Bellingcat, has uncovered the perpetrators of mass murder and human rights abuses."
https://www.reuters.com/article/breakingviews/breakingviews-review-bellingcats-model-upends-journalism-idUSKBN2AC1FB/

Oh, and your beloved NYT also hails their work:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/01/business/media/open-source-journalism-bellingcat.html

NPR too:
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/02/972862453/how-bellingcats-web-sleuths-solve-global-crimes

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Anonymous wrote:Why did these parents send their girls to a school next to a military facility. So close it used to be part of the facility?

No one on this board does that. I guarantee.

Really? Why don't you send your name and what you'll pay with your guarantee since you're incorrect. There are 150+ Department of Defense schools co-located with military bases that thousands of American kids attend.

Don’t forget the base daycares and family housing located on our military bases that are nestled in or adjacent to civilian communities.

Yes. And do you actually think those parents would ever send their kids to school the day after the country had been attacked? We'll wait.

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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?

Exactly. This is the school in Google Maps. The aerial imagery shows no sports field or playground features.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/TNhtXJaGGhXwT8i68

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You can zoom right in and it looks identical to the nearby military buildings. No difference at all. So many pro-Iranian liars on this thread.

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Anonymous wrote:Why did these parents send their girls to a school next to a military facility. So close it used to be part of the facility?

No one on this board does that. I guarantee.

Really? Why don't you send your name and what you'll pay with your guarantee since you're incorrect. There are 150+ Department of Defense schools co-located with military bases that thousands of American kids attend.

Don’t forget the base daycares and family housing located on our military bases that are nestled in or adjacent to civilian communities.

Yes. And do you actually think those parents would ever send their kids to school the day after the country had been attacked? We'll wait.

Are you really trying to make excuses for the killings of 150 little girls? What is wrong with you blaming them for their own deaths? You need to seek help.

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Anonymous wrote:Why did these parents send their girls to a school next to a military facility. So close it used to be part of the facility?

No one on this board does that. I guarantee.

Really? Why don't you send your name and what you'll pay with your guarantee since you're incorrect. There are 150+ Department of Defense schools co-located with military bases that thousands of American kids attend.

Don’t forget the base daycares and family housing located on our military bases that are nestled in or adjacent to civilian communities.

+1 This school had been fenced off from a military base since 2016. There is nothing in international law that justifies bombing kids during wars.

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Anonymous wrote:Why did these parents send their girls to a school next to a military facility. So close it used to be part of the facility?

No one on this board does that. I guarantee.

Really? Why don't you send your name and what you'll pay with your guarantee since you're incorrect. There are 150+ Department of Defense schools co-located with military bases that thousands of American kids attend.

Ok so these Iranian parents made a choice that some Americans do. It was unintentional. If a base here was attacked, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to guess an airborne missile would hit the very nearby school.
It would be very tragic. I would not assume they especially meant to include the school as a plan.