Whose Airstrike Bombed a Girls’ School in Iran? The U.S. Says It’s Still Investigating.
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Anonymous
Bellingcat's already been addressed. They are definitely legitimate. As for NYT, there are indeed several examples where the New York Times repeated claims originating from Iranian state media without clearly signaling how unverified or politically curated those claims were. The clearest case is the Minab school strike: early NYT reporting relied strictly on Iranian state‑media narrative and casualty numbers, without any independent corroboration or verification and completely left out that the obvious intended target was the adjacent IRGC naval facility. The NYT’s initial framing gave the Iranian narrative a veneer of factual certainty it hadn’t earned. There have been many other similar issues with NYT’s reporting on nationwide casualty figures and alleged strikes on civilian infrastructure. The paper often cited Iranian state media as the source but didn’t bother noting that foreign journalists cannot freely operate in Iran, that the government tightly controls information, or that Tehran has a long, documented history of exaggerating, inflating or outright fabricating wartime claims for propaganda. As a result, a number of unverified and untrue Iranian assertions were presented by NYT as though they were factual baseline data rather than contested or unconfirmed reports. |
Anonymous
Oh I'm so relieved to know that putting up a little chain link fence will stop missiles and blast debris in war time. /s |
Anonymous
+100 All of this. If anything, someone accusing a company such as Bellingcat - which actively works to expose human rights abuses - as somehow being "politically biased," that bias would lean left. As you said, they're a highly respected source used the world over. They are the "good guys." Pretty clear the PP is... not. |
Anonymous
And there is nothing in the satellite imagery that would indicate this was a school. Sorry. You'll have to move on at some point. |
Anonymous
So if American kids get bombed at DoED schools, you will think it's perfectly fine because their parents were so stupid to send them there? That's a pretty sick value system you have. |
Anonymous
Seriously. The idiocy is just gob-smacking. |
Anonymous
New York Times reporting says otherwise. No one cares about your anonymous opinion, and no one is going to "move on" about a massive error that killed 150 kids.
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Anonymous
+1 Even Republicans are admitting this is a massive f*** up.
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Since the troll poster has requested more information from the WSJ, I'm happy to oblige with a gift link. There's a very clear satellite picture showing just how close the school is to the base. Anyone claiming that this school wasn't very much adjacent to the military base - and previously a part of it - is nutty.
The school is located on the edge of a compound linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, an elite branch of Iran’s armed forces, according to an analysis of images by The Wall Street Journal. There are indications the school building had previously been used as an IRGC headquarters, the official said. The Journal analysis of satellite and open-source images shows the building was next to, and possibly part of, a compound linked to the IRGC. Farzin Nadimi, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute specializing in Iran’s military, said visual clues such as the size, number and arrangement of structures support the assessment that the site was a base, though there was little to suggest to him that it was an important one. Google Maps identifies one building as a “cultural complex” of the IRGC, where young members play sports and train, Nadimi said. The compound also has a medical facility. A photograph pinned to the location on Google Maps shows a sign that says, “Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy Medical Command.” https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-us-school-strike-07d8ffac?st=o8z38t&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink |
Anonymous
Being "close to" a base is no excuse for bombing a school. No one would be saying "oh that's ok, it's understandable they killed my kid" if their kid was killed because they attended one of the 150 DoED schools co-located on a military base. |
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A Republican willing to take responsibility for a grave error. How rare!
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5778358-john-kennedy-iran-school-strike/ Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) on Tuesday said a strike on an all-girls school in Iran that killed around 175 people, which President Trump blamed on Tehran, was a mistake. Airstrikes hit the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab in southern Iran on Feb. 28, when the U.S.-Israeli joint strikes began in the region. The military operation also attacked a nearby Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps naval base, according to an analysis from The Associated Press. The research and satellite images showed that the strikes appeared to come from the U.S. “I mean, we’re investigating, but I’m not going to hide behind that,” Kennedy said on “The Arena” with CNN’s Kasie Hunt. “I think that it was a terrible, terrible mistake.” “The investigation may prove me wrong, I hope so,” he continued. “The kids are still dead. But I think it was a horrible, horrible mistake.” The Louisiana Republican noted the strike likely “wasn’t intentional,” apologized for it and then called it “the sort of thing Russia does.” “And when you make a mistake, you ought to admit it,” he added later. “Most people understand no one’s perfect, but I don’t think our men and women who are fighting for us did it intentionally. I’ll never believe that.” |
Anonymous
You're not even responding with the correct information. Nothing in your link suggests that this building was easily identifiable as a school to begin with. We all know it was hit. You're just regurgitating the same information. The point is that it was hit unintentionally while bombing the base it sits right against and was at one time, a part of. And also, no one is arguing that the U.S. isn't probably responsible for the hit. We are saying it was not intentional. Please take your lies, hysteria, and general lunacy elsewhere. Maybe go outside and breathe some fresh air. |
Anonymous
If it was the second day of bombing, you'd better believe American parents wouldn't be sending their kids to school anywhere, much less to a school co-located on a military base. But do keep repeating yourself over and over and over... |
Anonymous
Um... he's saying what so many of us have been saying all along. It was unintentional. Was this supposed to be some sort of gotcha? |