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

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Anonymous wrote: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

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.

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...

You’re terrible. We all had to go back to school and work on 9/12. War doesn’t make us hide under tunnels like Israelis can

+1 No one expects the military to bomb elementary schools. Stop trying to justify this incident.

No one expected the US military to bomb elementary schools. And, they wouldn't have, but for Hegseth and Trump and their derangement over the "queering of the military" or whatever the F else imaginary grievance du jour that makes them think they need to tear up longstanding rules of engagement, ignore Geneva Conventions, upend JAG corps etc.

So that's one f'ed up thing going on. And it's new. But we Americans hope to throw those m-f-ers out and put them on trial. Wish Iran could say the same.

But it's pretty much a given for Russia to do that to Ukrainian schools. Along with Iran and Hezbollah etc. They've bombed schools, hospitals and civilian targets with impunity. And without accountability to the international community, what's the point of even expecting accountability? We can't have a UN Security Council that gives their buddies a pass for war crimes, whether it's Israel, or whether it's Iran, Russia, China or anyone else - even the US. Currently those institutions have shown themselves to be impotent, pointless and useless. And it sucks.

None of it's justifiable or excusable, nobody should get a pass - even those who think they deserve some kind of morality pass because they hate the US and Israel. And, along with it, the bad-faith "negotiations" that are straight up delusional. It's the perfect set-up to lead nations into wars. Our whole global community system is broken.

Why wouldn't you expect the US military to attack a school? The were reported strikes in schools in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and Yemen. Why should Iran be any exception

I just asked AI to give a synthesis in response to your accusation - the response is that accidents happen, but to ascribe intentionality and evil intent or to claim it's a widespread and frequent phenomenon to be expected significantly misses the mark:

Short answer: no—there is not evidence of widespread, independently corroborated cases where the U.S. military knowingly and deliberately attacked schools as schools in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, or Yemen. What does exist is a grim record of schools being hit, sometimes with very high civilian casualties, in strikes the U.S. has variously described as mistakes, bad intelligence, misidentification, or collateral damage near what it claimed were legitimate military targets.

In all of those theaters, you can find documented incidents where school buildings, madrassas, or school buses were struck—often investigated by the UN, human‑rights groups, or journalists. In some cases, those investigations concluded the U.S. failed to take sufficient precautions, used flawed intelligence, or acted with reckless disregard for civilian life. But that is still legally and factually different from proven, intentional targeting of a known school as a school. There is no established pattern—backed by independent investigations—that the U.S. ran a campaign of deliberately attacking schools knowing they were purely civilian educational facilities.

No established pattern of deliberate targeting of schools. That's based on broad independent investigations by the UN and human rights groups and journalists.

The US conducted tens of thousands of airstrikes in Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and Yemen. Comparatively, the numbers of claimed schools that were hit are barely double digit, out of tens of thousands of airstrikes. That's a 0.1% error rate which is significantly lower than any military in history. Is it excusable? No. Could it be better? Yes. But for any critic also engaged in warfare to claim some kind of moral superiority is an absolute farce.

A bit amusing how you're defending the same regime that just attacked a desalination plant, a bank, and an oil field that will result in one of the biggest ecological disasters in recent history reminiscent of a dirty bomb where the population will be poisoned and experience harms like cancer for decades to come.

But AI says that’s all good!

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US intelligence satellite imagery is NOT Google Maps. It is very in-depth.

It can make out playgrounds, children, when kids arrive and depart, the building use on weekends versus weekdays.

Images are collated over time and an assessment in confidence levels is made.

This is why it does seem that the US deliberately target the school because they wanted to kill the children of Iranian military officers. There is no other explanation

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Anonymous wrote: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

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.

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...

You’re terrible. We all had to go back to school and work on 9/12. War doesn’t make us hide under tunnels like Israelis can

+1 No one expects the military to bomb elementary schools. Stop trying to justify this incident.

No one expected the US military to bomb elementary schools. And, they wouldn't have, but for Hegseth and Trump and their derangement over the "queering of the military" or whatever the F else imaginary grievance du jour that makes them think they need to tear up longstanding rules of engagement, ignore Geneva Conventions, upend JAG corps etc.

So that's one f'ed up thing going on. And it's new. But we Americans hope to throw those m-f-ers out and put them on trial. Wish Iran could say the same.

But it's pretty much a given for Russia to do that to Ukrainian schools. Along with Iran and Hezbollah etc. They've bombed schools, hospitals and civilian targets with impunity. And without accountability to the international community, what's the point of even expecting accountability? We can't have a UN Security Council that gives their buddies a pass for war crimes, whether it's Israel, or whether it's Iran, Russia, China or anyone else - even the US. Currently those institutions have shown themselves to be impotent, pointless and useless. And it sucks.

None of it's justifiable or excusable, nobody should get a pass - even those who think they deserve some kind of morality pass because they hate the US and Israel. And, along with it, the bad-faith "negotiations" that are straight up delusional. It's the perfect set-up to lead nations into wars. Our whole global community system is broken.

Why wouldn't you expect the US military to attack a school? The were reported strikes in schools in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and Yemen. Why should Iran be any exception

I just asked AI to give a synthesis in response to your accusation - the response is that accidents happen, but to ascribe intentionality and evil intent or to claim it's a widespread and frequent phenomenon to be expected significantly misses the mark:

Short answer: no—there is not evidence of widespread, independently corroborated cases where the U.S. military knowingly and deliberately attacked schools as schools in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, or Yemen. What does exist is a grim record of schools being hit, sometimes with very high civilian casualties, in strikes the U.S. has variously described as mistakes, bad intelligence, misidentification, or collateral damage near what it claimed were legitimate military targets.

In all of those theaters, you can find documented incidents where school buildings, madrassas, or school buses were struck—often investigated by the UN, human‑rights groups, or journalists. In some cases, those investigations concluded the U.S. failed to take sufficient precautions, used flawed intelligence, or acted with reckless disregard for civilian life. But that is still legally and factually different from proven, intentional targeting of a known school as a school. There is no established pattern—backed by independent investigations—that the U.S. ran a campaign of deliberately attacking schools knowing they were purely civilian educational facilities.

No established pattern of deliberate targeting of schools. That's based on broad independent investigations by the UN and human rights groups and journalists.

The US conducted tens of thousands of airstrikes in Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and Yemen. Comparatively, the numbers of claimed schools that were hit are barely double digit, out of tens of thousands of airstrikes. That's a 0.1% error rate which is significantly lower than any military in history. Is it excusable? No. Could it be better? Yes. But for any critic also engaged in warfare to claim some kind of moral superiority is an absolute farce.

A bit amusing how you're defending the same regime that just attacked a desalination plant, a bank, and an oil field that will result in one of the biggest ecological disasters in recent history reminiscent of a dirty bomb where the population will be poisoned and experience harms like cancer for decades to come.

Dude. You need better news sources. Iran has bombed desalinization plants, oilfields and refineries all across the Gulf states. As for banks, Iran hasn't used missiles but much more insidious measures like cyber attacks on US, Israeli and Gulf State banks and financial networks.

Let's not forget about the widespread global economic and environmental disaster unfolding as a result of Iran choking off the Strait of Hormuz, cutting nations off from needed food supplies, from needs for fertilizer and other crucial goods. Iran is indiscriminately firing on vessels. Even Chinese tankers turned back, after seeing vessels ahead of them being put at risk. India is already in an LPG shortage crisis. Iran is at war with the entire world.

Yes, in RESPONSE to being ATTACKED. This is on US.

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Anonymous wrote: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

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.

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...

You’re terrible. We all had to go back to school and work on 9/12. War doesn’t make us hide under tunnels like Israelis can

+1 No one expects the military to bomb elementary schools. Stop trying to justify this incident.

No one expected the US military to bomb elementary schools. And, they wouldn't have, but for Hegseth and Trump and their derangement over the "queering of the military" or whatever the F else imaginary grievance du jour that makes them think they need to tear up longstanding rules of engagement, ignore Geneva Conventions, upend JAG corps etc.

So that's one f'ed up thing going on. And it's new. But we Americans hope to throw those m-f-ers out and put them on trial. Wish Iran could say the same.

But it's pretty much a given for Russia to do that to Ukrainian schools. Along with Iran and Hezbollah etc. They've bombed schools, hospitals and civilian targets with impunity. And without accountability to the international community, what's the point of even expecting accountability? We can't have a UN Security Council that gives their buddies a pass for war crimes, whether it's Israel, or whether it's Iran, Russia, China or anyone else - even the US. Currently those institutions have shown themselves to be impotent, pointless and useless. And it sucks.

None of it's justifiable or excusable, nobody should get a pass - even those who think they deserve some kind of morality pass because they hate the US and Israel. And, along with it, the bad-faith "negotiations" that are straight up delusional. It's the perfect set-up to lead nations into wars. Our whole global community system is broken.

Why wouldn't you expect the US military to attack a school? The were reported strikes in schools in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and Yemen. Why should Iran be any exception

I just asked AI to give a synthesis in response to your accusation - the response is that accidents happen, but to ascribe intentionality and evil intent or to claim it's a widespread and frequent phenomenon to be expected significantly misses the mark:

Short answer: no—there is not evidence of widespread, independently corroborated cases where the U.S. military knowingly and deliberately attacked schools as schools in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, or Yemen. What does exist is a grim record of schools being hit, sometimes with very high civilian casualties, in strikes the U.S. has variously described as mistakes, bad intelligence, misidentification, or collateral damage near what it claimed were legitimate military targets.

In all of those theaters, you can find documented incidents where school buildings, madrassas, or school buses were struck—often investigated by the UN, human‑rights groups, or journalists. In some cases, those investigations concluded the U.S. failed to take sufficient precautions, used flawed intelligence, or acted with reckless disregard for civilian life. But that is still legally and factually different from proven, intentional targeting of a known school as a school. There is no established pattern—backed by independent investigations—that the U.S. ran a campaign of deliberately attacking schools knowing they were purely civilian educational facilities.

No established pattern of deliberate targeting of schools. That's based on broad independent investigations by the UN and human rights groups and journalists.

The US conducted tens of thousands of airstrikes in Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and Yemen. Comparatively, the numbers of claimed schools that were hit are barely double digit, out of tens of thousands of airstrikes. That's a 0.1% error rate which is significantly lower than any military in history. Is it excusable? No. Could it be better? Yes. But for any critic also engaged in warfare to claim some kind of moral superiority is an absolute farce.

A bit amusing how you're defending the same regime that just attacked a desalination plant, a bank, and an oil field that will result in one of the biggest ecological disasters in recent history reminiscent of a dirty bomb where the population will be poisoned and experience harms like cancer for decades to come.

Dude. You need better news sources. Iran has bombed desalinization plants, oilfields and refineries all across the Gulf states. As for banks, Iran hasn't used missiles but much more insidious measures like cyber attacks on US, Israeli and Gulf State banks and financial networks.

Let's not forget about the widespread global economic and environmental disaster unfolding as a result of Iran choking off the Strait of Hormuz, cutting nations off from needed food supplies, from needs for fertilizer and other crucial goods. Iran is indiscriminately firing on vessels. Even Chinese tankers turned back, after seeing vessels ahead of them being put at risk. India is already in an LPG shortage crisis. Iran is at war with the entire world.

Yes, in RESPONSE to being ATTACKED. This is on US.

And Israel. They're the ones who dragged us into this mess.

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It doesn't just stop at schools or desalination plans or oil fields or hospitals

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Anonymous wrote: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

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.

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...

You’re terrible. We all had to go back to school and work on 9/12. War doesn’t make us hide under tunnels like Israelis can

+1 No one expects the military to bomb elementary schools. Stop trying to justify this incident.

No one expected the US military to bomb elementary schools. And, they wouldn't have, but for Hegseth and Trump and their derangement over the "queering of the military" or whatever the F else imaginary grievance du jour that makes them think they need to tear up longstanding rules of engagement, ignore Geneva Conventions, upend JAG corps etc.

So that's one f'ed up thing going on. And it's new. But we Americans hope to throw those m-f-ers out and put them on trial. Wish Iran could say the same.

But it's pretty much a given for Russia to do that to Ukrainian schools. Along with Iran and Hezbollah etc. They've bombed schools, hospitals and civilian targets with impunity. And without accountability to the international community, what's the point of even expecting accountability? We can't have a UN Security Council that gives their buddies a pass for war crimes, whether it's Israel, or whether it's Iran, Russia, China or anyone else - even the US. Currently those institutions have shown themselves to be impotent, pointless and useless. And it sucks.

None of it's justifiable or excusable, nobody should get a pass - even those who think they deserve some kind of morality pass because they hate the US and Israel. And, along with it, the bad-faith "negotiations" that are straight up delusional. It's the perfect set-up to lead nations into wars. Our whole global community system is broken.

Why wouldn't you expect the US military to attack a school? The were reported strikes in schools in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and Yemen. Why should Iran be any exception

I just asked AI to give a synthesis in response to your accusation - the response is that accidents happen, but to ascribe intentionality and evil intent or to claim it's a widespread and frequent phenomenon to be expected significantly misses the mark:

Short answer: no—there is not evidence of widespread, independently corroborated cases where the U.S. military knowingly and deliberately attacked schools as schools in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, or Yemen. What does exist is a grim record of schools being hit, sometimes with very high civilian casualties, in strikes the U.S. has variously described as mistakes, bad intelligence, misidentification, or collateral damage near what it claimed were legitimate military targets.

In all of those theaters, you can find documented incidents where school buildings, madrassas, or school buses were struck—often investigated by the UN, human‑rights groups, or journalists. In some cases, those investigations concluded the U.S. failed to take sufficient precautions, used flawed intelligence, or acted with reckless disregard for civilian life. But that is still legally and factually different from proven, intentional targeting of a known school as a school. There is no established pattern—backed by independent investigations—that the U.S. ran a campaign of deliberately attacking schools knowing they were purely civilian educational facilities.

No established pattern of deliberate targeting of schools. That's based on broad independent investigations by the UN and human rights groups and journalists.

The US conducted tens of thousands of airstrikes in Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and Yemen. Comparatively, the numbers of claimed schools that were hit are barely double digit, out of tens of thousands of airstrikes. That's a 0.1% error rate which is significantly lower than any military in history. Is it excusable? No. Could it be better? Yes. But for any critic also engaged in warfare to claim some kind of moral superiority is an absolute farce.

A bit amusing how you're defending the same regime that just attacked a desalination plant, a bank, and an oil field that will result in one of the biggest ecological disasters in recent history reminiscent of a dirty bomb where the population will be poisoned and experience harms like cancer for decades to come.

Dude. You need better news sources. Iran has bombed desalinization plants, oilfields and refineries all across the Gulf states. As for banks, Iran hasn't used missiles but much more insidious measures like cyber attacks on US, Israeli and Gulf State banks and financial networks.

Let's not forget about the widespread global economic and environmental disaster unfolding as a result of Iran choking off the Strait of Hormuz, cutting nations off from needed food supplies, from needs for fertilizer and other crucial goods. Iran is indiscriminately firing on vessels. Even Chinese tankers turned back, after seeing vessels ahead of them being put at risk. India is already in an LPG shortage crisis. Iran is at war with the entire world.

Yes, in RESPONSE to being ATTACKED. This is on US.

And Israel. They're the ones who dragged us into this mess.

Iran has been funding attacks on Israel for years. They have also funded Hamas--the group that hides in hospitals and schools.

And, FWIW, the girls' school is horrific, but it has not been long since it was a part of the military base and is still adjacent to it. That is a fact. This was a very sad mistake.

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Graham and the bloodthirsty Republicans love it

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Anonymous wrote: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

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.

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...

You’re terrible. We all had to go back to school and work on 9/12. War doesn’t make us hide under tunnels like Israelis can

+1 No one expects the military to bomb elementary schools. Stop trying to justify this incident.

No one expected the US military to bomb elementary schools. And, they wouldn't have, but for Hegseth and Trump and their derangement over the "queering of the military" or whatever the F else imaginary grievance du jour that makes them think they need to tear up longstanding rules of engagement, ignore Geneva Conventions, upend JAG corps etc.

So that's one f'ed up thing going on. And it's new. But we Americans hope to throw those m-f-ers out and put them on trial. Wish Iran could say the same.

But it's pretty much a given for Russia to do that to Ukrainian schools. Along with Iran and Hezbollah etc. They've bombed schools, hospitals and civilian targets with impunity. And without accountability to the international community, what's the point of even expecting accountability? We can't have a UN Security Council that gives their buddies a pass for war crimes, whether it's Israel, or whether it's Iran, Russia, China or anyone else - even the US. Currently those institutions have shown themselves to be impotent, pointless and useless. And it sucks.

None of it's justifiable or excusable, nobody should get a pass - even those who think they deserve some kind of morality pass because they hate the US and Israel. And, along with it, the bad-faith "negotiations" that are straight up delusional. It's the perfect set-up to lead nations into wars. Our whole global community system is broken.

Why wouldn't you expect the US military to attack a school? The were reported strikes in schools in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and Yemen. Why should Iran be any exception

I just asked AI to give a synthesis in response to your accusation - the response is that accidents happen, but to ascribe intentionality and evil intent or to claim it's a widespread and frequent phenomenon to be expected significantly misses the mark:

Short answer: no—there is not evidence of widespread, independently corroborated cases where the U.S. military knowingly and deliberately attacked schools as schools in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, or Yemen. What does exist is a grim record of schools being hit, sometimes with very high civilian casualties, in strikes the U.S. has variously described as mistakes, bad intelligence, misidentification, or collateral damage near what it claimed were legitimate military targets.

In all of those theaters, you can find documented incidents where school buildings, madrassas, or school buses were struck—often investigated by the UN, human‑rights groups, or journalists. In some cases, those investigations concluded the U.S. failed to take sufficient precautions, used flawed intelligence, or acted with reckless disregard for civilian life. But that is still legally and factually different from proven, intentional targeting of a known school as a school. There is no established pattern—backed by independent investigations—that the U.S. ran a campaign of deliberately attacking schools knowing they were purely civilian educational facilities.

No established pattern of deliberate targeting of schools. That's based on broad independent investigations by the UN and human rights groups and journalists.

The US conducted tens of thousands of airstrikes in Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and Yemen. Comparatively, the numbers of claimed schools that were hit are barely double digit, out of tens of thousands of airstrikes. That's a 0.1% error rate which is significantly lower than any military in history. Is it excusable? No. Could it be better? Yes. But for any critic also engaged in warfare to claim some kind of moral superiority is an absolute farce.

A bit amusing how you're defending the same regime that just attacked a desalination plant, a bank, and an oil field that will result in one of the biggest ecological disasters in recent history reminiscent of a dirty bomb where the population will be poisoned and experience harms like cancer for decades to come.

Dude. You need better news sources. Iran has bombed desalinization plants, oilfields and refineries all across the Gulf states. As for banks, Iran hasn't used missiles but much more insidious measures like cyber attacks on US, Israeli and Gulf State banks and financial networks.

Let's not forget about the widespread global economic and environmental disaster unfolding as a result of Iran choking off the Strait of Hormuz, cutting nations off from needed food supplies, from needs for fertilizer and other crucial goods. Iran is indiscriminately firing on vessels. Even Chinese tankers turned back, after seeing vessels ahead of them being put at risk. India is already in an LPG shortage crisis. Iran is at war with the entire world.

Yes, in RESPONSE to being ATTACKED. This is on US.

And Israel. They're the ones who dragged us into this mess.

Iran has been funding attacks on Israel for years. They have also funded Hamas--the group that hides in hospitals and schools.

And, FWIW, the girls' school is horrific, but it has not been long since it was a part of the military base and is still adjacent to it. That is a fact. This was a very sad mistake.

So you believe we have intel sophisticated enough to take out their leadership structure, but not sophisticated enough to tell the difference between a military base 10 years ago, and a little girl's school today? That's what you want us to believe?

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Anonymous wrote: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.”

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?

He's actually apologizing for the massive mistake of killing kids unlike lying Trump who blamed Iran for firing Tomahawk missles they didn't have at themself.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-trump-sidesteps-responsibility-for-deadly-strike-on-iranian-girls-school

Trump sidesteps responsibility for deadly strike on Iranian girls' school
Politics Mar 9, 2026 8:44 PM EDT
President Donald Trump erroneously claimed Monday that Iran has access to the American Tomahawk cruise missile, the weapon likely used to strike a girls' school in Iran, killing 165 people.

…and when called out on his lie, Trump says he “doesn’t know.” Either way, this once again certifies that Trump is an idiot. He is an idiot if he actually doesn’t know the latest report, that stated it was a U.S. strike that hit the school. He is also an idiot- in typical Trump fashion, he just can’t keep his mouth shut, and if there are facts he doesn’t agree with, he just keeps talking and lies.

The school strike is tragic. Nothing will make this right, but I certainly hope it was an accident. Accidents happen. Accidents happen more often when you have a chickenhawk president, who rushes into an unnecessary war, with no plan, no strategy and no support.

Finally, Trump and Hegseth purged the Pentagon of top intelligence and policy officers. When the workforce sees what happens to their leadership, for having a contrarian view, it’s going to result in flawed intelligence.

Trump is flawed on many levels, but his number one flaw is he is not that smart. It’s OK if you’re not smart- though your President should have half a brain, but it’s so dangerous to lack intelligence and still think you’re always the smartest person in the room.

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I hope they’re all greeted at the gates of hell with the mauled faces of all the civilians
They killed.

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Pulse check. Where's the "it's not a tomahawk missile" zealot on the forum? Did they move on to denying that the US commits other war crimes?

Btw the Trump response was typical behavior. Deny anything happened. Say something absolutely ridiculous and blame the other side. Continue to deflect. And then, after a week or two, or a year, admit without admission that it was "obviously" a mistake.

And the lunatics somehow justify this every single time.

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Anonymous wrote:Graham and the bloodthirsty Republicans love it

Bloated Gayham’s anus has shriveled up and moved to his mouth. Someone’s taking advantage of it.

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Anonymous wrote:US intelligence satellite imagery is NOT Google Maps. It is very in-depth.

It can make out playgrounds, children, when kids arrive and depart, the building use on weekends versus weekdays.

Images are collated over time and an assessment in confidence levels is made.

This is why it does seem that the US deliberately target the school because they wanted to kill the children of Iranian military officers. There is no other explanation

There were not one but TWO attacks on the school. If the first one was a mistake they would see people arriving there via real time satellite. Why did they bomb it again? This was done on purpose

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Anonymous wrote:US intelligence satellite imagery is NOT Google Maps. It is very in-depth.

It can make out playgrounds, children, when kids arrive and depart, the building use on weekends versus weekdays.

Images are collated over time and an assessment in confidence levels is made.

This is why it does seem that the US deliberately target the school because they wanted to kill the children of Iranian military officers. There is no other explanation

There were not one but TWO attacks on the school. If the first one was a mistake they would see people arriving there via real time satellite. Why did they bomb it again? This was done on purpose

No evidence of that and Bellingcat's analysis of the "second tomahawk" video clearly shows a different building that WAS part of the IRGC base was targeted. If anything the "double tap" was debris falling as a result of another building nearby getting hit.

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Anonymous wrote: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

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.

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...

You’re terrible. We all had to go back to school and work on 9/12. War doesn’t make us hide under tunnels like Israelis can

+1 No one expects the military to bomb elementary schools. Stop trying to justify this incident.

No one expected the US military to bomb elementary schools. And, they wouldn't have, but for Hegseth and Trump and their derangement over the "queering of the military" or whatever the F else imaginary grievance du jour that makes them think they need to tear up longstanding rules of engagement, ignore Geneva Conventions, upend JAG corps etc.

So that's one f'ed up thing going on. And it's new. But we Americans hope to throw those m-f-ers out and put them on trial. Wish Iran could say the same.

But it's pretty much a given for Russia to do that to Ukrainian schools. Along with Iran and Hezbollah etc. They've bombed schools, hospitals and civilian targets with impunity. And without accountability to the international community, what's the point of even expecting accountability? We can't have a UN Security Council that gives their buddies a pass for war crimes, whether it's Israel, or whether it's Iran, Russia, China or anyone else - even the US. Currently those institutions have shown themselves to be impotent, pointless and useless. And it sucks.

None of it's justifiable or excusable, nobody should get a pass - even those who think they deserve some kind of morality pass because they hate the US and Israel. And, along with it, the bad-faith "negotiations" that are straight up delusional. It's the perfect set-up to lead nations into wars. Our whole global community system is broken.

Why wouldn't you expect the US military to attack a school? The were reported strikes in schools in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and Yemen. Why should Iran be any exception

I just asked AI to give a synthesis in response to your accusation - the response is that accidents happen, but to ascribe intentionality and evil intent or to claim it's a widespread and frequent phenomenon to be expected significantly misses the mark:

Short answer: no—there is not evidence of widespread, independently corroborated cases where the U.S. military knowingly and deliberately attacked schools as schools in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, or Yemen. What does exist is a grim record of schools being hit, sometimes with very high civilian casualties, in strikes the U.S. has variously described as mistakes, bad intelligence, misidentification, or collateral damage near what it claimed were legitimate military targets.

In all of those theaters, you can find documented incidents where school buildings, madrassas, or school buses were struck—often investigated by the UN, human‑rights groups, or journalists. In some cases, those investigations concluded the U.S. failed to take sufficient precautions, used flawed intelligence, or acted with reckless disregard for civilian life. But that is still legally and factually different from proven, intentional targeting of a known school as a school. There is no established pattern—backed by independent investigations—that the U.S. ran a campaign of deliberately attacking schools knowing they were purely civilian educational facilities.

No established pattern of deliberate targeting of schools. That's based on broad independent investigations by the UN and human rights groups and journalists.

The US conducted tens of thousands of airstrikes in Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, and Yemen. Comparatively, the numbers of claimed schools that were hit are barely double digit, out of tens of thousands of airstrikes. That's a 0.1% error rate which is significantly lower than any military in history. Is it excusable? No. Could it be better? Yes. But for any critic also engaged in warfare to claim some kind of moral superiority is an absolute farce.

A bit amusing how you're defending the same regime that just attacked a desalination plant, a bank, and an oil field that will result in one of the biggest ecological disasters in recent history reminiscent of a dirty bomb where the population will be poisoned and experience harms like cancer for decades to come.

Dude. You need better news sources. Iran has bombed desalinization plants, oilfields and refineries all across the Gulf states. As for banks, Iran hasn't used missiles but much more insidious measures like cyber attacks on US, Israeli and Gulf State banks and financial networks.

Let's not forget about the widespread global economic and environmental disaster unfolding as a result of Iran choking off the Strait of Hormuz, cutting nations off from needed food supplies, from needs for fertilizer and other crucial goods. Iran is indiscriminately firing on vessels. Even Chinese tankers turned back, after seeing vessels ahead of them being put at risk. India is already in an LPG shortage crisis. Iran is at war with the entire world.

Yes, in RESPONSE to being ATTACKED. This is on US.

And Israel. They're the ones who dragged us into this mess.

Iran has been funding attacks on Israel for years. They have also funded Hamas--the group that hides in hospitals and schools.

And, FWIW, the girls' school is horrific, but it has not been long since it was a part of the military base and is still adjacent to it. That is a fact. This was a very sad mistake.

So you believe we have intel sophisticated enough to take out their leadership structure, but not sophisticated enough to tell the difference between a military base 10 years ago, and a little girl's school today? That's what you want us to believe?

If we have intel sophisticated enough to take out their leadership structure then how did we get it wrong whel their Assembly of Experts gathered to select Ali Khameini's son? And why hasn't his son been taken out yet?

Those are far higher stakes targets and yet our intel clearly isn't perfect enough yet you think somehow it was going to be perfect where it comes to a school, which is indistinguishable from any other military building on aerial photography and which DOES NOT show clearly marked "sports fields" and so on as claimed?

And again, out of all of the things that the US targeted, schools represent less than 0.1% of what was hit. Literally. That's not a made-up number, that's based on all US military strike data going back through Iraq and Afghanistan. That in and of itself blows up the zealous "they did it on purpose" narrative. Out of thousands of bombing objectives that have been hit in Iran, only ONE school.

Look, I think Trump and Hegseth are liars and scumbags and are not fit to lead, I want to see them impeached and removed for a whole host of reasons, but at the same time, there's also some reality checks here based on actual facts and data that are exposing dishonest IRGC talking points. Somewhere in the middle between Trump admin lies and IRGC lies is the truth. I don't think "they knowingly targeted a girls school" is it.