Bombing of girls’ school in Iran that killed more than 150 was probably US air strike, military investigators believe

U.S. military investigators reportedly believe American forces were likely responsible for a strike on an Iranian school in Minab, in what analysts and human rights officials believe is the deadliest incident for civilian casualties since Donald Trump’s administration and Israeli forces began attacking the country.

Neither U.S. nor Israeli officials have publicly taken responsibility for the strike, which killed 150 students, according to Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva. The total death toll, which has reportedly exceeded 175 people, has not been independently confirmed.

Citing two U.S. officials, Reuters reported that military investigators have not yet reached a conclusion in an investigation but believe evidence shows the U.S. is responsible for the attack; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the White House have confirmed that the Pentagon is investigating.

The school building was 60 metres from an IRGC base and the building used to be part of it.

An unfortunate case of collateral damage.

MattE wrote on Mar 7^th, 2026 at 11:15am:

The school building was 60 metres from an IRGC base and the building used to be part of it. An unfortunate case of collateral damage.

Tell that to the hundreds of grieving parents.

greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 7^th, 2026 at 11:17am:

MattE wrote on Mar 7th, 2026 at 11:15am: The school building was 60 metres from an IRGC base and the building used to be part of it. An unfortunate case of collateral damage. Tell that to the hundreds of grieving parents.

Facts are facts whether or not they are grieving.

Former satellite imagery shows the school used to be within the perimeter of the IRGC base. It was only recently the perimeter changed where the school was within its own.

These mistakes happen with the pilot provided out of date intelligence.

Below is an NBC report on the school:

https://youtu.be/lDHB21mrjv8

One of the parents said that the IRGC base has not been operational for 15 years.

Very sad that this intelligence was not fully up-to-date. However, the war must go on.

MattE wrote on Mar 7^th, 2026 at 11:25am:

greggerypeccary wrote on Mar 7th, 2026 at 11:17am: MattE wrote on Mar 7th, 2026 at 11:15am: The school building was 60 metres from an IRGC base and the building used to be part of it. An unfortunate case of collateral damage. Tell that to the hundreds of grieving parents. Facts are facts whether or not they are grieving. Former satellite imagery shows the school used to be within the perimeter of the IRGC base. It was only recently the perimeter changed where the school was within its own. These mistakes happen with the pilot provided out of date intelligence.

Impeach Hegseth then?

Accidents happen.

MattE wrote on Mar 7^th, 2026 at 11:49am:

Accidents happen.

Yes, we can definitely agree on that.

Pisshead Pete's parents should have used birth control.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WH-VCUqTCk

MattE wrote on Mar 7^th, 2026 at 11:49am:

Accidents happen.

They do -
innocent people pay the price in all wars.

The death of Ali Khamenei and the end of political Islam’s century-long experiment in power.
https://ideas.tikvah.org/mosaic/essays/after-the-ayatollah
By Hussein Aboubakr Mansour
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead. The man who ruled the Islamic Republic of Iran for 36 years, outlasted six American presidents, built and sustained the most consequential sponsor of terrorism in the modern Middle East, forged an empire that extended from Iran to the Mediterranean shores in the north and to the entry of the Red Sea in the south, whose proxies dragged Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen into decades of war and chaos, whose Revolutionary Guard propped up Bashar al-Assad as he gassed and barrel-bombed his own population into the largest refugee crisis since the Second World War, whose Houthis brought famine to Yemen, whose funding and direction made October 7 possible, and whose missiles rained on Israel as Hamas executed the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, who oversaw the weekly chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” as liturgical rituals of his power—that man is gone, killed on a Saturday morning by the joint force of the two nations he swore to destroy.

He was eighty-six years old. He had been the supreme leader since June 4, 1989, elected by a special committee called the Assembly of Experts within hours of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, to a position for which he was, by the theological standards of Shiite jurisprudence, never fully qualified. Khamenei was a hojatoleslam, a mid-ranking title of respect for Shiite clerics, meaning “proof of Islam” or “authority on Islam.” Unlike his predecessor, he was not a grand ayatollah. His authority, therefore, was political rather than scholarly. He compensated for this deficit with ruthlessness, patience, and an unshaking commitment to the revolutionary project that consumed his entire adult life. He was nineteen when he first began studying under Khomeini. He was a revolutionary before he was anything else, imprisoned under the shah, wounded by an assassination attempt in 1981 that cost him the use of his right arm, and installed as president at forty-two in the chaotic aftermath of the Islamic Revolution. He served two terms, was elevated to supreme leader, and proceeded to outlast every rival, every reformist, every protest movement, and every American attempt at negotiation, containment, and coercion—until Saturday.

Frank wrote on Mar 7^th, 2026 at 12:25pm:

The death of Ali Khamenei and the end of political Islam’s century-long experiment in power. https://ideas.tikvah.org/mosaic/essays/after-the-ayatollah By Hussein Aboubakr Mansour Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead. He was eighty-six years old.

It's tragic that so many school girls only got to live to six or eight, thanks to Trump & Hegseth.