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.

MattE wrote Yesterday at 11:15am:


Tell that to the hundreds of grieving parents.

Below is an NBC report on the school:



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.

Accidents happen.

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.