https://apnews.com/article/iran-minab-girls-school-airstrike-us-israel-c3095dc9729881b567277a1c5c47efb2JERUSALEM (AP) — Satellite images, expert analysis, a U.S. official and public information released by the U.S. and Israeli militaries suggest an explosion that killed scores of Iranian students at a school was likely caused by U.S. airstrikes that also hit an adjacent compound associated with the regime’s Revolutionary Guard.The Feb. 28 strike, which had the highest reported civilian death toll since the war began, has come under staunch criticism from the United Nations and human rights monitors. More than 165 people were killed, most of them of children, in the blast during school hours at Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School, according to Iranian state media. Satellite images taken Wednesday and reviewed by the The Associated Press show most of the school in the city of Minab, some 1,100 kilometers (680 miles) southeast of Tehran, reduced to rubble, a crescent shape punched into its roof. Experts say the tight pattern of damage visible on the satellite photos is consistent with a targeted airstrike.Iran has blamed Israel and the United States for the blast. Neither country has accepted responsibility. Asked about the strike at the school at a Pentagon media briefing Wednesday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, “All I can say is that we’re investigating that. We, of course, never target civilian targets. But we’re taking a look and investigating that.”Several factors point to a U.S. strike.One is the launching of an assessment of the incident by the U.S. military. According to the Pentagon’s instructions on processes for mitigating civilian harm, an assessment is launched after a group of investigators make an initial determination that the U.S. military may bear culpability. A U.S. official told the AP that the strike was likely U.S. The official spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to comment publicly on the sensitive matter.
>>1495021Another is the location of the school — next to a Revolutionary Guard base in Hormozgan Province and close to barracks for its naval brigade. The U.S. military has focused on naval targets and acknowledged strikes in the province, including one in the vicinity of the school.Israel, which has denied conducting the strike, has focused on areas of Iran closer to Israel and hasn’t reported any strikes south of Isfahan, 800 kilometers (500 miles) away. The U.S. is operating warships in the Arabian Sea, including the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, within range of the school.When asked by the AP about its findings, U.S. military Central Command spokesperson Capt. Tim Hawkins said, “It would be inappropriate to comment given the incident is under investigation.”White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters Friday that she had no updates on the investigation and did not directly answer a question about whether President Donald Trump was satisfied with the pace of the probe.“My assumption is that probably there were some activities recently there and they detected and tracked them, but ... they weren’t aware or didn’t have an up-to-date database that a girls’ school was there and they bombed it,” said Farzin Nadimi, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy who studies Iran’s military.
>>1495022Satellite images show damageThe school is adjacent to a walled compound labeled on maps as the Seyyed Al-Shohada Cultural Complex of the Guard. In addition to the school, satellite photos show that blasts struck at least five buildings in the Guard compound, leaving the area pocked with craters, charred holes in roofs and piles of rubble.Iranian online map applications show a living quarters for the Assef Brigades about 150 meters (165 yards) from the school, inside the Revolutionary Guard compound. The 16th Assef Coastal Missile Group is part of the Guard’s navy, Nadimi said. The 1st Naval District, which the Assef Brigades belong to, is responsible for the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of all oil and natural gas traded passes. The strait has been a particular point of conflict in the war. In the aftermath of the strike, video from Iran’s state broadcaster verified by the AP using satellite imagery showed dozens of fresh graves dug at a nearby cemetery. Nadimi said it is likely the school taught daughters of Guard personnel.The strike has drawn wide condemnation from the secretary-general of the United Nations and international human rights groups. The criticism comes amid reports that airstrikes have also hit other schools in Iran.Targeting schools would be a clear violation of international laws governing armed conflict, said Elise Baker, a senior staff lawyer at the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based nonprofit think tank.“Strikes can only legally target military objectives and combatants, but the school was a civilian object and the students and teachers were civilians,” Baker said. “The school’s proximity to (Guard) facilities and the attendance of children of (Guard) members at the school does not change that conclusion: It was a civilian object.”
>>1495024Pattern of damage suggests targeted strikeThree experts told the AP the satellite imagery and videos from the scene strongly suggested multiple munitions hit the compound. Complicating any assessment is the lack of images of bomb fragments from the blast. No independent agency has reached the site during the war to investigate.There are no craters or evidence of bombs hitting in the surrounding neighborhood, suggesting a great degree of accuracy, said Corey Scher, a researcher who uses satellite imagery and radar data to study landscape changes in armed conflict zones.“All the strikes are clustered within the walled-off compound,” Scher said. “That’s one level of precision at the block level. And then most of the strikes are basically leading to direct hits on buildings. That’s another level of precision.”Scher said the school and the other buildings struck in the compound showed damage consistent with the use of air-to-surface munitions.“They didn’t explode in the air above the building,” he said. “It looks like the explosion happened at the time they hit the surface, whether it was the building or the ground.”Sean Moorhouse, a former British Army officer and explosive ordnance disposal expert, said the available satellite imagery was insufficient to determine exactly what type of munitions were used in the strike, but he said the visible damage was consistent with what would be expected with impacts from multiple 2,000-pound (900-kilogram) high-explosive warheads. He said the multiple precise impacts would undercut any suggestion that a malfunctioning Iranian missile hit the school.N.R. Jenzen-Jones, the director of Armament Research Services, said the school and Guard compound were targeted with “multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes.”
>>1495028“If indeed it is confirmed that an American or Israeli strike hit the school, there are several potential points of failure in the targeting cycle,” Jenzen-Jones said. “We might be seeing an intelligence failure, likely rather early in the process, which misidentified the target or failed to update a targeting list following the building’s change in use.”He said in videos of the school taken immediately after the strike, smoke can be seen rising from the Guard compound. There were also impacts on multiple buildings visible in satellite images and media reports citing witnesses who said they heard multiple explosions.U.N. Human Rights Office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said the investigation results needed to be made public.“The families of the little girls who were killed are entitled to the truth of how this happened,” she said.
AND AMERICA WILL DO IT TO YOUR COUNTRY TOO IF YOU CROSS US.WAR IS HELL. RIP GIRLS.
>>1495029Wait, is the school in the compound or next to it? If the school building was previously a military building and is still right next to military buildings, then that was a very stupid decision on Iran's part. Or a great one, depending on how aligned you are with their propaganda departments.
>“They didn’t explode in the air above the building,” he said. “It looks like the explosion happened at the time they hit the surface, whether it was the building or the ground.”Yah, Iran had this school rigged and ready to blow. As soon as the Ayatollah and other senior leadership was struck, they bombed this school. I wouldn't be surprised if there are more already set up. Next one will probably be a hospital.
>>1495021Lets not start pretending that Arabs are people, Anon. In order for there to be murder, there must be humans. Do you feel anything when you burn your garbage?
>>1495050Haha fuck off Nazi you're cartoonishly evil and will never be in power againYou're just a joke
>>1495021lol, dumbass dRumpf didn't know about the jews.Will he find out this time?stay tuned for the next episode of Jewish Golems.
ITT: >DADDY TRUMP DINDU NUFFIN BUT ALSO IF HE DID IT'S BASEDTen years of this shit
>>1495055Thank goodness he lost in 2020 and came back in 2024… It’s better this way.
>>1495057He didn't lose in 2020 you sound like one of those fake news liberals. He won in 2016 2020 AND 2024 and he's going to win again in 2028
>>1495058i can't wait until being a poltard is a felony
>>1495058I know it’s sad that old man Biden actually defeated Blondie but it happens. Whining doesn’t change a thing.
>>1495058Is there any genuine support left for Trump online at this point, or is it all just trolls trying to start an argument?
>>1495063It’s just trolls trolling trolls now… It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving president.
>>1495063There’s some. The cult is real. The bots and shills are only getting more numerous with time, though. It’s like the dead internet theory but for a political movement.
>>1495063Neocons love him.
>>1495058Amen brother. And after he's done let the man retire after 28 we haveIvanka 32 36 first female president!Donald Jr. 40 44Eric 48 52Barron 56 60The trump clan have enough money now to win each of these races easily. And each time they win, they're going to get more money from people who want to do business with them and with America. Looking like the win parade is going to keep on coming! and the best part is with each trump elected the libtards get madderGo with God
>>1495068please stop sucking cock on this sfw board shill anon
>>1495070please stop sucking cock on this sfw board shill anon
>>1495039You sir, are a true scholar and deserve a medal of true words spoken
>>1495063There are still some psycho fundies who think someone in the admin knows the day and the hour, but I suspect when the rapture doesn't happen as a result of this war, they'll leave too.
>>1495021Of course it was on purpose. It was demanded by Hegseth's overlord, Israel's government.
The war crimes just keep coming under the trump regime.https://www.huffpost.com/entry/submarine-torpedo-geneva-conventions_n_69ab102ae4b03ae2f88670fbThe QRD>US was supposed to have a military exercise with Iran and Sri Lanka.>This means everyone is disarmed for it.>US pulls out only after trump starts his war crime spree in Iran>Then has a sub torpedo the Iranian ship>And doesn't come to the aid of ship wrecked sailors, which is a war crime.>Sri Lankans manage to rescue some of the sailors so trump can't lie now.
>>1495172>I ask you: Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?— Joseph GoebbelsWe going back to the days when /pol/ was supreme.
>>1495172Not to defend Trump but do you reasonably expect a submarine to be able to rescue many number of people
I heard from an Iranian expatriate, that these sort of killings of virgin schoolgirls is especially hated in Iran. Family members have not had a chance to deflower them.
Iran, which is being beat to HELL, were looking to take over and rule the Middle East. It is the first time that Iran has ever lost, in thousands of years. Everyone is saying, “Thank you President Mr. Trump.” Trump has said, “You’re welcome!” Iran is no longer the “Bully of the Middle East,” they are, instead, “THE LOSER OF THE MIDDLE EAST,” and will be for many decades until they surrender or, more likely, be destroyed in nuclear fire! Today and Tommorow Iran will be hit very hard! Under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain eradication, because of Iran’s bad behavior, are areas and citizens that were not considered for targeting up until this moment in time. Thank God for Mr. President DONALD J. TRUMP!
>>1495172I will still never ever vote for a Democrat.
>>1495194I like this new psyop of arguing that democrats are anti-war now. As if we didn't just go through the Ukraine war.
>>1495195I don't even care if they are or aren't. I will never vote Democrat ever again.If Trump rapes kidsIf Trump starts warsIf Trump destroys the economyIf Trump spread AIDSIf Trump rapes meIf Trump has my family deported accidentallyI literally will never vote for a Democrat ever again and Karening over Trump constantly has only made me more annoyed.
>>1495180After the Lusitania? You aren't expected to let them board the sub but you can give them some life rafts so they don't die in the ocean.But that was the whole point, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that after it was confirmed to be sinking the sub was given orders to fire again to maximize how many sailors they could murder. Just like how they kept double tapping all the fishermen boats.
>>1495198I also like the psyop of being told that Trump is a super secret pedophile. As if democrats haven't been trying to legalize pedophilia, rape and the spread of STDs for decades now.
>>1495198Never say Never!
>>1495215No, never. No matter what Trump does I will never vote for a Democrat.
>>1495220You're not american, you can't vote for anyone
>>1495222If I weren't American I'd definitely want Democrats in power.
other articles about this:it seems the military also thought they were responsible for killin all those children.>Military Secretly Admits U.S. Role in Girls School Bomb Horrorhttps://www.thedailybeast.com/us-forces-likely-behind-deadly-iran-girls-school-strike/>Bombing of girls’ school in Iran that killed more than 150 was probably US air strike, military investigators believehttps://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/iran-girls-school-us-military-investigation-b2933564.html
>>1495228If I hated America and wanted to see it collapse in the most spectacular way possible, I'd vote straight ticket Republican.
>>1495266Collapse as in how? Like an economic Bidengeddon? Massive Bideflation?Or by collapse you just mean 'less gay sex with young boys for me'.>>1495266Anyway. I'm not even certain if you get an opinion until you apologize for Joe Biden.
>>1495268can you literally not go a day without thinking about cock
>>1495270>No argumentconcession accepted
>>1495274you don't have a counterargument to my observation that you bring up genitals all the time for no reason? i guess i'll accept your concession
>>1495268>bombs Iran>Iran starts bombing every gulf state, destroying global oil production>closes strait of Hormuz as a consequence (20% of global production goes through the strait), insurance companies won't back any ship going through there>fucks with oil production in the region, India banging on Trump's door to give them some leeway>Trump wants to put boots on the ground, no long-term plan to extract from Iran post invasion, war could last a decade if not moreIf you're a normie, the most immediate impact of this war is your grocery bill going up dramatically over the next few months.
>>1495279Great where's all the cover saying it isn't going to happen this time, and it's all in my imagination?Oh wait there isn't any, because there's no Democrat in office right now.>MOM, I'm on the fucking Internet manufacturing consent for inflationYou're a piece of shit.
>>1495021They won’t acknowledge this even if it was by accident or from old intel, anyway they don’t see it as any kind of wrongdoing even if it was on purpose. It’s very similar to how they handled the ICE killings in Minnesota
>>1495297Of course not. Admitting mistakes is for beta males or something. What gets me is that this is one of the very first things we did. Day 1, first salvo, already did something outrageously evil. And they won’t even own up to it, can’t even say it was a tragic mistake and apologize. Because they’re actually that fucking weak. Christ.
>>1495300>Implying Iranians are people and thus deserve human rightsAnon, the adults are talking. When you have a realistic idea of the way interpersonal politics works you can come back here from the kiddie table.
>>1495300It’s not even shocking when you consider how Israel acts in Gaza, hospitals and tents being targeted along with ambulances and little girls being killed whilst hiding in cars and etc. A lot of psychopaths in charge will never hold the peace if they do attain victory. This kind of warfare makes the opponent never surrender, they’re worse than Mongols
>>1495304That at least wasn’t us. Like, Isreal committing crimes against humanity? Must be a day ending in Y. Now? Here we fucking are. It’s unfortunately not surprising, but it’s still shocking.>This kind of warfare makes the opponent never surrender, they’re worse than MongolsAs a light student of history, that statement hit really hard. Not sure I’d agree, but that being a “not sure” is already damning enough.
>>1495308It’s funded by the US. It’s perfectly reasonable to cut funding due to genocide, by not doing so it looks like at least tacit approval. I think it’s the same war in different theatres, the reason Israel attacks Iran is because Iran support Hamas and that’s why the Americans believe Iran will attack them once Israel attacks Iran (America supports Israel as Iran supports Hamas). They’re projecting their own ideas or philosophy onto the enemy, it’s short sighted, it’s why they don’t care if they bomb schoolgirls (because they believe the enemy will do the same)
>>1495282>Great where's all the cover saying it isn't going to happen this timeNowhere, because it's difficult to spin this war as anything other than a catastrophic loss for the united states.They're literally using Bush jr. propaganda to try to convince you that Iran is a nuclear threat. That's how bad things have gotten.
>>1495046This. Everyone who thinks that the school just HAPPENED to blow up right as America killed khameini is an idiot. Iran will kill as many of its own population as is necessary to hurt America
>>1495317It’s tricky. On one hand, Isreal is fucking screwed without our support. Their government is fucking evil, but I’m not okay with their civilian population just getting left to die. On the other hand, you’re absolutely right that just continuing to fund them business as usual as they commit a fucking genocide is insane. I don’t know what to do, but it’s definitely not that, or this.>They’re projecting their own ideas or philosophy onto the enemy, it’s short sighted, it’s why they don’t care if they bomb schoolgirls (because they believe the enemy will do the same)You’re giving them too much credit. They just want to kill them.>>1495329>if you think the illegal war carried out by a regime that does war crimes just committed a war crime, then you’re STUPID!Yeah, that must be it.
It's sure weird that every school, playground, hospital, church and mosque that Israel bombs has terrorists under it. What are the odds!
>>1495339Missiles are expensive. Schoolgirls provide zero tactical benefit.If the school had leadership kids in it, I would believe the strike was American. But it was just a random school next to an IRGC base that blew up as soon as the leader of Iran did. This was a false flag 100%
>>1495349>Schoolgirls provide zero tactical benefit.Epstein would disagree.
>>1495340Israel bombs everything.Iran does utilize schools for IRGC staging and hospitals for cleric meetings.Both are true.
>>1495349>Missiles are expensive. Not to Trump. He thinks we’ve got an infinite ammo cheat.>Schoolgirls provide zero tactical benefit.You’re vastly overestimating the tactical skill of this administration.
>>1495039They'll also kidnap and rape them for their jew god
>>1495352I think it's more likely that Israel is lying all the time. They literally bombed a park and claimed it was harboring terrorists.This is reminiscent of the Afghanistan war.
>>1495021lol, sure.
>>1495046>Satellite images, expert analysis, a U.S. official and public information released by the U.S. and Israeli militaries suggest an explosion that killed scores of Iranian students at a school was likely caused by U.S. airstrikes that also hit an adjacent compound associated with the regime’s Revolutionary Guard.Shut the fuck up
>>1495059Just like this guy>>1495052
>>1495358Cry more. Iranians around the world are dancing with joy and singing Trump's praises.
>>1495356Israel lies all the timeThis school was blown up by IranBoth are true
>>1495360Concession accepted, faggot.
>>1495360Not the 100 girls he killed, they're dead. Little girls and Trump seem to have only one relation: Get raped by him or bombed by him.
>>1495362NtaNothing more gay that saying "concession accepted"
>>1495360This shit happened with Iraqis too, and those same Iraqis formed ISIS and killed millions of people. The people celebrating are genuine human scum. And we'll be "Nation building" them for the next 10 years once they take over.
>>1495364…sorry. I see MAGAs play that card all the time, so you’re probably right. I shouldn’t stoop to their level.
>>1495362lol. Cry more, sand nigger.
>>1495365Sure thing, Nostradumbass.
>>1495195There's a difference between starting a war and assisting an ally in surviving one.
>>1495365We don't need to rebuild their nation.Iran is shiaThe rest of the gulf is sunniAnd Iran just bombed most of their neighborsThe Muslims will sort out the Muslims for us. Iran will prosper and be brought into the "money is better than middles" fold.
>>1495369and the biggest difference is whether or not your president is a russian asset at the moment
>>1495370>MiddlesMissiles*
>>1495369>and assisting an ally in surviving oneAre you talking about Israel or Ukraine? Because in both cases our "ally" struck first.
>>1495374LOL
>>1495369The other anon who replied to your post is called "lowercase esl shill" and can be safely ignored in 100% of cases. Their only goal is to generate outrage they have neither principles nor goals beyond that. They are terminally online and rely on replies for the seratonin that has historically been provided by friends and family.This guy 1495371
>>1495377did i hurt your feelings that bad? oh wow
>>1495374>Both casesIsrael bombed khameini to start the Iran war. Russia tried to ez mode deltaforce kiev's airport to start the Ukraine war. Nice try but we only post truth on this website.
>>1495368you said this shit over the iraq war too, retard.
>>1495371my mistake, I forgot to quote your post because I am new to this website. I meant to quote you in >>1495377 my bad =^)
>>1495382it's too bad you feel that way anon, innocuous lines of text really rile you up huh
1495382Pretending to be me.1495383Pretending to reply to me.He's weird and as I've said elsewhere, 100% safe to ignore.
>>1495381Stay mad, Goat Fucker. I'm enjoying a nice peice of crispy bacon.
>>1495384trying too hard, not a very good liar
>>1495379>country spent eight years committing warcrimes in donbas.>"stop being retarded or we're going to invade">"no">"okay">"AHHHH HELP ME NATO-SAMA">retards on reddit: "How could russia do this?"
>>1495021What were those little terrorists congregating in that school for anyways?
>>1495393Russia lost in 1990s and it lost in 2020sThe only constant?Putin.
>>1495063I think the masses are moving towards both sides are bad, votes aren’t helping
>>1495192When Trump is done, there will be NOBODY LEFT TO SURRENDER. This is what strength looks like. This is how a real man, a true conservative fights war. We do not love war, but when we do fight, we do not believe in mercy or laws, we get shit done.
>>1495397nerd
>>1495396>both sides bad, but my side will hurt me lesshas been the consensus for most of my life.
>>1495397Amen brotherGood men. War. World. Fear.
>>1495400please stop talking to yourself
>>1495401The "anon that posts in all lowercase and calls people esl shill" never has any other goal than trolling. You may safely ignore everything they say. In fact, ignoring them infuriates them far more than any reply. You know you've won when they refuse to even reply and just post straight to the thread, still whinging about you.Honestly, the fact that he's so incompetent and so alone is a great sign that this board is free of outside actor influence. He has no tech capacity to multipost spam. He has no brain capacity to disguise his posts. He is just one sadman and he is easily dodged. Except when you want to give him a (you) so that he exposes himself further. As I've said previously, he isn't that smart.
>>14954044chan's quality would improve 100% if we forced out all the libbies like the esl shill. /pol/ /tv/ and /v/ are the best boards on this diseased site because they drove out all the deranged libzoids.
>>1495406your site is dying and i'm major kong
>>1495172It's not a war crime to torpedo a warship you fucking retard.
>>1495406Your board was founded by fucking Epstein. You're a cancer, born from a dangerous level of the hazardous chemical known as contrarianism.
>>1495417>/Pol/ is Epstein>But the rest of 4chan isn't pedotrashLolololol This site is text and image based, it's dying and full of boomer Nazi pedos
>>1495404You sound like such a fucking dweeb, jesus christ.
>>1495409>StrawmanTypical shill behavior.
>>1495021After three or four more they'll stop reporting on it
>>1495418I resent that statement, I'm on millennial.
>>1495021We're bombing desalination plants and people are acting like bombing children is unbelievable? Please. They're just evil.
>>1495723Israel is committing to white phosphorus in Lebanon. I genuinely can't even comprehend it.
>>1495021Was the strategy of massacring children suggested to them by Skynet?
