Analyses and video evidence emerged over the weekend showing that the air strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls’ Primary School on February 28—that killed over 160 girls aged 7 to 12—was carried out by the US military.

The girls’ school in Minab is in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province close to the Persian Gulf. The school was effectively pulverized by multiple blasts, and many of those killed were obliterated and could only be identified through DNA analysis. Footage showed bodies and body parts partially trapped under collapsed floors, alongside scattered schoolbags, notebooks and dust‑covered textbooks.

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    1 day ago

    According to Iran it was a double tap strike. The girls all gathered in a single location after the first strike and then the US bombed them again around 40 minuten later.

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      18 hours ago

      That information mashes me sick to my stomach. I hope to God that’s not true, but like, it’s totally believable without any empirical evidence

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        13 hours ago

        I think it is true because killing 180 people with two missiles is almost impossible unless they are all gathered very closely.

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        Apparently it was due to old intel pre-2015 (when the building was repurposed as a school) where that building was allegedly an ammo depot of the military complex besides… bombing with 10 year old intel, for sure a lack of care for human lives

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          That would be seriously lazy intelligence though…

          No parents, students or teachers in Minab ever posted a picture or video of the school since 2015?