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

    In this case, it sounds like the school used to be part of the neighboring base, so the US intelligence was just very outdated. So the guy with his finger on the trigger was probably told it was a military target.

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      15 hours ago

      That’s the thing with wars, when you start one, innocents die and suffer. There are no clean wars, no surgical strikes, nothing of that bullshit. When you do this, you’re ok with innocents paying the price. It’s especially vile when you do it from across the globe nonchalantly.

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      18 hours ago

      The guy with his finger on the trigger wasn’t told a goddamn thing. Conversation went like this:

      “Fire on these coordinates.”

      “Yessir.”