Via the NYT: Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base.
The Feb. 28 strike that hit an elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab is the deadliest known episode of civilian casualties since the United States and Israel attacked Iran — and no side has yet taken responsibility.
But a body of evidence assembled by The New York Times — including newly released satellite imagery, social media posts and verified videos — indicates the school building was severely damaged by a precision strike that occurred at the same time as attacks on an adjacent naval base operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
And official statements that U.S. forces were attacking naval targets near the Strait of Hormuz, where the I.R.G.C. base is located, suggest they were most likely to have carried out the strike.
Via Reuters: Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say.
U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation, two U.S. officials told Reuters.
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The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military matters, did not rule out the possibility that new evidence could emerge that absolves the U.S. of responsibility and points to another responsible party in the incident.
Reuters could not determine how much longer the investigation would last or what evidence U.S. investigators are seeking before the assessment can be completed.
The girls’ school in Minab, in southern Iran, was hit on Saturday during the first day of U.S. and Israeli attacks on the country. Iran’s ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, Ali Bahreini, said the strike killed 150 students. Reuters could not independently confirm the death toll.
This should be a reminder that raining down death from the skies does not end up killing only “bad guys” and that undertaking this kind of operation, even with clear goals and objectives, is going to cost a lot of innocent lives. Such results are made all the worse when it is not clear what the ultimate goals are in this conflict, nor if there is any understanding of its consequences.
Of course, Trump blames Iran, but in the clip, it is noteworthy that Hegseth didn’t confirm that assertion, but noted there was an investigation.
But, of course, we have already seen via ICE raids and detention facilities what this administration thinks about anyone they deem as unimportant or undesirable. They treat immigrants as inferior, most especially non-whites, but are even willing to kill white citizens if they are found to be sufficiently annoying.
As such, it is no surprise that a bunch of foreigners on the other side of the world don’t really count.
Heck, just ask Stephen Miller:
Or Hegseth:
We have decided, it seems, that all we need to know about military action is what Rush Limbaugh used to say about the military: it exists to “kill people and break things,” and so that is what we are doing in Iran, and the aftermath can just sort itself out.
