Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base
1d 1h ago by lemmy.ca/u/breakfastmtn in world from www.nytimes.com
The Feb. 28 school strike in Minab, which killed dozens, including children, appears to have been part of an attack on an adjacent naval base in southern Iran, where officials said U.S. forces were operating.
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.
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Determining precisely what happened has been impeded by the lack of visible weapons fragments and the inability of outside reporters to reach the scene. The total death toll has yet to be independently confirmed, but Iranian health officials and state media said the strike had killed at least 175 people, many of them children, at the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school.
This is horrible regardless of who's to blame, but why would you build a school next to a naval base? Who thought that would be a good idea?
Apparently a lot of the students were kids of the navy members
Of course they were, hence the double-tap.
They were innocent children.
I was just saying, it makes sense to build a school where you have a lot of children. Especially girls in a society that makes it difficult for girls to travel around.
But of course the Epstein files prove Trump sees children (especially girls) as things to exploit, so that tracks.
I went to a K-8 school on (not next to it, but inside the base's fence line) a USAF base in South Carolina, just in case you aren't aware that it's done all the time.
It makes for good propaganda when it inevitably gets hit