We do know that the US was targeting the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC), and the school is in an IRGC compound.
The most likely explanation seems to be that they intended to target an IRGC building, but instead hit the school. Whether that’s an issue with the missile’s guidance system, the plane’s targeting system, outdated maps, or a flaw in whatever process the military is using to select targets, is unknown.
It’s of course, possible that the US intentionally bombed a little girls school, but it seems somewhat unlikely. Even the most hawkish war mongerers recognize that randomly slaughtering hundreds of school girls is not going to gain support for your war.
Came here to say basically this. I read that it used to be on the compound, but that it was separated out by a wall and made into a school some time ago - long enough that it means (if it’s true) we were using very outdated data, but you can apparently see on Google maps that it used to be part of the compound but now is outside the compound.
So a charitable interpretation is that we used outdated information to bomb what we thought was a military building. And of course there are less charitable interpretations.
The school was in the IRGC compound; however that was 10 years ago.
According to satellite imagery, the building in which the school was housed was initially walled within the IRGC compound in 2013 but was then walled off by September 2016.
Currently, the most likely explanation was that AI was used to choose targets and it hallucinated the building being a military target based on old data. Also, the strike was not an accidental miss, because it involved a “double-tab” with a second missile used to kill those who came to provide aid after the first hit.
We do know that the US was targeting the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC), and the school is in an IRGC compound.
The most likely explanation seems to be that they intended to target an IRGC building, but instead hit the school. Whether that’s an issue with the missile’s guidance system, the plane’s targeting system, outdated maps, or a flaw in whatever process the military is using to select targets, is unknown.
It’s of course, possible that the US intentionally bombed a little girls school, but it seems somewhat unlikely. Even the most hawkish war mongerers recognize that randomly slaughtering hundreds of school girls is not going to gain support for your war.
Came here to say basically this. I read that it used to be on the compound, but that it was separated out by a wall and made into a school some time ago - long enough that it means (if it’s true) we were using very outdated data, but you can apparently see on Google maps that it used to be part of the compound but now is outside the compound.
So a charitable interpretation is that we used outdated information to bomb what we thought was a military building. And of course there are less charitable interpretations.
The school was in the IRGC compound; however that was 10 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_airstrike (original source was paywalled)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/3/questions-over-minab-girls-school-strike-as-israel-us-deny-involvement
Currently, the most likely explanation was that AI was used to choose targets and it hallucinated the building being a military target based on old data. Also, the strike was not an accidental miss, because it involved a “double-tab” with a second missile used to kill those who came to provide aid after the first hit.
Well the military won’t even acknowledge that a mistake was made so de facto they ARE perfectly fine with massacring children until proven otherwise.
They are now on par with their IDF brothers as far as I’m concerned.