U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says

[Nevilledog]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/politics/iran-school-missile-strike.html

No paywall link
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/politics/iran-school-missile-strike.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SVA.ncxf.R18iVP_UN11w&smid=url-share


An ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the preliminary findings.

The Feb. 28 strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was the result of a targeting mistake by the U.S. military, which was conducting strikes on an adjacent Iranian base of which the school building was formerly a part, the preliminary investigation found. Officers at U.S. Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, people briefed on the investigation said.

Officials emphasized that the findings are preliminary and that there are important unanswered questions about why the outdated information had not been double checked.

Striking a school full of children is sure to be recorded as one of the most devastating single military errors in recent decades. Iranian officials have said the death toll was at least 175 people, most of them children.

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[Ocelot II]

1. Here's a gift link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/politics/iran-school-missile-strike.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SVA.ncxf.R18iVP_UN11w&smid=url-share

[Nevilledog]

5. Thanks!

[Prairie Gates]

2. "why the outdated information had not been double checked"

Because the US military does not consider Iranians to be human beings.

It's not that hard.

[Nevilledog]

4. That's, plus this 👇

The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-defense-department-iran-hegseth-civilian-casualties

[highplainsdem]

6. And because the Trump regime is incompetent.

[Ocelot II]

9. Because the DoD is staffed with incompetent toadies.

Apparently the school building was clearly separated from the nearby military buildings about ten years ago, and in the meantime nobody bothered to review recent satellite imagery to double-check what it was they were about to blow up. Maybe Whiskey Pete sacked all the Black and women officers who were working at the DIA so there was nobody left to do it.

[Walleye]

3. Hegseth, you got the blood of children on your hands. It won't wash off.

[Traildogbob]

7. Correct the headline please,

Not the US, it is the fault of Jarod, Steve, Pete and Trump.
Cheered on by Fox, Graham Moses Mike and Maher.
And GQP congress, on the rob tail of Jeeebus.

[leftstreet]

8. DURec

[Baitball Blogger]

10. Not to worry, conservatives. The facts will be buried under Trump's anti-DEI policy.