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40 killed in girls' school in Iran after US-Israel attack, state media says
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2026
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I do not doubt anything about this attack taking place nor these details about it. It is a horrible attack. Do you have any evidence linking it to Israel, that is not just "Israel is attacking Iran today so this must be the work of Israel too"?
I apologize, and thank you for your patience. I didn't quite get your point about origin of strike.
It sounds pretty damn dodgy to me. But, yes, there is no verification of the strike's origins to my knowledge.
Actually there is at least some verifying material:
From the last image of the Factmeh presentation
In the comments of this link you have two different people theorizing it is the IRGC who did this. I've read elsewhere that that this school is located within a military complex has been lifted as an argument that it is the work of the IRGC, as it would be easy for them to carry it out.
I haven't seen any concrete evidence that it is this way or another. Let's say that it is an Israeli attack - you could perhaps explain it as an attempt to hit the military complex that went horribly wrong. But the US and Israeli attacks have overall been more precise than this.
The collateral damage in other cases have been limited to unlucky people being at the wrong place at the wrong time, where the legitimate target happens to be. I read that so far there's 133 civilians confirmed dead, of which 108 were at this school in question. Attacks like this will always have some collateral damage, and except for this school, I think it has been rather low.
We have the same evidence, I can't really add anything concrete to it.
What's your point? That it's more likely this was a self-sabotage? Or that it's still a possibility? Without concrete evidence, I don't know. And I don't really wanna theorize, but having focused on this story, I care about the girls and the people at the school and their relatives. They are not just numbers. So I've thought about this a bit as well.
If they [the aggressors] missed that there is a fucking school with very young school girls as part of the compound, then it's an intelligence failure and still the aggressor's responsibility to have caused this tragedy through their shit senseless offensive. And if they did know, they failed a moral test by attack anyway.
I don't accept that they needed to kill them as part of war strategies. Expect some damn accountability. That includes if Iran self-struck, but even that, as you claim being a rumoured strategy, is also something the aggressors should've known about.