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New Video Appears to Show US Missile Hitting Iranian Girls School, Killing 175 People: NYT
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What the fuck is this even about? No seriously, can someone explain it to me? Is he aiming for terrorists and missing? Like why are they bombing little girls
Because this isn't one of those "woke wars" like we had in the past. If you kill all the kids, they can't grow up and fight for Iran. 🦅💪🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷
I heard the school was built on former military land. So could be a case of very outdated information.
Anyone giving you a confident answer on this is going to be doing so baselessly. The real answer is "we don't know". Journalists for the world's most well-connected news organizations have been working around the clock just to identify that the missile was even American. That's the state of information right now, and the unfortunate fact is we're just going to have to wait for an answer if one ever comes.
The most you can really know right now is "it didn't need to happen, and it was the US' fault regardless."
I suspect that the intent is to ensure that the war goes on as long as possible by creating circumstances in which the Iranians will never stop fighting. Israel and the US need a constant state of war to protect their administrations and military industries. Doing things like this means that there will be no peace efforts any time soon. That is so obvious that is pretty much has to be the intent here.
EDIT: Worth noting that the US and Israel have actually struck MULTIPLE schools, hospitals, and dense residential structures. Whatever the reason, it is absolutely NOT an accident.
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 Whether that's an issue with the missile's guidance system, the plane's targeting system, outdated maps, or a flaw in whatever process the military is using to select targets, is unknown.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 US has worlds most advanced satellites and intel. It's impossible that they didn't know what they were doing. 100% someone even brought it up and they decided to ignore the person.
I mean, we know for a fact that they used Palantir's system for planning the invasion which is an automated intelligence analysis system.
That alone makes it entirely possible for them to have information and not know about it, on top of all the other existing ways that information can be compartmentalized, or thorough analysis and double checking can be skipped.
It's absolutely not impossible.
It's irresponsible and stupid, but it's absolutely not impossible. People and systems can be smart, but often they are very very dumb.
That said, I wouldn't be shocked if nobody could be bothered to remove it from a target list under the idea of claiming it was an accident or something.
But do I think it's impossible the people putting it on the target list didn't know? Not at all. (But do I think it was likely there wasn't someone who knew? Also yes)
The military likes to be seen as competent in media but in reality...
Here's one attempt to explain: https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2026/03/joy-at-death-and-destruction/ (Craig Murray isn't some crackpot pulling thoughts out of thin air, he's a former British ambassador and fairly famous whistleblower).
Thank you, this actually helps paint a picture of what's going on. I see now that the us has become nazi germany. Question is whether I should move to Europe now or after I finish my masters in June. lol
Well... You know, Trump has a complicated relationship with little girls.
If you want an educated guess: they were probably letting some LLM do target selection.
“shock and awe” (and profit. it’s always profit.)
If you ask MAGA, "it's so the Democrats can whine about it."
A realistic answer would be that they are taking a leaf out of the IDF's book and are being cruel just for cruelty's sake.
holy shit is that what they’re saying??? murdering hundreds of innocent children to… own the libs???
how can someone have such little regard for human life??? privilege and entitlement are a murderous poison
The terrorists here are Israel and the US
We don’t know if it was a mistake or not, and we still do not have proof who was the attacker.
If it was done by mistake: Mistakes can happen easily, especially when the processes are fresh and everything is chaotic. Those mistakes can happen on all levels, from intelligence to the person actually shooting.
If it was done on purpose: propaganda is a big weapon and there can be multiple motivations doing an attack like that. Non of them include ethical standards, international law or morals. War sucks always.
The missile is confirmed by various experts as a Tomahawk Cruise missile. Iran doesn't have any Tomahawks, so Trump's claim that the Iranians did it is ridiculous. I guess that leaves the USA and Israel.
We know they want the Iranian people to rise up, overthrow their government, and welcome the US forces as glorious liberators, (IMHO the probabilities are maybe, possibly, no chance), so I wonder if they're trying to cause as much harm as possible so people will go "if we just overthrow our government, the US will stop hurting us". It would be psycopathic of the US to think so, but I have seen no evidence to suggest that makes it impossible.
Of course, now that they're using "AI" they get to blame that for any targeting "mishaps" that become a liability.
Well, the actual NYT article has the headline
The school appears to be part of the same compound as the naval base. Presumably someone or something thought it was part of that base.
There are several possible reasons that may not cover 100% regardless.
One explanation I heard was that it was very close to a naval base and almost all the students were kids of high ranked officers. They killed their kids to send them a message.
I can't find the video in the article to confirm, but I also heard it was double tapped.