Pentagon Believes U.S. Military Likely Struck Iranian School
By: Michael Luciano (Mediaite)
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Michael LucianoMar 5th, 2026, 10:49 pm Share XFacebook Copy Link
The airstrike that struck an all-girls' elementary school in southern Iran was likely carried out by the United States, U.S. military investigators believe, according to a report published by Reuters on Thursday night. Reuters cited "two U.S. officials."
The U.S. and Israel began bombing Iran on Saturday in a campaign that President Donald Trump said could last at least a month. He has refused to rule out deploying American soldiers to Iran.
The bombings killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and dozens of top Iranian officials over the weekend, which also saw a strike on the girls' school in Minab. At least 175 people - mostly young girls - were killed in the bombing, according to the Iranian government.
"Reuters was unable to determine more details about the investigation, including what evidence contributed to the tentative assessment, what type of munition was used, who was responsible or why the U.S. might have struck the school," the news agency stated.
The Trump administration has faced questions over the strike. Both White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said this week that the incident was being investigated.
Reuters added that it has not determined how long the probe will last.
Trump has said the bombings are necessary to destroy Iran's nuclear program, which last year he said was "totally obliterated" in a U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign last summer.
More than 1,000 civilians have died in the bombings since Saturday, according to a human rights watchdog. Six U.S. service members were killed in Kuwait in an Iranian retaliatory strike.
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Pete Hegseth : "We killed them real good." /s
The US never targets schools. This was obviously accidental collateral damage.
"According to locals, the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab was a former military facility converted into an all-girls elementary school. [15] At the time of the airstrikes, the school was located approximately 600 metres (660 yd) away from the Sayyid al-Shuhada military complex which includes the headquarters of the Asif Brigade of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy . [10] [16] [17] [18] 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. [10] Al Jazeera stated that the school that "had been separated from the military complex and had become a clearly defined civilian institution for more than 10 years". [18]
2026 Minab school airstrike - Wikipedia
It happens unfortunately, and more often than it should with evil Islamists who hide behind innocent people.
That makes it ok? Incompetence in military intelligence and missile control is acceptable?
That’s not what happened here. Why would you say that when you posted this:
Because that is the kind of people we are fighting. We try not to hit civilian targets, but it happens.
So do you want to do?
Except the very thing you posted says that is not the kind of people we are fighting. Iran is not Gaza. And if you insist that they are the same, then you are saying we targeted the school on purpose.
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what's with that loud sucking and slurping sound? oh wait, never mind ...
Well, those children probably mostly came from nuclear families, so the way this administration functions, that was probably reason enough. Any minute now, we will hear they brought it on themselves.
Assuming it is true it is important to figure out if it was an equipment problem, operator error or if the intel was faulty.
The Israeli's spent 4 days denying it was them, then their position switched to an Iranian mis fire, then they doubled down on it.
Now their ally all but admits fault.
The fog of war is avoidable.
It is the people that need an investigation done within hours after the incident that help create the fog. The military should just shut their mouth when something happens but unfortunately if the do the media will go with what the enemy says as fact. It is a crappy situation that a tragedy is used for propaganda purposes without any facts.
It doesn't help that with or without facts, the media will publish some completely fictional article with zero information strictly for the reader numbers.
Of course. Then people will post it as fact. Misinformation is a problem only getting bigger, the politicians saying this is an illegal war are only adding to it.
And we'll see it from the usual suspects here on NT.
Even idiots are entitled to their opinion. Doesn't make them right.
‘the media will publish some completely fictional article with zero information strictly for the reader numbers’
Very similar to this article where Reuters cited ‘two US officials’
US military intelligence was dated by a decade, and now thanks to tulsi and pete it's nonexistent ...
That's one opinion from somebody who doens't have access.
I've got ears closer to sources that matter than helmet polishing foxhole dwellers will ever have ...
So your source is the rumor mill.
nah, I never listen to the opinions of maga vets. IMO their credibility and their word is meaningless now ...
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does that phrase make you cry?
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you made him laugh
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If you wish to keep trolling, let me know. I'm happy to let you think you made somebody cry. Because that makes me laugh hysterically
pistol packing pete doesn't care about civilians getting killed ...
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stop while you're ahead
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Assuming it’s true? What makes you think it’s not? All parties seem to agree that it happened. Iran says it happened, and both Israel and the US agree.
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It wouldn’t shock me if Israel did it on purpose. I believe our two countries have fundamentally different goals with respect to Iran.
The school is on an IRGC base. It was a school for the soldiers' dependent children.
It was intended for something military or their parents.
Netanyahu wants to kill Muslims. Netanyahu does not represent all Israelis or Jews. He's as bloodthirsty as Hitler
Yep. I don’t know who bombed a school, but I do know who was most likely to have done it because they meant to.
So much winning!
trumpski's bestie putin provided the russian targeting coordinates to iran for their drone to hit the command center in kuwait killing 6 americans ...
nice...Kuwait was the Green Zone during the Iraq War. My son was deployed there a couple of times. Now it's not safe at all
Obama would never do that.,.
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... ugh.
I really hate it when trump's maga dick suckers get their comments reinstated ...