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
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.”
Based on the NYT article analyzing the video and satellite imagery, we can be fairly confident that it was a direct tomahawk hit. And checking the satellite images, the school looks like a part of the IRGC base where other buildings were also targeted. So they most likely intended to hit the building, but they (obviously) didn’t know there was a school in it. A major fuckup caused by carelessness/incompetence that should have never happened, and heads should roll.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/world/middleeast/iran-minab-school-strike.html
I mean both Iran and the U.S. seem to agree it was near a naval base. Most logical conclusion is that they just missed, whether it be from someone thinking they had the coordinates right from outdated information, someone being dumb and picking the wrong side of the compound, or simply the missile not being as accurate as people want to admit.
At best it was negligence, at worst it was sending a message by intentionally doing it to strike fear.
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
If you can get out now do it, although at this point there are few safe havens, Europe is about to get hit hard economically if not worse with escalations from Russia now that the US is fighting a checks notes 6 front global war
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. 🦅💪🇱🇷🇱🇷🇱🇷
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.
It’s impossible that they didn’t know what they were doing.
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)
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.
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_airstrike (original source was paywalled)
[the school] had been separated from the military complex and had become a clearly defined civilian institution for more than 10 years.
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.
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.
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.
“shock and awe” (and profit. it’s always profit.)
It was next to a naval base and the Trump administration can’t be arsed to check what they are bombing
I read in another article it was near a naval yard, so looked like they either missed or had bad intel. As for why they won’t admit it…I mean we’ve all seen this administration - no admissions of wrongdoing no matter what, no matter how big or small the stakes.
Transgression through the ultimate taboo: child sacrifice. They do it in front of our eyes to capture attention, share the karmic responsibility, and cultivate learned helplessness.
The AI decreed it so!
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.
Well, the actual NYT article has the headline
U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows
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.
I heard the school was built on former military land. So could be a case of very outdated information.
Trump: This could have been Iran’s tomahawk missile misfiring.
The US has sold 0 Tomahawks to Iran, and it is exclusively available to closest US allies, which are all in the “pure demonic hatred towards” Iran club. Tomahawks further require special launching hardware, including a specific fitting rocket booster, software, and a US satelitte data link for any targetting.
That headline is just irrisponsible. The evidence the NYT dug up was damming enough there’s no need to misrepresent it. The video shows a missile hitting the naval base. Given that the school next to it was probably also hit by the US. The Times very helpfully highlights both the naval base and the school in the footage. Not writing a factually incorrect headline for the clicks is not hard here.
Netanyahu taught the US well about killing children.
I’m pretty sure this administration was well versed in ruining children’s lives and required no assistance.
I’m pretty sure that’s probably right, but they sure are improving their efficiency in these times
Please link the original article instead of the repost, unless the repost adds some original reporting too:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/world/middleeast/iran-minab-school-strike.html?smtyp=cur
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They got Freedom Fried.
