US investigators believe strike on Iranian girls' school probably carried out by US forces. Warning graphic.

[Botany]

US military officials briefed on investigation make disclosure, while Pentagon has confirmed only that inquiry is under way.

Military investigators believe it is likely that US forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reached a final conclusion, according to two US officials.

Reuters was unable to determine further details about the investigation, including what evidence contributed to the tentative assessment, what type of munition was used, who was responsible or why the US might have struck the school.

The Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, on Wednesday acknowledged the US military was investigating the incident.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/06/us-investigators-believe-strike-on-iranian-girls-school-likely-carried-out-by-us-forces

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So the attack was a “double tap” operation where a second attack happened shortly after the
first one in order to kill more people included Iranians coming to help the victims.

As of 3 days ago the casualties were 168 dead and 95 wounded or 263 dead or wounded most
of which were school girls ages 7 to 12 years old. The number of dead has no doubt risen because
many of the wounded will have passed because of their injuries.





Where are all those good American Christians now?



How many Iranian Martyrs did Stephen Miller, Trump, Israel, and Saudi Arabia just make?

[Irish_Dem]

1. Kill the little girls, then kill the people coming to help them.

Nice look for the US military.

[displacedvermoter]

2. Air Superiority!

The majority of us here are just not savvy enough, unlike a select few here on DU, to comprehend how dominant that is!

[Javaman]

3. just fucking disgraceful and heartbreaking. nt

[yankee87]

4. USA is a terrorist state

Let's face it we are a full out terrorist nation. We constantly kill thousands to millions of children in every war, police action, and now against our own civilians.
I don't know how long other countries trust us, if they every do.

[Happy Hoosier]

5. THIS is why we have rules of engagement.

Hegseth's attack on "woke" rules means that target vetting is basically non-existent.

[Botany]

7. Rules of engagement should have also ruled out the sinking of the Iranian Naval Ship off of Sri Lanka which ...

…. 3,000 miles + from the fighting in the Middle East, and posed zero threats to American or Israeli
forces or American, Israeli, or other Citizens. Over 100 Iranian Naval Personnel are now dead.

[Happy Hoosier]

8. At least that was a unabiguously military target

They were sailing towards the conflict zone. At least that has some justification, whether or not you agree with it. But this? NOPE. Just flat out murder.

[Botany]

11. Without a declaration of war what are we doing torpedoing a ship 3,000 + miles from the fighting?

That too was murder in order to distract from the released information that Trump was abusing
a 13 year old girl as he was masturbating.

[IbogaProject]

15. War Target??

That ship was participating in a multi-national naval exercise.

[Midnight Writer]

6. Looks like we need to fire those traitorous "investigators". They are clearly trying to make Trump look bad

by reporting the truth.

Our Secretary of War! says military rules of engagement are "silly".

[vanessa_ca]

9. I HATE HATE HATE the warmongering murderers.

May they rest in peace.

I am so ashamed for my country.

"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever," Thomas Jefferson

[Boo1]

10. There was a Republican Guard compound

Set nearby the school.

From the start it seemed to me like this was bad, or incompetent, targeting intel and we hit the school as part of that other group of buildings.

I wouldn't put it past this admin to bomb a school on purpose....but it doesn't seem like something that would help them.

[Martin Eden]

13. I agree there was no advantage, military or poltical, in bombing the school.

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But that won't matter to the grieving parents, or Iranians who will volunteer to take revenge in any way they can.

Whatever terrorist threat exixted before, has just been multiplied.

[Boo1]

14. Certainly not

Just saying that the US military isn't targeting schools on purpose. But when you decide to drop bombs you are also accepting that you will kill a lot of civillians.

[blue_jay]

17. AI without human oversight or with, hard to say

And no, it doesn't seem like it would help them. As another DUer pointed out, it seems AI programs were used in the targeting, like they did with Gaza. Hard to know if there was also human choice to conveniently target the girls school because we know how much they want women to be educated. So many possibilities for the so-called superior intelligence of AI to create at best, merely idiotic outcomes, while we are ostensibly "proving our air superiority". First it was Pegasus from Israel I think (sort of like a super dark version of six degrees of Kevin Bacon), now Maven, Anthropic, Claude, etc. Hard to keep up. Would not be surprised if Iran deliberately put the girl's school there either but that sounds paranoid right? No wonder Anthropic bailed.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221071493

[Martin Eden]

12. How many Iranian TERRORISTS did Stephen Miller, Trump, Israel, and Saudi Arabia just make?

There will be no shortage of recruits seething for revenge.

[malaise]

16. Effin monsters

That is all