Posted on 06/27/2026 11:11:34 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The deadly US strike on a girls school in the Iranian coastal city of Minab happened due to gaps in the Pentagon’s system for analyzing potential targets, Bloomberg has reported, citing people familiar with the investigation.
The bombing, in which more than 120 students aged between 6 and 13 were killed in addition to 26 teachers, happened on February 28, the opening day of the American-Israeli military campaign against Iran.
The investigation into the incident, ordered by the chief of US Central Command (CENTCOM) Brad Cooper, was completed in April, but its results haven’t yet been made public, Bloomberg said in an article on Friday.
According to its sources, the probe found that in 2019 a US intelligence analyst, who was examining information about potential targets inside Iran, discovered that a site in Minab that had been previously designated as a naval facility used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was actually an elementary school, the agency’s sources claimed.
However, the update ended up being missed by his higher ups and never reached the US military commanders because the analyst made it using a digital intelligence tool that wasn’t connected to the official intelligence database that the Pentagon relies on to prepare its strikes, they said.
The people familiar with the matter told the agency there are “significant and longstanding gaps” in the Pentagon’s system for analyzing potential targets.
At least two intelligence databases used for inputting remarks by analysts, working with imagery, have not been linked to the official and authoritative database used during bombing raids, they said.
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the actual culprit behind the strike in Minab may never be established.
“There were missiles flying all over the place, and it’s horrible what happened… somebody said it was our missile, maybe it wasn’t our missile but I have seen nothing to lead me to believe it was,” Trump said.
During a debate at the UN in late March, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that the girls school had come under a “calculated, phased assault.” He called the attack “a war crime and a crime against humanity, one that demands unequivocal condemnation by all, and unambiguous accountability for the culprits.”
The head of Airwars NGO, Emily Tripp, told Bloomberg that her organization tracked some 300 incidents of civilian harm in Iran during the conflict, but stressed that it was difficult to establish if the US or Israel was responsible for them.
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Sounds like another CIA screwup.
Don’t care.
Can’t make me.
L
Israel über alles.
“Don’t care.
Can’t make me.”
That is certainly the pro-life approach to take.
No thanks. I'll wait for the CENTCOM release.
But it would be impossible to believe that Iran would use this girls school as a decoy for an actual naval facility.
/sarc
To President Trump's credit, the stress of having to account for this (and he knows the gory details we don't) -- on top of the 13 dead US soldiers' families he had to meet with during the dignified transfers...I'm sure has weighed on him.
While Mark Levin and ilk are begging for Tehran to be nuked, the President is the one who has to go to bed at night with the weight of these decisions. He will be brought to account for all of this when all is said and done. If his own mortality weighs on him, then that shows he's not spiritually dead.
For God shall bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing, whether it be good or whether it be evil. - Ecclesiastes 12:14
War is HECK as Nixon would say.
It was a MISTAKE. Innocent people get killed in war.
If Iranians don’t want accidents like this to happen.... SURRENDER!
War is hell.
“War is hell.”
Iran is counting on that. They’re all twisted up over a former IRGC site turned into a girls school getting hit. They act like us killing them is worse than them killing their own. You can’t scream “Death to everybody else” without expecting death to come to you. The Islamists glorify death so they must be okay with dying.
Didn’t the Iranian government force civilians onto bridges that were slated to be bombed?
I'm sure they did.
I am also sure our military wouldn't have targeted a girl's school had they known it was a girl's school, and there is allegedly evidence that the information never made its way up through the official intelligence channels.
The CENTCOM report will tell us for sure, but it sounds likely to me.
Piss off.
L
You can piss off, too.
L
Tragic if ultimately proven true. Accidents, and miscommunication between agencies, is a reality throughout history. I also point blame at the Iranians, who I have no doubt cynically allowed a school to be established in a former military facility, which they KNOW will be catalogued as a target. Classic propaganda setup.
Remember when we bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
I am pretty sure it happened, I am certain it wasn’t deliberate.
The fog of war sucks.
Dr. Goebbels is that you?
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