US EditionInitial Pentagon findings suggest ‘targeting mistake’ led to U.S. missile strike on Iranian school: Report
A Pentagon probe found a Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian school killing 175 was caused by outdated Defense Intelligence Agency data, highlighting procedural failures.
- On March 11, the Pentagon's preliminary inquiry found U.S. forces responsible for a February 28 Tomahawk strike on Shajarah Tayyebeh girls' elementary school, Minab, killing at least 175 people, many children.
- Investigators found that U.S. Central Command created target coordinates using long-outdated Defense Intelligence Agency data that labelled the school as part of an adjacent base, despite the building having been fenced off between 2013 and 2016, and failed to verify with NGA imagery.
- Experts assembling footage concluded that a Tomahawk cruise missile, used by the U.S., struck the naval base beside the school, supported by verified videos and imagery.
- The Pentagon said 'the incident is under investigation', and UNESCO condemned the attack as a 'grave violation of international law', while President Donald Trump denied U.S. responsibility.
- Defense cuts preceded the strike as Pete Hegseth reduced the Civilian Protection Centre of Excellence workforce by around 90% and cut U.S. Central Command’s casualty team from 10 to one before the deadly strike.
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Iranian School Appeared on US List of Targets
A school in southern Iran where more than 170 people, many of them children, were killed in the early hours of the US and Israeli airstrikes was on an American target list and may have been misidentified as a military site, the Washington Post reports. The ongoing military investigation has...
Outdated intel likely led U.S. to carry out deadly strike on Iranian elementary school: AP sources
Outdated intelligence likely led to the United States carrying out a deadly missile strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed over 165 people, many of them children, in the opening hours of the conflict, according to a U.S. official and a second person briefed on findings of a preliminary U.S military investigation into the incident.
US Likely Struck Iranian School by Mistake. Senators Demand Answers
WASHINGTON (AP) — Outdated intelligence likely led to the United States carrying out a deadly missile strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed over 165 people, many of them children, in the opening hours of the conflict, according to a U.S. official and a second person briefed on findings of a preliminary U.S […]
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