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Sunday, June 28, 2026

An analyst's missed remarks and US intelligence systems that weren't connected to one another are among the missteps that investigators have surfaced while probing the cause of a missile strike on an Iranian school that killed an estimated 120 children, people familiar with the matter said.

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... Years before the US attacked Iran at the end of February, an intelligence analyst examining information about potential future strike targets in Iran noticed changes at a site the US had previously characterized as a naval facility belonging to the elite wing of the Iranian military in Minab city in the southeast of the country. It was, in fact, now an elementary school.

The analyst remarked on changes at the site in a digital intelligence tool, but that tool wasn't linked up to the official intelligence database that the US uses to develop strike targets and the information was never conveyed to military commanders, according to people familiar with the matter who declined to be named discussing sensitive matters.

On Feb. 28 when President Donald Trump announced the start of major combat operations against Iran, a missile struck the school. The attack killed an estimated 120 children, and nearly 200 people in all, representing the worst incident of civilian harm resulting from US operations in decades.

The analyst's remarks, which one of the people familiar with the matter said were submitted in 2019, were never heeded, and the same building was reviewed multiple more times over the following years without anyone updating the targeting database. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-28 07:23 PM | Reply

Trump was a serial abuser and raper of girls and women before he became president and now as president he's a serial murderer of girls.

#2 | Posted by Nerfherder at 2026-06-28 08:26 PM | Reply

Serial------------ says Iran at fault for strike on girls school

www.politico.com

The MAGA dumfux on this site parroted the brain dead orange chomo's lies on his Minab massacre.

#3 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2026-06-28 08:53 PM | Reply

#1

There were changes alright. Its the oldest Islamic trick in the book. Move the real facilities underground and have human shields on top.

#4 | Posted by rf4b at 2026-06-28 08:56 PM | Reply

@#4 ... Move the real facilities underground and have human shields on top. ...

Did Pres Trump ever mention he bombed the school because he thought there might be something underground there? Was the missile used in the strike capable of destroying something underground?

Why destroy the school above ground and leave the other imagined facility below ground intact?


#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-06-28 09:14 PM | Reply

Why do you need human shields when you are not at war anyway?

#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2026-06-28 09:18 PM | Reply

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