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US missile hit military base near Iran school, video analysis shows
- chirau 7mo agoI thought POTUS said it was Iran the other day. What becomes of this, then?
- MiiMe19 7mo agoThis is honestly just a clickbait title. No shit the US strikes a military base, a school being near it adds nothing but incentive to click on the article.
- mrexcess 7mo agoSo your claim is that no missile hit the school at all…?
- MiiMe19 7mo agoThe article is talking about two things at once and trying to pretend they are the same thing. The us hit the military base with a tomahawk missile, and the school was hit by a missile from "nooneistakingaccountabilityville". They are trying to act like the US hitting the military base proves that they also hit a school like a week ago.
- mrexcess 7mo agoSo your analysis is that the US hit a few meters away with a missile, then another missile hit a few meters the other direction within minutes, but we can't know who did that?
- conradfr 7mo agoThe school was part of the military base years ago, possibly the origin of the strike.
- enraged_camel 7mo agoWhat is this supposed to mean? 175 kids dying as collateral damage is just clickbait to you?
- MiiMe19 7mo agoThis article tries to paint the fact that the US struck a military base as proof that they also struck as school with no evidence to join the two events. The title is literally just clickbait.
- qup 7mo agoSchool is actually inside the base's perimeter wall.
- ambicapter 7mo agoI've read that it used to be, but had been moved outside a decade ago.
- bink 7mo agoThe story is because these are precision strikes and the US is feigning ignorace. Satellite photos show that each building on that block was hit dead-center and destroyed, yet the US is refusing to admit responsibility. Sure, mistakes are made during war, but this one was particularly egregious. That building hadn't been used as a military barracks in over a decade. Israel immediately said they were not operating in that area. Iran said none of their missiles were in the area. The US has said for a week now that it was "investigating" despite knowing it targeted that facility. That's yet another lie. They know they accidentally killed over a hundred little girls and as usual would rather lie than admit a mistake.
- lostmsu 7mo ago> Satellite photos show that each building on that block was hit dead-center Do you have a pic for the school specifically? A link perhaps?
- bink 7mo agoI've only seen it on TV. You can see it about 20 seconds into this video: https://www.cnn.com/world/video/video-appears-to-show-us-strike-neariranian-school-digvid https://www.cnn.com/world/video/video-appears-to-show-us-str...
- culi 7mo agoNYT did their own investigation showing it was likely the US strike just a few days after it happened. I don't think anybody in the world ever believed anything else. Especially since all the nearby military buildings were clearly directly hit as well
- embedding-shape 7mo agoPOTUS also frequently says that the US and Israel is at war with Iran, while his sycophants are claiming it isn't. Not sure you should place much value at anything anyone is saying. Look at the actions, not what they say.
- MiiMe19 7mo agoTop five most misleading article titles of all time. What next, missile hits military ship near waters normally used for trading?
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- metamet 7mo agoIf you click the link and read the article, you'll see a lot of words that justify the title: BBC Verify has previously established through satellite imagery, verified videos and expert analysis that the area near the school was hit by a series of strikes. Experts who have seen this latest video told us the presence of a Tomahawk missile, along with evidence the area was hit with multiple strikes, indicates this was a US operation. Neither Israel nor Iran are known to possess Tomahawks, experts said. It would also make the scenario of a single Iranian missile hitting the site at the same time and causing such a high reported death toll highly improbable, an expert told BBC Verify.
- asadm 7mo ago"are we the baddies?"
- nebezb 7mo agoWhat kind of headline is this? After a week of denial and blaming Iran of "poor accuracy". More accurate: US missile capable of < 5 meters of accuracy hits Iranian school 200m away from military base, according to BBC.
- culi 7mo agoPossibly a double tap strike with airstrikes hitting shortly after the Tomahawks > Middle East Eye, citing survivors and first responders, reported a possible "double-tap" strike — a second explosion hitting the area shortly after the first, striking people who had taken shelter. Killing at least 175, mostly children.
- idle_zealot 7mo agoThis isn't surprising at all. We double tapped the boat survivors a few months back too. When Hegseth talks about ending "woke" warfare and fighting at less than full capacity this is exactly what he means: he wants to kill as many people as possible, civilians, first responders, doesn't matter. It's not an accident or aberration, it's official policy. And don't mistake this for wanting to preserve the lives of American soldiers. Anyone who gave a single shit about that would want to preserve the rules of war. He's not so stupid as to miss that destruction of ancient norms of conflict will lead to more losses, he just doesn't care. Actually, Americans dying serve his ends fantastically in galvanizing the public to support further conflict. Mark my words, we're either going to attempt to occupy Iran or glass it in the coming months. That was the goal from the beginning, even if Trump seemed a bit unaware of that at first.
- realo 7mo ago... and kills more than 100 children. What does it take, exactly, for Donald Trump to be formally accused of war crimes and arrested on sight if he ever visits some actually civilized countries?
- buddhistdude 7mo agoit would take for him to be less powerful and psycho
- amir734jj 7mo agoAs an Iranian-American, I don't trust BBC. I'm sorry.
- mig39 7mo agoIf you read the article, you'd know most of the information came from Bellingcat and ABC.
- culi 7mo agoNYT also did their own analysis which they had on their front-page just 3 days ago
- erk__ 7mo agoWhat news media would you recommend?
- GuinansEyebrows 7mo agoas an iranian-american, what's the link between your ethnicity/country of residence and your trust in the BBC? i don't really trust the BBC too much either. i'm just curious if there's a specific pattern of coverage or if this is a general feeling.
- voganmother42 7mo agohttps://www.npr.org/2026/03/08/nx-s1-5739395/iran-school-airstrike-tomahawk-missile-trump https://www.npr.org/2026/03/08/nx-s1-5739395/iran-school-air...
- ta8903 7mo agoHey. Out of curiosity, why did Iranian diaspora stop celebrating the conflict in the streets over the past week? It would be difficult for the US and Israel to justify starting the war this way, I hope you continue the celebrations.
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- culi 7mo agoAccording to the NYT, there were "at least 175 people" killed. Mostly children (it was a girls elementary school) Possibly relevant are the concerns of the use of AI to determine targets. A park called "police park" was bombed and this has been taking as part of an increasing collection of evidence of "warslop". The park had nothing to do with police or the military and was likely determined by AI https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/03/iran-war-heralds-era-of-ai-powered-bombing-quicker-than-speed-of-thought https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/03/iran-war-... https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-israel-ai-iran https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-israel-ai-iran
- 0xy 7mo agoThere's absolutely no evidence of any of that.
- culi 7mo agohttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/03/iran-war-heralds-era-of-ai-powered-bombing-quicker-than-speed-of-thought https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/03/iran-war-... AI was heavily used to analyze traffic cameras for months leading up to the attack. This is something israel already admitted to. Officials have boasted about knowing the daily routines of high ranking officials, their favorite vehicles, and even which spot they prefer to park
- gos9 7mo agoComputer vision analysis and missile targeting are wildly different domains
- culi 7mo ago> The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the US military in Iran has “leveraged the most advanced artificial intelligence it’s ever used in warfare, a tool that could be difficult for the Pentagon to give up even as it severs ties with the company that created it.” > According to the Post, Palantir’s Maven Smart System—which contains Anthropic’s Claude AI language model—reportedly helped US commanders select 1,000 Iranian targets during the war’s first 24 hours alone. They said it explicitly. AI being used to determine targets.
- ryanmarsh 7mo agoI’m not a fan of our (the US) involvement in this conflict. That said it seems like a properly executed precision strike. The school is 200m from the Tomahawk impact. Is the intent of the article to showcase American precision or to imply the school was hit? I’m confused.
- mig39 7mo agoI think it means that the entire site, including the school and several other buildings, were all hit at the sae time: > Wes Bryant, a national security analyst who served in the US Air Force, also confirmed it was a Tomahawk missile. > Bryant added that the evidence for multiple strikes on the entire IRGC compound "is indicative of a deliberate and precise" US operation. > N R Jenzen Jones, director of Armament Research Services, previously told BBC Verify it was unlikely an Iranian missile had caused the significant blast damage seen at the school because they carry "relatively small explosive warheads".
- culi 7mo agoTomahawks are famous for their precision being <5m. If you look at the satellite imagery you can see that all of the military buildings were clearly hit directly in the center. The school was hit in the same way. Clearly an intentional hit and possibly followed immediately by a "double tap" airstrike This wasn't a technical failure but an intelligence failure. And above all a moral failure
- just-the-info 7mo agoAccording to widespread reporting, a school was destroyed and many children killed. There is an open question as to who was responsible. This is an area that was targeted by US strikes but the US has not yet claimed responsibility. There were many buildings in the same facility that were targeted. The building used by the school used to be part of the military facility many years ago: a leading hypothesis is that the school was intentionally and precisely targeted but based on outdated information, with the belief that it was a military target. This new video evidence is the first video evidence that confirms that at least one of the buildings was indeed hit by a US missile. While there is no video yet released of a missile hitting the school, it is suggestive evidence that a US missile was also responsible for destroying the school, since satellite imagery shows all the buildings in that facility being destroyed around the same time and in a similar way.
- sarcan 7mo agounfinishing weapons of mass destruction
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- ck2 7mo agolikely one of the targets picked and prioritized by Claude because Pentagon refuses to deny it US is starting to either accidentally or on purpose take out desalinization plants too That's going to murder way more than 200 civilians and is another war crime BTW they are still murdering fishermen off Venezuela, that never stopped
- embedding-shape 7mo ago> BTW they are still murdering fishermen off Venezuela, that never stopped BTW the people in government seems to still be trying to coverup a international child trafficking ring. What I can see, is that the tactic of "distract them with something even more fucked up" seems to be working perfectly well, and each time they go one step further up the ladder, and media re-focus accordingly.
- idle_zealot 7mo agoI don't buy that it's an intentional distraction. Everything they want to do is terrible and bombastic and constantly floods and overwhelms information channels. Like, if you're fighting someone and they stab you in the gut, then push you over and start stomping your face, are they distracting you from treating your stab wound? Maybe in the most literal sense, but the more apt description of the situation overall is that they're doing whatever they can to kill you.
- embedding-shape 7mo ago> if you're fighting someone and they stab you in the gut, then push you over and start stomping your face, are they distracting you from treating your stab wound? Yes, they are? If they just stabbed you and then left you, then you could treat your wound. If they instead continue to attack you, it's quite literally because they felt it wasn't enough, and don't want to let you treat yourself. Anyways, bit silly example, we're not talking about two humans in a violent knife fight, we're talking about a person and administration guilty of so many crimes that it's hard for people to keep track and even less do anything about it. Color me surprised if the person who said "why are you still talking about Epstein? Stop doing that" might want to try to do distracting things to make people stop talking about Epstein.
- jpfromlondon 7mo agopr is easy, you just build your base next to a school and reap the sympathy of fools.
- 1a527dd5 7mo agoIt is wild to see America in 2026, I grew up idolizing it. But a quote I heard during the election of Pope Leo:- > “Cardinal George of Chicago, of happy memory, was one of my great mentors, and he said: 'Look, until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope.' And his point was, if America is kind of running the world politically, culturally, economically, they don't want America running the world religiously. So, I think there's some truth to that, that we're such a superpower and so dominant, they don't wanna give us, also, control over the church." Has stuck with me, and I thought it to be a little far fetched. But here we are and I find it hard to deny America is in decline.
- orwin 7mo agoOk, so since the article isn't clear (once again, OSINT is the only reliable source it seems). - Multiple missiles of unknown origin hit the school where at least 110 schoolgirl died. - Multiple missiles hit IRGC hospital/clinic near that school around the same time. - one missile that struck the hospital/clinic was identified as a Tomahawk, which would indicate that the strikes were from US force. While it is impossible to be 100% sure that the school was also struck by the US, the multiple strikes make the US 'air defense missile miss' story extremely unlikely. The fact that the salvo that hit the hospital was from the US make it more likely that they also struck the school, and not Israel.
- idle_zealot 7mo ago> The fact that the salvo that hit the hospital was from the US make it more likely that they also struck the school, and not Israel Does it matter? We're unreservedly partnered with them in this and other pursuits. Moral culpability is shared.
- orwin 7mo agoNot the point, I wanted to be as clear as possible on the fact first, then explain why most people reduce its the US that bombed the schoolgirls. Of course it doesn't matter, not really.
- culi 7mo agoAccording to NYT on March 4, the count of dead is up to 175. The school is called Shajarah Tayyebeh in the town of Minab. https://archive.ph/ODMew https://archive.ph/ODMew Also from the Wikipedia page: > Subsequent investigations by The New York Times, CBC and NPR among others concluded that the United States was likely responsible for the strike. Sources involved with the United States military's internal investigation of the strike similarly told Reuters that the strike was likely perpetrated by the United States, though the investigation's final conclusion had not yet been reached.[12] The attack was condemned by the Iranian government, UNESCO,[13][14] and other international human rights organizations and activists as a violation of international humanitarian law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_airstrike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_airstrike
- knowsuchagency 7mo agoWhy was this flagged?