Minab massacre

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Missile strikeMissile strikeShajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school, Minab, Hormozgan, Iran

 Minab massacre link(war crime)

The body of a girl trapped under the rubble.
Date	28 February 2026
Location	Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school, Minab, Hormozgan, Iran
Type	Missile strike
Deaths	175
Description	US war crime on the first day of their military action, likely meant to orient everybody what this war is about.
Perpetrators	US, Israel

The 'Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school in Minab (southern Iran) was destroyed by missile strikes on 28 February 2026, the first day of the 2026 Iran war, killing at least 160 pre-teen students and teachers. According to witness accounts verified by satellite-based analyses, the school was triple tapped by three distinct strikes. The school was part of a broad network of schools, structurally and administratively affiliated with the IRGC Navy. These schools are classified as nonprofit institutions and are primarily intended to provide educational services to the sons and daughters of members of the IRGC Navy. Admission procedures give priority to the children of military personnel.

Official narrative

As of March 2026, a targeting error, or Iran did it to itself.

"Multiple reports indicate that investigators are examining whether AI-assisted geospatial tools used in the targeting process may have perpetuated or failed to flag the outdated classification. This is a critical question for the future of targeting law. Machine-learning systems trained on historical data can reproduce historical errors at scale. If the Maven Smart System or a similar tool incorporated legacy DIA target codes without a verification layer, the AI did not create the error—but it may have laundered it into the strike package with a false aura of analytical confidence."

Motives

Alireza Sanei, Iranian ambassador to Belarus, alleged that the strike on the school resembled satanic rituals allegedly enabled by pedophile American financier Jeffrey Epstein, and that the same forces targeted the Minab school in "some ritual of child sacrifice" meant to bring success to the US-Israeli military operation.

Perpetrators

Iranian media channels named US Navy officers Leigh R. Tate and Jeffrey E. York of the USS Spruance as responsible for the crime.

Exposure

File:Sky News investigation into Minab school attack - censorship.webp

The Sky News investigation gets age restricted on YouTube, a form of soft censorship.

A months-long Sky News investigation into the US double-tap strike on a Minab girls' school found the Pentagon had tracked the site by satellite since 1987 and could still count children's shadows in the courtyard before firing anyway.

What the evidence shows:

Three Tomahawk missiles fired from the USS Spruance, 716 kilometers away in the Arabian Sea, hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab on Feb 28, the opening day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Witnesses described a second strike hitting the exact spot where a teacher had moved surviving students for shelter, killing nearly everyone who had taken cover there. A third strike followed on the same site. Death tolls range from 156 to over 170, most of them girls aged seven to twelve. The school had been walled off from the adjacent IRGC naval base since at least 2015, had its own website, and was geolocatable through open-source materials any analyst could have pulled in minutes.

Built to fail:

The Pentagon's own machinery for preventing exactly this outcome had already been dismantled. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slashed the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence workforce by roughly 90 percent and cut CENTCOM's civilian casualty assessment team from ten people to one, months before the war started. A May Pentagon Inspector General report found the office had become a shell on paper with no budget, no mandate, no real mission. A functioning warning system was defunded on purpose, then blamed for not warning anyone.

Accountability buried:

Four months on, CENTCOM's commander told reporters the investigation was near complete, yet nothing has been released. Asked in June whether anyone would face consequences, Trump called it a strange question, adding that mistakes are made and war is nasty. The mistake was choosing not to fund the office that exists to catch mistakes like this one.

My take: A military that surveilled a schoolyard for four decades didn't fail to see the children, it decided in advance that seeing them wouldn't change the targeting. Nobody in this chain lacked information.

Seth Harp observed: "The idea that the US did it on purpose to kill the kids of IRGC soldiers would be less conspiratorial if Pete Hegseth and all his top guys hadn't made literally their entire careers on arguing that war crimes are cool and there should be no limits at all on American violence."

Lamerd sports hall attack

On the same day, February 28, a newly developed U.S.-made ballistic missile was used in an attack that struck a sports hall and adjacent elementary school near a military facility in the city of Lamerd, in southern Iran. The strike and others nearby in the city of Lamerd killed at least 24 people. The attack was done with a short-range ballistic missile called the Precision Strike Missile, or PrSM (pronounced like ¨prism"), which is designed to detonate just above its target and blast small tungsten pellets outward to maximize human casualties.

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