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Lest we forget: the USA murdered 120 schoolgirls in Iran Feb 28, 2026
Those responsible for planning and executing an unlawful U.S. strike on a school in Minab, Hormozgan province in Iran that killed 156 people, including 120 children, must be held accountable, Amnesty International said today.
Evidence gathered by the organization indicates that the school building was directly struck, alongside 12 other structures in an adjacent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) compound, with guided weapons. This points to a failure by U.S. forces to take feasible precautions to avoid civilian harm in carrying out the attack, which is a serious breach of international humanitarian law. The fact that the school building was directly targeted and was previously part of the IRGC compound raises concerns that U.S. forces may have relied on outdated intelligence and failed in their obligation to do everything feasible to verify that the intended target was a military objective.
Evidence gathered by the organization indicates that the school building was directly struck, alongside 12 other structures in an adjacent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) compound, with guided weapons. This points to a failure by U.S. forces to take feasible precautions to avoid civilian harm in carrying out the attack, which is a serious breach of international humanitarian law. The fact that the school building was directly targeted and was previously part of the IRGC compound raises concerns that U.S. forces may have relied on outdated intelligence and failed in their obligation to do everything feasible to verify that the intended target was a military objective.
https://www.amnestyusa.org/press-releases/usa-iran-those-responsible-for-deadly-and-unlawful-u-s-strike-on-school-that-killed-over-100-children-must-be-held-accountable/
So excuse me if I don't give a fuck if an Apache helicopter was shot down. It's absurd to claim the US has the "right" to retaliate for this shoot down where no American soldier even died.
It's an excuse to escalate the Epstein Avoidance War.
Oh, and I don't believe it was outdated intelligence at all. That bumbling incompetence only goes so far. The Pentagon has more money than God. Palantir is providing them state of the art AI tools. And even if their AI hallucinated the wrong "target" why weren't there any humans signing off on the strike? Or were there?