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📰 The Minab Massacre: When “Precision” Means 175 Dead Kids A preliminary U.S. military inquiry now says what the wreckage in Minab already showed: the Tomahawk that hit Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school was American, not Iranian. The strike used outdated Defense Intelligence Agency targeting data that still labeled the school as part of a Revolutionary Guards naval base, even though satellite imagery had long since shown fences, playgrounds and blue‑and‑pink walls where watchtowers used to stand. ​ In other words, the system that sells itself as “precision” killed at least 175 people — most of them children — because no one bothered to update a box in a database. CENTCOM planners pulled old coordinates, skipped a fresh check, fired anyway, and only afterwards did investigators start asking why multiple agencies, from DIA to the National Geospatial‑Intelligence Agency, all signed off on a target that had been a school for years. ​ Trump’s response has been to invent an alternate universe in real time. First he told reporters “in my opinion” Iran did it, then claimed — falsely — that Tehran might also have Tomahawks, then retreated to “I don’t know enough about it” while his own Pentagon quietly confirmed the missile type and trajectory. Officials who’ve seen the preliminary findings now talk about “unease” and “sensitivity,” which is Washington code for: the president is contradicting what the evidence shows, and everyone else is afraid to say it on camera. ​ The Pentagon will eventually file its sober report about process failures and legacy data and “tragic human error.” The families in Minab will still have to live with the fact that the most advanced military on earth needed a newspaper’s visual investigation to admit it bombed a painted elementary school by mistake — and that the commander in chief’s first instinct was to blame the victims’ own government. ​ #iran#minab#trump#pentagon#tomahawk#war#civilians#fakeDemocracy 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸