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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Politics
Glory Moralidad

US at Fault for Bombing Iran School, a Targeting Error with AI Factors Involved

Airstrike kills 170 schoolgirls in Minab as U.S.–Israel launch major offensive on Iran (Credit: Screenshot from X/Twitter/Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi)

A preliminary investigation by the United States military has concluded that American forces were likely responsible for the devastating missile strike on an Iranian elementary school on 28 February 2026.

The attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' school in Minab, which resulted in at least 165 deaths, the majority of whom were young children, has become the deadliest civilian casualty event in the ongoing Iran conflict.

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