MicroWaveDeath toll from Iran school bombing reportedly rises to almost 150
panda_abyssThis is tragic and there needs to be answer for it.
It’s a girl’s school, it’s not a military target, there weren’t “militants” inside and this isn’t Hezbollah where they can claim it was being used as a base. What the fuck happened here, and who specifically is responsible?
Wikipedia says 600, but I have not independently verified that.
Edit: I have indepdendently verified. From the school to the nearest perimeter of the thing that looks like an airfield, 200+ meters. To any structure likely to be targeted, more. I would say there was something military “in town”, and the school was not in the middle of military stuff. It was in a civilian area of the town.
Photo obtained with Wikimapia. Several hundred meters off the possible mark (air field).
Possible clue from Time magazine:
According to Amelirad, based on reports from locals in Minab, the school had previously been used as a military facility but was later converted into a school attended by children from a mixture of military and civilian families attracted by lower tuition.
Source:
Shiva Amelirad, a Canada-based representative of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations, a network of teachers’ unions in Iran
Speculation: the US targeted the school deliberately, because their software marked it as a military object. The software was not receiving timely intelligence updates. The building had been converted into a school years ago.
