Didn't take long to type it up. I wanted to avoid questions of "fair use" and summarized the piece, since the introductory paragraphs above used up fair use. There's a lot more detail in the AP piece.
The school was within a walled compound which also contained a Rev Guard base. The school was fenced off from the neighboring base a decade ago.
Some students were children of Guard officers, some were from a persecuted minority.
The school started sending children home when bombs hit Tehran. There were hundreds in school to start.
At 10:15 Iran closed all schools.
AP says multiple munitions struck the compound. It’s not clear if that means the whole walled enclosure. The school collapsed. Children were waiting for pickup.
AP gives gruesome details.
Onlookers raced to the scene. People arrived from more distant spots.
Body parts were taken to the local hospital. Many were unrecognizable.
AP could not conclude how many munitions hit the school. I recall reports of a “double tap”, commonly used to kill rescuers.
State media claimed a death toll of 168 after a few days.
The US knew it had made strikes in the area.
At least one intel analyst knew the building had been updated as a school seven years ago. This was not widely shared across Intels. (Gee, isn’t that why we have a fascist Homeland Security now? Coordinate all this stuff?)
Pentagon staff to minimize civilian casualties was reduced. Hegseth focuses on “lethality”. This begins to sound like part of Alice’s Restaurant, the "kill" part.
In 2022, Congress created the “Civilian Protection Center of Excellence”. HEGSETH stopped its work to update lists of protected sites like schools. It was well known the lists were out of date.
A group, Airwars, identified 157 of the dead: 123 children 13 or younger (13 or younger) and 34 adults.
Airwars estimated between 157 and 168 killed and 95 and 111 injured. These stats chill me: usually the injured far outnumber the dead. This was a really LETHAL assault. You hear that, Hegseth, you and your "lethalitymaxxing"?
Bear in mind that the US launched a sneak attack on a country we were simultaneously negotiating with. Sneak attack. While negotiating. This is what comes of running a country like how capitalism works. Or like having a divine emperor 80 some years ago.
This is what we have become for the USA's 250th. I hate to say "America" because a lot of other countries with that tag don't want to be associated with the utter scum we have become.
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