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Al Jazeera investigation raises questions over deadliest single attack of war on Iran that killed 165 schoolgirls and staff on February 28\/26.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published On 3 Mar 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/aje.news\/01xdaf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Scene of elementary school after attack on a school February 28 in Minab, Iran<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The attackers\u2019 ability to spare newly established adjacent facilities (such as the Martyr Absalan clinic) and their glaring failure to avoid an elementary school operating at full capacity and packed with 170 girls leaves us with two scenarios<\/strong>, both unequivocally condemnatory: <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Either US and Israeli forces relied, in striking the vicinity of the Asif Brigade, on a very old, outdated intelligence target bank (dating to before 2013), which would constitute grave negligence and reckless disregard<\/strong> for civilian lives; or<\/strong> the strike was carried out deliberately and with prior knowledge<\/strong> to inflict maximum societal shock and undermine popular support for Iran\u2019s military establishment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile: Reported today, March 4\/26<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PETE HEGSETH<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

BBC STATE DEPARTMENT CORRESPONDENT TOM BATEMAN: Can you give us an update on what the administration knows, what you know now about the reported strike on a girls\u2019 school in southern Iran on Saturday?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PETE HEGSETH<\/strong>: All I know, all I can say is that we\u2019re investigating that. We of course never target civilian targets, but we\u2019re taking a look and investigating that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BBC STATE DEPARTMENT CORRESPONDENT TOM BATEMAN: Just on the basis that with the information you would have your reconnaissance abilities\u2013 ability to gather information. I mean, it\u2019s several days on now.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So is there any clarity on whose munition this was?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PETE HEGSETH<\/strong>: We\u2019re investigating it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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US President Donald Trump<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Al Jazeera investigation raises questions over deadliest single attack of war on Iran that killed 165 schoolgirls and staff on February 28\/26. Published On 3 Mar 2026 https:\/\/aje.news\/01xdaf Scene of elementary school after attack on a school February 28 in Minab, Iran Excerpt: The attackers\u2019 ability to spare newly established adjacent facilities (such as the … Continue reading “And it came to pass on the first day…”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32695"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32712,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32695\/revisions\/32712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}