Several years before the attack on Iran, in 2019, a intelligence… (сша · школа · удар)
Several years before the attack on Iran, in 2019, a intelligence analyst, while studying information on potential US military targets, noticed one specific object: US military sources described it as a naval base for an elite unit of the Iranian army, but by that time, a primary school had already been built on that site.
Consensus
- The U.S. conducted a missile strike on a school in Minab, Iran.
- The strike occurred on February 28, 2024.
- The school was for girls aged 7 to 12.
- The strike killed approximately 175 people, mostly schoolgirls.
- The U.S. intelligence community failed to update its database with the correct information about the school's location.
- The error was due to a lack of coordination between intelligence units.
Points of divergence
- The strike was caused by a failure in intelligence coordination, with the school being misidentified as a military base. — vedomosti
- The U.S. intelligence failure involved a digital intelligence tool that was not connected to the official database. — kommersant
- The White House acknowledged the strike, and The New York Times confirmed U.S. responsibility. — vedomosti
- The Pentagon is still reviewing the findings of its investigation, which was reportedly completed in April. — kommersant
- The strike was carried out by Tomahawk missiles. — vedomosti
- The school was misidentified as a naval base of an elite Iranian military unit. — kommersant
Coverage (2 sources)
- Bloomberg: The attack on the school in Minabe was the result of a US intelligence miscalculation — Ведомости
- Bloomberg reports on US mistakes leading to attack on school in Iran — Коммерсантъ