Probe Finds US Initially Responsible for Deadly Strike on Iranian School
The strike on February 28 targeted the Shajarah Tayyebeh girls’ school and coincided with the first day of a joint US-Israeli operation in Iran that resulted in the deaths of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, several senior Iranian commanders, and numerous civilians. This incident marks the single deadliest attack in the campaign to date.
Reports indicate that, according to officials familiar with the initial probe, the strike was part of the opening wave of US operations aimed at facilities associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy.
Investigators have determined that personnel at US Central Command relied on outdated targeting information from the Defense Intelligence Agency, which still listed the school building as a military installation, despite it having functioned as a school for over ten years. The site displayed obvious signs of civilian activity, including a playground, murals created by children, and brightly painted walls.
Preliminary analysis of why the outdated data was not verified suggested that it was “unlikely” that the deployment of newer artificial intelligence tools, such as Anthropic’s Claude, was the main factor, according to reports.
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