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Polls were already indicating that the unprovoked attack on Iran launched by the U.S. and Israel is opposed by most U.S. citizens — and to a higher degree than citizens have opposed most U.S.-involved conflicts going back to World War II — and that was before it was reported that preliminary results from an ongoing military investigation have determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school that reportedly killed 175 people, most of whom were children.
And while the Trump administration seems to be hiding behind the fact that the investigation is still ongoing, for now, it’s already becoming clear that, ultimately, officials will cling to the narrative that the deadly strike was a simple “mistake.”
From the New York Times:
The Feb. 28 strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was the result of a targeting mistake by the U.S. military, which was conducting strikes on an adjacent Iranian base of which the school building was formerly a part, the preliminary investigation found. Officers at U.S. Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, people briefed on the investigation said.
Officials emphasized that the findings are preliminary and that there are important unanswered questions about why the outdated information had not been double checked.
Striking a school full of children is sure to be recorded as one of the most devastating single military errors in recent decades. Iranian officials have said the death toll was at least 175 people, most of them children.
As NBC News reported, images originally published by Iranian state media appear to show missile fragments from a Tomahawk missile purported to be taken at the site of the strike, according to experts who reviewed imagery.
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