At the outset of the U.S.-Israeli military action against the Iranian regime, the latter's state media claimed that the U.S. and Israel had bombed an Iranian girls' school.
Some such as Marjorie Taylor Greene accepted the story at face value despite its provenance with Iranian state media.
The fact was that at the time of the incident in question, it could not be determined who was responsible.
However, it does now appear the United States was responsible for the act in question which killed 168 people mostly children despite the claims of President Trump that Iran was responsible. Here is how The Bulwark put it this morning:
Iran’s government has flatly denied that it targeted its own civilians in the strike. And while the Iranian regime has a wretched human-rights record and has been perfectly happy to butcher their own citizens in even the extremely recent past, the idea that this particular tragedy was some sort of friendly-fire strike is contradicted by available evidence. This morning, the New York Times published video analysis confirming that the IRGC base adjacent to the school was hit by a Tomahawk missile—which no belligerent in the war uses except for the United States—and that the school was damaged at around the same time. Ergo: We bombed the school. It seems in all likelihood that this wasn’t a case of Iran intentionally targeting civilians, but of the United States accidentally killing civilians.
Yes, but The Bulwark is missing one very key point here.
Why is there a girls' school situated near one of Iran's military bases?
Based on the preliminary investigation, U.S. intelligence wrongly identified the area as still being part of the military installation. If this is the case, then the Iranian regime then carved out that portion of the military installation and built a girls' school. How recent this development is far from clear. But if the Iranian military knew there would come a day when there would be an American or Israeli attack at their base then why not build a girl's school and maximize civilian casualties? Should such an attack happen, the world would focus on characterizing American and Israeli forces as child killers instead of questioning why the Iranian regime would build a girls' school in an area that was one part of a military base.
The long and the short of it is that Iran were using that girls' school as a human shield. Given Iran's history long history of funding Hamas which has long used the populace in Gaza as human shields it is fitting that the Iranian military would deploy the same tactic.
Of course, it doesn't change the fact it was a U.S. strike which caused the deaths of these Iranian children. President Trump's insistence on lying also doesn't help matters. Yet it was the Iranian regime which saw fit to build a girls' school on land which was once part of one of their military bases. Surely, this cannot be the only piece of civilian infrastructure which replaced portion of an Iranian military base. Where there is one school then there are others? Not to mention hospitals and homes for the elderly.
The Iranian regime does not care a whit about these dead girls. For them, they serve only as propaganda tools which far too many in the U.S. and the West accept a face value.
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