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BumRushDaShow

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10. OPB had some details about the compound
Thu Mar 12, 2026, 02:50 PM
Thursday
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/03/09/video-appears-to-show-u-s-missile-striking-iranian-school-compound/

Apparently this was an abandoned IRG base that was slowly converted to civilian use with multiple buildings including at least one school, a clinic, and supposedly a housing development.

So it's possible that there were 2 school buildings close to each other (or one being used for both, with students segregated by gender, but designated as "the girls school" pending additional construction in the future) and/or there were boys engaged elsewhere near the location.

And when you are talking about a tomahawk missile (or "missiles" ), there WILL BE "collateral damage".

NPR did a story about that too - Satellite images show Iran school strike hit more buildings than earlier reported

(snip)

The new images come from the company Planet and are of the city of Minab, located in southeastern Iran. They show that a health clinic and other buildings near the school were also struck. Three independent experts confirmed NPR's analysis of the additional strike points.

The strike points "look like pretty clean detonation centroids," said Corey Scher, a postdoctoral researcher at the Conflict Ecology laboratory at Oregon State University. "These certainly appear like detonation sites," agreed Scher's colleague, Oregon State associate professor Jamon Van Den Hoek.

Jeffrey Lewis, a professor at Middlebury College who specializes in satellite imagery, said the imagery was consistent with a precision airstrike. The images show "very precise targeting," Lewis told NPR. "Almost all the buildings [in the compound] are hit."

(snip)


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