According to the daily's analysis, including satellite imagery and social media footage, the school strike, which occurred in the first hours of the war, coincided in time and place with a U.S. precision strike on a nearby Iranian military naval base.
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Satellite images show that American missiles hit at least six other nearby buildings on the base, four of which were completely destroyed, while the remaining two were hit in the middle of the roof.
According to Wes Bryant, an analyst and former Pentagon official responsible for protecting civilians, quoted by the newspaper, the evidence shows perfectly precise strikes. In his opinion, the most likely explanation was that the attack on the school was the result of misidentification of the target. As “NYT” writes, the school used to belong to the base complex, but has been separated from it since 2016.
The Pentagon relied on artificial intelligence. Pete Hegseth cuts off questions
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that the Pentagon relied on the Maven system, powered by the Claude artificial intelligence model, to select bombing targets. It is unclear whether this was also the case for this purpose.
So far, US authorities have neither confirmed nor denied an attack on the school. Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth shut down all questions on this subject, saying only that his department was investigating the matter. However, the materials made available by the Pentagon and the statements of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Dan Caine, show that Minab was the target of US attacks in the first hours of the war. Caine noted that the US was attacking targets in the south of Iran – where the town is located – while Israel was focusing on targets in the north of the country.
