The US military had the Minab girls' school marked as a school in...

The US military had the Minab girls' school marked as a school in its own intelligence system since 2019.

Its satellites photographed the painted schoolyards from 2018.

In December, weeks before the war, its imagery caught the children's shadows in the playground.

On Feb 28 the United States put a Tomahawk through the assembly hall anyway, and when rescuers and parents filled the rubble, it fired three more.

120 children. 26 teachers. The liar in chief PDFile and child killer president is still telling reporters Iran did it.

A months-long Sky News and Forensic Architecture investigation identified every child killed and reconstructed the strike in forensic detail: the satellite record, the 3D rebuild of the school, the CCTV strike sequence, the whistleblower inside the targeting system.

This thread is the full evidence, clip by clip, and it ends somewhere worse than "deliberate massacre" or "tragic mistake": a war machine rebuilt, on purpose, so that knowing what it was shooting at was nobody's job.

Who they were: The school's own website, archived by investigators, preserves English classes where the children introduce themselves one by one.

Mohammad Taha, 9, in the green jacket: eight of the fifteen children in his class are dead. Atareh, 8, who wanted to be a doctor or dentist.

The world reported a girls' school massacre; the ground floor held a boys' school and pre-school, and more than 70 boys died there too. 264 children attended. 120 are in the ground.

Forensic Architecture rebuilt the school as a digital 3D environment from those website videos, some filmed in January 2026, weeks before the strike.

The walkthrough moves through classrooms painted blue and pink, decorated with the children's paper art, and the brightly painted staircase joining the two assembly halls.

A research agency in London reconstructed this school room by room from open sources, after the fact. The Pentagon, with satellites tasked on this exact compound, says it couldn't tell what the building was.

The strike, reconstructed.

CCTV fixes it: nine missiles across ninety seconds at 11:22am, the first landing 130m from the school, the school itself hit ten seconds after.

Mohammad Taha was in the playground when the compound started exploding and ran for his classroom; the missile met him there. It penetrated the roof and first floor before detonating, leaving a crater 5m wide.

Teachers had spent the previous hour phoning parents to collect their children, which is why so many parents were at or near the gates when the missiles arrived.

FA's spatial analysis synchronizes every video of the attack and numbers each impact; the school is strike 4.

Watch the missiles walk across a neighbourhood containing a clinic, a cultural centre, a cafe, a supermarket and a car wash.

Parastesh Zaeri, 11, survived: the principal fell at the first blast, and the second threw her under the rubble as she reached for her books. Her brother Ali Asghar, 8, did not survive. Her teacher Ms Shahriari ran back into a classroom for her students and was killed by the next missile.

This is the part the replies to my initial shorter post keep returning to, and it deserves precision.

By 1:47pm Iranian channels were reporting the school strike by name. The rescue filled the compound: a thousand to fifteen hundred people, parents, Red Crescent, firefighters.

At 2:30pm three more Tomahawks hit, on and near the clinic, killing a medical worker who'd rushed from the hospital for supplies and stalling the rescue with children still under the rubble.

FA fixed the time by shadow analysis. Three hours of public reporting said a school full of children had been hit. They fired into the rescue anyway. When other militaries strike rescuers at the site of their first strike, Washington's own lexicon calls it terrorism.

On the "since 1987" figure circulating: the documented satellite record runs a decade, and a decade is enough.

The site converted to a school by October 2015: new entrances, perimeter walls, watchtowers removed. Football pitches by 2017. Compound walls painted blue and pink by 2018 to mark the girls' and boys' yards, play markings and morning assembly lines visible from orbit.

FA verified the building had been a school for many years. Stick to that record; it convicts on its own.

December 2025, weeks before the war: satellite imagery captures human figures in the playground. Measured against the sun's angle, the shadows are child-height.

The US photographed the children of Minab standing in their schoolyard and kept the site filed as a military target.

One analyst reportedly flagged the school in 2019 on an internal tool; it never went up the chain. At Central Command, nobody checked.

Now the war machine. A whistleblower from inside the targeting community: the DIA reverified maybe 100 to 200 facilities a year against a nominal three-to-five-year cycle, everyone knew, and leadership "thought it was just fine."

Analysts assumed they'd have time to update files before any war. Instead: over 1,000 targets struck in the first 24 hours, more strikes in five days than the first six months against ISIS, AI-assisted planning compressing timelines until, per the Pentagon's own former chief of civilian harm assessment, there was "literally no way" teams could validate each target.

Throughput was the metric. Verification was the cost. That is the answer to "mistake or deliberate": they built a system that didn't need to know, and Raytheon's missiles performed to spec.

The safeguards were dismantled before the first missile flew.

Inauguration day: a memo dissolves the Pentagon's Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, transition teams hunting "woke" programs.

Of roughly 40 civilian-harm specialists, seven remain, in a closet office, read into nothing, kept on paper so Hegseth can claim compliance.

In May the Inspector General warned the cuts may break US law. A hundred international law scholars call the war a clear breach of the UN charter, and note that the legal duty to verify targets means its systematic failure can itself be a war crime.

To everyone in the replies demanding The Hague: this paragraph is the evidentiary path, and it runs through the memo, not just the missile.

The physical record. Before-and-after satellite comparison: school, clinic, cultural center flattened.

Bellingcat geolocated the strike footage; munitions experts at the Open Source Munitions Portal confirmed the weapon from fragments at the scene: a Tomahawk.

One belligerent fires Tomahawks. FA's photogrammetric model of the wreckage places the 5m crater in the center of the assembly hall, the room that held the morning lines, the mothers' day parties, the book fairs.

The commander of the war, asked by Congress: "the investigation is ongoing." He did not deny it was American.

The Defense Secretary: "we don't target. Iran does."

The child rping and killing president, asked if anyone will be held accountable for killing more than a hundred children: "No." Then: "maybe it wasn't our missile."

A preliminary military inquiry has reportedly already concluded US forces were responsible through human error. The findings are under review and may never be published. A source close to the investigation says the president's denials are undermining it from above.

Atareh's parents keep her schoolbag. Burned, the little toy still clipped where she left it; she was carrying it when her body was found.

Her mother says she can no longer feel her daughter's small hands, and that every time she looks at the bag she has one question: why.

The answer is that it was purchased upstream, in database maintenance nobody funded and safeguard offices dissolved by memo, by people who will face no consequence unless that changes.

The United States of America is the world's most prolific terrorist organization and any evils they accuse of others overshadows a much greater confession demanding justice.

Forensic Architecture's @ForensicArchi Full 3D reconstruction and analysis: forensic-architecture.org/investigation/…

The @SkyNews documentary: youtu.be/siRuobaj7IE

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