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The school was called Shajareh Tayyebeh. The Good Tree. It was painted with pink flowers and green leaves on its exterior walls, a two-storey building in the southern Iranian city of Minab where girls aged seven to twelve arrived on the morning of February 28, 2026, the first day of their school week. The US-Israeli strikes on Iran had begun hours earlier. Parents received panicked calls and text messages. Get here. Come now. There was not enough time. A Tomahawk cruise missile, manufactured by Raytheon and held by no other participant in this conflict, struck the school at 10:45 in the morning. The roof collapsed on the children. According to Iranian authorities, 165 people were killed, most of them schoolgirls. Iranian state media put the figure at 180. Bellingcat and BBC Verify geolocated footage of the missile striking the area. Eight munitions experts confirmed to the Washington Post that it was a Tomahawk. US Central Command, according to CNN’s reporting, used target coordinates derived from intelligence that had not been updated since 2013, a year when the building was still part of an IRGC compound. By 2016, a fence had separated the school from the base. By 2017, a football pitch had been marked out in the school courtyard. The satellite imagery was there. No one looked.
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