US and Israel strike Iran. (title edited by MNHQ at request of the OP)

[Twiglets1]

Israel attacked Iran early on Saturday morning, saying it had “launched a pre-emptive strike against Iran to remove threats to the state of Israel,” according to a military spokesman.

Israel closed its airspace and declared a state of emergency, in anticipation of
Iranian drone and missile strikes in response.

Explosions were heard in Tehran on Saturday, Iranian media reported.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/28/israel-launches-attack-on-iran-as-explosions-heard-in-tehran

So it was an accident, as they though it was a military target.

If you don't bother your arse to properly check if a school is full of children(you know like schools usually are) before you bomb it is it really an 'accident'? I mean before you blow up a school full of children do you double and triple check or do you lob bombs first ask questions later because hey they aren't our children and we've already blown up 20000 of them what's a 100 more? Whoopsie

The school has been clearly defined as such for
ten years

Clearly
Their intelligence was wrong

‘There is no indication that the school is in any sense a military-use building: its classroom building and playground is walled off and the colourful murals on its walls are visible in some satellite imagery.’
the guardian

https://x.com/i/status/2028958068323786893

Qatar just arrested an Iranian Revolutionary Guard sleeper cell.

The images of the carefully choreographed schoolgirls' funeral today have made me suspect the school was deliberately attacked by the Iranian regime for propaganda value. This is a regime that has complete contempt for the lives of females. (Some of the writings of the former Ayatollah on the rape of young girls are utterly repulsive.) The girls would have been expendable to them.

Imagine this was a US school bombed 'accidently' at Christmas time, dozens of little American girls killed in their school as they tried to learn. There would be front pages full of collages of pictures of these little girls smiling and happy, images of the country out mourning their loss, pictures of overflowing tributes, there would be anger across the world. Nobody would be dismissing it as an accident, talking about carefully choreographed mourning, talking about how the girls were expendable to trump because he likes to 'grab 'em by the pussy' and help cover up sex trafficking.

Some girls are more important than others, some girls are worth fighting wars over and other girls are collateral damage. It's never been as clear to see as it has over the past few years, this is just more of the same from the same.

I know what you mean. There's something about it that feels just so similar to a lot of the Hamas propaganda stuff, and it's of course now relentlessly used as a distraction, including on this thread.

See the thread on AIBU about a MNetter who can't understand why her Jewish friend is no longer in touch 🙄

.Some websites and social media accounts linked to Israel claimed the site was “part of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base”.
blah blah blah

Are you reading all this propoganda

Iran didn’t bomb the school

The importance of Minab and the targeted military square
To understand the motives for including Minab in the first US-no Israeli targets, the city must be placed within its broader geostrategic context.
Minab is located in Hormozgan in southeastern Iran, a province of enormous military importance as it directly overlooks the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf waters, making it a key hub for the operations of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) naval forces, NEDSA.

The IRGC Navy embraces what is known as an “asymmetric warfare” strategy that relies on deploying fast boats, drones, and coastal missile platforms capable of disrupting shipping or targeting hostile naval vessels.

In this context, the “Sayyid al-Shuhada” military complex in Minab stands out; it includes key headquarters, most notably that of the “Asif Brigade”.

The Asif missile brigade is considered one of the most important strike arms of the IRGC Navy.

The Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab is part of a broad network of schools structurally and administratively affiliated with the IRGC Navy.
These schools are classified as nonprofit institutions and are primarily intended to provide educational services to the sons and daughters of members of the IRGC Navy With admission procedures give priority to the children of military personnel.

However, this administrative link (to the IRGC) or the identity of the parents does not change the schools’ legal status as civilian facilities under international humanitarian law, unless they were being used in military operations.
And the children who attend them – whether they are the children of military personnel or civilians – remain protected people with special protection in armed conflicts, including the prohibition on intentionally targeting them or carrying out attacks that could harm them.
The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has called the bombing of the school as a “horrific crime and a consolidation of the collapse of civilian protection”, stressing in a statement that the mere presence of military facilities or bases nearby does not change the school’s civilian character, and does not absolve US and Israeli forces of their legal obligation to carefully verify the nature of the target before striking it.

@EsmaCannonball

@Stirabout "Some websites and social media accounts linked to Israel claimed the site was “part of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base”.
blah blah blah

Are you reading all this propaganda"

Remember when the IDF got the blame for bombing a hospital in Gaza and killing 150 ?

That turned out to be a misfired rocket launched from Gaza, that made a hole in the hospital car park and not much else.

This is a regime that's been murdering it's own citizens since 1979, so I'm inclined to disbelieve anything they say. And where has the outrage been for all those years? Demos on London streets? Protests outside the Iranian Embassy? Nah, just crickets.

It's the same old story. When Muslim kills Muslim no-one bothers but when Jew kills Muslim everyone loses their minds.

They are all the same ilk

Yup, I think you've just nailed it.

Why not cite where you copy pasted that from?

This is about the killing of 154 young children and 15 of their own teachers

There is outrage
There should be outrage
yet there only seems to be certain people on here that are outraged and it doesn’t include those that support
Israel and the US starting this war

As an aside because you’ve brought up Gaza and I really don’t want to derail as There are plenty of threads to talk about that
but
perhaps look back over everything that’s been happening there and I think you’ll find
neither Hamas or the IDF and Netanyahu can be trusted

The Iranian people I work with (they live in Australia but have many friends and family still in Iran) 100% think this was a deliberate act by the regime - who have a long history of killing citizens generally along with specifically targeting school girls.

Apparently some of the gulf states are attacking Iran but not telegraphing it.

Very likely as they can easily get their fighters along the Iranian coast.

Qatar announces arrest of Iran’s IRGC sleeper cells

Qatar has announced the arrest of what it called two cells operating for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Ten suspects were arrested in the cells, the Qatar News Agency (QNA) announced on Tuesday. Seven had been assigned to spy on “vital and military facilities” in Qatar, while three were tasked with carrying out sabotage operations.

“During interrogation, the suspects admitted their affiliation with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and that they had been tasked with espionage missions and sabotage activities,” QNA reported.

Qatari authorities have found locations and coordinates of sensitive facilities and installations, as well as communication devices and technological equipment in their possession, the report said.

Tehran has launched multiple retaliatory attacks on Qatar and other Gulf Arab states since the US and Israel began joint strikes on Iran on Saturday. Iran says it is targeting US assets in the region with its attacks, but civilian infrastructure, including airports and hotels, has also been hit.

Dozens of explosions have been reported in Qatar over the past few days, and its Ministry of Defence said it detected the launch of three cruise missiles, 101 ballistic missiles and 39 drones towards its airspace since Saturday.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/3/qatar-announces-arrest-of-iranian-irgc-sleeper-cells

That's good news. Any sleeper cells that can be stopped.

American forces had destroyed 17 Iranian ships, sinking the entire Iranian navy, according to Admiral Brad Cooper, the commander of US Central Command.

Now, he added, the focus was "on shooting all the things that can shoot at us".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c62gg44d53xt

There is no evidence of this.

Satellite image shows Iran's largest naval vessel, a tanker-turned-base ship, smoking in port

Newly captured satellite imagery from the ongoing conflict with Iran shows the country's biggest naval vessel — a former oil tanker converted into a floating base — on fire at a military port.

Iran converted the Makran, previously an oil tanker, into a forward base ship in 2020 and commissioned the vessel into the navy the following year. The deck could accommodate missile and rocket artillery launchers, as well as vertical takeoff and landing drones.

https://www.businessinsider.com/satellite-image-show-iran-warship-smoking-airstrikes-2026-3

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/03/us-israel-iran-war-christian-rhetoric

I know that people don't like bringing religion or ideology into these threads, but I find this extremely worrying.

My Dad put me onto an Al Jazeera documentary called "Praying for Armageddon" about two years ago. He was a navy man, and a nuclear test veteran, so his interests could be somewhat esoteric, however, he was also, typically for his generation, pragmatic and stoic, and much like myself a somewhat bewildered observer of the harms human kind will mete out on each other based on "faith" and mythology.

Any underpinning of military strategy based on religious ideology on any side disturbs me greatly, and this article will probably be hand waved away as ridiculous by many who wish to stick to logic and rationality, however, I am extremely discomfited that those in positions of power are using this kind of rhetoric in such a volatile situation. As I say, I am concerned about it on both sides.

When I've mentioned this documentary on other threads, I've been shot down due to the perceived bias of the producers, but the content explores the complicated interweaving of faith and historical "prophecy".

My big concern is the manipulation. With so much uncertainty in the world right now, it's easy, with social media and the speed of communication, to pull scared and disenfranchised people into dark and dangerous places and thought processes.

Anyway, feel free to ignore if it's too "out there" but if anyone has any thoughts I'd be interested.

Do pp think Iran’s military capability is just going to be decimated soon. It’d be good if China or whoever refuse to supply more.