[roenxi]

While this is a minor point; whether or not it was an Iranian misfire doesn't move the moral responsibility away from the invaders. Unless the IRGC took advantage of the chaos to purposefully hit the school (seems unlikely) then the entire situation was teed up by the external aggression and can still pretty reasonably be blamed on them.

[lelanthran]

Of course it does.

If you try to shield your armed forces using children, and then accidentally kill them because you used them as a shield, you can't blame someone else.

[roenxi]

... I'm just going of Wikipedia here but it seems to have been a standard small city [0]. Attempting to educate Iranians in Iranian cities isn't really trying to shield armed forces. Is the expectation here that Iran should send their students out into the wilderness to make it more politically convenient for US/Israeli to launch unannounced strikes on them?

Apart from the fact that Iran is a bad place to be right now it actually looks like a pleasant city to visit. Sounds like they have lots of fruit, warm weather and have some interesting history vis a vis the Mongols. Very middle eastern.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minab

[lelanthran]

Instead of looking at the entire city, just look at the google maps data for proximity of their armed forces to their school.

Look, maybe it was a school specifically for the children of army personnel, but that's a long shot. From the geolocation data, the school was right at their missile launch site.

They had choices.

Locate the school or the launch site elsewhere, for one.

Evacuate the school before they tried to launch munitions, for another.

This is on them.

[__m]

Why does that seem unlikely? It makes people argue that the price is not worth it. After killing thousands of protesters you think they would shy away from killing some dozens of kids?