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Senior Military Commanders Greenlit Strikes Across Iran

Wednesday, July 8, 2026
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Senior Military Commanders Greenlit Strikes Across Iran

Senior military commanders Greenlit strikes across Iran. This included one hitting a school in Minab, down in the south. It happened in February. But they ignored warnings. Warnings that intelligence about potential targets was probably already old.

Messages came through suggesting the input used for targeting was based on years-old stuff that needed fixing. They were using this system to build the target list. And someone senior had to sign off on putting a site on that list too. According to CNN, sources familiar with it said that was the procedure.

Then things happened. As many as 175 people died. Mostly kids. After the US fired a missile at that school in Minab right at the start of the fighting, February 28th. That kicked off this whole mess in the region. The military started looking into it days later. An investigation began.

US-Iran War News Live Updates. That was what was happening.

The decision to skip those warnings? Sources pointed to "expediency." They were under insane pressure. Needed that target list ready on opening day of the war.

That move meant the strike landed on the school in Minab at the very beginning of the conflict. CNN reported it as an accident, really.

One source who knew what was going on said the US military officials "knew within days of the strike how the mistake happened." It was old info. Obviously.

Satellite images from 2013 showed that school and the IRGC were basically in the same compound. But by 2016, they built a wall separating the school from the rest of it.

Under all that pressure, commanders just focused on fixing the records for what they thought was the biggest threat to US forces. The "upper-tier" targets. Missile sites. Aircraft. They prioritized those.

It was how they were rapidly re-validating things. Prioritizing what they figured mattered most for the mission.

But that meant ignoring many of the fixed targets. Targets that weren't moving. That’s how they ended up hitting the school. Analysts couldn't update all those immobile records anyway.

The Pentagon hasn't released any details on the investigation yet. Silence there.

Last month, President Trump said he just doesn't know who was to blame for that deadly strike at the Minab school. Scores of kids died. He argued, "I don’t know that they are ever going to solve that problem."

He talked about missiles flying everywhere. Somebody said it was our missile. Maybe not ours. But he saw nothing to prove it wasn't. It was horrible.

"It’s horrible what happened," he said. "But there were missiles flying all over the place. Somebody said it was our missile, maybe it wasn’t our missile but I have seen nothing to lead me to believe it was." He cast doubt on the US role in those strikes.

Written by Gree News Team — Senior Editorial Board

Gree News Team covers international news and global affairs at Gree News. Our collective of senior editors is dedicated to providing independent, accurate, and responsible journalism for a global audience.

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