Third hand info, but I heard on a podcast a few months back that the building had been an irgc hideout… like 10 months prior. With the administration’s complete knob-gobbling of AI, and no assets on the ground to provide updated intel, it’s likely that the AI said “shoot that one”, no one bothered to check before pushing the button, and the fathers and brothers of 150 little girls became all the more radicalized against the US.
So I wrote that, then decided to do more research than the DOD did and double-check things.
It’s worse than I wrote.
It was an IRGC building adjacent to an IRGC compound… in 2016. (the podcaster misspoke and said months instead of years)
The building in Minab had been classified as a military facility in a Defense Intelligence Agency database that, according to CNN, had not been updated to reflect that the building had been separated from the adjacent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps compound and converted into a school, a change that satellite imagery shows had occurred by 2016 at the latest. A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal.
Third hand info, but I heard on a podcast a few months back that the building had been an irgc hideout… like 10 months prior. With the administration’s complete knob-gobbling of AI, and no assets on the ground to provide updated intel, it’s likely that the AI said “shoot that one”, no one bothered to check before pushing the button, and the fathers and brothers of 150 little girls became all the more radicalized against the US.
So I wrote that, then decided to do more research than the DOD did and double-check things.
It’s worse than I wrote.
It was an IRGC building adjacent to an IRGC compound… in 2016. (the podcaster misspoke and said months instead of years)
[https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying](This article from The Guardian) details it quite well.