AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying

Post by basisword » Fri, Mar 27, 2026, 8:57 PM UTC

shykes wrote: post #19

You can't have a serious discussion of this bombing without addressing the information warfare component. To this day we don't know what actually happened . Between the general public and the facts, there are many middlemen, all with their own distorting factor: the IRGC; the US government; western press outlets such as the Guardian; and the people quoted by the press. IRGC is making claims that no other party can ve…

Post by basisword » Fri, Mar 27, 2026, 9:00 PM UTC

shykes wrote: post #65

embedding-shape wrote: post #30

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> To this day we don't know what actually happened. I feel like we know enough already. A school was bombed, the ones who did it sucks big time and should be held responsible. Currently, the US and Israel is waging a war against Iran, and one of them dropped the bomb(s), unless suddenly Iran got their hands on American weapons, then that needs to be investigated too, because someone surely dropped the ball at that po…

I think it's likely that the explosion was caused by a US strike. But we don't actually know for sure that that's what happened - the US government has not confirmed it. We also don't know anything about casualties - we only have the IRGC statements, and they are not reliable. > Have those investigations been launched? Yes, according to the US government, an investigation is underway. But its starting point is determ…

Post by sumeno » Fri, Mar 27, 2026, 9:01 PM UTC

energy123 wrote: post #148

cool_dude85 wrote: post #124

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>Iran has been waging war since the Islamic Revolution On who?

They've colonized the whole region with their proxies, from Lebanon to Yemen to Iraq, previously Syria which they attacked with Hezbollah to support the Russia-backed Assad. About 1 million dead people from all this proxy warfare. Lebanon in particular wants to be a normal liberal democracy but their proxy militia assassinates any politician who stands in their way.

Post by lejalv » Fri, Mar 27, 2026, 9:03 PM UTC

gruez wrote: post #106

YZF wrote: post #61

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I couldn't find a web site for the school when I searched for one and I also noticed that while schools are generally marked on Google Maps in Iran this school was not. Both are IMO not really relevant or reliable sources of targeting data anyways. I found very little evidence searching online for the school but I did find something that looked like a blog about a school trip. Again though the Internet is not a relia…

>It's hard to imagine that a building that has operated for some length of time as a school would not have patterns that are visible from satellite vs. military facilities with different patterns. You might be overestimating how much satellite capacity there is to do this level of analysis for every target.

Post by michaelteter » Fri, Mar 27, 2026, 9:04 PM UTC

lb1lf wrote: post #146

O3marchnative wrote: post #35

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The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) has an updated tally on defensive and offensive munition expenditures. It's likely not 100% accurate due to the sensitive nature of those figures. > 11,294 munitions in the first 16 days of the conflict, at a cost of approximately $26 billion. Several detailed tables are in the link below. https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/comme...

Incidentally, $26B is a sum in the same ballpark as the cost of eradicating homelessness in the US, ending large-scale hunger worldwide or making significant progress towards safe drinking water for all or the eradication of malaria.