New imagery suggests U.S. responsible for Iran school strike

What is not clear is how the US received such faulty intelligence. It is also strange how such a blunder happened on day 1. Did some followed Iranian targets go hide in the school? If so, did Iran have a hand in engineering misleading intel for the US, or was it solely the US' doing?

Today a boy's school in Iran was affected by an explosion. The intelligence received by the US chronically seems troubled.

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Post by Teever » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 7:16 PM UTC

readthenotes1 wrote: post #3

Teever wrote: post #2

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I'm not clear how it is tech related. There are plenty of other ways to get general news, hacker News is not your all-purpose News feed...

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Post by waffleiron » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 7:17 PM UTC

readthenotes1 wrote: post #3

Teever wrote: post #2

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I'm not clear how it is tech related. There are plenty of other ways to get general news, hacker News is not your all-purpose News feed...

China and geopolitical enemies of the US doing horrible things regularly gets hundreds of votes. It’s quite clear that this argument is mainly used to defend the US and it’s allies.

Just a single example of Russia, hundreds of votes and more than a thousand comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30458277

Edit; just search for Russia, China or Iran on https://hn.algolia.com/ and you’ll find plenty of non tech stories.

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Post by mattray0295 » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 7:20 PM UTC

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Post by zocoi » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 7:21 PM UTC

Is it the lack of intensive AI analysis? AI can review satellite images over time and suggest if the building is civilian or not. School activities are very obvious

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Post by Simulacra » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 7:31 PM UTC

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Post by mothballed » Fri, Mar 06, 2026, 7:42 PM UTC

OutOfHere wrote: post #4

What is not clear is how the US received such faulty intelligence. It is also strange how such a blunder happened on day 1. Did some followed Iranian targets go hide in the school? If so, did Iran have a hand in engineering misleading intel for the US, or was it solely the US' doing? Today a boy's school in Iran was affected by an explosion. The intelligence received by the US chronically seems troubled.

I read secondhand that it was used for military purposes during the Obama years and it appears no one tagged it as now being used as a school for the past 10 years. No idea if it's correct, but it's plausible they were operating off of extremely stale intelligence.