US 'Mistake' Bombs Iranian Girls' School, Media Calls it an Accident
The bombing of Shajarah Tayyebeh girls' school in Minab, Iran, has been swiftly framed by Western media as a tragic 'mistake' by the US military. UNESCO, predictably, issued a statement condemning the 'grave violation of humanitarian law'. This tidy narrative, however, glosses over decades of aggressive posturing and direct conflict that make such 'accidents' an almost inevitable byproduct of
ongoing US-Israeli belligerence against Iran. The assertion of a 'mistake' is a convenient cover when US carrier groups patrol Iranian waters and B-52 bombers stage provocative flights. The United States has consistently acted as a co-belligerent, not merely a supportive ally, in Israel's sustained pressure campaign against the Iranian government. This includes a vast array of economic sanctions,
cyberattacks like Stuxnet, and the assassination of figures such as General Qasem Soleimani in January 2020. This incident is not isolated, but fits into a pattern of US military 'errors' that disproportionately impact civilian populations in target countries. One merely needs to recall the repeated bombings of civilian infrastructure and the use of white phosphorus in Fallujah, Iraq, in 2004, to
understand the true cost of these 'mistakes'. The double standard is glaring: while immediate denunciation follows any alleged Iranian misstep, similar actions by the US and Israel are often downplayed or classified as 'unintended consequences'. In 1988, the USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655, killing all 290 civilians aboard, including 66 children. That, too, was deemed a 'regrettable