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Omaha Steve

(108,896 posts)
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 07:12 AM 8 hrs ago

Death toll in a strike on girls' school in southern Iran rises to 40, state media say

Source: AP

By JON GAMBRELL, KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and JOSH BOAK
Updated 5:39 AM CST, February 28, 2026
Leer en español

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The death toll in an Israeli-U.S. strike on a girls’ school in southern Iran rises to at least 40, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.

At least 45 others were wounded in the attack in Minab in Iran’s Hormozgan province.

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has a base in the city.

Neither the U.S. nor Israel has offered any details on the campaign so far.



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-explosion-tehran-c2f11247d8a66e36929266f2c557a54c



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Death toll in a strike on girls' school in southern Iran rises to 40, state media say (Original Post) Omaha Steve 8 hrs ago OP
A girls' school. Of course. n/t ariadne0614 8 hrs ago #1
I heard it was a baby milk factory FredGarvin 5 hrs ago #38
Perhaps not surprising for the Hegseth military to miss targets. Lonestarblue 8 hrs ago #2
If you can't rape them, kill them? Marthe48 8 hrs ago #3
Congrats to Trump and Bibi for making @ least a thousand more suicide bombers for Iran. Botany 8 hrs ago #4
Iran not Iraq LiberalArkie 8 hrs ago #5
Thanx! Botany 7 hrs ago #8
Yea, I know. Hard to keep up with who our wonderful godlike American emperors are attacking this week. LiberalArkie 6 hrs ago #21
Trump's Institute of Peace. Botany 5 hrs ago #31
I expected that a long time ago with the GOP's nature of projecting their intentions on others. LiberalArkie 1 hr ago #48
Congress has the power to put a stop to this! 70sEraVet 8 hrs ago #6
Indeed. snot 2 hrs ago #46
If his inspiration Vladimir Putin can do it, Dave Id 8 hrs ago #7
Fits into all Trump's pathetic daddy issues PatSeg 6 hrs ago #17
Only Congress has the power to declare war perdita9 7 hrs ago #9
Traitor Trash! enigmania 7 hrs ago #10
Our Congress has a meager majority of fascists stollen 7 hrs ago #13
This Congress has no power... MiHale 6 hrs ago #19
The Republicans refuse to use their power against "it". chowder66 4 hrs ago #40
This is terribly sad, and this war will likely unite Iranians against the US dedl67 7 hrs ago #11
Including opponents of the current Iranian regime. I suspect it won't be any different then what happened on 9/11, lostincalifornia 6 hrs ago #27
Hi Ivanka stollen 7 hrs ago #12
War is always taking out those who least deserve AllyCat 7 hrs ago #14
A war to end an election provocateur7 7 hrs ago #15
Also on behalf of the $audis mahina 6 hrs ago #24
An attack on a girls' school... GiqueCee 7 hrs ago #16
Sorry, not sorry for language markie 6 hrs ago #18
Lots of videos of aftermath on socials and on non-US media Prairie Gates 6 hrs ago #20
This puts the validity of the FIFA Peace Prize in doubt. mn9driver 6 hrs ago #22
Noooooooo mahina 6 hrs ago #23
Murdered 40 girls in a school shooting Prairie Gates 6 hrs ago #25
Don't effing get mad at me for calling them.. CousinIT 6 hrs ago #26
Angry and sad. Figarosmom 6 hrs ago #28
The girls Clouds Passing 6 hrs ago #29
Had enough, America? Grim Chieftain 6 hrs ago #30
Approved by the Board of Peace. Marcuse 5 hrs ago #32
Bored of Peace is the correct DU pronunciation. Really true now Bengus81 2 hrs ago #47
In a first, didn't take them before he killed them. Nt Gore1FL 5 hrs ago #33
Evil men will do evil things rhiannon55 5 hrs ago #34
JFC, Monstrous, horrific, sadistic psychopaths. 58Sunliner 5 hrs ago #35
Schools and hospitals sounds familiar. Klarkashton 5 hrs ago #36
Post removed Post removed 5 hrs ago #37
That had better be sarcasm Jilly_in_VA 4 hrs ago #41
Post removed Post removed 4 hrs ago #42
LOL Skittles 1 hr ago #49
Post removed Post removed 4 hrs ago #43
WAR CRIME!!! William Seger 5 hrs ago #39
Might give Trump ED for a couple of minutes ... nt Jarqui 3 hrs ago #44
Those poor little girls and their families! rhiannon55 3 hrs ago #45
Had an uncomfortable evening, woke up feeling pretty ok. THEN, I remembered Iran. %@##&@!%$@#!!! electric_blue68 1 hr ago #50
War criming within the first 12 hours?????? WTF. The world will consider us the pariah we deserve to be. Dammit. Evolve Dammit 1 hr ago #51
Bring the war home. The Grand Illuminist 1 hr ago #52
What, did one of the girls tell Dopey Donnie "no" or something? flvegan 56 min ago #53

Lonestarblue

(13,395 posts)
2. Perhaps not surprising for the Hegseth military to miss targets.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 07:20 AM
8 hrs ago

In Texas, they couldn't tell the difference between a party balloon and drone. Then they shot down a US drone used to spot drug trafficking along the border.

I'm sure Netanyahu is thrilled. He has now dragged the US into his war against Iran. If there were an international prize for starting wars and the illegal murders of people in small boats, Trump would win it easily.

Marthe48

(22,979 posts)
3. If you can't rape them, kill them?
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 07:20 AM
8 hrs ago

Seems the response for the regime.

So sorry for the victims and their loved ones.

Botany

(76,959 posts)
4. Congrats to Trump and Bibi for making @ least a thousand more suicide bombers for Iran.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 07:26 AM
8 hrs ago

This is madness

Botany

(76,959 posts)
8. Thanx!
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 07:48 AM
7 hrs ago

Botany =

Btw before bush & Cheney invaded Iraq, they had never had a car bombing.

LiberalArkie

(19,603 posts)
21. Yea, I know. Hard to keep up with who our wonderful godlike American emperors are attacking this week.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 09:27 AM
6 hrs ago

Botany

(76,959 posts)
31. Trump's Institute of Peace.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 09:52 AM
5 hrs ago

Attack Iran, attack Venezuela, bomb Syria, attack some African country on made up
Christians vs Muslims shit … sorry too many places ….. ICE kills 3 people in cold blood
2 in Minneapolis and 1 in Texas, drop off a blind man in Buffalo in the winter, get America
into Iran’s leadership issues, steal Venezuela’s oil @ gun point, sell that oil, and put that
money into some Middle Eastern bank under Don’s control, kill over 130 people from the
Caribbean or South America by blowing up their small boats, spread measles…. see Helen
Keller who went blind and deaf because of a now preventable childhood disease, stop a
treaty that stopped Iran from ever building a nuclear weapon and then attack Iran for not
following the treaty, be part of an international child sex trafficking ring, beat and arrest
American people for protesting against evil, dirty elections, drop USAID, Stephen Miller …..

LiberalArkie

(19,603 posts)
48. I expected that a long time ago with the GOP's nature of projecting their intentions on others.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 01:54 PM
1 hr ago

Biden and Harris invading numerous countries - means, well everyone now knows his projection. We just have to believe him when they say it.

I do not believe that the invasion of Venezuela was about drugs or oil (except to stop the oil going to Cuba). Since Venzuela was a very large silver ore exporter that was usually refined in China, I think there was a vault raid planned for Venezuela like what happened in Baghdad at the start of that war. But the rumors are is that Maduro shipped their inventory to Switzerland and Shanghai way before the invasion.

Dave Id

(266 posts)
7. If his inspiration Vladimir Putin can do it,
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 07:45 AM
8 hrs ago

why shouldn't Donald do the same to show Putie he's as big of a murdering asshole as he is?

PatSeg

(52,892 posts)
17. Fits into all Trump's pathetic daddy issues
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 08:59 AM
6 hrs ago

Men with daddy issues can be very dangerous. They always have so much to prove and nothing will ever satisfy them.

perdita9

(1,343 posts)
9. Only Congress has the power to declare war
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 07:51 AM
7 hrs ago

Missile strikes in Iran, an embargo in Cuba, the kidnapping of the Venezuelan president and first lady.

Republicans in Congress refuse to step up and honor the oath they swore to our Constitution. The proper term for these people is traitor trash.

stollen

(1,112 posts)
13. Our Congress has a meager majority of fascists
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 08:08 AM
7 hrs ago

So don’t anticipate any sane behavior from our torn up WH until perhaps Dec.

lostincalifornia

(5,251 posts)
27. Including opponents of the current Iranian regime. I suspect it won't be any different then what happened on 9/11,
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 09:40 AM
6 hrs ago

where the American publican united after the attack.


provocateur7

(12 posts)
15. A war to end an election
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 08:39 AM
7 hrs ago

While murdering school girls and innocent civilians on behalf of Israel, Dear Leader will declare that every terrorist sleeper cell in the US and every Middle East terrorist state will awaken and wage war in the US. Terrorists will rig the vote and bomb polling places. An election cannot be held in such an unstable environment.
Or some such hogwash.
Iran is a nuclear threat in his small mind because of his own stupidity in withdrawing from the multinational treaty and failure to “obliterate” its facilities.

GiqueCee

(3,803 posts)
16. An attack on a girls' school...
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 08:46 AM
7 hrs ago

... Hegseth isn't about to be outdone by Nosferatu, Noem, and Homan, by cracky! He'll show 'em how malicious, evil depravity is done!

What fucking monsters.

markie

(23,969 posts)
18. Sorry, not sorry for language
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 08:59 AM
6 hrs ago

Fucking asshole trump and republicans. All of this is so wrong and terrible and sad

mn9driver

(4,840 posts)
22. This puts the validity of the FIFA Peace Prize in doubt.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 09:29 AM
6 hrs ago

Seriously though, fuck these criminally insane assholes.

mahina

(20,587 posts)
23. Noooooooo
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 09:30 AM
6 hrs ago

💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧

The Epstein Administration would of course murder girl children

CousinIT

(12,441 posts)
26. Don't effing get mad at me for calling them..
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 09:39 AM
6 hrs ago

...The American Taliban, when bombing a girl's school, is the first thing they do.

rhiannon55

(2,781 posts)
34. Evil men will do evil things
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 10:07 AM
5 hrs ago

Anything to stop the elections and to distract everyone once again from the fact that he’s a child rapist and child killer. And of course he bombs a girls school.

I’m old, but I hope I live to see him die in fucking jail.

Response to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Jilly_in_VA

(14,257 posts)
41. That had better be sarcasm
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 11:34 AM
4 hrs ago

if you don't want to get alerted and/or banned. This is nothing to joke about.

Response to Jilly_in_VA (Reply #41)

Skittles

(170,673 posts)
49. LOL
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 02:05 PM
1 hr ago

WE are not the ones to be waking up. ANYONE SUPPORTING OR EXCUSING THAT DEMENTED ORANGE FASCIST FUCK NEEDS TO WAKE UP. And I mean EVERYONE.

Response to Jilly_in_VA (Reply #41)

electric_blue68

(26,666 posts)
50. Had an uncomfortable evening, woke up feeling pretty ok. THEN, I remembered Iran. %@##&@!%$@#!!!
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 02:19 PM
1 hr ago
Damn you; drumphf, Netanyahu !!!!

Evolve Dammit

(21,697 posts)
51. War criming within the first 12 hours?????? WTF. The world will consider us the pariah we deserve to be. Dammit.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 02:22 PM
1 hr ago
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