U.S. Forces Massacre At Least 150 Students And Staff In Strike On Iranian Girls' School

At least 150 students and staff were killed in a strike on the Shajareye Tayabeh girls' school in Minab, Hormozgan Province.

“American forces were responsible for a strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed at least 150 students and staff, according to a preliminary assessment by U”

The Daily Beast

U.S. military investigators have preliminarily concluded American forces were responsible, according to reporting that cites two U.S. officials who spoke to Reuters.

The Daily Beast

The Daily Beast reports the casualty figure and the preliminary U.S. assessment while noting the investigation remains in its early stages.

This account frames the event as a mass civilian massacre at an educational institution.

The Daily Beast describes the school being hit "as U.S. and Israeli forces conducted combined attacks across Iran" after President Trump ordered "major combat operations."

The article says that campaign has killed Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and dozens of top officials.

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Reporting cited by The Daily Beast places the school strike alongside other simultaneous military actions across Iranian territory.

Those reports indicate the attack was part of coordinated strikes rather than an isolated incident.

U.S. officials and senior U.S. leaders responded in markedly different ways.

“American forces were responsible for a strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed at least 150 students and staff, according to a preliminary assessment by U”

The Daily Beast

The article says the assessment of U.S. responsibility is 'tentative and could change if new evidence emerges,' while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth 'publicly praised the campaign's scale and lethality, warned civilian casualties were inevitable, and declined to confirm U.S. responsibility for the school strike.'

That combination of an initial, cautious investigative finding and public praise from senior officials underscores both the political sensitivity and the ongoing uncertainty around attribution and accountability.

Attribution remains contested in public reporting.

The Daily Beast notes 'Separate reporting by The New York Times said the precision strike occurred alongside an attack on an adjacent IRGC naval base near the Strait of Hormuz and that U.S. forces were most likely to have carried it out; Iran’s state media initially blamed Israel.'

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The article therefore conveys conflicting claims and external reporting that points toward U.S. responsibility while also recording alternative attributions by Iranian state media, highlighting unresolved questions about the strike’s precise circumstances and perpetrators.