The Minab School Bombing: What the Media Isn't Telling You

On February 28, a girls school in Minab was bombed. The claim is at least 165 people died, mostly young girls. While this is a tragedy that needs to be communicated before anything else, we need to look at the known facts. Right now, this event is being used as the main political weapon against the joint US and Israeli military operations in Iran. If successful, stopping these operations will cause thousands more schoolgirls to become victims by allowing the Islamic Republic to survive. We cannot let the death of these girls be used to sacrifice thousands of others.

We know for a fact that neither the United States nor Israel target schools or kill children on purpose. We also know for a fact that the Islamic Republic and its proxies use children as human shields. Whether the bombing in Minab was an intelligence failure, target misinformation, or a mistake, we have to acknowledge the tragic cost of military operations. If your standard is that no military operations with civilian casualties should ever take place, then you are expecting a standard no army in the world can abide by. Doing nothing is not the option with the least loss of civilian life.

If you look at movements like free Palestine or the axis of resistance, they show their loudest outrage when the US and Israel cause civilian casualties by mistake, but they are silent when terrorist groups target civilians on purpose. As an Iranian, I can tell you that even before these operations started, people in Iran understood they would have to pay a price in civilian lives. They knew it ahead of time and they were asking for it, because the number of innocent victims of a surviving Islamic Republic will be astronomically higher.

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