🚨 Donald Trump Bombed a School Full of Little Girls. When They Took Shelter, He Bombed Them Again. It Was Not a Mistake. And We Paid For It.

It's one of the single deadliest attacks against little girls in the modern history of the world. I am so angry that I can barely even type about any of this.

A girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran was struck during morning classes. Children died at their desks, in their hallways, under murals painted for learning. Iranian authorities now say the death toll is 180.

Parents who showed up found girls that were literally blown to pieces with their heads and arms and legs blown off. I can’t even imagine the horror and despair of it all.

And the most powerful governments on Earth responded with the same sentence they always use when civilians die: “We’re investigating.”

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Now let’s talk about Minab.

They didn’t just hit a school. They hit it twice.

Middle East Eye reports that first responders and a parent described two strikes on the school — with the second blast hitting after survivors were moved to a prayer hall for shelter. Middle East Eye describes this pattern as resembling a “double-tap” tactic: strike, pause, then strike again when people gather and survivors cluster. I had never even heard of such a thing until I saw Israel do it hundreds of times. It’s cruel and disgusting.

And it blows a hole through the most convenient excuse in modern war :: that this was a mistake. This was not a mistake. The double tap is never a mistake.

A second strike where survivors are sheltering is something else.

Here’s what’s making me sick — and what the world refuses to admit

If Iran had struck a Jewish school in Israel and killed 180 girls, the world would not be shrugging behind “investigations.” The world would be screaming. Not for a day. Not for a weekend. For weeks.

We would have non-stop specials. Prime-time anchors would camp out on the story. We’d have push alerts every hour. The front page would stay locked on the faces of the children. There would be candlelight vigils broadcast live. Leaders would fly in. Congress would hold emergency hearings. Every network would run a countdown clock demanding accountability. We would know the girls’ names, their birthdays, their dreams, their favorite teachers. The public would be made to feel their humanity because their humanity would be treated as universally grievable.

And if 180 white girls in the United States were slaughtered by a foreign government—if their school collapsed into rubble and the people responsible responded with fog and denials—this country would be in a permanent state of emergency. Again: rightly so. Because that kind of atrocity should never be treated like a passing news cycle.

But because these were Muslim girls in Iran, their deaths are already being treated like a regional complication, not a human catastrophe. Their innocence is treated as negotiable. Their grief is treated as background noise.

That isn’t just “bias.” It’s a hierarchy of human value. It’s the ugly reality of how power decides whose children become everyone’s children—and whose children become a paragraph, a footnote, a shrug.

And it makes me furious, because the only way you can live with this without feeling sick is if you’ve been trained—slowly, deliberately—to see certain children as less real.

The evidence points in one direction

The New York Times Visual Investigations team assembled what it called a body of evidence — satellite imagery, verified videos, and social media posts — indicating Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab was severely damaged by a precision strike that occurred at the same time as attacks on an adjacent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps naval base.

The Times also reported that a former Pentagon civilian-harm adviser reviewed satellite imagery and described the hits as “picture perfect” target strikes.

Let me translate: these weren’t random blasts. These looked like guided weapons striking intended targets.

Then Reuters added something even more direct: Reuters reported that two U.S. officials said U.S. military investigators believe it is likely U.S. forces were responsible, though the investigation was not complete and not final.

So in public, the White House says, “Not that we know of.”
And in private, investigators reportedly believe it was likely U.S. responsibility.

That’s not a confusion. That’s a system.

A system where the public gets fog while the truth is managed behind closed doors.

The “we never target civilians” line is a moral insult

Reuters reported Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth saying the U.S. never targets civilian targets. Reuters and other outlets reported Marco Rubio saying the U.S. would not deliberately target a school.

But here’s the problem: the dead don’t care about your press release. The parents don’t care about your phrasing. The children don’t come back because you said “deliberately.”

If a guided strike turns a school into rubble, you don’t get to hide behind a sentence. You don’t get to point to “investigations” like they’re absolution.

International law isn’t a suggestion

I’m not going to turn this into a law school lecture. I’m going to keep it simple.

International humanitarian law — the laws of war — requires those who attack to distinguish between military targets and civilian objects like schools, and to take feasible precautions to verify what they’re striking.

The New York Times quoted an Oxford expert on the laws of war saying attackers are obligated to verify a target’s status to ensure civilians are not being harmed, and failure to do so can violate international law.

Reuters stated plainly: deliberately attacking a school would likely be a war crime under international humanitarian law.

And the Guardian reported UNESCO calling the killing of pupils in a place dedicated to learning a “grave violation” of the protections afforded to schools under international humanitarian law.

So no—this isn’t “complicated.”

It’s straightforward: schools are protected. children are protected. a strike like this demands consequences.

The receipts the world can’t unsee

• A girls’ elementary school in Minab was struck during the morning school session, with mass civilian casualties reported by Iranian authorities and widely covered by major outlets.

• Middle East Eye reports eyewitness and first-responder accounts alleging two strikes, with the second hitting after survivors sheltered in a prayer hall.

• The New York Times reports satellite imagery and verified videos indicating the school was hit by a precision strike at the same time as attacks on nearby IRGC facilities, and cites an expert describing the strikes as “picture perfect.”

• Reuters reports U.S. investigators believe it is likely U.S. responsibility, though the investigation is not final.

• UNESCO described the school strike as a “grave violation” of international humanitarian law protections for schools, students, and teachers (as reported by the Guardian).

That’s the case file.

And if the world can watch a case file like this and still treat accountability as optional, then we’re living in a new era—an era where power is increasingly immune to consequence.

This is what it means to be “above the law”

International law doesn’t die because words disappear from treaties. It dies when enforcement becomes selective and consequences become optional.

It dies when a school full of girls can be obliterated and the response is: we’re investigating.

It dies when the powerful can strike, deny, delay, and continue.

And if you want to know why the world is sliding toward a more violent era — why leaders are openly talking about “rupture” and “the rules-based order no longer exists” — this is it. This is the template:

Mass civilian death + precision weapons + official fog + no accountability.

If the world cannot defend a school full of children from being treated as expendable, then nothing is sacred anymore. Not hospitals. Not shelters. Not refugee camps. Not aid convoys. Not you.

And that’s why I’m so angry. Not because I’m emotional. Because I’m paying attention.

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Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun