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the U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says --

should be unlocked article from NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/us/politics/iran-school-missile-strike.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SVA.50yc.DP9mGOA1ld6y&smid=url-share

the gist of the preliminary investigation:

"The Feb. 28 strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was the result of a targeting mistake by the U.S. military, which was conducting strikes on an adjacent Iranian base of which the school building was formerly a part, the preliminary investigation found. Officers at U.S. Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, people briefed on the investigation said."