Overview
- A Feb. 28 strike in Minab, Iran, hit a site reported to be a school and was said in some reports to have killed more than 120 children, a claim described in source material as reported and limited in verification.
- CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper testified that the Minab incident “correlated” with a U.S. attack without a formal public admission of responsibility from the Pentagon.
- Reporting found U.S. military databases had continued to list the Minab location as an IRGC facility even though it was operating as a school, a mislabeling that helped trigger the targeting review.
- CENTCOM, the Pentagon’s Maven office and Palantir implemented dozens of changes to the Maven Smart System to reassess underlying intelligence, flag inconsistencies, add more open‑source feeds, and tighten pre‑strike review rules.
- The Pentagon has opened investigations that remain unpublished, Pentagon officials say human commanders still decide strikes and that AI cannot fix flawed upstream data, and a UN fact‑finding report on Sept. 17 said there are reasonable grounds to believe the Minab and Lamerd strikes could amount to war crimes.