A US military airstrike on 28 February struck a primary school in Minab (a city in southern Iran), killing at least 175 people, most of them children, in what an internal investigation has determined was caused by targeting data that had not been updated in seven years. The Pentagon has privately acknowledged the error but, more than 100 days later, has still not publicly accepted responsibility, with the completed investigation awaiting approval from senior military leaders, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, and the White House. Critics and former military analysts are calling for firings and potential prosecution under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, noting that at least one intelligence analyst had flagged years earlier that the building appeared to be a school, but the warning never reached those selecting targets.