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🚨 Disturbing footage of victims of the Israeli attack on primary school

The Shajarah Tayyebeh Girls' Primary School in the Minab district of Hormozgan province was attacked on February 28 — the first day of the conflict.

An Iranian source told Sputnik about the funeral of 165 victims. Later, Iranian authorities updated the casualty count, stating that 171 schoolgirls had been killed, according to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. There were also reports about teachers being killed.

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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 What to know about the US airbase in Bahrain just bombed by Iran

An IRGC drone and missile barrage hit Bahrain’s Isa Air Base early Tuesday, with three missiles and 20 drones used to obliterate the base’s main command and headquarters building and fuel tanks, per IRNA.

Not to be confused with Naval Support Activity Bahrain, the US Navy’s regional HQ, which has also been hit and is located in the island nation’s north, Isa is situated in the south, and serves as a key US support facility for power projection throughout the region.

The air base is located:

🔶 250km southwest of Iran’s coast directly across the Gulf

🔶 585km from the Strait of Hormuz

🔶 450km from Kuwait

Together with al Udeid in Qatar (US CENTCOM HQ), Al Dhafra in the UAE, Ali Al Salam and Ahmed Al Jaber in Kuwait, Isa is a critical backup node for the US military.

Thanks to its 3,800M long main runway and 3,678M long secondary runway, the base can accommodate aircraft of all sizes and designations, including:

🔸 F-35 and F-22 fighters and EA-18G Growler electronic attack aircraft, spy planes like US Navy P-8A maritime patrol craft and Triton drones, tankers, spec op assets, and heavy strategic transports.

🔸 the Royal Bahraini Air Force (consisting almost entirely of US-made aircraft including F-16s, Bell Viper and Cobra helicopter gunships, Blackhawk utility/transports, and C-130J Super Hercules turboprops). Bahrain, notably, is a US ‘major non-NATO ally’.

Isa is effectively serves as an important backup to the Pentagon’s main air base hub in Qatar, and other sites in the region, should they come under threat.

The IRGC’s strike on the base seems designed to demonstrate that no US military assets anywhere in the region are safe from retaliation to US aggression.

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📹 Videos emerge online showing the aftermath of an Iranian strike in central Israel

Seven people were injured as a result of the strike, Israeli Channel 12 reports.

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🇺🇸 🇮🇶 Erbil: US bases in Iraqi Kurdistan keep getting hit by Iran and its allies

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said late Monday that Erbil has been subjected to over 70 missile and drone attacks in recent days.

Why do Erbil and its environs keep getting bombed?

🔹 Erbil Air Base: situated inside Erbil’s international airport. Key hub for US logistics, intel gathering & sharing, training, and central node of Operation Inherent Resolve. Major assets include Chinook and Blackhawk helicopters, recon drones, Patriot and C-RAM batteries, armored vehicles, SATCOM terminals and fuel, ammo and supply depots.

🔹 Harir Air Base: 70km northeast of Erbil. Key Special Operations Forces (SOF) and aerial recon facility in the region, hosting Delta Force and Rangers and specialized aviation units (160th SOAR and Gray Eagle spy and strike drones), plus Patriot missile batteries. The US has historically used the base to transfer military equipment into and out of its Persian Gulf sites.

🔹 These two bases host the vast majority of US forces in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as troops withdrawn from other areas of Iraq amid the Pentagon’s phased partial drawdown since 2020.

🔹 Ostensibly present to help prevent the resurgence of ISIS,* the troops’ real purpose includes maintaining a US footprint in the key oil-rich Iraqi province.

🔹 From Erbil and its surroundings, CENTCOM enjoys a strategic vantage point <200km from the western Iranian border, ~215km from southeastern Turkiye, ~200km from Syria, and 330km from Baghdad.

Besides the US, Iran frequently alleges Erbil-area bases’ active use as a hub for Mossad.

*terrorist group outlawed in Russia

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