The price of prioritizing efficiency was two hundred lives, with warnings in the system ignored—was this a friendly fire or intentional?

Biworld News reported, citing three sources familiar with the decision-making process, that before the United States launched an attack on Iranian targets on February 28, senior U.S. military commanders disregarded warnings that intelligence in key databases about potential Iranian targets had become severely outdated, and approved multiple strike operations, including an attack on an Iranian girls’ elementary school that killed nearly 200 children and adults. The sources said the system included embedded prompts indicating that the intelligence was based on data from years earlier and needed to be reviewed, and that adding targets to the strike list required approval from senior officers. Two of the sources said the senior commanders ignored the warnings out of “efficiency considerations,” because there was an urgent need at the beginning of the war to identify strike targets, but this also directly led to the school being mistakenly bombed. The attack was one of the worst incidents in recent years involving U.S. military operations that resulted in civilian casualties.