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US strike that killed 175 at Iranian girls’ school reportedly planned using outdated AI

Whiskey Pete Hegseth's awesome LLM clearly missed the briefing where it would have learned "we don't target children."

Jason Weisberger
Mar 09, 2026
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Pete Hegseth (Joshua Sukoff/shutterstock.com)

Reports suggest the U.S. strike that leveled a girls’ school in Minab, Iran, and reportedly killed as many as 175 students, was planned using an AI system running on outdated intelligence. Investigators are now trying to figure out how a school ended up on the target list while Donald Trump and Whiskey Pete i…

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