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This video clearly demonstrates how racist America is as a country and how far we have to go to become a country that is civilized and actually values equal justice. We must not rest until this goal is achieved. I do not want my great grandchildren to live in a country like we have today. I wish for them to live in a country where differences of race and culture are not ignored but valued as a part of what makes America great.
Malachy Browne is an expert in verifying online imagery, and John Ismay is a former Navy bomb disposal officer.
The video, uploaded on Sunday by Iran’s semiofficial Mehr News Agency and verified by The New York Times, shows a Tomahawk cruise missile striking a naval base beside the school in the town of Minab on Feb. 28. The U.S. military is the only force involved in the conflict that uses Tomahawk missiles.
A body of evidenceassembled by The Times— including satellite imagery, social media posts and other verified videos — indicates that the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was severely damaged by a precision strike that occurred at the same time as attacks on the naval base. The base is operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
Asked by a reporter from The Times on Saturday if the United States had bombed the school, President Trump said: “No. In my opinion and based on what I’ve seen, that was done by Iran.” He said, “They’re very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was standing beside Mr. Trump, said the Pentagon was investigating, “but the only side that targets civilians is Iran.”
President Trump said he believed that Iran was responsible for a strike on an elementary school that reportedly killed 175 people.
The video of the strike, which was first reported by the research collectiveBellingcat, was independently verified by The Times. We compared features visible in the footage to new satellite imagery captured days after the strikes in Minab.
The video was filmed from a construction site opposite the base and shows a worn, dirt path across a grassy area and piles of debris also evident in recent satellite imagery, bolstering its credibility. The video also comports with otherverified videostaken in the immediate aftermath of the strikes.
A Times analysis of the video shows the missile striking a buildingdescribedas amedical clinicin the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps base. Plumes of smoke and debris shoot out of the building after it is hit as the distant screams of onlookers are heard.
As the camera pans to the right, large plumes of dust and smoke are already billowing from the area around the elementary school, suggesting that it had been struck shortly before the strike on the naval base. This is supported by atimeline of the strikesassembled by The Times that shows the school was hit around the time as the base.
Several other buildings inside the naval base were also hit by precision strikes in the attack, an analysis of satellite imagery showed. Determining precisely what happened has been impeded by the lack of visible weapons fragments and the inability of outside reporters to reach the scene.
The Times has identified the weapon seen in the new video as a Tomahawk cruise missile, a weapon that neither the Israeli military nor the Iranian military has. Dozens of Tomahawks have been launched by U.S. Navy warships into Iran since Feb. 28, when the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran began.
U.S. Central Command said a video it released of several Tomahawks being launched from Navy ships was filmed on Feb. 28, the day the Iranian base and school were hit.
The Defense Departmentdescribes Tomahawksas “long-range, highly accurate” guided missiles that can fly about 1,000 miles. They are programmed with a specific flight plan before launch, and the missiles steer themselves to their targets.
EachTomahawkis about 20 feet long and has a wingspan of eight and a half feet, according to the Navy. The most commonly used Tomahawks have warheads that contain the explosive power of about 300 pounds of TNT.
Trevor Ball, a former U.S. Army explosive ordnance disposal technician who works with Bellingcat, alsoidentified the missilein the video as a Tomahawk, as did another weapons expert, Chris Cobb-Smith, director of Chiron Resources, a security and logistics agency.
Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a news conference on Wednesday that U.S. forces were carrying out strikes in southern Iran at the time the naval base and school were hit. A map he presented showed that an area including Minab, which is near the Strait of Hormuz, had been targeted by strikes in the first 100 hours of the operation, although it did not explicitly identify the town.
“Along the southern axis, the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln strike group has continued to provide pressure from the sea along the southeastern side of the coast and has been attriting naval capability all along the strait,” the general said.
It is not the only time that General Caine has acknowledged the role Tomahawk missiles played in the early hours of the war.
“The first shooters at sea were Tomahawks unleashed by the United States Navy,” hesaidin a briefing to reporters at the Pentagon on March 2, as the Navy “began to conduct strikes across the southern flank in Iran.”
In June, a Navy submarinelaunchedmore than two dozen Tomahawks at a nuclear facility in Isfahan, Iran, as part of the 12-Day war.
Shawn McCreeshcontributed reporting.Shawn PaikandMcKinnon de Kuypercontributed video production.
John Ismayis a reporter covering the Pentagon for The Times. He served as an explosive ordnance disposal officer in the U.S. Navy."
Vital Desalination Plants in Iran and Bahrain Are Attacked
"Strikes on nonmilitary infrastructure were a “serious escalation,” analysts said, and could widen the war’s impact on civilians.
A view of Bahrain from the window of a plane in 2023. Persian Gulf countries depend heavily on desalination technology.RuelleRuelle/Universal Images Group, via Getty Images
Water desalination plants have come under attack in Iran and on the Persian Gulf island of Bahrain over the weekend, threatening a resource vital to life in the harsh desert climates of the region.
On Saturday, Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, accused the United States of attacking a desalination plant on Qeshm Island, affecting the water supply for 30 villages.
“The U.S. set this precedent, not Iran,” hesaidon social media, calling the attack “a dangerous move with grave consequences.”
Capt. Tim Hawkins, a spokesman for the U.S. Central Command, said that U.S. forces were not responsible for that attack.
A day later, Bahrain’s interior ministry said that an Iranian drone had “caused material damage” to a desalination plant there, accusing Iran of “indiscriminately” attacking civilian targets. The country’s water and electricity authority said there had been “no impact on water supplies or water network capacity.”
It was not immediately clear whether either plant was still functioning. And there was no immediate comment from Iran on Bahrain’s allegation.
Iran has facedsevere water shortagesin recent years, and Gulf countries like Bahrain depend heavily on desalination technology — which turns seawater into drinking water — to sustain tens of millions of people. Desalination infrastructure is one of the most vulnerable military targets in the region because without it, the Gulf’s sprawling metropolises would effectively collapse.
“Targeting a desalination plant in Bahrain crosses an important threshold and represents a serious escalation,” said Abdullah Baabood, an Omani academic at Waseda University in Japan.
“In the Gulf, desalination facilities are not merely infrastructure,” he added. “They are essential lifelines that supply drinking water to millions. Striking them risks turning a military confrontation into a direct threat to civilian survival.”
Iranian officials have said that their attacks in the Gulf countries, which are close allies of the United States, are a response to the intense American-Israeli bombing campaign that began in Iran on Feb. 28 and that they are aimed at American military bases and U.S. soldiers, not civilians.
However, the hundreds of Iranian missiles and drones shot at the Gulf countries over the past week have also damaged civilian infrastructure, including airports, hotels and energy facilities. Gulf military forces, which have advanced missile-defense systems, have intercepted a vast majority of those attacks. But at least 10 civilians have been killed, according to a New York Times tally of official announcements.
Political analysts and diplomats have long warned about the vulnerability of desalination plants in the region should they become military targets.
In 2008, a diplomaticcablesent from the U.S. embassy in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, and later released by WikiLeaks warned that a single desalination plant provided Riyadh with more than 90 percent of its drinking water at the time.
The city “would have to evacuate within a week if the plant, its pipelines or associated power infrastructure were seriously damaged or destroyed,” the author wrote. “The current structure of the Saudi government could not exist” without the plant, the cable added.
Since then, the Saudi government has invested significantly in expandingwater storage,reducing its vulnerability.
At the same time, the region’s cities have grown rapidly, drawing in large populations of foreign workers andstrainingthefragile ecosystemsthat underpin them.
Eric Schmittcontributed reporting from Washington.
Vivian Nereimis the lead reporter for The Times covering the countries of the Arabian Peninsula. She is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia."
Democratic attorneys general have filed more than 50 lawsuits against the Trump administration.Composite: Rita Liu/The Guardian/Getty Images/Alamy
Four Democratic attorneys general, sitting in their offices from New York to California with state flags and books behind them, announced a new lawsuit on Thursday, alleging the president, yet again, had broken the law by attempting to create new tariffs without congressional approval.
It’s a now familiar scene for the group of top law-enforcement officials who have collectively filed more than 50 lawsuits against the Trump administration, serving as a counterweight to the president’s quest to expand his power and circumvent the constitution.
They’ve protected billions of dollars for their states. They’ve stopped or stalled policies that would have cut food benefits during a government shutdown, closed health programs and job training, curtailed funds for crime victims, ended birthright citizenship, cut off funds for schools, and kept illegal tariffs in place.
At a time when some institutions and elected leaders have chosen to play nice with the Trump administration, the 23 Democratic attorneys general have done the opposite.
“We know the most impactful elected position right now is the Democratic AG,” said Andrea Campbell, the attorney general of Massachusetts.
Their lawsuits have a high success rate: about 80% have gotten a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction, Arizona attorney general Kris Mayes estimated. She has signed on to nearly 40 lawsuits filed by Democratic attorneys general against the administration.
Joint lawsuits by attorneys general aren’t new. Republican attorneys general have banded together on suits against Democratic administrations, and they currently have filed joint briefs to defend Trump policies. Cross-partisan groups of attorneys general often work collaboratively on lawsuits over opioids or predatory businesses.
But the sheer number of lawsuits in the past year-plus from Democratic attorneys general outpaces prior efforts. The scope of their legal work is broad – and growing. Just recently, the actor Mark Ruffalo on social media called on state attorneys general to band together to fight the potential Paramount/Warner Bros merger, and California attorney general Rob Bonta responded that he is “in conversation with” his attorney general colleagues about the issue.
The almost two dozen Democratic attorneys general and their staffs have met regularly since before Trump returned to the White House. Even before Trump won in November 2024, they were preparing for a potential Trump presidency, combing through his comments and Republican plans like Project 2025 to prepare the kinds of lawsuits they expected to file.
When Trump started his second presidency with an executive order that sought to reverse birthright citizenship, disallowing those born in the US by foreign parents from being citizens, the Democratic attorneys general sued him the next day, one group of many that brought suit. The order was blocked by the courts and will be heard by the US supreme court in April.
Part of the group’s success comes from its preparation, but, several attorneys general told the Guardian, they wouldn’t be winning so much if the Trump administration wasn’t blatantly breaking the law.
“I’d like to say that we’re winning these cases because we’re all a bunch of Johnnie Cochrans or Perry Masons or whatever,” Minnesota attorney general Keith Ellison said. “But the truth is, what he’s doing is patently illegal, and a 1L law student would know it.”
The attorneys general’s offices have added lawyers and refocused staff to focus on federal accountability, finding that the cost of Trump’s lawlessness exceeds the costs of additional attorneys.
“He’s taking money out of our state,” said Ellison, who has filed more than 50 lawsuits against the Trump administration since last January. “One thing we cannot do is just let them pick Minnesota’s pocket.”
Meanwhile, their Republican colleagues are entirely absent, even when the issue at hand, like massive tariffs on local businesses, also affect red states.
“They’ve been just uninterested and supine, and I think they’re secretly rooting for us, because when we deliver a victory and get tariffs struck down, their residents benefit, their businesses benefit,” Bonta said in a recent press conference.
While some cases resulted in reversals of policies for all states or blocked them from taking effect nationwide, the US supreme court limited universal injunctions in mid-2025, meaning only states signed on to litigation can receive relief in a given case.
“So it has never before been so important to have an attorney general willing to stand up for consumers and citizens as it is today,” Mayes said. “If you don’t have a Democratic AG, you are going to get hurt by the Trump administration. And the irony of all of this is that it is the Republican AGs and their states that are getting pummeled by Trump because they’re not getting the same relief that we are.”
The Democratic AGs often implore their Republican colleagues to join their lawsuits and protect money that would be coming to their states, but they know the political dynamics – namely, a vindictive president willing to rally his followers against them – come into play.
“I know they care about their states, but they’re afraid,” Delaware attorney general Kathy Jennings said. “They’re flat-out afraid. There’s nothing else I can say about it, except that they will not stand up to this man for fear of repercussions that either they personally will be faced with or that their constituents will face.”
Adam Piper, the executive director of the Republican Attorneys General Association (Raga), said Republican attorneys general sued the Biden administration multiples times “to make America safer, energy more affordable, and our border more secure” while the Democratic attorneys general have “prioritized political witch hunts against President Trump”.
“These different approaches make it clear that Attorneys General are on the frontline of the policy fights that impact Americans the most – making AG races the most important statewide contests this November,” Piper said.
Afew of the Democratic AGs served for at least part of Trump’s first term, but they knew his second term would be different. There would be few, if any, dissenting voices around the president to stall his plans. He would be more prepared to enact the laundry list of policies he’d been touting on the campaign trail. They better understood that Trump’s bluster wasn’t just words – his projecting should be taken seriously.
The attorneys general began talking in early 2024 and met regularly to map out how they would respond on key issues.
They met in person that year to go through Project 2025 and other plans Trump had made public, Ellison said. They split into groups to focus on rule of law, immigration, schools, LGBTQ+ and trans rights, diversity. They discussed and wrote memos about how they could show they had standing to sue. They talked about which states to file lawsuits in, based on where they believed they had advantages, he said.
Their full-court press against Trump began right when he took office, and it hasn’t waned since.
“We were geared up,” said Jennings, of Delaware. “We were ready, and we’ve stayed ready each and every day since then.”
Their plan included public engagement. They set out on town halls across the country, which doubled as a way to collect evidence for current and future cases, and rally their supporters to get more involved in fighting back. While Americans have since joined mass protests and boycotts, there was little public resistance when the attorneys general began their town halls in early 2025. A Minnesota town hallin Marchwas standing room only, and the AGs received standing ovations.
The attorneys general still meet regularly, as often as twice a week via video, Mayes said. Their staffs are in communication daily.
These meetings allow them to share what’s happening on the ground in their states, said Oregon attorney general Dan Rayfield. Sometimes, an issue might be more isolated, but usually when an issue is raised, other states are seeing it too, he said.
They collectively decide which states will lead on a given case, usually according to who has the expertise and availability.
“The reality of the AG world is that New York and California are the big dogs – they really do have way more people than the rest of us,” Ellison said. “And so oftentimes they’re contributing more, according to their ability. But then there’s a lot of states that punch above their weight.”
For Campbell, doing nothing was never an option. She does her work because she believes in service and helping people, and she has a responsibility to protect Massachusetts residents and the state’s economy – and the rule of law in general.
“We’re exercising courage to stand up, not only for our residents, but for the constitution,” she said. “And we know without a constitution, you can’t have a functioning state economy.”
“The bombing of an Iranian elementary school that killed some 165 people, many of them schoolgirls, included more targets near the school than has been initially reported, a review of commercial satellite imagery by NPR has found.
The images suggest that the school was hit on Saturday as part of a precision airstrike on a neighboring Iranian military complex — and that it may have been struck as a result of outdated targeting information.
The new images come from the company Planet and are of the city of Minab, located in southeastern Iran. They show that a health clinic and other buildings near the school were also struck. Three independent experts confirmed NPR's analysis of the additional strike points.
The strike points "look like pretty clean detonation centroids," said Corey Scher, a postdoctoral researcher at the Conflict Ecology laboratory at Oregon State University.
"These certainly appear like detonation sites," agreed Scher's colleague, Oregon State associate professor Jamon Van Den Hoek.
Jeffrey Lewis, a professor at Middlebury College who specializes in satellite imagery, said the imagery was consistent with a precision airstrike.
The images show "very precise targeting," Lewis told NPR. "Almost all the buildings [in the compound] are hit."
A satellite image of an Iranian Revolutionary Guard compound taken on March 4, several days after an airstrike destroyed a school on the edge of the compound. The image reveals that half a dozen other buildings in addition to the school were struck.
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Iranian state media said 165 people died in the bombing, which struck a girls' school. The school was located within less than 100 yards of the perimeter of an Iranian Revolutionary Guard naval base, according to satellite images and publicly available information. The clinic was also located within the base perimeter, although both facilities had been walled off from the base.
Israel has denied involvement. "We are not aware at the moment of any IDF operation in that area," Israel Defense Forces spokesperson Nadav Shoshani told NPR on Monday. "I don't know who's responsible for the bombing."
At a press conference Wednesday morning, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. is looking into what happened at the school. "All I know, all I can say, is that we're investigating that," Hegseth said. "We, of course, never target civilian targets."
Given Minab's location in the southeastern part of Iran, Lewis believes it's more likely the U.S. would have conducted the strike than Israel. As one gets farther south and east in Iran, "a strike is much more likely to be a U.S. strike than an Israeli strike because of the type of munitions and the geographic location," he said.
Esmail Baghaei, the spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry, called the strike"deliberate" and said that the U.S. and Israel bombed the school in part to tie up Iranian forces in the region with rescue efforts. "To call the attack on the girls school merely a 'war crime' does not capture the sheer evil and depravity of such a crime," he said.
But Lewis said it's more likely that the strike was the result of an error. Satellite images show that the school and clinic buildings were both once part of the base. The school was separated from the base by a wall between 2013 and 2016. The clinic was walled off between 2022 and 2024.
Lewis believes it's possible American military planners had not updated their target sets.
"There are thousands of targets across Iran, and so there will be teams in the United States and Israel that are responsible for tracking those targets and updating them," he said. "It's possible that the target didn't get updated."
The Pentagon did not immediately respond to NPR's request for additional information about the strike.
NPR's Arezou Rezvani and NPR's RAD team contributed to this report.”
'Gringo go home': Mexico’s growing tourism backlash – video
Tourism in Mexico is at an all-time high, with foreign visitors lured by the country’s rich culture and low costs. The Guardian visits Oaxaca, a state synonymous with indigenous culture, where tourism has grown 77% since the pandemic and once private family rituals such as the Day of the Dead are now big international parties. But with this opportunity comes a growing backlash across the country, as local people struggle with a cost of living crisis that is exacerbated by the tourism industry’s exponential growth
