On February 28, the US and Israel launched coordinated strikes across Iran. Among the first sites hit was a girls’ elementary school in Minab. The building was destroyed. Nearly 170 children were killed there. A US military investigation, now facing photographic evidence of a US missile, is ongoing. There is a way of reading the current moment as a series of unconnected emergencies: a war in Gaza, Israeli incursions in Lebanon, strikes on Iran. Each has its own actors and logic of escalation.