New Delhi, March 15 -- A Tomahawk missile is more than four times the height of an Iranian child. It can carry a 400kg warhead and fly at the speed of a commercial aircraft over 2,000km. It can even fly just 30-50 metres above the ground. It knows precisely where it is going, and its target can be changed mid-flight.

On 28 February, an American Tomahawk struck Shajareh Tayyebeh, a girls' elementary school in Minab in southern Iran. This cruise missile, which costs at least $1 million, was probably the most expensive thing ever to enter that school. Some children survived. But then came another Tomahawk, sent precisely to kill survivors and saviours in a tactic that is nattily called 'double-tap.' Then, according to reports, there was a t...