Iran accused the United States of committing another war crime and accused Washington of experimenting with a new type of ballistic missile on a strike on 28 February that resulted in the deaths of “at least 21 teenage male and female athletes.”

The Iranian embassy in South Africapostedthat the strike occurred at a stadium in Lamerd, Fars Province. The post said the U.S. experimented with a Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) that “detonated above the target and dispersed thousands of fragments (tungsten balls) designed to maximize human casualties.”

The Trends Journalreached out to the Pentagon for comment.

Esmaeil Baghaei, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, posted last month that the attack killed 24 people, including a “two-year-old girl, teenage volleyball players, and other civilians, while more than 130 were injured. He alleged the strike involved Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM) that detonated before impact and dispersed "180000 of high-velocity tungsten pellets,” according toBreakingtheNews.net.

Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran’s representative to the United Nations, said a girls’ volleyball team was using the hall when it was struck, according toMiddle East Eye.

Tehran has called the war an illegal act of aggression by the U.S. and Israel, and accused the U.S. of targeting a girls’ school in the southern city of Minab.

Pete Hegseth, the secretary of War, told a press conference in March that the U.S. will continue to investigate the school bombing inside Iran that killed at least 175 people, mainly girls between the ages of seven and 11.

Hegseth said the review, which will be conducted by a general officer from outside the U.S. Central Command, will take as “long as necessary.”

U.S. officials, based on preliminary reports, have told The New York Timesthat the Pentagon is almost certainly responsible for the missile strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab. The strike occurred on 28 February, the first day of the joint U.S. and Israeli attacks on the country.

CNN, citing sources with knowledge of the preliminary findings, said the Pentagon came up with target coordinates prior to the strike that were provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, which may have had outdated information.

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