Questions are growing over the deadly strike on a girls’ school in Iran’s Minab that reportedly killed around 170 people, more than 100 of them students, as evidence increasingly points to a possibleUS missile attack. At first, US President Donald Trump said he did not “know enough” about the incident. Later, however, he said he would be prepared to accept the findings of any investigation, saying he was “willing to live with” whatever the final report concludes.
Iranian officials, rights organisations and independent media investigations have suggested that a US-made Tomahawk cruise missile may have been involved in the strike. The attack occurred on February 28, the opening day of the war involving the United States and Israel against Iran.
Investigations by outlets such as BBC and The New York Times cite satellite imagery, verified videos and social media posts indicating that the Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School was hit by what appears to have been a precision strike around the same time attacks were reported on a nearby naval facility.
According to the New York Times, only the United States military is using Tomahawk missiles in the ongoing conflict, strengthening suspicions that the weapon may have come from US forces.
Videos verified by the BBC and the New York Times show large clouds of dust and smoke rising near the school, suggesting at least one explosion before the building was struck. Meanwhile, the US military’s United States Central Command released footage showing Tomahawk launches recorded on February 28. Senior US military officials also confirmed that the first wave of strikes that day included naval Tomahawk missiles targeting sites across southern Iran.
Iran says more than 170 people were killed in the attack, which President Masoud Pezeshkian described as part of joint US-Israeli strikes.
State media reported that funerals were held for at least 165 victims, many of them students. Broadcast footage showed crowds mourning as bodies wrapped in white burial shrouds were carried through the streets.
Images aired on Iranian television also showed coffins draped in the national flag, some displaying photographs of children believed to have died in the attack. One aerial photograph appeared to show excavators digging a large burial site where dozens of graves were being prepared.
The Norway-based rights group Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights said the school was in session at the time of the strike and had roughly 170 students present that morning.
Iran has strongly rejected any suggestion that it might have attacked its own territory to shift blame onto its adversaries. Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said such claims were baseless.
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