We killed those children.
The Feb. 28 strike that hit an elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab is the deadliest known episode of civilian casualties since the United States and Israel attacked Iran — and no side has yet taken responsibility.
Minab is 600 miles from Tehran but near the critical waterway of the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian health officials and state media said the strike had killed at least 175 people, many of them children, at the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school.
The body of evidence assembled including newly released satellite imagery, social media posts and verified videos indicates the school building was severely damaged by a precision strike that occurred at the same time as attacks on an adjacent naval base operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
Israel said it is not aware of any Israeli military operation “in that area” at the time.
Official statements that U.S. forces were attacking naval targets near the Strait of Hormuz, where the IRGC base is located, suggest Americans were most likely to have carried out the strike.
Minab is 600 miles from Tehran but near the critical waterway of the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian health officials and state media said the strike had killed at least 175 people, many of them children, at the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school.
The body of evidence assembled including newly released satellite imagery, social media posts and verified videos indicates the school building was severely damaged by a precision strike that occurred at the same time as attacks on an adjacent naval base operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
Israel said it is not aware of any Israeli military operation “in that area” at the time.
Official statements that U.S. forces were attacking naval targets near the Strait of Hormuz, where the IRGC base is located, suggest Americans were most likely to have carried out the strike.
