According to reports by CBS News citing sources, responsibility for the strike on a girls’ school in the Iranian city of Minab appears to lie with the U.S. military.
A preliminary assessment indicates that the strike was likely not intentional. Sources suggest the incident may have resulted from an error linked to the use of outdated intelligence. According to those assessments, the area where the school was located had been identified as part of an Iranian military base.
According to the broadcaster’s sources, Israel could not have been responsible for the destruction of the building—its armed forces were not conducting operations in that area.
The White House told CBS News that the investigation is ongoing and that no final conclusions have yet been reached.
The girls’ school in Minab came under fire on February 28—the first day of the war between the United States and Israel and Iran. More than 160 people were killed, most of them children.
Commenting on the incident, Donald Trump claimed that “the Iranians did it.” Yet several U.S. media outlets had earlier reported, also citing sources, that the most likely perpetrators of the attack were American forces.