ANALYSIS SUGGESTS US BEHIND SCHOOL STRIKE THAT KILLED AT LEAST 165: REPORT

Fri 06 March 2026:

Evidence assembled by The New York Times suggests a strike that hit an elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab were carried out by the US.

The newspaper reports that satellite imagery, social media posts and verified videos indicate the school building was severely damaged by a precision strike at roughly the same time as attacks on an adjacent naval facility operated by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.

Iran held a mass funeral ceremony for 165 schoolgirls and staff killed in the strike. US officials have not confirmed responsibility for the strike, and no side has publicly claimed it.

According to The New York Times, statements by US officials about strikes on naval targets near the Strait of Hormuz suggest US forces were the most likely to have carried out the attack.

General Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a briefing that US forces were conducting strikes along southern Iran at the time. A map shown during the briefing indicated an area including Minab had been targeted during the early phase of the operation.

Caine also said Israeli forces had largely been operating farther north in Iran, according to the report.

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UN rights chief urges quick probe, accountability after deadly Iran school attack

The UN’s High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk has called on the US to carry out its announced probe into an attack that killed 175 people at an Iranian girls’ primary school “very quickly”.

“What we have asked for is obviously prompt, transparent and impartial investigations, which we understand has been announced by the USA,” Turk told reporters in Geneva.

He emphasised that “we need this to happen very quickly and we need to also make sure that there is accountability as well as redress for the victims”.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth has said the US is “investigating” the attack in Minab.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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