Investigation suggests US likely involved in Iran girls’ school attack

US Military Investigators Iranian girls’ school – (Web Desk) – US military investigators think it is possible that US forces may have been involved in a strike on an Iranian girls’ school on Saturday, which killed many children. However, they have not finished their investigation or reached a final conclusion, two US officials told Reuters.

Details about the investigation remain unclear. It is not known what evidence led to this assessment, what type of weapon was used, or why the US might have hit the school.

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that the military is looking into the incident. The officials, speaking anonymously because of the sensitive matter, said it’s still possible that new evidence could show the US was not responsible.

The White House did not comment directly on the investigation. Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said: “While the Department of War is investigating, the Iranian regime targets civilians and children, not the United States.”

Hegseth added at a news briefing: “We’re investigating this. We never target civilian areas. But we are taking a careful look at what happened.”

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Monday that the United States would not deliberately target a school.

“The Department of War would be investigating that if that was our strike, and I would refer your question to them,” Rubio said.

Israeli and US forces have until now divided their attacks in Iran both geographically and by target type, a senior Israeli official and a source with direct knowledge of the joint planning said. While Israel was striking missile ⁠launch sites in western Iran, the United States was attacking such targets, as well as naval ones, in the south.

The UN human rights office, without saying who it believed was responsible for the strike on the school, called on Tuesday for an investigation.

“The onus is on the forces that carried out the attack to investigate ⁠it,” UN human rights office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told a press briefing in Geneva.

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Images of the girls’ funeral on Tuesday were shown on Iranian state television. Their small coffins were draped with Iranian flags and passed from a truck across a large crowd towards the grave site.

Deliberately attacking ⁠a school, hospital, or any other civilian structure would likely be a war crime under international humanitarian law.

If a US role were to be confirmed, the strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East.