Overview
- Newly surfaced video reported by the New York Times appears to show a U.S.-type Tomahawk cruise missile near the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab during the Feb. 28 opening of Operation Epic Fury.
- Iranian state media report between roughly 168 and 180 deaths, many of them children, though independent casualty tallies have not been released.
- Reuters and the Guardian, citing internal U.S. military inquiries, report indications that U.S. forces likely carried out the strike, but no official attribution has been made public.
- On CBS’s 60 Minutes, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declined detailed answers, said the Pentagon is investigating, and maintained that U.S. forces do not target civilians.
- A combative CNN NewsNight segment featured Bakari Sellers calling Hegseth incompetent and pressing for transparency, as Scott Jennings urged waiting for the investigation and faced online criticism.