Overview
- Senator Jeanne Shaheen and other Democrats urged Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth to commission a full, impartial independent investigation into the Minab school strike.
- President Trump said he will accept the investigation’s findings after initially blaming Iran and he contended Tomahawk missiles are widely used, a claim contradicted by reports indicating Iran is not known to possess them.
- Analyses by the New York Times, Bellingcat and others of satellite imagery and videos, including footage from Iran’s Mehr News, suggest the strike may be linked to U.S. forces and to a Tomahawk hitting a nearby IRGC naval site.
- Iranian authorities report more than 150 dead, including many schoolgirls, while AFP says it has not been able to verify the toll or access the site due to reporting restrictions outside Tehran.
- Israel has denied carrying out the attack, and experts cited by AP noted the school’s proximity to IRGC facilities while raising the possibility it was hit during a rapid sequence of strikes.