Overview
- Newly posted Mehr News footage, geolocated by Bellingcat and verified by major outlets, shows a cruise missile striking an IRGC site beside Minab’s Shajarah Tayyebeh girls’ school on Feb. 28.
- Multiple weapons experts identify the munition as a Tomahawk, which the United States fields and which Iran and Israel are not known to operate in this conflict.
- Pentagon officials say the incident remains under investigation, while President Trump publicly blamed Iran and no government has claimed responsibility.
- Planet Labs satellite imagery reviewed by investigators indicates damage focused on two IRGC compound structures—a clinic and an earth‑covered magazine—inside the missile’s estimated impact area.
- U.S. briefings acknowledged Tomahawk launches and strikes in southern Iran during the same time frame, and Iranian authorities report 168–175 deaths at the school that independent outlets have not verified.