Wednesday 11/March/2026 – 05:46 PM
An ongoing military investigation has found that the United States was responsible for the deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, US officials and others familiar with the investigation’s initial findings told The New York Times.
America targets an Iranian primary school
The investigation revealed that the attack that occurred last February 28, on Shajarat Taiba Primary School in Minab, resulted in the killing of many young students, and was the result of an error in identifying the target by the US military while carrying out strikes on a nearby Iranian base of which the school was previously part.
People familiar with the investigation told the New York Times that US Central Command officers created the target’s coordinates using old data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, stressing that the results are still preliminary, and there are important questions that have not yet been answered, such as why the validity of old information was not verified before using it.
The investigation indicated that targeting a school full of children would certainly go down as one of the most devastating individual military mistakes in recent decades, and Iranian officials have stated that the death toll reached at least 175 people, most of them children.
The newspaper confirmed that President Trump’s attempts to evade responsibility for the strike have complicated the investigation, as officials who reviewed the results and confirmed US responsibility expressed their concern about the way the attack was handled, especially with Trump’s statements in which he held Iran responsible for the strike instead of the United States.
