Iran09 September, 20263 min read
US Missile Strike Kills Wedding Guests in Kuhestak, Sirik County, Iran
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US missile strike hit a wedding in Kuhestak, Sirik County, Hormozgan. Four dead, including a four-year-old child, with many injured.
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Wedding strike in Kuhestak
The United States offensive against Iran entered a second night with at least 18 people killed in less than 48 hours, after several projectiles struck a house where a wedding was being held in Kuhestak in the south of the country.
Iranian authorities said four people—two of them minors—died in the Kuhestak attack and another 68 were injured, 50 of them requiring hospitalization, while the wedding was taking place in a house in Kuhestak, a coastal town belonging to Sirik County in Hormozgan Province near the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry characterized the attack as a “war crime,” and Tehran’s diplomatic spokesman Ismail Bagaei said on X that “More dangerous than the bomb itself is the normalization of bombings.”
The AP reported that a U.S. missile hit the home of Ali Mallahi, a fisherman, during the wedding celebration of his daughter, and that Iranian state media said four people—two women and two children—were killed and more than 60 were wounded.
In the same incident, the AP said a rights group reported that one of the children, a teenager, was killed by another strike on a nearby communications tower, while U.S. Central Command spokesman Capt. Tim Hawkins said the U.S. military was looking into the reports of the strike on the wedding.
Vance questions Iranian narrative
At a White House press briefing, U.S. Vice President JD Vance said the United States is investigating the alleged strike on an Iranian wedding, while also casting doubt on Iranian accounts of what happened.
Vance told reporters, “I’m extremely sceptical” of accounts about the attack from the Iranian government, and he added that “We’re investigating it because obviously we care. We want to know,” according to Al Jazeera.
The BBC reported that Vance said the US is investigating, after Iran accused the US of a war crime and officials said a missile strike killed four people, including two children, at a wedding celebration.
Al Jazeera also reported that Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei called the attack a “war crime,” posting that “The truth of this unlawful war of choice – and the true face of the war crime – is in Sirik.”
In parallel, AP said Iranian state media reported two women and two children, aged 4 and 16, were killed and at least 68 were wounded, while it also noted that just after the strike Ahmad Nafisi, the province’s deputy governor, had told Iranian state television that five people were killed.
War timeline and political stakes
Beyond the wedding strike, multiple outlets described uncertainty over how long the Iran conflict could last, with the Wall Street Journal warning that the war might continue until the end of Donald Trump’s term.
“I think the reality is, I don’t know the answer to that question. You’d have to ask the Iranians.”
Akhir khabar said the Wall Street Journal quoted American officials saying senior White House advisers, including Vice President J.D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, privately warned Trump that the confrontation with Iran might continue until the end of his presidency.
Al Jazeera reported that Vance declined to offer a timeline for the end of the US-Israeli war on Iran, saying, “I think the reality is, I don’t know the answer to that question. You’d have to ask the Iranians.”
The BBC framed the conflict’s wider trajectory as entering its seventh month, noting that the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed in June was to lead to a permanent ceasefire and an agreement within 60 days, but that it has expired.
In the same BBC account of the conflict’s endgame, Jason Campbell said the United States is trying to activate “different levers—both military and economic,” while Nicholas Hopton said the United States has already found an exit strategy in returning to the June MoU framework.