UN ambassador stops short of blaming school strike on Iran

A strike on Feb. 28 at the Shajarah Tayyebeh girls' elementary school in the southern town of Minab left at least 165 people dead.

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A picture released by the Iranian government and distributed by the AP shows graves being prepared for the victims, mostly children.

Iranian officials described the incident as an Israeli-U.S. strike.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Michael Waltz declined to fully endorse President Donald Trump's statement that Iran was responsible, telling host Martha Raddatz on ABC's 'This Week,' 'I'll leave that to the investigators to determine.'

The New York Times reported that Trump on Saturday, speaking on Air Force One, said Iran was itself responsible.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was traveling with the president, said an investigation was ongoing but asserted, 'The only side that targets civilians is Iran.'

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi spoke Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press" and mocked the idea that Iran would target its own children.

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"It is our school," he said.

"These are our students, our girls, and they are attacked by an American jet fighter and they have been killed," he said.

He asked, "Why Iran is responsible?"

Waltz also pointed to Iran's past violence against its own civilians, saying, "It's a little rich hearing accusations from the Iranian regime after they literally just machine-gunned their own people in the streets."

The article makes clear the cause and responsible party for the Minab school strike remain disputed and under investigation and does not resolve who carried out the strike.

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