U.S. Forces Massacre At Least 150 At Iranian Girls' School, Military Admits

U.S. military investigators have preliminarily concluded that American forces were responsible for a strike on the Shajareye Tayabeh girls' school in Minab, Hormozgan Province, that killed at least 150 students and staff, according to reporting that cites two U.S. officials.

“American forces were responsible for a strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed at least 150 students and staff, according to a preliminary assessment by U”

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The assessment is described as tentative and subject to change if new evidence emerges; the casualty figure of at least 150 dead is the central reported toll from the strike.

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The strike occurred amid a wider campaign of combined U.S. and Israeli attacks across Iran after President Trump ordered "major combat operations."

Reporting ties the school strike to that campaign.

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The article says the campaign has already resulted in the killing of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and dozens of top Iranian officials, placing the school strike within a context of intensive, high-casualty military operations.

Officials' public statements show official praise mixed with limited accountability.

“American forces were responsible for a strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed at least 150 students and staff, according to a preliminary assessment by U”

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth publicly praised the campaign's scale and lethality.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned that civilian casualties were inevitable.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declined to confirm U.S. responsibility for the school strike.

U.S. investigators have preliminarily attributed the attack to American forces.

Reporting notes investigative uncertainty and competing initial attributions, and describes the assessment as preliminary and subject to change.

Separate reporting by The New York Times says the precision strike occurred alongside an attack on an adjacent IRGC naval base near the Strait of Hormuz and that U.S. forces were most likely to have carried it out, while Iran's state media initially blamed Israel.

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Those differing attributions and the preliminary nature of the U.S. investigative conclusion leave key facts still contested.