U.S. Tomahawk Missile Hits Girls' School in Minab, Footage Shows

On Feb. 28, geolocated video analyzed by Bellingcat and shared in reporting shows a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile striking an IRGC facility in Minab, southern Iran.

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The video captures smoke rising near a girls’ school, and other coverage describes the impact as occurring adjacent to an active school.

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Iranian officials and state media have claimed as many as 175 victims, many of them children, making it the deadliest known civilian toll since U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran.

Attribution has been contested, but several lines of reporting point toward U.S. involvement.

Analysts note the Tomahawk is a weapon only the U.S. is known to possess in the conflict.

The Express Tribune

U.S. officials said American forces were striking naval targets near the Strait of Hormuz, which the Times says makes U.S. involvement the most likely explanation.

U.S. investigators have stated they believe U.S. forces were likely responsible while an official probe remains ongoing and no definitive conclusion has been reached.

Observers and legal commentators have flagged serious humanitarian and legal concerns.

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The New York Times

Coverage emphasizes that the school's strike raised urgent legal and moral questions under international humanitarian law and that, if deliberate, striking an educational facility would likely constitute a war crime.

At the same time, major outlets stress that casualty figures and the cause remain unverified by independent reporters on the ground.

Reporting draws on a mix of geolocated video, satellite imagery, social-media posts and verified footage to build a case about what happened.

Outlets caution about evidentiary limits: the Times lists satellite imagery and verified video among its sources of evidence while also noting the inability of outside reporters to access the scene and the lack of recovered weapon fragments.

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Analysts have suggested technical issues such as intelligence failures or electronic countermeasures could help explain how a precision Tomahawk struck near civilian infrastructure.