Responding to a question shouted by a reporter at a news conference about accountability for a deadly strike on a girls’ school in Iran’s Minab, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says that “we take things very, very seriously and investigate them thoroughly.”
“No nation takes more precautions to ensure there’s never targeting of civilians,” he says, adding that “open source information” shouldn’t be used to determine what happened.
Satellite images, expert analysis, a US official and public information suggest the explosion that killed at least 165 people, mostly children, was likely caused by US airstrikes that also hit an adjacent compound associated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
Trump erroneously claimed yesterday that Iran has access to the American Tomahawk cruise missile, the weapon likely used to strike the school.
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