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Monday, March 9, 2026
New clip implicates US in deadly strike on Iran girls’ school
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Newly released footage aired by Iranian media and confirmed by The New York Times and open source investigative collective BellingCat strengthens the evidence that the US is responsible for the strike on a girls’ school in Iran’s Minab that killed over 170 people, many of them kids, during the American-Israeli strikes that launched the war with the Islamic Republic.
The clip, published by Iran’s semi-official Mehr News Agency, shows the hit by what has been confirmed to be a Tomahawk cruise missile, which the US military possesses and which the IDF and Iranian military do not.
Top US officials have denied intentionally targeting the school, which is adjacent to a Revolutionary Guards base and used to be marked in maps as part of the same complex. US President Donald Trump has claimed it was a misfire by the Iranians.
New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed. pic.twitter.com/4jBXrNcRJO
— Trevor Ball (@Easybakeovensz) March 8, 2026
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