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NYT report suggests Iran girls school next to IRGC base was accidentally struck by US
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAn analysis by The New York Times indicates that a February 28 strike on an elementary school in southern Iran that reportedly killed 175 people occurred at the same time as a series of US attacks on an adjacent naval base belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
The analysis suggests that the school in Minab was accidentally struck by the US as it targeted Iranian military assets nearby.
The US has said it is investigating the strike, while insisting that it doesn’t target civilians intentionally.
Iranian authorities have been the only ones to provide a death count from what would be the deadly strike of the US-Israeli war against the Islamic Republic. Their figures have not been independently confirmed.
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