NYT: video suggests Iranian school may have been hit by US missile

According to an analysis by the New York Times, a newly released video suggests that a girls’ school in the Iranian city of Minab may have been struck by a US missile. Iranian sources say that about 175 people were killed in the incident, many of them children.

The video was released on Sunday by the Iranian semi-official news agency Mehr. According to the newspaper, the footage appears to show a Tomahawk cruise missile striking an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps naval base on February 28. The base is located next to the school.

The New York Times said it independently verified the video by comparing visible elements with satellite imagery and other footage from the site of the strike. Analysis of satellite images showed that several buildings inside the naval base were also hit by precision strikes during the attack.

The images show a building marked as a medical clinic on the base grounds being struck, followed by smoke and debris rising. As the camera pans, dust and smoke are also visible from the nearby school area, which, according to the newspaper’s analysis, suggests it may have been hit shortly before the strike on the base.

The newspaper identified the weapon in the footage as a Tomahawk missile, which is not used by Iranian or Israeli forces. Since the start of the US–Israeli attacks on Iran on February 28, the US Navy has fired dozens of such missiles at Iranian targets.

US President Donald Trump denied that the United States had hit the school and said it may have been struck by Iran.

(max)