Experts Say Tomahawk Missile Likely Struck Girls’ School in Minab
Experts analyzing video say a U.S.-made Tomahawk missile likely struck near a girls’ school in Minab, Iran, where over 170 people, mostly students, were killed.
A strike that hit a girls’ school in Iran was likely carried out using a U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise missile, ABC News reports, citing specialists who analyzed video footage of the attack.
According to the broadcaster, experts who reviewed the recently surfaced footage concluded that the video appears to show a missile of American origin striking a building in Iran located near a girls’ school.
Sam Lair, a researcher at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, said the missile’s shape and dimensions visible in the footage resemble those of a Tomahawk. He noted that in the current conflict such missiles are used only by the U.S. military, which, in his view, points to Washington’s responsibility for the strike in that area.
Other specialists interviewed by ABC News also drew attention to the similarities between the munition captured on video and the Tomahawk cruise missile.
The joint military operation by the United States and Israel against Iran began on February 28. Tehran has accused Washington and Tel Aviv of carrying out the strike on the girls’ school in Minab. According to the latest figures, more than 170 people were killed, most of them schoolgirls aged between seven and twelve.
The United States and Israel have so far denied responsibility for the attack. U. S. President Donald Trump has also suggested that Iran itself could have carried out the strike on the school.