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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Julia Frankel

Children were blown up at a busy Iranian school. Trump still claims America wasn’t responsible

Iran US School Bombing - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

It was the deadliest reported strike in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, and most of the victims were children. Yet over four months since a U.S. missile struck an Iranian primary school, there is no final accounting of what happened.

The Trump administration has not directly accepted the blame, though the military possessed evidence almost immediately that the site had been struck, a U.S. official with knowledge of the situation, speaking anonymously to discuss an ongoing investigation. told The Associated Press.

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