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Emma De Ruiter

Preliminary inquiry indicates US was responsible for deadly strike on Iranian elementary school

A preliminary inquiry has found that outdated intelligence likely led to a deadly US strike on an Iranian elementary school using a Tomahawk missile, according to a US official and a second person briefed on findings of the US military investigation into the incident.

First reported by the New York Times, the US military was bombing an adjacent Iranian base of which the school building was formerly a part and target coordinates were set using outdated data.

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