A preliminary US military investigation has found that a deadly missile strike on a school in southern Iran at the start of the war was likely the result of an American targeting error. The February 28 attack on Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School in the port city of Minab has become one of the most controversial incidents of the conflict between Iran, the United States and Israel.
According to officials briefed on the probe cited by the New York Times, a US Tomahawk cruise missile struck the school after military planners relied on outdated intelligence data while targeting an adjacent Iranian military facility. The incident reportedly killed more than 165 people, many of them children, according to Iranian media, though the casualty figures have not been independently verified.
