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President Trump on Wednesday said the fault for the strike on an Iran girls school that killed more than 100 people may never be known.
“I don’t know that they are ever going to solve that problem in terms of whose fault was it because there were missiles flying all over the place, and it’s horrible what happened, but there were missiles flying all over the place,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Wednesday.
When news of the strike on a girls school in Minab first surfaced, the president accused Iran of bombing its own people.
However, the bombing occurred on Feb. 28, the first day of U.S. and Israeli strikes across Iran.
The strike killed 175 people, of whom 168 were children between the ages of 7 and 12 years.
“Somebody said it was our missile, maybe it wasn’t our missile, but I have seen nothing to lead me to believe it was,” Trump said. “I don’t think it was us.”
Preliminary findings from an ongoing military investigation said the U.S. was responsible for the deadly Tomahawk missile strike.
American forces were conducting strikes on a nearby Iranian base that had once extended onto the school grounds, which had since been designated as a civilian area with a wall and bright painted colors.
U.S. Central Command officers created target coordinates for the strike using outdated and unverified data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, people briefed on the investigation told The New York Times.
Lawmakers pressed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for answers regarding the strike but still have not received a briefing on the matter.
“Massive civilian casualty incidents like the attack in Minab are not only detrimental to the Iranian people, who have already suffered so much at the hands of its own government, but they also undermine U.S. national security interests,” a group of Senate Democrats wrote in a March letter to Hegseth.
“These concerns are compounded by the reported use of artificial intelligence tools to select and prioritize targets in Iran. These civilian harm events are not taking place in a vacuum,” they added, noting that the U.S. military has a responsibility to abide by international laws of conflict including the “principles of distinction, proportionality, and precaution.”
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