A U.S. military inquiry into an attack on a girls' school in Iran has been described as "challenging" because the school was located on an active Iranian cruise-missile site. Reuters said its earlier reporting indicated that an internal U.S. military assessment found American forces were likely responsible for the deadly strike in Minab. The report also said the incident occurred on Feb. 28 and that Iranian authorities said more than 175 children and educators were killed.

Amnesty International said evidence gathered by the organization indicates that the school building in Minab was directly struck, along with 12 other structures in an adjacent IRGC compound, with guided weapons. Amnesty said audiovisual evidence and missile remnants published by Iranian state media indicate that a U.S.-manufactured Tomahawk missile was likely used. Amnesty also reported that the U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed on March 2 that the U.S. Navy fired Tomahawk missiles in southern Iran on Feb. 28, 2026.

The New York Times reported that on the initial day of the conflict with Iran, a newly engineered U.S.-manufactured ballistic missile appears to have struck civilian sites near a military compound in southern Iran, including a sports facility and a nearby elementary school. The article said arms analysts and a visual assessment concluded the attack matched a short-range ballistic missile, and that local authorities reported at least 21 deaths in the wider attack area. It also said a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile hit a school in Minab on the same day, killing 175 people.

A military assessment suggests a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile was responsible for at least 165 deaths at an Iranian girls' school, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity. The United States has launched a formal investigation into the missile strike, which killed at least 165 civilians, including many children. White House spokesperson Anna Kelly said, "We have reiterated that, unlike the Iranian terrorist regime, the United States does not intentionally target civilians," and another U.S. official said emerging information suggested this was "a strike that went awry" due to possible intelligence failure in targeting.

The article describes a Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school on February 28 that killed at least 175 people, most of them children. It states that a preliminary military inquiry "found that the United States was responsible for the deaths," aligning with a New York Times visual investigation suggesting that U.S. forces likely carried out the strike. The Pentagon has not released a public account and says the investigation is ongoing, while President Trump has tried to deflect blame, at times suggesting Iran might have been responsible.

Reuters reports that the Pentagon has elevated its inquiry into a February 28 strike on a school in Minab, Iran, that killed more than 160 people, mostly children, by assigning a general officer from outside U.S. Central Command to conduct a command investigation. U.S. officials speaking on condition of anonymity say early findings suggest a U.S. Tomahawk missile was involved and that there may have been an error in the targeting process, potentially linked to outdated intelligence. Pentagon spokespeople are quoted saying only that the incident is under investigation and stressing that U.S. policy forbids the intentional targeting of civilians and civilian sites such as schools.

An ongoing military inquiry has concluded that the United States bears responsibility for a fatal Tomahawk missile attack on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the initial findings. The missile strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh school on Feb. 28 was attributed by the preliminary investigation to a targeting error by the U.S. military while it was conducting operations against a nearby Iranian base that had previously included the school grounds. Officials from U.S. Central Command generated the coordinates for the strike using outdated Defense Intelligence Agency information, according to people briefed on the inquiry, and Iranian officials say at least 175 people were killed, most of them children.

BBC reports that a deadly strike on an Iranian school in Minab killed at least 165 people, most of them children. It notes that in the two months since the strike, the U.S. Department of Defense has said only that the incident is under investigation and has not publicly confirmed U.S. responsibility. Five former U.S. officials quoted in the piece criticise the Pentagon's silence and call for transparency about whether a U.S. Tomahawk missile was used.

NBC reports that more than 120 Democratic members of Congress wrote to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seeking details about a U.S. military strike on Shajh Taybeh school in Minab, Iran, on February 28, which killed more than 170 people, mostly children. The article says the U.S. military has said it is still reviewing the incident, but that "initial assessments indicate that a U.S. weapon was likely involved" and that outdated intelligence may have contributed to the target selection, according to four sources familiar with early findings. The lawmakers also ask whether the Pentagon intends to investigate the strike as a possible war crime and what role, if any, artificial intelligence played in the targeting process.

Democrats in the US Senate have written to Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth demanding answers about an air strike on a primary school in Iran that Iranian authorities say killed 168 people, including about 110 children. US media reports say military investigators believe US forces may have inadvertently hit the school at the start of a joint operation with Israel, although no final conclusion has yet been reached. According to CBS News and other outlets, a preliminary assessment by US officials found the US was "likely" responsible for the strike, which may have resulted from outdated intelligence that misidentified the area as a military site. Video analysis by weapons experts cited by the BBC indicates that an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base next to the school was struck by a Tomahawk cruise missile, a type not known to be in Iranian or Israeli arsenals, suggesting a US operation.

PBS reported that an elementary school in Minab was believed to have been struck by a U.S. Tomahawk missile on Feb. 28, coinciding with the start of the conflict. The segment said more than 150 people were killed, most of them children, and that the Pentagon was investigating the incident. It also said there was widespread agreement that the missiles used were manufactured in the United States.

Oregon Public Broadcasting, carrying NPR's report, states that the U.S. has launched a formal investigation into a missile strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed at least 165 civilians after a preliminary assessment "found the U.S. at fault," according to a U.S. official not authorised to speak publicly. The story says the investigation will take months and involve everyone from planners and commanders to personnel who carried out the strike. It also notes that Congress created a civilian-protection office in the Pentagon that was later scaled back, and that video and debris from the scene in Iranian media showed signs consistent with Tomahawk missiles hitting a compound that included the school.

The Senate office said an ongoing military investigation had determined that the United States was responsible for the strike on a February Tomahawk missile attack on an Iranian elementary school. The release said the strike killed at least 168 people, most of them children, and that neither the United States nor the Israeli government had formally taken responsibility. It also said reporting indicated the school may have been mistaken for a military site because of outdated intelligence.

WGLT, summarising NPR reporting, states that "a preliminary assessment by the Pentagon says the U.S. is at fault for a missile strike on a school in Iran that killed at least 165 people, mostly children under the age of 12." It attributes this to a U.S. official speaking to NPR on condition of anonymity. The piece also references ProPublica reporting that a Pentagon program designed to prevent civilian deaths had been gutted the previous year.

Sky News said it verified the identities of 152 people killed when a U.S. missile struck a primary school in Iran, including 120 students aged 6-13 and 26 teachers. The report said the investigation found the school had been separated from a nearby military compound for more than a decade, raising questions about U.S. targeting intelligence.

Amnesty International USA stated that "the unlawful and deadly U.S. strike killed 168 people, including more than 100 children, and those responsible must be held accountable." The group said its Crisis Evidence Lab had analyzed satellite images, videos from the scene and missile debris and concluded that a US-made Tomahawk missile hit Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab on 28 February 2026. The organization characterized the incident as a serious violation of international humanitarian law, saying US forces failed to take all feasible precautions to avoid or minimize civilian harm in planning and carrying out the attack.

In a CNN report titled "New imagery suggests U.S. responsible for Iran school strike," journalists present satellite imagery and video analysis related to the 28 February 2026 attack on Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab. The segment explains that weapons experts identified the incoming projectile as a Tomahawk cruise missile based on its shape and flight profile, and notes that Tomahawks are operated by U.S. forces in the conflict. The report concludes that the visual evidence strongly points to a U.S. missile being involved in the school strike, although the U.S. government has said a formal investigation is still underway.

A Washington Post explainer video titled "Who bombed a girls' school in Iran?" examines competing claims over the 28 February 2026 strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab. The video notes that in the days after the attack no country claimed responsibility, but Iranian officials accused both the US and Israel while Israel denied operating in that area. Citing anonymous US defense officials and leaked findings from an internal review, the Post reports that American investigators believe a US-fired Tomahawk missile likely hit the school as part of a wider strike on an adjacent IRGC base, though they describe the incident as a targeting error rather than a deliberate attack on children.

In this televised segment, a Pentagon correspondent explains that the U.S. has appointed a general from outside U.S. Central Command to lead a command investigation into the deadly missile attack on a girls' school in Minab, Iran. The reporter notes that preliminary findings reported in U.S. media suggest the strike may have resulted from U.S. use of outdated targeting data. The Defense Secretary is quoted as saying that CENTCOM has designated an investigating officer and that the command investigation "will take as long as necessary" to address all matters surrounding the incident.

In a short video titled "Who was responsible for the Iran school strike?", Al Jazeera English describes the attack on Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab as "the worst mass killing of the US and Israel's war on Iran so far." The piece says that open-source evidence and reporting by Western media point to a US-operated Tomahawk cruise missile hitting the area around the school, and that Washington has acknowledged launching Tomahawk strikes in southern Iran on the same day. It also includes commentary arguing that, as commander-in-chief, President Trump ultimately bears responsibility if US forces carried out the strike, even if the intended target was a nearby military facility.

In a broadcast segment, former Pentagon official Wes J. Bryant discusses a preliminary investigation into the missile strike on an Iranian primary school that killed at least 175 people, mostly children. Bryant says the preliminary report and information shared with The New York Times indicate that "the United States is to blame for this strike on an Iranian primary school" and that the Tomahawk missile which hit the school on Feb. 28 was "the result of a targeting mistake by U.S. military planners." He attributes the incident to outdated intelligence and failures in multiple layers of targeting checks.

In this BBC News segment, former Pentagon chief of civilian harm Wes J. Bryant explains that "fundamental failures in target verification" and reliance on outdated intelligence likely led to the "deadly strike on an Iranian school" that left at least 175 dead, most of them children. He notes that a preliminary U.S. inquiry, as reported to The New York Times, effectively concludes that "the United States is to blame for this strike on an Iranian primary school" and that a Tomahawk missile fired on Feb. 28 hit the school after it was wrongly coded as a military target.

In a Reuters video clip, U.S. Admiral Brad Cooper, head of Central Command, says that a U.S. military investigation into a strike at a girls' school in Iran has been "complex" because the school was located on an active Iranian cruise missile base, but that the probe is nearing its conclusion. Earlier Reuters reporting, referenced in the discussion, indicated that an internal assessment found U.S. forces were likely responsible for the strike in Minab.

The Center for American Progress described the event as a U.S. airstrike that hit an elementary school in the first hours of the war in Iran, killing 168 civilians, most of them children. The event page states that the school strike became a major example of civilian harm in the conflict.

Reuters, the New York Times, Amnesty International, and multiple U.S. and international outlets reported in 2026 that a school in Minab, Iran, was struck during U.S. operations and that U.S. officials were investigating whether U.S. forces were responsible. This is background context from model knowledge and is not a direct citation.

Wikipedia’s article says the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran, was destroyed by a missile strike on Feb. 28, 2026, and that multiple independent investigations concluded the United States was responsible. It also states that Reuters reported U.S. military personnel believed the attack was likely perpetrated by the U.S., and that the New York Times later reported preliminary findings said the U.S. was responsible.

A Reddit post in r/Military shares coverage of reporting that a U.S. Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) hit a school in Iran on the opening day of the conflict. The post notes, summarizing The New York Times, that the attack destroyed the school's sports hall and killed 21 people according to Iranian authorities, and that this occurred alongside other U.S. missile strikes in Iran, including the deadly Minab school incident.