US Investigates Possible Role in Strike on Iranian School That Killed 171

American investigators are examining the possibility that a strike on an elementary school in southern Iran was carried out by US forces. According to military experts, the involvement of the US armed forces in the attack on a girls' school is considered likely, though final conclusions have not yet been reached and the investigation is ongoing.

The strike on the educational institution may have been part of an operation by the US Air Force against a nearby base belonging to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy. The Shajare Tayyebeh school in Minab was attacked on February 28—the day a large-scale US and Israeli military campaign against Iran began. The latest reports indicate 171 people were killed, most of them children.

Tehran has called on the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to condemn the attack. An official spokesperson for Russia's Foreign Ministry noted that Western media largely ignored information about the mass deaths of children and called the lack of reaction to the incident "monstrous." According to recent data, six schools on Iranian territory have been attacked during the conflict.