The President of the United States denies that it was the US army that bombed an Iranian girls’ primary school in the first days of the war, and claims that Iran was responsible for the attack.
Donald Trump said this Saturday that Tehran is responsible for the bombing of a school in the city of Minab, Iran, on the first day of the war, questioning the “lack of precision” of the Iranian army.
“Based on what I saw, this was done by Iran,” said the American President during a conversation with the press aboard his plane, Air Force One.
“We believe this was done by Iran. Because they are very inaccurate with their ammunition, as you know,” he added.
Neither the United States nor Israel confirmed the attack and Washington said the Pentagon was conducting an investigation.
“We are investigating. But, the only side that targets civilians is Iran“, also stated the American Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth.
On Monday, the American Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, had already guaranteed the The United States would never “deliberately” attack a school.
The AFP was unable to access the scene to independently verify the number of victims or the circumstances of the events, but discovered that the building was close to two sites controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the powerful ideological guard of power.
The New York Times showed in an investigation that the deaths may have been caused by a American bombing targeting a naval base of the Revolutionary Guards located nearby. American forces are “most likely to have carried out the attack,” the newspaper wrote.
The New York Times investigation ruled out the possibility that an Iranian missile had hit the school.
The Reuters news agency, based on two anonymous American sources, reported on Thursday that American military investigators considered “likely” that American forces were “responsible” for the attack.
With Lusa
