The preliminary investigation into the Minab school massacre in Iran points to the US as “probably responsible”

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed on Wednesday that a military investigation is underway into the incident. The school was hit during the first day of Operation ‘Epic Fury’ against Iran last Saturday, the first school day of the week in Iran.

Ali Bahreini, Iran’s ambassador to the UN, denounced that at least 150 school-age minors They had died from the bombing. The figure could not be independently confirmed, but the regime has released images of the remains after the impact and the burials.

State television broadcast the funerals, with coffins draped with Iranian flags and carried in motorcades aboard trucks, while large crowds gathered to say their final farewells. Iran put the total number of victims in the area at 175.

The officials Reuters journalists have spoken to remain anonymous, and have not provided information about what leads them to suspect American responsibility in the incident. The sources did not rule out that new data may appear that modify the preliminary conclusion.

Evasives from the White House

Asked about this information, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded in a statement. “The War Department [Defensa] is conducting an investigation at the moment, but it is the Iranian regime that attacks civilians and childrennot the United States of America.”

Both Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged waiting for the results of the investigation. Both insisted that the US Armed Forces “never” attack civilian targets and “They would never deliberately bomb a school“.

The United States and Israel have shared their attacks during the operation both geographically and by objectivesas confirmed by a senior Israeli commander to the agency. ‘Lion’s Roar’, the Hebrew operation, has attacked the western part of Iran, while ‘Epic Fury’ has focused on the south and naval targets in the Persian Gulf.

The UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission for Iran condemned in a statement the attacks on the Islamic republic, which it considered contrary to international lawand called for an immediate cessation of hostilities. “These attacks contradict the Charter of the United Nations,” he said.

The investigative body was also shocked by reports of American and Israeli attacks on Iranian schools. The majority of victims of the Minab bombing denounced, They would be between seven and twelve years old.

The mission was also alarmed by the Iranian attacks in retaliation against other neighboring countries, as well as by the conditions of those detained in Iran – several thousand as a result of the recent protests – and by the blackout of telecommunications and the internet.

“The Iranian population is now trapped between a large-scale military operation that can last weeks or months and a Government with a long history of human rights violations, after suffering a violent repression after the protests“, stressed the UN mission.