Nearly four months after the Minab school attack in Iran, President Donald Trump on Wednesday struck a skeptical note on the US’s alleged role in the deadly incident, saying it may never be known who was behind the strike According to initial internal U.S. military investigation showed U.S. forces were likely responsible for the fatal strike in Minab in southern Iran. The Pentagon has since elevated the probe, but it has not acknowledged any preliminary findings.
“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,” he said.
“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 remarked, adding: “I don’t think it was us.”
His remarks come within 10 days of the US President acknowledging that Minab school strikes were a ‘mistake’ and not intentional. “Nobody did that on purpose,” Trump claimed last week at the G7 summit in France.
February 28, the same day when the US and Israel collectively assassinated Iran’ Supreme Leader, a US Tomahawk missile struck Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school killed over 160 people including children. After the strike, Iranian media had shared a video showing a missile hitting a walled complex where the primary school was located.
Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi said it was a “war crime” and a “deliberate attack” rather than a mistake. Speaking at the UN Human Rights Council, he said more than 175 students most of them girls aged 7 to 12 and teachers were killed and called the attack a “crime against humanity.” The UN human rights attacked the US calling the attack – absolutely horrific.
Earlier reports by the US testified the strike may have resulted from an outdated targeting data possessed by the US. Deliberately attacking a school would likely be a war crime under international humanitarian law, quote media house US officials as saying. It added that US officials have publicly said Washington would not deliberately target a school.