Trump says Iran school strike remains under investigation
Trump called the Minab strike a mistake, but more than 100 days later the Pentagon still has not said who approved the deadly hit on a girls’ school or who will be held accountable.
Trump tried to brush aside the strike on a girls’ school in Minab, but more than 100 days later the central facts still have not been publicly explained. The February 28 attack in southern Iran left a deadly toll, and on Wednesday he said “nobody” attacked the school “on purpose,” adding that “mistakes are made” and “war is nasty.”
That explanation has done little to settle the basic question of who approved the strike and why it hit an elementary school in Hormozgan province. An initial internal U.S. military investigation found U.S. forces were likely responsible, but the Pentagon had not publicly acknowledged those preliminary findings by June 17 and had elevated the probe. U.S. officials also had not released the report or publicly accepted responsibility for the deaths.
The gap between the official silence and the scale of the destruction is wide. Amnesty International said the strike killed 156 people, including 120 children, and said the school was directly struck along with 12 other structures in an adjacent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps compound. The organization called for a transparent, independent, public investigation and said artificial intelligence may have played a role in the targeting chain.
Human Rights Watch said the attack on the primary school in southern Iran should be investigated as a war crime. UNESCO and other international human rights organizations condemned it as a grave violation of humanitarian law, underscoring how quickly the Minab strike has become a test case for the rules governing modern warfare and civilian protection.
The case has also sharpened scrutiny of U.S. targeting practices during the Iran war, including whether outdated intelligence or AI-assisted targeting contributed to the strike. So far, though, the public record remains incomplete: no official explanation of the approval process, no public release of the findings, and no announced consequences for the decision that turned a school into a mass-casualty site.
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