(Washington) An error by the American army in the coordinates of a target would be at the origin of the bombing of a school in Iran on February 28, which would have left more than 150 dead, according to the preliminary results of an internal military investigation revealed Wednesday by the New York Times.
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According to Iranian authorities, the explosion in Minab, in the south of the country, occurred on the first day of the war, February 28, and left more than 150 dead.
The AFP was not able to access the site to independently verify the results or the circumstances of the facts.
Donald Trump had denied any involvement of the United States and shifted the responsibility to Iran, before partly backtracking and indicating that he would “accommodate” the result of the investigation.
According to the New York Timesciting American officials and sources close to the investigation, the Tomahawk missile was indeed sent by the American army.
“The February 28 strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School building was the result of a targeting error by the U.S. military, which was carrying out strikes against an adjacent Iranian base of which the school building was once a part, according to preliminary findings of the investigation,” the investigation said. New York Times.
“U.S. Central Command officers created target coordinates for the strike using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, according to people briefed on the investigation,” the newspaper added.
The latter emphasizes that these elements are only preliminary and that there remain unanswered questions, in particular that of knowing why this obsolete information has not been re-verified.
