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Iran school bombing: Will the truth come out? | The Global Story

On February 28th, in the opening hours of the first day of the US-Israel war against Iran, an attack on a school in the southern city of Minab killed 156 people, including 120 children.

To date, it is the deadliest single incident for civilians during the Iran war.

Experts say the school was hit by a precision guided Tomahawk missile – a weapon that neither Israel nor Iran are known to possess.

Yet five months on, the US government has not formally accepted responsibility.

The Global Story’s Asma Khalid speaks to the BBC’s senior international investigations correspondent, Nawal Al-Maghafi, who recently returned from Iran where she visited Minab and met with survivors of the strike and the families of those who were killed.

She also speaks to the BBC’s State Department correspondent, Tom Bateman, about his attempts to get answers from US officials.

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00:00 Introduction
01:20 Inside Iran
05:42 Hearing from different sides in Iran
06:40 What happened when the school was bombed?
10:06 The impact on the community
15:17 Frustrations with the war in Iran
16:45 Who could be responsible for striking the school?
21:30 US statements on activity in the Iran war
22:42 Questions over timing of the school strike
23:39 Trump administration comments

Thumbnail credit: Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters

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