Video appears to show U.S. cruise missile striking Iranian school compound

"The seven-second video was posted by Mehr News, an Iranian state news agency. It shows the missile slamming into a building inside a walled compound likely a health clinic that was also inside the perimeter of what was at one point an Iranian Revolutionary Guard naval base. The strike appears to have taken place shortly after the girl's school was hit."

"Although the quality of the video makes precisely identifying the munition difficult, the missile appears consistent with a Tomahawk cruise missile, according to Jeffrey Lewis, a professor of global security at Middlebury College. The U.S. is the only country known to have Tomahawk missiles, and U.S. officials say the military was operating in the south of the country at the time of the strike."

"Lewis, however, said that the missile in the video did not appear to be consistent with known, Iranian-made cruise missile designs."

Iranian state media released a seven-second video showing what appears to be a U.S. cruise missile striking a compound containing a girls' school where between 165 and 180 people, many of them students, were killed. The missile, consistent with a Tomahawk cruise missile according to security experts, struck a building likely housing a health clinic within a walled compound that was formerly an Iranian Revolutionary Guard naval base. Smoke from the school was already visible when the strike occurred. U.S. military officials confirmed Tomahawk missiles were deployed in the region at the time. President Trump attributed the school bombing to Iranian responsibility, citing inaccuracy of Iranian munitions, though experts noted the missile design did not match known Iranian cruise missile specifications.

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