US missile strike on Iranian school has no public report

More than four months after a U.S. missile strike destroyed an Iranian primary school in what is reported to be the deadliest single attack of the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, there remains no final public accounting of the incident. The strike, which occurred on the morning of Saturday, February 28, in the city of Minab, killed scores of people, most of them children, but a complete list of the dead has not been released.

According to a reconstruction based on interviews with U.S. officials, human rights workers, and Iranians in contact with rescuers and victims' families, the U.S. military had evidence almost immediately that the site had been hit. The Trump administration has not directly accepted blame. When asked about the strike last week, President Donald Trump said he had seen nothing to make him believe the U.S. was responsible. Iran’s mission to the United Nations did not respond to a request for comment.

The Shajareh Tayyebeh school, located within the same walled compound as a Revolutionary Guard base, served children from families linked to the Guard and other state institutions, as well as local children from the predominantly Sunni Baluch ethnic...