{"id":514722,"date":"2026-03-10T09:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/514722\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T09:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:11:10","slug":"video-appears-to-show-u-s-tomahawk-missile-hitting-the-area-of-the-deadly-school-strike-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/514722\/","title":{"rendered":"Video appears to show U.S. Tomahawk missile hitting the area of the deadly school strike in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published Sunday by Iran\u2019s semiofficial Mehr News Agency, the video was first geolocated by the online research group Bellingcat<\/a>, which said a Tomahawk \u2014 an American-made, long-range cruise missile \u2014 was used in the attack near a compound that was once home to a Revolutionary Guard military facility. <\/p>\n

Several munitions experts agreed with that analysis, including N.R. Jenzen-Jones, the director of arms intelligence firm Armament Research Services. <\/p>\n

The video \u201cappears to show a Tomahawk missile,\u201d he said in an email Sunday. \u201cThis would indicate a U.S. strike,\u201d he said, adding that the U.S. was the only party in the war known to have Tomahawk missiles. <\/p>\n

\"ScreenshotsScreenshots from video showing the strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school and an adjacent Revolutionary Guard compound in Minab, Iran. <\/p>\n

Jeffrey Lewis, the director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, California, also said in an interview Monday that he thought \u201cthe munition that is visible in that video is clearly a Tomahawk.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s long, cylindrical. It has a set of wings. And really no other country in this conflict has a munition that looks like that,\u201d he said. He added that it was \u201cincredibly accurate\u201d because it had digital scene matching built in. There will be \u201can onboard photograph of the thing that it\u2019s supposed to hit, and Tomahawk will look, it will match, and then it will strike,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

It is \u201crare that a Tomahawk misfires\u201d but the U.S. does \u201chave a history\u201d of making targeting errors, retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, a Bronze Star winner who served for 21 years, said Monday. \u201cEverybody does.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you just have a satellite image, it\u2019s just a building and so if you misidentify what\u2019s in the building because of other intelligence, then that can lead to improper targeting,\u201d added Davis, now a senior fellow and military expert at Defense Priorities, a Washington-based think tank. <\/p>\n

\"AftermathThe aftermath of the strike on the school.Abbas Zakeri \/ Mehr News via Reuters<\/p>\n

The Pentagon has said it is still investigating the strike, while the Israeli military has maintained it is not aware of any connection between its operations in Iran and the school strike. <\/p>\n

Trump on Saturday, told reporters onboard Air Force One that the U.S. was not responsible for the bombing, saying: \u201cIn my opinion, based on what I\u2019ve seen, that was done by Iran.\u201d <\/p>\n

U.S. Central Command did not comment on the latest video. The White House did not immediately respond to NBC News\u2019 request for comment. <\/p>\n

\"AftermathPeople and rescuers pull a body from the rubble at the site of the strike. NBC News has blurred the image. Abbas Zakeri\/Mehr News\/WANA \/ via Reuters<\/p>\n

But the Defense Department has acknowledged the use of Tomahawk missiles in the war. On the day of the strike on the school, the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service published a photo and video online<\/a> of the USS Spruance, firing a Tomahawk land attack missile. It published a similar picture March 3. <\/p>\n

The Spruance, an Arleigh Burke-class Aegis guided-missile destroyer, is part of the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier group. <\/p>\n

Iranian officials said that more than 170 people, mostly children, were killed in the strike near the school. NBC News has not been able to independently verify the death toll of the attack. <\/p>\n

The attack came hours after the U.S. and Israel launched multiple air and missile strikes on Iran, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, sparking retaliatory attacks by the Islamic Republic on many of its Middle Eastern neighbors including Saudi Arabia, Jordan and several Gulf states. <\/p>\n

Trump administration officials told members of Congress in a closed-door meeting last week that the U.S. had been targeting the area where the school was struck, two U.S. officials told NBC News last week. The administration officials also said their military partner, Israel, was not responsible for the school\u2019s bombing. <\/p>\n

\"Iran\"Graves being prepared March 2 in Minab. Iranian Foreign Media Departmen \/ via AP<\/p>\n

And a map published online by the Defense Department highlighting strikes on Iran over the first 100 hours of the military operation appeared to show that the area of Minab had been targeted. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt is increasingly clear that the U.S. military was responsible for the deadly attack,\u201d Kenneth Roth, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch, said in a text message Monday, adding that it was \u201chit by a precision weapon, not an errant attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

If an error was made, he said, it raises \u201curgent questions regarding why U.S. intelligence was so shoddy that it treated the school as no different from the adjacent military facility.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published Sunday by Iran\u2019s semiofficial Mehr News Agency, the video was first geolocated by the online research group…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":514723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-514722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/514723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}