A look at evidence linking U.S. to Iranian school strike
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🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth today said no nation in the world takes greater care to avoid |
| 0:06.2 | civilian casualties than the U.S. But the U.S. is currently investigating an explosion at a school |
| 0:12.2 | next to an Iranian Navy base that Iran says killed more than 150 people, mostly schoolgirls. |
| 0:18.4 | An official briefed on the initial review tells PBS NewsHour the strike was likely American. |
| 0:23.6 | Nick Schiffran examines videos and satellite images and speaks to experts for a closer look at what appears to be the deadliest strike of the war. |
| 0:32.6 | In the moments after the attack, the only sounds were screams. |
| 0:40.3 | The school where many of these parents had dropped off their children not long before was now collapsed and gutted. |
| 0:47.3 | The scale of death clear from the air rose and rows of tiny graves. |
| 1:00.2 | Classmates in life and now death, a victim still wearing her backpack. |
| 1:04.6 | Like in class, all lined up, a roll call of the dead. |
| 1:10.5 | An official briefed on the initial review tells PBS Newsour the strike was likely American. |
| 1:12.6 | Video broadcast by the semi-official matter news agency reportedly shows the strike and |
| 1:17.6 | slowed down. |
| 1:18.6 | Weapons experts say that is an American Tomahawk. |
| 1:22.6 | And today, Iranian state media released these photos it said were taken at the site that appeared |
| 1:27.5 | to show Tomahawk components. |
| 1:29.5 | I could already tell when initial reports came out on this strike, just looking at the damage |
| 1:35.3 | that this was a deliberately targeted strike package. |
| 1:40.3 | Retired master sergeant West Bryant spent 20 years in the U.S. Air Force, where he called |
| 1:45.1 | in air strikes and led targeting cells, and then worked in the Defense Department's |
| 1:49.5 | Civilian Protection Center until the Trump administration reduced its size. |
| 1:54.2 | Bryant says this satellite image from after the attack shows six precise strikes inside |
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