The US bears responsibility for the strike on a girls' school in the Iranian city of Minab, the "New York Times" reported, citing preliminary results of an ongoing military investigation, BTA reports.
The strike on the "Shajara Tayebe" elementary school on February 28 was the result of an error in determining the targets for attack by the US military, which had struck a neighboring Iranian military base complex, within whose boundaries the school building had previously fallen, according to a preliminary investigation.
Officers from the US Central Command determined the coordinates of the objects that were to be struck based on outdated data provided by the US Military Intelligence Agency.
The results of the investigation contradict statements by US President Donald Trump, according to which Iran was to blame for the attack.
US officials stressed that the results are preliminary and that there are still many important and unclear details, one of which raises the question of why the outdated information was not re-checked.