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A new video released by Iranian state media shows what appears to be a U.S. cruise missile striking a compound where around 175 Iranian students and staff were killed at a girl's school a little over a week ago.

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. In the new video, smoke is already visibly rising from the part of the compound where the school was located. State media reports put the death toll from the bombing at somewhere between 165 and 180, many of them students.

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.

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US investigators probing an attack on a school in Iran that killed 165 people believe it is most likely that the United States military was responsible for the strike.

Two US officials told Reuters they were still looking into Saturday's attack in the city of Minab, which Middle East Eye revealed was a "double-tap" strike that killed scores of young girls and boys, and not reached a final conclusion.

While they said further evidence could potentially emerge exonerating the US, their initial findings chime with a number of other reports on the incident.

Some social media accounts had misleadingly suggested the school was bombed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), but this has been debunked.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Reuters that "while the Department of War is currently investigating this matter, the Iranian regime targets civilians and children, not the United States of America". Israel also said it is investigating the incident.

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Israel's military said it launched a "broad wave" of strikes on Iran's capital of Tehran targeting regime infrastructure, with additional strikes in Beirut's southern suburbs. Iran responded early Friday with retaliatory strikes on Israel.

Since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, more than 1,300 people there have been killed according to the humanitarian organization Iranian Red Crescent, including Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and more than 160 people in a strike on a girls school. The United Nations refugee agency says about 100,000 people fled Tehran in the first two days of the attacks that began Feb. 28.

In retaliation, Iran has attacked Israel and launched missiles and drones in countries that host U.S. military bases, including Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.

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Heavy waves of U.S.-Israeli airstrikes were reported across several Iranian cities, including Tehran, where explosions were heard near Mehrabad Airport, Azadi Square, Tehransar, and Chitgar in the western part of the capital. Additional strikes were reported in Bandar Abbas, Tabriz, Bushehr, and Qazvin, with officials in East Azerbaijan Province reporting dozens of casualties.

Casualty counts: The death toll in Iran has reached at least 1,230, according to the official Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs.

Iranian Red Crescent: Over 100 civilian sites hit: The Iranian Red Crescent Society said on Thursday it has recorded 1,332 strikes in Iran by the U.S. and Israel since Saturday, with raids documented at 636 locations and at least 174 cities. The Red Crescent said at least 105 civilian sites have been struck, including 14 medical facilities and seven Red Crescent buildings. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei accused the U.S. and Israel of intentionally hitting civilian areas. “Our people are being brutally slaughtered as the aggressors deliberately target civilian areas and any location they believe will inflict the maximum possible suffering and loss of life,” Baghaei said on X.

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US President Donald Trump is meeting top US defense company executives at the White House on Friday as Washington tries to refill stockpiles depleted by strikes on Iran.

Defense conglomerates Lockheed Martin, RTX, and L3Harris were among the companies expected to attend.

The administration is expected to press defense firms to speed up production of missiles and bombs as the Pentagon works to rebuild supplies used in recent operations, including in the Middle East.

The meeting comes at a sensitive time for Ukraine. Reuters reported that Ukrainian F-16 fighter jets ran short of US-made air-to-air missiles for more than three weeks in late 2025, just as Russia was preparing a major winter air campaign. During the gap, Ukrainian pilots had to limit missile use and, in some cases, relied on onboard guns against drones until fresh supplies arrived from partner countries in December.

For Kyiv, the concern is clear: If the US now focuses more heavily on refilling its own arsenal, Ukraine could again face delays in receiving badly needed missiles and air-defense supplies.

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The day after the US and Israel launched their war on Iran, and the subsequent Iranian counterattack against US bases in the Gulf, Prime Minister Keir Starmer declared that the UK government would intervene in the conflict in two ways.

First, by intercepting Iranian drones and missiles to protect states not previously involved in the conflict.

And second, by allowing the US to use British bases for “specific and limited" defensive action against Iranian missile sites used to attack Gulf partners.

In his speech on 1 March outlining the government’s position, Starmer explained that the only way to stop the threat from Iranian missiles "is to destroy the missiles at source, in their storage depots or the launchers which are used to fire the missiles”.

He said that the UK would not join the US and Israel in their offensive strikes but would instead focus on “defensive actions”.

Starmer told the UK parliament: “We were not involved in the initial strikes on Iran, and we will not join offensive action now, but in the face of Iran’s barrage of missiles and drones, we will protect our people in the region, and support the collective self-defence of our allies, because that is our duty to the British people.

“It is the best way to eliminate the urgent threat, to prevent the situation spiralling further, and support a return to diplomacy. It is the best way to protect British interests, and British lives. That is what this government is doing.”

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