Revision History

The U.S. military and its own defense secretary have refused to endorse President Trump's claim that Iran — not American forces — was responsible for the February 28 strike on a girls' elementary school in Minab that killed at least 168 people, most of them children. Mounting evidence from open-source investigators, major news organizations, and a preliminary internal U.S. assessment all point to a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile as the likely weapon, exposing a rare and extraordinary rift between the White House and the Pentagon over accountability for what Human Rights Watch has called a potential war crime.