A newly released video appears to show a U.S.-manufactured missile striking a building in Iran close to a girls’ school where Iranian authorities say 168 people were killed, according to analysis by weapons experts, reports Baltimore Chronicle via ABC News.
The footage, described as eyewitness video, was initially published on Sunday morning by the Iranian outlet Mehr News. It later circulated widely online after being shared by Trevor Ball, a former U.S. Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician who now works as a researcher with the investigative organization Bellingcat.
Ball wrote in a post on the social platform X that the missile visible in the video appears to be a Tomahawk, a cruise missile developed and deployed by the United States. The weapon system is not known to be used by Iran or Israel.
According to verification conducted by ABC News, the video was geolocated to an area adjacent to the site of the February 28 strike in southern Iran. During that attack, several buildings associated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were destroyed. A nearby structure housing a girls’ elementary school was also damaged in the same incident.
The missile captured in the video does not appear to strike the school building itself. Instead, it impacts another structure within the broader complex linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Weapons specialists reviewing the footage told ABC News that the projectile’s design features closely resemble those of the Tomahawk cruise missile. Sam Lair, a research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, said the proportions and overall shape seen in the video align with known characteristics of the weapon.
“I do believe this points towards U.S. responsibility for the strike in the area,” Lair said during the analysis.
N.R. Jenzen-Jones, director of Armament Research Services, independently assessed the footage and reached a similar conclusion. He stated that the munition visible in the recording appears consistent with a Tomahawk missile.
“That indicates it is a U.S. strike,” Jenzen-Jones said.
However, Jenzen-Jones previously noted that determining who carried out the attack that damaged the nearby school remains difficult without access to physical fragments of the munition used in that specific impact.
He added that while the video clearly shows one missile striking a building in the area, it does not provide conclusive evidence about the weapon responsible for the strike on the school itself.
“We can only be definitive about the one in the video. Of course, it makes it more likely the surrounding targets were hit by the U.S., but it doesn’t give certainty,” Jenzen-Jones said.
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