The U.S. military is investigating a deadly airstrike on a girls' school in Iran's Minab region, which was situated on an active Iranian cruise missile base. An initial internal investigation suggests U.S. forces were likely responsible for the strike, though the Pentagon has not yet publicly confirmed preliminary findings.

Iran's World Cup team wears pins honouring victims of school strike Iran’s World Cup team arrived in Mexico wearing lapel pins highlighting the victims of a deadly missile strike on an elementary school at the start of the war. The players wore gold-coloured pins with the number “168” on their jackets when getting off their plane on Sunday in Tijuana, Mexico. It referred to the people killed, most of them children, when a 28 February strike hit the school in Minab in southern Iran.

The head of U.S. Central Command said Tuesday that the American military investigation into a bomb attack on a school in Minab, southern Iran, conducted on the first day of the Middle East war, is progressing and nearing completion, according to AFP.