Democratic Senators Urge Release of Findings on Iran School Strike as Pentagon Says Probe Ongoing

Democratic senators led by Kirsten Gillibrand called on July 13 for President Donald Trump's administration to disclose within the next week the findings from a U.S. military investigation into a Feb. 28 strike at a girls' school in Minab, Iran.

The letter, signed by more than two dozen senators including Jack Reed, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, asked the military to finalize the probe, brief Congress and submit a prevention plan. "There is no justification for withholding an unclassified accounting of what happened, what went wrong, and what the Department is doing to prevent recurrence," the letter stated.

The strike killed more than 175 children and teachers, according to Iranian officials.

The letter notes that the toll would mark the U.S. military's largest civilian casualty incident since 1991, when it mistakenly bombed a shelter in Iraq and killed more than 400 civilians. Archived copies of the school's website show it sits adjacent to a compound operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

A Pentagon official told Reuters the investigation remains ongoing and that no updates are available. Reuters has reported that U.S. officials responsible for targeting packages used out-of-date intelligence.

U.S. Admiral Brad Cooper, head of Central Command, testified in May that the probe was complex because the school was located on an active Iranian cruise missile base. President Trump cast doubt on U.S.

Responsibility during remarks on June 24. " The letter asks Cooper and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to provide an unclassified version of the findings to Congress and the public. It also requests a plan that identifies specific corrective actions to ensure the incident does not recur.