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Iran has released photos it says show U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile parts recovered from the site of an elementary school airstrike.
State-run outlets even ran the faces of the dead children across the front page.
Tehran has made the attack, which reportedly killed 175 people, the focal point of its information campaign.
Producer Shin Juwon reports.
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Photos show shattered components laid out on a desk in front of a collapsed building.
State broadcaster IRIB published the images, saying they were recovered at the scene of the elementary school bombing.
The fragments are marked "Made in USA" and bear the manufacturer name Globe Motors.
The New York Times examined the images and concluded the pieces resemble parts of a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile.
One fragment appears to be an SDL antenna used for Tomahawk satellite communications; the manufacturer line reportedly includes a U.S. defense contractor name and a U.S. Defense Department contract code, the paper said.
The Times noted that Tomahawk missiles are operated only by the United States and allied partners such as the United Kingdom and Australia.
However, the paper cautioned it has not independently verified whether the fragments Iran released were recovered at the elementary school or obtained elsewhere.
Still, President Trump continues to place blame on Iran for the school bombing.
「Donald Trump / U.S. President (on the 9th)」 “(Tomahawks) are also bought and used by other countries. As you know, Iran has them, too.”
A day earlier, he had asserted that Iran's missile accuracy is poor.
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth similarly accused Iran of deliberately targeting civilians and said an investigation into the incident is underway.
On the 28th of last month, amid U.S. and Israeli airstrikes, an attack on a girls' elementary school in Tehran killed at least 175 people, including pupils and teachers.
State-run Tehran Times ran photos of the children who died on its front page under the headline \"Look into the eyes of the victims.\"
This is Shin Juwon of Yonhap News TV.
[Source: IRIB, Tehran Times, MEHR News]
[Video editing: Park Sang-gyu]
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