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And we reported that military investigators had found that the United States was likely responsible.
We have seen social media videos and videos from Iran of what appears to be a Tomahawk missile striking either the school or near the school.
And it's important to know that in this conflict, the only site that has Tomahawk missiles is the United States.
Iran does not have
In the beginning, he said Iran was responsible.
When he was pressed on it, he said, well, Iran has tomahawks, which they don't.
And he has eventually landed on there is a messiation ongoing.
We have, and our colleagues have gone over archived copies of the school's website.
And in there, you can see that the school is adjacent to a IRGC, which is Iranian or Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps compound.
And so you can sort of see that this school was at the very least located close to a potential military target.
military said this drone, an unmanned, unarmed drone,
was approaching the Lincoln carrier.
The US military says it tried to take de-escalatory steps.
The drone continued its approach, and so an F-35 fighter jet shot down the Iranian drone.
The Iranians are saying that the drone was carrying out surveillance in the region, and it lost connection with the drone, but the reason is unclear.
A few hours after that, in the Strait of Hormuz, which is really this critical waterway, a US flag vessel was approached by Iranian speedboats and drones asking the US merchant vessel to stop.
Instead of stopping it, it increased its speed and fled away.
At which point it was joined by a US destroyer which was in the region and it was able to safely escort this US merchant vessel away from those waters.
It's a particularly tense time.