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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Friday they had targeted a US station in the UAE, alleging it was used as a launchpad for an attack on a school.
According to Iranian authorities, a strike attacked a girls’ elementary school in Minab county in the country’s south on Saturday, killing around 150 persons, including students.
AFP has neither been able to access the site in order to verify the incident, or to obtain independent confirmation of a toll.
“Al-Dhafra air base, belonging to American terrorists in the region, was targeted using drones and precision missiles,” the Guards said in a statement broadcast on state TV.
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Neither Israel nor the United States has claimed responsibility for the reported attack, which was close to sites controlled by Revolutionary Guards.
The Pentagon has confirmed it is investigating, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said the US would “not deliberately target a school.”
An investigation by The New York Times newspaper concluded Thursday that the US military was the “most likely to have carried out the strike”.
An analysis of social media posts from the time of the attack, as well as photos and videos from witnesses, indicated that the school had been struck at the same time as a nearby Guards’ naval base sites, the Times said.
