International media reported that a research group has joined US journalists in verifying the authorship of the attack on an Iranian school. Now it is the Bellingcat group that claims a newly published video “appears to contradict” President Donald Trump’s assertion that Tehran was responsible for an explosion at an Iranian school that killed more than 165 people at the start of the war ravaging the Middle East. Previously, prestigious newspapers in the North American country pointed to the United States as responsible for the attack, now it is the news agency The Associated Press and Newsweek media—consulted by the Argentine News Agency—that echo this research. This comes as growing evidence points to the guilt of the United States in the February 28 attack, which hit a school adjacent to a Revolutionary Guard base in Minab, Iran, in the southern province of Hormozgan. Experts interviewed by The Associated Press, citing satellite image analysis, claim the school was likely attacked amid a rapid succession of bombs dropped on the complex. The video shared by Bellingcat is a three-second clip from a video recorded on the day of the school attack and distributed on Sunday by the semi-official Iranian news agency Mehr. The video shows a munition falling on a building, generating a dark column that mixes with the smoke that probably came from previous attacks on the complex. Trevor Ball, a Bellingcat researcher, geolocated the video in a place near the school, something AP also did. Additionally, the president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, was the first to condemn that attack, to which the Vatican joined.
