A newly surfaced video reportedly captures a missile striking a building in Iran located beside a girls' school where local officials say 168 people were killed, according to experts cited in a report by ABC News. The eyewitness footage, first released by the Iranian news agency Mehr News, was examined by Trevor Ball, a former US Army Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician. Ball concluded that the weapon visible in the video appears to be a US made Tomahawk missile, a system operated by the United States and not known to be in the weapons inventory of either Iran or Israel.

Through geolocation analysis, ABC News determined that the impact site in the video is next to the location of the February 28 strike. That attack destroyed several structures believed to be connected to Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and also damaged a nearby facility that included a girls' school. Experts, including Sam Lair from the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, stated that the missile's size and shape closely match the characteristics of a Tomahawk. In comments to ABC News, Lair said the evidence appears to suggest US involvement in the strike carried out in that area.

N R Jenzen Jones, director of Armament Research Services, expressed a similar assessment, saying the available evidence points toward a US strike. However, he added that while the video increases the likelihood that US forces targeted nearby locations, it cannot definitively confirm responsibility for the strike on the school without physical missile fragments.

Responding to the claims, US President Donald Trump denied that the United States was responsible for the bombing of the school while speaking aboard Air Force One on Saturday. Instead, he blamed Iran, arguing that the incident was caused by Iranian weapons malfunction or inaccuracy. He said that based on what he had seen, the strike was carried out by Iran, adding that Iranian munitions lack precision.

While rejecting responsibility for civilian casualties, Trump claimed that US military operations had severely weakened Iran military capabilities. He said US actions had effectively eliminated Iran navy and air force and described the operation as removing a major threat. Trump also stated that the United States had targeted Iranian missile production facilities and launch systems, reducing missile output to about nine percent of what was launched during the first two days of the conflict. According to him, around seventy percent of Iranian rocket launchers have been destroyed, limiting Iran ability to continue its attacks.

Speaking about how long the conflict might continue, Trump stepped back from earlier suggestions that it could last six weeks. He said the timeline would depend on circumstances and that operations would continue for as long as necessary. He also claimed that Iran military is now almost nonexistent, though he added that a final decision on additional strikes against remaining military assets has yet to be made.