President Trump on Monday said other countries might have been responsible for firing a Tomahawk missile that hit an Iranian school on the first day of U.S.-Israeli strikes on the Islamic republic.
But the president also said the situation is being investigated, and he will accept the findings.
“Whether it’s Iran or somebody else. A tomahawk is very generic, it’s sold to other countries,” Mr. Trump said. “It’s being investigated.”
An elementary school in the town of Minab was struck on Feb. 28, the day Mr. Trump started the attacks.
The strike killed more than 160 people, many of them school children, and video evidence compiled by The New York Times and other outlets suggests American Tomahawk missiles hit a nearby Iranian naval base around the same time.
During a press conference, Mr. Trump said multiple times that other countries possess Tomahawk missiles.
“Tomahawks are used by others, as you know,” Mr. Trump said. “Certainly, whatever the report shows, I’m willing to live with that report.”
Besides the United States, only two other countries currently deploy Tomahawk cruise missiles — Britain and Australia. The navies of Japan and the Netherlands also are in the midst of acquiring the missiles and modifying some of their ships to operate them.
