What we know about reported strike on Iran wedding celebrations
BBC Verify looks at footage showing the aftermath of a strike on a building in southern Iran.
On October 7, 2023, Iran launched missile and drone strikes against US targets in the Middle East following the resumption of American military strikes on Iran. The Iranian Red Crescent confirmed that a US missile attack killed four people, including a child, during a wedding celebration in southern Iran. The BBC has examined footage and consulted a weapons expert to identify the munition remnants.
The US military acknowledges the reports but maintains that it never targets civilians and was responding to recent attacks on American forces and commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.
An earlier version of this report included analysis from N R Jenzen Jones and Trevor Ball, who identified the fragments shown in Iranian media as belonging to a US munition - the AGM 84 Standoff Land Attack Missile (SLAM-ER). However, after re-evaluating the imagery, experts believe it is more likely a different US weapon, the JSOW, though there is still a chance it could be a SLAM-ER.
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