According to CoinMeta, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin Hagelthorpe stated on the 20th that the United States is still investigating the attack on a primary school in Minab, Iran, by U.S. forces on February 28th, and that the results of the investigation will be announced at an appropriate time. Hagelthorpe said on that day, "The investigation is still ongoing. When it's time to release the results, we will do so." On the first day of this year when the United States and Israel launched large-scale military strikes against Iran, an elementary school in the southern Iranian city of Minab was targeted by an airstrike, resulting in the death of over 170 people, the vast majority of whom were children.