What We Know About Alleged US Strike on Iran Wedding
Iran said the strike killed at least 5 people and wounded 63 others, including many women and children, officials said.
- On Wednesday, Iran accused the United States of bombing a house during a wedding in Kuhestak, Sirik, killing at least five people, including a child.
- Following attempted attacks by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, the United States military announced a wave of strikes against "Iranian military targets."
- Reza Shahidiyan, governor of Sirik, reported 63 people were wounded with 50 victims being women and children, while explosions also struck Konarak, Bandar Abbas, and Qeshm Island.
- Esmaeil Baghaei, spokesman for Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, condemned the "brutal" attack and stated the wounded were taken to a hospital in Minab where they are "in stable condition."
- Earlier attacks on Minab, where more than 150 people died, and Lamerd, where at least 21 were killed, prompted Iran to retaliate against bases in Jordan, Bahrain, and Iraq.
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What we know about alleged US strike on Iran wedding
US forces launched fresh attacks on Iran Tuesday, including one that the Iranian Red Crescent said left four people dead at a wedding celebration, with Tehran vowing "severe punishment" for the strikes. France 24's correspondent in Tehran Reza Sayeh has the latest.
Iran accuses the U.S. of attacking a wedding party Iran's main negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, called the United States "Satan" after an attack on a wedding party in the south of the country. ✅ Follow the international news channel of the g1 in WhatsApp "Minab School: massacred children. Lamerd Gym: murdered children. Marriage in Kuhestak: murdered children next to their families. If a power acts as Satan, chooses targets as Satan and kill…
Iran accuses the United States of being behind a deadly strike that hit a marriage. Washington denies being at the origin of this attack. What exactly do we know? The explanations of our journalist Solenn Riou. - War in the Middle East: what we know about the deadly strike on a wedding ceremony in Iran (International).
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Iran says US strike on Sirik wedding killed five, wounded 68
A US strike on a wedding in the port of Kuhestak in Iran's Sirik district killed five and wounded 68, a Hormozgan provincial official said, in an account attributed to Iranian officials and not independently verified.
US strikes Iran, Tehran retaliates with regional attacks; Red Crescent says US strike killed 5 at wedding
The Iranian Red Crescent Society said a US strike in southern Iran hit a home where a wedding celebration was underway, killing five people, including a child, and wounding more than 50 others.
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