According to Al Jazeera, Iranian military spokesman Mohammad Akraminia responded to remarks made earlier this week by US Senator Marco Rubio, accusing him of hypocrisy. Rubio had previously accused Iran of attacking commercial vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. Akraminia posted on X that the US, during negotiations, "murdered 168 children and several athletes, as well as 104 sailors in a foreign land, in the most barbaric way, in an instant, and attacked a wedding." He claimed that on the first day of the war, a school in Minab, southern Iran, was bombed, killing at least 168 people, mostly children, and that there was evidence the US was the attacker. The US Department of Defense stated it is investigating the incident but provided no further information.