From Washington Post
Video appears to show U.S. Tomahawk hit naval base near Iranian school
By Meg Kelly, Joyce Sohyun Lee, Alex Horton, Mohamad El Chamaa and Jarrett Ley
Video footage that began to circulate online Sunday shows what appears to be a U.S. Tomahawk missile striking in the vicinity of an elementary school next to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) naval complex, according to eight munitions experts. The video, which was verified by The Washington Post, is the latest indication of likely U.S. involvement in the attack on Feb. 28 that killed dozens of children in the southern Iranian city of Minab.
Iranian authorities said at least 175 people were killed in the attack on Shajarah Tayyiba Primary School, widely believed to be the deadliest for civilians in the weeklong conflict between Iran and the United States and Israel. The Post has not been able to verify the number of casualties.
The Tomahawk is a long-range cruise missile that can be launched from Navy ships or submarines. The U.S. military, which has used the Tomahawk in other strikes during the operation, is the only participant in the fighting that is known to possess the missile in its arsenal...
The video did not appear to be manipulated or fabricated, according to two experts who reviewed the footage at The Post’s request. Hany Farid, a digital forensics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, plotted out the path of the missile in the video and found the projectile had a straight trajectory, which would be tricky to fake as the camera moves between the frames. Siwei Lyu, a professor of computer science and engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo, said his analysis found no artifacts in the video that indicate it had been created using artificial intelligence...
Hany Farid is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences and the School of Information at UC Berkeley
