Reuters weapons experts say a US munition made a direct hit on the Iranian wedding house that killed 5

What we’re less sure of7 of 9 claims

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  Four weapons experts who reviewed verified photos and video of the Kuhestak site told Reuters the damage points to a munition that detonated on or just above the roof of the house — a direct hit rather than stray fragments.

  Explicitly attributed to four weapons experts speaking to Reuters; an expert interpretation of imagery carried by Reuters, JPost and other listed outlets.

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  Trevor Ball, a former US Army ordnance disposal technician, identified debris consistent with a Joint Standoff Weapon, a US air-dropped glide bomb.

  Attributed by name to Trevor Ball in the Reuters analysis; a single expert's identification.

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  Gareth Collett, a retired British Army brigadier specializing in explosives engineering, said the evidence "leans towards a US 500 lb air-dropped munition" rather than an Iranian air-defense missile.

  Direct quote attributed to a named expert in the Reuters analysis.

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  The house sits roughly 112 meters from a telecommunications tower the US also hit that night, and the blast pattern is inconsistent with fragments carrying that far.

  Distance finding corroborated by BBC Verify/Persian Forensics in the sources; the fragment-distance judgment is attributed to the experts.

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  The Iranian Red Crescent Society says five people were killed — four at the scene and a 22-year-old woman who later died in hospital — and 67 were wounded.

  Explicitly attributed to the Iranian Red Crescent Society, a single interested source, though echoed by Al Jazeera and Tech Times.

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  A Feb. 28 US strike near Minab hit a school compound after outdated coordinates tied it to an IRGC naval base, killing at least 156 people, most of them children.

  Toll carried by The Guardian and Consortium News in the sources, but the story presents the outdated-coordinates causal explanation without naming who established it.

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  Nearly every Senate Democrat demanded a Pentagon investigation of Minab in March; the inquiry reportedly concluded in April and has never been published.

  The letter is documented by The Hill and US News; the story hedges the April conclusion with "reportedly" and names no source for the non-publication.