Vance ‘extremely skeptical’ of Iran wedding attack reports

Vance ‘extremely skeptical’ of Iran wedding attack reports

Vice President Vance said on Thursday that he is “extremely skeptical” of the reports that a U.S. missile struck a home in southern Iran where people gathered to celebrate a wedding.

The vice president told reporters that he was briefed to the “ extent that I know that we’re investigating” the strike on Tuesday, in which at least five people were killed and more than 60 other individuals were injured, according to the Iranian Red Crescent Society.

The missile struck Kuhestak , a town in Sirik county along the Strait of Hormuz. “I will say that the Iranian state media has not been a very good scribe about what’s happened in the conflict thus far, so I’m extremely skeptical of this. What I can say with 100 percent confidence is that, unlike the IRGC, the United States never targets civilians in combat ,” Vance said during the White House press briefing. “We never will do that. We never have done that, and unfortunately, obviously, sometimes things happen, but in this particular case, I don’t think that we have any information one way or the other,” Vance added. “ We’re investigating it because obviously we care .” The missile that struck the home was fired by the U.S. military , which was attacking Iranian military targets in the vicinity, The New York Times reported on Wednesday.

The U.S. military struck IRGC targets including air defense sites, radar systems, maritime assets and facilities, mine-laying capabilities and communications sites on Tuesday, according to the U.S. Central Command.

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