{"id":277564,"date":"2026-09-04T03:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/277564\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T03:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T03:36:08","slug":"us-probes-deadly-strike-on-iran-wedding-that-experts-link-to-us-munition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/277564\/","title":{"rendered":"US probes deadly strike on Iran wedding that experts link to US munition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Vice-President J.D. Vance said that the United States \u2060was investigating a <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/middle-east\/article\/3366168\/iranian-town-wedding-party-was-shattered-deadly-strike-during-us-air-attack?module=top_story&amp;pgtype=section?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">deadly strike on an Iranian wedding<\/a> earlier this week that an analysis published by Reuters showed likely resulted from a direct hit by a US munition.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">An explosion that ripped through a wedding celebration in southern Iran on Tuesday likely resulted from a direct hit by a US munition and not a ricochet off another target, according to an analysis on Thursday by weapons experts who reviewed images and video verified by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The United States has not accepted responsibility for the incident. \u200cUS President Donald Trump\u2019s administration is facing growing domestic public pressure to end a war that is weighing on his approval ratings ahead of crucial November midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Iranian state television on Thursday said that a 22-year-old woman had died in hospital following the strike that hit a home during a wedding, taking the total reported death toll to five. Iranian officials said that nearly 70 were wounded.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Funeral-goers assembled in the late afternoon on Thursday outside the village of Kuhestak in Sirik County, along a stretch of the Strait of Hormuz coast that was hit by heavy US air strikes late on Tuesday to mourn their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Vance told reporters on Thursday that the United States was looking into the incident. \u201cWe\u2019re investigating it because obviously we care. We \u2060want to know,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Vice-President J.D. Vance said that the United States \u2060was investigating a deadly strike on an Iranian wedding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[270,1872,38,34,94,28198,654,75201,35,1403,271,351,75076,101,51,1257],"class_list":["post-277564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-iran","tag-bahrain","tag-brent-crude","tag-donald-trump","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-j-d","tag-jordan","tag-kuhestak","tag-kuwait","tag-pentagon","tag-qatar","tag-reuters","tag-sirik-county","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-united-states","tag-vance"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117210682639297844","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}