More than four months after a US strike killed at least 168 children and 14 adults at an elementary school in southern Iran, the Pentagon still has not completed the standard intelligence review normally used to determine what went wrong, and has withheld from Congress the findings of a separate investigation submitted in April. The pattern, according to three sources familiar with the matter cited by CNN, traces back to Pentagon leadership's desire to avoid a repeat of an earlier episode in which a similar review publicly contradicted President Trump's account of a different strike on Iran.

The investigation into a US strike that hit a school in Iran has sat for months with a military command while leaders have held off on ordering a critical, standard intelligence…

According to the TV channel, the Pentagon carried out only an initial check aimed at determining whether the intended target was hit