US investigating if missile hit Iran wedding, Vance says

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Watch: JD Vance "extremely sceptical" over alleged strike on Iranian wedding

The US military is investigating Iranian claims that its strikes killed at least four people including two children at a wedding in southern Iran, Vice-President JD Vance has said.

The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) - a humanitarian group - said shrapnel from a missile hit the ceremony at a home in Sirik on Tuesday, prompting Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei to declare it a "war crime".

US missiles were fired the same day over "attempted attacks" by Iran on American forces, but a US Central Command spokesperson said it "never targets civilians".

Speaking on Thursday, Vance said he was "extremely sceptical" over reports of the alleged strike but confirmed the US would investigate.

Iran says US strike killed four at wedding in 'war crime' as US denies targeting civilians

Published1 day ago"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 sceptical of this," Vance told a White House briefing.

"I know that we're investigating."

Iran has launched fresh attacks on US bases in Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates in response to the alleged strike.

The IRCS said 67 people were hurt when shrapnel from the missile hit a family wedding ceremony, killing at least four people. Iranian state media said a fifth person, a woman aged 22, had died in hospital shortly after.

The four people killed were named locally as Zarkhatoon Taheri, 50; Kolsum Mallahi Nazhdnia, 43; Mohammad Mallahi, 16; and Amirali Karimi, four.

Image source, Iranian Red Crescent SocietyImage caption, A picture distributed by the Iranian Red Crescent Society purportedly showing the remains of a building which was hosting the wedding ceremony

Fighting with Iran has continued for over half a year since the US and Israel launched a joint attack on the country on 28 February.

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