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Did Trump Bomb Iranian School Girls With UK-Made Weaponry?
Exclusive: Scottish factory helps make US Tomahawk missiles reportedly used in attack on the Minab compound in Iran, where over 100 children were killed.
By John McEvoy | March 9, 2026
On 28 February, a girls' primary school in southern Iran was hit by a missile, killing 168 people, mostly children.
The UN education agency, UNESCO, said the bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab was a "grave violation of humanitarian law."
Videos analysed by Bellingcat revealed yesterday that a US Tomahawk missile was used to hit another building inside the same compound, adding to evidence indicating the US was responsible for the school strike minutes earlier.
Neither Israel nor Iran is known to possess Tomahawk missiles.
The revelation raises serious questions about whether UK-made components were used in the attack.
This is because a factory owned by US arms firm Raytheon in Glenrothes, Scotland, has won several contracts to produce components for Tomahawk missile systems over recent years.
In 2017, Raytheon won a $260 million contract to make 196 Tomahawks, with 4.4 percent of the goods being supplied from its factory in Glenrothes.
A similar US navy contract published in May 2022 shows that around 3 percent of the Tomahawk supply chain was awarded to Raytheon's site in Scotland.
Most recently, in December 2025, the Pentagon announced Glenrothes would have a 2.9 percent stake in making another 350 Tomahawks.
A defence industry website said this arrangement reflected the missiles' "longstanding transatlantic supply chain."
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) spokesperson Sam Perlo-Freeman told Declassified: "The UK arms industry is deeply entwined with the US. This is true of the F-35 aircraft that has played such a devastating role in Israel's genocide in Gaza, and is now playing a crucial role in the illegal US-Israeli war on Iran. [Editor's note: And so is the British Serco as well as being buried deep inside the USPTO and the US Navy.]
"And it is true of the Tomahawk missiles, which appear to have been used to commit this horrific massacre of schoolgirls in Iran.
"Far from being a guarantee of international peace and security as the government claims, this arms producing partnership is a principal source of war, death and destruction across the world. It is time for the UK to stop fuelling this US-led war machine, and disentangle itself from it." [Editor's note: A better idea would be for the Anglo-American "special relationship" to be completely severed.]
Asked whether it will review and potentially suspend export of the components, a UK government spokesperson said: "We operate one of the most robust export control regimes in the world and keep export licences under continual and careful review."
Raytheon was asked to comment.
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