On the night between September 1 and 2, American missiles and suicide drones struck a small village in southern Iran. According to eyewitnesses and the Red Crescent, the bombing hit a wedding party. Pictures show a damaged building about 130 meters away from a communications tower that was likely the target of the American strike. Five people died in this bombing, including a child.

Published on: 09/03/2026 - 18:34

Several video clips showed the results of the American attack, which, according to eyewitnesses and the Red Crescent Organization, included a house where a wedding was taking place in the village of Kohstak in Hormozgan Governorate, which is located on the southern coast of Iran overlooking the Gulf. This building was severely damaged, and it appears that the roof of the house was completely destroyed, and its debris was distributed tens of meters from the center of the strike.

Other videos filmed in a hospital also show several wounded people, including children. We also see the body of a child covered with a blue quilt.

According to the Iranian Red Crescent Organization, these American strikes on the village of Kohestak resulted in the injury of 68 people in addition to the five deaths.

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“There is no military infrastructure near this house.”

On Instagram, “Motahereh7,” a local content creator who lives in the village, said that she was present at the wedding and posted a short video clip after the missile strikes around 9:30 p.m. that day in which she said:

You sent me a large number of messages asking me, “Did they hit your priest?” Yes, they hit a house that was hosting a wedding. It was the house of my husband’s cousin. I don't know how many people were there. How many people remained buried (under the rubble). I pray to God to help us. "There is definitely no military infrastructure near this house."

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135 meters separate the target building from a communications tower

Video from a surveillance camera allows at least 6 explosions to be captured.

It appears that the main target of this attack was a communications tower near which residents of the area filmed videos documenting the US strikes.

The France 24 Observers editorial team was able to determine the geographical coordinates of the location of the communications tower: it appears to be located in a civilian area, but a short distance from the village’s residences.

Several video clips show the effects of this strike and indicate that the building in which the wedding took place was directly targeted and was not damaged only by shell fragments.

According to several experts, photos of the missile's remains indicate that it is an AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon, an American-made flying bomb that was most likely used in the strike.

However, it is impossible to confirm from an independent source that the fragments that were photographed at the site of the strike targeted the building where the wedding took place or those that targeted the wireless communications tower.

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The fourth American strike targeting civilians in Iran

Several Iranian officials condemned this strike. The Speaker of the Iranian Parliament and the prominent figure in negotiations with the United States described America as a "devil."

For his part, Tim Hawkins, the official spokesman for the US Central Military Operations Command, said that he took note of this news about civilian casualties. Hawkins added, "The US military never takes civilians as its target, unlike the Iranian Revolutionary Guard."

This is the fourth time that civilian casualties have been caused by American military strikes since the beginning of the American-Israeli war on Iran in late February 2026. Last February 28, on the first day of the war, a strike launched by the United States on a school led to the killing of 170 people, most of them students, in addition to teachers and parents.

(On March 9, 2026): The original version of this article, which was published on September 2, 2026, spoke about experts who said that the first pictures showing the fragments found at the wedding site belonged to an American long-range SLAM-ER missile. After analyzing other photos from the wedding house site, several experts identified the components of a different weapon, which is the AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon, an American-made flying bomb.

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