On the night of September 1-2, American missiles and kamikaze drones struck a village in southern Iran. According to witnesses and the Red Crescent, a wedding ceremony was hit. Images show a damaged building more than 130 meters from a communications tower, a target that was likely intended. Five people, including a child, died.

Published on: 09/02/2026 - 6:39 p.m. Modified on: 09/03/2026 - 1:01 p.m.

Several videos show the consequences of the American attack which, according to witnesses and the Red Crescent, hit a house where a wedding was taking place in Kuhestak, in the province of Hormozgan, on the southern coast of Iran, on the edge of the Persian Gulf. The building in question suffered considerable damage. The roof of the house appears to have been completely destroyed, with debris scattered dozens of meters around the impact site.

Videos filmed in a hospital also show several injured, including many children. We also see the body of a child, covered with a blue sheet.

According to the Iranian Red Crescent, in addition to the five people killed, the strikes left 68 injured during the American attack on Kuhestak.

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“There is absolutely no military infrastructure near this house”

On Instagram, “Motahereh7,” a local influencer who lives in the village and who says she took part in the wedding, posted a short video after the missile strikes, around 9:30 p.m.

"Many of you sent me messages asking: 'Did they hit Kuhestak?'. Yes, they hit the house where a wedding was taking place. It's my husband's cousin's house. I don't know yet how many people were there, how many are buried under [the rubble]... God help us. There is absolutely no military infrastructure near this house. Nothing...".

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Between the building in question and the telecommunications tower, 135 meters

CCTV footage shows at least six explosions.

The main target appeared to be a telecommunications tower, against which videos filmed by local residents documented strikes.

The Observers editorial team geolocated the tower: it appears to be in an urban area, but at a certain distance from the village's homes.

Several videos showing the aftermath of the attack indicate that the building where the wedding would have taken place was directly hit, and not damaged by shrapnel.

According to several experts, images of missile debris suggest that an AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon, an American-made glide bomb, could have been used.

However, it is not possible to independently establish whether the debris was filmed at the site of the strike targeting the building where the wedding would have been held or at the telecommunications tower.

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Fourth strike affecting civilians

Several Iranian officials reacted to this incident. Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of the Iranian Parliament and a key figure in negotiations with the United States, called the American government “Satan.”

Tim Hawkins, a spokesman for US Central Command, said it was aware of reports of civilian casualties. He added: “The US military never targets civilians, unlike the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.”

This is the fourth case of US strikes affecting civilians since the start of the US-Israeli war against Iran in February 2026. On February 28, the first day of the conflict, a strike allegedly carried out by the United States on a school killed around 170 people, mostly students, as well as teachers and parents.

UPDATE (March 9, 2026): The original version of this article, published September 2, 2026, cited experts as saying early images of debris found at the suspected wedding site suggested it came from a US-made SLAM-ER cruise missile. After analyzing further footage of the incident, several experts spotted components of a different weapon: an AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon, an American-made glide bomb.

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