US investigating if missile hit Iran wedding, Vance says - BBC News BBC Homepage Skip to content Accessibility Help Your account Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds More menu More menu Search BBC Home News Sport Earth Reel Worklife Travel Culture Future Music TV Weather Sounds Close menu BBC News Menu Home Climate World UK Business Tech Science Entertainment & Arts Health In Pictures More BBC Verify Newsbeat World Africa Asia Australia Europe Latin America Middle East US & Canada US investigating if missile hit Iran wedding, Vance says To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video can not be played Figure caption, Watch: JD Vance "extremely sceptical" over alleged strike on Iranian wedding By Dan Sales Published 5 hours ago 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 Published 1 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 peop