New analysis on Iranian school attack and Israel strikes Iran's oil facilities

Let's bring in ABC News contributor and former senior CIA field operative Daryl Blocker for more. Darl, thank you for being with us. President Trump and Secretary Hexath said last night that they believe Iran is responsible for the attack on the girl school. The Pentagon and US Sentcom said say an investigation into what happened is underway. How does this type of investigation typically unfold? Well, typically how it unfolds means you're going to have someone that's going to be on the ground uh collaborating with you because you can gather so much more, you know, from the surface than you can from the air and from, you know, after the fact. But, um, essentially both sides are going to have their arguments. Um, I do think the investigations need to to to move forward and everyone needs to not just assume to blame. The surfaceto-air missile probably could not have done the damage that was mentioned there. And the fact that there were uh security uh facilities around that school speaks to the fact that we know that the enemy sometimes use mosque and places of hospitals and places of worship uh u specifically building them next to these so that so that uh they also get hit. So there's a lot of things that we still don't know. >> Is it likely that the findings of this investigation would be made public? um the public opinion is going to have its is going to have its voice anyway. That's the one thing we always public opinion is out there. But whether the the US military uh findings in in incomplete will be shared, I I doubt that. But at least the uh the overall findings, the objectives or the uh the bottom line uh should be available to the public. So Darl, I also want to ask you uh one of the members of the group selecting Iran's new leader says that they have a new leader in mind, but they're not naming him. Israel at the same time has repeated that it plans to assassinate any potential replacement for Supreme Leader Ayatollah Kamani killed in last week's strike. So are these statements part of a broader ongoing campaign by Israel to dismantle the top echelon of Iranian leadership? >> Absolutely. I think both sides, the Israeli side and the US side have spoken to the fact that the leadership that has been in control of Iran since 1979 is not going to be the leadership of the future. Um, keeping his name private is really smart. Al-Qaeda learned very quickly that the number three position uh whoever held that title didn't stay there very long because uh for a lot of reasons. And so not announcing him really is a strategic um that a strategic uh strategic on the Iranian side so that they can actually do the planning that they want to do to counter whatever um push is going to come from the outside in the near future. >> All right, Darl Blocker, we appreciate you being with us today. Thank you.

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