US President Donald Trump speaks with the media as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth looks on aboard Air Force One during a flight from Dover, Delaware, to Miami, Florida, on March 7, 2026. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images) Donald Trump speaks with the media as Pete Hegseth looks on aboard Air Force One during a flight from Dover, Del., to Miami, Fla,. on March 7, 2026. Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump claimed that Iran, not the U.S., struck an elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab, the attack with the highest civilian death toll in Trump’s second Iran war.
Three current and former defense officials, however, pushed back on his claims. Even Trump’s own Pentagon chief, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, refused to back him up. U.S. Central Command appeared to suggest that Trump’s comments were “inappropriate.”
“This is another instance of Trump lying and just talking out of his ass,” said a U.S. government official who reviewed satellite images of the Shajarah Tayyebeh school. “This clearly was not a failed rocket from the IRGC base.”
The U.S. official was referring to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps navy base that was adjacent to the school. The claim that the IRGC struck the school spread as part of a misinformation campaign about the attack peddled by social media accounts that support restoring Iran’s monarchy.
The U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak freely, said it was clear that Iran did not strike the school. Trump, however, endorsed the dubious claim when taking questions from the press aboard Air Force One on Saturday.
That’s such a clever trick - to make that whole thing about who pressed the button on that specific missile instead of having a debate about how starting the war created the circumstances that made the pressing of the button possible in the first place.
Republicans are great at getting their low-IQ base to hyper focus on things that don’t matter.
Please don’t call this piece of shit clever. He’s not clever at all. He just repeats every idea he comes across that might make him look better until he feels like it’s working. He doesn’t even come up with the ideas himself he just reposts literal propaganda. That’s not cleverness it’s narcissism personified.
“America, regardless of what so-called international institutions say, is unleashing the most lethal and precise air power campaign in history,” Hegseth said at a March 2 press conference. “No stupid rules of engagement.”
I started reading this quote thinking it was someone critical of the administration, but no, it’s Hegseth himself. They’re fucking proud of their atrocities.
I mean it makes all of this even more confusing, but that could also just be the point.
From the begining Trump and the CIA have been pushing this (very obvious bullshit) idea about this being necessary because Khamenei was murdering protestors, and the U.S. needing to either: Give Iranians the opportunity to liberate themselves (even though he has also been murdering American civilians and cracking down on free speech)
Or
Preemptively protect the U.S. from attacks bc they knew they couldn’t stop Israel. But this bullshit argument also makes no sense given that Israel apparently killed Khamenei very early on in the attacks, but the C.I.A. provided the intelligence about where Khamenei was so they could attack him. But also Khamenei was apparently just chilling in his home??
Vs. the argument of Hegseth et al.:
This is not about diplomacy we’re trying to bring about the apocalypse bc it’s in the Bible.
Vs. the possibility it’s all kayfabe/distraction.
The real goal is just to destabilize the U.S. and possibly instigate retaliatory attacks or help stage believable false flags. Given Trump and the CIA being so blasé about the next steps and the possibility of the U.S. being attacked last week, that kinda still seems the most plausible to me.
Pedo went from fucking little girls to killing them.
Thanks conservatives. Keep doing your “pro-life” thing.
It was done by the most evil people ever on Earth. Trump said so himself.
Any day now for the American propaganda to be normalized stating that the evil Iranian schoolgirls girls blew up themselves to make the poor traumatized murrican war machine look bad.
They murdered those little girls all by themselves and they want the credit for it. Fucking losers.
No, but taking responsibility for mistakes is part of having a code of honor.
Nothing about the US government is honorable.
Every fucking one of these people is the highest magnitude of scum.
I hope hell is real and it’s worse than any of them could ever imagine.
The coward butcher scum in the american military have no honor or humanity. Never had, never will.
