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.
Well, even in a ‘just’ war of course it’s still important to determine who decided to bomb the girls’ school
“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.
They are stupidly proud
And proudly stupid
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) argument 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)
Simultaneously arguing they joined to preemptively protect the U.S. from from future attacks bc they knew they couldn’t stop Israel from attacking? But this bullshit argument also makes no sense given that
Israel allegedly killed Khamenei very early on in the attacks, but the C.I.A. provided Israel with the intelligence about where Khamenei was when he was assassinated.
But also Khamenei was apparently just chilling in his home?? Why would Israel need the CIA to help them find Khamenei when he was just sitting in his house? Also, how did the CIA provide all of this strategic information targeting Iranian leadership, but not realize Khamenei’s son would step in to take his place? (Was that the plan all along?)
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. (Conservative evangelicals in the U.S. and Zionists in Israel might be happy enough with that BS excuse, but exactly how TF does Saudi Arabia encouraging attacks on Iran fit with the narrative that this is a holy war?) Push from Saudis, Israel helped move Trump to attack Iran
Vs. the possibility it’s all kayfabe/distraction.
The real goal is just to further 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.
Not to mention the whole Fatwa thing, Trump’s urgent need to cancel upcoming elections (and Hello! fucking shadowy militarized task forces being sent to patrol U.S. cities and help enforce crackdowns on civil liberty in the name of safety??) all seem to practically mirror Putin’s rise to power in the early aughts.
David Satter claims Russian apartment bombings led to Putin’s rise
This is exactly what is going on. They’re trying to hold onto power forever and never have to let pesky democracy get in the way again.
You just need to add a comma and it becomes a critique.
“No stupid, rules of engagement”
The problem is that Trump’s supporters will still believe him over anyone else.
Pedo went from fucking little girls to killing them.
Thanks conservatives. Keep doing your “pro-life” thing.
Depending on what you read, the “killing them” part was already in the books.
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.
Trump why are you spoiling this great victory our troops accomplished? They deserve the credit!
Oh, everyone be sure to thank them for their service when you see them.
Tell them how proud we are to see them bravely standing around in the desert pissing themselves under missile barrage, wallowing in their own shit on rust bucket aircraft carriers, junk trash billion dollar fighters getting blown away by Kuwaiti Maverick, while their buddies in the sky mulch children on behalf of Israeli Nazis and billionaire pedophiles.
SO FUCKING PROUD OF YOU TROOPS
Can’t wait to have you patrolling our streets and smashing voting booths in November.
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.
I didn’t say the government. I’m talking about the military who do have a code of honor. I’m sure you’ll just say “oh those assholes never had a code” or some BS like the other person who replied, but they do have one. Those people don’t take kindly to people like Trump which is why he’s been replacing the top military brass with people who do.
Maybe some subsection of individual service people have a code of honor, but the military at large does not
If that were true Trump wouldn’t need to replace people.
The coward butcher scum in the american military have no honor or humanity. Never had, never will.
