Trump doubles down and blames IRAN for deadly bombing of girls’ school

President Donald Trump blamed Iran for a deadly airstrike on a girls’ school on the first day of the war.

Speaking about the US attack on Iran on Air Force One on Saturday, Trump said that American troops had nothing to do with the bombing that killed 175 people, mostly children, on February 28.

Among those killed in the school strike in Minab, Iran, were children and staff aged between 7 and 12.

Asked if the US was behind the attack, Trump told reporters: ‘No, in my view, from what I’ve seen, it was done by Iran.’

A reporter then turned to U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who was standing behind Trump as he spoke, and asked if the president’s claim was true.

“We’re definitely investigating,” he said before backing the commander in chief.

Hegseth continued, before Trump doubled down on his claim with another comment: “But the only party targeting civilians is Iran.”

‘We think this was done by Iran because, as you know, they are very wrong with the ammunition. They have no truth whatsoever. “Iran did this,” he told the press.

Bombing on February 28 that killed 175 people, most of them children. People are seen in the area after the attack

Trump’s claim comes after Reuters and The Wall Street Journal reported that the US was ‘likely responsible’ for last week’s attack.

US officials told the WSJ: ‘US military investigators believe American forces may be responsible for an attack that killed dozens of children at a girls’ primary school in Iran.’

The investigation did not reach a final conclusion, media reported on Friday.

Meanwhile, two other U.S. officials told Reuters the same thing, but the publication “was unable to identify further details about the investigation, including what evidence contributed to the interim assessment, what type of munitions were used, who was responsible or why the U.S. might have hit the school.”

Fox News correspondent Laura Ingraham also criticized the United States for allegedly being behind the deadly airstrike.

‘If true, this is terrible news and the US military will need to address this publicly. “The proximity of the military compound is a factor, of course, but our weapons also have pinpoint accuracy,” he wrote, linking to the WSJ article.

The attack is among the deadliest so far in the US-Israeli operation against Iran.

Authorities stated that most of the victims were young children, while it remained unclear why the school was hit and which country carried out the airstrike.

At a White House briefing on Wednesday, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the airstrike was not carried out by the United States “to the best of our knowledge” and said “the War Department is investigating the attack.”

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (right) said ‘we are certainly investigating’ who was behind the attack, but agreed with Trump that it may have been Iran’s doing.

Dramatic images released after the attack show many graves being dug to bury the victims.

Hegseth also addressed the tragedy at a press conference on Wednesday, saying: ‘Of course we never target civilian targets, but we are looking into it and investigating it.’

Dramatic images released after the attack show that many graves were dug to bury the victims.

The school shooting sparked controversy around the world, and many people were saddened to hear that young, innocent children had been killed.

But on Wednesday, conservative firebrand Matt Schlapp suggested it would be better for Iranian schoolgirls to be dead than alive and wearing burqas.

Schlapp, president of the influential Conservative Union advocacy group, made the remark while appearing on the Piers Morgan Uncensored program last week.

Morgan was arguing with Peter Beinart, editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents and a critic of the war, about the deadly airstrike when the commentator intervened.

As the panel went back and forth over who was responsible for the attack, Beinart argued that it did not matter who sparked the airstrike because ‘if the United States and Israel had not launched the attack, these girls would still be alive today.’

‘We do not know who launched the missile.’ However, we know that if the USA and Israel had not attacked a country that did not pose a serious threat to them (Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons, America has thousands of weapons), those girls would be alive,” he said.

As Morgan began to respond, Schlapp interrupted her and stated that he believed it was better for the girls to die.

“They would be living in burkas,” Schlapp said. ‘This… is a barbaric society.’

Schlapp, who runs the Conservative Union’s flagship annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), appeared to be stirring up restrictive policies against women in Iran.

Women and girls under the regime are required to wear headscarves that cover their heads and necks, but they are not required to wear burqas that cover the entire body.