{"id":536,"date":"2026-06-18T17:38:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T17:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=536"},"modified":"2026-06-18T17:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T17:38:28","slug":"trump-dismisses-question-on-holding-officials-accountable-for-iran-school-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"Trump Dismisses Question on Holding Officials Accountable for Iran School Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- begin partial\/series-card --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><i><span>Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news \u2014 make a <\/span><\/i><i><span>quick donation<\/span><\/i><i><span> to Truthout today!\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=534\">Trump Administration Shifts Pregnancy-Prevention Program to Promote Childbearing<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>President Donald Trump dismissed a question on whether he\u2019d hold members of his administration accountable for a strike on an Iranian elementary school in the early days of the war, continuing to deny that the U.S. was involved in the massacre despite evidence suggesting otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>A reporter asked Trump on Wednesday whether he would \u201chold anyone in your administration accountable for the strike on a school that killed more than 100 children on the first day of the war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump answered with a definitive \u201cno\u201d before saying the strike was still \u201cunder investigation.\u201d He then said the query from the reporter was \u201ca strange question to be asked.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re talking about a long time ago,\u201d Trump said, before adding that \u201cnobody did that on purpose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMistakes are made, and war is nasty,\u201d Trump concluded. <\/p>\n<p>The February 28 strike on Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, Iran, happened mere hours after the war in Iran began. Preliminary findings from the Pentagon indicated that the U.S. was responsible for the strike, but the administration quickly backed away from that conclusion, and has since insisted that a more definitive report was being crafted.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=532\">Mamdani Defends Skipping Israel Day Parade as Action Against Israeli Government<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At several points over the past several months, U.S. officials have claimed that the report\u2019s findings would be released soon, only for there to be further delays. In response to the continued delays, Senate lawmakers are threatening to withhold most of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth\u2019s travel budget in order to force him to provide more details.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been asking for these kinds of things for some time,\u201d a Senate staffer told <em>The Washington Post<\/em>. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to use all the tools for more enforcement now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Based on the type of missile used, along with satellite imagery, on-the-ground videos, and other accounts of the strike, there is a high likelihood that the attack on the school was conducted by the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, even if Trump\u2019s characterization of the strike is correct \u2014 that it was meant to hit a different target \u2014 that doesn\u2019t mean the bombing wasn\u2019t a war crime, as international law bars indiscriminate attacks on civilian infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>In March, just a few weeks after the bombing of the school, a report from the Iranian Red Crescent Society found that tens of thousands of civilian sites had been damaged in the war. The report documented that 498 schools had been damaged by U.S. or Israeli attacks, as well as 281 medical centers, hospitals, and pharmacies.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/smartmovinghome.com\/?p=530\">Trump Justifies War by Citing Nuclear Promise Iran Already Made Before It Began<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou\u2019re talking about a long time ago,\u201d Trump said about the strike that occurred on February 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump Dismisses Question on Holding Officials Accountable for Iran School Strike - 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