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As calls for transparency grow, President Donald Trump has waved away the idea of accepting U.S. responsibility for the massacre of schoolchildren in Minab, Iran, on the first day of the U.S. and Israel\u2019s war \u2014 and has suggested, heinously, that photo evidence of U.S. munitions used on the school \u201care AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked about from Democrats this week calling for the release of the U.S. military\u2019s investigation into the bombing of the elementary girls\u2019 school that killed 168 people, including over 100 children, Trump refused to say if that investigation would ever be released to the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know, I don\u2019t think anyone\u2019s ever going to be able to say what happened there,\u201d Trump said in an interview with Fox News<\/em> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

This is despite widespread acknowledgement that the U.S. was behind the strike, including within internal U.S. military investigations, as well as video and photo evidence showing U.S. Tomahawk missiles and missile fragments being used on the site of the elementary girls\u2019 school on February 28, the day of the U.S. and Israel\u2019s initial strikes on Iran.<\/p>\n

Later, Trump was asked about the photo evidence, as well as recent reporting finding that the U.S. bombed the school as a result of a collapse in targeting protocols, with commanders bypassing warnings about outdated information in the rush to strike as many targets as possible on the first day of the war.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it possible that old intelligence, or a mistake during a very active time in the war led to this event?\u201d asked Fox<\/em> correspondent Trey Yingst.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt is, but it\u2019s also possible that those images are AI-generated,\u201d responded the president. <\/p>\n

\u201cI know we\u2019re waiting for a conclusive report \u2014 I don\u2019t think there can be a conclusive report,\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n

The Minab massacre represents one of the worst single civilian massacres in U.S. history, if the U.S. is responsible.<\/p>\n

The administration has been facing growing scrutiny over its seeming refusal to release the results of the investigation into the strike thus far. This is despite U.S. Central Command head Brad Cooper saying in May that the investigation was nearing its conclusion, and reports that the report was actually finished in April and is still in the hands of senior Pentagon officials.<\/p>\n

On Monday, over two dozen Democrats sent to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Cooper calling for the release of the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cMore than four months after the strike, and after the reported submission of the investigation in April, Congress and the American people still have not received the Department\u2019s investigation and findings,\u201d the . \u201cThere is no justification for withholding an unclassified accounting of what happened, what went wrong, and what the Department is doing to prevent recurrence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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