[Opinion. Do you have kids? Can you imagine identifying them in a morgue blown to bits? Children are not collateral damage!] Four months after the horrific Iran school bombing, fears grow that Trump and Hegseth will bury the truth A secretive investigation into the attack that killed at least 175 has concluded, reports suggest. Will its findings ever see the light of day? Andrew Roth in Washington and Tess McClure The Guardian: 21 Jun 2026 The attack on a girl’s elementary school in the Iranian town of Minab was one of the US military’s deadliest civilian bombings in decades. But nearly four months on, the Pentagon has produced no answers about why the military fired a Tomahawk cruise missile into a school on the first day of the war, killing at least 175 people, mostly children. Some critics doubt that the Pentagon ever will, or will bury the results under classifications to keep the worst mistakes secret from the public. Shortly after the attack, Donald Trump suggested that it was carried out by Iran. When it became clear that the strike used a US-made Tomahawk missile, he suggested that Iran also had access to the cruise missiles. It does not. It was at the beginning of what Trump has taken to calling a “little excursion” into Iran that the back-to-back or “double tap” strikes on the school building took place, killing mainly children under the age of 12. Officials have told media anonymously that the site was believed to be an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) base. Trump said last week: “Mistakes are made. The war is nasty.”
