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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Andrew Roth in Washington and Tess McClure

Four months after the horrific Iran school bombing, fears grow that Trump and Hegseth will bury the truth

A commemoration in Kerbala, Iraq of students who lost their lives in the attacks on Minab.
A commemoration in Kerbala, Iraq, of students who lost their lives in the attack on Minab. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

The attack on a girls’ 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.

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