Top Pentagon officials intend to delay releasing an internal report into the attack on a school in southern Iran until after the US midterm elections at the earliest, according to sources familiar with the matter, The Straits Times reported. The sources told the newspaper that advisers to Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth had communicated the plan to some Pentagon personnel. They requested anonymity because they were not authorised to discuss internal deliberations publicly.
The 28 February strike on Shajarah Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, southern Iran, killed more than 150 people, including at least 123 children, according to a Bloomberg investigation. The outlet described it as 'the deadliest American military targeting error of the 21st century' in terms of child casualties.
