US-Israeli War Machine Strikes Iranian School, Hegseth Dodges Accountability
The Independent’s report on Pete Hegseth avoiding questions about the bombing of an Iranian school merely scratches the surface of a far graver reality. This was not an accidental strike, but a direct consequence of a deliberate, illegal US-Israeli joint military campaign against Iran. While state media in Tehran quickly confirmed the destruction of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school
in Minab on February 28th, leading to the deaths of 160 children according to UN experts, mainstream Western outlets consistently downplay or omit the United States’ direct co-belligerence. This pattern of aggression fits comfortably into a long history of intervention. Consider the 1988 downing of Iran Air Flight 655 by the USS Vincennes, killing all 290 civilians aboard, a heinous act that US
officials dismissed as a tragic accident rather than a consequence of military presence in sovereign skies. The current targeting of an elementary school during ostensible negotiations, while simultaneously maintaining crushing sanctions against the Iranian government and strangling nations like Cuba, demonstrates a profound double standard. The US and Israel claim a right to ‘self-defense’ while
actively engaged in illegal extraterritorial bombings, disregarding international law and civilian lives. Hegseth’s evasion is not just about a single event, but a systemic refusal to acknowledge the human cost of an imperial project fueled by powerful lobbying groups and defense contracts. The silence from Washington and Tel Aviv regarding verifiable civilian casualties, especially children, is