Top Pentagon officials are holding off releasing a report about a strike on an Iranian school until after the upcoming midterm elections, according to a new report.
Top Pentagon officials expressed that they will hold off releasing the report, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth reportedly “communicated these plans,” Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter.
The Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran, was struck by U.S. Tomahawk missiles in February and largely destroyed. The strike reportedly killed more than 150 people, 120 of them children.
President Donald Trump said in March that he believed Iran was actually behind the strike, but he’s willing to “live with the report.”
“In my opinion, based on what I’ve seen, that was done by Iran…We think it was done by Iran, because they’re very inaccurate with their munitions. They have no accuracy whatsoever. It was done by Iran,” the president told reporters at the time.
The New York Times reported shortly after Trump’s comments that an ongoing military investigation at the time found the strike was an accidental strike by the U.S. military.
“Officers at U.S. Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, people briefed on the investigation said,” that report reads.
Trump later commented in July that he believed images of the attack being released were AI-generated.
“There are images from this site that show fragments that appear to be from U.S. Tomahawk missiles. Is it possible that old intelligence or a mistake during a very active time in the war led to this event?” Fox News’ Trey Yingst asked.
“It is, but it’s also possible that those images that you have are AI-generated,” Trump said.
At another point, the president claimed, “You know, I don’t think anybody’s going to ever be able to say what happened there.”
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