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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Mar 5, 2026, 02:34 PM Yesterday

Karoline Leavitt Says U.S. Did Not Kill 175 People At Iranian Girls School 'That We Know Of'

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt pushed back on reports that the initial strikes from Israeli and United States forces on Iran struck a girls’ school, killing up to 175 people, most of them schoolgirls between the ages of 7 and 12 years old.

“Not that we know of,” Leavitt responded when asked during Wednesday’s briefing if the Trump administration was aware of the apparent strike and appeared to suggest the reports were “propaganda” from Iranian state media.

Iranian state media and Iranian health officials reported the strike took place early Saturday morning in Minab, in the country’s southern Hormozgan province. Journalists from international news organizations have not been given access to independently verify the death toll or the circumstances surrounding the strike. Neither the U.S. nor Israel has claimed responsibility for the attack.

However, video footage from the alleged incident has emerged, showing black smoke rising from a damaged building adorned with murals of crayons, children and an apple. CBS News was able to geolocate the video to a building in Minab. Iranian state media has identified that building as Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school. Iran’s school week runs from Saturday to Thursday, and students were in the middle of their morning session when the strike occurred.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/karoline-leavitt-says-u-did-000446540.html

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Karoline Leavitt Says U.S. Did Not Kill 175 People At Iranian Girls School 'That We Know Of' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Yesterday OP
Hasn't it been confirmed as a double tap strike? Blues Heron Yesterday #1
Why yes... 2naSalit Yesterday #3
Who WAS it then? Such a mystery! AloeVera Yesterday #2
Blond ambition Whip-poor-will Yesterday #4

AloeVera

(4,156 posts)
2. Who WAS it then? Such a mystery!
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 02:49 PM
Yesterday

Hmmm.. let's see.

Bombing a school...

In the middle of the school day....

Double tap....

Nope. Nothing rings a bell...



Whip-poor-will

(92 posts)
4. Blond ambition
Thu Mar 5, 2026, 03:10 PM
Yesterday

They would be alive today if the rapist didn't rape iran last week, our bombs their bombs all triggered by the little child rapist ,honey

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First, the perpetrator must be a political or military leader, i.e. a “person in a position effectively to exercise control over or to direct the political or military action of a State”. CHECK

Second, the Court must prove that the perpetrator was involved in the planning, preparation, initiation or execution of such a State act of aggression.
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Third, such a State act must amount to an act of aggression in accordance with the definition contained in General Assembly Resolution 3314, and it must, by its character, gravity and scale, constitute a manifest violation of the UN Charter. This implies that only the most serious forms of illegal use of force between States can be subject to the Court’s jurisdiction. Cases of lawful individual or collective selfdefensee, as well as action authorized by the Security Council are thus clearly excluded.
CHECK Venezuela, Iran and Cuba blockade

I'm againstt the death penalty BUT I'm willing to help build the gallows for scores at once , to do with them what you will.

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