White House waves away reports of dead Iranian schoolchildren as “propaganda”
Pretending that raising the possibility of dead schoolchildren in the aftermath of video footage showing a destroyed school is itself propaganda is grim Orwellian nonsense.
Sympathetic mother of one, with another bun in the oven, Karoline Leavitt dismissed reports that the US and Israel’s war on Iran left 175 dead after bombing a girl’s elementary school. She derided the press for falling for propaganda, while video footage clearly identified the school in Iran’s southern Hormozgan Province.
Neither the U.S. nor Israel has claimed responsibility for the attack. Video footage circulating online appears to show black smoke rising from a damaged building decorated with murals of crayons, children and an apple.
CBS News said it was able to geolocate the video to a building in Minab that Iranian state media identified as Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School. Iran’s school week runs from Saturday to Thursday, and students were reportedly in the middle of their morning session when the strike occurred.
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Some theories circulating online have suggested that a misfired Iranian missile may have caused the strike on the school. However, The New York Times and other open-source analysts have disputed that claim, noting that a single errant missile would be unlikely to produce the kind of precise damage observed across multiple buildings at the nearby naval base.
Pretending that raising the possibility of dead schoolchildren in the aftermath of video footage showing a destroyed school is itself propaganda is grim Orwellian nonsense.