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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.

Jason Weisberger
Mar 06, 2026
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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 …

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