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Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) on Sunday said lawmakers will “push hard” for answers behind the bombing that destroyed an Iranian girls school on the day U.S. and Israeli airstrikes first fell on the Middle Eastern country earlier this year.
Crow accused the Trump administration of “slow rolling” answers about what happened at Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, where more than 165 people, mostly children, were killed in an airstrike.
“This administration has no problem posting videos of strikes, posting videos of operations when they want us to see it, and then when they don’t want us to see it, they slow roll it,” he told CBS News’s “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan. “That’s clearly what’s happening here. So, we’re going to push hard to get answers, all right? We’ll be tracking it.”
Crow, one of the co-founders of the bipartisan Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict Caucus, added that he has been pushing U.S. Central Command for answers. Brennan noted that the U.S. military is investigating the incident.
Having served in Iraq and Afghanistan, Crow said that war taught him “the devastating effects, not just morally, but to our national security when we kill innocents.”
“This could be the largest civilian casualty incident in modern military history,” he said. “We need facts. We need to make sure that we own up to it, we take accountability, we make it right.”
The destruction of the school caused further outcry among those critical of the U.S. and Israel’s actions in the Iran war, with more than 100 international law experts in the U.S. having signed an open letter warning that the American strikes could be deemed as war crimes.
A reporter asked President Trump about the attack while he spoke at the Group of Seven (G7) summit in Évian-les-Bains, France, on Wednesday. Asked whether he would hold anyone in his administration accountable for the bombing, Trump said, “No.”
“Mistakes are made. War is nasty. But I know it’s under investigation, and I could have a report for you tomorrow. I would ask Pete Hegseth that question,” Trump answered, referring to the defense secretary.
He previously claimed that Iran struck the school.
Senators recently slipped provisions into the annual National Defense Authorization Act in an attempt to hold back three-quarters of the defense secretary’s travel budget until both the House and Senate Armed Services Committees receive an unredacted civilian harm investigation into the bombing at the school.
People briefed on the investigation into the attack previously told The New York Times that U.S. forces relied on outdated information from the Defense Intelligence Agency to carry out strikes on a nearby Iranian base that once extended into the school grounds. Preliminary findings from the investigation point to the U.S. as being responsible for the attack.
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