00:20On May 1st, Caroline Levitt, the youngest White House press secretary in U.S. history at just
00:2628, announced the birth of her second child, a girl. She posted a photo cradling her newborn
00:33in a nursery and wrote, her family's hearts had instantly exploded with love. The internet
00:39responded warmly, and then Iran responded too. The Iranian embassy in Armenia posted a public
00:46message on X. It started with a congratulations. Then it said this, and these are their words.
00:52Those 168 children that your boss killed in the school in Minab and you justified were
00:59also children. When you kiss your baby, think of the mothers of those children.
01:05Diplomatic, pointed, and impossible to ignore. February 28th, the day the United States and
01:13Israel launched strikes across Iran. One of those strikes hit an elementary school in the city
01:19of Minab. According to Iran's state broadcaster, 73 boys and 47 girls were killed. So were 26 teachers,
01:28seven parents, a bus driver, and a clinic worker next door. A total of more than 150 people,
01:35most of them children, dead in a single strike on a school.
01:41At the time, Levitt said the U.S. does not target civilians, and pointed the finger back at Iran.
01:47Not that we know of Sean, and the Department of War is investigating this matter, and I would just
01:53tell you very strongly, the United States of America does not target civilians, unlike the
01:58rogue Iranian regime that targets civilians, that kills children, that has killed thousands of their
02:03own people in the past several weeks, and uses propaganda quite effectively. And unfortunately,
02:09many people in this room have fallen for that propaganda. So I would caution you from pointing
02:14the finger at the United States of America when it comes to targeting civilians, because
02:17that's not something that these armed forces do.
02:20Then, the questions got harder. A video appearing to show a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile striking
02:26the military base next to the school. A preliminary U.S. military investigation reportedly found the
02:32strike was a targeting error. President Trump initially suggested Iran itself might be responsible,
02:38Iran, which does not have Tomahawk missiles. When asked about the investigation, he said,
02:45I don't know about it. In his latest conversation with reporters, Trump again sidestepped questions
02:50on the Iran school bombing.
02:52Think it very closely. We're at a point almost 10 weeks after a missile hit a girl's school in Iran.
03:00Who fired that missile?
03:03So that's under study right now, and we'll give you a report as soon as we have it.
03:08Iran's message worked, not because of the geopolitics, but because of the human framing.
03:14A new mother, a photo of a baby, and a government saying, the mothers in Minab felt the same thing
03:20for one moment before it was taken from them. Whether you see it as diplomacy, propaganda,
03:26or a genuine moral challenge, it landed. And it raises a question that no press briefing
03:31has fully answered. What happened in Minab, and who is accountable?
03:38It's definitely not the reason why I'm so sorry.
03:57I've been here.
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