As my RedState colleague Brad Slager documented, many mainstream media outlets rushed to report on how Shajarah Tayyebeh, a girls' elementary school in southern Iran, had been hit on Saturday, with unverified claims from Iranian officials that it was "bombed in broad daylight, when packed with young pupils" after the start of Operation Epic Fury.
Brad noted in his write-up that the suggestion/insinuation from these same Iranian regime officials that it was a deliberate "strike" on the school by the U.S. and Israel was not initially met with the appropriate amount of media skepticism from U.S.-based outlets that such claims warranted.
"With footage coming out of the attacks showing the surgical precision of the strikes — with scalpel-specific hits on radar domes and kamikaze drones sliding between buildings to hit particular targets — the concept of a school being destroyed did not fit that blueprint," he noted.
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CENTCOM's response to the reports was to note that they were "looking into them," while pointing out that "the protection of civilians is of utmost importance, and we will continue to take all precautions available to minimize the risk of unintended harm."
As of this writing, however, it is still not known who hit the school. And health officials with the Iranian regime have upped the unconfirmed death toll to 175, according to the NY Times. Really not much more is known at this hour about what happened than it was around the time the allegations were first made.
Not surprisingly, though, Michigan Rep. Rashida Tlaib (MI-12) pounced and seized on the early reports, unquestionably believing claims in a tweet posted by Lebanese diplomat and purported United Nations human rights advocate Mohamad Safa that the hit was from the U.S. and Israel and was a "violation of Article 52 of Additional Protocol (I) Geneva Conventions":
Both the U.S. and genocidal Israel doesn't care about the laws. This is who they are. https://t.co/AQbNEi4Ojj
— Rashida Tlaib (@RashidaTlaib) February 28, 2026
Though she certainly doesn't act like it, Tlaib was born in America - Detroit specifically. So her use of the term "they" to describe the United States struck many as quite a revealing "mask slips off" moment for the congresswoman:
Terrorism apologist/Congresswoman uncritically parrots regime propaganda (as she often has for Hamas), while referring to the United States as “they.” https://t.co/9YsHV3yYDN
— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) February 28, 2026
Referring to a country you represent in Congress as “they” instead of “we”
— Ryan James Girdusky (@RyanGirdusky) February 28, 2026
Assimilation has really broken down https://t.co/Rv26NkjUjM
I think a United States Congresswoman uncritically propagating Islamic Republic State TV is a very big deal. https://t.co/LuEFjH9zdm
— Blake Flayton (@blakeflayton) February 28, 2026
A US congresswoman using her platform to repost propaganda from the enemy our country is at this moment fighting while referring to the country she purports to represent in 3rd person and tossing in a casual anti-Jew libel just for fun is a disturbing snapshot of the Far Left https://t.co/CzdnadBUWe
— Jonah Platt (@JonahPlatt) February 28, 2026
Radicals like Tlaib do not view themselves as proud Americans representing their countrymen.
— Sunny (@sunnyright) March 1, 2026
They view themselves as people from other countries ensuring that those other countries have a say in U.S. government. https://t.co/LbA4lHXhop
When a member of Congress is using “they” instead of “we” to refer to the United States, that is pretty telling.
— Jesse Arm (@Jesse_Leg) February 28, 2026
If you do not see yourself as part of America, how can you serve America? https://t.co/Nl3gYVoTdB
And that, dear readers, is the million-dollar question, to which the answer - IMO - is pretty clear: You can't.
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