{"id":223551,"date":"2026-05-03T08:54:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T08:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=223551"},"modified":"2026-05-03T08:54:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T08:54:31","slug":"hegseth-quietly-admits-u-s-might-be-behind-iran-girls-school-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=223551","title":{"rendered":"Hegseth Quietly Admits U.S. Might Be Behind Iran Girls\u2019 School Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth acknowledged Friday that the U.S. military had opened a comprehensive investigation into the attack on an Iranian elementary school. Yet seconds after he tacitly acknowledged evidence indicating America\u2019s role in the bloodshed, Hegseth insisted that the United States \u201cnever\u201d targets civilians during foreign conflicts.Responding to a reporter\u2019s query about the February 28 incident&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/207781\/pete-hegseth-iran-girls-school-strike-investigation\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth acknowledged Friday that the U.S. military had opened a comprehensive investigation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223551-hegseth-quietly-admits-us-might-be-behind-iran-girls-school-strike.jpeg",1200,800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223551-hegseth-quietly-admits-us-might-be-behind-iran-girls-school-strike-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223551-hegseth-quietly-admits-us-might-be-behind-iran-girls-school-strike-300x200.jpeg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223551-hegseth-quietly-admits-us-might-be-behind-iran-girls-school-strike-768x512.jpeg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223551-hegseth-quietly-admits-us-might-be-behind-iran-girls-school-strike-1024x683.jpeg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223551-hegseth-quietly-admits-us-might-be-behind-iran-girls-school-strike.jpeg",1200,800,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223551-hegseth-quietly-admits-us-might-be-behind-iran-girls-school-strike.jpeg",1200,800,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223551-hegseth-quietly-admits-us-might-be-behind-iran-girls-school-strike-1024x683.jpeg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223551-hegseth-quietly-admits-us-might-be-behind-iran-girls-school-strike-825x575.jpeg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/223551-hegseth-quietly-admits-us-might-be-behind-iran-girls-school-strike-590x410.jpeg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/223552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}