{"id":68052,"date":"2026-03-04T10:58:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/pete-hegseth-says-us-is-investigating-deadly-strike-on-girls-school-in-iran\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T10:58:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T15:58:48","slug":"pete-hegseth-says-us-is-investigating-deadly-strike-on-girls-school-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/pete-hegseth-says-us-is-investigating-deadly-strike-on-girls-school-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth says US is \u2018investigating\u2019 deadly strike on girls\u2019 school in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US defense secretary was evasive when asked about the airstrike that Iranian officials say killed at least 165 students<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2026\/mar\/03\/minab-school-bombing-how-the-worst-mass-casualty-event-of-the-iran-war-unfolded-a-visual-guide\">Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded \u2013 a visual guide<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, offered few details and was evasive when asked about the deadly strike on a girls\u2019 school in Iran, saying only that the US was \u201cinvestigating\u201d the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian officials say the attack, which happened on Saturday, killed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/01\/iran-school-bombing-death-toll-us-israel-strikes\">at least 165 students.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/04\/pete-hegseth-denies-responsibility-iran-school-strike\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US defense secretary was evasive when asked about the airstrike that Iranian officials say killed at least 165 students Minab school bombing: how the worst mass casualty event of the Iran war unfolded \u2013 a visual guide Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, offered few details and was evasive when asked about the deadly strike &#8230; <a title=\"Pete Hegseth says US is \u2018investigating\u2019 deadly strike on girls\u2019 school in Iran\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/04\/pete-hegseth-says-us-is-investigating-deadly-strike-on-girls-school-in-iran\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pete Hegseth says US is \u2018investigating\u2019 deadly strike on girls\u2019 school in Iran\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}