The illegal war with Iran that President Donald Trump said would be over in a matter of weeks entered its sixth month on Friday, and there is little sign of it wrapping up in the near future. A Friday report in The Washington Post marking the six-month anniversary of the illegal war noted that Trump's ability to decisively win the…
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Pentagon calls its missile most accurate, then watches Iran cite the wedding it hit to strike three countries.
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Let's be precise, because precision is the entire point here. Cmdr. Tim Hawkins, speaking for U.S. Central Command, put it exactly right on Tuesday: the Pentagon is "aware of the reports" out of southern Iran and is "looking into them." That is not evasion. That is process. You do not confirm a strike on a private home in Kuhestak until you've run the numbers, and the numbers on this missile have always been extraordinary — it is, by the Navy's own literature, the most accurate weapon in the inventory, the kind of precision that lets a commander tell Congress a target was struck and nothing else was.
Which is why the reports are — five dead. Sixty-eight wounded. A four-year-old named Amir-Ali Karimi. A sixteen-year-old named Mohammad Mollahi. I want to be clear that the investigation into how the most accurate missile in the American arsenal found a wedding in Hormozgan province is ongoing, and ongoing investigations do not prejudge —…
…(cont) Look. Iran's embassy in Austria posted a line Wednesday morning I'd like to address, because it's inflammatory: they said bombing wedding parties "used to be a trademark of the US." Used to be. As though there's a new trademark now. That is Iranian state media doing what Iranian state media does, and it is not a coincidence that within hours Tehran cited this wedding — this single, still-under-review wedding — as grounds to strike Jordan, Kuwait, and the UAE. Three countries. Over a strike we have not confirmed. That is not proportionate, that is not — I mean, we haven't even said it happened and they've already used it to open three fronts, which, if I'm being honest, is a faster turnaround on the story than we've managed on the investigation.
I'll say this for the record: the President has been clear that reporting on this war is frequently "particularly inaccurate" — he told Bret Baier's show as much last week over a segment he didn't like, and Baier stood by his correspondent, and I stood by the missile, and the missile hit a house where people were dancing. The war marked six months this past Friday. It was supposed to take weeks. It is now longer than most of the marriages it has apparently attended.
The investigation continues. So, evidently, does everything else.
“They call it the most accurate missile the Navy's ever built, and the first thing it accurately hit was a wedding — a four-year-old, a sixteen-year-old, sixty-eight people carried out on stretchers. "Looking into it" is what you say about a parking ticket, not about a wedding party, and while the Pentagon takes its time Tehran's already cashed it in for three new fronts. The "quick" war just turned six months old, and every week they don't answer for one wedding, somebody else answers for three countries.”
“Look, precision-guided means precision-guided, that's not marketing, that's engineering — it's not on us that a private residence happened to be located inside what CENTCOM would characterize as a — okay, it was a wedding, it was a wedding. But "looking into it" is standard protocol, that's diligence, not a cover-up. And can we talk about how Tehran gets to open three retaliatory fronts off a strike we haven't even confirmed happened? Did I just defend three counterattacks off an unconfirmed report — that's not what I meant to say.”
The receipts
Iran attacked Jordan, Kuwait and the UAE, claiming retaliation for the latest U.S. strikes as the war in the Middle East ramps back up.
Fox News host Bret Baier defended his colleague after President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social panning his show’s segment on the latest Iran war news. Trump posted on social media on Thursday evening telling Baier to “straighten out…
Iran is making fresh claims about the latest round of strikes in the region. This comes as U.S. military leaders navigate tensions sparked by resignations and recent firings.
The American military said its barrage was retaliation against recent attacks on U.S. forces and marine traffic. Iranian officials said a wedding was hit and civilians killed.
At least five people are dead, and 68 more are reportedly injured after the US bombed a wedding party in Southern Iran on Tuesday, an act that Iranian officials called a "war crime." The Iranian embassy posted a video from a hospital showing several people, including what appears to be a young child, being treated for severe wounds from…
Bomb remnants suggest the strike was carried out with a weapon once advertised as the Navy’s “most accurate” missile.
The U.S. military is looking into reports from Iranian state media that an American airstrike on Tuesday hit a house in southern Iran where a wedding was taking place. “We’re aware of the reports, which originated from Iranian state media, and we are looking into them,”
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