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American Prestige

Special – Iran War: Airstrikes Intensify, Oil Routes Choked, Lebanon Bombarded (Preview)

American Prestige

Daniel Bessner & Derek Davison

History, News, Politics

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Subscribe now for access to all of our breaking news specials. Danny and Derek discuss the escalating war with Iran, including the expanding U.S. and Israeli bombing campaign, the reported U.S. strike on an Iranian school, America sinking the Iranian ship IRIS Dena, Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the resulting oil shock, Israel’s attacks in Lebanon, and the Trump administration’s demand for Iran’s unconditional surrender as the conflict shows signs of lasting for months. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:03.2

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0:08.3

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0:11.8

All right, let's return to the war, and let's talk about one of the most terrible war crimes committed in recent memory.

0:18.8

And that is, of course, the bombing of the school in southern Iran.

0:22.7

What do we know about this so far?

0:25.6

Has anyone taken responsibility?

0:27.1

Or has any investigative reporting revealed responsibility or not yet?

0:31.5

Yes, a couple of sites have talked about this.

0:35.5

Reuters reported, again, this was, I believe, on Thursday, Thursday evening,

0:43.3

that the internal investigation from the U.S. military has basically concluded that it was a U.S. strike that hit the elementary school

0:49.5

and killed, you know, I think 150 students along with staff.

0:54.6

I don't know, the full total at this point.

0:56.6

The death toll has been rising since Saturday.

1:00.5

So that's the internal investigation.

1:03.1

They concluded that, you know, they were attacking nearby,

1:07.9

relatively nearby, I guess.

1:09.4

There's some question as to how close they actually were.

1:13.2

But relatively nearby military sites in Minab, which is where the school is located,

1:20.2

and either had bad intelligence about what was on this site and hit it intentionally thinking that it was something other than a school,

1:30.0

although satellite imagery is the piece, the Reuters report, says, and as another New York Times report

1:37.3

that I'll mention in a second, said, makes it pretty clear that this is a school grounds. It's hard

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