WASHINGTON, March 16 -- Sen. Martin Heinrich issued the following news release:
U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the U.S. Senate Select Intelligence Committee, and Ben Ray Lujan (D-N.M.) sent a letter demanding that U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Secretary Pete Hegseth provide answers to the American people on the airstrikes on a school in Minab, Iran and civilian casualties in the Trump Administration's illegal, reckless war on Iran.
On February 28, during the opening salvo of U.S. and Israeli operations on Iran, airstrikes on a girls' elementary school reportedly killed at least 175 people - mostly children - in Minab, Iran. A new preliminary investigation from the DoD found the U.S. was likely responsible for the s...