President Donald Trump got upset at a BBC News reporter who asked him about US missiles bombing the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran on February, 28 which Trump tried to deny by saying, “It’s under investigation.”
Q: Admiral Cooper was asked yesterday about the strike on the girls' school–
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 15, 2026
TRUMP: Well, it's under investigation
Q: Are you able to confirm it was a US missile
TRUMP: Who are you with?
Q: BBC
TRUMP: Fake BBC. You mean the ones that put AI in my mouth? pic.twitter.com/M3hklTcdJr
The Guardian noted the US used outdated information from 2016 to use AI to bomb the school:
n the first morning of Operation Epic Fury, 28 February 2026, American forces struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, in southern Iran, hitting the building at least two times during the morning session. American forces killed between 175 and 180 people, most of them girls between the ages of seven and 12.
The building in Minab had been classified as a military facility in a Defense Intelligence Agency database that, according to CNN, had not been updated to reflect that the building had been separated from the adjacent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps compound and converted into a school, a change that satellite imagery shows had occurred by 2016 at the latest. A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal.
BBC News reported in April:
US media reported in early March that US military investigators believed American forces were likely responsible for hitting the school unintentionally but had not reached a final conclusion.
U.S. Central Command Admiral Brad Cooper admitted to Congress on May 15 that the reported bombing of 22 Iranian schools and 17 healthcare facilities is not under investigation by the Dept. of Defense, reports The Independent.
(Sources: BBC News, The Independent, The Guardian, X)