Their joint call arrived as global outrage mounts over the bombing of a Iranian school on Feb. 28 that killed upwards of 175 civilians, mostly young children.
Trump, for his part, has repeatedly lied about the bombing, claiming it was Iran who bombed the school, despite having access to internal intelligence assessments that appear to say otherwise.
New reporting seems to confirm our worst fears: it was a US missile that struck the girls school in Iran.
On top of all that, Van Hollen adds, Hegseth has "no idea what he's doing in this war in Iran.
And now an American missile hit an Iranian school, killing about 150 innocent school kids.".
Hegseth has aggressively denounced restrictive "rules of engagement" for the military—calling such guardrails "stupid" and disparaging what he has termed "woke" warfare.
But we know rules of engagement are intended to prevent civilian harm, they're intended to prevent war crimes. »