"The President Is Lying to Us": Senator Slams Trump Over Bombing of Iranian School

U.S. Senator Chris Murphy on Thursday accused President Donald Trump of deliberately misleading the American public regarding the bombing of an elementary school in Iran that left at least 175 people dead, the majority of them girls.

"What makes this incident even less forgivable is that the president is lying to us," the senator stated, directly challenging the White House's official narrative.

Murphy pointed out that Trump has consistently avoided addressing the question of responsibility for the strike, despite mounting evidence suggesting the attack was carried out using an American Tomahawk missile. "When asked about the growing evidence that it was a U.S. Tomahawk that hit the school, he said: 'I don't know anything about that,'" Murphy said during a floor speech.

The senator also recalled that, days prior, Trump had deflected when questioned about the strike on the girls' school, claiming he had not seen what happened and suggesting the missile could have been fired by Iran — an assertion Tehran flatly denied.

"He said the Tomahawk is a very generic weapon, that many countries have it and use it, including Iran," Murphy recounted. "The president of the United States knows that Iran does not have Tomahawks," he added.

Murphy described as "offensive" the notion that Tehran would have used such weaponry to strike its own school. In his view, the White House is deliberately attempting to cast doubt on the origin of the attack despite evidence pointing to U.S. forces.

Amid the ongoing U.S. and Israeli military offensive against Iran, other American lawmakers have also challenged the administration's account of the incident, including Senator Bernie Sanders, who likewise accused Trump of lying about responsibility for the bombing.