03/06/2026
🚨 A Pentagon Inspector General report just exposed the cover-up behind the Minab massacre — and Pete Hegseth’s fingerprints are all over it.
On May 13, the DoD IG released an evaluation of the military’s Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan (CHMR-AP) — the system specifically designed to prevent the killing of civilians in US military operations. The verdict was damning: not one of its 11 objectives had been fully implemented by the end of FY2025. Funding was cut. Staff meetings stopped. Personnel were lost or reassigned. The Civilian Protection Center of Excellence — gutted.
This didn’t happen by accident. It happened because Hegseth slashed CHMR staff at combatant commands by more than 90%.
Then on Feb. 28, a US Tomahawk missile obliterated Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran — a functioning school with a years-long public online presence, visible school markings, and children inside. 156 people were killed, including 120 schoolchildren. Amnesty International called it unlawful. The UN called it a grave violation of humanitarian law.
When Democratic senators demanded answers — asking how, even after civilian warnings were allegedly issued, the US still managed to “bomb 22 schools” — Hegseth looked them in the eye and claimed the Pentagon had an “ironclad commitment” to preventing civilian deaths.
The IG report tells a different story. The infrastructure built to protect civilians wasn’t underfunded. It wasn’t neglected. It was deliberately dismantled — on Hegseth’s watch — and 120 children paid the price.
