When Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks with such un-American glee about delivering “death and destruction from above” in Iran, he boasted about the combat debut of the new Precision Strike Missile (PrSM), designed to explode over the target with an air burst of “pre-formed” tungsten fragments.

To use Hegseth’s favorite word, the thousands of metal bits proved to be extremely lethal when a PrSM detonated above a school and an adjacent sports facility in the southern city of Lamerd during the early hours of our newest war.

“It’s shrapnel pierced the roof and headed toward the Lamerd Province, Fars, youth volleyball team,” an Iran-based journalist named Negin Bagheri posted on X after interviewing some of the survivors.

Bagheri reported that it was a juvenile girls’ team and it had been practicing defense.

“Against the ball; not against a missile,” she wrote.

Then the building’s lights went out. Death tore down from the sudden darkness above.

Bagheri named two team members who she said had been mortally wounded. Elham Zaeri had been in the fifth grade.

“The doctors had said that Elham had lost her life before the hospital,“ Bagheri wrote.

But, Helma Ahmadizadeh, a 10-year-old fourth-grader, had initially seemed to have escaped injury.

“Helma boarded the ambulance on her own two feet,” Bagheri reported. “Without a single drop of blood on her body, she had told her coach: ‘It feels like something has gone into my body.“

Bagheri reported that a moment came at the........

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