House Democrat on Iran school bombing: ‘We’re going to push hard to get answers’

Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) on Sunday said lawmakers will “push hard” for answers behind the bombing that destroyed an Iranian girls school on the day U.S. and Israeli airstrikes first fell on the Middle East country earlier this year.

Crow accused the Trump administration of “slow-rolling” answers about what happened at Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, where over 165 people, mostly children, were killed in an airstrike.

“This administration has no problem posting videos of strikes, posting videos of operations when they want us to see it, and then when they don’t want us to see it, they slow roll it,” he told “Face the Nation” host Margaret Brennan on CBS News. “That’s clearly what’s happening here. So we’re going to push hard to get answers, all right? We’ll be tracking it.”

Crow, one of the co-founders of the bipartisan Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict Caucus, added that he has been pushing U.S. Central Command (Centcom) for answers. Brennan noted that the U.S. military is........

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