{"id":114398,"date":"2026-05-14T23:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/114398\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T23:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:11:10","slug":"top-u-s-commander-dismisses-reports-of-civilian-deaths-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/114398\/","title":{"rendered":"Top U.S. Commander Dismisses Reports of Civilian Deaths in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: Top U.S. Commander Dismisses Reports of Civilian Deaths in Iran<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p>Back<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<p>Top U.S. Commander Dismisses Reports of Civilian Deaths in IranAdm. Brad Cooper on Thursday dismissed reports of the U.S.\u2019s role in civilian deaths in Iran. The commander said the U.S. military identified one potential incident involving a school, which Iranian officials said killed 175 people, most of them children. The New York Times has verified that 22 schools and 17 health care facilities were damaged in the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cThe subject of civilian casualties is a particular passion of mine. We pay attention to it. We follow all the procedures and have gone above and beyond to \u2014 in my case, personally warn the Iranian people of several instances \u2014\u201d \u201cHow many schools have we bombed?\u201d \u201cThere is one active civilian casualty investigation from the 13,629 munitions.\u201d \u201cSo how do you explain the publicly available information that 22 schools have been hit and multiple hospitals?\u201d \u201cThere\u2019s no way that we can corroborate that. No indication of that whatsoever, Senator.\u201d \u201cWell, the indication is what\u2019s publicly available. There is indication. Have you investigated those claims?\u201d \u201cWe have not.\u201d \u201cWhy have you not? If this is a passion of yours, if you believe that civilian casualties are not consistent with the law of war and not consistent with human rights obligations that our military regularly follows with great pride and great diligence, why have you not investigated those allegations when they\u2019re publicly being made on the cover of The New York Times?\u201d \u201cI\u2019ll be happy to take a look at each instance.\u201d \u201cI would like a report.\u201d \u201cIf you were to find out that there was an error in the targeting process, would you reinstate some of those people that were removed from that team?\u201d \u201cSir, it\u2019s a hypothetical. I think we \u2014 I\u2019m always looking to organize to purpose, and we\u2019ll just see what the investigation \u2014\u201d \u201cAre you taking any additional steps now because of the civilian casualties to date?\u201d \u201cWe have taken additional steps. Our additional steps have been very proactive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Mr. Cooper and Mr. Anderson sit at a desk while various members of the U.S. military sit behind them.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/14dc-military-iran-pvmw-threeByTwoMediumAt2X.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>Adm. Brad Cooper on Thursday dismissed reports of the U.S.\u2019s role in civilian deaths in Iran. The commander said the U.S. military identified one potential incident involving a school, which Iranian officials said killed 175 people, most of them children. The New York Times has verified that 22 schools and 17 health care facilities were damaged in the war.<\/p>\n<p>By Jorge Mitssunaga and Arash Khamooshi<\/p>\n<p>May 14, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: Top U.S. Commander Dismisses Reports of Civilian Deaths in Iran transcript Back transcript Top U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2171,34,179,5431],"class_list":{"0":"post-114398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-iran","8":"tag-civilian-casualties","9":"tag-iran","10":"tag-military","11":"tag-us-and-israeli-attack-on-iran"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116575461933488081","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}