Laura Ingraham said the U.S. should “own up” if it struck an Iranian school. As evidence emerges that it did, she's lost interest.

Written by Helena Hind

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Fox News prime-time host Laura Ingraham has been essentially silent about the apparent U.S. military bombing of an Iranian school since her on-air call for “full transparency" about the incident. 

On March 4, during her Fox News show, Ingraham called for “full transparency” surrounding the killing of Iranian schoolchildren following an apparent missile strike. In the following days, numerous reports, including multiple segments by Fox’s own national security correspondent, indicated that the U.S. was likely responsible for the deadly civilian strike. Now, a military investigation has also reportedly preliminarily confirmed the U.S.’s culpability.

Ingraham, meanwhile, has not discussed any of that reporting on her show. In fact, the only time she has returned to the topic on air in the days since was to suggest that the story is merely a bad headline distracting from positive stories about Trump’s war in Iran.

  • Reporting and a preliminary investigation indicate the US military bombed a school full of Iranian children during its initial attack

    A March 5 analysis by The New York Times concluded that a U.S. missile likely struck an elementary school near an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps compound in Minab, Iran, on the first day of the U.S. and Israeli offensive, killing at least 165 people, including dozens of children. Reuters similarly reported on March 5 that U.S. military investigators “believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible” for the strike, citing “two U.S. officials.” 

    Fox News’ own chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin reported on March 6 that the U.S. was likely responsible for the bombing. 

    Additionally, video published over the weekend of the bombing shows a U.S. Tomahawk missile striking the Revolutionary Guard facility adjacent to the school. Several news outlets — Bellingcat, The New York Times, NPR, CNN, and The Washington Post — have independently concluded that the missile most likely belonged to the U.S. military. 

    Despite the mounting evidence to the contrary, Trump blamed Iran for the deadly civilian strike and claimed the Revolutionary Guard also possesses Tomahawk missiles. 

    Reacting to this, Griffin told Fox anchor Bret Baier: “It seems highly unlikely that it would be anyone's Tomahawk other than a U.S. Tomahawk that hit that school, and I think the president knows that. … He is trying to sort of muddy the waters by talking about the Tomahawks.”

    On March 11, the Times reported that an internal military investigation had preliminarily determined that the U.S. bombed the school due to a “targeting mistake.”

    “The Feb. 28 strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was the result of a targeting mistake by the U.S. military, which was conducting strikes on an adjacent Iranian base of which the school building was formerly a part, the preliminary investigation found. Officers at U.S. Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, people briefed on the investigation said.”

  • Ingraham previously called for transparency

    On March 4, Ingraham called for “full transparency” surrounding the killing of Iranian schoolchildren.

    From the March 4, 2026, edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle

    “If this was some horrific U.S. or Israeli mistake — and again, we have no idea — we will need to own up to it, full transparency,” Ingraham said.

    Ingraham reiterated her stance in a March 9 social media post after video of the attack confirmed U.S. culpability, saying, “Admin must wrap its investigation and address head-on.”

    But all week on Fox News, Ingraham had nothing to say about it — with the exception of March 10, when she suggested the bombing was merely a negative headline distracting from more positive stories about Trump’s war in Iran.

    From the March 10, 2026, edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle

    That’s been the last mention of the strike on her program. Ingraham has failed to reaffirm the story’s importance in the week since her initial call for transparency, effectively falling in line with her Fox colleagues who have downplayed the atrocity in favor of spreading pro-war propaganda for Trump.