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President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media traveling on Air Force One while heading to Miami on March 7, 2026, while Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth grimaces in the background. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo by Roberto Schmidt\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sens. Chris Van Hollen and Elizabeth Warren make the case for the urgent ouster of President Donald Trump\u2019s Defense Secretary.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jon Queally<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mar 13, 2026 (CommonDreams.org)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPete Hegseth needs to be fired\u2014immediately,\u201d argues US Sen. Chris Van Hollen in a video statement posted Thursday night alongside Sen. Elizabeth Warren<\/a>, who also backs the demand. Their joint call arrived as global outrage mounts over the bombing of a Iranian school on Feb. 28 that killed upwards of 175 civilians, mostly young children<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warren cited preliminary findings of a Pentagon<\/a> report out this week that determined the US was the highly likely culprit behind the school massacre in the southeastern city of Minab, she noted, \u201ckilling mostly little girls between the ages of seven and 14.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Preliminary Pentagon Findings Betray Trump\u2019s Outrageous Lies About Iranian School Massacre<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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\u2018\u200bShameless\u2019: Critics Hammer Pete Hegseth for Claiming \u2018We Didn\u2019t Start\u2019 War on Iran<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Human rights<\/a> groups have condemned<\/a> the bombing of the school\u2014which had happened on the very first day of Trump\u2019s unprovoked attack on Iran\u2014as a possible \u201cwar crime\u201d that demands independent investigation. Trump, for his part, has repeatedly lied about the bombing, claiming it was Iran who bombed the school, despite having access to internal intelligence assessments that appear to say otherwise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rep. Rashida Tlaib<\/a> (D-Mich.) on Wednesday said<\/a> there was more than enough evidence to conclude that the US was behind the attack, with reports bubbling up from inside the Pentagon only helping to confirm what outside analysts had determined. \u201cTrump should be impeached. Hegseth should be fired,\u201d Tlaib said. \u201cAnd the administration must be held accountable in international courts for their heinous war crimes<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Van Hollen and Warren, the massacre in Minab is only the latest and most gruesome example of the US military\u2019s bloodthirsty and careless conduct under Hegseth, whose time at the Pentagon has been marked by controversy and accusations of human rights abuses, national security blunders, and violations of\u00a0international law<\/a>\u00a0as a matter of policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pete Hegseth needs to be fired.

New reporting seems to confirm our worst fears: it was a US missile that struck the girls school in Iran.

That strike comes at a time when Secretary Hegseth has systematically weakened US protections against civilian harm by our military.\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/A34bcLQI3w<\/a><\/p>— Senator Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen) March 12, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>