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Weeks of silence over Iran school strike highly unusual, former officials say


Annie Shiel, a former US official who worked on civilian harm reduction at the state department, said previous cases followed a pattern where the US had “come out and said ‘it was not us’, only for media and [non governmental organisation] reporting to show that in fact it was a US strike, and then the US has to walk that back.”



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