The World with Richard Engel and Yalda Hakim
May 20, 2026 · 40 min · 13 segments
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Dominic WaghornBefore we unpack all that's happening in Iran, are we heading for escalation? Are we heading for a peace deal? Yesterday, just in one day, we saw both moves.
We saw President Trump make new threats and escalate and then say that he's not gonna launch this, uh, attack that he had just threatened moments earlier.
So trying to follow this is, is like trying to follow a fast-moving car on the racetrack.
He's in Iran right now, and he traveled to the south where that school was hit.
Uh, and w- was it hun- more than 150 people killed, and that was just right on the first, uh, on the first day of the war.
So just to recap what actually happened, this incident, horrifying incident, took place on the first day of the war on February the 28th.
News suddenly, uh, emerged that a school had been hit in Minab, uh, which ended up leaving over 150 children and their teachers, uh, dead.
It horrified the world, and immediately, uh, the, uh, Trump administration pointed the finger of blame on the Iranian authorities, saying that they had, um, conducted this, this strike, or which ended up killing so many people.
So, uh, the US military is currently investigating this incident, and three and a half months on, there still isn't any sort of findings that have come out of this investigation and no real clarity or, frankly, accountability, uh, for what happened.
First of all, um, launching these sort of threats against Iran, which we've seen him do over the past few months, and then backtracking.
The one thing he's been silent about, though, is this attack on this particular school because it left the world outraged, devastated.
And Dom was able to piece together what happened, uh, on that day but also speak to the grieving families, mothers who have been going back to the graves of their children three and a half months on every single day.
Um, Richard, they go back, um, where they sing their children lullabies every night.
Before we unpack all that's happening in Iran, are we heading for escalation? Are we heading for a peace deal? Yesterday, just in one day, we saw both moves.
We saw President Trump make new threats and escalate and then say that he's not gonna launch this, uh, attack that he had just threatened moments earlier.
So trying to follow this is, is like trying to follow a fast-moving car on the racetrack.
He's in Iran right now, and he traveled to the south where that school was hit.
Uh, and w- was it hun- more than 150 people killed, and that was just right on the first, uh, on the first day of the war.
So just to recap what actually happened, this incident, horrifying incident, took place on the first day of the war on February the 28th.
News suddenly, uh, emerged that a school had been hit in Minab, uh, which ended up leaving over 150 children and their teachers, uh, dead.
It horrified the world, and immediately, uh, the, uh, Trump administration pointed the finger of blame on the Iranian authorities, saying that they had, um, conducted this, this strike, or which ended up killing so many people.
So, uh, the US military is currently investigating this incident, and three and a half months on, there still isn't any sort of findings that have come out of this investigation and no real clarity or, frankly, accountability, uh, for what happened.
First of all, um, launching these sort of threats against Iran, which we've seen him do over the past few months, and then backtracking.
The one thing he's been silent about, though, is this attack on this particular school because it left the world outraged, devastated.
And Dom was able to piece together what happened, uh, on that day but also speak to the grieving families, mothers who have been going back to the graves of their children three and a half months on every single day.
Um, Richard, they go back, um, where they sing their children lullabies every night.
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