‘Meet The Press’ Host Slammed Over ‘Pathetic’ Iran War Interview Moment | EUROtoday

“Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker is going through backlash Sunday after she ignored reporting from a number of main retailers, together with her personal at NBC News, tying the U.S. to the lethal strike on an Iranian ladies’ college.

Welker — in an interview with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi — requested about President Donald Trump blaming Iran for the strike whereas declining to say investigations by Reuters and CNN that discovered the U.S. was seemingly answerable for the strike. A separate, early evaluation by The New York Times discovered that the varsity was “severely damaged” in a U.S. strike that occurred across the identical time as one on a close-by Iranian naval base.

“President Trump said Iran is responsible for that strike. What is your response?” mentioned Welker in a clip on X highlighted by the impartial Drop Sites News outlet.

Over 170 individuals — most of whom have been schoolchildren — have been killed within the assault on the varsity within the southern Iranian metropolis of Minab, per Iranian well being officers, which might make it the deadliest strike on Iran because the begin of the U.S.-Israeli battle on the nation.

NBC News, citing sources acquainted with the matter, additionally reported it “looks increasingly likely that a U.S. munition was responsible for striking” the varsity.

The college’s location is wedged between two factors plotted on a strike map displayed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at a latest Pentagon briefing, per journalist Chris Osieck.

Trump, when requested on Saturday whether or not the U.S. was answerable for the strike, replied, “No, my opinion, based on what I’ve seen, that was done by Iran.”

He later continued, “We think it was done by Iran… because they are very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions. They have no accuracy whatsoever.”

In Araghchi’s interview with Welker, he declared that “all evidence” factors to the U.S. utilizing a “jet fighter” for the lethal strike.

Welker responded, “Where is the Iranian evidence that this was a U.S. attack? A jet fighter, as you say. Will you provide?”

Araghchi replied, “If it was not U.S., then who was that? Maybe Israelis. But it is obvious who else is attacking us.”

Welker swiftly moved on to her subsequent query.

Critics on social media slammed Welker over the interview second, with one consumer on X calling it “truly pathetic,” and one other calling out her “atrocious job.”

The MeidasTouch Network, in a separate publish on X, shared the Drop Site News clip with the caption, “Trump knows that when he lies, the media will parrot his lies as if they are the truth.”

HuffPost has reached out to representatives with NBC News/“Meet the Press” for remark.