Classified Pentagon Report Says US Failed 11 CHMR-AP Objectives, Leaves Civilian Protection Center Without Budget

A classified Department of War document released on May 15 says not a single one of the 11 core objectives of the 2022 Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan (CHMR-AP) was fully implemented by the end of fiscal year 2025, and that all 133 required actions remain incomplete.

“We begin today’s tour from The Guardian, with an op-ed titled: 'While Trump’s team wages an uncompromising war on Iran, evangelical nationalists are destroying the moral dimension that existed in the global order,' written by Simon Tisdall”

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The report also says funding for vital tools, including the civilian harm tracking database, was slashed and that the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence was left as a “shell on paper with no budget, no mandate or real mission, no authority,” according to the report itself.

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Press TV says the report coincided with U.S. Central Command chief Adm. Brad Cooper telling senators he could not “corroborate” widespread strikes on Iranian schools and hospitals after more than 13,600 US-led airstrikes on sovereign Iranian territory.

Press TV further claims Iranian health and emergency authorities report the US-Israeli aggression has martyred thousands of civilians, including at least 258 women and 221 minors, and that the criminal strike on Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab claimed 168 schoolgirls.

In a separate report, عين ليبيا says the U.S. Navy began on April 13 to implement a blockade on all maritime traffic to and from Iranian ports on both sides of the Strait of Hormuz.

The same article says the blockade is implemented as about 20% of world oil, oil products, and liquefied natural gas pass through the strait, and it adds that Washington claims vessels not affiliated with Iran can pass freely unless they pay transit fees to Tehran.

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عين ليبيا also says that on April 8 Washington and Tehran announced a two-week ceasefire, but negotiations that followed in Islamabad ended without a final agreement, with Iranian television saying U.S. Vice President JD Vance confirmed the failure of the latest round.

The report states that the White House said it was optimistic about reaching a deal with Iran and that White House spokesperson Caroline Leavitt called the current situation a temporary obstacle to preventing Iran from possessing a nuclear weapon.

France 24 says Democrats in Congress introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, accusing him of violating the Law of Armed Conflict and endangering U.S. troops, including waging war on Iran without congressional approval.

“A damning internal Pentagon inspector general report has laid bare the Trump administration’s criminal indifference to civilian lives in its illegal war of aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran, confirming what Tehran has repeatedly exposed”

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Leading the move, Democratic Representative Yasmin Ansari of Arizona said on X, "We have submitted articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth for violating his oath and endangering American service members, and for war crimes, including attacks on civilians and on a girls' school in Minab, Iran."

France 24 adds that Ansari’s materials accuse Hegseth of beginning the conflict with Iran "without a declaration of war or specific legal authorization from Congress," and of knowingly exposing U.S. armed forces to a large and foreseeable risk of injury or death.

In parallel, القدس العربي says Politico reported that the Pentagon prepared a plan to strike Iran that would exonerate President Donald Trump of war crimes, and it quotes White House spokesperson Caroline Leavitt saying: “The Pentagon has a duty to take the necessary steps to give the Commander-in-Chief the maximum number of options; this does not mean that the president has already made a decision.”