The Iranian embassy has fired back at Karoline Leavitt’s announcement of the birth of her second child, issuing a reminder about the children killed in an attack on an Iranian school earlier this year.

“On May 1st, Viviana aka ‘Vivi’ joined our family, and our hearts instantly exploded with love,” the White House Press Secretary said in a post shared to her social media accounts on Thursday, May 7, accompanied by a photo of her cradling the newborn – her second child with husband Nicholas Riccio.

On Saturday, May 9, the Iranian embassy in Armenia reposted Leavitt’s announcement alongside a disturbing message directed at the press secretary at a time of celebration for her family. It comes after Trump was caught on camera doing a shocking act to Melania at an inappropriate moment.

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“Congratulations to you. Children are innocent and lovable. Those 168 children that your boss killed in the school in Minab, and you justified, were also children,” they said.

“When you kiss your baby, think of the mothers of those children,” the embassy told Leavitt.

During the opening hours of the US and Israel’s combined military campaign against Iran, a missile hit the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school, resulting in 168 deaths including approximately 110 children, according to Iranian authorities.

The strike occurred on a Saturday morning, the beginning of the Iranian school week, when the facility was packed with young pupils.

Satellite images, expert analysis, a U.S. official and public information released by the U.S. and Israeli militaries suggest an explosion that killed scores of Iranian students at a school was likely caused by U.S. airstrikes that also hit an adjacent compound associated with the regime’s Revolutionary Guard.

The Feb. 28 strike, which had the highest reported civilian death toll since the war began, has come under staunch criticism from the United Nations and human rights monitors. More than 165 people were killed, most of them of children, in the blast during school hours at Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School, according to Iranian state media.

Asked about the strike at the school at a Pentagon media briefing, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, “All I can say is that we’re investigating that. We, of course, never target civilian targets. But we’re taking a look and investigating that.”

Trump avoided a question about the strike during a press gaggle on Friday.

“We’re at a point almost 10 weeks after a missile hit a girls’ school in Iran, who fired that missile?” a reporter asked the president. “So uhh, that’s under study right now and we’ll give you a report as soon as we have it,” Trump responded.

Former U.S. officials, including a former top military lawyer, have voiced sharp criticism over the Pentagon’s silence regarding the attack.

The current U.S. stance “strikingly departs from the standard response,” according to Lt. Col. Rachel E. VanLandingham, a retired Judge Advocate General in the US Air Force and former senior legal adviser at U.S. Central Command during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“Administrations in the past at least demonstrated fidelity, a commitment to the law of war,” VanLandingham told the BBC.

She contended that a commitment to accountability and “importantly to ensure this doesn’t happen again” was “missing” from the administration’s public statements.

It comes amid growing concern about the president’s erratic behavior – with Trump making a disturbing sex comment on stage that stunned his audience into silence.