Italy’s Meloni breaks with Trump over Iran war | 12 March 2026 | Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, a close ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, has criticized the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, branding it part of a dangerous trend “outside international law.” She also condemned a deadly strike on an Iranian school widely attributed to the U.S. Meloni delivered the remarks during an address to the Italian Senate on Wednesday, placing the strikes within what she called an “evident crisis of international law and the collapse of a shared world order.” Meloni also condemned what she called a “massacre of little girls” at a school in Minab in southern Iran, calling for an investigation into a strike that killed at least 170 people, most of them children.