(Previous Incident Code: ISIR260301b )

Around 10 a.m. on Sunday, 1 March 2026, five people, including an elderly woman, were killed in an alleged Israeli and/or U.S. airstrike on Iran Street in a residential area near the Shahid Mahallati School in the neighbourhood of Absardar in Tehran, Iran. More than a dozen civilians were reported injured. In addition to Shahid Mahallati Boys’ Elementary School, a Shahr-e Salem clinic, and a library (Amiri Bookstore), several residential buildings were damaged or destroyed. The identities of the victims were not yet publicly available – this assessment will be update if more information emerges.

Following the alleged strike, Tass and Tasnim News, as well as Telegram channel @akhbarefori, reported that five people had been killed. However in an interview with Mehr News, a resident of one of the affected buildings claimed that one person was killed in the strike – a man from Afghanistan who was the caretaker of the building.

Some sources suggested that a local Basij base near to the school may have been the target of the attack. The Basij is a paramilitary volunteer militia making up one of the five branches of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Iranian female MP, Fatemeh Mohammadbeigi, gave details on civilian harm while talking to Mehr News, claiming that “an elderly woman who was passing by was killed by the blast wave. A husband and wife were unfortunately killed at the intersection. All of them were ordinary people. Their [the attackers] assumption was that this was a local Basij base next to the school. Unfortunately, people who were inside the buildings were also martyred.” At the time of writing, Airwars was unable to determine the names of the victims.

With regards to the number of injuries caused by the strike, ILNA quoted a Tehran city councillor as saying that “in this attack, a significant number of injured people were transferred to Absardar Center and were treated and discharged on an outpatient basis.” The Shahr-e Salem clinic, the same clinic damaged in the attack, posted on the Iranian social media app Bale that Dr. Bentolhoda Mohammadshirazi was honored for treating “80 individuals…at the height of the bombardment.”

Hamshari Online provided a more detailed account of the attack on the clinic and injuries sustained by civilians on the day of the incident, explaining that “about two hours before noon, following an attack on buildings on Mojahedin-e Eslam Street, the sound of a massive explosion echoed inside the clinic. Suddenly, part of the clinic building was damaged by the bombing. The walls cracked, the windows shattered, and dust settled over everything. Despite fear and anxiety, the clinic’s medical and administrative staff rushed into the street to help the wounded.” Saeed Jabbari, the clinic’s director, recounted that day as follows: “Thick smoke and dust had covered everything, and the moans and cries of the wounded could be heard. We could not wait for rescue teams. My colleagues at the clinic — from doctors and nurses to administrative staff — got to work bringing the injured inside the clinic for treatment.”

Jabbari continued to describe the injuries in detail: “In total, we treated nine cases of skull fractures, seventeen leg injuries, including shrapnel wounds and fractures, nineteen hand injuries, forty-four injuries to other parts of the body, and severe wounds such as a severed ear and shrapnel injuries to the eyes. We had no choice but to provide urgent initial treatment before they could be transferred to the hospital.” According to the report, the number of injuries may be as high as 89; however, it is difficult to determine the exact number of civilians injured.

Several residential buildings were reported to have been damaged in the bombing. A post on Telegram by @Tasnimnews featured several photos taken from street level, showing a heavily damaged and partially damaged residential building on fire, with debris blocking the street and partially covering a parked car. Photographs posted alongside a Mehr News article describing cleanup efforts after the strike show a heavily damaged and partially-collapsed building, which appears to be different from the structure shown in the @Tasnimnews report.

According to Iranian lawmaker Fatemeh Mohammadbeigi, who spoke to Mehr News, “more than five buildings on Iran Street near the Shahid Mahallati School were damaged in the attacks. Many cars were burned. Many residential buildings have been rendered uninhabitable. Municipal workers are clearing the rubble.” She also added that “many other buildings have completely lost their doors and windows. There was also a severe fire. Even a women’s tailoring employment center affiliated with the Saffar Family was completely damaged.”

Xaccount @PadDolat reported that “the weekly press conference of the Foreign Ministry Spokesperson was held at Shahid Mahallati Boys’ Elementary School in Tehran, located in the Iran neighborhood of Charah Absardar, which had suffered serious damage” in the attack. Photographs accompanying this post showed a classroom with extensive damage to the ceiling and debris scattered throughout. Tasnim News and the China Xinhua News account on Facebook also carried photos and footage of the same damaged classroom.

X account @Aljarmaqnetnews reported that a library had also been damaged in the strike, and carried photographs of a damaged room with fallen bookshelves.

The Shahr-e Salem Company channel on Bale posted images of its clinic showing damage sustained in the attack. Photographs show men sweeping up glass and covering window frames with plastic. Another post on the same channel indicated that the clinic was closed after the attack and reopened on 7 March.

@Aljarmaqnetnews described the attack as an “airstrike.” @Tasnimnews attributed the strike to American and Israeli forces, and Tass used the term “US and Israeli strike.” It is not currently possible to determine which of these two forces carried out the attack, but as sources agree that a strike was indeed carried out, it has been graded a “likely strike.” Multiple sources report civilian harm, so this strike has been graded “fair.”