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JERUSALEM (AP) — It was the deadliest reported strike in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Most of the victims were children.In almost any other conflict, these haunting truths would be seared into national memory. Yet more than 120 days since at least one U.S. missile struck an Iranian primary school, there remains no final accounting of what happened.The Trump administration has yet to directly accept the blame or formally release findings of a Pentagon investigation into the bombing, even though the military possessed evidence almost immediately that the site of the school had been struck, a U.S. official with knowledge of the situation, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to discuss an ongoing investigation, told The Associated Press.The AP has reconstructed the story of the attack, beginning in the schoolyard on the morning of Feb. 28, drawing from open-source information, video footage, human rights reports and interviews with researchers and civilians inside and outside Iran to reveal previously unreported details about the bombing in Minab, including the diversity of children killed. Still, many details about the blast remain elusive, as a lack of information from the Pentagon and politicization of the attack by Iran’s theocracy have complicated independent reporting efforts. That has created an accountability vacuum, leaving the families of the victims without resolution. Among the mysteries remaining are the number of munitions that hit the school and a complete list of the dead. When asked last week about the incident, President Donald Trump said he hadn’t read the Pentagon’s report and had seen nothing to make him believe the U.S. had carried out the attack. “I don’t know that they’re ever going to solve that problem in terms of whose fault was it, because there were missiles flying all over the place,” he said. “I don’t think it was us.”Iran’s mission to the United Nations did not respond to a request for comment from the AP. Video evidence, interviews and other sources yield a fuller pictureThe reconstruction draws from interviews with U.S. officials, Iranian human rights workers, a resident of Minab, an international representative of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Union and researchers from major international rights groups. Several people who spoke to the AP were in direct contact with the families of victims and rescuers who rushed to the scene. Most requested anonymity for fear of retribution against them and those with whom they spoke. Sign up for Morning Wire: Our flagship newsletter breaks down the biggest headlines of the day. By checking this box, you agree to AP's Terms of Use and acknowledge that AP may collect and use your data pursuant to our Privacy Policy. Teachers called parents to pick up their kids. Then the bomb fellSkies over the city of Minab, located in southeastern Iran about 16 miles (25 km) from the Strait of Hormuz, were clear and bright on the morning of Saturday, Feb. 28, a school day in Iran. It was Ramadan.Students of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school, Farsi for “Good Tree,” jostled past the colorful murals lining the schoolyard and into the building. Boys and girls filtered into separate spaces with brightly painted desks.The school they entered was one of over 30 with the same name established to serve children from families closely tied to Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard or other state institutions, said Shiva Amelirad, the international union representative who also worked as a teacher in Iran for 18 years and has been in contact with people in Minab. Though most schools in Iran operate within guidelines proscribed by the Islamic Republic, the Shejareh Tayyebeh schools were more explicitly oriented toward reproducing and reinforcing the Guard’s worldview, she said, adding that children are civilians regardless of their family backgrounds, and “any attack targeting a school is unequivocally condemnable.”The school lay within the same walled compound as a Guard base, according to an AP assessment of satellite imagery and open-source mapping. It was once part of that neighboring base, before it was fenced off and converted over a decade ago. Though some of its pupils were the children of Guard officers working on the nearby base, others were local children from Minab, which is populated predominantly by people of the majority-Sunni Baluch ethnic minority who often face repression from the Iranian government, said the Balochistan Human Rights Group. Hundreds of students are believed to have been inside the building by the time teachers and administrators received the news that bombs had begun falling on Tehran around 9:40 a.m.Teachers and administrators thought it prudent to send the children home. They called parents on landline phones, summoning them for an early pickup, two people told the AP. A recently released report by Airwars, a London-based independent group that tracks recent conflicts, also found that parents were called to pick up their children. At 10:15 a.m., Iran’s state media sent out an advisory, closing schools across the country.One father, who lived a short distance away, went immediately to pick up his 10-year-old son, said a resident of Minab, who relayed the stories of several families to the AP. The AP verified details of the residents’ stories against available lists of the dead and rights groups’ chronologies of the day’s events. The father noticed his 6- and 7-year-old relatives among the students waiting for their parents, said the resident. He asked them if they’d like a ride home and they said no, that their own father was on the way.He left with his child and headed to the supermarket. Ten minutes later, he heard the explosions. Multiple munitions pummeled the compound, striking at least five buildings, according to an AP analysis of satellite imagery. Hundreds of pounds of explosives collapsed the school. A tiny arm, suspended in the rubbleThe father raced back to a scene of chaos, where onlookers gathered, screaming, as men pawed through smoking rubble to dig out bodies, according to video of the aftermath circulated by Iranian state media. Eventually, the father made out two burned figures he believes were those of his relatives, but he couldn’t be sure.People kept coming. One man from a nearby Sunni village arrived to search for his nephew after receiving a panicked call from the boy’s mother. In the rubble, he found her dead son.Rescuers found small backpacks and children’s drawings, colored pencils and worksheets. Gently suspended, a tiny arm lay in the wreckage. Men carried disfigured limbs and torsos to the local hospital, said the Balochistan Human Rights Group, whose staff spoke with two families of those killed. The AP has not been able to verify how many munitions specifically hit the school, but the attack had left flesh so mutilated that many body parts were unrecognizable.By the end of the day, doctors at the hospital estimated they had at least 108 bodies, but cautioned that it was likely an undercount, said the resident of Minab.By the next day, state media was saying around 150 had been killed. Soon, it was reporting a death toll of 168. ‘They called the kids martyrs’Three days after the bombing, state TV showed thousands of Iranians packing a Minab roundabout, where the crowds faced a podium and a large portrait of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the late founder of the Islamic Republic. The gathering might have been mistaken for a demonstration, if it were not a funeral. All the parents of victims, regardless of ethnicity or religion, had to participate, said the Minab resident. Most women in the crowd donned the black chador garment customary to the Islamic Republic, even though it’s not typically worn by Baluch people at funerals.Parents were told they’d be permitted to take their children’s bodies back to their villages and conduct their own observances, said the resident. In the end, though, many decided to bury their children together. In footage captured by drone cameras and circulated by state media, workers broke ground on an earthen lot, creating a grid of tiny, identical, unmarked graves.“The state media advocated a narrative based on IRGC interest,” said Amelirad. “You can tell because they called the kids martyrs.”The story grows harder to tellStrikes continued to ravage Iran, targeting more sites in its opening days than the start of recent U.S. or Israeli military campaigns, including in Gaza, an Airwars analysis found.Racing to document the ongoing bombardment, journalists and rights groups struggled to verify details from Minab. They had no access to the target site. Government restrictions in Iran prevented most foreign journalists from entering the country. The opening day of the war, Iran shut down the internet, making it nearly impossible to hear from ordinary civilians.As the war progressed and the Strait of Hormuz became a major battlefield, the situation in the province grew more tense, said the resident. All branches of the military were deployed heavily in the area. Families of the victims feared retribution for speaking out. People were reportedly being detained for trying to communicate with foreign media.That left Iran’s government in control of the messaging around the strike. Iran’s soccer team wore golden “#168” pins on their jackets upon their arrival at the FIFA World Cup.The Iranian team negotiating for a pause to the war with the U.S. named itself “Minab 168.” The children were depicted as animated Lego figures in viral videos made by pro-Iran groups trolling the U.S. “In the aftermath of the attack, Iranian authorities ... exploited the suffering of victims’ families and surviving children for propaganda purposes,” wrote Amnesty International in a March report investigating the deaths.Through it all, there remained no public list of the names of the dead.The Pentagon finds clues in archiveLocked out of Iran, researchers focused on the question of responsibility. Iran blamed the U.S. Trump cast doubt on American culpability and pointed the finger at Iran. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said only that the Pentagon was investigating.Internally, the U.S. military knew more than it initially let on. The clues were buried in their archives.When the news first surfaced, the U.S. military knew they had conducted strikes in the vicinity — though it took the military time to verify the Iranian claims that a school was struck and begin a formal investigation, said a U.S. official with knowledge of the situation, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing inquiry.It appears that while the building housing the school was identified as such by one analyst as early as seven years ago, that discovery was not sufficiently made known across different intelligence and military staffs and agencies, the U.S. official said.Ultimately, the building was not known among target developers as a school, revealing potential systematic shortfalls in the target analysis and review process, they said.One former Pentagon official, similarly speaking on condition of anonymity, said the bombing came as a natural result of changes made by the Trump administration to reduce staff to mitigate civilian harm and Hegseth’s emphasis on lethality.When Hegseth took charge, he slashed the size of an office called the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, created at the direction of Congress in late 2022. That stopped the office’s work on updating “no-strike lists,” which are lists of protected sites such as hospitals, schools, churches and mosques, that the Pentagon keeps, said Wes Bryant, who began working at the office in 2024 as the Branch Chief of Civil Harm Assessments.When he was working at the Pentagon, it was well known that the list was out-of-date, he said. The search for more answers from MinabIn the last weeks, researchers have made some progress. Airwars, the conflict research group, spent months combing through open-source information to verify the identity of victims. The group determined the names and identities of 157 of the dead, including 123 children, all 13 or younger, and 34 adults. Among the adults are 26 school staff members (one of whom was pregnant) and five parents — each of whom lost at least one child.The group puts the death toll between 157 and 168 and says between 95 and 111 people were injured. It’s unclear if the formal results of the military’s Minab investigation will be published. Much of the investigative work has been completed, but the U.S. military’s Central Command, which commissioned the investigation, is currently reviewing the findings.Findings from similar past investigations have been more timely. When a Hellfire missile killed 10 civilians in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 29, 2021, the Defense Department claimed responsibility and gave details on its operations in less than a month.When asked about the Minab investigation last week, Trump said, “I don’t know that they’re ever going to solve that problem.” Hegseth said the report would be divulged “when the appropriate time is right.”Some members of Congress still push for transparency. In a recent interview, Sen. Mike Rounds, a Republican from South Dakota and a member of the Armed Services and Intelligence committees, said Congress has not gotten enough information on the bombing and expected a full report. The issue “has not gone away,” he said.___Associated Press writers Konstantin Toropin, Mary Clare Jalonick and Lisa Mascaro in Washington, Sarah El Deeb in Beirut and Amir Hussein Rajdy in Cairo and Jamey Keaten in Geneva contributed to this report.

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SummaryIran has said 168 children were killed in strikeInvestigation could lead to disciplinary action, involves sworn statementsTrump initially blamed Iran, now says he is open to investigation resultsWASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Friday it has elevated the investigation into a devastating February 28 strike on an Iranian girls' school after media reports revealed the probe shows U.S. forces were likely responsible.Iran has said the strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh School killed 168 children. If U.S. fault is confirmed, ‌it would rank among the worst incidents of civilian deaths in decades of U.S. military strikes in the Middle East.The Reuters Iran Briefing newsletter keeps you informed with the latest developments and analysis of the Iran war. Sign up here.Reuters first reported the investigation's initial findings on March 5.Citing the seriousness of the matter, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth declined to comment on the preliminary finding of the investigation, saying: "We're not going to let reporting lead us or force our hand into indicating what happened."He said a higher-level investigation would be led by an unnamed U.S. general officer from outside of U.S. Central Command, which is overseeing operations against Iran. Such a move is typically taken by the U.S. military to ensure greater independence for investigators."The command investigation will take as long as necessary to address all the matters surrounding this incident," Hegseth told ⁠a press conference at the Pentagon.Iran's new supreme leader blamed the country's enemies for the school strike in his first message to the country on Thursday, without explicitly saying the U.S. was responsible.PROBE CAN BE USED FOR DISCIPLINARY ACTIONThree U.S. officials told Reuters the command investigation Hegseth referred to is an administrative probe known as a 15-6, which can become the basis for disciplinary action if warranted. It usually includes sworn statements or interviews with those involved. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to describe internal military processes.The head of U.S. Central Command, Admiral Brad Cooper, ordered the 15-6 probe last week after the initial review was completed. The outside officer was appointed on Thursday, one official said.The development underscores the serious concern about how to respond to possible U.S. responsibility for the tragedy and the need to comprehensively examine the incident."It signals a recognition that something went wrong and to try to understand what happened and why," said Annie Shiel, U.S. advocacy director with the Center for Civilians in Conflict.TRUMP INITIALLY BLAMED IRANIt remains unclear how U.S. forces could have struck the school. Preliminary findings suggest U.S. forces may have relied upon outdated targeting data ‌that apparently did ⁠not distinguish between the school and the adjoining Iranian military base in Minab, a town in southern Iran.Video and other evidence suggest the school was hit by a Tomahawk cruise missile, a powerful, precision-guided munition that few nations other than the U.S. possess.The investigation comes despite public comments by President Donald Trump initially doubting the possibility of U.S. involvement that stoked concern among some defense officials about whether he would be willing to accept blame.The president initially said, without offering evidence, that Iran may have attacked the school and suggested Tehran may have Tomahawk missiles, which military experts call extremely unlikely.Still, Trump on Monday said publicly he would "certainly" accept ⁠the results of the U.S. investigation: "Whatever the report shows, I'm willing to live with that report."A second U.S. official pointed to those remarks as evidence that Trump was moving toward accepting the preliminary investigation results. Further, the official said public discussion of the investigation had made it politically difficult for Trump to reject the findings once they are finalized.The official noted that a 15-6 investigation reflected the seriousness of the Trump administration's approach ⁠to the investigation because it would comprehensively examine what went wrong and how to correct those issues.SCHOOL'S ONLINE PRESENCEA Reuters visual investigation published on Thursday showed the Iranian school had a years-long, public online presence, including dozens of photos of the children and their activities.The Shajareh Tayyebeh School was one of 59 schools within the Persian Gulf Martyrs' Cultural Educational Institute, a network affiliated with the ⁠Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the military force that reports to Iran's supreme leader, according to archived copies of the network’s website.The school’s website includes photos of students gathered in the yard, which matched verified videos outside the building after the strike.Satellite imagery from mid-2015 shows the building was walled off from the Iranian military base and appears to have operated as a school since at least 2018, when the painted murals are first visible on its outer walls.Reporting by Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali; Editing by Don Durfee, Rod NickelOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tabPhil Stewart has reported from more than 60 countries, including Afghanistan, Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, China and South Sudan. 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GENEVA, March 17 (Reuters) - A U.N. inquiry has started investigating a fatal strike on a primary school on ‌the first day of U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran, one of its members told reporters on Tuesday.The attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh School consisted of two missile strikes in quick succession that killed 168 children, mostly ⁠girls, Iranian officials said in Geneva on Monday.The Reuters Iran Briefing newsletter keeps you informed with the latest developments and analysis of the Iran war. Sign up here.Reuters reported on March 5 that U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation. The Pentagon has since elevated the probe."We're at an early stage of that investigation," Max du Plessis, a member of the ‌U.N. ⁠Fact-Finding Mission on Iran, told a Geneva press conference, saying that it had credible reports backing Iran's death toll."It's clear to us that whatever happens in respect of such an event, ⁠given the innocent lives that have been lost, there is a critical need for such an investigation to be done and ⁠for an independent outcome to follow," he said.If U.S. fault is confirmed, it would rank among the worst ⁠incidents of civilian deaths in decades of U.S. military strikes in the Middle East.Reporting by Emma Farge; Additional reporting by Olivia Le Poidevin; Editing by Miranda MurrayOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab

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SummaryScores were killed at girls' school in southern IranCabinet officials say US would never target civiliansSchool located by Guards Corp facility, website showsMarch 5 (Reuters) - (This March 5 story has been republished to fix an image caption, with no changes to text)U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation, ‌two U.S. officials told Reuters.The Reuters Iran Briefing newsletter keeps you informed with the latest developments and analysis of the Iran war. Sign up here.Reuters was unable to determine more details about the investigation, including what evidence contributed to the tentative assessment, what type of munition was used, who was responsible or why the U.S. might have struck the school.U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday acknowledged the U.S. military was investigating the incident.The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military matters, did not rule out the possibility that new evidence could emerge that absolves the U.S. of responsibility and points to another responsible party in the incident.Reuters could not determine how much longer the investigation would last or what evidence U.S. investigators are seeking before the assessment can be completed.The girls' school ⁠in Minab, in southern Iran, was hit on Saturday during the first day of U.S. and Israeli attacks on the country. Iran's ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, Ali Bahreini, said the strike killed 150 students. Reuters could not independently confirm the death toll.According to archived copies of the school's official website, the school is adjacent to a compound operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the military force that reports to Iran's supreme leader.The Pentagon referred questions from Reuters to the U.S. military’s Central Command, whose spokesperson, Captain Timothy Hawkins, said: “It would be inappropriate to comment given the incident is under investigation.”The White House did not directly comment on the investigation, but press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement to Reuters, “While the Department of War is currently investigating this matter, the Iranian regime targets civilians and children, not the United States of America.”Asked about the incident during a news briefing on Wednesday, Hegseth said: “We’re investigating that. We, of course, never target civilian targets. But we’re taking a look and investigating that.”Item 1 of 4 A satellite image, annotated by Reuters, shows the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' school and other structures damaged after being struck, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Minab, Hormozgan Province, Iran March 4, 2026. 2026 Planet Labs PBC/Handout via REUTERS[1/4]A satellite image, annotated by Reuters, shows the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' school and other structures damaged after being struck, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Minab, Hormozgan Province, Iran March 4, 2026. 2026 Planet Labs PBC/Handout via REUTERS Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tabU.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Monday that the United States would not deliberately target a ‌school."The Department ⁠of War would be investigating that if that was our strike, and I would refer your question to them," Rubio said.SATELLITE IMAGES SUGGEST STRIKES FROM AIRIsraeli and U.S. forces have until now divided their attacks in Iran both geographically and by target type, a senior Israeli official and a source with direct knowledge of the joint planning said. While Israel was striking missile launch sites in western Iran, the United States was attacking such targets, as well as naval ones, in the south.Reuters shared satellite imagery and visuals of the aftermath of the Minab attack with N.R. Jenzen-Jones, director of Armament Research Services, a munitions ⁠research consultancy."Taken together, the satellite imagery and available videos suggest the school and adjacent IRGC compound were hit by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes with explosive munitions, most likely air-delivered types," Jenzen-Jones wrote in an email.He cautioned that it is difficult to be definitive about the type of munitions used in the ongoing conflict and said that to determine responsibility investigators would generally attempt to review munition remnants.The U.N. human ⁠rights office, without saying who it believed was responsible for the strike, called on Tuesday for an investigation."The onus is on the forces that carried out the attack to investigate it," U.N. human rights office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told a press briefing in Geneva.Images of the girls' funeral on Tuesday were shown on Iranian state television. Their small coffins were draped with Iranian flags ⁠and passed from a truck across a large crowd towards the grave site.Deliberately attacking a school or hospital or any other civilian structure would likely be a war crime under international humanitarian law.If a U.S. role were to be confirmed, the strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East.Reporting by Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali; Additional reporting by Maayan Lubell in Jerusalem and James Pearson in London; Editing by Craig Timberg, Don Durfee and Daniel WallisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tabPhil Stewart has reported from more than 60 countries, including Afghanistan, Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, China and South Sudan. An award-winning Washington-based national security reporter, Phil has appeared on NPR, PBS NewsHour, Fox News and other programs and moderated national security events, including at the Reagan National Defense Forum and the German Marshall Fund. He is a recipient of the Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence and the Joe Galloway Award.National security correspondent focusing on the Pentagon in Washington D.C. Reports on U.S. military activity and operations throughout the world and the impact that they have. Has reported from over two dozen countries to include Iraq, Afghanistan, and much of the Middle East, Asia and Europe. From Karachi, Pakistan.

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Military investigation hasn’t definitively concluded that American forces caused what appears to be deadliest strike of warUpdated March 6, 2026 3:28 pm ETU.S. military investigators think American forces likely were responsible for a strike that killed dozens of children at a girls elementary school in Iran, a U.S. official said. The investigation hasn’t reached a final conclusion, the official said.Shajarah Tayyebeh Girls’ School, in the town of Minab near the Strait of Hormuz, was hit Saturday on the first day of the U.S.-Israeli air campaign in what appears to be the deadliest strike of the war. Iran said more than 160 people were killed, including many children, a figure that couldn’t be independently verified.

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Outdated targeting data may have resulted in a mistaken missile strike, according to the ongoing military investigation, which undercuts President Trump’s assertion that Iran could be to blame.March 11, 2026An ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the preliminary findings.The Feb. 28 strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was the result of a targeting mistake by the U.S. military, which was conducting strikes on an adjacent Iranian base of which the school building was formerly a part, the preliminary investigation found. Officers at U.S. Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, people briefed on the investigation said.Officials emphasized that the findings are preliminary and that there are important unanswered questions about why the outdated information had not been double checked.Striking a school full of children is sure to be recorded as one of the most devastating single military errors in recent decades. Iranian officials have said the death toll was at least 175 people, most of them children.While the overall finding was largely expected — the United States is the only country involved in the conflict that uses Tomahawk missiles — it has already cast a shadow on the U.S. military operation in Iran.President Trump’s attempts to sidestep the blame for the strike have also already complicated the inquiry, leaving officials who have reviewed the findings showing U.S. culpability expressing unease. The people interviewed for this story spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing the sensitive nature of the ongoing investigation and Mr. Trump’s assertion at one point that Iran, not the United States, was responsible.“As The New York Times acknowledges in its own reporting, the investigation is still ongoing,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said in a statement.Asked about this article as he left the White House on Wednesday for a trip to promote his economic agenda in Ohio and Kentucky, Mr. Trump replied, “I don’t know about that.”People briefed on the investigation said many questions were yet to be answered around why outdated information was used and who failed to verify the data.Still, the error has not surprised current and former officials.The school, in the town of Minab, is on the same block as buildings used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Navy, a top target of the U.S. military strikes. The site of the school was originally part of the base. Officials briefed on the inquiry said the building was not always used as a school, though it is not clear precisely when the school opened on the site.A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016.Satellite imagery reviewed by The Times showed that watchtowers that once stood near the building had been removed, three public entrances were opened to the school, ground was cleared and play areas including a sports field were painted on asphalt, and walls were painted blue and pink.The “target coding” provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the military intelligence agency that helps develop targets, labeled the school building as a military target when it was passed to Central Command, the military headquarters overseeing the war, according to people briefed on the preliminary findings of the investigation.Investigators do not yet fully understand how the outdated data was sent to Central Command or whether the Defense Intelligence Agency had updated information.Military targeting is very complex and involves multiple agencies. Many officers would have been responsible for verifying that the data is correct, and officers at Central Command are responsible for checking the information they receive from the Defense Intelligence Agency or another intelligence agency. But in a fast-moving situation, like the opening days of a war, information is sometimes not verified.In addition to the Defense Intelligence Agency and Central Command, investigators are examining the work of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, known as the N.G.A., which provides and examines satellite imagery of potential targets.U.S. officials and others emphasized that the investigation was ongoing and there was more to learn, according to people briefed on the inquiry. Officials from Central Command declined to comment. Officials from the Defense Intelligence Agency referred questions to the Pentagon, which declined to comment, saying the incident was under investigation. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment.The Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency have dozens, even hundreds, of analysts at combatant commands who work with military operational planners and intelligence offices to develop targets.When the Defense Intelligence Agency’s targeting data is older, intelligence officers are expected to use imagery or data from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to update and verify the target.While Mr. Trump has made targeting Iran’s navy a top priority of the war to prevent it from interfering with global commerce in the region, historically it has not been a top priority of the Defense Intelligence Agency, which has focused more on Iran’s missiles and other priorities like China and North Korea.Officials conducting the investigation have examined whether any artificial intelligence models, data crunching programs or other technical intelligence gathering means were to blame for the mistaken targeting of the school, according to U.S. officials.While Claude, the large language model created by Anthropic, does not directly create targets, it works with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Maven Smart System and other software to identify points of interest for military intelligence officers.But officials said the error was unlikely to have been the result of new technology. Instead, they said, it likely reflected a common — but sometimes devastating — human error in wartime.The top line finding of the internal military investigation mirrors a growing body of public evidence that clearly suggests U.S. responsibility.Satellite imagery, social media posts and verified videos assembled by The Times visual investigation team indicate that the school was severely damaged by a precision strike that occurred around the same time as attacks on the naval base. A Times analysis showed that base was hit again within around two hours of the first strikes.A video uploaded Sunday by Iran’s semiofficial Mehr News Agency and verified by The Times also shows a Tomahawk cruise missile striking the naval base beside the school in Minab on Feb. 28.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other administration officials have declined to comment on the strike, other than to say it is under investigation. Despite that, the president has tried at times to put the blame on Iran.“In my opinion, based on what I’ve seen, that was done by Iran,” Mr. Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Saturday, as Mr. Hegseth stood beside him, adding: “They’re very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions. They have no accuracy whatsoever. It was done by Iran.”On Monday, a Times reporter asked Mr. Trump why he was the only official in his administration blaming Iran. “Because I just don’t know enough about it,” Mr. Trump answered, asserting incorrectly that Iran might also have Tomahawk missiles but adding that he would accept the results of the inquiry into what happened.Although most presidents might refrain from commenting or couch their statements while an investigation is underway, Mr. Trump has not hesitated to weigh in, and has not fully backed down even as evidence has mounted of U.S. culpability.On Tuesday, Ms. Leavitt, the White House press secretary, reiterated that Mr. Trump would accept the findings of the investigation.While the investigation into the school is not complete, the use of old data evoked the biggest misstep of the Kosovo war.In 1999, old, outdated maps and poor tradecraft led the C.I.A. to provide erroneous targeting data to the military, resulting in an airstrike on the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade that killed three Chinese citizens. The C.I.A. wrongly assessed that the building was the headquarters of a Yugoslav arms agency.“Database maintenance is one of the basic elements of our intelligence effort, but it is also one that has suffered in recent years as our work force has been spread thin,” George J. Tenet, the C.I.A. director at the time, told a congressional committee in 1999.Military planners assumed the intelligence agency had verified the site and ordered the strike.Julian E.

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During a fiery hearing in US Congress, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was repeatedly pressed over how much it cost US taxpayers to strike an Iranian school in Minab which killed 120 children. Democratic Representative Ro Khanna asked Hegseth to explain the attack and the wider financial impact of the US war on Iran, estimated at $25B so far.

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Full Committee Hearing: U.S. Military Posture and National Security Challenges in the Greater Middle East and Africa Tuesday, May 19, 2026 | 10:00 | 2118 Rayburn The hearing will examine DoD policies, programs, and activities in the Greater Middle East and Africa in preparation for the FY27 NDAA. Members will assess the threats to U.S. national security in the region and evaluate the effectiveness of the Department’s use of the resources provided by Congress to defend our nation. Opening Statement: Chairman Mike Rogers Witnesses: The Honorable Daniel Zimmerman Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Office of the Secretary of Defense Admiral Brad Cooper, USN Commander U.S. Central Command General Dagvin Anderson, USAF Commander U.S. Africa Command Livestream: Related Files 2026-05-19 Cooper Testimony 2026-05-19 Anderson Testimony 2026-05-19 Zimmerman Testimony

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faced nearly six hours of questioning from House lawmakers for the first time since the Trump administration launched the war against Iran, which Democrats have contested as a costly conflict of choice waged without congressional approval. He’ll return to the Capitol tomorrow to face the Senate. President Donald Trump, meanwhile, told Axios on Wednesday that he’s rejecting Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for a lift of the U.S. blockade — a plan that would postpone discussions of Iran’s nuclear program.What to know:Until now, Hegseth has avoided public questioning from lawmakers about the war, although he and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Caine, have held televised Pentagon briefings. Democrats quickly pivoted to the ballooning costs of the Iran war, the huge drawdown of critical U.S. munitions and the bombing of an elementary school that killed children. Some lawmakers have also questioned how prepared the military was to shoot down swarms of Iranian drones, some of which penetrated U.S. defenses and killed or injured American troops.The chief financial official for the Pentagon told lawmakers that the estimated cost of the war with Iran is $25 billion so far, adding that most of the expense has been on munitions. The military has also spent money on running the operations and equipment replacement, he said. The administration’s 2027 military budget proposal would boost defense spending to a historic $1.5 trillion.Republicans have said they will keep faith in Trump’s wartime leadership, for now, citing Iran’s nuclear program, the potential for talks to resume and the high stakes of withdrawal. Still, GOP lawmakers are eager for the conflict to end, and some are eyeing future votes that could become an important test for the president if the war drags on. USS Ford aircraft carrier heading home after record-breaking deployment, AP sources say The world’s largest aircraft carrier had been at sea for more than 300 days, including participating in the war against Iran and capture of former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.The Ford will be leaving the Middle East in the coming days and returning to its home port in Virginia in mid-May, according to two U.S. officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to detail sensitive military movements.The ship broke the U.S. record this month for the longest post-Vietnam War deployment, a nearly 10-month span after leaving Naval Station Norfolk in June. Trump says US is weighing reducing American troop presence in Germany The president leveled the new threat that he may reduce the U.S. military presence in Germany as tensions grow with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz over the Iran war.“The United States is studying and reviewing the possible reduction of Troops in Germany, with a determination to be made over the next short period of time,” Trump said in a social media post.Merz on Monday said the U.S. was being “humiliated” by the Iranian leadership and criticized Washington’s lack of strategy in the war. Trump attacked Merz in a social media post Tuesday, saying the German chancellor “thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon” and “doesn’t know what he’s talking about!”In his first term, Trump also moved to cut U.S. troops in Germany because he said it spent too little on defense. JUST IN: Trump says US is weighing reducing American troop presence in Germany as tensions grow with Merz over Iran war Araghchi works the phones In the absence of substantive negotiations, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has been busy shoring up moral and rhetorical support in his country’s staring contest with America and Israel.He spent Wednesday conducting a string of phone calls with the foreign ministers of India, Kenya and Poland, along with the president of the International Committee of the Red Cross Mirjana Spoljaric and Nabih Berri, the speaker of the Lebanese parliament.Official reports of these chats contained few details, but the Iranian government account of the meeting with Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said Araghchi “informed his Indian counterpart about the situation in the region and the consequences of the continued illegal actions of the United States in threatening the freedom of international navigation, as well as the latest developments related to the negotiations to end the imposed war against Iran.”Earlier this week, Araghchi conducted a whirlwind diplomatic tour, visiting Oman and Pakistan on Sunday then Moscow on Monday for a sit-down with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Vance acknowledges he’s questioned missile stockpiles in the wake of the Iran war The vice president, in an interview airing Wednesday on Fox News Channel, was responding to a report in The Atlantic that said he, in private, has repeatedly questioned the Pentagon’s depiction of the war and the depletion of U.S. missile stockpiles.Vance was dismissive of the reporting but said, “Of course I’m concerned about, you know, our readiness because that’s my job to be concerned.”He praised the military, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Dan Caine, but said, “It’s of course my job to ask these questions. It’s of course my job to make sure that we’re on top of every issue.” Hegseth hearing concludes after nearly six hours Hegseth is exiting the House Armed Services Committee after a nearly six-hour hearing.The hearing showed the partisan divide on Capitol Hill over the war with Iran. As Democrats questioned him on the economic costs and strategy of the war, Hegseth fired back that lawmakers were being “feckless” in their questioning. Republicans mostly stood behind the defense secretary, although a few questioned his reasoning for removing several top officials.“At the end of the day, the Iran war is the biggest issue that we face,” said Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the committee.Hegseth will be back on Capitol Hill tomorrow for a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee. Hegseth says he ordered officers removed from promotion list Hegseth told lawmakers that he ordered the names of two female and two Black officers from a promotion list.Hegseth was asked the question because Army Secretary Dan Driscoll previously testified before a congressional committee that he refused to strike the officers’ names because of their exemplary service.Hegseth, who has been criticized for the firings of top military leaders, said that he did it.“Every officer serves at the pleasure of the president,” Hegseth said. “And when they need to be removed in order to ensure we have the right leadership in those services, I will make those calls, regardless of what you might say from the dais.” Hegseth says Pentagon released Ukraine aid funds Hegseth told lawmakers that, as of yesterday, the Pentagon is allowing $400 million of Ukraine aid to be spent after months of delay.The admission comes a day after Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell called out the Pentagon for withholding the funds in an editorial with the Washington Post.“The Ukraine aid we passed months ago is now collecting dust at the Pentagon,” McConnell wrote in the Post.Jay Hurst, the Pentagon comptroller, told lawmakers the funds can now be spent, but when the aid will actually reach Ukraine “depends on what they buy with the money.”“We’re going to take the advice of the [European Command] commander” on how to use the funds best, Hurst added. Iran–India diplomatic call follows Araghchi’s Russia visit Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Indian counterpart Subrahmanyam Jaishankar held a telephone conversation discussing rising regional tensions and diplomatic efforts, Araghchi’s official Telegram channel said in a post.Araghchi said insecurity in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz stems from what he described as aggressive actions by the United States and Israel, adding they should be held accountable for global security and economic consequences. He also warned of the impact of U.S. actions on freedom of international navigation.During his recent Moscow visit, Araghchi said Washington was seeking talks after failing to achieve its objectives. His regional tour included Pakistan and Oman, amid attempts to revive stalled negotiations between Tehran and Washington. 2 people killed in a clash with police in Iran An armed group in the Gach Berin area in the city of Iranshahr opened fire upon encountering a police patrol, prompting officers to respond with heavy gunfire that stopped the group’s vehicle and killed two people, according to provincial police, as reported by the semi-official news agencies, Tasnim News Agency and Fars News Agency. Both Iranian outlets are close to state institutions.Two others were wounded in the exchange, the police said.The police added that a Kalashnikov rifle and ammunition were recovered from the vehicle after it was searched.Iranshahr is in southeastern Sistan and Baluchestan province, bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan. The province has been the site of occasional deadly clashes involving militant groups, armed drug smugglers and Iranian security forces. It is one of the least developed provinces of Iran. Hegseth deflects questions on cost of gas by pointing to California Americans saw the largest monthly jump in gas prices in six decades during the war with Iran. Yet, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth refused to engage on that issue and instead pointed to typically higher gas prices in California.Democrats on the House Armed Services Committee have asked Hegseth several times about the rise in gas prices. When Rep. Maggie Goodlander asked whether Hegseth knew the current nationwide average price for a gallon of gas, he responded that it’s “much higher in California.”Republicans routinely lambast California’s higher gas prices that result from higher state taxes and environmental regulations in the Democratic-led state.Goodlander responded that the current average is $4.23 a gallon and argued the defense secretary is ignoring the “impacts of this war on the American taxpayer.” Trump cheers UAE plan to exit OPEC as ‘great’ The president said the oil-rich nation’s decision to leave OPEC and OPEC+ on May 1 could help calm the volatile oil market shaken by the Iran war.“I think ultimately it’s a good thing for getting the price of gas down, getting oil down, getting everything down,” Trump said in an exchange with reporters in the Oval Office. JUST IN: Trump cheers UAE plan to exit OPEC as ‘great,’ says move could help calm volatile oil market shaken by Iran war. Trump says Putin offered to help US handle Iran’s enriched uranium as part of potential nuclear deal Trump said Putin, during a phone call Wednesday, renewed his offer for Russia to serve as a third country that could deal with Iran’s 970 pounds of enriched uranium that the U.S. leader is demanding Tehran must surrender.“He told me he’d like to be involved with the enrichment — if he can help us get it,” Trump said Putin told him. “I said, ‘I’d much rather have you be involved with ending the war with Ukraine.’ To me, that would be more important.” Top military advisor for Trump says troops should always follow lawful orders The House Armed Services Committee hearing touched on a debate over how U.S. military members should evaluate whether orders they have received are lawful and should be followed under military protocol, especially as the military has carried out strikes on boats allegedly carrying narcotics.The question, which came as the hearing reached over four hours, was asked by Rep. Chris Deluzio, a Democrat who was part of a group of lawmakers investigated by the FBI last year after releasing a video reminding U.S. military members to defy illegal orders. Deluzio asked the Joint Chiefs of Staff what commanding officers should do if an enemy is trying to surrender.Caine declined to discuss the issue in detail, saying that it would take him into a “partisan place,” but added that “officers and enlisted service members always follow lawful orders. There’s a checklist for them to do that.” Life of imprisoned Iranian human rights activist in ‘imminent danger,’ foundation says Dangerously high blood pressure and losing about 44 pounds (20 kilograms) rapidly have placed Narges Mohammadi’s life in “imminent danger,” according to a report by her foundation.Mohammadi, an Iranian human rights activist and Nobel laureate, has been imprisoned for several periods since 2016 over her opposition to the death penalty and compulsory veiling. She is back in prison after being sentenced on Feb. 8 to 7 1/2 years on charges including collusion against state security and propaganda. The foundation said she suffers from persistent chest pain. She also experienced high blood pressure over the past three days, without responding to medication.Despite confirmation from Iran’s medical examiner that she needs at least one month of specialized cardiac care, Tehran prosecutors have refused to grant a temporary suspension of her sentence, the report said. It added that her legal team, after a recent visit, said her condition has reached a critical point. Congressman blasts Hegseth over troop deaths, says secretary should resign Democratic Rep. Pat Ryan criticized Hegseth over the deaths of six American soldiers who were stationed in Kuwait and killed by an Iranian drone.Ryan pressed Hegseth on whether intelligence showed the location was high on Iran’s target list and was indefensible from aerial attack.“Yet you sent our soldiers from the 103d Sustainment Command there anyway. Is that true or false?” Ryan asked.Hegseth said the military took proactive measures to protect American forces and that the soldiers who died are remembered every day.Ryan quoted survivors of the attack who told CBS that they weren’t prepared to defend against a drone attack. The congressman also accused Hegseth of downplaying what happened and said he should resign. Ultra-orthodox protests against draft law ripple across Israel Ultra-orthodox Jews are protesting Israel’s draft law throughout Israel this week, including in Jerusalem, where police used stun grenades to disperse demonstrations on Wednesday.The draft remains a political powder keg in Israel. The Ultra-Orthodox make up 13% of the population and oppose enlistment because they believe studying full-time in seminaries is their most important duty. Courts have demanded the government enforce a law mandating conscription. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — facing elections this year — relies on ultra-Orthodox parties to maintain his coalition. 1 of 4 | Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men block a road during a protest against army recruitment in Jerusalem, Wednesday, April 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) The arrest of yeshiva students accused of draft dodging kindled this week’s demonstrations, including in Ashkelon, where ultra-Orthodox protesters broke into a military commander’s yard Tuesday, prompting condemnation from Netanyahu.“It is unacceptable what they are doing to yeshiva students as if they were the worst criminals,” protestor Menahem Adri said in Jerusalem. “All we want is to sit and study Torah.” Kremlin warns of ‘dire consequences’ if hostilities against Iran resume Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the Iran war in a phone call with Trump on Wednesday, with the Kremlin stressing the “dire consequences” if hostilities resumed.Speaking to journalists, presidential adviser Yuri Ushakov said that Putin had told the U.S. president that a ground operation on Iranian territory would be completely “unacceptable and dangerous.” Hegseth refuses to say why Army general was fired in tense exchange Houlahan pressed Hegseth on why he fired the Army’s top uniformed officer, Gen. Randy George.Hegseth refused to answer and didn’t deny the Democratic representative’s suggestion that he fired George via text.Hegseth said he wouldn’t talk about the removal out of respect.“However, I will note it’s very difficult to change the culture of a department that’s been destroyed by the wrong perspectives,” Hegseth said. “So, Gen. George destroyed a culture?” Houlahan asked.Hegseth said the department “needed new leadership.”The congresswoman responded: “You have no way of explaining why you fired one of the most decorated and remarkable men who’s ever served this nation?”“We needed new leadership,” Hegseth said. “That’s my answer.”“And so your answer is a very immature way of responding to my request,” Houlahan said. Hegseth hearing takes a 10-minute break The testimony before the House Armed Services Committee has been going on for about three hours. Democrats who urged troops to defy illegal orders face Hegseth Four House Democrats are getting their first opportunity to publicly question Hegseth after they were part of a group of Democratic lawmakers who the FBI investigated after releasing a social media video last year that urged U.S. service members to follow military protocol and defy any illegal orders.Reps. Chrissy Houlahan, Jason Crow, Chris Deluzio and Maggie Goodlander, who all previously served in the military or intelligence agencies, now sit on the House Armed Services Committee.Houlahan, who was the first Democrat in the group to question Hegseth, reminded the defense secretary that “Democrats, even Democrats in Congress, are patriots as well” and “admire and love our uniformed services.”Still, they confronted Hegseth with tough questions about how long the U.S. would be at war with Iran and how he has led the Pentagon. Hegseth refuses to say how much longer the Iran war could last or cost Democratic Rep. Chrissy Houlahan asked Hegseth, “How many more months, just by order of magnitude, do you think that you’re going to need to be able to conclude operations successfully? And how many more billions of dollars do you think you’re going to ask this body for?”Hegseth refused to answer the question, saying that the U.S. military would never tip its hand to an adversary about how long it would be committed to the mission. Trump says he’s rejecting Iran’s latest proposal, keeping blockade in place The president told Axios on Wednesday that he’s rejecting Iran’s proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for a lift of the U.S. blockade. Iran’s proposal, shared with U.S. leaders this week, sought to postpone discussions around Iran’s nuclear program.Trump told Axios he doesn’t want to lift the blockade until Iran addresses its nuclear ambitions.“The blockade is somewhat more effective than the bombing,” Trump said. “And it is going to be worse for them. They can’t have a nuclear weapon.”The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Hegseth faces criticism over firings of US military leaders Republican Congressman Don Bacon criticized the defense secretary over his ousting of admirals, generals and other top Pentagon officials. They’ve included Navy Secretary John Phelan and the Army’s top uniformed officer, Gen. Randy George, and several others.“We had a huge bipartisan majority in here that had confidence in the Army chief of staff and the Secretary of Navy,” Bacon said. “And I would just point out … you may have the constitutional right to do these things, but it doesn’t make it right or wise.” Deadly Iran school strike still under investigation Hegseth says that two months after a deadly strike on an Iranian elementary school killed more than 165 people, including many children, the incident remains under investigation.That answer came after California Democrat Ro Khanna pressed the defense secretary on the costs associated with the strike.Hegseth replied that “that unfortunate situation remains under investigation” but that he “wouldn’t tie a cost to that.”Hegseth told reporters last month that the military assigned a general from outside of U.S. Central Command to investigate the strike. Still, he refused questions about what led to it while arguing that the U.S. does not target civilians.Those comments came just days after The Associated Press reported that there was growing evidence that pointed to U.S. culpability for the Feb. 28 strike, which hit a school adjacent to a Revolutionary Guard base in Minab, Iran. Hegseth responds to economic costs of war with Iran The defense secretary faced intense questions from Rep. Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, about what American households would have to pay due to the economic repercussions of the war with Iran.“Do you know how much it will cost Americans in terms of their increased cost in gas and food over the next year because of the Iran war?” Khanna asked.Pete Hegseth retorted, “I would simply ask you what the cost is of an Iranian nuclear bomb.”Khanna then accused Hegseth and the Trump administration of failing to live up to the president’s campaign promises of lowering the cost of living for Americans. He argued that Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz would cause American households to pay thousands more dollars for gas and food.“I’m sad for all the people who voted for Trump. I’m sad for them because you betrayed them,” Khanna said. Hegseth says it’s unfair to call Iran war a quagmire The defense secretary pushed back on Democratic criticisms that the Trump administration has led Americans into a “quagmire,” pointing out that the conflict is only two months old and asserting it has had great success against the Islamic Republic. The U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan dragged on for years, he said.Trump said in early March that operations are likely to last four to five weeks but that he was prepared “to go far longer than that.”The U.S. and Iran do appear to be locked in a stalemate. Trump seems unlikely to accept Tehran’s latest offer to reopen the strait if the U.S. ends the war, lifts its sea blockade and postpones nuclear talks. The Iranians seem unwilling to give up their nuclear ambitions before ending the conflict. Hegseth says US military considered that Iran might close the Strait of Hormuz He said the Pentagon “looked at all aspects” of the risk that Iran would blockade the strait. The claim came after Rep. Seth Moulton, a Democrat from Massachusetts, asked Hegseth if he considered “Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz winning.”“I would say the blockade that we hold that doesn’t allow anything to come in or out of Iranian ports,” Hegseth replied. So “we’ve blockaded their blockade,” Moulton said — that’s “like saying tag, you’re it.”Caine declined to say if the risk of Iran closing the critical waterway was considered, but said the military always offers “a full range of military options that are carefully considered with the associated risks.”The heated exchange was the latest between Hegseth and Democrats who have used the hearing to ask broader questions on the strategy behind the war in Iran and the Trump administration’s use of the military. Meanwhile, House Republicans have largely used their time to ask very specific or detailed questions about the Pentagon’s budget and spending. As TotalEnergies reports huge profits, protesters call for windfall taxes on fossil fuel companies Climate activists protested outside a TotalEnergies petrol station in Paris on Wednesday after the French energy giant reported $5.4 billion in adjusted first-quarter profit, up 29% from a year earlier, as it “captured higher prices” despite production challenges due to the war in Iran.The 350.org group said about 30 activists from several environmental organizations unfurled a banner reading, “TotalEnergies profits, we foot the bill.” The group said war-related price spikes have cost French consumers and businesses more than $2.3 billion so far, and urged the French government to “show political courage” by permanently taxing excess fossil fuel profits.“While families watch their bills skyrocket, TotalEnergies posts some of its best financial results without even paying its fair share of taxes,” 350.org country manager Fanny Petitbon said in a statement. “We are witnessing an obscene transfer of wealth: the war enriches shareholders as it impoverishes citizens.” Hegseth claims Americans support Iran war despite polling The hearing has resumed, with a heated exchange between Democratic Rep. John Garamendi and Hegseth. The secretary said the American people have supported the war’s mission of depriving Iran of a nuclear weapon, “despite your loose talk and words like quagmire.”While an AP-NORC poll from March found that about two-thirds of U.S. adults said it’s “extremely” or “very” important to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, other polling suggests that most Americans disapprove of how Trump is handling the issue of Iran more broadly.Garamendi had lambasted Hegseth and Trump for the Iran war, calling it “a political and economic disaster at every level.” 1.24 million projected to face acute insecurity in Lebanon, UN report says That’s nearly one in four of the population analyzed, according to the latest Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis released by Lebanon’s Agriculture Ministry with the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Program.The figures are projections and it remains unclear how the estimates were reached. The report notes that the current crisis follows seven years of compounded economic collapse and conflict.“Compounded shocks are undermining agricultural livelihoods and impacting food security, highlighting the urgent need for emergency agricultural assistance to support farmers,” said Nora Ourabah Haddad, FAO Representative in Lebanon. US energy secretary says ‘good on them’ after UAE announced it’s leaving OPEC The United Arab Emirates is “a dynamic rising nation, a great ally of the United States,” Chris Wright said at a press conference in Croatia. “But they are a sovereign nation, they’ve invested massively in their own energy infrastructure, and apparently they want more flexibility about how to deploy that infrastructure.”Both UAE and Saudi Arabia have been “great partners in investing hugely to power not just their nations and the region, but they are major energy suppliers to the whole globe,” Wright added. “A lot of our standard of living is massively benefited by the investments of the UAE and Saudi Arabia and Qatar and Kuwait and many of the nations in that region.”Wright expressed confidence that as the oil flow starts to be unimpeded again after this conflict, “everyone that has spare oil production capacity will lean in and produce as much energy as they can.” EU commissioner sees ‘no actual evidence’ of fuel shortages due to blockade of Strait of Hormuz Transport Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas said Wednesday commercial jet fuel stocks are markets are “under pressure in certain parts of Europe” and that the 27-member bloc maintains emergency fuel reserves that can be utilized “only if necessary.”Tzitzikostas didn’t elaborate on when the EU will need to tap those emergency reserves, or offer any figures regarding current stocks.But he said the EU is enacting a series of measures to dampen the impact of the blockade, including working to secure alternative fuel supplies from the U.S. and to establish a fuel observatory to monitor fuel supply and stock levels. Joint Staff chairman says Trump is making ‘tradeoffs’ in focusing military on Iran Trump ordered three aircraft carriers into the Middle East — a number not seen since 2003. When asked why the U.S. military withdrew resources from Asia after identifying China as a top threat, the president’s top military advisor told lawmakers that Trump has to make “tradeoffs” when deploying troops.“I’m confident that the president always carefully considers these readiness tradeoffs and I’m sure he has done so in this case based on the military options that we’ve presented with the associated risks and advice,” Caine said.Rep. Joe Courtney, a Democrat, fired back by noting that the administration’s own National Defense Strategy released shortly before Trump launched the war said Iran was “weaker and more vulnerable than it has been in decades.” Putting that many troops to confront them, at the expense of other threats “does not, in my opinion, common sense,” Courtney said. Hegseth engages in tense exchange over Iran’s nuclear program Hegseth told Democratic Rep. Adam Smith that Iran’s nuclear facilities were obliterated in a 2025 attack by the U.S., prompting Smith to question the Trump administration’s reasoning for starting the Iran war.“We had to start this war, you just said 60 days ago, because the nuclear weapon was an imminent threat,” Smith said. “Now you’re saying that it was completely obliterated?”Hegseth responded by saying that Iran “had not given up their nuclear ambitions” and still had thousands of missiles.Smith said the war “left us at exactly the same place we were before.” Committee takes a break The committee is taking a brief recess to vote, which is expected to take about 20-25 minutes. Top defense official says Iran war costs are estimated at $25 billion so far During a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee, Jules Hurst III, the acting undersecretary of war for finances, said most of the expense has been on munitions, but the military has also spent money on running the operations and equipment replacement.“We will formulate a supplemental through the White House that will come to Congress once we have a full assessment of the cost of the conflict,” Hurst added. JUST IN: Iran war has cost an estimated $25 billion to date, mostly on munitions, Pentagon official tells Congress in hearing. Caine says his goal is to tell civilian leaders what they need to hear The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told the committee in his opening statement that he wants to emulate Gen. George C. Marshall, who served during World War II and later helped Europe recover from the conflict.“His commitment to civilian control and military and nonpartisan military remains a constant standard in something I borrow from often,” Caine said. “I strive daily to emulate his candor, delivering the facts to our leaders and telling them always what they need to hear, not always what they want to hear.” Hegseth slams Iran war critics as ‘biggest adversary we face’ “The biggest challenge, the biggest adversary, we face at this point are the reckless, feckless and defeatist words of congressional Democrats and some Republicans,” the U.S. defense secretary told lawmakers on the House Armed Services Committee.Rep. Adam Smith, the ranking Democrat, told Hegseth that he finds it “absurd” to claim that the Pentagon’s strategy is built on realism when the war in Iran seems like “the exact opposite of realism.”Smith also said Hegseth needs to explain what the Trump administration’s goals were for the conflict.“We’ve seen the cost, and the cost is very, very high,” he said.Hegseth argued that the historically high Pentagon budget request will maintain “the world’s most powerful and capable military as we grapple with a complex threat environment across multiple theaters.” Democratic lawmakers calls on Hegseth to answer where the Iran war is going Rep. Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, told Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that he finds it “absurd” to claim that the Pentagon’s strategy is built on realism.“We started a full scale war in the Middle East against Iran to try to reshape the Middle East,” Smith said, adding that was the exact opposite of realism.Smith said Hegseth needs to provide an explanation of what the Trump administration’s goals are in the Middle East.“Where is this going? What is the plan to achieve our objectives? We’ve seen the cost, and the cost is very, very high,” he said. Republican House armed services chair praises Trump’s historic military budget Mike Rogers, the chair of the House Armed Services Committee, praised Trump’s $1.5 trillion plan to fund the military in 2027, stating that it “accounts for the true cost of American deterrence.”“This will enable us to truly catch up in our modernization efforts by quickly fielding new munitions, aircraft, ships, land, space and autonomous systems to replenish and expand our arsenal,” Rogers said. Pete Hegseth hearing is underway A House hearing with the defense secretary has started with a packed hearing room and many other people crowded into the hallway outside.“Let the public in,” several people chanted outside as lawmakers found their seats. They also yelled at Hegseth as he passed them in the hallway.The hearing is officially to discuss the Pentagon’s proposed budget, but it will also be the first time that Hegseth publicly answers questions on the Iran war on Capitol Hill. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, is seated beside the defense secretary. A deal between the US and Iran will take ‘political will’ Grossi said the IAEA participated in U.S.-Iran nuclear talks in February, but not the ceasefire negotiations mediated by Pakistan. He said the agency has been in discussions separately with the U.S. and informally with Iran.The latest proposal from Iran would postpone discussions on its nuclear program but end its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz if the U.S. lifts its blockade and ends the war.Grossi described that as an indication Iran wants to sequence how it confronts the objectives mandated by the U.S., including curbing its ballistic missile program and dealing with its proxies Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza and the Houthis in Yemen.“Where the frustration kicks in, apparently for both, is that they do not seem to come to agreement, or be at an eye-to-eye level on what needs to be done first, or on how,” he said. IAEA has talked to Russia and others about taking Iran’s highly enriched uranium The U.N. nuclear watchdog believes a large percentage of Iran’s highly enriched uranium was stored at Isfahan when Israel and the U.S. bombarded Iran in June 2025, “and it has been there ever since,” Grossi said.Grossi said the IAEA has discussed with Russia and others the possibility of sending Iran’s highly enriched uranium out of the country — a complex operation that would require either a political agreement or a major U.S. military operation in hostile territory.“What’s going to be important is that that material leaves Iran” or is blended to reduce its enrichment, he said. Iran’s highly enriched uranium likely is at the Isfahan site, the UN nuclear chief tells the AP The majority of Iran’s highly enriched uranium is likely still at its Isfahan nuclear complex, which was bombarded by U.S. airstrikes last year and faced less intense attacks in this year’s U.S.-Israeli war, the head of the U.N. nuclear agency told The Associated Press. Rafael Grossi said in an interview on Tuesday that the International Atomic Energy Agency has satellite images showing the effects of the latest U.S.-Israeli airstrikes against Iran and that “we continue to get information.”Iran has 440.9 kilograms (972 pounds) of uranium that is enriched up to 60% purity, a short, technical step from weapons-grade levels of 90%, according to the agency. Grossi has said the IAEA believes roughly 200 kilograms (about 440 pounds) is stored in tunnels at the Isfahan site. The stockpile could be weaponized into as many as 10 nuclear bombs, Grossi told the AP last year. Moscow praises OPEC as stabilizing force Speaking to journalists Wednesday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that Russia had no plans to leave OPEC+ and praised the organization’s work in stabilizing energy markets.“This is a very important area of work and it is especially crucial at the current moment, when energy markets are, to put it mildly, in turmoil,” he said.However, he stressed that Moscow respected the UAE’s decision. “We welcome statements from Abu Dhabi that the Emirates will continue to take a responsible position in the energy market,” Peskov said. Merz says relationship with Trump is ‘as good as ever’ German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said his relationship with President Donald Trump remains “as good as ever,” but that he had “had doubts from the very beginning about what was started there with the war in Iran.”“We are suffering considerably in Germany and in Europe from the consequences of, for example, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz,” Merz said on Wednesday. This hurts energy supplies and the economy. “And in that regard, I urge that this conflict be resolved.”Trump had earlier attacked Merz on his Truth Social platform: “The Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a Nuclear Weapon. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about!” Trump wrote.Trump was responding to Merz’s comments on Monday, when the German Chancellor said the U.S. was being “humiliated” by the Iranian leadership and criticized Washington’s lack of strategy in the war. Trump says Iran ‘better get smart soon’ U.S. President Donald Trump criticized Iran’s handling of nuclear negotiations, saying it has failed to move toward a deal.“Iran can’t get their act together. They don’t know how to sign a nonnuclear deal. They better get smart soon!” he wrote on Truth Social.Trump’s post featured an AI-generated image of himself holding a weapon amid explosions with the caption “NO MORE MR. NICE GUY.”Tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program rose before the war broke out, with Trump repeatedly vowing to ensure the country can’t build a nuclear weapon. Iran long has insisted its nuclear program is peaceful, though it enriched uranium to nearly weapons-grade levels.

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A preliminary US military investigation has reportedly determined that Washington was responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school in February that killed scores of children.According to the New York Times, quoting unnamed US officials and others familiar with the initial findings, the investigation has concluded that the strike on 28 February on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was the result of a targeting mistake by the US military planners.Iranian officials had put put death toll from the attack as at least 175 people, the majority of them children, in one of the worst and most shocking American strikes producing civilian fatalities in recent memory.The findings appear to confirm assertions by Tehran, which had produced video footage of the US missile strike and fragments of US-made missile parts, despite Donald Trump’s efforts to suggest Iran had hit the building.According to the report, the inquiry – which has yet to be completed – has found that officers at US Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using obsolete data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency.While independent analysis of the strike had pointed strongly to US culpability, the Trump administration has continued with a policy of evasion around the attack that hit the school in the town of Minab close to buildings used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) naval forces.On Saturday, Trump declared that Iran was responsible for the school bombing. “In my opinion, based on what I’ve seen, that was done by Iran … They’re very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions. They have no accuracy whatsoever. It was done by Iran.” The president presented no evidence for his claim.His assertion has not been repeated by spokespeople for the US military, who have said only that they are “investigating” the bombing.But the Trump administration’s efforts to avoid responsibility for the attack continued on Wednesday, withthe Pentagon saying in a five-word statement to the Guardian: “The incident is under investigation.”An official at the US military’s Central Command said: “It would be inappropriate to comment given the incident is under investigation.”Historic satellite imagery shows that while the school’s building was once part of the wider IRGC complex, it has been walled off from the barracks for at least nine years. It has had clear visual indications that it is an educational facility, including colourful murals on the walls and small sports playing fields – both visible in some satellite imagery.There is no indication that the school was a military-use building at the time of the strike. Its location, however, provides a plausible reason why the US or Israel may have selected targets in that area.A number of videos of the bombed school, which have been verified by the Guardian, were shared on Iranian social media after the explosion.At least four show what is clearly the same site from different angles and approaches, with shared motifs such as the school’s distinctive, colourful murals.One of those videos shows the rubble of the destroyed school and pans to show thick smoke rising over the fence – from the direction of the IRGC base. The video was one of the first indications that the bomb that hit the school was one of a series of strikes that also targeted the IRGC complex next to it.On 8 March, Iranian state media Mehr News Agency released a video of a missile hitting a location in Minab. The video was geolocated by the investigative collective Bellingcat. Geolocation is the process of cross-referencing physical features shown in an image or video (such as buildings, billboards, signage or mountains) with verified images of a site, such as satellite images, to confirm where it was captured.Bellingcat was able to match buildings, water towers, trees and roads from the video with satellite images of the Minab site, to locate what angle it was filmed from and where the missile landed. It determined that the missile had struck the IRGC compound next to the school.The missile shown in the video has been identified by munitions experts as a Tomahawk missile.“Given the belligerents, that indicates it is a US strike, as Israel is not known to possess Tomahawk missiles,” said NR Jenzen-Jones, the director of Armament Research Services, an intelligence consultancy that provides munitions analysis to governments and NGOs. The US is the only country involved in the Iran war to have this weapon.He added: “Despite various claims circulating online, the munition in question is clearly not an Iranian Soumar missile: the Soumar has a distinctive external engine located towards the rear, on the underside of the munition.” Additional reporting by Joseph Gedeon in Washington

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.@_annoaam explains how Sky News verified the identities of the 152 killed - including 120 students and 26 teachers - when a US missile struck an Iranian school on the first day of the war. Scroll for full investigation @BarbaraGSerra | https://trib.al/VJCrUkZ

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Thousands of civilians have been killed across the Middle East since the United States and Israel launched a surprise attack against Iran on Feb. 28. An exact number has been difficult to ascertain due to restricted access to affected areas, but figures compiled from government statements, health ministries, and human rights reports indicated that at least 2,100 civilians have died as a result of the war—the vast majority by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes. In Iran, the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) has documented 1,701 civilian deaths, as part of a broader total of more than 3,400 people killed since the start of the conflict.Across Lebanon, the Lebanese health ministry said that the death toll from Israeli strikes has risen to 2,496 people since March 2. It did not provide a complete breakdown between civilians and Hezbollah fighters, but said that nearly a quarter of those killed were women, children and medics, underscoring the heavy civilian toll from the fighting.Among the totals across the region are at least 503 women: 251 in Iran, 248 in Lebanon, and four in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, who died from Iranian missile fire, according to rights groups and health authorities.At least 413 children have been killed in the Iran war, including 248 in Iran and 165 in Lebanon, with no confirmed child fatalities reported in other affected countries.Nine journalists have also been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon since fighting escalated in early March. Medical workers and aid groups have described overwhelmed hospitals in Beirut and other cities, where mass casualty surges have strained emergency rooms and depleted medical supplies during repeated waves of airstrikes. Iranian missile and drone fire has also killed dozens of civilians across the region. Some 23 people were killed in Israel by Iran and Hezbollah strikes, according to Israel's ambulance service. At least 10 have been killed in the United Arab Emirates, among them several migrant workers. Numerous deaths due to Iranian fire have been reported across other Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia, Oman and Bahrain. Overall, hostilities have eased after Iran and the United States agreed to a two-week cease-fire on April 8, but the casualty figures continue to rise as authorities and aid groups update their counts across the region.Here is what we know about just a few of the civilians killed during this conflict. Hassan Badawi, 31, a paramedic in southern LebanonHassan Badawi, a Lebanese Red Cross paramedic, was killed in an Israeli strike on Sunday, April 12, in the town of Beit Yahoun in southern Lebanon. Badawi, who had been working with the Red Cross since 2012, was reportedly carrying a patient out of an ambulance on a stretcher when an Israeli strike injured him. The father of two later died from his wounds.He was one of 91 health workers killed since the start of Israel's deadly bombardment and invasion of Lebanon.“Hassan carried out his humanitarian duty,” his father, Ali Badawi, told Al Jazeera. “In every war, he used to be among the first to go, but at a cost,” his mother, Ahlam Badawi, added. “This time, God took him from me.”Al Jazeera reported that Badawi called his wife on the eve of his death, telling her that bombing was “everywhere,” but that he could not leave the wounded behind.When asked about Badawi’s death, the Israeli military told reporters that it had targeted “a Hezbollah terrorist who operated adjacent to IDF soldiers in the Bint Jbeil area in southern Lebanon. Reports were received regarding a Red Cross team injured in the strike.”Raha Zerai, 7, a schoolgirl in Minab, IranRaha Zerai was among the 165 people killed when a suspected U.S. air strike hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in Minab, in Iran’s Hormozgan province, in the opening barrage of the war on Feb. 28. She was found in the rubble by her father, Reza Zerai, 47, in the minutes after the attack. “She was silly, full of energy, always laughing, singing, making up little poems,” Bastami, Raha’s aunt, told Foreign Policy. “Together we were always up to mischief. She loved school, and especially her teacher, and she kept telling us she wanted to study to become a dentist.”She had thick curly hair and a contagious laugh, according to relatives interviewed by Foreign Policy. Her room was decorated with Hello Kitty wallpaper and she carried a unicorn-patterned backpack.Several young gymnasts were also among the dead, according to Iran’s Gymnastics Federation and state media, including Reza Habashi, 7, Arina Arab-Kish, Atena Ahmadzadeh, Makan Nasiri, and Araz Ahmadi-Zadeh. According to Human Rights Watch, the school was on the interior border of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Naval Forces compound, but the school is walled off and in a separate compound.Shiva Amelirad, the international representative of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations, told TIME that the school was announced as closed when the war began, “but the time between the announcement of the school’s closure and the moment of the explosion was very short, and many families had not yet arrived to pick up their children.”“The principals and teachers stayed to get the children out. Most of them were killed,” Amelirad said. Saleh Ahmed, 55, a migrant worker in the UAEJust one month into the war, Human Rights Watch warned that migrant workers in Gulf countries face “additional risks” to their lives because of the conflict. Drivers, delivery workers, security guards, chefs, and cleaners have been required to continue working despite not being able to afford basic necessities and amid heightened risks.The majority of civilian deaths across the Gulf during the war have been migrant workers. Among them is Saleh Ahmed, a Bangladeshi national, who was killed in Ajman, UAE, on the first day of war by debris that fell from an intercepted Iranian missile, according to the Bangladeshi Foreign Ministry. He was delivering water when he was struck. Ahmed was the sole breadwinner of his household and a hardworking man, his son Abdul Haque told Sky News in early March, just days after his father’s death. He had been living in the UAE for 25 years, sending his earnings home to his wife and four children in Bangladesh every week.“At the beginning, my father really struggled and did a lot of different work…he washed cars, cut grass, he did everything,” he said. “And for the last seven or eight years, he had a good position at the water company. He did a good job; it was in the service of people, delivering drinking water to people.”Ghada Dayekh, 59, a journalist in Tyre, LebanonRadio journalist Ghada Dayekh was killed on April 8 by an Israeli airstrike that hit her apartment building in Tyre, a city in southern Lebanon, completely destroying it. Dayekh worked for the privately owned radio station Sawt al-Farah since it began in the 1980s, the station said in a tribute to her, and she had been on air for 37 years. She hosted a morning show that discussed current events, sports and culture happening in Tyre, where she lived. She had been working from home since the radio station’s headquarters had been destroyed at the beginning of the conflict. Alwan Charafeddine, owner and director of the station, said she was “full of life and loved to joke,” according to local news outlet L’Orient Le Jour. At least nine journalists have been killed in Israeli strikes in Lebanon since fighting escalated in early March. On April 22, Amal Khalil, a reporter with the daily Al-Akhbar newspaper, was killed in an Israeli airstrike after being targeted numerous times over several hours, and despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said that a drone strike initially hit a car she was traveling behind with a colleague, forcing them to take cover in a nearby building. Rescue workers tried to reach her for several hours but were fired upon by Israeli forces, the ministry said. Zeinab Faraj, a photographer who was accompanying Khalil and barely survived the strikes, told the UAE-based The National newspaper that they were stuck for hours in the building, whole severely injured from the first strike: “I saw Amal like that, burning, telling me, 'Zeinab, I’m burning,'" Ms Faraj said. “She told me: ‘Don’t fall asleep, don’t leave me’”. A separate airstrike then hit the building in al-Tiri where she was taking shelter, and her body was found hours later beneath the rubble.Israel denied that it prevented rescue workers from reaching the scene, or that it deliberately targeted civilians, and said the incident was under review. But Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun said after Khalil’s death that Israel “aimed at concealing the truth of its aggressive acts against Lebanon.”Three of the journalists were killed on March 28 when an Israeli airstrike hit a clearly marked press vehicle traveling near the southern town of Jezzine, according to witnesses and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).Those killed included Ali Shoaib, a correspondent for Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar TV, Fatima Ftouni of Al-Mayadeen TV, and her brother Mohamad Ftouni, a freelance photojournalist. The Israeli military acknowledged carrying out the strike that killed the journalists, claiming that Shoaib and "Mohammad Fatouni" [sic] were members of Hezbollah’s military wing. "For many years, Shaib [sic] operated to aid Hezbollah in various ways while working as a journalist, and in 2020, he officially joined Hezbollah’s military wing," an Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson told TIME. "The IDF takes all operationally feasible measures to mitigate harm to civilians, including journalists. The IDF has never, and will never, deliberately target journalists as such," the spokesperson added. It provided no evidence to support its claims that Shoaib and Ftouni were Hezbollah combatants. Two other journalists were killed earlier in the month, including Mohammad Sherri in a strike in central Beirut on March 18, and Hussain Hamood, who was killed while filming in the southern city of Nabatieh on March 25. Helma Ahmadizadeh, 10, a volleyball player in Lamerd, Iran Helma Ahmadizadeh, 10, was killed in a strike that hit a sports facility in the town of Lamerd while it was being used by a women’s volleyball team, killing at least 21 people.Her death, along with at least four other children killed in the attack, was first reported by Negin Bagheri, an Iranian journalist and women’s rights activist based in Tehran.Bagheri interviewed Helma’s uncle, who said that she survived the initial explosion and walked into the ambulance herself, telling her coach, "It feels like something went into my body." Helma later died in the hospital due to a piece of shrapnel that pierced her heart. She was killed alongside her friend Elaheh, who was in the grade above her, and who also played volleyball.U.S. Central Command released a statement, claiming that Iran may have been responsible for the strike in Lamerd, adding that “U.S. forces do not target civilians, unlike the Iranian regime, which has attacked civilian locations in neighboring countries more than 300 times.”However, both the BBC and the New York Times have reported on evidence that the missile used was a Precision Strike Missile manufactured by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. military.Yaakov Briton, 16, Avigail, 15, and Sarah, 13, siblings in Beit Shemesh, Israel. Nine people were killed and 65 were hospitalized when an Iranian missile struck in the city of Beit Shemesh on March 1, destroying a synagogue and several homes. It was the deadliest attack against Israel since the war began. Among the victims were three children from the same family. Yaakov Briton, 16, Avigail, 15, and Sarah, 13, were all killed near the bomb shelter beneath a synagogue they had gone to seek refuge in. It took their mother, Tamar Biton, 24 hours to identify their bodies. She survived along with her husband and one other child, four-year-old Rachel. Tamar said Yaakov was a natural-born leader in an interview with the Associated Press. He studied at a Jewish seminary and was known for encouraging his friends to be more observant. Avigail was smart and thoughtful, she told the AP, and Sarah was “always helping around the house.” Yitzhak Biton, the children’s father, said he hopes to open a Jewish seminary in their honor. “They sanctified God’s name with their life, and also after their death, they continue sanctifying his name,” he told the AP.

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📸 Martyrs of Minab School🔺️Martyr Niayesh Salehi📡 @Mehrnews

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📹 Two students who survived the bombing of Minab School became assistants to the Jamkaran Mosque🔺During the trip of the servants of the holy shrine of Jamkaran Mosque to meet the families of the martyrs of the Shajare Tayyiba School of Minab, two students who survived the brutal bombing of this school in the American-Zionist attack were introduced as the teenage assistants to the holy shrine of Jamkaran Mosque.📡 @Mehrnews

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📹 دو دانش آموز بازمانده از بمباران مدرسه میناب خادم یار مسجد جمکران شدند🔺در جریان سفر خادمان آستان مقدس مسجد جمکران برای دیدار با خانواده‌های شهدای مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب، دو دانش‌آموز بازمانده از بمباران وحشیانه این مدرسه در حمله آمریکایی_ صهیونی به‌عنوان خادم‌یاران نوجوان آستان مقدس مسجد جمکران معرفی شدند.📡 @Mehrnews

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Two more bodies of martyrs of Shajare Tayyiba Minab School identified Chief Justice of Hormozgan: 🔹 Unfortunately, as a result of the terrorist attack by the American-Zionist enemy on Shajare Tayyiba Elementary School in Minab city, and considering the scale of the crime and the use of a large number of missiles by the aggressor and cruel enemy, which led to the unjust martyrdom of students, teachers, and parents of this school, it was not possible to verify and identify the holy bodies of three of the martyrs using conventional methods, and accordingly, various scientific and technical methods, including DNA testing, were used in this regard. 🔹 By carrying out legal procedures and taking samples from the holy bodies of the martyrs and their respected relatives and survivors, fortunately, with the receipt of the DNA test results, the holy bodies of two of the martyrs were identified. 🔹 According to experts, these two identified bodies belong to the martyr Mohammad Taha Jafari (student) and the martyr Razieh Zamani (school teacher). 🔹 As soon as the results are announced, the necessary instructions have been issued to the forensic medicine to issue burial permits and deliver the holy bodies of the martyrs to their families for funeral and burial. 🔹 The condition of the holy body of the remaining martyr, Martyr Makan Nasiri, is also being examined by the forensic medicine and the results of the investigation are being summarized, and the results will be announced later. @TasnimNews

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۲ پیکر دیگر از شهدای مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب شناسایی شدندرئیس‌کل دادگستری هرمزگان: 🔹 متأسفانه در نتیجه حمله تروریستی دشمن آمریکایی- صهیونیستی به دبستان شجره طیبه شهرستان میناب و با توجه به حجم جنایت و استفاده از تعداد زیادی موشک توسط دشمن متجاوز و سفاک که منجر به شهادت مظلومانه دانش آموزان، معلمین و اولیا این مدرسه شد، احراز هویت و شناسایی پیکر مطهر سه نفر از شهدا از روش‌های معمول ممکن نبود و بر این اساس در این خصوص از روش‌های علمی و فنی مختلف از جمله آزمایش DNA استفاده شد. 🔹 با انجام مراحل قانونی و نمونه‌برداری از پیکر مطهر شهدا و بستگان و بازماندگان معزز آنها، خوشبختانه با وصول پاسخ آزمایش DNA، هویت پیکر مطهر ۲ نفر از شهدا شناسایی شد. 🔹 بنابر اعلام کارشناسان، این ۲ پیکر شناسایی شده متعلق به شهید والامقام محمد طا‌ها جعفری (دانش آموز) و شهیده والامقام راضیه زمانی (معلم مدرسه) هستند.🔹 به محض اعلام نتیجه، دستورات لازم به پزشکی قانونی برای صدور جواز دفن و تحویل پیکر‌های مطهر شهدا به خانواده‌های معظم آنها برای تشییع و تدفین صادر شده است. 🔹 وضعیت پیکر مطهر یک شهید والامقام باقیمانده به نام شهید ماکان نصیری نیز توسط پزشکی قانونی در حال بررسی و جمع‌بندی نتایج تحقیقات است و نتایج آن متعاقباً اطلاع‌رسانی خواهد شد.@TasnimNews

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✅Girls' school in Minab targeted by the Zionist regime🔹The deputy political, security and social affairs officer of the Hormozgan governor said: In today's attacks by the Zionist regime on Minab city, a girls' school was targeted, and five students have been martyred so far. Up-to-the-minute news about the foreign enemy's aggression against the country and Iran's crushing response in the following link:🌐 https://nournews.ir/n/278375🆔 @Nournews_IR ✅Girls' school in Minab targeted by the Zionist regime🔹The deputy political, security and social affairs officer of the Hormozgan governor said: In today's attacks by the Zionist regime on Minab city, a girls' school was targeted, and five students have been martyred so far. Up-to-the-minute news about the foreign enemy's aggression against the country and Iran's crushing response in the following link:🌐 https://nournews.ir/n/278375🆔 @Nournews_IR

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✅دبستان دخترانه در میناب هدف رژیم صهیونیستی قرار گرفت🔹معاون سیاسی، امنیتی و اجتماعی استاندار هرمزگان گفت: در حملات امروز رژیم صهیونیستی به شهرستان میناب یک دبستان دخترانه هدف قرار گرفت و تاکنون پنج نفر از دانش‌آموزان به شهادت رسیده‌اند.اخبار لحظه به لحظه از تجاوز دشمن خارجی به کشور و پاسخ کوبنده ایران در لینک زیر :🌐 https://nournews.ir/n/278375🆔 @Nournews_IR ✅دبستان دخترانه در میناب هدف رژیم صهیونیستی قرار گرفت🔹معاون سیاسی، امنیتی و اجتماعی استاندار هرمزگان گفت: در حملات امروز رژیم صهیونیستی به شهرستان میناب یک دبستان دخترانه هدف قرار گرفت و تاکنون پنج نفر از دانش‌آموزان به شهادت رسیده‌اند.اخبار لحظه به لحظه از تجاوز دشمن خارجی به کشور و پاسخ کوبنده ایران در لینک زیر :🌐 https://nournews.ir/n/278375🆔 @Nournews_IR

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Israeli missile attack on girls' primary school in Minab ▪️5 students were martyred Deputy Political, Security and Social Affairs Governor of Hormozgan: ‌🔹In today's attacks by the Zionist regime on Minab city, a girls' primary school was directly targeted. ‌🔹"Shajre Tayyiba" elementary school in… Israeli missile attack on girls' primary school in Minab ▪️5 students were martyred Deputy Political, Security and Social Affairs Governor of Hormozgan: ‌🔹In today's attacks by the Zionist regime on Minab city, a girls' primary school was directly targeted. ‌🔹"Shajre Tayyiba" elementary school in…

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حمله موشکی اسرائیل به دبستان دخترانه در میناب ▪️۵ دانش‌آموز به شهادت رسیدند ‌معاون سیاسی، امنیتی و اجتماعی استاندار هرمزگان: ‌🔹در حملات امروز رژیم صهیونیستی به شهرستان میناب یک دبستان دخترانه به صورت مستقیم هدف قرار گرفت. ‌🔹مدرسه ابتدایی «شجره طیبه» در… حمله موشکی اسرائیل به دبستان دخترانه در میناب ▪️۵ دانش‌آموز به شهادت رسیدند ‌معاون سیاسی، امنیتی و اجتماعی استاندار هرمزگان: ‌🔹در حملات امروز رژیم صهیونیستی به شهرستان میناب یک دبستان دخترانه به صورت مستقیم هدف قرار گرفت. ‌🔹مدرسه ابتدایی «شجره طیبه» در…

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36 girls martyred in the US attack on a school in Iranian city of Minab Follow http://t.me/presstv

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iribnews

28 Feb 2026

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Update | The number of martyrs in Minab Girls' Primary School has reached 40 as of 14:45 🔹 48 students are also injured. @iribnews Update | The number of martyrs in Minab Girls' Primary School has reached 40 as of 14:45 🔹 48 students are also injured. @iribnews

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تکمیلی | شهدای دبستان دخترانه میناب تا ساعت 14:45 به 40 نفر رسید 🔹 48 دانش آموز نیز مجروح هستند. @iribnews تکمیلی | شهدای دبستان دخترانه میناب تا ساعت 14:45 به 40 نفر رسید 🔹 48 دانش آموز نیز مجروح هستند. @iribnews

Tasnimnews

28 Feb 2026

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51 students killed in Israeli attack on girls' school 🔹Minab Governor: 51 students have been killed and 60 others injured in an Israeli missile attack on a girls' school in the city this morning. @TasnimNews 51 students killed in Israeli attack on girls' school 🔹Minab Governor: 51 students have been killed and 60 others injured in an Israeli missile attack on a girls' school in the city this morning. @TasnimNews

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شهادت ۵۱ دانش‌آموز در حمله اسرائیل به مدرسه دخترانه 🔹فرماندار میناب: در حمله موشکی صبح امروز اسرائیل به یک دبستان دخترانه این شهرستان تاکنون ۵۱ ‌دانش‌آموز به شهادت رسیده و ۶۰ دانش‌آموز مجروح شده‌اند. @TasnimNews شهادت ۵۱ دانش‌آموز در حمله اسرائیل به مدرسه دخترانه 🔹فرماندار میناب: در حمله موشکی صبح امروز اسرائیل به یک دبستان دخترانه این شهرستان تاکنون ۵۱ ‌دانش‌آموز به شهادت رسیده و ۶۰ دانش‌آموز مجروح شده‌اند. @TasnimNews

akhbarefori

28 Feb 2026

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♦️Pictures of the bodies of the martyrs of Trump's war crimes in Minab@AkhbareFori ♦️Pictures of the bodies of the martyrs of Trump's war crimes in Minab@AkhbareFori

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♦️تصاویری از پیکر شهدای جنایت جنگیِ ترامپ در میناب@AkhbareFori ♦️تصاویری از پیکر شهدای جنایت جنگیِ ترامپ در میناب@AkhbareFori

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akhbarefori

28 Feb 2026

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85 innocent children...@AkhbareFori 85 innocent children...@AkhbareFori

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۸۵ طفل معصوم...@AkhbareFori ۸۵ طفل معصوم...@AkhbareFori

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akhbarefori

28 Feb 2026

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♦️ Pictures of the bodies of the martyrs of the criminal attack by the US and the Zionist regime on Minab🔹Contains very heartbreaking images@AkhbareFori ♦️ Pictures of the bodies of the martyrs of the criminal attack by the US and the Zionist regime on Minab🔹Contains very heartbreaking images@AkhbareFori

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♦️ تصاویری از پیکر شهدای حملۀ جنایتکارانۀ آمریکا و رژیم صهیونیستی به میناب🔹حاوی تصاویر بسیار دلخراش@AkhbareFori ♦️ تصاویری از پیکر شهدای حملۀ جنایتکارانۀ آمریکا و رژیم صهیونیستی به میناب🔹حاوی تصاویر بسیار دلخراش@AkhbareFori

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akhbarefori

28 Feb 2026

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♦️ Pictures of the bodies of the martyrs of the criminal attack by the US and the Zionist regime on Minab🔹Contains very heartbreaking images@AkhbareFori ♦️ Pictures of the bodies of the martyrs of the criminal attack by the US and the Zionist regime on Minab🔹Contains very heartbreaking images@AkhbareFori

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♦️ تصاویری از پیکر شهدای حملۀ جنایتکارانۀ آمریکا و رژیم صهیونیستی به میناب🔹حاوی تصاویر بسیار دلخراش@AkhbareFori ♦️ تصاویری از پیکر شهدای حملۀ جنایتکارانۀ آمریکا و رژیم صهیونیستی به میناب🔹حاوی تصاویر بسیار دلخراش@AkhbareFori

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akhbarefori

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♦️The number of martyrs in the attack on Minab Elementary School has reached 115 people🔹The special governor of Minab County said: The number of martyrs in the Zionist regime's attack on the girls' elementary school in this county has reached 115 martyrs as of 30:00 AM today, Sunday/IRNA#Hormozgan_News in cyberspace 👇@akhbare_hormozgan ♦️The number of martyrs in the attack on Minab Elementary School has reached 115 people🔹The special governor of Minab County said: The number of martyrs in the Zionist regime's attack on the girls' elementary school in this county has reached 115 martyrs as of 30:00 AM today, Sunday/IRNA#Hormozgan_News in cyberspace 👇@akhbare_hormozgan

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♦️تعداد شهدای حمله به دبستان میناب به ۱۱۵ نفر رسید🔹فرماندار ویژه شهرستان میناب گفت: تعداد شهدای حمله رژیم صهیونیستی به دبستان دخترانه این شهرستان تا ساعت ۳۰ دقیقه بامداد امروز، یکشنبه به ۱۱۵ شهید رسیده است/ ایرنا#اخبار_هرمزگان در فضای مجازی 👇@akhbare_hormozgan ♦️تعداد شهدای حمله به دبستان میناب به ۱۱۵ نفر رسید🔹فرماندار ویژه شهرستان میناب گفت: تعداد شهدای حمله رژیم صهیونیستی به دبستان دخترانه این شهرستان تا ساعت ۳۰ دقیقه بامداد امروز، یکشنبه به ۱۱۵ شهید رسیده است/ ایرنا#اخبار_هرمزگان در فضای مجازی 👇@akhbare_hormozgan

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akhbarefori

1 Mar 2026

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🔹149 students martyred in the brutal attacks of arrogance against Iran. Sadeghi, head of the Information and Public Relations Center of the Ministry of Education: 🔹 So far, 149 students have been martyred in the terrorist and aggressive attacks of the Zionist regime and the United States against the Islamic Iran, in the ultimate sense of injustice and innocence. 🔹 Also, during the Zionist military aggression, 110 students have been injured and transferred to medical centers. / IRNA@AkhbareFori | Link 🔹149 students martyred in the brutal attacks of arrogance against Iran. Sadeghi, head of the Information and Public Relations Center of the Ministry of Education: 🔹 So far, 149 students have been martyred in the terrorist and aggressive attacks of the Zionist regime and the United States against the Islamic Iran, in the ultimate sense of injustice and innocence. 🔹 Also, during the Zionist military aggression, 110 students have been injured and transferred to medical centers. / IRNA@AkhbareFori | Link

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🔹۱۴۹ دانش‌آموز در حملات وحشیانه استکبار علیه ایران به شهادت رسیدندصادقی رئیس مرکز اطلاع رسانی و روابط عمومی وزارت آموزش و پرورش:🔹 که تاکنون ۱۴۹ نفر از دانش‌آموزان در جریان حملات تروریستی و متجاوزانه رژیم صهیونیستی و امریکا علیه ایران اسلامی در نهایت مظلومیت و بیگناهی به شهادت رسیدند.🔹همچنین در جریان تجاوز نظامی صهیونیست‌ها، ۱۱۰ دانش‌آموز نیز دچار مصدومیت شده و به مراکز درمانی انتقال یافته‌اند./ ایرنا@AkhbareFori | Link 🔹۱۴۹ دانش‌آموز در حملات وحشیانه استکبار علیه ایران به شهادت رسیدندصادقی رئیس مرکز اطلاع رسانی و روابط عمومی وزارت آموزش و پرورش:🔹 که تاکنون ۱۴۹ نفر از دانش‌آموزان در جریان حملات تروریستی و متجاوزانه رژیم صهیونیستی و امریکا علیه ایران اسلامی در نهایت مظلومیت و بیگناهی به شهادت رسیدند.🔹همچنین در جریان تجاوز نظامی صهیونیست‌ها، ۱۱۰ دانش‌آموز نیز دچار مصدومیت شده و به مراکز درمانی انتقال یافته‌اند./ ایرنا@AkhbareFori | Link

akhbarefori

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🔹Picture of the martyred Baloch student Amir Qasemzaie 🔹The martyred student Amir Qasemzaie, who was martyred in the brutal US attack on a school in Minab, is from the Sib and Soran counties of Sistan and Baluchestan.@AkhbareFori | Link 🔹Picture of the martyred Baloch student Amir Qasemzaie 🔹The martyred student Amir Qasemzaie, who was martyred in the brutal US attack on a school in Minab, is from the Sib and Soran counties of Sistan and Baluchestan.@AkhbareFori | Link

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🔹تصویر دانش‌آموز شهید بلوچ امیر قاسم‌زایی 🔹دانش‌آموز شهید امیر قاسم‌زایی که در حمله ددمنشانه آمریکا به یک مدرسه در میناب شهید شده بود از اهالی شهرستان سیب و سوران سیستان و بلوچستان است.@AkhbareFori | Link 🔹تصویر دانش‌آموز شهید بلوچ امیر قاسم‌زایی 🔹دانش‌آموز شهید امیر قاسم‌زایی که در حمله ددمنشانه آمریکا به یک مدرسه در میناب شهید شده بود از اهالی شهرستان سیب و سوران سیستان و بلوچستان است.@AkhbareFori | Link

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ntabrizy

28 Feb 2026

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Geolocation of the Minab school strike via Knowledge, Awareness 27.109896450256, 57.08475927079382 @GeoConfirmed https://t.me/daneshagahi/4290…

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Geolocation of the Minab school strike via دانش، آگاهی 27.109896450256, 57.08475927079382 @GeoConfirmed https://t.me/daneshagahi/4290…

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TV Hamshahri

2 Mar 2026

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🎥 A picture of the girls from Shajare Tayyiba Elementary School in Minab, who were all killed by America and Israel

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🎥 تصویری از دختران دبستان شجره طیبه در میناب که توسط آمریکا و اسرائیل همگی به ش🌹ادت رسیدند

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akhbarefori

2 Mar 2026

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🔹Names of student martyrs in MinabMohammad Radmehr, governor of Minab city, announced the end of the investigation into the student martyrs in Minab:🔹With the completion of the rubble removal at Shajreh Tayyiba School, the holy bodies of 165 martyrs were recovered from under the rubble./ Tasnim#Hormozgan_News in cyberspace 👇@akhbare_hormozgan 🔹Names of student martyrs in MinabMohammad Radmehr, governor of Minab city, announced the end of the investigation into the student martyrs in Minab:🔹With the completion of the rubble removal at Shajreh Tayyiba School, the holy bodies of 165 martyrs were recovered from under the rubble./ Tasnim#Hormozgan_News in cyberspace 👇@akhbare_hormozgan

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🔹اسامی شهدای دانش آموز در مینابمحمد رادمهر ‌فرماندار شهرستان میناب با اعلام پایان تفحص شهدای دانش‌آموز در میناب:🔹با پایان آواربرداری در مدرسهٔ شجرهٔ طیبه، پیکرهای مطهر ۱۶۵ شهید از زیر آوار خارج شد./ تسنیم#اخبار_هرمزگان در فضای مجازی 👇@akhbare_hormozgan 🔹اسامی شهدای دانش آموز در مینابمحمد رادمهر ‌فرماندار شهرستان میناب با اعلام پایان تفحص شهدای دانش‌آموز در میناب:🔹با پایان آواربرداری در مدرسهٔ شجرهٔ طیبه، پیکرهای مطهر ۱۶۵ شهید از زیر آوار خارج شد./ تسنیم#اخبار_هرمزگان در فضای مجازی 👇@akhbare_hormozgan

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Nournews_ir

3 Mar 2026

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📸The first images of the martyred students of Minabakhbar, moment by moment news of the foreign enemy's aggression against the country and Iran's crushing response in the link below: 🌐 https://NourNews.ir/n/278917🆔 @Nournews_IR 📸The first images of the martyred students of Minabakhbar, moment by moment news of the foreign enemy's aggression against the country and Iran's crushing response in the link below: 🌐 https://NourNews.ir/n/278917🆔 @Nournews_IR

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📸اولین تصاویر از دانش‌آموزان شهید میناباخبار لحظه به لحظه از تجاوز دشمن خارجی به کشور و پاسخ کوبنده ایران در لینک زیر :🌐 https://NourNews.ir/n/278917🆔 @Nournews_IR 📸اولین تصاویر از دانش‌آموزان شهید میناباخبار لحظه به لحظه از تجاوز دشمن خارجی به کشور و پاسخ کوبنده ایران در لینک زیر :🌐 https://NourNews.ir/n/278917🆔 @Nournews_IR

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IRNA

2 Mar 2026

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🎥Details of the Minab Crime According to an Eyewitness 🔹The internal medicine doctor at Hazrat Abolfazl (AS) Minab Hospital, who treated a number of oppressed students in Minab and witnessed the deaths of several others, 🔹explained the details of the attack and rape on the Minab Boys' and Girls' School in an interview with an IRNA reporter.tv.irna.ir@IRNA_1313 🎥Details of the Minab Crime According to an Eyewitness 🔹The internal medicine doctor at Hazrat Abolfazl (AS) Minab Hospital, who treated a number of oppressed students in Minab and witnessed the deaths of several others, 🔹explained the details of the attack and rape on the Minab Boys' and Girls' School in an interview with an IRNA reporter.tv.irna.ir@IRNA_1313

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🎥جزییات جنایت میناب به روایت شاهد عینی 🔹پزشک داخلی بیمارستان حضرت ابوالفضل(ع) میناب که شماری از دانش آموزان مظلوم مینابی توسط او مداوا شده و شاهد جان دادن تعدادی دیگر نیز بوده است، 🔹جزئیات حمله و تجاوز به مدرسه پسرانه و دخترانه میناب را در گفت‌وگو با خبرنگار ایرنا تشریح کرده است.tv.irna.ir@IRNA_1313 🎥جزییات جنایت میناب به روایت شاهد عینی 🔹پزشک داخلی بیمارستان حضرت ابوالفضل(ع) میناب که شماری از دانش آموزان مظلوم مینابی توسط او مداوا شده و شاهد جان دادن تعدادی دیگر نیز بوده است، 🔹جزئیات حمله و تجاوز به مدرسه پسرانه و دخترانه میناب را در گفت‌وگو با خبرنگار ایرنا تشریح کرده است.tv.irna.ir@IRNA_1313

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Farsna

2 Mar 2026

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🎥 Minabi student: The school principal was thinking about saving us until the last moment@Farsna - Link 🎥 Minabi student: The school principal was thinking about saving us until the last moment@Farsna - Link

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🎥 دانش‌آموز مینابی: مدیر مدرسه تا آخرین لحظات به فکر نجات ما بود@Farsna - Link 🎥 دانش‌آموز مینابی: مدیر مدرسه تا آخرین لحظات به فکر نجات ما بود@Farsna - Link

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akhbarefori

3 Mar 2026

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🔹Martyrdom of 14 teachers at Minab School🔹Shajre Tayyiba School in Minab city had 35 teachers and staff, of which 14 have been martyred so far. #Hormozgan_News in cyberspace 👇@akhbare_hormozgan 🔹Martyrdom of 14 teachers at Minab School🔹Shajre Tayyiba School in Minab city had 35 teachers and staff, of which 14 have been martyred so far. #Hormozgan_News in cyberspace 👇@akhbare_hormozgan

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🔹شهادت ۱۴ نفر از معلمان مدرسه میناب🔹مدرسه شجره طیبه در شهر میناب ۳۵ نفر معلم و کادر داشته که از این تعداد تاکنون ۱۴ نفر به شهادت رسیدند.#اخبار_هرمزگان در فضای مجازی 👇@akhbare_hormozgan 🔹شهادت ۱۴ نفر از معلمان مدرسه میناب🔹مدرسه شجره طیبه در شهر میناب ۳۵ نفر معلم و کادر داشته که از این تعداد تاکنون ۱۴ نفر به شهادت رسیدند.#اخبار_هرمزگان در فضای مجازی 👇@akhbare_hormozgan

akhbarefori

3 Mar 2026

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3 Mar 2026

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🔹The bodies of 140 martyrs of Minab Girls' School have been identified. Chief Justice of Hormozgan: 🔹Up to this moment, the bodies of 140 martyrs of Shajreh Tayybeh Elementary School in Minab city have been identified and burial permits have been issued for them, and 25 bodies have not yet been identified. 🔹Some of these martyrs' bodies could not be identified by conventional methods due to the severity of the explosion and require DNA testing. 🔹The remains of enemy weapons at the scene of this crime have been discovered, seized, and collected, and accordingly, the issue of this crime is being pursued in domestic and international judicial forums. #Hormozgan_News in cyberspace 👇@akhbare_hormozgan 🔹The bodies of 140 martyrs of Minab Girls' School have been identified. Chief Justice of Hormozgan: 🔹Up to this moment, the bodies of 140 martyrs of Shajreh Tayybeh Elementary School in Minab city have been identified and burial permits have been issued for them, and 25 bodies have not yet been identified. 🔹Some of these Due to the severity of the explosion, the martyrs' shrine could not be identified by conventional methods and requires DNA testing. 🔹The remains of enemy weapons at the scene of this crime were discovered, seized, and collected, and accordingly, the issue of this crime is being pursued in domestic and international judicial forums. #Akhbare_Hormozgan in cyberspace 👇@akhbare_hormozgan

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🔹پیکر ۱۴۰ نفر از شهدای مدرسه دخترانه میناب شناسایی شدندرئیس کل دادگستری هرمزگان: 🔹تا این لحظه پیکر مطهر ۱۴۰ نفر از شهدای دبستان شجره طیبه شهرستان میناب شناسایی شده و برای آنها جواز دفن صادر شده و ۲۵ پیکر هنوز احراز هویت نشده‌اند.🔹برخی از این پیکر‌های مطهر شهدا به دلیل شدت انفجار به روش‌های معمول قابل شناسایی نبوده و نیازمند انجام آزمایش DNA هستند.🔹بقایای تسلیحات دشمن در محل این جنایت پس از کشف، ضبط و جمع آوری شده و بر این اساس موضوع این جنایت در مجامع قضایی داخلی و بین المللی در حال پیگیری است.#اخبار_هرمزگان در فضای مجازی 👇@akhbare_hormozgan 🔹پیکر ۱۴۰ نفر از شهدای مدرسه دخترانه میناب شناسایی شدندرئیس کل دادگستری هرمزگان: 🔹تا این لحظه پیکر مطهر ۱۴۰ نفر از شهدای دبستان شجره طیبه شهرستان میناب شناسایی شده و برای آنها جواز دفن صادر شده و ۲۵ پیکر هنوز احراز هویت نشده‌اند.🔹برخی از این پیکر‌های مطهر شهدا به دلیل شدت انفجار به روش‌های معمول قابل شناسایی نبوده و نیازمند انجام آزمایش DNA هستند.🔹بقایای تسلیحات دشمن در محل این جنایت پس از کشف، ضبط و جمع آوری شده و بر این اساس موضوع این جنایت در مجامع قضایی داخلی و بین المللی در حال پیگیری است.#اخبار_هرمزگان در فضای مجازی 👇@akhbare_hormozgan

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🔹A picture of the burial of martyred students in Minab #Hormozgan_News in cyberspace 👇@akhbare_hormozgan 🔹A picture of the burial of martyred students in Minab #Hormozgan_News in cyberspace 👇@akhbare_hormozgan

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🔹تصویری از تدفین دانش آموزان شهید در میناب#اخبار_هرمزگان در فضای مجازی 👇@akhbare_hormozgan 🔹تصویری از تدفین دانش آموزان شهید در میناب#اخبار_هرمزگان در فضای مجازی 👇@akhbare_hormozgan

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khabarpu

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Latest news from Minab, a city in Hormozgan province Funeral of martyrs of Minab school students + video Minab disaster / names of 57 martyrs of Shajre Tayyiba primary school announced Funeral ceremony for martyred students of Minab school to be held tomorrow (Tuesday, 12 Esfand 1404) + details, location and time of gathering Minab angels have become a symbol of oppression of Iranian children and adolescents Priorities of a hanging prince; Silence for Minab children, tears for American soldiers! / Mr. Rabe Pahlavi; Is Epstein's island involved? Khairkhah: The martyrdom of innocent Minab students has hurt our hearts / The path of the martyred leader continues with strength End of debris removal from Minab elementary school / Martyrdom of 159 students Minab girls are braver than superpowers Hormozgan IRGC commander visits those injured in missile attack in Minab Silence in empty Minab classrooms Latest Hormozgan news Funeral of martyred Minab school students + video Minab disaster / Names of 57 martyrs of Shajre Tayyiba elementary school announced Funeral of martyred Minab school students to be held tomorrow (Tuesday, March 12, 1404) + details, location and time of gathering Minab angels have become a symbol of the oppression of Iranian children and adolescents Priority of a hanging prince; Silence for Minab children, tears for American soldiers! / Mr. Rabe Pahlavi; Is Epstein's island involved? Khairkhah: The martyrdom of innocent Minab students has hurt our hearts / The path of the martyred leader continues with strength End of debris removal from Minab elementary school / Martyrdom of 159 students Minab girls are braver than superpowers Martyrdom of Hormozgan border guards following US missile attack Hormozgan IRGC commander visits injured in missile attack in Minab Latest news on martyrs, martyrdom and martyrs, news on martyrs' families First reaction of the brother-in-law of the Revolutionary Leader to his martyrdom / Hassan Khojasteh sent a message Instant / Wife of martyr Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis passes away + photo Missile attack on Kerman Air Base / 13 people were martyred Funeral of martyred Minab school students + video Trump's new claim about the moment of the martyrdom of the Revolutionary Leader Statement of the Revolutionary Guards following the martyrdom of Lieutenant General Mousavi Instant / IRGC confirms the martyrdom of the wife of the Revolutionary Leader + video Minab disaster / Names of 57 martyrs of Shajreh Tayyebeh Elementary School announced Urgent/ The wife of the Leader of the Revolution was martyred Doctors: The stigma of the martyrdom of the wise leader of the Islamic Revolution will remain with the Iranian nation for a long time Capturing Content…

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ه گزارش خبرکده، فرمانداری ویژه شهرستان میناب در اطلاعیه‌ای اسامی شهدای حمله رژیم آمریکایی – صهیونیستی به دبستان دخترانه شجره طیبه این شهرستان که تاکنون شناسایی شده‌اند را اعلام کرد. اسامی اولیه ۵۷ شهید حمله وحشیانه دشمن به این واحد آموزشی به این شرح است. ۱- هنا دهقانی ۲- فاطمه سالاری ۳- رضا حبشیان ۴- آریا بهادری ۵- علی اصغر زائری ۶- زهرا بهرامی ۷- احمد سلطانی ۸- حامد پرعاشق نژاد ۹- مهدیس نظری ۱۰- آتنا چمنی نژاد ۱۱- امیرقاسم زائری ۱۲- فاطمه درازهی ۱۳- آراد احمدی زاده ۱۴- سامان کریم‌زاده ۱۵- فاطمه شهدادی ۱۶- نادیا شه میری ۱۷ – پرهام رنجبری ۱۸- محمود غلامیانی ۱۹- فاطمه رهدار ۲۰ – امیرحسن رسولی سلیمانی ۲۱- زهرا بهروزی ۲۲- محمدحاتم رئیسی ۲۳- آسنا رئیسی ۲۴- بنیامین جنگجو ۲۵- محمدصدرا زارعی ۲۶- مریم پازرک ۲۷- لیانا محمدی ۲۸- ماندانا سالاری ۲۹- سارا شایسته ۳۰- ضحا پسند ۳۱- اسری ذاکری ۳۲- سلما ذاکری ۳۳- فاطمه طاهری فرد ۳۴- زهرا انصاری ۳۵- فاطمه فدوی ۳۶- مهنا زارعی ۳۷- اطهره زارعی ۳۸- علیرضا زارعی ۳۹- محمدرضا شه سواری ۴۰- سمیرا بسارده ۴۱- احسان سالمی نیا ۴۲- فاطمه زهرا کریمی ۴۳- زینب بهرامی ۴۴- محمد شه دوستی ۴۵- رضا بارانی ۴۶- آتنا احمدزاده ۴۷- خدیجه درویشی ۴۸- رقیه کریمی ۴۹- رضا رنجبر ۵۰- مرضیه بشیری فر ۵۱- محمدمهدی چگینی نیا ۵۲- محمدیان بهرامی ۵۳- علی اکبر کریانی پاک ۵۴- حنانه مهدیخواه ۵۵- فرشته سنگرزاده ۵۶- محمدعلی کریانی پاک ۵۷- پارسا مختاری نسب اسامی سایر شهدای این جنایت جنگی متعاقبا به این فهرست اضافه و تکمیل خواهد شد. در حمله وحشیانه روز گذشته رژیم خبیث صهیونیستی و امریکای جنایتکار به مدرسه ابتدایی دخترانه شجره طیبه میناب ۱۶۵ نفر شامل دانش آموزان، کادر آموزشی و والدین دانش آموزان شهید و ۹۵ نفر نیز زخمی شدند. مراسم تشییع و تدفین شهدای این حمله ددمنشانه، فردا سه‌شنبه ۱۲ اسفند ساعت ۸ صبح از میدان شهدای شهر میناب شروع و از مسیر بلوار امام خمینی (ره) – بلوار بسیج – بلوار ساحلی و تا گلزار شهدا برگزار خواهد شد. منبع: خبرکده

mehrnews

10 Apr 2026

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📸 Martyrs of Minab School📡 @Mehrnews

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📸 شهدای مدرسه میناب📡 @Mehrnews

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Fars News

2 Mar 2026

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Cemetery Readies Graves for Iranian Students Martyred in US-Israeli Attack on Elementary School in Minab County in Hormozgan Province

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Tiny Burial Boxes of Iranian School Children Martyred in US-Israel Bombing

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3 Mar 2026

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Martyrdom of 14 Teachers at Minab School The "Shajre Tayyiba" school in Minab city has 35 teachers and teaching staff, 14 of whom have been martyred in attacks so far. #War #IranWar #Minab #ميناب

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شهادت ۱۴ نفر از معلمان مدرسه میناب مدرسه «شجره طیبه» در شهر میناب ۳۵ نفر از معلمان و کادر آموزشی داشته که تاکنون ۱۴ نفر از آنان در پی حملات صورت‌گرفته به شهادت رسیده‌اند. #جنگ #IranWar #Minab #میناب

CoordinatingA

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1 Mar 2026

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14 Teachers Killed at Minab School According to Shargh, the Shajreh Tayyebeh School in Minab has 35 teachers and staff, of whom 14 have been killed so far. The Coordination Council of Iranian Teachers' Unions, while offering condolences to the families of the teachers killed in Minab, once again emphasizes that targeting schools and hospitals is unacceptable under any circumstances and considers it a crime against civilians. The council emphasizes that attacking such spaces is not only a violation of the fundamental principles of humanity, but also a clear violation of international law and human rights conventions. Coordination Council of Iranian Teachers' Unions The Council's Telegram channel address: @kashowra News, opinions and criticisms of the trade union and education: @kashowranews

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کشته شدن ۱۴ نفر از معلمان مدرسه میناب به گزارش شرق مدرسه شجره طیبه در شهر میناب ۳۵ نفر معلم و کادر داشته که از این تعداد تاکنون ۱۴ نفرکشته شده اند . شورای هماهنگی تشکل‌های صنفی فرهنگیان ایران ضمن تسلیت به خانواده های فرهنگیان جانباخته در میناب ، بار دیگر تاکید می کند هدف قرار دادن مدارس و بیمارستان‌ها را در هر شرایطی مردود دانسته و آن را جنایتی علیه غیرنظامیان می‌داند. این شورا تأکید می‌کند که حمله به چنین فضاهایی نه‌تنها نقض اصول بنیادین انسان‌گرایی است، بلکه تخطی آشکار از قوانین بین‌الملل و کنوانسیون‌های حقوق بشر محسوب می‌شود. شورای هماهنگی تشکلهای صنفی فرهنگیان ایران نشانی کانال تلگرامی شورا: @kashowra اخبار، نظرات و انتقادات صنفی و آموزشی: @kashowranews

Tasnim News Agency | Tasnim

3 Mar 2026

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According to a social reporter for Tasnim News Agency on Saturday, March 29, the Zionist regime, in cooperation with the United States, carried out an airstrike on the Shajare Tayyiba Girls' and Boys' School in Minab, killing 165 students and teachers. According to information received by our reporter, 14 teachers and staff members of the Shajare Tayyiba School have also been killed so far. There were 35 teachers and staff members working at the Shajare Tayyiba School, 8 of whom are healthy, 14 of whom were killed, and 12 of whom are still missing. End of message/+

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به گزارش خبرنگار اجتماعی خبرگزاری تسنیم روز شنبه 9 اسفند، رژیم صهیونیستی با همکاری آمریکا با حمله هوایی به مدرسه دخترانه و پسرانه شجره طیّبه در شهر میناب 165 دانش‌آموز و معلم این مدرسه را به شهادت رساندند. طبق اطلاعاتی که به دست خبرنگار ما رسیده است تاکنون 14 نفر از معلمان و کادر مدرسه شجره طیّبه نیز به شهادت رسیده‌اند. در مدرسه شجره طیّبه 35 نفر به‌عنوان معلم و کادر مدرسه فعالیت می‌کردند که 8 نفر از این افراد در سلامت هستند، 14 نفرشان به شهادت رسیده‌اند و 12 نفر از این افراد همچنان مفقود هستند. انتهای پیام/+

akhbarefori

3 Mar 2026

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🔹The last farewell to the angels of Minab🔹The female students of Minab who were unjustly martyred in the brutal attack of the Zionist-American enemy, rested in the ground today.@AkhbareFori 🔹The last farewell to the angels of Minab🔹The female students of Minab who were unjustly martyred in the brutal attack of the Zionist-American enemy, rested in the ground today.@AkhbareFori

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🔹آخرین وداع با فرشته های میناب🔹دختران دانش آموز مینابی که در حمله وحشیانه دشمن صهیونی _آمریکایی مظلومانه به شهادت رسیدند، امروز در خاک آرمیدند.@AkhbareFori 🔹آخرین وداع با فرشته های میناب🔹دختران دانش آموز مینابی که در حمله وحشیانه دشمن صهیونی _آمریکایی مظلومانه به شهادت رسیدند، امروز در خاک آرمیدند.@AkhbareFori

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4 Mar 2026

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🔹Little narrator from Minab Elementary School: We were studying when Israel attacked #Hormozgan_News in cyberspace 👇@akhbare_hormozgan 🔹Little narrator from Minab Elementary School: We were studying when Israel attacked #Hormozgan_News in cyberspace 👇@akhbare_hormozgan

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🔹راوی کوچولوی دبستان میناب: داشتیم درس می‌خوندیم اسرائیل زد#اخبار_هرمزگان در فضای مجازی 👇@akhbare_hormozgan 🔹راوی کوچولوی دبستان میناب: داشتیم درس می‌خوندیم اسرائیل زد#اخبار_هرمزگان در فضای مجازی 👇@akhbare_hormozgan

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akhbarefori

4 Mar 2026

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🔹Little narrator from Minab Elementary School: We were studying when Israel attacked #Hormozgan_News in cyberspace 👇@akhbare_hormozgan 🔹Little narrator from Minab Elementary School: We were studying when Israel attacked #Hormozgan_News in cyberspace 👇@akhbare_hormozgan

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🔹راوی کوچولوی دبستان میناب: داشتیم درس می‌خوندیم اسرائیل زد#اخبار_هرمزگان در فضای مجازی 👇@akhbare_hormozgan 🔹راوی کوچولوی دبستان میناب: داشتیم درس می‌خوندیم اسرائیل زد#اخبار_هرمزگان در فضای مجازی 👇@akhbare_hormozgan

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iribnews

3 Mar 2026

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Mother of martyred student: This Basiji leader, who was beheaded, was not found@iribnews Mother of martyred student: This Basiji leader, who was beheaded, was not found@iribnews

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مادر دانش آموز شهید:این بسیجی منهاین سردار بی سر منهسرش پیدانشد@iribnews مادر دانش آموز شهید:این بسیجی منهاین سردار بی سر منهسرش پیدانشد@iribnews

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Nournews_ir

4 Mar 2026

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✅Martyrdom of several young gymnasts in the attack on Minab school🔹 Following the brutal attack by the Zionist regime and the criminal America on the "Shajre Tayyiba" school in Minab city, which resulted in the martyrdom of a group of children and adolescents, several of these loved ones were active athletes in the field of gymnastics.🔹In this painful crime, martyr Reza Habashi, martyr Arina Arabkish, martyr Athena Ahmadzadeh, martyr Makan Nasiri, and martyr Araz Ahmadizadeh were among the gymnasts of our country who achieved martyrdom.🔹The Gymnastics Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran, while condemning this inhuman act, offers its condolences to the bereaved families of these oppressed Iranian children, the honorable people of Minab, and the country's sports community for the martyrdom of these oppressed Iranian children, and emphasizes that the great gymnastics family stands with the survivors of these martyrs. Minute-by-minute news of the foreign enemy's aggression against the country and Iran's crushing response can be found at the following link:🌐 https://NourNews.ir/n/279418🆔 @Nournews_IR ✅Martyrdom of several young gymnasts in the attack on Minab school🔹 Following the brutal attack by the Zionist regime and the criminal America on the "Shajre Tayyiba" school in Minab city, which resulted in the martyrdom of a group of children and adolescents, several of these loved ones were active athletes in the field of gymnastics.🔹In this painful crime, martyr Reza Habashi, martyr Arina Arabkish, martyr Athena Ahmadzadeh, martyr Makan Nasiri and martyr Araz Ahmadizadeh were among the gymnasts of our country who achieved martyrdom.🔹The Gymnastics Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran, while condemning this inhuman act, offers its condolences to the bereaved families of these oppressed Iranian children, the honorable people of Minab, and the country's sports community for the martyrdom of these oppressed Iranian children, and emphasizes that the great gymnastics family stands with the survivors of these martyrs. Minute-by-minute news of the foreign enemy's aggression against the country and Iran's crushing response can be found at the following link:🌐 https://NourNews.ir/n/279418🆔 @Nournews_IR

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✅شهادت چند ژیمناست‌‌کار خردسال در حمله به مدرسه میناب🔹 در پی حمله وحشیانه رژیم صهیونیستی و آمریکای جنایتکار به مدرسه‌ «شجره طیبه» در شهرستان میناب که به شهادت جمعی از کودکان و نوجوانان انجامید، چند تن از این عزیزان از ورزشکاران فعال در رشته ژیمناستیک بودند.🔹در این جنایت دردناک، شهید رضا حبشی، شهیده آرینا عرب‌کیش، شهیده آتنا احمدزاده، شهید ماکان نصیری و شهید آراز احمدی‌زاده از جمله ژیمناست‌های کشورمان بودند که به فیض شهادت نائل آمدند.🔹فدراسیون ژیمناستیک جمهوری اسلامی ایران ضمن محکومیت این اقدام غیرانسانی، شهادت این فرزندان مظلوم ایران را به خانواده‌های داغدار آنها، مردم شریف میناب و جامعه ورزش کشور تسلیت عرض کرده و تأکید می‌کند خانواده بزرگ ژیمناستیک در کنار بازماندگان این شهدا ایستاده است.اخبار لحظه به لحظه از تجاوز دشمن خارجی به کشور و پاسخ کوبنده ایران در لینک زیر :🌐 https://NourNews.ir/n/279418🆔 @Nournews_IR ✅شهادت چند ژیمناست‌‌کار خردسال در حمله به مدرسه میناب🔹 در پی حمله وحشیانه رژیم صهیونیستی و آمریکای جنایتکار به مدرسه‌ «شجره طیبه» در شهرستان میناب که به شهادت جمعی از کودکان و نوجوانان انجامید، چند تن از این عزیزان از ورزشکاران فعال در رشته ژیمناستیک بودند.🔹در این جنایت دردناک، شهید رضا حبشی، شهیده آرینا عرب‌کیش، شهیده آتنا احمدزاده، شهید ماکان نصیری و شهید آراز احمدی‌زاده از جمله ژیمناست‌های کشورمان بودند که به فیض شهادت نائل آمدند.🔹فدراسیون ژیمناستیک جمهوری اسلامی ایران ضمن محکومیت این اقدام غیرانسانی، شهادت این فرزندان مظلوم ایران را به خانواده‌های داغدار آنها، مردم شریف میناب و جامعه ورزش کشور تسلیت عرض کرده و تأکید می‌کند خانواده بزرگ ژیمناستیک در کنار بازماندگان این شهدا ایستاده است.اخبار لحظه به لحظه از تجاوز دشمن خارجی به کشور و پاسخ کوبنده ایران در لینک زیر :🌐 https://NourNews.ir/n/279418🆔 @Nournews_IR

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The funeral of 165 children who were killed by the bombing of Shajre Tayiba school in Minab Hormozgan in southern Iran by the US and Israel.

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Rahmatullah Ahmadi

5 Mar 2026

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Funeral of 168 Martyred Students in Minab-Iran We have felt the pain of the martyrdom of innocent children to the marrow of our bones. It is very difficult. It is very heartbreaking. It is very painful. It will never be forgotten. Whenever there is news of the killing of students, I see the bloodied girls of Seyyed al-Shohada High School. We come from the hearts of the mothers and fathers and families of these students. But I saw some Iranians smiling at the killing of students in educational centers in western Kabul, this was more painful than their killing. Because both religion, sect, language and my neighbor laughed at the spilled blood of my student brothers and sisters.

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تشییع پیکر ۱۶۸ دانش آموز شهید در میناب-ایران درد شهادت کودکان بی‌گناه را تا مغز استخوان حس کرده ایم. خیلی سخت است. خیلی دلخراش است. خیلی درد آور است. هرگز فراموش نمی‌شود. هر وقت خبری از کشته شدن دانش آموزان می‌شود، پیش چشمم دختران به خون طپیده‌ای لیسه سیدالشهدا می‌آیند. از دل مادران و پدران و خانواده‌های این دانش آموزان می‌آییم. اما بعضی ایرانی‌ها را دیدم که به کشته شدن دانش آموزان مراکز آموزشی غرب کابل تبسم می‌کردند، این دردآور تر از کشته شدن آنها بود. زیرا هم دین و هم مذهب و هم زبان و همسایه ام به خون ریخته شده ای برادر و خواهر دانش‌آموز من می‌خندید.

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Aryobarzen Kiani

5 Mar 2026

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Middle East Eye: Minab girls targeted twice According to the Middle East Eye English website, 165 people were martyred in the American-Israeli attack on the "Shajara Tayyiba" school in Minab, and female students were targeted by missiles twice. According to the report, the school was hit by two missiles, and the second missile targeted students who had survived the first missile. Reference to conversations he had with survivors at the time, one of the Red Crescent doctors said: "When the first bomb hit the school, one of the teachers and the school principal moved a group of students to the prayer room for protection. The school principal called the parents and told them to come and pick up their children. But the second bomb also hit that area. Only a few of those who had taken refuge survived."

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میدل‌ایست‌آی: دختران میناب ۲ بار هدف قرار گرفتند طبق گزارش وبگاه انگلیسی میدل‌ایست‌آی، در حمله آمریکایی-اسرائیلی به مدرسه «شجره طیبه» میناب ۱۶۵ نفر شهید شدند و دختران دانش‌آموز دو بار هدف حمله موشکی قرار گرفت. طبق این گزارش مدرسه مورد اصابت دو موشک قرار گرفت و موشک دوم دانش‌آموزانی را هدف قرار داد که از موشک اول نجات یافته بودند. یکی از پزشکان هلال احمر با اشاره به مکالماتی که در آن زمان با بازماندگان داشته است، گفت: «وقتی اولین بمب به مدرسه برخورد کرد، یکی از معلمان و مدیر مدرسه گروهی از دانش‌آموزان را برای محافظت از آنها به نمازخانه منتقل کردند. مدیر مدرسه با والدین تماس گرفت و به آنها گفت که بیایند و فرزندانشان را بردارند. اما بمب دوم نیز به آن منطقه برخورد کرد. تنها تعداد کمی از کسانی که پناه گرفته بودند، زنده ماندند.»

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Ahmad Naeem Dosti

4 Mar 2026

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Massacre of Minab students; Following US and Israeli airstrikes on the Shajare Tayyiba school in Hormozgan, Iran, 165 children were martyred and 96 others were injured… This tragedy hurts the heart of every human being.

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قتل‌عام دانش‌آموزان میناب؛ در پی حملات هوایی امریکا و اسرائیل بر مدرسه شجره طیبه در هرمزگان ایران، ۱۶۵ کودک به شهادت رسیدند و ۹۶ کودک دیگر زخمی شدند… این فاجعه دل هر انسان را به درد می‌آورد.

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Rezabakhsh Heidari

3 Mar 2026

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Translation of this poem in memory of the martyred children of Minab School in Iran who were massacred by Jewish massacrers. Beautiful poem by "Afshin Ala" by Iranian poet about the killing of school children in Kabul.

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برگردان این شعر دررثای کودکان شهید مکتب میناب کشور ایران که توسط دژخیمان یهود پرپر شدند شعر زیبای «افشین علا» شاعر ایرانی در مورد کشتار کودکان متعلم کابل .

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Gholamhossein Hassani

5 Mar 2026

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The magnificent funeral of the martyred innocent children in Minab 168 children aged 8 to 13!!! From Gaza to Minab, innocents are being killed in cold blood 🔹 This is the realization of the "salvation" that Mr. Trump promised. From Gaza to Minab, innocents are being killed in cold blood.

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تشییع باشکوه نوگلان مظلوم شهید در میناب ۱۶۸ کودک ۸ تا ۱۳ ساله !!! از غزه تا میناب بی گناهان با خونسردی کشته می‌شوند 🔹 این‌ تحقق همان «نجات» است که آقای ترامپ وعده داده بود. از غزه تا میناب، بی‌گناهان با خونسردی کشته می شوند.

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Tasnim News Agency | Tasnim

4 Mar 2026

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Martyrdom of several young gymnasts in the attack on Minab school Following the Israeli and American attack on the "Shajre Tayyiba" school in Minab city, which resulted in the martyrdom of a group of children and adolescents, several of these loved ones were active gymnasts. In this painful crime, martyr Reza Habashi, martyr Arina Arabkish, martyr Athena Ahmadzadeh, martyr Makan Nasiri, and martyr Araz Ahmadizadeh were among the gymnasts of our country who achieved martyrdom. The Gymnastics Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran, while condemning this inhuman act, extends its condolences to the bereaved families of these oppressed Iranian children, the honorable people of Minab, and the country's sports community for the martyrdom of these oppressed children, and emphasizes that the great gymnastics family stands with the survivors of these martyrs.

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شهادت چند ژیمناست‌‌کار خردسال در حمله به مدرسه میناب در پی حمله اسرائیل و آمریکای به مدرسه‌ «شجره طیبه» در شهرستان میناب که به شهادت جمعی از کودکان و نوجوانان انجامید، چند تن از این عزیزان از ورزشکاران فعال در رشته ژیمناستیک بودند. در این جنایت دردناک، شهید رضا حبشی، شهیده آرینا عرب‌کیش، شهیده آتنا احمدزاده، شهید ماکان نصیری و شهید آراز احمدی‌زاده از جمله ژیمناست‌های کشورمان بودند که به فیض شهادت نائل آمدند. فدراسیون ژیمناستیک جمهوری اسلامی ایران ضمن محکومیت این اقدام غیرانسانی، شهادت این فرزندان مظلوم ایران را به خانواده‌های داغدار آنها، مردم شریف میناب و جامعه ورزش کشور تسلیت عرض کرده و تأکید می‌کند خانواده بزرگ ژیمناستیک در کنار بازماندگان این شهدا ایستاده است.

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6 Apr 2026

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📸 At the time of the martyrdom bell...🔺️Martyr Athena Ahmadzadeh, one of the martyrs of Minab School📡 @Mehrnews

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📸 به وقت زنگ شهادت...🔺️شهیده آتنا احمد زاده از شهدای مدرسه میناب📡 @Mehrnews

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akhbarefori

5 Mar 2026

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🔹A picture of Mikael Mirdorghi's last farewell to his mother...🔹Mikael, a student from Andimsheki, a resident of Minab, Hormozgan, was unjustly martyred as a result of an attack by the US and the Zionist regime.@AkhbareFori 🔹A picture of Mikael Mirdorghi's last farewell to his mother...🔹Mikael, a student from Andimsheki, a resident of Minab, Hormozgan, was unjustly martyred as a result of an attack by the US and the Zionist regime.@AkhbareFori

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🔹تصویری از آخرین خداحافظی ‎میکائیل میردورقی با مادرش...🔹میکائیل دانش آموز اندیمشکی ساکن شهر ‎میناب هرمزگان در اثر حمله آمریکا و رژیم صهیونیستی مظلومانه به شهادت رسید‌.@AkhbareFori 🔹تصویری از آخرین خداحافظی ‎میکائیل میردورقی با مادرش...🔹میکائیل دانش آموز اندیمشکی ساکن شهر ‎میناب هرمزگان در اثر حمله آمریکا و رژیم صهیونیستی مظلومانه به شهادت رسید‌.@AkhbareFori

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iribnews

8 Mar 2026

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📸 Global reactions to the latest photo of "Mikael Mirdorghi", one of the martyrs of the Minab school, continue on social networks. 🔹 One of the American X users wrote: "This photo breaks my heart. This dear and lovely little boy demonstrates innocence. I will never forgive my hateful government for this. Impeach, remove, arrest and condemn Trump." @iribnews 📸 Global reactions to the latest photo of "Mikael Mirdorghi", one of the martyrs of the Minab school, continue on social networks. 🔹 One of the American X users wrote: "This photo breaks my heart. This dear and lovely little boy demonstrates innocence. I will never forgive my hateful government for this. Impeach, remove, arrest and condemn Trump." @iribnews

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📸 واکنش‌های جهانی به آخرین عکس "میکائیل میردورقی" یکی از شهدای مدرسه میناب، همچنان در شبکه‌های اجتماعی ادامه دارد🔹یکی از کاربران آمریکایی ایکس نوشته: "این عکس قلب مرا می‌شکند. این پسر کوچک عزیز و دوست‌داشتنی، معصومیت را به نمایش می‌گذارد. من هرگز دولت نفرت‌انگیزم را به خاطر این کار نمی‌بخشم. ترامپ را استیضاح، برکنار، دستگیر و محکوم کنید."@iribnews 📸 واکنش‌های جهانی به آخرین عکس "میکائیل میردورقی" یکی از شهدای مدرسه میناب، همچنان در شبکه‌های اجتماعی ادامه دارد🔹یکی از کاربران آمریکایی ایکس نوشته: "این عکس قلب مرا می‌شکند. این پسر کوچک عزیز و دوست‌داشتنی، معصومیت را به نمایش می‌گذارد. من هرگز دولت نفرت‌انگیزم را به خاطر این کار نمی‌بخشم. ترامپ را استیضاح، برکنار، دستگیر و محکوم کنید."@iribnews

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Rahmatullah Ahmadi

3 Mar 2026

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The funeral of 168 martyred students in Minab-Iran We have felt the pain of the martyrdom of innocent children to the marrow of our bones. It is very difficult. It is very heartbreaking. It is very painful. It will never be forgotten. Whenever there is news of the killing of students, I see the bloodied girls of Seyyed al-Shohada High School. We come from the hearts of the mothers and fathers and families of these students. But I saw some Iranians smiling at the killing of students in educational centers in western Kabul, this was more painful than their killing. Because both religion, sect, language and my neighbor laughed at the spilled blood of my student brothers and sisters.

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تشییع پیکر ۱۶۸ دانش آموز شهید در میناب-ایران درد شهادت کودکان بی‌گناه را تا مغز استخوان حس کرده ایم. خیلی سخت است. خیلی دلخراش است. خیلی درد آور است. هرگز فراموش نمی‌شود. هر وقت خبری از کشته شدن دانش آموزان می‌شود، پیش چشمم دختران به خون طپیده‌ای لیسه سیدالشهدا می‌آیند. از دل مادران و پدران و خانواده‌های این دانش آموزان می‌آییم. اما بعضی ایرانی‌ها را دیدم که به کشته شدن دانش آموزان مراکز آموزشی غرب کابل تبسم می‌کردند، این دردآور تر از کشته شدن آنها بود. زیرا هم دین و هم مذهب و هم زبان و همسایه ام به خون ریخته شده ای برادر و خواهر دانش‌آموز من می‌خندید.

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Nahid Javid

2 Mar 2026

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Unfortunately, according to reports, the number of students who fell victim to the crimes of American and Israeli imperialism at the "Shajra Tayyiba" girls' school in Minab has reached 165.

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متاسفانه طبق گزارش ها،تعداد دانش‌آموزانی که در مدرسه دخترانه «شجره طیبه» میناب قربانی جنایت امپریالیسم آمریکا و اسرائیل شدن، به ۱۶۵ تن رسید .

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Shiwar news Shiwar News

2 Mar 2026

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Identity of "Mohammad Taha", a student killed in US and Israeli airstrike on Minab, confirmed Monday, March 11, 1404 – The identity of "Mohammad Taha", one of the students killed in the March 20 attack on the "Shajre Tayyiba" school in Minab, has been confirmed. According to "Shivar News", local sources have announced that the funeral ceremony of the student's body was held today in his hometown. While some sources have made claims about the use of civilians around military centers, officials have not yet provided a detailed explanation on this issue. The official statistics announced by the Minab County Prosecutor's Office have recorded 148 deaths and 95 injuries for this incident.

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تأیید هویت «محمد طاها» دانش‌آموز جان‌باخته در حمله هوای نیروهای امریکا و اسرائیل به میناب دوشنبه ۱۱ اسفند ماه ۱۴۰۴ – هویت «محمد طاها»، از دانش‌آموزان جان‌باخته در حمله روز ۹ اسفند به مدرسه «شجره طیبه» میناب، احراز شد. به گزارش «شیوار نیوز»، منابع محلی اعلام کرده‌اند که مراسم تشییع پیکر این دانش‌آموز امروز در زادگاهش برگزار شده است. در حالی که برخی منابع ادعاهایی درباره استفاده از غیرنظامیان در اطراف مراکز نظامی مطرح کرده‌اند، مقام‌های رسمی تاکنون توضیح دقیقی درباره این موضوع ارائه نکرده‌اند. آمار رسمی اعلام‌شده از سوی دادستان شهرستان میناب، ۱۴۸ کشته و ۹۵ زخمی را برای این حادثه ثبت کرده است.

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🔹A student from Shajare Tayyiba School recounts the day of the attack@AkhbareFori | Link 🔹A student from Shajare Tayyiba School recounts the day of the attack@AkhbareFori | Link

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🔹روایت دانش‌آموز مدرسۀ شجره طیبه از روز حمله@AkhbareFori | Link 🔹روایت دانش‌آموز مدرسۀ شجره طیبه از روز حمله@AkhbareFori | Link

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🔹All the martyred students of Minab School in one frame@AkhbareFori | Link 🔹All the martyred students of Minab School in one frame@AkhbareFori | Link

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🔹همه دانش‌آموزان شهید مدرسه میناب در یک قاب@AkhbareFori | Link 🔹همه دانش‌آموزان شهید مدرسه میناب در یک قاب@AkhbareFori | Link

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Images of remains of U.S. missile found in the girls' school in Minab.

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♦️The bodies of three martyrs of Minab Elementary School have not yet been identified. Governor of Minab: 🔹Makan Nasiri, Mohammad Taha Jafari and Shahidah Moalem Razieh Zamani are martyrs whose bodies have not yet been identified. 📲 @AkhbareFori | Link ♦️The bodies of three martyrs of Minab Elementary School have not yet been identified. Governor of Minab: 🔹Makan Nasiri, Mohammad Taha Jafari and Shahidah Moalem Razieh Zamani are martyrs whose bodies have not yet been identified. 📲 @AkhbareFori | Link

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♦️پیکر سه تن از شهدای دبستان میناب هنوز شناسایی نشده استفرماندار میناب:🔹ماکان نصیری، محمدطاها جعفری و شهیده معلم راضیه زمانی شهدایی هستند که هنوز پیکر مطهر آنها شناسایی نشده است📲 @AkhbareFori | Link ♦️پیکر سه تن از شهدای دبستان میناب هنوز شناسایی نشده استفرماندار میناب:🔹ماکان نصیری، محمدطاها جعفری و شهیده معلم راضیه زمانی شهدایی هستند که هنوز پیکر مطهر آنها شناسایی نشده است📲 @AkhbareFori | Link

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♦️ Funeral of the body of martyred student "Mohammad Taha Jafari", one of the martyrs of Minab School🔹 After 30 long-awaited days, his body was found🇮🇷 ✊ @AkhbareFori

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♦️ تشییع پیکر دانش‌آموز شهید «محمدطاها جعفری»، از شهدای مدرسه میناب🔹 پس از ۳۰ روز چشم‌انتظاری پیکرش پیدا شد🇮🇷 ✊ @AkhbareFori

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♦️The Night of Qadr of Minabis near the graves of student martyrs #Akhbare_Hormozgan in cyberspace 👇@akhbare_hormozgan ♦️The Night of Qadr of Minabis near the graves of student martyrs #Akhbare_Hormozgan in cyberspace 👇@akhbare_hormozgan

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♦️شب قدر مینابی‌ها در جوار قبور شهدای دانش آموز#اخبار_هرمزگان در فضای مجازی 👇@akhbare_hormozgan ♦️شب قدر مینابی‌ها در جوار قبور شهدای دانش آموز#اخبار_هرمزگان در فضای مجازی 👇@akhbare_hormozgan

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National oath for the martyred children of Minab School🔸We pledge to fight for the destruction of Zionism for our children.@TasnimNews National oath for the martyred children of Minab School🔸We pledge to fight for the destruction of Zionism for our children.@TasnimNews

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سوگند ملی برای کودکان شهید مدرسه میناب🔸پیمان می‌بندیم تا نابودی صهیونیسم بجنگیم برای فرزندان‌مان.@TasnimNews سوگند ملی برای کودکان شهید مدرسه میناب🔸پیمان می‌بندیم تا نابودی صهیونیسم بجنگیم برای فرزندان‌مان.@TasnimNews

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♦️The sister of one of the martyred student Minab; says with tearful eyes: I miss my brother so much..🇮🇷 ✊ @AkhbareFori ♦️The sister of one of the martyred student Minab; says with tearful eyes: I miss my brother so much..🇮🇷 ✊ @AkhbareFori

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♦️خواهر یکی از شهدای دانش‌آموز میناب؛ با چشمانی اشکبار می‌گوید: دلم برای برادرم خیلی تنگ شده..🇮🇷 ✊ @AkhbareFori ♦️خواهر یکی از شهدای دانش‌آموز میناب؛ با چشمانی اشکبار می‌گوید: دلم برای برادرم خیلی تنگ شده..🇮🇷 ✊ @AkhbareFori

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✅Martyrdom of Mazandaran Taekwondo Athlete in the Enemy's Brutal Aggression on Tehran Ahmad Ali Shaban Nejad, a Taekwondo athlete from Babolsar and one of the scientific elites working in Tehran, was martyred following the brutal aggression of the United States and the Zionist regime. 🔹Also, following the brutal attack by the Zionist regime and the criminal United States on the "Shajre Tayyiba" school in Minab city, which resulted in the martyrdom of a group of children and adolescents, several of these loved ones were active athletes in the field of gymnastics. 🔹In this painful crime, martyr Reza Habashi, martyr Arina Arabkish, martyr Athena Ahmadzadeh, martyr Makan Nasiri, and martyr Araz Ahmadizadeh were among our country's gymnasts who achieved the grace of martyrdom. Moment-by-moment news of the foreign enemy's aggression on the country and Iran's crushing response in the following link: 🌐 https://NourNews.ir/n/279418🆔 @Nournews_IR ✅Martyrdom of Mazandaran Taekwondo Athlete in the Enemy's Brutal Aggression on Tehran Ahmad Ali Shaban Nejad, a Taekwondo athlete from Babolsar and one of the scientific elites working in Tehran, was martyred following the brutal aggression of the United States and the criminal United States on the "Shajre Tayyiba" school in Minab city, which resulted in the martyrdom of a group of children and adolescents. Babolsar, a scholar and academic working in Tehran, was martyred following the brutal aggression of the United States and the Zionist regime. 🔹Also, following the brutal attack by the Zionist regime and the criminal United States on the "Shajre Tayyiba" school in Minab city, which resulted in the martyrdom of a group of children and adolescents, several of these loved ones were active athletes in the field of gymnastics. 🔹In this painful crime, martyr Reza Habashi, martyr Arina Arabkish, martyr Athena Ahmadzadeh, martyr Makan Nasiri, and martyr Araz Ahmadizadeh were among the gymnasts of our country who achieved the grace of martyrdom. Minute-by-minute news of the foreign enemy's aggression against the country and Iran's crushing response can be found at the following link: 🌐 https://NourNews.ir/n/279418🆔 @Nournews_IR

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✅شهادت تکواندوکار مازندرانی در تجاوز وحشیانه دشمن به تهران احمدعلی شعبان نژاد تکواندوکار اهل بابلسر و از نخبگان علمی و شاغل در تهران، در پی تجاوز وحشیانه آمریکا و رژیم صهیونیستی به شهادت رسید.🔹همچنین در پی حمله وحشیانه رژیم صهیونیستی و آمریکای جنایتکار به مدرسه‌ «شجره طیبه» در شهرستان میناب که به شهادت جمعی از کودکان و نوجوانان انجامید، چند تن از این عزیزان از ورزشکاران فعال در رشته ژیمناستیک بودند.🔹در این جنایت دردناک، شهید رضا حبشی، شهیده آرینا عرب‌کیش، شهیده آتنا احمدزاده، شهید ماکان نصیری و شهید آراز احمدی‌زاده از جمله ژیمناست‌های کشورمان بودند که به فیض شهادت نائل آمدند.اخبار لحظه به لحظه از تجاوز دشمن خارجی به کشور و پاسخ کوبنده ایران در لینک زیر :🌐 https://NourNews.ir/n/279418🆔 @Nournews_IR ✅شهادت تکواندوکار مازندرانی در تجاوز وحشیانه دشمن به تهران احمدعلی شعبان نژاد تکواندوکار اهل بابلسر و از نخبگان علمی و شاغل در تهران، در پی تجاوز وحشیانه آمریکا و رژیم صهیونیستی به شهادت رسید.🔹همچنین در پی حمله وحشیانه رژیم صهیونیستی و آمریکای جنایتکار به مدرسه‌ «شجره طیبه» در شهرستان میناب که به شهادت جمعی از کودکان و نوجوانان انجامید، چند تن از این عزیزان از ورزشکاران فعال در رشته ژیمناستیک بودند.🔹در این جنایت دردناک، شهید رضا حبشی، شهیده آرینا عرب‌کیش، شهیده آتنا احمدزاده، شهید ماکان نصیری و شهید آراز احمدی‌زاده از جمله ژیمناست‌های کشورمان بودند که به فیض شهادت نائل آمدند.اخبار لحظه به لحظه از تجاوز دشمن خارجی به کشور و پاسخ کوبنده ایران در لینک زیر :🌐 https://NourNews.ir/n/279418🆔 @Nournews_IR

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This account is a harrowing narrative of an unjust war, describing the assault of American missiles on an elementary school in the small city of Minab, in Hormozgan—the southernmost province of the country. The only classrooms left are a few on the upper floor, which are now practically inaccessible due to the destruction of the stairs. The preschool classroom on the ground floor still has its walls standing, but they are riddled with holes, the windows are gone, and the ground is torn apart. This is the “Shajareh Tayyebeh” elementary school in Minab, Hormozgan. Minab is one of the southernmost cities of Iran. Its residents never imagined a missile would strike their city; they used to say, “Trump doesn’t even know where Minab is, let alone want to hit it.” At 11:20 a.m. on Saturday, Esfand 9, 1404 (February 28, 2026), the first American missile struck the school. The second missile followed shortly after. Students who had taken shelter in the prayer hall and inside the building, fearing attack and bombardment, lost their lives instantly. A total of 156 people—at the school and the adjacent pharmacy (including the six-month-old fetus of one of the teachers)—were killed by three missiles that hit the site. The school had a total of 403 students: 186 boys, 174 girls, 43 preschool children, and 36 staff members. Of those present that day, around 140 boys, 144 girls, the preschool children, and 10 staff members survived. Forty-seven female students, seventy-three male students, and twenty-six staff members were killed. That Saturday became the bitterest day of my life Zahra, a young sixth-grade survivor She sat across from me, holding back tears. She was barely eleven. She wore an Arabic-style chador. Her mother, dressed in a green coat with a matching headscarf, stood behind the camera holding her younger daughter’s hand, waiting. Her mother said: “I asked her, do you want to go? If you won’t feel bad, let’s go—but you don’t have to. She said she wants to go and talk. After your interview, we have to go to our counseling session. Both of us are receiving counseling.” Zahra is small. Even her chador is small, loosely draped over her head like women of the past. Her curly hair spills out from beneath it. Her face is beautiful. I find myself unable to look away from her eyes. She recounts the day of the incident. At times she tries hard not to cry, not to sob—but she cannot hold back. She wipes her tears with her small hands and continues. She speaks of her classmates, the moment of the explosion, the building shaking, the smoke filling everything, the upper corridor collapsing, the classroom filling with dust, herself and her friend thrown to the ground, her friend dizzy, struggling to make it downstairs. I ask: “Were the stairs even intact for you to come down?” She says: “No, there was a lot of debris. We climbed down over it. Part of the upper floor collapsed onto the lower floor. The stairs were gone.” She describes that Saturday: “We were at school. The teachers came out of a meeting and said we were dismissed—they would call our parents to come pick us up. We got curious and asked why. They said go watch the news. We suspected—did war start? Our counselor said yes, war has started, go watch the news for the rest. A few minutes later, I was in class when the first missile hit. The window glass shattered. Everyone was screaming. Then a few seconds later, the second missile hit. After that, our corridor collapsed, and a dim light appeared. With the help of our teacher and some friends, I went downstairs. I fell while climbing down the debris. A man lifting rubble told me: just run, go outside. I ran out. All the parents were there, shouting their children’s names, searching, crying. It was terrible.” She breaks down crying again. “When I came out, I only saw two of my friends. Ten out of the twelve students in our class survived, along with our teacher. Zahra Soleimani and Mahdieh Ahmadzadeh were killed. That day felt like a movie. Like a dream. I kept telling myself, God, this must be a dream.” Sobhan and Hanan were the happiest children in the world We head to Sobhan and Hanan’s home. Mohammadreza Ahmadi, their young father, greets us. He had four children—now he has two. From their six-person household, nine-year-old Sobhan and seven-year-old Hanan (Hanieh) are gone. “My children were two years apart. They were friends. Different personalities, but inseparable. One wouldn’t eat without the other. Sobhan was calm and gentle; Hanieh was lively, always making us laugh. The house was always full of their laughter.” He points to where we sit: “I used to play football with Sobhan right here.” “On Saturday, I was at home. Around 11, they called and said school was dismissed—come pick up your children. On my way, before reaching 22 Bahman Square, I heard an explosion. Then another. Traffic stopped. I parked and ran. When I got there, the school was destroyed.” He searched for an hour before they told him Sobhan had been found—dead. “At the hospital, there were so many bodies they didn’t have enough body bags. They were placing children in plastic. Many were unrecognizable. I couldn’t accept it.” He pauses. “I recognized Sobhan by his socks. That morning, he wanted to wear sports socks. His mother told him to wear the socks she had brought from Karbala. It was as if we were meant to recognize him that way. Half his face was gone.” He struggles to continue. “It’s been about 50 days. I couldn’t talk like this before. Sobhan was afraid of balloon pops, of fireworks—but in that moment, he showed courage to the world. Someone said he had turned back to look for his sister when the second missile hit.” Their mother, Marzieh Ashna, stands quietly—strong. “At 11, the teacher called us. Minutes later, another call came. My husband went. Soon after, he called me crying. I ran to the street. When I arrived, the school was destroyed. Parents were searching, crying. Some fainted. Fathers were trying to revive mothers with water. I saw Hanan’s classroom—completely destroyed. I collapsed. I knew nothing would remain.” “I wish I could hug my brother one more time” Atena stands dazed. She points around the ruins, trying to reconstruct what once was. She is a fifth grader. Her younger brother Arash, a second grader, died under the rubble. She speaks with effort: “When they dismissed us, I was with my brother. He said he wanted to go ahead. I told him to wait so we could go together. He left. That was the last time I saw him.” She describes the second missile, her injured friend, the collapsing bookshelf, the blocked exit. “I called my mom and told her I was going home, but Arash was still at school. Two days later, my father told us he had been killed.” Arash was seven years and five months old. He wanted to become an inventor. Their mother says: “I thought that day they were going to a play center. Later we learned they had returned because it was closed. At 11:21 the first missile hit—while they were inside.” She points to a remaining wall: “My daughter came out. My son couldn’t. Whoever stayed inside, died.” Arash’s father says: “I recognized him by his sock. His right foot had a mark—two toes slightly fused. That’s how I found him in the morgue.” He adds: “Nearly 30 hours it took to clear the rubble. No intact bodies came out. Children were in pieces.” “Now Arash lies beneath his teacher, who was pregnant when she was killed. I hope she mothers him.” This report is only a fragment of the pain of four families among the 110 families who lost loved ones in the Minab school. In future reports, the stories of other families and Red Crescent rescuers will be told.

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این روایت، شرح جنگی است ناجوانمردانه از هجوم موشک‌های امریکایی به یک مدرسه ابتدایی در شهر کوچک میناب در جنوبی‌ترین استان کشور؛ هرمزگان. تنها کلاس‌هایی که باقی مانده چند تا کلاس طبقه بالاست که به خاطر خراب شدن پله‌ها، عملا دسترسی بهشان مختل شده. کلاس پیش‌دبستانی طبقه پایین دیوارهایش سالم مانده، اما پر از سوراخ است، شیشه ندارد. زمین کنده کنده شده. اینجا مدرسه ابتدایی «شجره طیبه» در شهر میناب هرمزگان است. میناب یکی از جنوبی‌ترین شهرهای ایران است، آنقدر مردمش گمان نمی‌کردند موشکی به شهرشان اصابت کند که همه می‌گفتند: «ترامپ اصلا نمی‌داند میناب کجاست چه برسد به اینکه بخواهد بزندش.» ساعت ۱۱ و ۲۰ دقیقه صبح شنبه ۹ اسفند‌ماه ۱۴۰۴، اولین موشک امریکایی راهی مدرسه شد. دومین موشک به فاصله کمی شلیک شد و دانش‌آموزان که از ترس حمله و بمباران به نمازخانه و داخل ساختمان پناه آورده بودند، درجا جانشان را از دست دادند. ۱۵۶ نفر در مدرسه و داروخانه کنار آن (با احتساب جنین شش‌ماهه یکی از معلم‌ها) به واسطه سه موشکی که به محل اصابت کرد، جانشان را از دست دادند. مدرسه در مجموع ۴۰۳ دانش‌آموز داشت؛ ۱۸۶ پسر و ۱۷۴ دختر، ۴۳ کودک هم در پیش‌دبستانی و ۳۶ نفرهم کادر مدرسه بودند. از تعداد بچه‌هایی که آن روز در مدرسه بودند، تقریبا ۱۴۰ پسر، ۱۴۴ دختر، بچه‌های پیش‌دبستانی و ۱۰ نفر هم از کادر مدرسه زنده ماندند و ۴۷ دانش‌آموز دختر، ۷۳ دانش‌آموز پسر و ۲۶ نفر از کادر مدرسه شهید شدند. آن شنبه تلخ‌ترین روز زندگی‌ام شد زهرا؛ بازمانده کوچک کلاس ششم بغض کرده بود و نشسته بود روبه‌رویم. به زور ۱۱سالش می‌شد. چادر عربی سرش کرده بود. مادرش مانتوی سبزی پوشیده بود و شالی همرنگ گذاشته بود روی سرش مادرش دست دختر کوچکش را گرفته بود و پشت دوربین ایستاده بود منتظر زهرا. می‌گفت: «بهش گفتم می‌خوای بری؟ اگه حالت بد نمیشه بریم. مجبور نیستی بری. خودش گفت می‌خوام برم اونجا حرف بزنم. بعد مصاحبه شما هم باید بریم، وقت مشاورمونه. هم من هم زهرا مشاوره داریم.» زهرا کوچک است. چادرش هم کوچک است. چادر را خالی سرش کرده. شبیه زن‌های قدیم که چادر خالی می‌انداختند روی سرشان. موهای مجعدش از زیر چادرش زده بیرون. صورتش قشنگ است. خیره شده‌ام به چشم‌هایش. آدم نمی‌تواند چشم از چشم‌هایش بردارد. روز حادثه را تعریف می‌کند. وسط‌هایش خیلی خودش را کنترل می‌کند اشک نریزد و هق نزند، اما نمی‌شود یک جاهایی دیگر و از کنترلش خارج می‌شود. با دستان کوچکش اشک‌هایش را پاک می‌کند و ادامه می‌دهد. تعریف می‌کند. از همکلاسی‌هایش می‌گوید، از لحظه انفجار می‌گوید، از ساختمان که لرزیده، از دودی که همه جا را گرفت، از راهروی طبقه بالا که ریخت، از کلاس که پر از خاک شد، از خودش و دوستش که پخش زمین شدند، از دوستش که سرش گیج رفت و به زور خودش را رساند پایین. از او می‌پرسم: «مگه راه‌پله سالم بود که بیاین پایین؟» می‌گوید: «نه یه عالم آوار ریخته بود، ما از روی اونها اومدیم پایین. یک قسمت طبقه بالا ریخت روی طبقه پایین، ولی دیگه پله‌ها نبودند. اون قسمت از بین رفته بود.» شنبه ۹‌اسفند را این‌طوری تعریف می‌کند: «آن روز ما در مدرسه بودیم، معلم‌ها از جلسه درآمدند، گفتند مرخصید، الان یکی‌یکی زنگ می‌زنیم به اولیاتون که بیان دنبالتون ببرنتون. ما کنجکاو شدیم، پرسیدیم چی شده، چرا تعطیل کردین؟ گفتن برین اخبارو نگاه کنین. ما شک کردیم گفتیم جنگ شده؟ مربی پرورشی‌مان گفت آره جنگ شده، بقیه‌ش رو برین اخبار رو ببینین. چند دقیقه‌ای گذشت، من در کلاس بودم موشک اول را زدند. شیشه پنجره کلاس ما شکست، همه بچه‌ها داد و بیداد می‌کردند. کمک می‌خواستند. موشک دوم هم چند ثانیه بعد زدند. بعد از موشک دوم، راهروی کلاس ما ریخت و یک نوری کم‌کم آمد و روشن شد. من با کمک معلم‌مان و چند تا از دوستام رفتم پایین. معلم‌مون برگشت منو آورد پایین. من از روی آوار که اومدم پایین افتادم. یک آقایی داشت آوار را بلند می‌کرد، به من گفت فقط فرار کن، برو بیرون. من پاشدم رفتم بیرون. همه اولیا آمده بودند، داد می‌زدند، اسم بچه‌هاشونو می‌بردن و دنبال بچه‌هاشون می‌گشتن و گریه می‌کردند. خیلی بد بود.» گریه امانش نمی‌دهد. «موقعی که داشتم میومدم بیرون، از دوستام فقط دو نفرشان را دیدم.۱۰ نفر از ۱۲ نفر کلاسمان و معلم‌مان زنده ماندند. زهرا سلیمانی و مهدیه احمدزاده شهید شدند. اون روز شبیه فیلم‌ها بود. شبیه خواب بود. اصلا انگار داشتم خواب می‌دیدم. همش می‌گفتم خدایا خوابه.» سبحان و حنان، خوشحال‌ترین بچه‌های دنیا بودند راهی خانه سبحان و حنان می‌شویم. «محمدرضا احمدی»، پدر جوان حنان و سبحان است. چهار بچه داشته که حالا شده‌اند دوتا. از خانه شش نفره‌شان، سبحان ۹‌ساله و حنان یا همان هانیه ۷‌ساله کم شده‌اند. «بچه‌های من دو سال تفاوت سنی داشتند، دوتا رفیق بودند. خصوصیات اخلاقی‌شان متفاوت بود، اما مثل دوقلوهای به هم چسبیده بودند. بدون هم جایی حاضر نمی‌شدند. تا آن یکی نمی‌آمد، این یکی غذا نمی‌خورد. سبحان آرام و بامرام بود، هانیه ولی شلوغ بود، همیشه ما رو می‌خندوند. همیشه صدای خنده‌شان از اتاقشان می‌آمد. توی خونه خنده اینها قطع نمی‌شد. با هم کل‌کل داشتند.» جایی که نشسته‌ایم را نشان می‌دهد و می‌گوید: «همین‌جا فوتبال بازی می‌کردم با سبحان.» «روز شنبه من خانه بودم. حدود ساعت ۱۱ بود که زنگ زدند گفتند بیایید مدرسه تعطیل شده، بچه‌ها را ببرید. راه افتادم به سمت مدرسه. قبل از اینکه برسم به میدان ۲۲ بهمن، صدای انفجار شنیدم. همه از مغازه‌هاشان آمدند بیرون، یکهو ترافیک شد. نمی‌فهمیدیم داستان چیست. سر میدان که رسیدم، صدای انفجار دوم آمد. ماشین‌ها ایستادند. عجله داشتم که هرچه زودتر خودم را برسانم به مدرسه. نگران آن تماس مدرسه بودم اصلا نمی‌فهمیدم داستان چیست. ماشینم را روبه‌روی جهاد سازندگی پارک کردم، بدو رفتم تا رسیدم به مدرسه و دیدم مدرسه تخریب شده. وقتی من رسیدم بچه‌های هلال احمر آنجا بودند. من در ذهنم تصور می‌کردم بچه‌های من سالمند. دنبال کلاسشان می‌گشتم. یکهو متوجه شدم نصف مدرسه؛ قسمتی که تخریب شده بود، بالا کلاس دخترم و پایین کلاس پسرم بود. سازه مدرسه قدیمی بود، بتنش خیلی سنگین بود، هوابرش آوردند، میلگردها را می‌خواستند برش بدهند. تقریبا یک ساعتی من مشغول گشتن بودم. گفتند سبحان رو پیدا کردند، شهید شده. شما برو خونه، خودتو اذیت نکن. گفتم دخترم هم همین‌جا بوده. گفتند پس بیا بریم بیمارستان شاید هانیه را بردند اونجا. رفتیم بیمارستان. تعداد پیکرها آنقدر زیاد بود که کیسه جسد کم آمده بود. بچه‌ها رو تو یه پلاستیکی میذاشتن، میاوردن. بدو می‌رفتیم سر کیسه نگاه می‌کردیم که بچه ما هست یا نیست. خیلی‌هاشون قابل شناسایی نبودند. اصلا نمی‌تونستم قبول کنم بچه‌های من باشند. دوباره منو آوردن خونه. دلم طاقت نیاورد، دوباره برگشتم بیمارستان. سردخونه جا نداشت. یکی از همشهری‌هامون پرورش میگو داره سمت بندر تیاب، اون قبول کرده بود که سردخونه‌شو در اختیار بذاره. بعد بهم گفتن که بیا بریم اونجا رو نگاه بکنیم. هانیه رو که من از دور دیدم، شناختم. هانیه ساعت ۱۱ شب پیدا شد. خانم معلم‌شون چند تا از بچه‌ها رو می‌گیره تو بغلش، یکی از بچه‌ها هانیه بوده. سرش ضربه دیده بود، ولی صورت و بدنش سالم بود.» به سبحان که می‌رسد رنگش می‌پرد. «سبحان رو از رو جورابش شناختم. اون روز صبح وقتی می‌خواست بره مدرسه، می‌خواست جوراب ورزشی بپوشه، مادرش گفت جورابی که از کربلا واست گرفتم رو بپوش. مثل اینکه قرار بوده ما از روی جوراب بچه را بشناسیم. دوبار رفتم بالا سر سبحان. حدس می‌زدم پسرم باشه، ولی نمی‌تونستم واقعا ۱۰۰ درصد تشخیص بدم که پسر منه. زنگ زدم به مادرش که یه نشونه‌ای چیزی بده که بیشتر مطمئن بشم. گفته بود نگاه کنید جورابش چه رنگیه. همون جوراب رو آوردیم به مادرش نشون دادیم تایید کرد. سبحان نصف صورتش رفته بود. از یه طرف صورتش هم که سالم بود، مغز نداشت. برای همین برای بار دوم دوباره رفتم بالا سرش شناساییش کنم. زیپ کاور رو کشیدم پایین. می‌فهمیدم سبحانه، شناسایی شده بود، ولی نمی‌خواستم قبول کنم پسر منه.» من به عنوان یک غریبه نمی‌توانم هضم کنم پدری با چنین صحنه‌ای مواجه شود. من هم جای محمدرضا احمدی بودم نمی‌توانستم باور کنم که این بچه، پسر من است. «الان نزدیک ۵۰ روز از این حادثه گذشته. من نمی‌توانستم به این راحتی که الان دارم به شما میگم، صحبت کنم. سبحان من از صدای ترکیدن بادکنک می‌ترسید. از صدای ترقه و فشفشه می‌ترسید. ولی دمش گرم تو اون حادثه شجاعت و شهامتشو، غیرتشو به جهان نشون داد. یکی از مادرها تعریف کرده آمده دنبال بچه‌ها به سبحان هم گفته بیا بریم، اومد بره یه لحظه گفت که خواهرم اینجاست. اونا رفتن و این برمی‌گرده دنبال خواهرش که دومین موشک رو می‌زنن. سبحان ما تو مدرسه دخترونه پیدا شد.» مادر سبحان و حنان همان‌طور است که همسرش توصیف کرده بود؛ آرام و قوی. «مرضیه آشنا» مادر ۳۸ ساله چهار بچه که دوتایشان جزو شهدای مدرسه میناب شدند. «ما تو خونه، هانیه رو حنان صدا می‌زدیم. ... ساعت ۱۱ خانم معلم سبحان زنگ زد گفت که بیاین دنبال بچه‌ها. چند دقیقه بعدش خانم حنان زنگ زد که بیاین دنبال بچه‌ها. همسرم اون روز شیفت کاریش نبود و خونه بود. سریع آماده شد و رفت. چند دقیقه نگذشته بود، تلفنم زنگ خورد. دیدم همسرم داره گریه می‌کنه پشت تلفن. من با اضطراب چادرمو پوشیدم، دویدم سمت خیابون. به محض اینکه رسیدم، دیدم مدرسه تخریب شده و همه پدرها گریه می‌کنند. اون موقع هنوز هم نمی‌فهمیدم موشک خورده به مدرسه. هر کدوم از والدین میومدن می‌دیدم سرگردونن. دنبال بچه‌هاشونن، دنبال کیف و وسایل بچه‌هان. خیلی مادرا حالشون بد بود، از حال رفته بودند. پدرها رو می‌دیدم که آب می‌زدند به صورتشان که به حال بیارنشون. از مدرسه پسرونه دور زدم اومدم سمت دخترونه. دیدم کلاس حنان کامل تخریب شده. اونجا افتادم زمین. زمین رو چنگ می‌زدم. گفتم دیگه از این بچه‌ها چیزی نمونده که بخوایم پیدا کنیم. تا قبل اون یه امیدی داشتم که بچه‌ها رو زنده میارن بیرون. هرجا که بچه‌ای رو می‌آوردند، ما خانواده‌ها می‌دویدیم سمت آمبولانس. کاور تموم شده بود، بچه‌ها رو می‌ذاشتن تو نایلون مشکی. ولی من خودم قبول نمی‌کردم که احتمال داره بچه من هم باشه. هیچ کدوممون قبول نمی‌کردیم. فقط تا نصفه راه می‌رفتم دنبال مادرا، جرات نمی‌کردم جلوتر برم. فقط یه بچه رو دیدم که پوست بدنش جدا شده بود. از امدادگر پرسیدم زنده است یا نه، گفت شهید شده. اونجا دیگه فهمیدم قراره با چه صحنه‌ای مواجه بشیم. ساعت حدودا ۱۲ بود که اومدن گفتن سبحان شهید شده. یکی از همکلاسیاش شناساییش کرده. اونجا من افتادم دوباره زمین. » خواهرم گفت سبحان مثل حضرت عباس چشم نداشته، بدنشم مثل حضرت علی‌اکبر پاره‌پاره شده بود. » آرزومه یک‌بار دیگه داداشم رو بغل کنم «آتنا» مات و گیج است. سلام می‌گویم، یک جواب روی هوا می‌دهد و رو به مادرش می‌گوید: «مامان اینجارو. اینجا دفتر بودا. اینجا کلاس ماست مامان. می‌تونم برم بالا؟ می‌خوام برم بالا.» مادرش مات‌تر از او است. می‌گوید: «نمیشه بری بالا. پله‌ها خراب شدند. خطرناکه اصلا.» مادرش، آرش را همین‌جا از دست داده. حالا با آتنا آمده اینجا تا ما با او و دخترش حرف بزنیم. آتنا گل‌آذین از روز حمله به این طرف پا به مدرسه نگذاشته بود. به خاطر همین هیچ‌ چیز را جز مدرسه نمی‌بیند. از این سو می‌رود به آن سو و همه‌اش تصور می‌کند اینجا چه بوده و آنجا که خراب شده چه بوده. یونیفرم سبز مدرسه پوشیده با مقنعه سفید. کلاس پنجمی است. خواهر آرش است. آرش کلاس دوم بود و ماند زیر آوار. چشمان مادر آتنا و آرش آنقدر پف کرده از زاری که چشم‌هایش کوچک و قرمز شده. می‌گویم: «میشه با دخترتون حرف بزنیم؟» زیرلب می‌گوید: «بله حرف بزنین.» آتنا را می‌آوریم جلوی دوربین. دختر کلاس پنجمی مدرسه شجره طیبه، دختر اول یک خانواده پنج نفره است که حالا شده‌اند چهار نفره. «آرش گل‌آذین»؛ برادر کلاس دومی‌اش در حمله موشکی به مدرسه جانش را از دست داد. آتنا حرف که می‌زند اخم می‌کند، لب‌هایش را کج می‌کند تا معلوم نشود بغضش گرفته. یاد آرش که می‌افتد، سخت حرف می‌زند. «روزی که به مدرسه حمله شد، خانم‌مان ساعت یه ربع به ۱۱ اومد، گفت تعطیل شدین. گفتیم خانم چرا. گفت من باید برم به پدر مادراتون زنگ بزنم. از کلاس رفت بیرون. ما داشتیم توی کلاس باهم حرف می‌زدیم که یک کلاس ششمی اومد تو کلاس ما گفت جنگ شده، من و دوستامم رفتیم بیرون. داخل سالن بودیم که داداشم اومد بالا کنارم. گفتم داداشی مامان اومده دنبالمون؟ گفت نه هنوز نیومده. گفتم صبر کن کیفمو برمی‌دارم با هم میریم. گفت نه من می‌خوام زودتر برم تو آروم میای. من دستشو ول کردم بره. همه دوستام رفتن بیرون. فقط یه نفرشون مونده بود وسط کلاس افتاده بود. بلندش کردم. گفتم نازنین چی شده گفت نمی‌دونم. همون موقع موشک دوم رو زدند. صورت دوستم خونی شده بود. گفتم بلند شو بریم. می‌خواستیم بلند شیم، کتابخونه افتاد رومون. کتابخونه رو بلند کردم دیدم پام درد می‌کنه. بعدش رفتیم که بریم پایین، دیوار ریخته بود. رفتم جلو در پسرانه، از اونجا اومدم پایین. می‌خواستم برم دنبال داداشم که دوستمو دیدم. گفت من خواهرم تو مدرسه است، گفتم پس صبر کن الان بریم با هم، هم خواهر تو رو برمی‌داریم هم داداش خودم. ولی نذاشتن ما جلوتر بریم. به مامانم زنگ زدم که من دارم میرم خونه ولی آرش تو مدرسه‌س. مامانم گفت تو برو من میام دنبال آرش. من رفتم خونه. ظهر دوشنبه بابام اومد خونه خبر شهادت آرش رو بهمون داد. اون روز معلم ما هم داخل سالن بود که موشک بهش خورده بود و با پسرش شهید شدند. دو تا از بچه‌های کلاس‌مون هم به اسم‌های فاطمه و سمیرا شهید شدند.» آتنا یک برادر سه ماهه به اسم کوروش هم دارد، اما با آرش رفیق و همبازی بود. «آرش ۷ سال و نیمش بود. خیلی برام سخته داداشم نیست. آرش دوست داشت مخترع شود. ولی من دوست دارم بازیگر شوم. من از آن لحظه‌ای که داداشم ازم تو مدرسه جدا شد دیگه آرش رو ندیدم. اون دو روزی که پیدا نشده بود همش فکر می‌کردم جایی قایم شده یا رفته داخل خیابون، چون آرش خیلی شیطون بود.» مادر آتنا هم گوشه‌ای ایستاده و مات مدرسه را نگاه می‌کند، می‌گوید: «من فکر می‌کردم شنبه قرار بود بچه‌ها را ببرند مجموعه بازی. پدرش ازش پرسید امروز ورزش دارید؟ آرش گفت نه می‌ریم مجموعه بازی. بعدا فهمیدیم رفتند مجموعه بازی، اما چون کلید نداشتند دوباره برگشتند زمین چمن. ۱۱ و ربع آمدند تو ساختمان. ۱۱ و ۲۱ دقیقه اولین موشکو زدند که بچه‌ها توی مدرسه بودند.» گوشه‌ای از دیوار به‌جامانده را نشان می‌دهد و می‌گوید: «اینجا دیوار دخترانه ریخته جلوی پسرانه. دخترم اومد بیرون پسرم نتوانست. هرکی داخل بودن مردند. بمب اول را که زدند یکسری آمدند بیرون که دخترم هم جزوشان بود. بمب دوم را که زدند، این همه تلفات داد وگرنه خیلی‌ها زنده موندن اومدن بیرون. هرکی موند دیگه موند.» مادرش تاریخ دقیق عمرش را حفظ است. «روزی که شهید شد ۷ سال و ۵ ماه و ۲۵ روزش بود. آرش شهریوری بود. این روزا بدون آرش خیلی سخته. شلوغ و شیطون خونمون بود.» خانم گل‌آذین می‌گوید کیف آرش را هم پیدا نکرده، فقط یک کتاب نصفه سوخته به او دادند و یک لنگه جوراب سوراخ. آرش را از روی جورابش شناختم «بهرام گل‌آذین»، پدر آرش ایستاده سر مزار آرش. می‌گوید: «بچه‌ام را نمی‌توانستم شناسایی کنیم، از روی جورابش شناختیمش. خودم صبح پاش کرده بودم، می‌دانستم دنبال چی بگردم. آرش زمانی که به دنیا اومد پای راستش یه نشونه داشت؛ دو تا ناخن کوچیکش تقریبا نصفه چسبیده بود به هم. مادرش همیشه می‌بوسید پاش رو و می‌گفت تو خاصی. این نشونه رو خدا به ما داده که اگر گم شدی پیدات کنیم. داخل سردخونه با همین نشونه بچه‌مو پیدا کردم.» «اون صبح شنبه مثل شنبه‌های دیگه شروع شد، ولی مثل شنبه‌های دیگه نبود. شنبه سیاهی بود برای ما خانواده‌ها. ساعت 6:30 صبح من خودم حاضرش کردم ببرمش مدرسه. آماده شده بود، برگشت از دم در هال، دست داداش کوچیکشو گرفت بوسید. بردمشان مدرسه. محل کار من در بندرعباس است. مشغول کارهای روزانه خودم بودم که تماس گرفتن گفتن اینجا بمباران شده. تماس بعدی رو که گرفتن گفتن مدرسه رو زده، بلافاصله حرکت کردم. خانمم زنگ زد گفت من رسیدم مدرسه و هیچی از بچه‌ها نیست. همه زیر آوارن. آرش رو صدا می‌زنم ولی نیست. تمام مدرسه ریخته روی بچه‌ها و همه بچه‌ها شهید شدن. با گریه تلفنو قطع کرد. از بندر ۲۵ دقیقه‌ای خودمو رسوندم به میناب و دیدم مدرسه خراب شده. سریع رفتم بیمارستان تو مجروحین بگردم بچه‌مو پیدا کنم. ولی بچه‌ام اونجا نبود. تمام مجروحینی که سوخته بودن، دانش‌آموزا اونجا بودن. نگاه کردم نبود. رفتم سردخونه رو نگاه کردم بچه‌مو پیدا نکردم. دوباره رفتم مدرسه. تمام خانواده‌ها بودن. از همون ساعت‌های اول آواربرداری شروع شده بود. بدن سالمی از اونجا در نمی‌اومد. بچه‌ها تیکه شده بودند، قابل شناسایی نبودند. نزدیک به ۳۰ ساعت زمان برد تا آواربرداری تموم شد. روز یکشنبه ما رفتیم به سمت سردخونه تیاب، ۳۰ کیلومتری میناب. بچه‌ام رو از روی پاش و جورابش شناسایی کردم. تنها جایی که آسیبی ندیده بود همون پای راستش بود.» «حالا آرش زیر پای معلمش خوابیده، امیدوارم خانم شهریاری برایش مادری کنه. معلمشون باردار بود و در انتظار به‌دنیا آمدن بچه‌اش شهید شد.» این گزارش، بخشی از دردهای چهار خانواده از ۱۱۰ خانواده شهدای مدرسه میناب است. در گزارش‌های آتی روایت خانواده‌های دیگر و امدادگران هلال‌ احمر را می‌خوانید.

Nazenin Alp

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Ebrahim Taheri, the prosecutor of Minab County, Iran, on the fortieth day of the US and Israeli attack on the "Shajre Tayyiba" school, while re-condemning the attack, announced: After detailed investigations, the final death toll in this incident has been determined to be 156 people; In this horrific crime, which had previously been reported as 168 dead, after a thorough examination of the documents, the final number of victims was announced as 156. According to Iranian media reports, he stated: Among the dead were 120 students, including 73 boys and 47 girls, 26 teachers, all of whom were women, seven parents of the students, including four men and three women, a school bus driver, a pharmacy technician from the clinic next to the school, and a six-month-old fetus. Taheri continued: One of the dead teachers, named "Zohre Shahriari," was six months pregnant at the time of her martyrdom, according to medical records, and her six-month-old fetus also died in the attack along with its mother. Referring to the process of identifying the bodies of the dead, the Minab Prosecutor's Office said: Out of the total 156 victims of this incident, 155 have been identified and authenticated, and after issuing a burial permit by the forensic medicine, they were buried. One of the deceased students, Makan Nasiri, has not been identified, even after DNA testing, and is still on the list of missing persons in the incident.

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ابراهیم طاهری، دادستان شهرستان میناب ایران در چهلمین روز حمله آمریکا و اسرائیل به مدرسه «شجره طیبه» ضمن محکومیت مجدد این حمله، اعلام کرد: پس از بررسی‌های دقیق انجام‌شده، آمار نهایی جان‌باختگان این حادثه 156 نفر تعیین شده است؛ در این جنایت هولناک که پیش از این آمار جان‌باختگان 168 نفر اعلام شده بود، پس از بررسی دقیق اسناد و مدارک، آمار نهایی 156 قربانی اعلام شد.به گزارش رسانه‌های ایران، وی اظهار داشت: در میان جان باختگان 120 دانش‌آموز شامل 73 پسر و 47 دختر، 26 معلم که همگی از بانوان بودند، هفت نفر از اولیای دانش‌آموزان شامل چهار مرد و سه زن، یک راننده سرویس مدرسه، یک تکنسین داروخانه درمانگاه مجاور مدرسه و یک جنین شش‌ماهه حضور دارند. طاهری ادامه داد: یکی از معلمان جان باختنه به نام «زهره شهریاری» بر اساس اسناد پزشکی در زمان شهادت شش ماهه باردار بوده است و جنین شش‌ماهه او نیز در این حمله همراه با مادرش جان باخت. دادستان میناب با اشاره به روند شناسایی پیکر جان باختگان گفت: از مجموع 156 قربانی این حادثه، 155 نفر شناسایی و احراز هویت شده‌اند و پس از صدور جواز دفن از سوی پزشکی قانونی، تشییع و تدفین شده‌اند؛ یکی از جان‌باختگان دانش‌آموز به نام «ماکان نصیری» تاکنون حتی با انجام آزمایش DNA نیز شناسایی نشده و همچنان در فهرست مفقودان این حادثه قرار دارد.

Student News Agency | SNN

28 Apr 2026

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28 Apr 2026

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The exact statistics of the martyrs of Minab School The Secretary of the Judiciary's Human Rights Headquarters announced: 73 boys, 47 girls, 26 teachers, 7 parents, a school bus driver and a pharmacy technician from the clinic next to the school were martyred in the attack on Minab School.

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آمار دقیق شهدای مدرسه میناب دبیر ستاد حقوق بشر قوه قضاییه اعلام کرد: در حمله به مدرسه میناب ۷۳ کودک پسر، ۴۷ کودک دختر، ۲۶ معلم، ۷ نفر از والدین، یک راننده سرویس مدرسه و یک تکنیسین داروخانه درمانگاه جنب مدرسه به شهادت رسیدند.

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1 May 2026

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1 May 2026

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My dear Ms. Besardeh, the first-grade teacher, At the moment of the explosion, she had Mahdis and four other students tightly in her arms. That kept our children’s bodies intact. May your soul rest in peace, exemplary teacher, who tried until the very last moment to protect your children

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خانم بسارده عزیزم معلم کلاس اول لحظه‌ی انفجار مهدیس و چهار دانش‌آموز دیگه رو محکم توی بغلش گرفته بود همین باعث شد که بچه‌هامون بدن هاشون سالم باشه روحت در آرامش معلم نمونه‌ای که تا لحظه‌ی آخر تلاش کردی از بچه‌هات محافظت کنی

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16 Apr 2026

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16 Apr 2026

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My dear Mahdis, there was no nuclear weapon in your schoolbag, no atomic bomb, no threat against humanity. In your bag, there were only colored pencils to draw your dreams Send my greetings to your father

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مهدیس جانم توی کیفِ تو سلاح هسته ای نبود، بمب اتم هم نبود، هیچ تهدیدی علیه بشریت نبود، توی کیف تو فقط مداد رنگی بود برای کشیدنِ آرزوهایت سلام من رو بابا برسون

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17 Apr 2026

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17 Apr 2026

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21 Apr 2026

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21 Apr 2026

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But this was not Mahdis’s fate. Three weeks after her seventh birthday, she was taken like this. A child for whom we didn’t even buy sparklers on her birthday because she was afraid of them—how could a missile be dropped on her?

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ولی حقِ مهدیس این نبود سه هفته بعد از تولد هفت سالگیش اینطور پرپر بشه بچه ای که روز تولدش فشفشه براش نگرفتیم چون ازش میترسه نباید روی سرش موشک مینداختن

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13 Apr 2026

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Persepolis lost one of its best fans Araz Ahmadizadeh, one of the angels of Minab School, was a Persepolis fan who was killed during the American enemy bombings. He recorded this video after his beloved team won the championship...

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پرسپولیس یکی از بهترین هوادارانش را از دست داد آراز احمدی‌زاده، از فرشته‌های مدرسهٔ میناب، حسابی پرسپولیسی‌ بود که در جریان ب‌مباران دش‌من آمریکایی آسمانی شد. او این ویدئو را بعد از قهرمانی تیم محبوبش ضبط کرده بود...⁩⁩

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Radio Varzesh (Sport Radio Channel)

21 Mar 2026

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21 Mar 2026

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Karamzadeh, the fourth martyr in skating Martyr Saman Karamzadeh, an 8-year-old figure skater from the Kian Skate Club in Minab, was martyred following the brutal American-Zionist attacks on the Shajare Tayyiba School. He is the fourth athlete in this sport to be martyred. Previously, the martyrs of our country's figure skaters, Mahdis Nazari (7 years old), Sonar Salari (9 years old), and Niayesh Salehi (9 years old), were martyred in this crime.

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کرم‌زاده، چهارمین شهید رشته اسکیت شهید سامان کرم‌زاده، ورزشکار ۸ ساله رشته اسکیت از باشگاه کیان اسکیت میناب، در پی حملات وحشیانه آمریکایی - صهیونیستی به مدرسه شجره طیبه، به فیض شهادت نائل آمد. وی چهارمین ورزشکار این رشته است که به مقام شهادت می‌رسد. پیش از این نیز شهیدان مهدیس نظری (۷ ساله)، سُنار سالاری (۹ ساله) و نیایش صالحی (۹ ساله) از اسکیت‌سواران کشورمان در این جنایت به شهادت رسیده بودند.

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Perspolis Fans Channel

28 Apr 2026

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28 Apr 2026

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کانال هواداران پرسپولیس

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Perspolis Fans Channel

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Special gift from Persepolis captain to injured student at Minab School Mohammad Sharafi, a student at Minab School, suffered severe burns and injuries during the attack on the school. The student lost his sister, who was also a student at the same school, and his aunt, who worked as a teacher, in the incident. Mohammad, a fan of the Persepolis football team, had a simple but meaningful wish; to receive a shirt from Omid Alishah, the captain of Persepolis

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هدیه ویژه کاپیتان پرسپولیس به مجروح مدرسه میناب محمد شرفی از دانش‌آموزان مدرسه میناب در جریان حمله به این مدرسه دچار سوختگی و جراحات شدید شد. این دانش‌آموز در این واقعه، خواهر خود که از محصلان همان مدرسه بود و همچنین خاله‌اش را که به‌عنوان معلم فعالیت می‌کرد، از دست داد. محمد که از هواداران تیم فوتبال پرسپولیس است، آرزویی ساده اما معنادار داشت؛ دریافت پیراهن از امید عالیشاه، کاپیتان پرسپولیس.

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Maryam Dehghan

24 Apr 2026

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24 Apr 2026

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مریم دهقان

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Maryam Dehghan

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An event had been organized by the Razavi Karāmat Foundation for the families. We went and, as much as we could, tried to spend a few moments speaking with some of the families of the 168 Minab children whose lives were cut short. Ehsan Saleminia, 7 years old, first grade Ehsan’s mother, only 28 years old, says: “Ehsan was my first child, and my only son.” Sonar Salari, 9 years old, fourth grade and his father Hamid Salari Among the crowd, we approach a woman holding photos of two victims. She is the grandmother of an innocent girl who, in the criminal missile attack, lost both her granddaughter and her son-in-law. Esmat Hatami, Sonar’s grandmother, says: “Sonar was a very special girl. Her father loved her deeply and always said he never wanted to be separated from her—and in the end, they were martyred together and left this world.” Sonar’s 12-year-old cousin introduces herself, in her thick southern accent, as Zahra Routani—Routani being the name of a village in Minab. Zahra describes that day: “I was at home and hadn’t gone to school when suddenly we heard three terrifying explosions. We saw smoke rising from the direction of the school. We quickly got in the car and drove there. Everything was destroyed. My other cousin and I kept shouting Sonar’s name, but there was no sign of her. We went to the hospital, and until night, every time they told us Sonar was in the ICU, or the operating room, or another ward. We kept running to see if she was alive—but that night they told us she might have been killed.” With tear-filled eyes, she continues: “They said they would show us photos of the victims so we could identify them. Sonar was the forty-eighth photo they showed us. We went for identification. I recognized her by her bracelets and earrings, but I wasn’t sure it was really her. I told my aunt, and she said it was her.” Zahra’s tears grow heavier when I ask about Sonar’s absence during their visits to the shrine: “Sonar and I were like sisters. Now that she’s gone, I feel so lonely and very sad. I wish she were with me at the shrine so we could go together.” Standing beside Esmat and the rest of the family is Sonar’s 32-year-old mother. She can barely speak. When she hears our conversation, we carefully ask about her eldest daughter: “On the day of the incident, at 11:08 a.m., the school called and said classes were dismissed and we should come pick her up. I called my husband, Hamid. At 11:20 he reached the school—and at that moment, the missile struck.” Liana Mohammadi, 8 years old, second grade Mandana Salari, first-grade teacher A mother and father stand side by side, holding a different kind of photograph: that of a teacher who was killed alongside her child in the bombing of Shajareh Tayyebeh School. Ali Salari holds the photo of his daughter, Mandana Salari, and his granddaughter, Liana Mohammadi. Liana’s grandmother knows her age exactly at the moment of her death: “Liana was exactly seven years, nine months, and nine days old when she was killed. But she always understood more than her age. She wanted to become a doctor. At school, they used to call her ‘Dr. Mohammadi.’”

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از سوی بنیاد کرامت رضوی برنامه‌ای برای خانواده‌ها تدارک دیده بودند رفتیم و سعی کردیم به اندازه وسعمان دقایقی با برخی از خانواده‌های ۱۶۸ گل پرپر شده مینابی هم کلام شویم شهید احسان سالمی‌نیا، ۷ ساله کلاس اول مادر احسان که تنها ۲۸ سال دارد می‌گوید «احسان بچه اولم بود و همین یک پسر را داشتم.» شهیده سُنار سالاری، ۹ ساله، کلاس چهارم و پدرش حمید سالاری در میان جمعیت به سراغ خانمی می‌رویم که عکس دو شهید را در دستانش دارد. او مادربزرگ دخترکی معصوم است که در حمله جنایت‌بار موشک‌های نفرین شدگان اهل زمین، نوه و دامادش را از دست داده است. عصمت حاتمی مادربزرگ سُنار سالاری است: سنار دختر خیلی خاصی بود. پدرش او را خیلی دوست داشت و همیشه می‌گفت من هیچ وقت نمی‌خواهم از سنار جدا شوم و آخر هم با هم شهید شدند و از این دنیا رفتند. دخترخاله سنار که ۱۲ سال بیشتر ندارد، با همان لهجه غلیظ جنوبی‌اش خودش را زهرا روتانی معرفی می‌کند. روتانی اسم یک روستا در میناب است. زهرا روز حادثه را برایمان اینطور تشریح می‌کند آن روز من خانه بودم و مدرسه نرفتم که یکهو سه صدای وحشتناک آمد. دیدیم دود از طرف مدرسه بلند شده، سریع با ماشین راه افتادیم سمت مدرسه. همه چیز خراب شده بود. من و دخترخاله دیگرم هی داد می‌زدیم سنار، ولی خبری از او نبود. با هم رفتیم بیمارستان و تا شب هر دفعه می‌گفتند سنار داخل آی‌سیو یا اتاق عمل یا فلان بخش است. ما بدو بدو می‌رفتیم تا ببینم زنده است، اما همان شب به ما گفتند ممکن است سنار شهید شده باشد.» او با چشم‌های زیبایش که بارانی شده ادامه می‌دهد «گفتند عکس شهدا را به ما نشان می‌دهند تا شناسایی کنیم. سنار چهل و هشتمین عکسی بود که نشانمان دادند. قرار شد برویم برای شناسایی. من از روی النگو‌ها و گوشواره‌هایش شناختم، اما شک داشتم که خودش باشد. به خاله‌ام گفتم و او گفت خودش است.» اشک‌های زهرا بیشتر می‌شود وقتی از او می‌خواهم درباره جای خالی سنار در زیارتش به حرم بگوید «من و سنار مثل خواهر بودیم. الان که نیست حس تنهایی دارم و خیلی ناراحتم. دوست داشتم او هم کنار من توی حرم باشد و با هم زیارت برویم.» کنار عصمت خانم و بقیه فامیل، مادر ۳۲ ساله سنار ایستاده است. خیلی توان حرف زدن ندارد و وقتی گفتگوی ما را با آنها می‌شنود با ملاحظاتی از او درباره دختر بزرگش می‌پرسیم؛ «همان روز حادثه، ساعت ۱۱ و ۸ دقیقه از مدرسه زنگ می‌زنند که تعطیل شده و بیایید دنبال دخترتان. با شوهرم حمید، تماس می‌گیرم. ساعت ۱۱:۲۰ دقیقه خودش را به مدرسه می‌رساند که همان موقع موشک می‌زنند.» شهیده لیانا محمدی، ۸ ساله، کلاس دوم و شهیده ماندانا سالاری، معلم کلاس اول مادر و پدری کنار یکدیگر ایستاده‌اند و عکس متفاوتی در دست دارند. عکس یک خانم معلم که همراه فرزندش در حادثه بمباران مدرسه شجره طیبه کنار هم به شهادت رسیدند. علی سالاری، عکس دخترش شهیده ماندانا سالاری و نوه‌اش لیانا محمدی را در دست دارد. مامان‌جون شهیده لیانا، سنش را موقع شهادت دقیق می‌داند «لیانا دقیقا هفت سال و ۹ ماه و ۹ روز داشت که شهید شد، اما همیشه بیشتر از سنش می‌فهمید. دوست داشت دکتر شود و توی مدرسه خانم دکتر محمدی صدایش می‌زدند.»

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Milad Samangani

24 Apr 2026

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24 Apr 2026

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میلاد سمنگانی

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Milad Samangani

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Photo report | Farewell to the family of the martyrs of the "Shajre Tayyiba" school in Minab at the Mashhad railway station. A group of family members of the martyrs of the "Shajre Tayyiba" school in Minab, who had traveled to Mashhad at the invitation of the Holy Shrine of the Holy Prophet, were seen off by the grateful people of Mashhad and headed to Minab.

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گزارش تصویری | بدرقه خانواده شهدای مدرسه «شجره طیبه» میناب در ایستگاه راه‌آهن مشهد جمعی از اعضای خانواده شهدای مدرسه «شجره طیبه» میناب که به دعوت آستان قدس رضوی به مشهد سفر کرده بودند، با بدرقه مردم قدرشناس مشهد راهی میناب شدند.

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Rouydad24

24 Apr 2026

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24 Apr 2026

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The bombing of an elementary school in Minab, which killed and injured dozens of students, continues to be accompanied by shocking accounts from survivors; accounts that reveal the human dimensions of this disaster even more than before. Asal Habashi, a 9-year-old student and one of five survivors of a class of 15, describes that day: “Our teacher was at work that day and the last bell rang and he was not at school; my other friends and I were playing on the second floor after the teacher left and when the noon call to prayer came, I went to perform ablution.” She describes the moment of the explosion as follows: “At that moment, I heard a very scary sound and wanted to quickly go upstairs when they knocked on the school and then I was thrown into the boys’ school; the blast wave threw me and I was under the rubble and I didn’t understand what happened after that.” This student says about the fate of his classmates: “There were 15 of us in the class, and none of my friends and classmates were injured; most of them were martyred the day they hit the school. Only 5 of us survived.” Referring to the loss of his friends, he added: “I miss my friends like Setayesh, Khadija, Motaharah, Mahna, and Maryam; all of these children were martyred; I was especially close friends with Setayesh and Khadija.” I was unconscious and they thought I was dead The most shocking part of this story dates back to the moments after he was rescued from the rubble. Asal says: “After they found me from the rubble, I was unconscious and they took me to the hospital in an ambulance; my uncle says they said I was dead and they wanted to put me in a body bag like the other children; They said I wasn’t breathing and didn’t have a pulse, then my uncle had argued with them and after a few minutes when I moved one of my legs they realized I was alive.” The student, who was hospitalized for about a month, has now returned home, but is still struggling with the physical and mental effects of the incident. He says: “The day they hit the school, my legs, arms, stomach and back were bruised and burned… Now I feel better and only my back hurts a little.” Mother’s account of searching through the rubble and bodies The student’s mother also describes the moments after the incident: “Everything was so destroyed and in disarray that I couldn’t remember why I went there or who I was looking for… All the children were put in blankets and the ambulance kept coming and going; "The arms and legs of the various children were hanging to one side, and as far as the eye could see, the children's dismembered bodies were lying around." He added about the moment his daughter was found: "One of the rescuers found her on a shoelace that had emerged from the rubble after all that searching... The only thing left on my daughter's foot was the shoelace that led us to her." According to the mother, Asal has not yet fully recovered and "walks with difficulty" and has become "very sensitive and irritable" emotionally.

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بمباران یک مدرسه ابتدایی در میناب که به کشته و مجروح شدن ده‌ها دانش‌آموز منجر شد، همچنان با روایت‌های تکان‌دهنده بازماندگان همراه است؛ روایت‌هایی که ابعاد انسانی این فاجعه را بیش از پیش آشکار می‌کند. عسل حبشی، دانش‌آموز ۹ ساله و یکی از ۵ بازمانده یک کلاس ۱۵ نفره، در شرح آن روز می‌گوید: «معلم ما آن روز کار داشت و زنگ آخر رفت و در مدرسه نبود؛ من و دیگر دوستانم بعد از رفتن معلم در همان طبقه دوم در حال بازی بودیم و نزدیک اذان ظهر که شد، رفتم تا وضو بگیرم.» او لحظه انفجار را این‌گونه توصیف می‌کند: «در همان موقع صدای خیلی ترسناکی شنیدم و می‌خواستم سریع بروم بالا که مدرسه را زدند و پس از آن به داخل مدرسه پسرانه پرت شدم؛ موج انفجار من را پرت کرد و زیر آوار بودم و بعدش را دیگر نفهمیدم که چه شد.» این دانش‌آموز درباره سرنوشت همکلاسی‌هایش می‌گوید: «ما در کلاس ۱۵ نفر بودیم و از دوستان و همکلاسی‌هایم کسی زخمی نشده؛ بیشترشان آن روزی که مدرسه را زدند شهید شدند. فقط ما ۵ نفر زنده ماندیم.» او با اشاره به از دست دادن دوستانش افزود: «دلم برای دوستانم مثل ستایش، خدیجه، مطهره، محنا و مریم تنگ شده است؛ همه این بچه‌ها شهید شدند؛ مخصوصا با ستایش و خدیجه دوست صمیمی بودیم.» بیهوش بودم و فکر می‌کردند مرده‌ام بخش تکان‌دهنده این روایت به لحظات پس از نجات او از زیر آوار بازمی‌گردد. عسل می‌گوید: «بعد از اینکه من را از زیر آوار پیدا کردند، بیهوش بودم و با آمبولانس به بیمارستان بردند؛ دایی‌ام می‌گوید که گفته‌اند من مرده‌ام و می‌خواستند مرا هم مثل بقیه بچه‌ها داخل کیسه (کاور ویژه اجساد افراد جانباخته) بگذارند؛ گفته بودند که من نفس نمی‌کشم و نبض ندارم، بعد دایی من آنها را دعوا کرده بود و بعد از چند دقیق که من یکی از پاهایم را تکان دادم فهمیدند من زنده‌ام.» این دانش‌آموز که حدود یک ماه در بیمارستان بستری بوده، اکنون به خانه بازگشته، اما همچنان با عوارض جسمی و روحی حادثه دست‌وپنجه نرم می‌کند. او می‌گوید: «روزی که مدرسه را زدند پاها، دستها، شکم و کمرم زخم شد و سوخته بود... الان حالم بهتر شده و فقط کمرم کمی درد می‌کند.» روایت مادر از جست‌و‌جو در میان آوار و پیکر‌ها مادر این دانش‌آموز نیز با شرح لحظات پس از حادثه می‌گوید: «آنقدر همه چیز خراب و بهم ریخته بود که یادم نمی‌آمد چرا به آنجا رفته‌ام و دنبال چه کسی می‌گردم... همه بچه‌ها را در کاور‌ها قرار داده بودند و آمبولانس مدام می‌آمد و می‌رفت؛ از بچه‌های مختلف دست و پاهایشان هر کدام یک طرف افتاده بود و تا جایی که چشم کار می‌کرد بدن تکه‌تکه شده بچه‌ها به اطراف افتاده بود.» او درباره لحظه پیدا شدن دخترش افزود: «یکی از امدادگران او را از روی یک لنگه کفشی که بعد از آن همه جست‌و‌جو از زیر آوار بیرون زده بود پیدا کرد... فقط همان لنگه کفش به پای دخترم مانده بود که ما را به او رساند.» به گفته مادر، عسل هنوز به‌طور کامل بهبود نیافته و «به سختی راه می‌رود» و از نظر روحی نیز «خیلی حساس و زودرنج شده است.»

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Rouydad24

17 Apr 2026

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What is the story of the Guard Tower of the IRGC in Minab School? The publication of a video and image by a citizen of Minab about the existence of a guard tower in the "Shajre Tayyiba School" has sparked a wave of reactions on social media; a claim that has been accompanied by contradictory narratives and is now a matter of controversy. In the description of his video, this citizen claimed: "I just connected to the internet after 46 days. My God, does this look like a school or a barracks? What is the Guard Tower of the IRGC Navy doing in the school yard? Why should they build a school inside the barracks and use innocent girls as human shields?” He also cited a similar example, claiming that a “radar on the roof” was installed in a school in Minab. In contrast, Farzad Seifikaran, a journalist living in the Netherlands, rejected this narrative and wrote: “This guard tower is not in any way inside the courtyard or grounds of the Shajareh Tayyiba school, but rather inside the IRGC complex.” According to him, the image circulating on social media was also from two days after an attack and is not new. Despite the widespread dissemination of these claims, there has not yet been independent confirmation of the exact location of the tower and the accuracy and time of recording of the images. This has led to the narratives about “the placement of military equipment in the vicinity of educational centers” continuing to receive attention and reactions from users.

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ماجرای برجک نگهبانی سپاه در مدرسه میناب چیست؟ انتشار یک ویدیو و تصویر از سوی یک شهروند اهل میناب درباره وجود برجک نگهبانی در «مدرسه شجره طیبه» موجی از واکنش‌ها را در شبکه‌های اجتماعی برانگیخت؛ ادعایی که با روایت‌های متناقض همراه شده و حالا محل مناقشه است. این شهروند در توضیح ویدیوی خود مدعی شده است: «تازه بعد از ۴۶ روز به اینترنت وصل شدم. خدایی این شبیه به مدرسه است یا پادگان؟ برجک نگهبانی نیروی دریایی سپاه درون حیاط مدرسه چه می‌کند؟ چرا باید درون پادگان، مدرسه بسازند و دختران معصوم را سپر انسانی کنند؟» او همچنین به نمونه‌ای مشابه اشاره کرده و مدعی شده در مدرسه‌ای در میناب «رادار روی پشت‌بام» نصب شده است. در مقابل، فرزاد صیفی‌کاران، روزنامه‌نگار ساکن هلند، این روایت را رد کرده و نوشته است: «این برجک نگهبانی به هیچ عنوان در داخل حیاط یا محوطه مدرسه شجره طیبه نیست، بلکه در داخل مجموعه سپاه قرار دارد.» به گفته او، تصویری که در شبکه‌های اجتماعی دست‌به‌دست می‌شود نیز مربوط به دو روز پس از یک حمله بوده و جدید نیست. با وجود انتشار گسترده این ادعاها، هنوز تأیید مستقلی درباره محل دقیق برجک و صحت و زمان ثبت تصاویر منتشر نشده است. همین مسئله باعث شده روایت‌ها درباره «قرار گرفتن تجهیزات نظامی در مجاورت مراکز آموزشی» همچنان مورد توجه و با واکنش‌های کاربران همراه باشد.

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A crumpled blue sweater and a cream-colored sports shoe—this is all that has been recovered over the past 46 days from beneath the rubble of the school, the only trace left of Makan Nasiri: a seven-year-old first grader at Shajareh Tayyebeh School in Minab, the only child from whom absolutely nothing—nothing at all—of his fragile little body was ever found. All that remains of him now sits inside a small glass case in the Mahdieh Mosque in the Eslamabad neighborhood of Minab, a memorial for a child whose grave is empty. “One of the student victims, named Makan Nasiri, has not been identified even through DNA testing and remains on the list of missing from this incident.” These are part of the Minab prosecutor’s remarks on Farvardin 20, when, after investigations, the final death toll of the school was announced as 156. According to him, this included 120 students—73 boys and 47 girls—26 female teachers, seven parents (four men and three women), one school bus driver, one pharmacy technician from the clinic next to the school, and a six-month-old fetus. The prosecutor emphasized that one of the teachers, Zahra Shahriari, was six months pregnant at the time of her death, and her unborn child also perished in the attack. Of the 156 victims, 155 have been identified and, after forensic authorization, buried. Asieh pauses for a moment: “We wanted to bury his shoe and sweater, but they told us not to. Now he only has a symbolic grave in the Minab martyrs’ cemetery and a memorial in the neighborhood mosque.” Makan’s blue sweater and one cream-colored shoe rest inside a glass case with a metal frame, beside photographs of other victims—Asra and Salma Zakari, Khadijeh Darvishi, and Masihah Salari—part of the mosque’s space dedicated to the children of this neighborhood who were killed in the missile strike. On either side of the glass case are flower pots. On the ground, beside what remains of Makan—his notebooks and schoolbooks recovered from the rubble—a black cloth is spread, with a large bouquet laid upon it. Nearby stands a woman in black, her hands clasped together; even from a distance, her swollen, grief-stricken eyes are visible. Asieh, 40 years old, held on to hope for 38 days. For 38 days she searched morgues and rubble for even a fragment of her third child’s body. In the end, it was her brother Hamzeh who brought her a sign: a torn shoe of Makan’s, found a hundred meters from the explosion site among the trees. That was when everything collapsed at home. The mother fainted; men and women broke into wails. A trace of their child had finally been found. That morning, Makan went to school wearing a tracksuit, his blue sweater slung over his shoulder, his cream-colored shoes on his feet—but he never made it to gym class. The empty grave of a seven-year-old child At 11:16 a.m. on Esfand 9, Asieh was doing housework when her phone rang. It was Mandana Salari, the first-grade teacher, asking her to come pick up Makan. Apparently, an attack was underway. Unaware of what was happening elsewhere—unaware that missile strikes had already hit Tehran earlier—Asieh called the school bus driver. He said he was already near the school and heading there. As she held the phone, a massive explosion rang out—the school had been hit. Asieh and her husband, who was home at the time, got into their car and drove toward Al-Mahdi Town, where the school was located. But as they approached, the road was blocked. They got out and continued on foot. The area was so crowded that the mother did not know where to go, where to search, or whom to ask about Makan. Asieh speaks firmly: “Many were under the rubble, but not a single child came out alive. We were there from 11:30 in the morning until 2:30 the next morning. Every body pulled from the rubble was lifeless.” What condition were the bodies in? “A few had suffocated. Most were torn apart.” A blue sweater inside a body bag That Saturday, Makan had Persian, math, and sports. Gym was his last class. His mother did not know where to look for him—on the playground, in the classroom, or in the prayer hall. The building had collapsed so completely that it was impossible to tell which part lay beneath their feet. Later, they learned that Makan’s classroom had suffered the worst damage: “At first we thought three missiles had hit the school, but later, when we saw the videos, we realized twelve missiles had been fired toward the school and its entrance. I don’t know exactly how many struck it.” She cannot bring herself to describe the search: “On the fourth day, Makan’s sweater was found. I wasn’t even sure he had been wearing it, since he usually took it off for sports. That gave me hope he might still be alive.” During those 38 days, they went repeatedly to morgues to identify bodies. DNA samples were taken. Once they were called to identify a body, but it was frozen, and she could not recognize it: “Only his notebooks and books were found—not his shoes, not his bag, not even a part of his body.” Until the thirty-eighth day: “Apparently, some body parts had been buried mistakenly and later exhumed and rearranged. That’s what I heard. In any case, we were in limbo until two days before the fortieth day.” Shajareh Tayyebeh was a coeducational school. Before Makan, his sister Mania had studied there for three years. Makan had completed preschool and had enrolled in first grade that year. Mania had moved to another school for seventh grade. His brother Mostafa, a tenth grader, was also at a different school. That morning, Mostafa learned of the attacks via his phone and asked permission to leave to pick up Makan—but he was not allowed. “The boys’ and girls’ yards were separate. The boys’ classrooms were on different floors with separate routes. The preschool was at the back of the school with a few classes—and fortunately none of those children were harmed.” The mother never imagined that anyone would even know Minab, or that the United States or Israel could find it on a map. They believed they lived in a very safe place. In the early days, they learned that Mandana Salari, Makan’s teacher, had been killed alongside her student daughter in the same school. In search of a sign Hamzeh Rahinejad, Makan’s uncle—the one who spent 38 days searching for any trace—still carries those days in his eyes. From the second day, they formed a team of about twenty relatives and searched everywhere, even into nearby wooded areas. They thought perhaps Makan had fled in fear, or was injured somewhere. Did you still hope he was alive until the end? “Yes. Because we had found no trace of him.” In the end, Hamzeh brought a box filled with bags and single shoes and asked Asieh which one belonged to Makan. What was the mother’s reaction? “She fainted. Until then, there had been no trace at all. The house was full of people. When I showed it, it was like the end of the world.” Hamzeh says he could not rest until he found something. When the shoe was found, they finally knew Makan was among the victims. On the day of the explosion, Hamzeh heard the blast from his home; even his windows shook. He rushed to the school, abandoning his car unlocked along the way. From a distance, he could smell smoke, dust, and burning. He stayed there until five in the morning, searching—but all they found were fragments: hands, feet, small heads of children. “It was something indescribable. Truly unbearable.” He describes how his sister went daily to the morgues, searching, as the halls filled not only with children’s bodies but also those of parents who had come to pick them up—like the man who went to get his two daughters and was killed in the blast himself. Hamzeh carried gauze and plastic bags, collecting any fragment he found to take for forensic testing. Makan had a distinct birthmark-like sign on parts of his body—something his uncle hoped would help identify him. He searched with that hope in mind. How did you find Makan’s sweater? “By chance. We had opened many body bags and found nothing. On the fourth day, the education office called us to the morgue. The first bag we saw in the second hall was half-open. Asieh opened it and recognized Makan’s blue sweater. There was about a hundred grams of flesh on it. We sent it for DNA testing—the result was negative. We don’t know whose it was.” You checked the body bags yourself? “Yes. I opened them one by one. They were full of torn flesh. Some had no limbs. Some had no heads. I looked at all of them, hoping to find something of Makan.” Makan now has only a symbolic grave in the martyrs’ cemetery of Minab. The Martyrs Foundation has opened a missing persons file for him.

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یک پولیور آبی مچاله‌شده و کفش ورزشی کرم‌رنگ، تمام آن چیزی است که در 46 روز گذشته از زیر آوارهای مدرسه بیرون کشیده شد و تنها اثری شد از ماکان نصیری؛ ماکان هفت‌ساله کلاس اولی مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب، تنها کودکی که هیچ‌چیز، مطلقا هیچ‌چیز از پیکر نحیف و کوچکش پیدا نشد. تمام آنچه از او بر جای ماند، محتویات صندوق شیشه‌ای کوچکی در مسجد مهدیه محله اسلام‌آباد میناب شد برای یادبود کودکی که قبرش خالی است. «یکی از شهدای دانش‌آموز به نام «ماکان نصیری» تاکنون حتی با انجام آزمایش DNA نیز شناسایی نشده و همچنان در فهرست مفقودان این حادثه قرار دارد». اینها بخشی از صحبت‌های دادستان میناب در بیستم فروردین‌ماه است؛ زمانی که آمار نهایی شهدای مدرسه را بعد از بررسی‌ها، ۱۵۶ نفر اعلام کردند. بنا بر اعلام او، از این تعداد ۱۲۰ دانش‌آموز شامل ۷۳ پسر و ۴۷ دختر، ۲۶ معلم زن و هفت نفر از والدین دانش‌آموزان شامل چهار مرد و سه زن، یک راننده سرویس مدرسه، یک تکنسین داروخانه درمانگاه مجاور مدرسه و یک جنین شش‌ماهه بودند. دادستان میناب تأکید کرد که یکی از معلمان شهید به ‌نام «زهره شهریاری» بر اساس اسناد پزشکی در زمان شهادت شش‌ماهه باردار بوده است و جنین شش‌ماهه او نیز در این حمله همراه با مادرش جان باخت. بر اساس اعلام او، از مجموع ۱۵۶ شهید این حادثه، ۱۵۵ نفر شناسایی و احراز هویت شده‌اند و پس از صدور جواز دفن از سوی پزشکی قانونی، تشییع و تدفین شده‌اند. آسیه کمی مکث می‌کند: «می‌خواستیم کفش و پولیورش را خاک کنیم، گفتند خوب نیست، این کار را نکنید. الان فقط یک قبر نمادین در گلزار شهدای میناب دارد و یک یادبود در مسجد محل». پولیور آبی و یک لنگه‌کفش کرم «ماکان» داخل یک صندوق شیشه‌ای با قابی فلزی، کنار عکس‌های اسرا و سلما ذاکری، خدیجه درویشی و مسیحا سالاری، بخشی از مسجد اسلام‌آباد است به یاد کودکان این محله که قربانی موشکباران شدند. این‌سو و آن‌سوی صندوق شیشه‌ای گلدان است، روی زمین کنار پای یادگارهای ماکان یعنی دفتر و کتاب‌های از زیر آوار بیرون‌آمده‌اش، پارچه‌ای مشکی پهن شده با دسته‌گلی بزرگ، درست کنار زنی سیاه‌پوش که دست‌ها را در هم گره کرده و از همان گوشه عکس می‌توان چشمان پف‌کرده و به‌غم‌نشسته‌اش را دید. آسیه ۴۰‌ساله، ۳۸ روز امید داشت، ۳۸ روز در سردخانه‌ها و روی آوارها بود تا تکه‌ای از بدن سومین فرزندش را پیدا کند و در آخر حمزه برادرش، برای او نشانه‌ای آورد؛ یک لنگه کفش پاره ماکان صد متر دورتر از محل انفجار در میان درختان. بعد از آن بود که خانه قیامت شد. مادر از حال رفت و زنان و مردان شیون از سر دادند. نشانی از کودک کوچکشان رسیده بود. ماکان صبح روز نهم اسفند با گرمکن ورزشی به مدرسه رفت، پولیور آبی‌رنگش را روی کول انداخت، کفش‌های کرمش را پا کرد اما هیچ‌وقت به زنگ ورزش نرسید. قبر خالی کودک ۷‌ساله ساعت ۱۱:۱۶ صبح نهم اسفند، آسیه مشغول خانه‌داری بود که تلفنش زنگ خورد؛ خانم ماندانا سالاری بود، معلم کلاس اول مدرسه. از او خواست به مدرسه برود و ماکان را ببرد. ظاهرا حمله‌ای در جریان بود. آسیه، بی‌خبر از همه جا، بدون اینکه بداند ساعاتی قبل به تهران حمله موشکی شده، به راننده سرویس مدرسه زنگ می‌زند. راننده نزدیک مدرسه بود و می‌گوید که همین الان به آن سمت می‌روم. تلفن در دست آسیه بود که صدای انفجار مهیبی آمد؛ مدرسه موشکباران شد. آسیه و همسرش که آن ساعت از روز در خانه بود، سوار ماشین می‌شوند و به سمت شهرک المهدی جایی که مدرسه قرار گرفته، می‌روند. نزدیک مدرسه اما دیگر راهی نبود، پیاده شدند و پیاده رفتند. مدرسه آن‌قدر شلوغ بود که مادر نمی‌دانست باید کجا برود و کجا را بگردد و از چه کسی بپرسد ماکان کجاست؟ آسیه مسلط و محکم حرف می‌زند: «خیلی‌ها زیر آوار بودند اما کودکی سالم بیرون نیامد. ما از ساعت ۱۱ و نیم صبح تا دو و نیم صبح روز بعد آنجا بودیم. هر کسی که از زیر آوار بیرون کشیده می‌شد، بی‌جان بود». ‌پیکرها چه وضعیتی داشت؟ تعداد کمی دچار خفگی شده بودند. بیشترشان تکه‌تکه بودند. پولیور آبی‌ در کاور جسد روز شنبه «ماکان»، فارسی، ریاضی و ورزش داشت. ورزش زنگ آخرش بود، اما مادر نمی‌دانست نهم اسفند‌ به دنبال ماکان در حیاط باشد، سر کلاس یا در نمازخانه! هرچند ساختمان طوری ریخته بود که نمی‌شد تشخیص داد کجای ساختمان زیر پای آنهاست. بعدها اما فهمیدند‌ کلاس ماکان بیشترین آسیب را دیده است: «تصور ما این بود که سه موشک به مدرسه اصابت کرده اما بعدا که فیلم‌هایش را دیدیم متوجه شدیم 12 موشک شلیک شده که به مدرسه و درگاه مدرسه و... خورده است. اما به‌طور دقیق نمی‌دانم چند موشک به مدرسه اصابت کرده است». مادر نمی‌تواند از جزئیات جست‌وجو برای فرزندش بگوید: «روز چهارم، پولیور ماکان پیدا شد. البته من مطمئن نبودم ماکان پولیور را به تن داشت یا نه؛ چون معمولا برای ورزش درش می‌آورد. به همین دلیل امید به زنده‌بودنش داشتم». آنها در این 38 روز چندین بار برای شناسایی اجساد به سردخانه‌ها مراجعه کرده بودند، اما نمی‌توانستند ماکان را شناسایی کنند. تست DNA هم از آنها گرفته شد. یک بار هم برای شناسایی پیکری رفته بودند، اما پیکر تقریبا یخ زده بود و مادر نتوانست شناسایی‌اش کند: «فقط دفتر و کتاب‌های ماکان پیدا شده بود؛ نه کفش و کیف و نه حتی بخشی از بدنش». تا روز سی‌وهشتم: «اوایل ظاهرا چند تکه از اجساد را اشتباهی دفن کرده بودند بعد نبش قبر کردند و تکه‌ها جابه‌جا شد. البته من هم اینها را شنیده‌ام. به هر حال ما تا دو روز مانده به چهلم بلاتکلیف بودیم». مدرسه شجره طیبه دخترانه-پسرانه بود و قبل از آن مانیا خواهر ماکان، سه سال دانش‌آموزش بود. ماکان یک سال پیش‌دبستانی بود و در سال تحصیلی جدید هم برای کلاس اول ثبت‌نام شده بود. مانیا کلاس‌هفتمی شد و به مدرسه دیگری رفت. برادر دیگر ماکان به نام «مصطفی» که کلاس دهم است، در مدرسه دیگری بود. او صبح شنبه از طریق موبایلی که با خودش به مدرسه برده بود متوجه حملات شد، از مدیرشان خواسته بود برای بردن ماکان از مدرسه خارج شود، اما به او اجازه نداده بودند: «حیاط دختران و پسران جدا از هم بود. کلاس‌ پسران طبقه پایین و بالا، مسیرهای جداگانه‌ای داشت. پیش‌دبستانی، پشت مدرسه قرار داشت با چند کلاس دخترانه و پسرانه که در این حمله خوشبختانه هیچ‌کدام از بچه‌هایش آسیبی ندیدند». مادر فکرش را هم نمی‌کرد کسی میناب را بشناسد یا مثلا آمریکا و اسرائیل آن را روی نقشه پیدا کنند. فکر می‌کردند در منطقه بسیار امنی زندگی می‌کنند. در همان روزهای اول خبردار شدند ماندانا سالاری، معلم ماکان، همراه دختر دانش‌آموزش در همان مدرسه شهید شده‌اند. در جست‌وجوی یک نشانه «حمزه راهی‌نژاد»، دایی ماکان همان که 38 روز در پی پیداکردن اثری از خواهرزاده‌اش بود، حال و روز دیگری دارد؛ آنچه از نهم اسفند بر او گذشته هنوز تصویر ثابت چشم‌هایش است. دایی می‌گوید‌ از روز دوم، تیمی حدودا ۲۰نفره تشکیل دادند، عموها و دایی‌ها و فرزندانشان راهی محل شدند تا نشانی از ماکان بیابند و تا محوطه جنگلی هم پیش رفتند. آنها تصور می‌کردند شاید ماکان ترسیده و به سمت محوطه باغ پردرخت فرار کرده باشد. شاید زخمی شده و خبری از او نیست. شما تا روزهای آخر امید داشتید ماکان زنده باشد؟ بله؛ چون هیچ‌ نشانی از او پیدا نکرده بودیم. در آخر با جعبه پر از کیف و لنگه‌کفش رفتم. به آسیه گفتم کدامش برای ماکان است. واکنش مادر وقتی لنگه‌کفش را دید، چه بود؟ از حال رفت؛ چون تا آن روز هیچ اثری از ماکان ندیده بودند. خانه پر از آدم بود. همه جمع شده بودند و وقتی من رسیدم و نشان دادم، قیامت شد. فاجعه‌ اصلی آن روز بود. حمزه می‌گوید که دلش آرام و قرار نداشت. شور می‌زد تا نشانی از ماکان پیدا کند. وقتی لنگه‌کفشش پیدا شد فهمیدند یکی از دانش‌آموزان شهید مدرسه است. حمزه اهل میناب است و خانه‌اش با مدرسه فاصله چندانی ندارد. وقتی صدای انفجار را شنیده بود شیشه‌های خانه‌اش هم لرزید. ترسید و به سمت مدرسه راند. ماشین را در میانه راه رها کرد، بدون قفل. از دور بوی دود و خاک و سوختگی می‌آمد. او از همان لحظه تا پنج صبح فردایش در محل بود تا نشانی از کودکشان پیدا کند. اما هرچه آوار برمی‌داشتند، تکه‌های دست و پا و سر کوچک‌ کودکان بود: «یک چیز عجیب و غریبی بود. اصلا نمی‌شود وصف کرد. خیلی بد بود خیلی». حال خواهرتان تا وقتی لنگه‌کفش ماکان را پیدا کنید، چطور بود؟ هر روز می‌گفت مرا ببرید بچه‌ام را پیدا کنم. هر روز به سردخانه می‌رفت. سالن‌ها پر شده بود؛ چون فقط جسد بچه‌ها نبود، پیکر تعدادی از والدین که برای بردن بچه‌هایشان رفته بودند هم در میان اجساد بود‌. مثل مردی که به دنبال دو دخترش رفته بود، انفجار شد و خودش هم شهید شد. حمزه، یک گاز استریل و کیسه دستش گرفته بود و میان آوارها می‌گشت. هر تکه گوشت یا انگشتی پیدا می‌کرد می‌گذاشت روی گاز استریل و می‌برد به پزشکی قانونی. ماکان مانند تعدادی از اعضای خانواده مادری نشانی روی بدنش داشت؛ نشانه‌‌ای شبیه خال که روی دست و پا و بخش‌هایی از بدنش بود. در زمستان این نشانه‌ها پررنگ‌تر می‌شد و دایی، به همین نشانه امید داشت؛ مردی که چهار فرزند دارد و در تمام مدت تصور می‌کرد که این کودکان هم مانند فرزندانش هستند. پولیور ماکان را چطور پیدا کردید؟ خیلی اتفاقی. کاورهای زیادی را باز کرده بودیم و چیزی ندیدیم. چهارمین روز از آموزش و پرورش زنگ زدند گفتند بروید سردخانه. ما هم رفتیم و اولین کاوری که در سالن دوم دیدیم، نیمه‌باز بود. آسیه تا بقیه زیپ را باز کرد پلیور آبی‌ ماکان را شناخت. روی آن هم حدود صد گرم گوشت بود. بردیم برای DNA، جوابش منفی بود. نمی‌دانیم متعلق به بدن کدام‌‌یکی از دانش‌آموزان بود. شما کاورها را بررسی می‌کردید؟ بله من کاورها را تک به تک باز می‌کردم. پر از گوشت‌های تکه‌تکه بود. برخی دست و پا نداشتند. برخی سر نداشتند. همه را دیده بودم تا شاید چیزی از ماکان ببینم. ‌ماکان یک قبر نمادین در گلزار شهدای بهشت زهرای میناب دارد بنیاد شهید برای ماکان پرونده مفقودالاثری باز کرده است.

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29 Apr 2026

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An image and the shoe of martyr Makan Nasiri, one of the victims of the Minab school, placed beside the holy shrine of Imam Reza (peace be upon him).

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تصویر و کفش شهید «ماکان نصیری» از شهدای مدرسه میناب در جوار حرم مطهر امام رضا (ع)

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Mehdi Entezari

27 Apr 2026

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27 Apr 2026

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مهدی انتظاری

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Parents of Makan Nasiri, the only missing martyr from Minab School

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والدین ماکان نصیری تنها شهید مفقودالاثر مدرسه میناب

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23 Apr 2026

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For Makan...

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برای ماکان…

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Farzaneh Farahani

15 Apr 2026

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15 Apr 2026

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During the horrific bombing of the Minab school, the bodies of many victims were shockingly torn apart, and identification was only possible through DNA testing. Yet among them, the small body of one first-grade student has still not been identified. The family of **Makan Nasiri**, a first-grade student at the Minab school, are the only ones who have not recovered any trace of their son’s body. Yesterday, they were informed that Makan is now considered among the missing martyrs. **Excerpt from an interview with Makan’s father, Siros Nasiri:** “My wife and I had four children; Makan was the youngest. For about two years, he had been attending gymnastics classes and was very committed to it. On the day of the incident, I was at home when a friend from Isfahan called me around 10:30 a.m. and said that Tehran had been hit. He told me to go pick up my children from school. I even told a white lie, saying I had already sent my older son to bring them back. A few minutes later, at 11:16, the school called my wife and asked her to come pick up Makan. She contacted the school bus driver and asked him to bring Makan home. His classes usually lasted until 1:30 p.m. That day, after we informed the driver and his teacher, before the driver could even arrive, the school was struck, and we were told to go there ourselves. At that moment, we were completely shaken—confused and terrified—and rushed toward the school. Halfway there, because of traffic, we got out of the car and continued on foot. When we arrived, the school was completely destroyed. In those first moments, all we saw was destruction—nothing but destruction. I was frantic, searching every part of the school for Makan. They said some children had fled in fear, so I tried to ask those who had escaped where they had been and what they had seen—but no one had seen Makan. We looked at the bodies being pulled out from under the rubble, one by one. We checked the covers of the victims to see if our child was among them. It has now been 45 days, and there is still no trace of Makan. The boys were on the first floor and the girls on the second. Makan’s class had 23 students; that day, four had not come to school. All the rest were killed, and their bodies have all been found—except for Makan. To be precise, out of the 168 people killed at the Minab school, only one remains missing: our son. The day of the incident was also Makan’s birthday. We couldn’t celebrate it this year. On the 38th day after the incident, I went back to the school again. At first, they wouldn’t let me in, but after making several calls, they finally allowed me to enter. Together with my brother and my brother-in-law, we went inside. We searched the school thoroughly. After some time, in the green area of the schoolyard, we found one of Makan’s shoes. Near the water fountain and the children’s restrooms, there were some trees and greenery. When we entered that area, my brother-in-law found one of Makan’s shoes—but there was no sign of his body. We asked them to cut down the trees and clear the area to see if we could find anything of Makan’s remains—but nothing was found. Only that one shoe, along with a woman’s shoe and another shoe that seemed to belong to a 10- or 12-year-old child. We still have no information about Makan. I am waiting for him to come back. I tell myself maybe that day he got scared and ran out of the school. At the time—about half an hour before the incident—his class had sports and was in the yard. But none of the teachers survived for us to ask what exactly happened. On the first day, I was there from 11:30 in the morning until 2:30 after midnight. From the next morning until now, every day, even if they found just a finger or a nail, I would go and check whether it belonged to my son—but until today, I have seen nothing that I could say belongs to him. For the past 45 days, I have either been at home waiting for my son or at the morgue trying to identify his small body. My son had a birthmark—his skin had a texture like fish scales. Together with my brother-in-law, we examined all the bodies in the morgue, one by one—those that were identifiable and those that were torn apart—but we found no sign of our son.”

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در جریان بمباران وحشتناک مدرسه میناب، پیکر بسیاری از شهدا به طرز تکان‌دهنده‌ای متلاشی شده بود و تنها با انجام تست DNA کار شناسایی‌شان انجام شد؛ در این میان اما هنوز پیکر کوچک یک دانش‌آموز کلاس اولی شناسایی نشده است. خانواده ماکان نصیری، دانش‌آموز کلاس اولی مدرسه میناب، تنها کسانی هستند که هنوز هیچ نشانه‌ای از پیکر پسرشان به دست نیاورده‌اند و روز گذشته به آن‌ها اعلام شده است که ماکان جزو شهدای مفقودالاثر محسوب می‌شود. مشروح گفتگو با سیروس نصیری پدر ماکان: من و همسرم ۴ فرزند داشتیم که ماکان آخرین آن‌ها است. ۲ سالی می‌شد که به کلاس ژیمناستیک می‌رفت و این ورزش را دنبال می‌کرد. روز حادثه من در خانه بودم که یکی از دوستانم از اصفهان ساعت ۱۰:۳۰ صبح به من زنگ زد و گفتند که تهران را زدند؛ بعد هم گفت برو بچه‌هایت را از مدرسه بیاور؛ من آن روز یک دروغ مصلحتی هم گفتم که پسر بزرگترم را فرستاده‌ام که برود و بچه‌ها را بیاورد. دقایقی بعد یعنی در ساعت ۱۱:۱۶ دقیقه از مدرسه ماکان با همسرم تماس گرفتند که بیایید و بچه را ببرید؛ همسرم با سرویس ماکان تماس گرفت و گفت که ماکان را هم از مدرسه به خانه بیاورد. کلاس‌های ماکان هر روز تا ساعت ۱۳:۳۰ ظهر دقیقه طول می‌کشید؛ آن روز که تماس گرفتند و ما هم به راننده سرویس اطلاع دادیم و معلم پسرم را هم در جریان قرار دادیم که راننده به دنبال ماکان می‌رود اما پیش از رسیدن راننده، مدرسه را زده بودند و به ما هم اطلاع دادند که خودمان به مدرسه برویم. من و همسرم در آن لحظه دست و پایمان را گم کردیم و آشفته و نگران راهی مدرسه شدیم؛ نصف مسیر را رفتیم و چون ترافیک بود، از وسط راه پیاده شدیم و به طرف مدرسه رفتیم. وقتی رسیدیم کلا مدرسه نابود شده بود؛ در آن لحظه‌های نخست که به مدرسه رسیدیم فقط یک چیز دیدیم؛ خرابی، خرابی، خرابی. خیلی هراسان بودم و هر طرفی از مدرسه را دنبال ماکان می‌گشتم؛ می‌گفتند یک سری از بچه‌ها از ترس فرار کردند و به دنبال این بودم تا از بچه‌هایی که فرار کرده بودند سوال کنم که چه کسانی توانستند فرار کنند و کجا بودند و چه کردند؛ اما کسی ماکان را ندیده بود. جسد بچه‌هایی را که از زیر آوار بیرون می‌آوردند یکی یکی نگاه می‌کردیم؛ کاورهای پیکر شهیدان را نگاه می‌کردیم که ببینیم بچه ما هم بین آنها هست یا نه؛ الان ۴۵ روز است که هیچ اثری از ماکان ما نیست. پسرها طبقه اول بودند و دخترها طبقه دوم؛ کلاس ماکان ۲۳ دانش‌آموز داشت که آن روز ۴ نفرشان به مدرسه نرفته بودند و بقیه هم کلا شهید شدند و پیکر همه آن‌ها پیدا شده و فقط ماکان پیدا نشده است. دقیق‌تر بگویم از ۱۶۸ نفری که در مدرسه میناب شهید شدند فقط یک نفر یعنی پسر ما جاویدالاثر است. روز حادثه با روز تولد ماکان مصادف بود و خب نشد که امسال هم برایش جشن بگیریم. روز ۳۸ بعد از وقوع حادثه مدرسه، خودم رفتم که دوباره به مدرسه بروم اما راهم ندادند و بعد به چند جا زنگ زدم تا اجازه دادند که وارد مدرسه شوم و در نهایت توانستم با برادرم و برادر همسرم به آنجا داخل شوم. کلی در مدرسه چرخیدیم و بعد از مدتی در محوطه فضای سبز مدرسه یک لنگه کفش از پسرم ماکان را پیدا کردیم؛ نزدیک آبخوری و سرویس بهداشتی بچه‌ها چند درخت و فضای سبزی وجود داشت؛ وقتی وارد آن محدوده شدیم برادر همسرم یک لنگه کفش ماکان را پیدا کرد اما اثری از پیکر او نبود. تقاضا کردیم و آمدند درختها را بریدند و فضای سبز آنجا را تمیز کردند که ببینیم چیزی از پیکر ماکان پیدا می‌کنیم که چیزی پیدا نکردیم؛ فقط همان لنگه کفش پسرم بود به همراه یک لنگه کفش زنانه و یک لنگه کفش که تقریبا به بچه ۱۰_۱۲ ساله می‌خورد و شاید برای بچه‌ کلاس چهارم یا پنجم بود را پیدا کردیم. هنوز از وضعیت ماکان بی‌خبریم؛ من منتظرم خودش بیاید؛ می‌گویم شاید آن روز پسرم از ترس از مدرسه فرار کرده و بیرون رفته باشد. آخر ساعتی که نیم ساعت بعدش آن اتفاق افتاده بود، بچه‌های کلاس ماکان ورزش داشتند و توی حیاط بودند اما خب کسی هم از معلم‌ها زنده نمانده است که بپرسیم ببینیم چه اتفاقی افتاده است؛ معلم‌ها همگی شهید شده‌اند. روز اول اتفاقی که در مدرسه افتاد، از ساعت ۱۱:۳۰ صبح تا ۲:۳۰ نیمه‌شب آنجا بودم و از صبح روز دوم هم تا همین لحظه، هر روز اگر یک انگشت یا ناخن هم پیدا می‌کردند من می‌رفتم و نگاه می‌کردم که ببینیم متعلق به پسرم ماکان هست یا نه؛ اما خب تا امروز چیزی ندیده‌ام که بگویم برای پیکر پسر من است. من در ۴۵ روز گذشته یا در خانه منتظر پسرم بودم یا در سردخانه برای شناسایی پیکر کوچک او؛ پسرم یک نشانه مادرزادی داشت، پوست دستش مثل حالت پولک ماهی بود؛ همه پیکرهای سردخانه را به همراه برادر همسرم یکی یکی، چه آن‌ها که قابل شناسایی بودند و چه آن‌ها که تکه پاره بودند را دیدیم اما نشانی از پسرم پیدا نکردیم.

Mehdi Bakhshi Soraki

23 Apr 2026

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23 Apr 2026

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مهدی بخشی سورکی

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What took place on Esfand 9, 1404 (February 28, 2026) in the city of Minab unfolded within a short time span before noon. At least five missiles struck the area of the “Shajareh Tayyebeh” elementary school, including both the girls’ and boys’ sections. The timing of the attack—around 11:30 a.m.—coincided with a critical point in the school day, when classes were in session and the concentration of students in classrooms was at its peak. The intensity of the explosions was such that major parts of the building collapsed within the first moments, and dozens of classrooms were effectively reduced to piles of rubble. Only a few hours later, while initial rescue and search operations were still underway, another strike targeted the nearby medical center at 3:40 p.m.—a facility that had effectively become the main point for transferring and treating the wounded. This second incident not only expanded the scope of destruction but also severely disrupted relief efforts and added to the complexity of crisis management. Mokhtar Zakari, the father of Asra and Salma Zakari—two students killed in the Minab school—who had traveled to Qom with a group of families of the victims on the occasion of the Ten Days of Karamat, told Mehr News Agency: “Only about one minute after the school teacher called families to come and pick up their children, the explosion occurred. The situation that followed left virtually no possibility for any rescue efforts.” Describing his presence at the scene, this grieving father said: “When we reached the area around the school, the crowd, the heavy smoke, and the chaotic conditions were clearly visible. Many students were in very poor physical and psychological condition, and families were in complete shock.” He continued: “In those first moments, scenes emerged that showed the intensity of the disaster—injured children, and parents searching through the rubble for their children. In those moments, hope of finding survivors diminished rapidly.” Describing the condition of the school building, he said: “The school had been destroyed to such an extent by the force of the explosions that it was no longer recognizable. The two-story building appeared like a compressed, collapsed mass.” After the bodies were transferred to the hospital, the identification process began, and images of the victims were shown to families: “I identified my older daughter, Asra, there at the site, but to identify my younger daughter, Salma, I had to go to the morgue.” He added that, in his account, both of his daughters had not suffered severe visible injuries, and that the primary cause of death was being trapped under the rubble from the collapsed building. Their bodies were found together—something he described as deeply painful for the family. He further noted that among the victims were children with various conditions, including burns, amputations, and severe injuries—scenes that were extremely difficult for families to witness.

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آنچه در روز نهم اسفند ۱۴۰۴ در شهر میناب رخ داد، در فاصله زمانی کوتاهی پیش از ظهر، دست‌کم پنج موشک به محدوده دبستان «شجره طیبه» شامل بخش‌های دخترانه و پسرانه اصابت کرد. زمان‌بندی حمله، در حوالی ساعت ۱۱:۳۰، نقطه‌ای حساس در روزانه مدرسه محسوب می‌شد، زمانی که کلاس‌ها در جریان بود و تراکم حضور دانش‌آموزان در فضاهای آموزشی به بیشترین میزان خود می‌رسید. شدت انفجارها به‌گونه‌ای گزارش شده که بخش‌های اصلی ساختمان در همان لحظات اولیه فرو ریخته و ده‌ها کلاس درس عملاً به توده‌ای از آوار تبدیل شده است. تنها چند ساعت بعد، در حالی که عملیات اولیه امداد و جست‌وجو در جریان بود، یک حمله دیگر در ساعت ۱۵:۴۰ مرکز درمانی مجاور را هدف قرار داد، مرکزی که عملاً به نقطه انتقال و رسیدگی به مجروحان حادثه تبدیل شده بود و این رخداد دوم، علاوه بر افزایش دامنه خسارات، فرآیند امدادرسانی را نیز با اختلال جدی مواجه کرد و بر پیچیدگی مدیریت بحران افزود. مختار ذاکری پدر اسرا و سلما ذاکری، دو دانش‌آموز شهید مدرسه‌ای در میناب که به مناسبت ایام دهه کرامت به همراه جمعی از خانواده های معظم شهدای این حادثه به قم سفر کردند در گفتگو با خبرنگار مهر، در بیان جزئیات حادثه حمله آمریکا به مدرسه میناب گفت: تنها حدود یک دقیقه پس از تماس معلم مدرسه با خانواده‌ها برای مراجعه و تحویل گرفتن دانش‌آموزان، انفجار رخ داد و شرایطی رقم خورد که عملاً امکان هرگونه اقدام برای نجات را از بین برد. این پدر داغ‌دیده با اشاره به حضور خود در محل حادثه اظهار کرد: زمانی که به اطراف مدرسه رسیدیم، ازدحام جمعیت، دود شدید و وضعیت آشفته منطقه کاملاً قابل مشاهده بود و بسیاری از دانش‌آموزان در وضعیت نامناسبی از نظر جسمی و روحی قرار داشتند و خانواده‌ها در شوک کامل به سر می‌بردند. ذاکری ادامه داد: در همان دقایق ابتدایی، صحنه‌هایی دیده شد که نشان می‌داد شدت حادثه بسیار بالا بوده است؛ از جمله کودکان آسیب‌دیده و والدینی که در میان آوار به دنبال فرزندان خود بودند و در آن لحظات امید به یافتن افراد زنده به سرعت کاهش یافت. وی با توصیف وضعیت ساختمان مدرسه گفت: مدرسه در اثر شدت انفجار به‌گونه‌ای تخریب شده بود که عملاً قابل شناسایی نبود و ساختمان دو طبقه مانند یک حجم فشرده و درهم‌فرورفته به نظر می‌رسید. پس از انتقال پیکرها به بیمارستان، روند شناسایی آغاز شد و تصاویر جانباختگان در اختیار خانواده‌ها قرار گرفت. تصویر دختر بزرگ‌ترم، اسرا، را در همان محل شناسایی کردم اما برای شناسایی فرزند کوچکتر سلما، به سردخانه مراجعه کردم. وی با اشاره به شرایط پیکرها اظهار کرد: هر دو فرزندش از نظر ظاهری آسیب شدید ندیده بودند و به گفته او، علت اصلی جان‌باختن آن‌ها قرار گرفتن زیر آوار ناشی از تخریب ساختمان بوده است. پیکر هر دو کودک در کنار یکدیگر پیدا شده و این موضوع برای خانواده بسیار دردناک بوده است. افزود: در میان جانباختگان، کودکانی با وضعیت‌های متفاوت از جمله سوختگی، قطع عضو و آسیب‌های شدید وجود داشتند که مشاهده آن برای خانواده‌ها بسیار دشوار بوده است.

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Esmail Dehestani, Acting Head of the Political, Security, and Social Affairs Department of the Yazd Governorate

12 Apr 2026

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12 Apr 2026

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اسماعیل دهستانی سرپرست معاونت سیاسی، امنیتی و اجتماعی استانداری یزد

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Esmail Dehestani, Acting Head of the Political, Security, and Social Affairs Department of the Yazd Governorate

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Tonight I was fortunate enough to receive the most important plaque of appreciation in my career from the hands of Mr. Mohammad Sharafi. Mr. Mohammad is a veteran student of the Shajare Tayyiba School in Minab, whose sister, Zahra Khanum, was also martyred in that crime. Our Agha Mohammad is very fond of football and sports, and when the provincial director general of education asks him to suggest a name for this school field, he does not say his own name! He suggests the name of one of his martyred classmates, Martyr Ehsan Salem...

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امشب توفیق داشتم مهمترین لوح تقدیر دوران کاری ام را از دستان آقا محمد شرفی دریافت کنم. آقا محمد دانش آموز جانباز مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب هست که خواهرش زهرا خانم هم در اون جنایت شهید شده. آقامحمد ما خیلی هم فوتبالی و ورزشی هستند و وقتی که مدیرکل آموزش و پرورش استان ازشون میخواد که نامی برای این زمین چمن مدرسه پیشنهاد بدهد، اسم خودش را نمی گوید! اسم یکی از همکلاسی های شهیدش را پیشنهاد می دهد، شهید احسان سالمی نیا...

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Mehr News Agency

6 Mar 2026

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6 Mar 2026

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خبرگزاری مهر

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Mehr News Agency

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Details of the attack on the clinic after the bombing of the Shajre Tayyebeh Minab School An official of the Shahid Absalan Minab clinic tells about the moment of the attack on this clinic.

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جزئیات حمله به درمانگاه بعد از بمباران مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب یکی از مسئولین درمانگاه شهید آبسالان میناب از لحظه حمله به این درمانگاه می گوید.

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BHRD Network

28 Feb 2026

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28 Feb 2026

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شبکه اسناد حقوق بشر بلوچستان

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According to the Balochistan Human Rights Document Network – Today, on Saturday, a girls’ school was targeted following the US attack on the IRGC bases in Minab. The Document Network managed to talk to one of its sources in Minab, who announced that the “Shajare Tayyiba” girls’ school was located next to one of the IRGC bases that was targeted by the US attack. The source further announced that the situation in Minab is extremely tense and the students’ relatives are present at Hazrat Abolfazl Hospital. The crowd is so high that it seems like the end of the world has come. Regarding the exact number of students and teachers, the source said: “The removal of the school building's debris is still ongoing, and so far there is no information available on the exact number of dead and injured, and the figures announced in some media outlets are approximate.”

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امرور شنبه نهم اسفند ماه ۱۴۰۴، در پی حمله آمریکا به پایگاه های سپاه در میناب، یک مدرسه دخترانه مورد هدف قرار گرفت. شبکه اسناد موفق به گفتگو با یکی از منابع خود در میناب شده که وی اعلام کرد، مدرسه دخترانه «شجره طیبه» در کنار یکی از پایگاه های سپاه قرار داشته که مورد هدف حمله آمریکا قرار گرفته است. این منبع در ادامه خبر داد که وضعیت در میناب به شدت ملتهب و نزدیکان دانش آموزان در بیمارستان حضرت ابوالفضل حضور دارند. جمعیت به حدی بالاست که گویا قیامت شده است. این منبع در رابطه با آمار دقیق دانش آموزان و معلمان گفت: “همچنان آواربرداری ساختمان این مدرسه ادامه دارد و تاکنون از شمار دقیق کشته و مجروحان اطلاعی در دسترس نیست و آمار اعلام شده در برخی رسانه ها تقریبی هستند.”

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According to reports received from field sources and announcements by state media, the identities of 57 students and teachers who died in the US and Israeli airstrikes in Minab have been verified so far. The Education Ministry spokesman announced the number of students and teachers who died in Minab as 168. According to the Document Network sources, the students and teachers of “Shajra Tayyiba” in Minab, who were targeted by the US and Israeli airstrikes, are mostly from Bandar Kurgan, Kalawi village, Kenarjo in Sirik county, and Gebrani village. The source added: “US and Israeli airstrikes have started on the first day of the war in the coastal strip and are still ongoing, with evacuation orders issued for many villages.” State media and field reports indicate that at least 7 teachers have been identified as dead, and 50 others are students aged 6 to 12. The profiles of the 57 teachers and students of Shajare Tayyiba Elementary School who died in the US and Israeli airstrikes are as follows: 1- Hana Dehghani, daughter of Emad, 8 years old2- Fatemeh Salari, daughter of Sia, 34 years old3- Reza Habashian, daughter of Ali, 7 years old4- Arya Bahadori, daughter of Morteza, 9 years old5- Ali Asgharzaei, daughter of Javad, 8 years old6- Zahra Bahrami, 7 years old7- Ahmad Soltani, daughter of Yaser, 8 years old8- Hamed Parinejad, daughter of Hadi, 7 years old9- Mehdis Nazari, daughter of Ali, 7 years old10- Atena Chamalinjad, daughter of Ali, 6 years old11- Amir Ghasemzaei, daughter of Najibullah, 7 years old12- Fatemeh Derazhi, daughter of Abdullah, 8 years old13- Arad Ahmadizadeh, daughter of Abdullah, 8 years old14- Saman Karimzadeh, daughter of Farzad, 7 years old15- Fatemeh Shahdadi, daughter of Mohammad16- Nadia Shahzaidi, daughter of Hassan, 9 years old17- Parham …, daughter of Mojtaba, 9 years old18- Mahmoud Gholamiani, son of Qanbar, 35 years old19- Fatemeh Rahdar, son of Abed, 11 years old20- Amir Hossein Rasouli Soleimani, son of Hanif, 8 years old21- Zahra Behrouzi, son of Hossein, 8 years old22- Mohammad Raisi, son of Hassan, 10 years old23- Asana Raisi, son of Hassan, 12 years old24- Benjamin Jangou, son of Shahram, 8 years old25- Mohammad Sadra Zareipour, son of Mehdi, 9 years old26- Maryam Pazarak, son of Mustafa, 10 years old27- Liana Mohammadi, 7 years old28- Mandana Salari, son of Ali, 29 years old29- Sara Shayesteh, son of Muslim, 6 years old30- Zaha Pasand, son of Ibrahim, 8 years old31- Esra Zakeri, son of Mukhtar, 9 years old32- Salma…. 6 years old33- Fatemeh Taheri 34 years old34- Zahra Ansari Fard, daughter of Amir, 7 years old35- Fatemeh Fadavi, daughter of Yousef, 10 years old36- Mahna Zarei Kouhestaki, daughter of Alireza37- Atahre Zarei, daughter of Ali, 10 years old38- Alireza Zarei, daughter of Ehsan, 9 years old39- Mohammad Reza Shahsavari, daughter of Amir, 8 years old40- Samira….daughter of Ali Akbar, 38 years old41- Ehsan Salemini, daughter of Ebrahim, 6 years old42- Fatemeh Zahra Karimi, daughter of Javad, 7 years old43- Zeinab Bahrami, daughter of Ishaq, 11 years old44- Mohammad Shahdoosti, daughter of Abdullah, 7 years old45- Reza Barani, daughter of Masoud, 7 years old46- Atena Ahmadzadeh, daughter of Mobin, 10 years old47- Khadija Darvishi, daughter of Reza, 9 years old48- Roqiyah Karimi, 38 years old49- Reza Ranjbar, daughter of Mohammad, 6 years old50- Marzieh Bashiri, daughter of Mohammad, 38 years old51- Mohammad Mehdi, daughter of Abbas, 10 years old52- Mohammad Kian Bahrami, son of Sajjad, 7 years old53- Ali Akbar Kiryani Pak, son of Abdullah, 8 years old54- Hananeh Mehdikhah, son of Musa, 7 years old55- Fereshteh Sangarzadeh, son of Gholam, 44 years old56- Mohammad Ali Kiryani Pak, 7 years old57- Parsa Mokhtari Nasab, son of Mohammad, 11 years old

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براساس گزارش های دریافتی از منابع میدانی و اعلام رسانه های دولتی، تاکنون هویت ۵۷ دانش آموز و معلم جان باخته در حمله هوایی آمریکا و اسرائیل در میناب احراز هویت شده است. سخنگوی آموزش و پرورش شمار دانش آموزان و معلمان جان باخته در میناب را ۱۶۸ نفر اعلام کرد. براساس اعلام منابع شبکه اسناد، دانش آموزان و معلمان «شجره طیبه» میناب که مورد هدف حمله هوایی آمریکا و اسرائیل قرار گرفته، بیشتر از بندر کرگان، روستای کلاوی، کنارجو شهرستان سیریک و روستای گبرانی هستند. این منبع افزود: “حملات هوایی آمریکا و اسرائیل از روز اول شروع جنگ در نوارساحلی آغاز شده و همچنان ادامه دارد که برای بسیاری از روستاها دستور تخلیه صادر شده است.” رسانه های دولتی و گزارش های میدانی دریافتی حاکی است که دستکم ۷ معلم جان باخته احراز هویت شده اند و ۵۰ تن دیگر از دانش آموزان ۶ تا ۱۲ ساله هستند. مشخصات ۵۷ تن از معلمان و دانش آموزان جان باخته دبستان شجره طیبه با حمله هوایی آمریکا و اسرائیل به شرح زیر است: ۱- هنا دهقانی فرزند عماد، ۸ ساله۲- فاطمه سالاری فرزند سیا، ۳۴ ساله۳- رضا حبشیان فرزند علی، ۷ ساله۴- آریا بهادری فرزند مرتضی، ۹ ساله۵- علی اصغرزایی فرزند جواد، ۸ ساله۶- زهرا بهرامی، ۷ ساله۷- احمد سلطانی فرزند یاسر، ۸ ساله۸- حامد پری نژاد فرزند هادی، ۷ ساله۹- مهدیس نظری فرزند علی، ۷ ساله۱۰- آتنا چملی نژاد فرزند علی، ۶ ساله۱۱- امیر قاسم زایی فرزند نجیب الله، ۷ ساله۱۲- فاطمه درازهی فرزند عبدالله، ۸ ساله۱۳- آراد احمدی زاده فرزند عبدالله، ۸ ساله۱۴- سامان کریم زاده فرزند فرزاد، ۷ ساله۱۵- فاطمه شهدادی فرزند محمد۱۶- نادیا شاه زیدی فرزند حسن، ۹ ساله۱۷- پرهام … فرزند مجتبی، ۹ ساله۱۸- محمود غلامیانی فرزند قنبر، ۳۵ ساله۱۹- فاطمه رهدار فرزند عابد، ۱۱ ساله۲۰- امیرحسین رسولی سلیمانی، فرزند حنیف، ۸ ساله۲۱- زهرا بهروزی فرزند حسین، ۸ ساله۲۲- محمد رئیسی فرزند حسن، ۱۰ ساله۲۳- آسنا رئیسی فرزند حسن، ۱۲ ساله۲۴- بنیامین جنگجو فرزند شهرام، ۸ ساله۲۵- محمدصدرا زارعی پور فرزند مهدی، ۹ ساله۲۶- مریم پازرک فرزند مصطفی، ۱۰ ساله۲۷- لیانا محمدی، ۷ ساله۲۸- ماندانا سالاری فرزند علی، ۲۹ ساله۲۹- سارا شایسته فرزند مسلم، ۶ ساله۳۰- ضحا پسند فرزند ابراهیم، ۸ ساله۳۱- اسرا ذاکری فرزند مختار، ۹ ساله۳۲- سلما …. ۶ ساله۳۳- فاطمه طاهری ۳۴ ساله۳۴- زهرا انصاری فرد فرزند امیر، ۷ ساله۳۵- فاطمه فدوی فرزند یوسف، ۱۰ ساله۳۶- مهنا زارعی کوهستکی فرزند علیرضا۳۷- اطهره زارعی فرزند علی، ۱۰ ساله۳۸- علیرضا زارعی فرزند احسان، ۹ ساله۳۹- محمدرضا شهسواری فرزند امیر، ۸ ساله۴۰- سمیرا ….فرزند علی اکبر، ۳۸ ساله۴۱- احسان سالمی نیا فرزند ابراهیم، ۶ ساله۴۲- فاطمه زهرا کریمی فرزند جواد، ۷ ساله۴۳- زینب بهرامی فرزند اسحاق، ۱۱ ساله۴۴- محمد شهدوستی فرزند عبدالله، ۷ ساله۴۵- رضا بارانی فرزند مسعود، ۷ ساله۴۶- آتنا احمدزاده فرزند مبین، ۱۰ ساله۴۷- خدیجه درویشی فرزند رضا، ۹ ساله۴۸- رقیه کریمی، ۳۸ ساله۴۹- رضا رنجبر فرزند محمد، ۶ ساله۵۰- مرضیه بشیری فرزند محمد، ۳۸ ساله۵۱- محمدمهدی فرزند عباس، ۱۰ ساله۵۲- محمد کیان بهرامی فرزند سجاد، ۷ ساله۵۳- علی اکبر کریانی پاک فرزند عبدالله، ۸ ساله۵۴- حنانه مهدی خواه فرزند موسی، ۷ ساله۵۵- فرشته سنگرزاده فرزند غلام، ۴۴ ساله۵۶- محمدعلی کریانی پاک ۷ ساله۵۷- پارسا مختاری نسب فرزند محمد، ۱۱ ساله

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Images of at least two teachers and 17 students killed in US and Israeli airstrikes on Shajare Tayyiba Minab school have been obtained by the Balochistan Human Rights Documentation Network. Earlier, the identities of 57 of the dead teachers and students had been confirmed. According to the Balochistan Human Rights Documentation Network – Images of at least 19 dead teachers and students of Shajare Tayyiba Minab school have been obtained. The identities of the verified images are as follows: 1- Fatemeh Salari, 34 years old (teacher) 2- Fatemeh Taherifard, 34 years old (teacher) 3- Fatemeh Dorazhi, 8 years old, daughter of Abdullah 4- Amir Ghasemzaei, 7 years old, daughter of Najibullah 5- Mohammad Taha Mollahi, 7 years old 6- Samira Mollahi, 8 years old 7- Ali Akbar Kiryani, 8 years old, daughter of Abdullah 8- Mohammad Ali Kiryani, 7 years old 9- Mehdis Nazari, 7 years old, daughter of Ali 10- Atena Ahmadzadeh, 10 years old, daughter of Abbas 11- Aria Bahadori, 9 years old, daughter of Bahadur 12- Alireza Zarei, 9 years old, daughter of Ehsan 13- Liana Mohammadi, 7 years old, daughter of Faez 14- Mikael Mirdourghi 15- Reza Ranjbar, 6 years old, daughter of Mohammad 16- Atahreh Zarei, 10 years old, daughter of Ali 17- Fatemeh Zahra Karimi, 7 years old, daughter of Javad 18- Mohammad Sadra Zareipour, 9 years old, daughter of Mehdi 19- Reza Abyssinian, 7 years old, son of Ali

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تصاویر دستکم دو معلم و ۱۷ دانش آموز جان باخته در پی حملات هوایی آمریکا و اسرائیل به مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب به دست شبکه اسناد حقوق بشر بلوچستان رسیده است. پیشتر هویت ۵۷ تن از معلمان و دانش آموزان جان باخته احراز شده بود. هویت تصاویر احراز هویت شده به شرح زیر است: ۱- فاطمه سالاری ۳۴ ساله، (معلم) ۲- فاطمه طاهری فرد ۳۴ ساله (معلم) ۳- فاطمه دُرازهی ۸ ساله فرزند عبدالله ۴- امیر قاسم زایی ۷ ساله فرزند نجیب الله ۵- محمدطاها ملاحی ۷ ساله ۶- سمیرا ملاحی ۸ ساله ۷- علی اکبر کریانی ۸ ساله فرزند عبدالله ۸- محمدعلی کریانی ۷ ساله ۹- مهدیس نظری ۷ ساله فرزند علی ۱۰- آتنا احمدزاده ۱۰ ساله فرزند عباس ۱۱- آریا بهادری ۹ ساله فرزند بهادر ۱۲- علیرضا زارعی ۹ ساله فرزند احسان ۱۳- لیانا محمدی ۷ ساله فرزند فائز ۱۴- میکائیل میردورقی ۱۵- رضا رنجبر ۶ ساله فرزند محمد ۱۶- اطهره زارعی ۱۰ ساله فرزند علی ۱۷- فاطمه زهرا کریمی ۷ ساله فرزند جواد ۱۸- محمدصدرا زارعی پور ۹ ساله فرزند مهدی ۱۹- رضا حبشیان ۷ ساله فرزند علی

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Fararu

19 Apr 2026

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Pictures; Minab, 50 days later

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تصاویر؛ میناب، ۵۰ روز بعد

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23 Apr 2026

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New shocking images and testimonies from the sorrowful Saturday of Esfand 9, 1404, and the moments of the U.S. attack on the Minab school and the killing of schoolchildren.

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تصاویر و روایت‌های تکان دهنده تازه از شنبه‌ غم‌انگیز 9 اسفند ماه 1404 و لحظات حمله آمریکا به مدرسه میناب و شهادت کودکان دانش آموز

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Alireza Arzandeh

11 Apr 2026

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علیرضا ارزنده

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TheBalochWorld

4 Mar 2026

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Martyer Student Atena Ahmadzadeh Gymnast athlete and from Minab county

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دانش آموز جاویدنام «آتنا احمدزاده» ژیمیناستیک کار و اهل شهرستان میناب

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snntv_fa

3 May 2026

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3 May 2026

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A film of the first seconds after the explosion of the Shajare Tayyiba School, Minab "Reyhaneh and Mastanah Bagherian Manesh" are among the surviving students, their faces covered in dust and their clothes covered in blood, and their shocked and anxious expressions as they watch the crime that the criminal America committed against their school in the schoolyard.

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فیلمی از ثانیه های اول بعد از انفجار مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب «ریحانه و مستانه باقریان منش» از دانش‌آموزان بازمانده با چهره خاک‌آلود و لباس‌خون‌آلود و با حالتی شوکه و مضطرب در حیاط مدرسه نظاره گر جنایتی هستند که آمریکای جنایتکار با مدرسه آنها انجام دادند.

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BBC Persian

22 Apr 2026

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22 Apr 2026

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The father of one of the students injured in the bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab says, referring to the multi-million-toman medical costs of treating his daughter, that he was told: “Priority is given to the martyrs.” Following the publication of his conversation with the newspaper Farhikhtegan, the head of Iranian Government Information Council announced that the case of his daughter, Nazanin Zahra Heydari, along with several other students, is being pursued.

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پدر یکی از دانش‌آموزان زخمی‌شده در بمباران دبستان شجره طیبه میناب با اشاره به هزینه‌های میلیونی درمان دخترش می‌گوید که به او اعلام شده است که «اولویت با شهداست.» رئیس شورای اطلاع‌رسانی دولت ایران پس از گفتگوی پدر نازنین‌زهرا حیدری با روزنامه فرهیختگان از پیگیری پرونده و او چند دانش‌آموز دیگر خبر داد

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Hoda Hashemi

2 May 2026

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2 May 2026

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هدی هاشمی

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Zahra, the sister of Zohreh Shahriari, the teacher killed in Minab, spent three agonizing days moving back and forth among ambulances at the hospital, and through scenes many could not bear to witness, searching for any trace of her loved one in the hospital and the morgue.

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زهرا، خواهر معلم شهید میناب، زهره شهریاری سه روز پر اضطراب، میان رفت‌وآمد آمبولانس‌ها در بیمارستان و صحنه‌هایی که خیلی‌ها تاب دیدنش را نداشتند، در جست‌وجوی نشانی از عزیزش در بیمارستان و سردخانه گذراند.

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Atiye Online

30 Apr 2026

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30 Apr 2026

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آتیه آنلاین

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“I recognized my child by their fingernails.” A total of 146 students and teachers were killed in the early hours of the war at the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab. We still do not know the stories of the lives and deaths of many of them. In this video, Modatheh, the mother of Amin and Mahdieh, recounts the final day of her children’s lives and their deaths—a mother who found her daughter’s body on the day of the incident, and whose son was identified three days later.

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بچه‌ام را از ناخن‌هایش شناختم ۱۴۶ دانش‌آموز و معلم در نخستین ساعات جنگ در دبستان شجره طیبه میناب به شهادت رسیدند. ما هنوز داستان زندگی و مرگ بسیاری از آنها را نمی‌دانیم. در این ویدئو محدثه مادر امین و مهدیه آخرین روز زندگی فرزندان و مرگ‌شان را روایت می‌کند. مادری که پیکر دخترش را در روز حادثه پیدا می‌کند و سه روز بعد پسرش شناسایی می‌شود.

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Mahnaz Abbasian

3 May 2026

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3 May 2026

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مهناز عباسیان

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Mahnaz Abbasian

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Zohreh Shahriari, a second-grade teacher in Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, was killed alongside her students. She was pregnant and just three months away from hearing the cry of her newborn. According to a report by Hamshahri Online, Zohreh Shahriari was expecting to hold her son, whom she had already named “Mohammad Ali,” and dreamed of raising him with love and devotion. But the missiles ended that future. Not only was Mohammad Ali never born, but Zohreh herself was killed together with “her boys”—the students she loved as if they were her own children. What remains for her family now are memories, and a set of baby clothes that will never be used. “We were five sisters and had no brother. Zohreh was pregnant. When she went for the ultrasound and found out the baby was a boy" Zohreh was among the earliest teachers at the school, teaching since its founding—first in preschool, then in higher grades. Her sister recalls. “She was in the yard, calling families to tell them the school had been dismissed. Suddenly, the first missile struck the building. Instead of running away, she ran toward the second-grade classroom. About nine students were still there, waiting for their parents. Zohreh went to be with them. She went—and never came back. She was killed together with those beloved boys.” Farzad Karamzadeh, the father of one of the students, was the last person to hear her voice: “That day, an unknown number called me. A woman said, ‘I’m Shahriari, Saman’s teacher. Can you come pick him up? The school has been dismissed…’ Before she could finish her sentence, there was an explosion. She screamed—and then there was silence.” He adds: “She was the embodiment of a devoted teacher. She left this world together with my son.”

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زهره شهریاری، معلم مدرسه‌میناب، ۳‌ماه دیگر قرار بود صدای گریه نوزادش را بشنود. قرار بود «محمدعلی» را در آغوش بگیرد زهرا شهریاری، خواهر شهید، با چشمانی اشک‌آلود از آخرین روزهای خوش خواهرش می‌گوید: «ما ۵ خواهر بودیم و برادر نداشتیم. زهره باردار بود. وقتی برای سونوگرافی رفت و فهمید بچه پسر است، انگار تمام غم دنیا از دلش بیرون رفت زهره از قدیمی‌ترین معلم‌های مدرسه میناب و از بدو تأسیس، مربی پیش‌دبستانی بود. بعد هم پایه‌های بالاتر درس داد و علاقه زیادی به شاگردانش داشت. این معلم در لحظه شهادت هم فداکاری مثال‌زدنی داشت. خواهر شهید دراین باره می‌گوید: «یکی از اولیایی که آن لحظه در مدرسه بود، برای من تعریف کرد؛ دیدم خانم شهریاری وسط حیاط بود و با خانواده‌ها تماس می‌گرفت که مدرسه تعطیل شده است. ناگهان موشک اول به ساختمان خورد. او به جای اینکه از ساختمان دور شود، دوید به سمت کلاس دوم. حدود ۹ دانش‌آموز در آن کلاس تنها مانده بودند و منتظر پدر و مادرشان بودند. زهره رفت که پیش آنها باشد. رفت و دیگر بازنگشت... با همان پسران دوست‌داشتنی‌اش آسمانی شد.» فرزاد کرم‌زاده، پدر شهید سامان کرم‌زاده، آخرین نفری است که صدای این معلم شهید را شنیده است. خودش می‌گوید: «روز حادثه، یک شماره ناشناس با من تماس گرفت. خانمی از پشت تلفن گفت من شهریاری هستم، معلم سامان. می‌توانید بیایید دنبال سامان... مدرسه تعطیل شده. هنوز جمله‌اش تمام نشده بود که صدای انفجار آمد... جیغ کشید... و بعد هیچ صدایی نشنیدم. او نمونه یک معلم فداکار بود و با پسرم پرکشید.»

Rokna

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Rokna

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A photo showing all the young students killed in the Minab school together in a single frame.

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عکس همه دانش آموزان کوچولوی شهید مدرسه میناب در یک قاب

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وزارت امور خارجه ایران

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Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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Report Crime at 11:30 (Minab wound) Analysis of legal and human rights dimensions The criminal attack by the United States on Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in the city of Minab (Along with information on a number of the martyred students) Deputy for Legal and International Affairs

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گزارش جنایت ساعت ۱۱:۳۰ (زخم میناب) (از سرنگون کردن هواپیمای مسافری ایران ایر توسط ناو آمریکایی در خلیج فارس تا حمله به دبستان در سواحل خلیج فارس) تحلیل ابعاد حقوقی و حقوق بشری حمله جنایتکارانه آمریکا به دبستان شجره طیبه شهر میناب شنبه ۹ اسفند ۱۴۰۴ (به همراه اطلاعات تعدادی از شهدای دبستان) وزارت امور خارجه معاونت امور حقوقی و بین‌المللی

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Shargh Daily

18 Apr 2026

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18 Apr 2026

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روزنامه شرق

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Shargh Daily

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The head of the Iranian Red Crescent Society in Minab said that on the day of the attack on the Minab school, many of the bodies were completely disintegrated, and rescue teams were collecting body parts, but no remains of Makan Nasiri were ever found. Ehsan Mohseni stated: “At around 11:20 a.m., while we were in the office, we heard powerful explosions. We immediately got into emergency vehicles and headed into the streets. At first, we did not know which part of Minab had been hit, but after a short while we learned that the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School had been struck by missiles.” He continued: “The streets of Minab were completely gridlocked due to heavy traffic, but with the help of colleagues we managed to make our way toward the school. When we arrived, everything was filled with smoke and fire, and we immediately began search and rescue operations.” Mohseni added: “A large number of the injured were transferred to hospitals by ambulance. From the third day of rescue operations onward, no further bodies or remains of the victims were found.” He further stated: “In total, the bodies of 155 students were recovered, but unfortunately the body of Makan Nasiri was never found. The force of the explosion was such that the bodies of some of the student victims were completely torn apart, and we spent a long time collecting remains.” He also noted: “Psychological support teams from the Red Crescent are working alongside the victims’ families, and only China provided financial assistance, giving each family 1,300 dollars.”

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مدیر جمعیت هلال احمر میناب گفت: در روز حمله به مدرسه میناب بسیاری از اجساد کاملا متلاشی شده بودند و ما تکه‌های اندام‌ را جمع آوری میکردیم اما هیچ اندامی از ماکان نصیری یافت نشد. احسان محسنی اظهار کرد: ساعت ۱۱:۲۰ دقیقه پیش از ظهر در دفتر کار، صدای انفجار های مهیبی را شنیدیم که بلافاصله به سرعت با ماشین های امدادی وارد خیابان شدیم، تصور نمی‌کردیم که کدام نقطه میناب مورد حمله قرار گرفته که پس از مدتی مطلع شدیم که مدرسه شجره طیبه مورد اصابت موشک قرار گرفته است. وی ادامه داد: خیابان‌های میناب از شدت ترافیک قفل شده بود که با کمک همکاران موفق شدیم به سمت مدرسه راهی شویم و زمانی که به مدرسه رسیدیم همه جا پر از دود و آتش بود و فورا عملیات جستجو و نجات را آغاز کردیم. محسنی افزود: تعدادی زیادی از مصدومان توسط آمبولانس به بیمارستان منتقل شدند. از روز سوم عملیات امداد نجات دیگر اندام یا جسدی از شهدا یافت نشد. وی ادامه داد: در مجموع ۱۵۵ پیکر دانش آموز پیدا شد که متاسفانه پیکر ماکان نصیری یافت نشد، شدت انفجار به گونه ای بود که اندام بدن برخی از شهدای دانش آموز کاملا متلاشی شده بود و ما مدت ها مشغول جمع آوری اندام بودیم. وی افزود: تیم های بهداشت روان هلال احمر در کنار خانواده شهدا هستند و تنها کشور چین به هر خانواده مبلغ ۱۳۰۰ دلار کمک کرد.

Student News Agency | SNN

23 Apr 2026

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The sister of Fatemeh Shahdadi said in an interview with SNN TV: “My sister was the physical education (sports) teacher at Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School.”

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خواهر شهیده معلم «فاطمه شهدادی» در گفت‌و‌گو با SNN TV اظهار داشت: خواهرم معلم تربیت‌بدنی مدرسه شجره طیبه بود.

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Mohammad Rasool Moradi

10 Apr 2026

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محمدرسول مرادی

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Mohammad Rasool Moradi

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Amidst tears and pride, the parents of martyr Zeinab Makizadeh speak of a girl who grew up with faith, modesty, and kindness, and on a bitter but glorious day, at the Shajare Tayybeh Minab School, she dedicated her life to her beliefs and was martyred.

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در میان اشک و افتخار، پدر و مادر شهیده زینب مکی‌زاده از دختری سخن می‌گویند که با ایمان، حیا و مهربانی رشد کرد و در روزی تلخ اما پرافتخار، در مدرسه‌ شجره طیبه میناب، جان خود را در راه باورهایش تقدیم و. به شهادت رسید

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Mohammad Rasool Moradi

9 Apr 2026

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محمدرسول مرادی

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this is the bitter and sweet story of a mother who sheds tears in the separation of her beloved, Mahdieh Rasouli, a teacher at the Shajare Tayyiba Minab School.

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این روایت تلخ و شیرین مادری است که در فراق جگرگوشه اش مهدیه رسولی از معلمان مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب قطره قطره اشک می ریزد.

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Saba Mousavi

2 May 2026

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صبا موسوی

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Saba Mousavi

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A collection of posters titled "For What Sin?" was published on Teacher's Day in memory of the martyred teachers of Shajare Tayybeh Minab School. Raheleh Ranjbar, a teacher at Shajare Tayybeh Minab School, flew from the classroom to the throne of martyrdom with the fire of hatred of the arrogant and became a document of the injustice of this land. Nasim Neistani, a teacher at Shajare Tayybeh Minab School, flew from the classroom to the throne of martyrdom with the fire of hatred of the arrogant and became a document of the injustice of this land. Narges Zakeri, a teacher at Shajare Tayyiba School in Minab, flew from the classroom to the throne of martyrdom with the fire of hatred against the arrogant and became a document of the oppression of this land. Mahdieh Rasouli, a teacher at Shajare Tayyiba School in Minab, flew from the classroom to the throne of martyrdom with the fire of hatred against the arrogant and became a document of the oppression of this land. Mahsa Ranjbar, a teacher at Shajare Tayyiba School in Minab, flew from the classroom to the throne of martyrdom with the fire of hatred against the arrogant and became a document of the oppression of this land. Khadija Kamali, a teacher at Shajare Tayyiba School in Minab, flew from the classroom to the throne of martyrdom with the fire of hatred against the arrogant and became a document of the oppression of this land. Ansiya Karimi, a teacher at Shajare Tayyiba School in Minab, flew from the classroom to the throne of martyrdom with the fire of hatred against the arrogant and became a document of the oppression of this land. Elham Karimi, a teacher at Minab's Shajare Tayyiba School, was carried from the classroom to the throne of martyrdom by the fire of hatred from the arrogant, becoming a testament to the injustice of this land.

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مجموعه پوسترهای به کدامین گناه؟ در روز معلم به یاد معلمان شهید مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب منتشر شد. راحله رنجبر، معلم مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب، با آتش کینه مستکبران از نیمکت درس به عرش شهادت پرکشید و سند مظلومیت این خاک شد. نسیم نیستانی، معلم مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب، با آتش کینه مستکبران از نیمکت درس به عرش شهادت پرکشید و سند مظلومیت این خاک شد. نرگس ذاکری، معلم مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب، با آتش کینه مستکبران از نیمکت درس به عرش شهادت پرکشید و سند مظلومیت این خاک شد. مهدیه رسولی، معلم مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب، با آتش کینه مستکبران از نیمکت درس به عرش شهادت پرکشید و سند مظلومیت این خاک شد. مهسا رنجبر، معلم مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب، با آتش کینه مستکبران از نیمکت درس به عرش شهادت پرکشید و سند مظلومیت این خاک شد. خدیجه کمالی، معلم مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب، با آتش کینه مستکبران از نیمکت درس به عرش شهادت پرکشید و سند مظلومیت این خاک شد. انسیه کریمی، معلم مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب، با آتش کینه مستکبران از نیمکت درس به عرش شهادت پرکشید و سند مظلومیت این خاک شد. الهام کریمی، معلم مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب، با آتش کینه مستکبران از نیمکت درس به عرش شهادت پرکشید و سند مظلومیت این خاک شد.

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Hossein Khemdati

10 Apr 2026

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10 Apr 2026

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حسین خدمتی

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Hossein Khemdati

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Islamic Republic News Agency, in an interview with the family of Pouran Gholipour, the martyred principal of the Minab school, in the city of Yasuj.

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خبرگزاری ایرنا، در گفت و گو با خانواده «شهیده پوران قلی پور مدیر مدرسه میناب» در شهر یاسوج

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Mehrnaz Khosravi

1 May 2026

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1 May 2026

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مهرناز خسروی

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Mehrnaz Khosravi

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Dear Asenat, a dignified sixth-grade student of the martyred teacher Aniseh Karimi, was preparing for the entrance exam to the gifted (talented students) school. She was proficient in English. Fatemeh—a truly accomplished young woman—was a poet, and the sister of the martyred Mohammad Hesam Raeisi.

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آسنات عزیز دختر با وقار کلاس ششم خانم معلم شهیده انیسه کریمی،داشت برای آزمون ورودی تیزهوشان آماده میشد مسلط به زبان انگلیسی دختر همه چیز تمام فاطمه خانوم شاعره و خواهر شهید محمد حسام رئیسی

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Mohammad Rezazadeh

7 Apr 2026

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محمد رضازاده

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Mohammad Rezazadeh

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In this fruitful ceremony, two saplings were specially and symbolically named "Martyr Mohammad Hessam Raisi" and "Martyr Athena Raisi."

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در این آیین پربار، به صورت ویژه و نمادین دو نهال به نام‌های "شهید محمد حسام رئیسی" و "شهیده آتنا رئیسی" نامگذاری شد.

Student News Agency | SNN.IR

1 May 2026

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Student News Agency | SNN.IR

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On the eve of Teacher's Day, a memory of martyred student Asenat Raisi comes back to life; when, in the third grade of elementary school, she dedicated a poem in a Minabian accent to her martyred teacher, Narges Zakeri.

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در آستانه روز معلم، خاطره‌ای از دانش‌آموز شهیده آسنات رئیسی بار دیگر زنده می‌شود؛ زمانی که او در پایه سوم ابتدایی، شعری را با لهجه‌ی مینابی تقدیم معلم شهیدش، نرگس ذاکری کرد.

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Iran Embassy In Tajikistan

31 Mar 2026

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Iran Embassy In Tajikistan

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The heartbreaking story of "Mohaddeseh Falahat", the mother of Amin and Mahdia, two innocent and martyred children from Shajare Tayyiba Elementary School in Minab, at the emergency meeting of the UN Human Rights Council regarding the investigation of the criminal attack by American aggressors on Shajare Tayyiba School in Minab.

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روایت جانسوز «محدثه فلاحت»، مادر امین و مهدیه دو کودک معصوم و شهید دبستان شجره طیبه میناب در نشست اضطراری شورای حقوق بشر سازمان ملل در خصوص بررسی حمله جنایتکارانه متجاوزان آمریکایی به مدرسه شجره طیبه در میناب

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Fararu

20 Apr 2026

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20 Apr 2026

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فرارو

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Fararu

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In this video, you see and hear the firsthand, deeply painful account of a man who lost his wife and two children in the attack on the Minab school. He says: “I recognized my son from his hand—the one that remained on his pencil case, with his name written on his colored pencils. I identified my wife by her wedding ring, and my daughter by her bracelet and her pink bag.”

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در این ویدئو روایت عینی و دردناک مردی را می‌بینید و می‌شنوید که همسر و دو فرزندش را در حمله به مدرسه میناب از دست داد. او گفت پسرش را از روی دستی که روی جامدادای‌اش به جای مانده بود و اسمش روی مدادرنگی‌هایش نوشته شده، بود، شناختم. همسرم را از روی حلقه ازدواجش و دخترم را از روی النگو و کیف صورتی‌اش شناسایی کردم.

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Farzaneh Farahani

16 Apr 2026

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16 Apr 2026

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فرزانه فراهانی

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Farzaneh Farahani

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Many have lost all their loved ones in the blink of an eye; just like Mr. Hassan Salari, who lost his two children and his young wife in the Minab school explosion. The pain of enduring the loss of a loved one is enough to bend a person's back, let alone the collective loss of loved ones. A man who lost his wife and two children in Minab School recounts the beautiful and loving life their family of four had together for Khabar Online. The father is a carpenter and works in a city far from Minab; at the time of the accident, he had not been home for a week and was supposed to return home for a few days on Monday or Tuesday of the same week (March 2 and 3) and be with his family; the deadly explosions of that terrible day have cut off his hands from his children and wife forever. The sole survivor of the Salari family says: "My wife had gone to look for the children on the day of the incident and, probably as usual, had entered through the back door first and told Mahia to come down so we could go home with your brother Ali, but death took hold of her hands before Mahya could. She had probably not taken even 10 steps when the first rocket hit and they were buried under the rubble, hand in hand with the poor boy. Mahya was also thrown down from the top floor of the school by the same explosions and buried in the rubble of the entire building. I was in Shift County that day and a few hours later, I found out from my colleagues what had happened in the school; of course, at first they said that the clinic next to the school had been hit. After three or four hours, I found out that the school had been hit by enemy bombing; every time I called my wife, her phone was not available and I said that maybe the antenna in the area had been cut off because of this incident. About three hours later, when I managed to call my brother, he told me that the car was under the rubble in the school yard, and I learned that the school had been attacked by the enemy and that my children were probably inside the school, but I still wasn’t sure. I couldn’t believe that my children and my wife were also torn to pieces. Even now, my brother has text messages on his phone saying that only the car was under the rubble in the yard and that we haven’t found them yet. When my shift ended, I set off for Minab; it was a long way, and I reached the school before noon. My brother said that the situation was very, very bad. They were pulling pieces of the children’s bodies out of the rubble. But still, I looked away from my wife and children and saw that they had also been torn to pieces, and I couldn’t believe it. The school had two doors, the front door was for boys, whose classes were on the ground floor, and the girls went through the back door and went upstairs. Of course, there was a common door in the middle of the ground floor; whenever I was home, my wife and I would go after the children to pick them up from school. That day, as usual, I entered through the first door that led to the boys’ classes, and all the ideas I had had up until then were erased from my mind. Until that moment, I thought the children were stuck somewhere under the rubble, waiting for someone to come and save them. But when I saw that scene, the rubble was carpeted on the ground and there was no way for anyone to breathe or struggle to come and save him, and at that moment I said to myself that my children and my wife were definitely under the same dirt and stones that were stuck to the ground. Both of the children's teachers were also martyred in these explosions. It was the second day of searching for the bodies when the Red Crescent children found two pieces of my wife's body (an ankle and a hand) and a hand of my son Ali next to each other; I identified my wife's body through our wedding ring that he always had on his hand. The remains of my son's body were also on his mother's body and the marks of his crayons were also on his hand; half of this mass was also burned. The pencils that we took out of his mass were for Ali himself; we had written his name and stuck it on each of the pencils. I feel that Ali and his mother were the closest to the place where the missile hit; because both their bodies were burned and nothing was left of them. I recognized Mahya 's body from her ring and bangle It was the evening of the third day that I identified the body of my daughter, my third missing person, in the morgue where the bodies of the other children were kept, from the bangle and ring on her hand. My daughter's body was also completely crushed and I think her head was not on her body; because at that moment, no matter how much I looked, I did not see Mahia's head. My daughter's body no longer had a normal shape and form and was disintegrated. To see Mahia's body, I saw two halls full of corpses and went around; I saw at least 90 bodies in the covers until I reached Mahia; of course, no body, only some of the bodies were intact and the rest were just pieces of the bodies of innocent children. I was most disturbed when I was looking for my daughter's body among those bones, among those fingers and body parts of the children; the situation was very bad, the condition of the remains of the bodies in the morgue was so bad that in some cases I could not even distinguish which part of the body it was. I was looking among them and I said that maybe Mahia's ring was on her hand and in those fingers I could find the finger of my daughter Mahya . I went to the end of the hall; in the corner of the hall, two or three bodies were stacked on top of each other; when I opened the first cover and pushed it aside, the first thing I saw was Mahya's hand; The same hand I mentioned was holding my daughter's bangle and ring, and to make sure it hadn't been moved with the other bodies, I matched the photos I had of them with the bangle and ring on the severed hand. It was hers; it was my daughter's hand. Ali's birthday was only 10 days away, We are tenants, and sometimes things were difficult for us; Ali's constant wish was to buy us a house; he would say he would buy a two-story house and our landlord would come and be our tenant, and then we would laugh together. My job is carpentry, and he always said that I would become both a carpenter and a scientist. Mahya had also drawn a few drawings of characters from Shahnameh; I never saw the drawing notebook that the children had taken to school with them on the last day, and it seemed to have been burned and destroyed in the explosions. My wife was a very good woman and I was very good with her; we lived together for about 10 years .

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خیلیها در یک چشم بهم زدن همه عزیزانشان را از دست داده‌اند؛ درست مثل آقای «حسن سالاری» که در انفجار مدرسه میناب دو فرزند و همسر جوان خود را از دست داده است. تحمل داغ یک عزیز خود کمر آدمی را خم می‌کند چه برسد به از دست دادن دسته‌جمعی عزیزان. مردی که در مدرسه میناب دو کودک و همسرش را از دست داده، زندگی قشنگ و عاشقانه‌ای که خانواده چهار نفره‌شان کنار هم داشتند را برای خبرآنلاین روایت می‌کند. پدر نجار است و در شهری دورتر از میناب کار می‌کند؛ زمان حادثه هم یک هفته‌ای می‌شد که به خانه نیامده بود و قرار بوده دوشنبه یا سه‌سنبه همان هفته (۱۱ و ۱۲ اسفندماه) چند روزی به خانه بگردد و در کنار خانواده‌اش باشد؛ که انفجارهای مرگبار آن روز وحشتناک، دست‌هایش را برای همیشه از دست فرزندان و همسرش کوتاه کرده است. تنها بازمانده خانواده سالاری می‌گوید: «همسرم روز حادثه به دنبال بچه‌ها رفته بود و احتمالا طبق عادت، اول از در پشتی وارد شده و به محیا گفته بود که بیا پایین تا با برادرت علی به خانه برگردیم اما مرگ زودتر از محیا دست‌هایش را گرفت و احتمالا هنوز ۱۰ قدم هم برنداشته بود که موشک اول را زدند و دست در دست با پسرک بیچاره زیرآوار ماندند؛ محیا هم با همین انفجارها از طبقه بالای مدرسه به پایین پرتاب شده و بین آوار کل ساختمان مدفون شد. من آن روز در شهرستان شیفت بودم و چند ساعت بعدش از طریق همکاران ‌دور و برم متوجه شدم که چه اتفاقی در مدرسه افتاده؛ البته اول گفتند که درمانگاه مجاور مدرسه را زده‌اند. بعد از سه-چهار ساعت بعد متوجه شدم که مدرسه مورد اصابت بمباران دشمن قرار گرفته است؛ هر چه به همسرم زنگ می‌زدم گوشی‌اش در دسترس نبود و می‌گفتم شاید حالا بخاطر این اتفاق آنتن منطقه قطع شده است. حدود سه ساعت بعد که موفق شدم با برادرم تماس بگیرم، به من گفت که ماشین توی حیاط مدرسه زیرآوار است و آنجا فهمیدم که مدرسه مورد حمله دشمن قرار گرفته است و احتمالا بچه‌های من هم داخل مدرسه بوده‌اند؛ اما هنوز مطمئن نبودم. باور نمی‌کردم بچه‌های من و همسرم هم تکه‌تکه شده باشند. الآن هم پیامک‌های برادرم توی گوشی هست که گفته بود فقط ماشین توی حیاط زیر آوار است و هنوز پیدایشان نکردیم. شیفت کارم که تمام شد به سمت میناب راه افتادم؛ راه طولانی بود و من قبل ظهر به مدرسه رسیدم. برادرم می‌گفت وضع خیلی خیلی خراب است. دارند تکه‌هایی از بدن بچه‌ها را از زیرآوار درمی‌آورند. ولی باز هم من از همسر و بچه‌هایم دور می‌دیدم که آن‌ها هم تکه‌تکه شده باشند و باورم نمی‌شد. مدرسه دو در داشت، در جلویی پسرانه بود که کلاس‌هایشان در طبقه همکف قرار داشت و دخترها هم از در پشتی تردد می‌کردند و به طبقه بالا می‌رفتند. البته یک در مشترک در بخش وسط طبقه همکف وجود داشت؛ همیشه وقت‌هایی که خانه بودم با همسرم به دنبال بچه‌ها می‌رفتیم که آن‌ها را از مدرسه بیاوریم. آن روز هم به عادت همیشه من از در اول که وارد کلاس‌های پسرانه می‌شد وارد شدم و تمام تصوراتی که تا آن موقع داشتم از ذهنم پاک شد. تا آن لحظه فکر می‌کردم بچه‌ها یک جایی زیر آوار گیر کرده و منتظرند تا یکی بیاید و نجاتشان بدهد. اما وقتی آن صحنه را دیدم، آوار روی زمین فرش شده بود و هیچ راه هوا و روزنه‌ای نداشت که مثلا بگوییم کسی آنجا زیر آن آوار بتواند نفس بکشد یا تقلا کند که بیایند و نجاتش بدهند و آن لحظه با خودم گفتم که بچه‌های من و همسرم هم قطعا زیر همین خاک و سنگ‌هایی هستند که به زمین چسبیده بودند. هر دو معلم بچه‌ها هم در این انفجارها شهید شدند. روز دوم جست‌وجوی پیکرها بود که بچه‌های هلال‌احمر، دو تکه از بدن همسرم (یک مچ پا و یک دست) و یک دست از پسرم علی را در کنار هم پیدا کردند؛ پیکر همسرم را از طریق حلقه ازدواجمان که همیشه در دستش بود شناسایی کردم. بقایای پیکر پسرم هم که روی پیکر مادرش بود و جای مدادرنگی‌هایش هم در دستش بود؛ نصفی از این جامدادی هم سوخته بود. مدادهایی را هم که از جامدادی او درآوردیم، برای خود علی بود؛ اسمش را نوشته و روی تک تک مدادها چسبانده بودیم. احساس می‌کنم علی و مادرش در نزدیکترین نقطه به محل اصابت موشک قرار داشتند؛ چون هم بدنشان سوخته و هم اینکه چیزی از پیکرشان نمانده بود. پیکر محیا را از روی انگشتر و النگویش شناختم عصر روز سوم بود که پیکر دخترم، سومین گمشده‌ام را هم توی سردخانه‌ای که پیکر دیگر بچه‌ها را نگهداری می‌کردند از روی النگو و انگشتری که توی دستش بود شناسایی کردم. پیکر دخترم هم کلا له شده بود و فکر کنم سر هم روی بدنش نبود؛ چون آن لحظه من هر چه نگاه می‌کردم سر محیا را ندیدم. پیکر دخترم دیگر شکل عادی و فرم طبیعی نداشت و متلاشی شده بود. تا پیکر محیا را ببینم، دو تا سالن پر از جنازه را دیدم و دور زدم؛ حداقل ۹۰ پیکر را درون کاورها دیدم‌ تا به محیا رسیدم؛ البته پیکر که نه، فقط برخی از بدن‌ها سالم بود و مابقی فقط تکه‌هایی از بدن بچه‌های طفل معصوم باقی مانده بود. آنجایی بیشتر اذیت می‌شدم که لابه‌لای آن استخوان‌ها، لابلای آن انگشت‌ها و تکه‌های بدن بچه‌ها دنبال پیکر دخترم بودم؛ خیلی وضعیت بدی حاکم بود، وضعیت بقایای پیکرهایی که در سردخانه بودند، آنقدر بد بود که در برخی موارد حتی نمی‌توانستم تشخیص بدهم که کدام تکه بدن است. من لابه‌لای آن‌ها می‌گشتم و می‌گفتم شاید انگشتر محیا در دستش باشد و توی آن انگشت‌ها بتوانم انگشت دست محیا دخترم را پیدا کنم. رفتم انتهای سالن؛ در کنج سالن دو-سه تا پیکر روی همدیگر چیده بودند؛ کاور اولی را که باز کردم و کنار زدم اولین چیزی که دیدم دست محیا بود؛ همان دستی که گفتم النگو و انگشتری دخترم را در خود گرفته بود و بخاطر اینکه مطمئن شوم با پیکرهای دیگر جابه‌جا نشده باشد عکس‌هایی که از آن‌ها داشتم را با النگو و انگشتر آن دست بریده تطبیق دادم. خودش بود؛ دست دخترم محیا بود. ۱۰ روز بیشتر به تولد علی نمانده بود» ما مستأجریم و خب گاهی شرایط برایمان سخت بود؛ آرزوی همیشگی علی این بود که برای ما خانه بخرد؛ می‌گفت یک خانه دو طبقه میخرم و صاحبخانه‌مان هم بیاید و مستأجر ما باشد و بعد با هم می‌خندیدیم. شغل من نجاری است و همیشه می‌گفت من هم نجار و هم دانشمند می‌شوم. محیا هم چند نقاشی از شخصیت‌های شاهنامه را نقاشی کرده بود؛ دفتر نقاشی را که بچه‌ها آخرین روز با خود به مدرسه برده بودند را دیگر ندیدم و گویا در آتش انفجارها سوخته و از بین رفته بود. همسرم خیلی زن خوبی بود و حال من خیلی کنارش خوب بود؛ حدود ۱۰ سال با هم زندگی کردیم.

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New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage, released by Mehr News and geolocated by Bellingcat, also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children. The footage would appear to contradict US President Donald Trump’s claim that it was an Iranian missile that hit the school. The US is the only participant in the war that is known to have Tomahawk missiles. Israel is not known to have Tomahawk missiles. The red cone superimposed over this image shows the estimated area of impact of the missile visible in the footage. The graphic also shows the position of a clinic, the school and other damaged buildings. Planet Labs satellite imagery shows that only two structures within this red cone were damaged, including a clinic. The other structure appears to be an earth-covered magazine or bunker. Bellingcat is a non-profit and the ability to carry out our work is dependent on the kind support of individual donors. If you would like to support our work, you can do so here. You can also subscribe to our Patreon channel here. Subscribe to our Newsletter and follow us on Bluesky here, Instagram here, Reddit here and YouTube here.

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The missile hit during the school’s morning session. In Iran, the school week runs from Saturday to Thursday, so when US and Israeli bombs began falling at around 10am on Saturday, classes were under way. At a point between 10am and 10.45am, a missile directly hit Shajareh Tayyebeh school, in Minab, southern Iran, demolishing its concrete building and killing dozens of seven to 12-year-old girls. Photographs and verified videos from the site, which the Guardian has not published due to their graphic nature, show children’s bodies lying partly buried under the debris. In one video, a very small child’s severed arm is pulled from the rubble. Colourful backpacks covered with blood and concrete dust sit among the ruins. One girl wears a green dress with gingham patches on her pockets and the collar, her form partly obscured by a black body bag. Screams can be heard in the background. One distraught man stands in the ruins of the school, waving textbooks and worksheets as rescuers dig by hand through the debris. “These are the schoolbooks of the children who are under these ruins, under this rubble here,” he shouts. “ According to Iranian state media, up to 168 people were killed by the strike and 95 injured – figures that the Guardian has not been able to verify. With independent reporting severely restricted in Iran, and much of the country still experiencing internet blackouts, the Guardian has used verified video footage, geolocated images, satellite imagery and interviews to piece together a more detailed account of the Minab girls’ school bombing – the worst mass casualty event of the US-Israeli-led attack so far – which has been described by Unesco as a “grave violation” of international law. The Guardian cross-referenced verified videos from the site with satellite imagery to confirm the location of the primary school. Shajareh Tayyebeh school was adjacent to a cluster of buildings that form the local Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) barracks and support buildings. The complex next to the school includes a medical clinic and pharmacy, which has signage bearing the IRGC logo and reads “Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy Medical Command”. Also in the wider complex is what appears to be a gymnasium or concert space, which is marked “Seyyed al-Shohada Cultural Complex of the Revolutionary Guard”. The school’s location has also been verified by Osint (open source intelligence) researchers, the Iranian student network, and independent Farsi factchecking service Factnameh. There is no indication, however, that the school is in any sense a military-use building: its classroom building and playground is walled off from the rest of the IRGC compound, and the colourful murals on its walls are visible in some satellite imagery. Nor were its classes exclusively reserved for children of military families, Shiva Amelirad, a Canada-based representative of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations, a network of teachers’ unions in Iran, told the Guardian. The school also enrolled many children from the local community, particularly those who could not afford private school fees. “Because its tuition was lower than many other private schools, and due to the high overcrowding in public schools, ordinary families had been compelled to enrol their children there,” Amelirad said. Early videos from the scene of the school bombing also show thick smoke rising from at least one nearby building. The school’s location, the nearby smoke, and the timing of the bombing – in the first round of strikes by US and Israeli forces – all give credence to the assertion that the school was hit as part of a series of strikes by the US and Israel on or around the IRGC complex. The US military said it was “looking into” the bombing. Capt Tim Hawkins, the spokesperson for US Central Command, said the US was “aware of reports concerning civilian harm resulting from ongoing military operations. We take these reports seriously and are looking into them.” US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, said the Department of War “would be investigating that if that was our strike,” and that the US “would not deliberately target a school”. Iranian authorities began issuing orders for schools to close shortly after the US-Israeli attack began at 9.40am. It is not clear whether the bomb hit the school before those warnings arrived in Minab, or just after them, with parents not having time to act. Amelirad, of the Teachers’ Council, said they had been told that “the time between the announcement of the school’s closure and the moment of the explosion was very short” so “families had not yet arrived to pick up their children”. It is not yet clear how many of the total dead were teachers or school staff, although Isna (the state-affiliated Iranian Student news agency) has reported that the school’s headteacher was among the dead. According to human rights organisation Hengaw, the school’s morning session typically included 170 children. A local official told AP that the casualties from the Saturday strike included students, parents and school staff. Amelirad told the Guardian that the number of dead overwhelmed the local morgue, saying: “Due to the limited capacity of the hospital morgue, refrigerated vehicles have reportedly been used to store the bodies of the victims.” “Among the victims were children from [many] different families,” Amelirad said. “In some cases, more than one child from the same family lost their lives.”

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On Saturday morning, February 28, 2026, dozens of girls gathered at the “Shajareh Tayyebeh” (The Good Tree) school in the city of Minab in southern Iran when Israel and the United States began initial strikes on the country. As the students began their studies, missiles struck the school, destroying the building and causing the roof to collapse on top of the children and their teachers. Iranian authorities have put the final death toll at 165 people, most of them girls aged between 7 and 12. At least 95 other people were wounded in the attack. As the images of the carnage spread on social media platforms, Israeli and US authorities sought to distance themselves from the attack. Spokespeople for the US Department of Defense and the Israeli army told Time magazine and The Associated Press news agency that they were unaware that a school had been hit. Some websites and social media accounts linked to Israel claimed the site was “part of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base”. However, an analysis by Al Jazeera’s digital investigations unit of satellite imagery compiled over more than a decade, as well as recent video clips, published news reports and statements from official Iranian sources, tells a very different story. The findings reveal that the school had been clearly separate from an adjacent military site for at least 10 years. The investigation also shows that the strike pattern raises fundamental questions about the accuracy of intelligence information on which the bombing was based. It may even raise questions about whether the strike was a deliberate targeting of the school. The city must be placed within its broader geostrategic context. Minab is located in Hormozgan in southeastern Iran, a province of enormous military importance as it directly overlooks the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf waters, making it a key hub for the operations of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) naval forces, NEDSA. The IRGC Navy embraces what is known as an “asymmetric warfare” strategy that relies on deploying fast boats, drones, and coastal missile platforms capable of disrupting shipping or targeting hostile naval vessels. In this context, the “Sayyid al-Shuhada” military complex in Minab stands out; it includes key headquarters, most notably that of the “Asif Brigade”. The Asif missile brigade is considered one of the most important strike arms of the IRGC Navy. By reviewing open sources and tracking official Iranian records, important details emerge about the school itself: The Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab is part of a broad network of schools structurally and administratively affiliated with the IRGC Navy. These schools are classified as nonprofit institutions and are primarily intended to provide educational services to the sons and daughters of members of the IRGC Navy. Registration messages posted on the channel on the Iranian messaging app, “Baleh”- a channel dedicated to communicating with parents of pre-school children at one school in the Shajareh Tayyebeh network – show that admission procedures give priority to the children of military personnel. In more than one announcement, the children of IRGC Navy members are explicitly invited to attend on specific days to complete first-grade enrolment, with another notice stating that registration for children of non-members opens on different days. However, this administrative link (to the IRGC) or the identity of the parents does not change the schools’ legal status as civilian facilities under international humanitarian law, unless they were being used in military operations. And the children who attend them – whether they are the children of military personnel or civilians – remain protected people with special protection in armed conflicts, including the prohibition on intentionally targeting them or carrying out attacks that could harm them. The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has called the bombing of the school as a “horrific crime and a consolidation of the collapse of civilian protection”, stressing in a statement that the mere presence of military facilities or bases nearby does not change the school’s civilian character, and does not absolve US and Israeli forces of their legal obligation to carefully verify the nature of the target before striking it. The Monitor emphasised that children and teaching staff remain, in all circumstances, “protected persons” under international humanitarian law, and that any attack that fails to distinguish between them and potential military targets constitutes a serious violation. What do we know about the strike and its timing? On Saturday morning, the first day of the school week in Iran, US-Israeli strikes began on the country. Air raids started hitting various sites in the city of Minab and Hormozgan province.But life in general was proceeding in a near-normal manner; children went to their schools, and photos and videos showed almost normal traffic on the roads surrounding the school. Documented satellite images from that day show that the school building was still completely intact and had not been hit by any strike until 10:23am local time (06:53 GMT). Local and official Iranian sources say that by 10:45am (07:15 GMT), the school was directly hit by a guided missile. To verify the scope and nature of the strike, Al Jazeera’s Digital Investigations Unit analysed two video clips posted on Telegram shortly after the bombing, and precisely geolocated each by matching visible landmarks with satellite imagery. The first clip was filmed from a point southwest of the complex (at coordinates: 27°06’28.43″ N, 57°04’26.17″ E) and documents the first moments of smoke rising from inside the military block affiliated with the Sayyid al-Shuhada base (Asif Brigade), proving that the military base was indeed among the targets hit. The second clip, however, the most indicative in this investigation, was filmed from a point southeast of the complex (at coordinates: 27°06’23.77″ N, 57°05’05.97″ E) and provides a wide viewing angle encompassing the entire complex. This clip clearly shows two separate columns of thick black smoke rising simultaneously: The first from deep inside the military base, and the second from the geographically independent site of the girls’ school. The visible distance between the two columns matches the distance separating the two areas as shown by the satellite imagery. This refutes any claim that the damage to the school was caused by shrapnel flying from the adjacent base, and strongly indicates that the school building was subjected to a direct, separate strike.Timeline of separating the civilian building from the military baseTo establish the architectural separation and rebut claims that the bombed building was an active barracks, the investigation team conducted a historical trace of archived satellite images via Google Earth covering the period from 2013 up to just before the 2026 attack. The school site coordinates are (27°06’35.4″N 57°05’05.1″E).The chronological review reveals deliberate engineering to separate this part of the military complex and convert it entirely to civilian use over the past 10 years.The images show that the school building and its surrounding area were a connected, integrated part of the main military complex. The outer perimeter wall was unbroken, and the complex was surrounded by five security watchtowers positioned around the corners of the entire compound. There was only one main entry gate serving the whole complex, and the internal road network connected all buildings without barriers.It can be said with a degree of confidence that, in 2013, the site was used exclusively as a military barracks with a strict security character, as there was no indication of an independent civilian use of any part of the complex.But this changed radically in 2016. Satellite images dated September 6, 2016 capture the main turning point, when new internal walls were created and built, fully and tightly separating the school building area from the rest of the military block.At the same time, two of the watch towers overseeing this block were dismantled and removed. Most importantly, three new external gates were opened directly onto the public street to serve students’ and staff entry and exit. This radical modification documents the construction process and the official removal of the building from the military barracks system, converting it to an independent civilian purpose with dedicated entrances that do not pass through military checkpoints and are 200 to 300 metres (650 to 1000ft) away. The civilian use becomes clearer over time. Images taken on May 5, 2018 show intense civilian activity: Civilian cars can be seen lined up at the new external entrances. The internal courtyard was also equipped with a children’s sports field, and the internal walls were painted in multiple colours with bright mural drawings appropriate to the students’ age group. This documentation can be regarded as definitive visual confirmation that the building was operating at full capacity as a primary school. These features (such as the playground, wall drawings, and the presence of civilian cars) are the same ones that later appeared in videos documenting residents storming the school on the day of the tragedy to search for their daughters.The Martyr Absalan clinic as corroborating evidenceTo prove that the attacking party was (or should have been) precisely aware of the site’s updated layout, we traced the newest construction projects in the same area.On January 14, 2025 (just one year before the attack), the commander-in-chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Major-General Hossein Salami, visited the city of Minab to inaugurate the Martyr Absalan Specialised Clinic.The clinic, which cost 100 billion Iranian tomans (about $2m), was built on an area of 5,700 square metres (61,354 square feet) at another corner of the same original military complex – specifically on Resalat Street – to serve residents of eastern Hormozgan province. Reports published to cover the clinic’s opening indicate it was equipped with the latest CT imaging devices, ultrasound equipment, and laboratories, and that it offered civilian medical specialities such as paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, and dentistry – confirming its civilian nature.As with the school years earlier, building the clinic required spatial separation from the military base. After the Martyr Absalan clinic opened in January 2025, a separate gate was opened to connect it directly to the external street to receive civilian patients, and a dedicated car park was established – measures mirroring what the school underwent when it was separated from the complex and given three independent gates.Thus, what had been a single unified military complex became three independent sectors, clearly distinguishable in satellite imagery: The Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school, separated since 2016 with its own walls and gates; the Martyr Absalan Specialised Clinic, separated since early 2025 with an independent civilian entrance; and the Sayyid al-Shuhada military complex, which remained a closed and active site.When the US-Israeli attack began on the morning of February 28, 2026, analysis of the strike locations revealed an odd pattern: Missiles hit the military base and the school, but bypassed the specialised clinic complex located between the two without touching it.This exclusion cannot be explained as a coincidence; it strongly indicates that the executing party was operating with coordinates and maps that distinguished between the complex’s different facilities.Here lies the fundamental contradiction exposed by this investigation: If the intelligence was up to date enough to spare a clinic that had been open for only one year, how did it fail to identify an elementary school that had been separated from the military complex and had become a clearly defined civilian institution for more than 10 years? This contradiction leaves only two possibilities: Either the bombing of the school was the result of a grave intelligence failure caused by reliance on outdated databases that did not keep pace with successive changes in the complex’s layout, or it was a deliberate strike based on a linkage that treats the school as part of the military system. Misleading claims No sooner than when plumes of smoke began to rise from the school’s rubble than accounts on the X platform affiliated with, or sympathetic to, Israeli parties began circulating videos and images claiming the school had not been struck from the outside, but was destroyed after an Iranian air defence missile missed its target and fell back to the ground.This narrative replicates the same tactic used during the bombing of al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza in October 2023, when Israel rushed to accuse the Palestinian resistance of responsibility for the massacre via a rocket that missed its target. However, open-source verification tools – specifically reverse image searches and geolocation using visual landmarks – quickly revealed that the most widely shared image in this campaign, which is claimed to show the impact of a failed Iranian missile that fell on the school, has nothing to do with the city of Minab in the first place. By matching the terrain and landmarks visible in the image – especially the snow-covered mountains in the background – with satellite imagery, it became clear that it relates to an incident that occurred on the outskirts of Zanjan in northwestern Iran, about 1,300km (808 miles) from Minab. The irony is that the nature of the two locations alone is enough to refute the claim: Minab is a coastal city in the far southeast overlooking the Gulf of Oman and the Strait of Hormuz, with a tropical climate and no snowfall, while Zanjan is a mountainous city in the northwest that is covered with snow in winter. Iranian sources said what happened in Zanjan that day was a successful interception operation carried out by air defence units affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, during which two hostile drones were shot down. It was not possible to independently verify this information. The Minab school incident is not an exception in the record of civilian facilities being targeted by the US and Israeli militaries; rather, it falls within a documented pattern stretching across decades of military operations and attacks, in which the same scene recurs: Strikes hit schools, hospitals, and civilian shelters, followed by immediate denial or shifting of blame to the other side, before independent investigations later reveal the falsity of official claims. Returning to the school in Minab, testimony by Shiva Amilairad, a representative of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Unions, to Time magazine indicates that the decision to evacuate the school was made as soon as the US-Israeli attacks began. But, she said, the time between the warning issued by Iranian authorities (after detecting attacks on the city) and the moment the missile struck was far too short, and most parents were unable to reach the school to pick up their daughters. She also confirmed that hospital morgue capacity was exhausted, forcing authorities to use mobile refrigerated trucks to preserve the bodies of the young girls; some families lost more than one child in the same incident. The attackers’ ability to spare newly established adjacent facilities (such as the Martyr Absalan clinic) and their glaring failure to avoid an elementary school operating at full capacity and packed with 170 girls leaves us with two scenarios, both unequivocally condemnatory: Either US and Israeli forces relied, in striking the vicinity of the Asif Brigade, on a very old, outdated intelligence target bank (dating to before 2013), which would constitute grave negligence and reckless disregard for civilian lives; or the strike was carried out deliberately and with prior knowledge to inflict maximum societal shock and undermine popular support for Iran’s military establishment.

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UNESCO

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UNESCO is deeply alarmed by the impact of the ongoing military escalation in the Middle East on educational institutions, students, and education personnel. Initial reports indicate that an attack on a girls' primary school in Minab, southern Iran, has resulted in the deaths of over 100 individuals, including numerous students. The killing of pupils in a place dedicated to learning constitutes a grave violation of the protection afforded to schools under international humanitarian law. Attacks against educational institutions endanger students and teachers and undermine the right to education. In accordance with its mandate and with United Nations Security Council Resolution 2601 (2021), UNESCO recalls the obligations of all parties to protect schools, students and education personnel.

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Zohreh Khorrami

5 Mar 2026

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زهره خرمی

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Zohreh Khorrami

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Hello, I am a teacher of Shajareh Tayyebeh School, where I taught until the year 2024. Among these photos, there is one of me—someone who was left behind from this caravan. My students, my colleagues, my friends… Zohreh Khorrami, first-grade teacher at the boys’ section of Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School.

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سلام بنده آموزگاردبستان شجره طیبه که تاسال۱۴۰۳دراین مدرسه تدریس داشتم ، ازمیان این عکس منی وجودداردکه ازاین قافله جامانده، شاگردانم،همکارانم،دوستانم... زهره خرمی آموزگارپایه اول دبستان پسرانه شجره طیبه

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News Channel Sedaye Minab

17 Mar 2026

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17 Mar 2026

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A father’s painful account of the day of the crime in Minab (Zeynab and Zahra Bahrami) When our daughter Zeynab came into the schoolyard, the second explosion occurred. The debris fell on her head, and her skull was injured. When I saw her body, there was bleeding from her skull. In those very first hours, when the bodies were brought in, I identified my daughter Zeynab among the first twenty children whose remains were in body bags. But I found my other daughter, Zahra, the next day, at around 7:30 in the morning. I went toward the ambulance that was bringing the bodies. But there were no intact bodies anymore—only body parts. Suddenly, someone called out, “Zahra Bahrami.” I was caught between shock and hope that she might still be alive. I ran toward the ambulance with all my strength—but then I saw her lifeless body, lying there beside her schoolbag and belongings. That day, Zahra had a math class. Her counting blocks were placed alongside her other school items in the bag next to her body.

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روایت دردناک پدر دو دانش آموز شهید مینابی از روز جنایت (زینب و زهرا بهرامی) وقتی دخترمان زینب به حیاط آمده، با وقوع انفجار دوم، آوار روی سرش آمده و جمجمه‌اش آسیب‌دیده بود. وقتی هم پیکرش را دیدم جمجمه خونریزی داشت. در همان ساعات اولیه که پیکرها را آوردند پیکر دخترم زینب را بین ۲۰ پیکر اولی که از بچه‌ها در کاور بود شناسایی کردم اما پیکر دخترم زهرا را روز بعدش حدود ساعت ۷:۳۰ صبح پیدا کردم. به سمت آمبولانسی که پیکرها را می‌آوردند رفتم البته دیگر پیکری نبود و فقط اندام بود؛ یکدفعه صدا زدند "زهرا بهرامی" ؛ بین بهت و امید به سلامت زهرا بودم؛ با همه توانم به سمت آمبولانس دویدم؛ اما دیدم که پیکر بی‌جان زهرا به همراه کیف و وسایل مدرسه‌اش کنار هم بودند؛ آن روز زهرا ریاضی داشت و چینه‌هایش را هم کنار دیگر وسایلش در کاور کنار پیکرش آورده بودند.

Heydar Salehi's Father

19 Mar 2026

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پدرِ حیدر صالحی

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Heydar Salehi's Father

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A father’s elegy in mourning his martyred son, Heydar Salehi Kohanshoyeh Twenty days have passed. I still breathe—but I am not alive… Twenty days since that morning when you, with your small bag and your sweet smile, set out for school. That day, the school of Minab was filled with the scent of blood—the scent of innocence, the scent of a childhood torn apart under the fire of tyranny. …Twenty days have passed since that morning when my little Heydar, with smiling eyes and his small backpack, left for school and said: “Dad, I’ll be back soon…” But that “I’ll be back soon” was never repeated. And I was left behind—with a bleeding heart and eyes fixed on the closed door of our home. Your school, Rahpouyan Shohada-ye Khalij-e Fars School, that day burned under the fire of the enemies of humanity. And from beneath the rubble, I found only a few remnants of you: A single small shoe, a water container, a burnt piece of your backpack, a few torn pages of your books, and a half-burned folder— with the name of your school and your innocent photograph still remaining in its corner. — The father of martyred Heydar Salehi

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دل‌نوشته پدر در فراق فرزند شهیدش «حیدر صالحی کهنشوییه» بیست روز است که نفس می کشم اما زنده نیستم،... بیست روز از صبحی گذشته که توبا کیف کوچکت ،با لبخند شیرینت راهی مدرسه شدی مدرسه ی میناب آن روز بوی خون گرفت ،بوی بی گناهی ،بوی کودکی پرپرشده زیر آتش ظلم ...بیست روز از صبحی می‌گذرد که پسرکم حیدر با چشمان خندان و کوله‌پشتی کوچکش راهی مدرسه شد و گفت: «بابا من زود برمی‌گردم…» اما آن زود برمی‌گردم هرگز تکرار نشدو من ماندم با دلی پرخون و چشمانی خیره به در بسته‌ی خانه‌مان مدرسه‌ات، رهپویان شهدای خلیج فارس میناب، آن روز زیر آتش دشمنان انسانیت سوخت و من از زیر آوار، تنها چند یادگاری از تو یافتم یک لنگه کفش کوچک، کلمن آب ،بخشی سوخته از کوله‌پشتی‌ات، چند برگ پاره شده از کتاب‌هایت، و پوشه‌ی کار نیم‌سوخته‌ای که نام مدرسه و عکس معصومت بر گوشه‌ی آن مانده بود. پدرِ شهید حیدر صالحی

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Zeynab Raeisi

19 Mar 2026

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Zeynab Raeisi

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A note written by Zeynab Raeisi for the martyred Esra Farahi-Zadeh My dear Esra, I miss every single day you were with us—your voice, your beautiful smile, your innocent face… our games, your presence… all of you. That terrible day, when I was coming back from school, all I could think about was you—hoping you would return home safely. We waited for you until the afternoon… but then the news came that you had been martyred. Esra… the memories of you are the most beautiful thing I have left. As long as I live, you will stay in my heart. Rest peacefully, my beautiful Esra.

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دلنوشته ای از زینب رئیسی برای شهیده اسرا فرحی زاده اسرا جانم دلم برای تک تک روزایی که کنارمون بودی تنگ شده برای صدات برای لبخند زیبات برای چهره ی معصومت،برای بازی کردنامون برای وجودت... اون روز بدی که از مدرسه برمیگشتم فقط نگران تو بودم که سالم برگردی خونه تا عصر منتظر برگشتت بودیم ولی خبر شهید شدنت اومد اسرام،خاطراتت قشنگ ترین چیزیه که از تو دارم:) تا روزی که زندم به یادتم قلبم... آروم بخواب اسرای قشنگم:)

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Zeynab Ali-Hosseini

19 Mar 2026

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19 Mar 2026

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زینب علی‌حسینی

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Zeynab Ali-Hosseini

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A note for the martyred student Setayesh Ali-Hosseini I, Zeynab Ali-Hosseini, write for my martyred cousin, Setayesh Ali-Hosseini— an innocent little girl who left home with me in the morning to go to school… but never returned.

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دلنوشته ای برای دانش آموز شهیده ستایش علی‌حسینی من زینب علی‌حسینی می‌نویسم برای دخترعموی شهیدم،شهیده ستایش علی‌حسینی دخترکی معصوم که صبح باهم از خانه به مدرسه رفتیم ولی دیگر برنگشت

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Parham Ranjbari's Uncle

19 Mar 2026

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عموی پرهام رنجبری

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Parham Ranjbari's Uncle

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A note for my dear nephew, the martyred student Parham Ranjbari My dear nephew, I miss you so much… I don’t even know how I am writing these words.

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دلنوشته ای برای برادرزاده عزیزم دانش آموز شهید پرهام رنجبری عموجان خیلی دلم برات تنگ شده نمیدونم چجوری دارم این متن رومینویسم

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News Channel Sedaye Minab

19 Mar 2026

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News Channel Sedaye Minab

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The killing of a pregnant teacher in the attack on Shajareh Tayyebeh School in Minab Zohreh Shahriari—a teacher who was pregnant at the time of the U.S.–Israeli attack on Shajareh Tayyebeh School—was killed, along with her unborn child.

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جنایت آمریکا در به شهادت رساندن معلم باردار مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب زهره شهریاری، معلمی که در حمله‌ی آمریکایی‌صهیونیستی به مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب باردار بود؛ وی و نوزاد متولد نشده‌اش به شهادت رسیدند

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Shabestan News Agency

17 Apr 2026

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17 Apr 2026

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خبرگزاری شبستان

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Shabestan News Agency

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The ceremony marking the 40th anniversary of the martyrdom of the Leader of the Islamic Revolution and martyr Fatemeh Yazdanpanah and martyr Esra Farahizadeh, two martyrs from Shajare Tayyaba Elementary School, was held with the enthusiastic presence of the people of the province in the village of Gorzang, Bandzarak district, Minab city. [These two are cousins]

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مراسم چهلمین روز شهادت رهبر شهید انقلاب اسلامی و شهیده فاطمه یزدان‌پناه و شهیده اسرا فرحی‌زاده، از شهدای دانش‌آموز دبستان شجره طیبه با حضور پرشور مردم ولایت‌مدار در روستای گورزانگ بخش بندزرک شهرستان میناب برگزار شد. [این دو دخترخاله هستند]

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sister of Amirhossein Jafari Ravangi

24 Mar 2026

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24 Mar 2026

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خواهر امیرحسین جعفری راونگی

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sister of Amirhossein Jafari Ravangi

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A note written by the sister of the martyred student Amirhossein Jafari Ravangi For my brother, Amirhossein Jafari Ravangi— Sometimes I think… if it were the 15th of Farvardin this year, if your birthday had come, what would our home be like?

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دلنوشته خواهر دانش آموز شهید امیرحسین جعفری راونگی برای برادرم امیرحسین جعفری راونگی گاهی فکر می‌کنم اگر ۱۵ فروردین امسال بود، اگر تولدت می‌رسید، خانه چطور می‌شد؟

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Zoha Pasand's mother

24 Mar 2026

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24 Mar 2026

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مادر ضحه پسند

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Zoha Pasand's mother

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A note from the mother of the martyred student Zoha Pasand I write for my orphaned daughter— in my chest, a sorrow has come alive again.

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دلنوشته ای از مادر دانش آموز شهیده ضحا پسند.. مینویسم برای دختر یتیمم در سینه‌ام دوباره غمی جان گرفته است

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News Channel Sedaye Minab

24 Mar 2026

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کانال خبری صدای میناب

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News Channel Sedaye Minab

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The martyrdom of 22 faithful companions of books in the tragedy of Shajareh Tayyebeh School [photos and names of 22 students and teachers who were members of public libraries in Hormozgan province]

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شهادت ۲۲ یار وفادار کتاب در فاجعه مدرسه «شجره طیبه» [عکس و نام 22 عضو کتابخانه های عمومی هرمزگان از میان معلمان و دانش آموزان کشته شده]

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sister of Mahna Bahrami

24 Mar 2026

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24 Mar 2026

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خواهر محنا بهرامی

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sister of Mahna Bahrami

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A note written by the sister of the martyred student Mahna Bahrami Mahna Bahrami— a fourth-grade primary school student from the village of Ravang, Minab— Mahna dreamed of becoming a memorizer of the Qur’an.

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دلنوشته خواهر دانش آموز شهیده محنا بهرامی دانش آموز شهیده محنا بهرامی کلاس چهارم دبستان از روستای راونگــ میناب محنا آرزو داشت حافظ قرآن شود

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Liana Mohammadi's Aunt

24 Mar 2026

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عمه لیانا محمدی

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Liana Mohammadi's Aunt

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A note written by the aunt of the martyred student Liana Mohammadi Dedicated to the noble soul of my kind sister-in-law— the devoted teacher and mother, the martyred Mandana Salari— and to my dear niece, the martyred Liana Mohammadi.

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دلنوشته ای از طرف عمه ی دانش آموز شهیده لیانا محمدی تقدیم به روح والای زن داداش مهربانم ،معلم و مادر فداکار شهیده ماندانا سالاری و برادر زاده عزیزم شهیده لیانا محمدی

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Aria Bahadori's Father

24 Mar 2026

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24 Mar 2026

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پدر آریا بهادری

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Aria Bahadori's Father

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A note for the martyred student Aria Bahadori Dear Aria, little traveler of roads filled with wonder… How I remember those days—when your eyes sparkled with joy, and with your sweet, childlike voice you would say to your dad: “Let’s go for a walk?”

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دلنوشته ای برای دانش آموز شهید آریا بهادری آریا جان، مسافر کوچکِ جاده‌های پُر از شوق... یادش بخیر؛ آن روزهایی که چشم‌هایت از شادی برق می‌زد و با همان زبان شیرین و کودکانه‌ات به بابا می‌گفتی: «بریم تلنگ؟»

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Toktam Abbasi

24 Mar 2026

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24 Mar 2026

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تکتم عباسی

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Toktam Abbasi

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A note for the martyred teacher Neda Solhi-Zadeh Greetings to the martyred teacher— my sincere salutations to you, O teacher of sacrifice, in whose book of love one can find the code to understanding both knowledge and martyrdom.

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دلنوشته ای برای معلم شهیده ندا صلحی زاده سلام بر معلم شهید درود خالصانه ام نثار تو باد ای معلم شهید که در کتاب عشق تو می توان رمز تفسیر علم و شهادت را یافت .

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Sana Sadeghi

24 Mar 2026

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24 Mar 2026

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ثنا صادقی

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Sana Sadeghi

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A drawing by the martyred student Hami Sadeghi, in which he had written his wishes: “To clap my hands twice, and whatever I say appears before me. To become the best judge in the world in the future. For Israel to be destroyed.”

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نقاشی دانش آموز شهید حامی صادقی که در آن ارزو های خودش را نوشته دو تا دست بزنم هر چی گفتم جلوی من ظاهر بشه در آینده بهترین قاضی جهان باشم اسرائیل نابود شود

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Hasti Salehi

24 Mar 2026

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24 Mar 2026

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هستی صالحی

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Hasti Salehi

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A note for the martyred student Niayesh Salehi I write for my dear martyred cousin, Niayesh…

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دلنوشته ای برای دانش آموز شهیده نیایش صالحی مینویسم برای دختر عموی شهیدم نیایش عزیزم....

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News Channel Sedaye Minab

24 Mar 2026

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24 Mar 2026

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کانال خبری صدای میناب

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News Channel Sedaye Minab

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A note for the martyred Maryam Bazark “I want to become someone important when I grow up— so important that everyone will know me.” This is what you always used to say.

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دلنوشته ای برای شهیده مریم بازرک ((من ميخوام وقتى بزرگ شدم آدم مهمى باشم، اونقدر مهم كه همه منو بشناسن)) اين جمله را هميشه ميگفتی

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News Channel Sedaye Minab

24 Mar 2026

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24 Mar 2026

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کانال خبری صدای میناب

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News Channel Sedaye Minab

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Nowruz 1404—you were beside us. Nowruz 1405—we are left with your photos and your memories. Martyred student Arsha Mirani First grade (Class A)

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هفت سین ۴۰۴ تو کنارمون بودی هفت سین ۴۰۵ ما ماندیم و عکسها و خاطرهایت شهید دانش آموز آرشا میرانی کلاس اول آلف

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ble.ir

24 Mar 2026

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24 Mar 2026

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A note from the father of the martyred student Adrina Pegah I am Adrina’s father—the father of a girl whose voice is no longer heard in the corridors of her school. A girl who, every day, with a smile and a love for learning, would put her little bag on her shoulder and say: “Dad, today we’re going to memorize a poem about our homeland.” I ask the global community, the silent consciences of the world, to open their eyes: to see that here, children are being killed by missiles—not by hatred, but in the shadow of innocence and injustice.

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دلنوشته پدر دانش آموز شهیده آدرینا پگاه من پدرِ آدرینام، دختری که حالا دیگر هیچ صدایی از او در راهروهای مدرسه‌اش شنیده نمی‌شود. دختری که هر روز با لبخند و شوقِ یادگیری، کیف کوچکش را به دوش می‌انداخت و می‌گفت: «بابا، امروز قراره شعر وطن رو حفظ کنیم.» من از جامعهٔ جهانی، از وجدان‌های خاموش، می‌خواهم چشم‌هاشان را باز کنند: ببینند که اینجا کودکان با موشک کشته می‌شوند، نه با نفرت، بلکه در سایهٔ مظلومیت.

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Khabaronline News Agency

29 Mar 2026

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29 Mar 2026

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خبرگزاری خبرآنلاین

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Khabaronline News Agency

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Minab Prosecutor Ebrahim Taheri, referring to the American-Zionist crime at Shajareh Tayyiba School ... added: In the American-Zionist incident at this school, in which a large number of students, teachers, and even parents of the students were martyred, the bodies of three martyrs remained unidentified. The Minab County Prosecutor said: To identify these martyrs, DNA tests were conducted on their parents and relatives, and this evening, with the results of the tests, the bodies of two martyrs were identified. Taheri stated: These martyrs identified as Mohammad Taha Jafari (student) of the school and Razieh Zamani, one of the teachers of this school.

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ابراهیم طاهری دادستان میناب با اشاره به جنایت آمریکایی صهیونیستی در مدرسه شجره طیبه... افزود : در حادثه آمریکایی و صهیونیستی این مدرسه که جمع زیادی از دانش آموزان و معلمان و حتی اولیاء دانش‌آموزان به شهادت رسیده بودند پیکر سه شهید ناشناخته مانده بود. دادستان شهرستان میناب گفت: برای شناسایی این شهدا از اولیا و نزدیکان آنها آزمایش DNA انجام شد که عصر امروز با مشخص شدن جواب آزمایش های انجام شده پیکر دو شهید شناسایی شد. طاهری عنوان کرد: این شهدای شناسایی شده به نام‌های محمدطاها جعفری (دانش آموز) مدرسه و راضیه زمانی از معلمان این مدرسه هستند.

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News Channel Sedaye Minab

1 Apr 2026

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1 Apr 2026

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کانال خبری صدای میناب

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News Channel Sedaye Minab

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The parents of the martyred students Reyhaneh and Mehdi Zakeri, victims of the attack on Shajareh Tayyebeh School, donated their children’s piggy banks to Astan Quds Razavi.

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پدر و مادر شهیدان ریحانه و مهدی ذاکری، از شهدای دبستان شجره طیبه میناب، قلک های این دانش آموزان را به آستان قدس رضوی اهدا کردند

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Saeed MahmoodAghaei

2 Apr 2026

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2 Apr 2026

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سعید محمودآقایی

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Saeed MahmoodAghaei

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For my nieces and nephew, Ali and Arina Arab-Kish The grief is so deep that words can no longer bear to become sentences. Give my greetings to Baba Safar and Mama Maryam.

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برای خواهر زاده هایم علی و آرینا عرب کیش داغ آنقدر داغ است که دیگر واژه ها تاب نمی آورند تا به جمله تبدیل شوند سلام مرا به باباصفر و مامان مریم برسانید

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Atefeh Zakeri

2 Apr 2026

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2 Apr 2026

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عاطفه ذاکری

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Atefeh Zakeri

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A note from a surviving teacher of the tragedy at Shajareh Tayyebeh School, written for her martyred colleagues Atefeh Zakeri, sixth-grade girls’ teacher It has been more than thirty days since I last heard your voices, since I last saw your faces. I still cannot believe that this year we did not celebrate the New Year together. Every time I check the school group, I hope—just maybe—there will be a message from one of you. But alas… the group, like the ruined school itself, is silent and still. I don’t know which of you to write about, which longing to begin with… Mrs. Taheri—the principal who always invited us to patience. Elham Karimi—who was not just a vice principal, but a sister to all of us. Mrs. Askari—whom the children embraced with such joy. Dear Farideh—pure and simple, whose smile never left her face. Fatemeh Shahdadi—the sports teacher who played and laughed alongside the children. Dear Khadijeh—the Qur’an teacher, whose radiant face the children loved so dearly. Dear Fereshteh Sangerzadeh—we were together only five months, yet your sincerity made everyone love you. Dear Aniseh—so cheerful and creative, sharing your motherly love not only with your twins, but with all your students. My dear Neda Solhi-Zadeh—so tender-hearted that even others’ sorrow would bring you to tears. Dear Narges—full of enthusiasm for learning, always bringing new and inspiring teaching ideas. Dear Mohaddeseh—so kind that nothing but kindness remains in my memory of you. Fatemeh Fadavi—with your generous heart, always sharing your knowledge with others. Dear Samira—a patient teacher, teaching the alphabet of life to the children. Dear Marzieh—my first friend and companion at the school. As Mrs. Taheri used to say, “the luxury of the school”—how I wish you were here again, to offer your beautiful ideas for every program. How heavy and painful it is to bear the loss of you all. Blessed be your martyrdom. May the highest place in heaven be yours. Your memory is cherished, and your names will remain forever alive in our hearts.

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دلنوشته معلم بازمانده از فاجعه مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب برای همکاران شهیدش عاطفه ذاکری معلم پایه ششم دخترانه بیشتر از سی روز است که صدایتان را نشنیده و صورتتان را ندیده ام باور ندارم که عید امسال را کنار هم جشن نگرفتیم هربار گروه مدرسه را چک می کنم که شاید پیامی از طرف شما در گروه باشد اما افسوس که گروه هم مانند مدرسه ی ویران شده ساکت و خاموش است نمیدانم از دلتنگی برای کدامتان بنویسم از خانم طاهری ،مدیری که همیشه ما را به صبور بودن دعوت می کردند یا از خانم الهام کریمی که معاون نه بلکه خواهری برای همه ما بودند ، از خانم عسکری که بچه ها با ذوق و شوق درآغوشش می گرفتند، فریده جان دختر بی آلایش و ساده ای که لبخند از صورتش جدا نمیشد،فاطمه شهدادی معلم ورزشی که همپایه بازی و شیطنت بچه ها بود، خدیجه جان معلم قرآنی که با صورت نورانی اش بچه ها عاشقانه دوستش داشتند، فرشته جان سنگرزاده 5 ماه بود در کنار هم بودیم اما آن قدر ساده و بی ریا بودی که همه دوستت داشتند، انیسه جان خوش خنده و خلاق که مهر مادری ات را علاوه بر دوقلوهایت بین دانش آموزان نیز تقسیم میکردی، ندا صلحی زاده عزیزم آن قدر دل نازک بودی که با ناراحتی و غم دیگران اشکت سرازیر می شد، نرگس جان، پر از ذوق و شوق یادگیری و ایده های جذاب تدریس بودی محدثه جان آن قدر مهربان بودی که جز مهربانی چیزی از تو در خاطرم نیست فاطمه فدوی با آن قلب مهربانت هر آن چه می دانستی را به دیگران یاد می دادی سمیرا جان معلم صبوری که الفبای زندگی را به بچه ها می آموختی مرضیه جان اولین دوست و رفیقم در مدرسه به قول خانم طاهری《 لاکچری مدرسه》 کاش بودی تا دوباره برای هر برنامه ای ایده جذاب و زیبا ارائه بدهی. و چه سخت و دردناک است غم از دست دادن شما عزیزان شهادت مبارکتان و بهترین جای بهشت نصیبتان شود. یادتان گرامی و نامتان تا همیشه در دل ها روشن.

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father of Zahra Ansari-Far

2 Apr 2026

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پدر زهرا انصاری فر

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father of Zahra Ansari-Far

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A letter written by Zahra Ansari-Far to God “This is a letter that my dear Zahra wrote, about two hours before her martyrdom, during her ‘Heavenly Gifts’ class, in her beautiful handwriting. Four days later, her schoolbag was returned to us by the Red Crescent.” Our dear little Zahra had not yet reached the age of religious duty, but she had already learned a little prayer—and she would always stand beside her mother, ready to pray with her.

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نامه شهیده زهرا انصاری فر به خدا این نامه ایی هست که زهرا گلی تقریبا ۲ساعت قبل از شهادتش که زنگ هدیه های آسمان داشتن با خط خوشگل خودش نوشته و بعد از ۴ روز کیف زهرا توسط نیروهای های حلال احمر به دست ما رسید زهرا گلی ما هنوز به سن تکلیف نرسیده بود ولی کمی نماز بلد بود و پشت سر مادرش همیشه برای نماز حاضر میشد.

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Masoumeh Zarei

17 Apr 2026

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17 Apr 2026

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معصومه زارعی

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Masoumeh Zarei

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A note for the daughter of the martyred Edris Gharibzadeh My dear Yasna, Now your father has become a martyr and has gone to heaven. From above, he is always watching over you, and he is proud of every success you achieve—my strong and cheerful girl. Know that an entire Iran is proud of your father. —from your preschool teacher, Ms. Masoumeh Zarei

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مینویسم برای دختر شهید ادریس غریب زاده یسنای عزیزم حالا بابا شهید شده و رفته بهشت و از اون بالا همیشه حواسش بهت هست و با هر موفقیتت بهت افتخار میکنه دختر قوی و خنده روی کلاسم بدون که یک ایران به بابات افتخار میکنه از طرف مربی پیش دبستانی خانم معصومه زارعی

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News Channel Sedaye Minab

21 Apr 2026

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21 Apr 2026

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News Channel Sedaye Minab

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The killing of three young football trainees from Minab in the attack on Shajareh Tayyebeh School According to the director of the Persian Gulf Football School in Minab: Ali-Akbar and Mohammad-Ali Keryani, two brothers, were students in the third and fourth grades of primary school. Danial Faghirdoost was a second-grade student. All three were killed in the attack on Shajareh Tayyebeh School in Minab.

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شهادت سه فوتبال‌آموز مینابی در حمله به مدرسه شجره طیبه مدیر مدرسه فوتبال خلیج‌فارس میناب: علی‌اکبر و محمدعلی کریانی، دو برادر بودند که در کلاس‌های سوم و چهارم ابتدایی تحصیل می‌کردند. دانیال فقیر دوست نیز دانش‌آموز کلاس دوم بود. هر سه نفر در حمله دشمن به مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب به درجه رفیع شهادت نائل آمدند.

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23 Apr 2026

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کانال خبری صدای میناب

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News Channel Sedaye Minab

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The mother of the martyred student Hossein Rahsepar says: “Last year, when we came on pilgrimage, I lost him for a moment. I found him behind the saqqakhaneh, holding a pigeon in his hands. I told him, ‘Hossein dear, let it fly.’ He said, ‘Mom, I will let it fly… but I wish I were one of the shrine’s pigeons too.’”

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مادر شهید دانش‌آموز «حسین رهسپار» : پارسال که به زیارت آمدیم، گمش کردم؛ پشت سقاخانه با کبوتری در دست پیدایش کردم. به فرزندم گفتم حسین جان، پروازش بده گفت: مامان، پروازش می‌دهم اما کاش من هم یکی از کبوترهای حرم بودم

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Narges Zakeri's husband

25 Apr 2026

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25 Apr 2026

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شوهر نرگس ذاکری

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Narges Zakeri's husband

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In memory of the martyred teacher Narges Zakeri No one speaks much about the martyred teachers. The case of single teachers is one thing… but teachers like my wife, who left behind two small children, are another. Why does no one speak about the suffering of my children, who have been left without a mother?

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بیاد معلم شهیده نرگس ذاکری کسی خیلی از شهدای معلم حرفی نمیزنه بحث معلمای مجرد یه طرف معلمایی مثل همسر بنده که دوتا طفل داریم یه طرف دیگه چرا هیچکس از مظلومیت بچه های من که بی مادر شدن حرفی نمیزنه

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ILNA News Agency

21 Apr 2026

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21 Apr 2026

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خبرگزاری ایلنا

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ILNA News Agency

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The spokesman for the Health and Medical Services Commission of the Islamic Consultative Assembly said: "In the attack on the Tayyiba Shajarah Minab School, due to the type of weapons and the intensity of the explosions, about 40 percent of the bodies of the martyrs could not be identified in the early stages, which presented serious difficulties for the identification process and required the use of advanced technologies and detailed tests, including DNA tests."

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سخنگوی کمیسیون بهداشت و درمان مجلس شورای اسلامی، گفت: در حمله به مدرسه طیبه شجره میناب به دلیل نوع تسلیحات و شدت انفجارها، حدود ۴۰ درصد از پیکرهای شهدا در مراحل اولیه قابل شناسایی نبودند که این موضوع کار شناسایی را با دشواری‌های جدی مواجه کرد و نیازمند بهره‌گیری از فناوری‌های پیشرفته و آزمایش‌های دقیق از جمله بررسی‌های DNA بود.

Maryam Bazarg's sister

25 Apr 2026

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خواهر مریم بازرگ

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Maryam Bazarg's sister

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A note from the sister of the martyred Maryam Bazarg (the “famous girl”) I miss my sister so much— the one I was used to sleeping beside every night. I miss our conversations before sleep, your endless questions, our jokes, our playful teasing, even the little arguments we used to have. Daddy’s girl…

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دلنوشته‌ی خواهر شهیده مریم بازرگ (دختر معروف) دلم تنگ است برای خواهری که شب ها عادت کرده بودیم کنار هم بخوابیم و دلم تنگ است برای حرف های قبل خواب برای سوال پرسیدن هایت برای شوخی هایمان برای کلکل هایمان و حتی برای دعوا هایی که باهم میکردیم دخترِ بابایی...

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ble.ir

25 Apr 2026

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An account from a survivor from Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad of the moment a U.S. missile struck the Minab school Amir Arshia Azizi, one of the survivors, recounts that day—speaking of how fire fell from the sky onto his classmates.

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روایت یک بازمانده کهگیلویه و بویراحمدی از لحظه اصابت موشک آمریکایی به مدرسه میناب «امیر ارشیا عزیزی» یکی از بازماندگانی است که در آن روز از سقوط آتشین آسمان بر سر همکلاسی‌هایش می‌گوید

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News Channel Sedaye Minab

27 Apr 2026

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27 Apr 2026

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کانال خبری صدای میناب

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News Channel Sedaye Minab

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A student’s account from Shajareh Tayyebeh School of the harrowing moments of the bombing in Minab Fatemeh Mohammadi-Kia, a student injured in the attack on the school, spoke of the moments that passed amid smoke and explosions—moments accompanied by the embrace of her teacher and the whispered recitation of Ayat al-Kursi. She says that, under the rubble, the father of one of the students came to her aid and saved her—a selfless father who, while continuing to help other children, lost his life and was killed.

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روایت دانش آموز مدرسه شجره طیبه از لحظات نفس گیر بمباران مدرسه میناب فاطمه محمدی‌کیا، دانش‌آموز آسیب‌دیده حمله به مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب، از لحظاتی گفت که میان دود و انفجار گذشت؛ لحظاتی که با آغوش معلم و زمزمه آیت‌الکرسی همراه بود. او می‌گوید: در میان آوار، پدر یکی از دانش‌آموزان به کمکش آمد و او را نجات داد؛ پدری فداکار که در ادامه کمک به سایر دانش آموزان، جان خود را از دست داد و به شهادت رسید.

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Marzieh Dashti

1 May 2026

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1 May 2026

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مرضیه دشتی

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Marzieh Dashti

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The Director General of the Hormozgan Martyrs and Veterans’ Affairs Foundation said about determining the percentage of casualties of the injured at the Shajare Tayyebeh Minab Elementary School: The percentage of casualties of 95 of the injured at the Shajare Tayyebeh Minab Elementary School will be determined by the end of May this year. According to an IRNA reporter, Ata Nawaki on Friday condemned the brutal American-Zionist attack on our country’s soil and added: “Given this crime, a commission for the casualties of the incident will be formed to determine the percentage of casualties of each of them.”

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مدیرکل بنیاد شهید و امور ایثارگران هرمزگان از تعیین درصد جانبازی مجروحان دبستان شجره طیبه میناب گفت: درصد جانبازی ۹۵ نفر از مجروحان دبستان شجره طیبه میناب تا پایان اردیبهشت ماه امسال تعیین می‌شود. به گزارش خبرنگار ایرنا، عطا ناوکی روز جمعه ضمن محکوم کردن حمله وحشیانه آمریکایی صهیونیستی به خاک کشورمان، افزود: با توجه به این جنایت، کمیسیون جانبازی برای مجروحان این حادثه تشکیل خواهد شد تا درصد جانبازی هر یک از آنان مشخص شود.

Mahsa Ranjbari's friend

28 Apr 2026

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28 Apr 2026

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دوست مهسا رنجبری

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Mahsa Ranjbari's friend

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In memory of the martyred Mahsa Ranjbari, Educational Mentor at Shajareh Tayyebeh School My dear Mahsa, It has been some time since you left us, and you are no longer among us. Your absence is felt more deeply with each passing day. And I know—you must be missing your beloved child, Danial. Your old friend, Maryam

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بیاد شهیده مهسا رنجبری معلم پرورشی مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب مهسای عزیزم مدتی است که از پیش ما رفته ای و دیگر در میان ما نیستی و نبودت هر روز پر رنگتر از دیروز حس میشود و میدانم دلتنگ جگرگوشه ات دانیال هستی… دوست قدیمی تو مریم

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News Channel Sedaye Minab

28 Apr 2026

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28 Apr 2026

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کانال خبری صدای میناب

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News Channel Sedaye Minab

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The coordinating deputy of Hormozgan Province and the commanders of the Law Enforcement Forces from the counties of Minab and Rostam visited Rostam County and met with the family of the martyred brothers, AmirAli and AmirMohammad Boostani, who were killed in the attack on Shajareh Tayyebeh School.

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حضور معاون هماهنگ کننده استان هرمزگان و فرماندهی انتظامی شهرستان های میناب ورستم درشهرستان رستم و دیدار باخانواده شهیدان امیرعلی وامیرمحمد بوستانی دوبرادر شهیددرمدرسه شجره طیبه

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Mohammad Taha Mallahi's mother

28 Apr 2026

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28 Apr 2026

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مادر محمد طاها ملاحی

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Mohammad Taha Mallahi's mother

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A note from the mother of the martyred student Mohammad Taha Mallahi My martyred son, Mohammad Taha Mallahi, my traveler to heaven… I wish I had known that you would be our guest for only ten years— so I could have truly lived every moment, every breath beside you.

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دلنوشتە مادر دانش آموز شهید محمدطاها ملاحی پسر شهیدم محمد طاها ملاحی مسافر بهشتیم ای کاش می دانستم تنها دە سال مهمان خانە مان هستی و از لحظە لحظە و هر نفس با تو بودن را زندگی می کردم.

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Aunt of Mohammad-Ali and Ali-Akbar Keryani Pak

30 Apr 2026

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30 Apr 2026

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عمه محمدعلی و علی اکبر کریانی پاک

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Aunt of Mohammad-Ali and Ali-Akbar Keryani Pak

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In memory of the martyred Mohammad-Ali and Ali-Akbar Keryani Pak A nephew is the love of an aunt… Having a brother is sweet—but having nephews is even sweeter, even more dear. My beloved nephews, we are proud of you. You were—and still are—the most beautiful fruit of life, a reminder of my brother’s goodness and beauty. We still cannot believe your departure… a leaving with no return.

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یاد شهید محمدعلی و علی اکبر کریانی پاک برادر زاده یعنی عشق عمه.... داشتن برادر شیرین است ولی برادر زاده شیرین ترو دوست داشتنی تر.... برادرزاده های عزیزم ما به شما افتخار میکنیم شما قشنگترین ثمره ی زندگی ویاد آور زیبایی های برادرم بودید وهستید وهنوز در باورمان نیست رفتن بی بازگشتتان

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niece of Pooran Gholipour

30 Apr 2026

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برادرزاده پوران قلی‌پور

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niece of Pooran Gholipour

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A note in memory of the martyred principal of the boys’ section of Shajareh Tayyebeh School I write of the martyred principal, Pooran Gholipour— a daughter of Boyer-Ahmad—who, in blood-soaked Minab, gave her life with love for her homeland. I write of a principal who, for nearly six months, had not seen her family, who carried her longing within her… and in that longing, took flight. Pooran Gholipour, a daughter of Boyer-Ahmad, served with all her heart as the principal of the boys’ school (Rahpouyan Shohada-ye Khalij-e Fars), enduring distance from her loved ones— until, in the path of service and in the ache of separation, she surrendered her soul to its Creator. With love, Maryam— a niece who will burn with your loss forever.

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دلنوشته ای بیاد مدیر مدرسه پسرانه شجره طیبه میناب مینویسم از مدیر شهیده پوران قلی‌پور دختری از دیار بویراحمد که تا پای جان در میناب خونین با عشق به میهن پرکشید... مینویسم از مدیری که قریب به ۶ ماه بود که خانواده خود را ندیده بود و غرق در دلتنگی خود پر کشید.... شهیده پوران قلی‌پور دختر بویراحمدی که در مدرسه میناب با عنوان مدیریت مدرسه پسرانه شجره طیبه(رهپویان شهدای خلیج فارس) با جان ودل و دوری از عزیزانش خدمت میکرد و در وادی خدمت و در دلتنگی عزیزان جان به جان‌آفرین تسلیم کرد.... دوست دارت مریم، برادرزاده ای که در غمت تا ابد خواهد سوخت

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News Channel Sedaye Minab

30 Apr 2026

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The deputy commander of IRGC Imam Sajjad Corps, along with a group of officials from Minab, met and spoke with the father of the martyred student Atena Chamlinejad.

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جانشین فرمانده سپاه امام سجاد(ع) استان هرمزگان به همراه جمعی از مسئولان شهرستان میناب با پدر شهید دانش‌آموز «آتنا چملی‌نژاد» دیدار و گفت‌وگو کرد.

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News Channel Sedaye Minab

30 Apr 2026

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30 Apr 2026

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کانال خبری صدای میناب

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News Channel Sedaye Minab

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The Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance—who had traveled to Hormozgan Province to attend the Persian Gulf Festival—met, together with the Governor of Hormozgan and several other senior provincial officials, with the family of the martyred student Mohammad Shahdoosti-Nejad.

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وزیر فرهنگ و ارشاد اسلامی که امروز با هدف شرکت در جشنواره خلیج فارس به هرمزگان سفر کرده بود، به همراه استاندار هرمزگان و تعدادی دیگر از مقامات عالی رتبه هرمزگانی با خانواده شهید دانش آموز محمد شهدوستی نژاد دیدار کرد.

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Hossein Kermanpour, Head of the Public Relations and Information Center of the Ministry of Health

2 May 2026

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2 May 2026

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حسین کرمانپور مدیر مرکز روابط عمومی و اطلاع رسانی وزارت بهداشت

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Hossein Kermanpour, Head of the Public Relations and Information Center of the Ministry of Health

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This year, during Nowruz, the roads carried me south—to Minab, the land of patient palm trees and dignified people. Alongside colleagues from Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, we became guests in a home filled with an unfamiliar, overwhelming grief: the home of the young martyr, Mahdis Nazari. In one photograph, Mahdis stands like a white dove beside a woman whose smile held the calm before the storm: Ms. Samira Basarde. Mahdis’s father, his voice choked with grief, spoke of the moment when the earth seemed to open its mouth and swallow the roof of the “Shajareh Tayyebeh” school. He said that when they cleared the rubble with the nails of their very souls, they found the teacher’s body—but she was not alone. She was holding Mahdis and Hananeh so tightly in her arms, as if she had tried, with her own fragile body, to become a shield against the onslaught of stone and iron. These little angels, Mahdis and Hananeh, were the beloved children of our colleagues on the frontlines of healthcare—the daughters of Mr. Mahdikhah and Ms. Jamshidi.

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نوروز امسال جاده‌ها مرا به جنوب کشاندند؛ به میناب، دیار نخل‌های صبور و آدم‌های نجیب. به اتفاق همکاران دانشگاه علوم پزشکی هرمزگان، میهمانِ خانه‌ی لبریز از غمی غریب شدیم؛ خانه‌ی نوگلِ شهید، **مهدیس نظری**. عکسی که در آن، مهدیس، همچون کبوتری سپید، در کنار زنی ایستاده بودند که لبخندش، آرامشِ پیش از طوفان بود: **خانم سمیرا بسارده**. . پدر مهدیس، با بغضی که راه بر کلام می‌بست، از لحظه‌ای گفت که زمین دهان باز کرده و سقفِ مدرسه «شجره طیبه» را بلعیده بود. می‌گفت وقتی آوارها را با ناخنِ جان کنار زدیم، پیکرِ خانم معلم را یافتیم؛ اما او تنها نبود. او مهدیس و حنانه را چنان در آغوش فشرده بود که گویی می‌خواست با تنِ رنجور خویش، سپری در برابرِ هجومِ سنگ و آهن بسازد. این فرشتگانِ کوچک، مهدیس و حنانه، جگرگوشگانِ همکارانِ ما در جبهه‌ی سلامت بودند؛ فرزندان آقای مهدی‌خواه و خانم جمشیدی.

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Homayoun Zeinali's mother

30 Apr 2026

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مادر همایون زینلی

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Homayoun Zeinali's mother

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A mother’s note for her martyred student son, Homayoun Zeinali My heart aches for the scent of your presence, for those laughter-filled smiles from the depths of your soul, even for the sound of your firm footsteps in our home. … Remember that you are always alive in my heart, and your name is the meaning—the dignity—of every moment of my life.

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دلنوشته مادر دانش آموز شهید همایون زینلی دلم برای عطر تنت،برای آن خنده های از ته دل و حتی برای قدم های محکمت در خانه لک زده است. ... یادت باشد که تو همیشه در قلب من زنده ای و نامت ،اعتبار تمام لحظه های زندگی من است.

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Marzieh Bashirifar's mother

1 May 2026

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مادر مرضیه بشیری‌فر

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Marzieh Bashirifar's mother

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A mother’s note for the martyred teacher, Marzieh Bashirifar My beloved martyred daughter, on the eve of Teachers’ Day, your memory shines in your grieving mother’s heart like an endless light. My soul’s peace, your teaching in the second grade of primary school was a truly remarkable experience. … I love you, my martyred daughter. — Mother of Marzieh Bashirifar, Second-grade teacher, Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls’ School.

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دلنوشته مادر معلم شهیده مرضیه بشیری فر دختر شهیده عزیزم در آستانه روز معلم یاد تو همچون نوری بیکران در دل مادر غمدیده ات می درخشد. ای آرام جانم، تدریس تو در پایه دوم ابتدایی، تجربه بسیار شگفت انگیزی بود. ... دوستت دارم دختر شهیدم» مادر شهیده مرضیه بشیری فر، آموزگار پایه دوم دخترانه «شجره طیبه»

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Khabaronline News Agency

3 May 2026

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3 May 2026

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خبرگزاری خبرآنلاین

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Khabaronline News Agency

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Mohammad Javad Mollaei, a 12-year-old, is among the students who survived the missile attack by the United States on the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab. Mohammad Javad recounts his and his friends’ struggles on the day of the Minab School bombing; he says that in those breathtaking and terrifying moments, they used their small hands to push away pieces of debris and shrapnel that were thrown at them as a result of the blast wave in order not to get hurt and save themselves. He continues: There were 19 of us in a class, and we were 20 with our teacher. Our class only had one martyr, and that was Saleh Abbasi. Thank God, our teacher, Mrs. Hajj Hosseini, also survived. The school principal, Mrs. Gholipour, had told us not to leave the classroom, but that day our teacher took us out of the classroom and said, “Come in so that you can get some fresh air.” Mohammad Javad says: Aunt of Saleh, the girls’ teacher, was on the second floor and Saleh said, “I’m going there to go to the yard with my aunt.” They say it was as if she was trapped under the rubble. I didn't know either. A few days later, one of my friends called and said: "Do you know that Saleh is dead and martyred?" And so I was very sad and for a few days I felt bad for Saleh. I was in this school from the second grade until now, when I am in the fifth grade, and I was very sad and grieved for the children I knew and was friends with. Caption for the photo: A photograph of the only boy from the fifth grade of the Minab school who was killed; first from the left is the martyr, Saleh Abbasi.

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محمدجواد ملایی، ۱۲ ساله از جمله دانش‌آموزانی است که از حادثه حمله موشک‌های آمریکایی به مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب جان سالم به در برده است. محمدجواد تقلای خودش و دوستانش را در روز بمباران مدرسه میناب این‌گونه روایت می‌کند؛ او می‌گوید در آن لحظات نفس‌گیر و وحشتناک، با دست‌های کوچکشان تکه‌های آوار و ترکش‌هایی را که در نتیجه موج انفجار به سمتشان پرت شده بود کنار می‌زدند تا صدمه نبینند و خود را نجات بدهند. او ادامه می‌دهد: ما ۱۹ نفر در یک کلاس بودیم و با معلممان ۲۰ نفر می‌شدیم. کلاسمان فقط یک شهید داشت و آن‌ هم صالح عباسی بود. خدا را شکر معلم ما، خانم حاج حسینی، هم زنده ماند. مدیر مدرسه، خانم قلی‌پور، به ما گفته بود که از کلاس بیرون نرویم، ولی آن روز معلممان ما را از کلاس بیرون آورد و گفت بیایید که هوایی به سرتان بخورد. محمدجواد می‌گوید: خاله صالح، معلم دخترها در طبقه دوم بود و گفت: من به آنجا می‌روم تا با خاله‌ام به حیاط بیایم. می‌گویند انگار زیر آوار مانده است. من خودم هم نمی‌دانستم. چند روز بعد یکی از دوستانم زنگ زد و گفت: خبر داری صالح مرده و شهید شده؟ و خب خیلی ناراحت شدم و تا چند روز برای صالح حالم بد بود. من از کلاس دوم تا الان که کلاس پنجم هستم در این مدرسه بودم و برای بچه‌هایی که می‌شناختم و با آن‌ها دوست بودم خیلی ناراحت شدم و غصه خوردم. توضیح عکس: عکسی از تنها شهید پسر کلاس پنجمی مدرسه میناب/ نفر اول از سمت چپ شهید صالح عباسی

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In memory of the 26 teachers and educational staff of Shajareh Tayyebeh School in Minab.

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.به یاد ۲۶ معلم و کادرآموزشی مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب

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2 May 2026

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Today, May 2, is Teacher's Day... in Minab, this year's Teacher's Day ceremony will not be held as before, here it is tied to the names of 26 martyred teachers of the Shajarah Tayyiba family, teachers who hugged students to be their shield. A hug for the martyrdom of 4 sons Mandana Salari, 29, is one of the exemplary teachers of the first grade of primary school for boys, the mother of Liana Mohammadi (7 years and 9 months) and Yona (1 year and 7 months). She is spending her fourth year of teaching with motherly love. She was previously the math teacher at the home who turned math into joy through games and drawings, stories. But on Saturday, March 29, Shajare Tayyiba School was targeted by American-Zionist missiles, an attack that left no chance. At the moment of the explosion, Mandana hugged four frightened male students. Liana, a second-grader, had also taken refuge with her mother, but a moment later... they were all buried under the rubble and martyred...

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امروز 12 اردیبهشت، روز معلم است.. در میناب مراسم روز معلم امسال مثل قبل برگزار نمی‌شود، این جا با نام 26 معلم شهید شجره طیبه گره خورده است، معلمانی که دانش‌آموزان را در آغوش کشیدند تا سپر جانشان باشند. آغوشی برای شهادت ۴پسر ماندانا سالاری، ۲۹ ساله، یکی از معلمان نمونه کلاس اول ابتدایی پسرانه، مادر لیانا محمدی (۷ساله‌و ۹‌ماهه) و‌ یونا (یک‌سال و هفت‌ماهه). چهارمین سال تدریس را با عشقی مادرانه می‌گذراند. پیش‌تر مربی خانه ریاضیات بود که ریاضی را با بازی و نقاشی، قصه به شادی بدل می‌کرد. اما شنبه ۹ اسفند، مدرسه‌ شجره طیبه آماج حمله‌ موشک‌های آمریکایی-صهیونی قرار گرفت،حمله‌ای که مجال هیچ فرصتی نداد. ماندانا در لحظه انفجار چهار دانش‌آموز پسررا که خیلی ترسیده بودند در آغوش کشید. لیانا کلاس دومی، هم کنار مادر پناه برده بود اما لحظه‌ای بعد... همگی زیر آوار ماندند و به شهادت رسیدند...

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2 May 2026

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Education staff of Shajare Tayyiba School in Minab who were martyred

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کادر فرهنگی مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب که به شهادت رسیدند

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2 May 2026

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A note by Morteza Nejati for his martyred wife, Mahdieh Rasouli Hello my dear Mahdieh, my humble teacher, my constant companion… Taha, now ten, and little Nika, three years old, miss you more than ever. … That last day—Esfand 9—I will never forget it. I had a strange feeling that day. I was supposed to pick you up at 9. You said you had taken leave from school to take care of a bank loan, to sign some documents. When you got into the car, you were joyful and full of energy—as always, joking and laughing. We went together, you walked beside me; I didn’t know those would be your last steps on this earth, beside me, Morteza… Ten minutes later, you called. You were still laughing as you spoke. Your voice is still in my ears. That same day, Taha and Amirhosam—my sister’s child—were also at school. It was as if you had a premonition. When you arrived at school, you sent the children to their grandfather’s house nearby… And they had barely arrived when the explosion happened. You sent the children away—but you stayed, Mahdieh… You stayed, and you took flight. Happy Teacher’s Day, my Mahdieh… Teacher, martyr, my eternal love.

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دل‌نوشته مرتضی نجاتی برای همسر شهیدش، «مهدیه رسولی» سلام مهدیه‌جان، معلم بی‌ادعا و یار همیشه‌همراهم... طاهای ۱۰ ساله و نیکای ۳ ساله بیشتر از همیشه دل‌تنگت هستند. ...روز آخر، ۹ اسفند، هیچ‌وقت از یادم نمیره... آن روز حس عجیبی داشتم. قرار بود ساعت ۹ دنبالت بیام. گفتی برای وام بانک مرخصی گرفتی تا مدارکش رو امضا کنیم. وقتی سوار ماشین شدی، شاد و پرانرژی بودی، مثل همیشه شوخی می‌کردی و می‌خندیدی. با هم رفتیم، کنارم قدم زدی؛ نمی‌دونستم این آخرین قدم‌هات روی زمین کنار منِ مرتضی خواهد بود... ده دقیقه بعد زنگ زدی، باز هم با خنده حرف زدی. هنوز صدات توی گوشمه. همون روز طاها و امیرحسام – بچه‌ی خواهرم – هم تو مدرسه بودن. انگار یه الهام بهت شده بود، چون وقتی رسیدی مدرسه، بچه‌ها رو فرستادی خونه‌ی بابابزرگشون که نزدیک بود… و هنوز نرسیده بودن که انفجار رخ داد. بچه‌هارو فرستادی، اما خودت موندی، مهدیه… موندی و پر کشیدی. روزت مبارک، مهدیه‌ی من... معلم، شهید، عشق ابدی من.

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2 May 2026

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Keepsakes left behind by the martyred student, Parham Ranjbari.

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یادگاری های بجا مانده از دانش آموز شهید پرهام رنجبری

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2 May 2026

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In memory of the martyred teacher, Nasim Neyestani My dear sister, When Teachers’ Day arrives, your name shines in my heart brighter than ever.

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بیاد معلم شهیده نسیم نیستانی خواهر عزیزم، روز معلم که می‌رسد، نام تو در قلبم روشن‌تر از همیشه می‌درخشد.

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From the young educational mentor of the Minab school, only a face was found. Mahsa Ranjbari, the young school counselor of the Minab school—a hardworking, artistic, and modest woman—after four days of searching, only her face was recovered. A young mother, laid to rest on the anniversary of her marriage.

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از معلم جوان پرورشی مدرسه میناب، تنها یک صورت پیدا شد مهسا رنجبری، معلم جوان پرورشی مدرسه میناب؛ بانویی سخت‌کوش، هنرمند و ساده زیست که پس از چهار روز جستجو، تنها قرص صورت او پیدا شد. مادر جوانی که در سالگرد ازدواجش تدفین شد.

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3 May 2026

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A note by the husband of the martyred teacher, Hajiyeh Samira Basardeh My heavenly teacher, my dear Samira… Today is Teachers’ Day, and your absence weighs heavier on my heart than ever. You were a first-grade teacher, but who can truly know that the greatest lessons you gave were to me, to Adrina, to Shahan, and to our entire life.

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دل‌نوشته‌ همسر معلم شهیده حاجیه سمیرا بسارده معلمِ آسمانی من سمیرا جان… امروز روز معلم است، و نبودنت از همیشه سنگین‌تر روی دلم نشسته. تو معلمِ کلاس اول بودی، اما چه کسی می‌داند که بزرگ‌ترین درس‌ها را به من، به آدرینا، به شاهان، و به همه‌ی زندگی‌مان دادی.

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Hananeh Zakeri Khahan's sister

3 May 2026

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In memory of the martyred student, Hananeh Zakeri Khahan In memory of my sister, Hananeh of the skies… This year, your seventh birthday is no longer on earth. The earth longs for your laughter, while the angels have celebrated your birthday in heaven. Your first grade remained unfinished, but the pages of your life were turned with the name “martyr.”

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بیاد دانش آموز شهیده حنانه ذاکری خواهان به یاد خواهرم. حنانه‌ی آسمان امسال، جشنِ هفت‌سالگیت روی زمین نیست… زمین دلتنگ خنده‌ات مانده، و فرشته‌ها تولدت را در بهشت جشن گرفته‌اند. کلاس اولت ناتمام ماند، اما دفتر زندگیت با نام «شهید» ورق خورد.

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4 May 2026

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A story of the martyred teacher, Fatemeh Shahdadi — the teacher who became a shield for her student When the incident happened, the sky above the school turned dark. Walls collapsed, and classrooms were buried under rubble. Rescue workers searched for hours for teachers and children, until finally, among the dust and stones, they found a familiar sign: a piece of chador fabric emerging from beneath the debris. When they approached, they realized it was her—the kind teacher who always entered the classroom with a smile. But what shook everyone was not her body under the rubble… it was the embrace that still remained. She had wrapped her body around a small student, so tightly, so completely, as if she still refused to let any harm reach the child. They pulled the child out. There was breath. The child was alive. The rescuers said that if that teacher had not become a shield… the child would not have survived even a few seconds.

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روایتی از معلم شهیده فاطمه شهدادی، معلمی که خود را سپر دانش‌آموز کرد وقتی حادثه افتاد، آسمان مدرسه سیاه شد. دیوارها فرو ریخت و کلاس‌ها زیر آوار رفت. امدادگرها ساعت‌ها دنبال معلم‌ها و بچه‌ها گشتند تا بالاخره میان خاک و سنگ، نشانی آشنا پیدا کردند. پارچه چادری که از زیر آوار بیرون زده بود. وقتی نزدیک شدند، فهمیدند او همان معلم مهربان است… همان که همیشه با لبخند وارد کلاس می‌شد. اما چیزی که قلب همه را لرزاند، نه پیکرش زیر آوار… بلکه آغوشی بود که هنوز باز مانده بود. او بدنش را دور یک دانش‌آموز کوچک حلقه کرده بود، چنان محکم و کامل که انگار هنوز هم نمی‌خواست بگذارد آسیبی به او برسد. کودک را بیرون آوردند. نفس داشت. زنده بود. امدادگرها گفتند اگر آن معلم سپرش نشده بود… حتی چند ثانیه هم دوام نمی‌آورد.

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Parham Ranjbari's Father

4 May 2026

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A father’s note for his martyred son I am the father of the martyred Parham Ranjbari. My son dreamed of becoming a police officer. He always said it— “I’ll study, I’ll become a police officer, I’ll catch thieves. When I become a police officer, I’ll take care of my mom and my sister.” He also loved cars very much.

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دل نوشته پدر شهيد من پدر شهيد پرهام رنجبري هستم پسر آرزو پليس شدن رو داشت و هميشه همين حرف رو ميزد ميگفت من درس ميخونم پليس شدم دزدا رو ميگيرم من پليس شدم مواظب مامانم و خواهرم ميشم وخيلي ماشين سواري رو دوست داشت

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21 Apr 2026

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The mother of martyr Mohammad Loghmani narrated the last days of her son's life and the bitter moments of finding his body among the rubble of the school; a story that brought tears and silence to the faces of those present at the same time. Mohammad was only 10 years old. Somayeh Eghtedari, the mother of martyr Mohammad Loghmani narrates about her son: On Saturday morning, at 11 o’clock, the phone rang. It was Ms. Raheleh Ranjbar, Mohammad’s teacher; the same teacher who herself was martyred. She said, “Come, the school is closed and take Mohammad.” It was only a few minutes’ walk from home to school. She took her little daughter with her. She hadn’t even reached the school yet when the sound of the explosion shattered the whole world on her head. I turned and looked. I saw that a missile had hit Mohammad’s school directly... exactly where Mohammad’s classroom was. The left side of the school was gone... Muhammad's classroom was gone. Only two pillars remained and a roof that had fallen crookedly on the rubble. Muhammad's mother was searching for her son in the midst of that hell. Next to a burnt car, she saw pieces of a student's body. A hand that was so burnt that it looked like a doll's. At first I thought it was a doll... then I realized it was a child's hand... She just waited for Muhammad to be pulled out of the rubble, but there was no news until evening. The next day, among the burnt bags and shoes, she found Muhammad's bag; half-burnt, with a piece of his pants and part of his leg bone stuck to it. That's when she realized that Muhammad no longer had a leg. For four whole days, she walked from home to the morgue and back. That day, he found his son himself. Nothing was left of his face, nor of his legs, nor even of his head. Only one hand remained intact; the hand whose nails had been cut by the mother herself. I recognized him by that hand...

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مادر شهید محمد لقمانی از روزهای آخر زندگی فرزندش و لحظه‌های تلخ پیدا کردن پیکر وی از میان آوار مدرسه روایت کرد؛ روایتی که اشک و سکوت را همزمان بر چهره حاضران نشاند. محمد فقط ۱۰ سال داشت. سمیه اقتداری، مادر شهید محمد لقمانی، با بغضی که هنوز تازه است، از پسرش این‌گونه روایت می‌کند: صبح شنبه، ساعت ۱۱، تلفن زنگ زد. خانم راحله رنجبر، معلم محمد بود؛ همان معلمی که خودش هم شهید شد.گفت بیاین مدرسه تعطیله و محمدرا ببرید... راه خانه تا مدرسه فقط چند دقیقه بود. دختر کوچکش را هم همراه خود برد. هنوز به مدرسه نرسیده بود که صدای انفجار، همه دنیا را روی سرش خراب کرد. برگشتم نگاه کردم. دیدم موشک مستقیم خورد به مدرسه محمد... دقیقاً همان جایی که کلاس محمد بود. قسمت چپ مدرسه اصلاً نبود... کلاس محمد دیگر وجود نداشت. فقط دو ستون مانده بود و سقفی که کج روی آوار افتاده بود. مادر محمد میان آن جهنم دنبال پسرش می‌گشت. کنار ماشینی سوخته، تکه‌هایی از بدن یک دانش‌آموز را دید. دستی که آن‌قدر سوخته بود که شبیه عروسک شده بود. اول فکر کردم عروسکه... بعد فهمیدم دست یک بچه‌ست... مادر می‌گوید فقط منتظر بود محمد را از زیر آوار بیرون بیاورنداما تا غروب هیچ خبری نشد. فردای آن روز، در میان کیف‌ها و کفش‌های سوخته، کیف محمد را پیدا کرد؛ نیم‌سوخته، با تکه‌ای از شلوارش و بخشی از استخوان پایش که به آن چسبیده بود. چهار روز تمام، راه خانه تا سردخانه را رفت و برگشت. آن روز، خودش پسرش را پیدا کرد. نه از صورت چیزی مانده بود، نه از پاها، نه حتی از سر. فقط یک دست سالم مانده بود؛ دستی که ناخن‌هایش را خود مادر کوتاه کرده بود. از روی همان دست شناختمش...

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A teachers' meeting was supposed to be held; Samaneh Kamali arrived at school early in the morning, not knowing that there would be no meeting or school in a few hours. The news of her cousin's death caused her to leave school so that she would not be there during the attack. Now, on Teacher's Day, she talks about that day when her "trustees" were left one by one under the rubble of the enemy's attacks, and she returns to school to pull out the bodies of the martyrs. A fate that did not delay Kamali went to school on Saturday morning; The first bell rang for Quran class and the teacher was in the classroom, but he was busy preparing for the brainstorming session in the cafeteria. He had been back and forth to the office several times. He was not feeling well, he wanted to cancel the session. The school vice principal initially objected, but finally agreed to postpone the session until tomorrow, but she suddenly regretted it and said that the session should be held, because there might not be a tomorrow. She had returned to the cafeteria to write down her notes when suddenly a message appeared on his phone, “Her aunt [wife of her uncle] has passed away.” Without informing the school staff, she took the car key and left the school, even leaving her chador and personal belongings in the classroom. The vice principal asks where she is going? He replies: “I will go until the children’s Quran class is over, then I will come back.” Kamali drives herself to the hospital. At that moment, her colleague called her and said that she would teach in her class instead of her and that she would not have to come to school today: “My colleague insisted that I not go. After the hospital, I headed to school, and when I was near the school, my colleague called again and said, “Samaneh, I taught math, you can rest today.” This time, Kamali turned around and went home. A student who survived by sleeping in Samaneh’s son was also a student at the same Shajreh Tayyiba school who slept in on the day of the incident and did not go to school: “His father said, ‘He doesn’t want to go to school today.’ He said, ‘I’m on the opposite shift to you, let the child stay home.’ I also put on my black clothes and went to the house of the uncle's wife who was near the school. But at the ceremony, everyone was talking about war, but I said that there would be war in Tehran and there would never be war in Minab.” It was around 10 am when Samaneh’s sister’s husband was going to go to the city, so Samaneh would take him to the city, drop him off, and then return to the ceremony. Her niece was also a student at Shajare Tayyiba School. At 11 am, she told her sister to go and get her son from school, because the school was closed due to circumstances, but her sister said her father would pick him up. Samaneh says: “Suddenly, there was a very terrible noise. It threw me like a soccer ball across the house. Pieces of the house were falling and we didn’t understand what was going on. I got up to go out of the hall and they said there was a war and they were striking.” She continues: “I could see smoke rising, but I thought they were hitting the clinic. The people running along the way were all saying they were hitting the clinic, the car wash, and the teachers’ sheds; no one mentioned the school. I was saying to myself, "Thank God, all the children have gone home by now," but the reality was something else. Three explosions and a car that blew up The first explosion occurred at 11:22. The second explosion occurred 25 seconds later, and the third explosion occurred when Samaneh had reached the clinic, and the blast wave completely shook her car up and down, and her car's exhaust exploded. Samaneh Kamali says: "I didn't understand how I got all the way home. My sons were shaking with fear and thought there had been an earthquake; everything was in disarray, the blast wave was so strong that all the household items fell to the ground. I picked up the children, we left the house, all the roads were closed, the route was a dirt road, I got to the gas station, I didn't know yet that the school was going to be hit, I didn't know, I just found out that the clinic and the car wash were going to be hit, and they were saying that the war had started now and that they were going to hit the whole of Minab." The call that ruined my world She was in line at the gas station when her phone rang; a man asked: - "Are you Ms. Kamali? Where are you stuck under the rubble? + What rubble? What are you talking about? - Aren't you a teacher at Shajareh School? Don't you know? + What happened? - The school was hit and destroyed..." Kemali describes those moments as follows: "At that moment, I felt very sick. I didn't even realize I was on the ground. I screamed and hit myself in the head so much that people in the gas line opened the way for me to get out of the car. A man gave me gas for his car. My children and family were following me." Kamali drove to the school principal's house, Ms. Taheri. There, she saw people gathered, hitting themselves on the head and crying. One of the parents of the students was a neighbor of the school principal, and upon seeing Kamali, she hugged him and shouted: “Thank God you’re alive. Where is my Maryam? I trusted you with her in the morning. Tell me what happened to the school?” As she was crying, one of her friends approached her and hugged her and said: “- Samaneh, can you bear to tell me something? +Tell me what happened? - Ms. Taheri is gone; your colleagues are gone; the children are gone; the school is gone.” “At that moment, the world was spinning around me. I was just screaming and crying. The streets leading to the school were blocked. There was no way I could get to the school; I couldn’t put them in the car because I had a small child.” Karbala in Minab; Searching for Bodies in the Rubble Many relatives and friends did not know that Kamali was not at school that day and thought that her son, a student, was trapped in the rubble, so they searched for them until nightfall; by then, the cell phone antennas had been completely cut off. The antennas had been cut off until nightfall, and according to Kamali, the city had turned into the “desert of Karbala.” When the phones were restored, only the families of the students called Kamali and said, “Where is my daughter? Where is my child? They were calling me from everywhere you can think of. I just answered the phone. I didn’t know what was going on. I didn’t know who was alive, who was there and who was not.” At two or three in the morning, Kamali realized that his own niece was also among the martyrs and that no trace of her body had been found. Her sister's husband, who had gone to school to pick up his child, was martyred in the second explosion with the agency driver as they were leaving the school. Minabi Teacher says: "All our hope was that they might still be under the rubble. There were rumors that some teachers were in the prayer room. In the morning, someone called us and said that someone had seen Amir Ali and his father in the school yard during the explosion, and that they were both martyred. My uncle went to the school yard and found Amir Ali's father's shoes." Kamali continues with tearful eyes: "They called me and said that if I could bear it, I should go to school; the bodies were in pieces; hands; feet; heads; it was really Karbala.." A story of sacrifice; a teacher who shielded the children and the student survived Amidst this tragedy, Kamali tells of the sacrifice of a teacher: "The school's sports teacher sent some students down at the moment of the first explosion, but she herself got stuck between the bars. She shielded the children with her body. The bar hit her back and she was martyred due to a concussion, but the student she shielded survived. It is true that they say that teachers are the second mother. The teachers could have saved themselves at that moment; the second explosion hit the school 25 seconds later, but the teachers preferred saving the children to themselves.” A class that will never be complete The Shajareh Tayyiba school had two floors. The boys were on the ground floor and the girls were on the top floor. The courtyards were also separate. It had a very large complex with a well-equipped clinic, a car wash, a car repair shop, four teacher sheds, a furniture and household appliance manufacturing center. Kamali says about the student statistics: “The school included a preschool and a girls’ and boys’ school with a total of 403 students. 283 students are alive and 120 students were martyred along with 26 school staff. Only 10 of the school staff survived. The other martyrs were parents who had come after their children. 47 female students were martyred. The most martyrs in a class were from my class. 10 of my students were martyred. Four were healthy and one was seriously injured with burns. 73 male students were martyred.” Minab’s teachers were not “official” Kamali emphasizes that the school was semi-government and under the supervision of the Navy: “Classes were from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.; all 36 school staff were contract workers and none of us were official. The founder of the school is alive, but two principals were martyred, but we kept the school’s education light on.” Now, Ms. Kamali’s class has 22 students; 12 girls and 10 boys. The rest were martyred.

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قرار بود جلسه هم‌اندیشی معلمان برگزار شود؛ سمانه کمالی صبح زود خودش را به مدرسه می‌رساند، بی‌آنکه بداند چند ساعت بعد، نه جلسه‌ای در کار است و نه مدرسه‌ای. خبر فوت زن‌عمویش باعث خروجش از مدرسه می‌شود تا در زمان حمله آنجا نباشد. حالا، در روز معلم، از آن روزی می‌گوید که «امانت» هایش یکی یکی زیر آوار حملات دشمن ماندند و برای بیرون کشیدن پیکر شهدا به مدرسه بازمی‌گردد. تقدیری که معطل نماند کمالی صبح شنبه به مدرسه رفت؛ زنگ اول درس قرآن بود و مربی در کلاس حضور داشت، اما او در آبدارخانه مشغول آماده‌سازی خود برای جلسه هم‌اندیشی بود. چند بار رفت و برگشت به دفتر داشت. حالش خوب نبود، می‌خواست جلسه را لغو کند. معاون مدرسه ابتدا مخالفت کرده، اما سرانجام رضایت داد که جلسه به فردا موکول شود، اما به یکباره پشیمان و گفته بود جلسه برگزار شود، چون شاید فردایی نباشد. او به آبدارخانه بازگشته بود تا مطالبش را یادداشت کند که ناگهان پیامی روی گوشی‌اش ظاهر می‌شود، «زن عمویش فوت کرده» بدون اینکه به کادر مدرسه اطلاع دهد سوئیچ ماشین را برداشته و از مدرسه خارج می‌شود، حتی چادر و وسایل شخصی‌اش در کلاس می‌ماند. معاون پرورشی می‌پرسد کجا می‌روی؟ پاسخ می‌دهد: «می‌روم تا کلاس قرآن بچه‌ها تمام شود، برمی‌گردم.» کمالی خود را به بیمارستان می‌رساند. در همان لحظات، همکار همپایه‌اش با او تماس گرفته و می‌گوید که به جایش در کلاس تدریس می‌کند و امروز به مدرسه نیاید: «همکارم خیلی اصرار کرد که نروم. من بعد از بیمارستان به سمت مدرسه حرکت کردم که نزدیکی‌های مدرسه دوباره همکارم تماس گرفت و گفت سمانه نیا، من تدریس ریاضی رو انجام دادم، تو امروز استراحت کن.» این بار، کمالی از کنار مدرسه برمی‌گردد و راهی خانه می‌شود. دانش‌آموزی که با خواب ماندن، زنده ماند پسر سمانه هم دانش‌آموز همان مدرسه شجره طیبه بود که در روز واقعه خواب می‌ماند و به مدرسه نمی‌رود: «پدرش گفت، نمی‌خواد امروز مدرسه بره. گفت من شیفت مخالف توام، بزار بچه خونه بمونه. منم لباس مشکی‌هامو پوشیدم و به خونه زن عموم که نزدیک مدرسه بود، رفتم، اما توی مراسم هم همه در باره جنگ حرف می‌زدن، اما من می‌گفتم جنگ توی تهران میشه و میناب هیچ وقت جنگی نمیشه». ساعت حدود ۱۰ صبح بود که شوهر خواهر سمانه قصد رفتن به شهر می‌کند پس سمانه او را به شهر می‌برد و پیاده می‌کند و دوباره به مراسم برمی‌گردد. خواهرزاده‌اش هم دانش‌آموز مدرسه شجره طیبه بود. ساعت ۱۱ به خواهرش می‌گوید برو پسرت را از مدرسه بیاور، چون به دلیل شرایط، مدرسه تعطیل شده، اما خواهرش می‌گوید پدرش او را می‌آورد. سمانه می‌گوید: «یک دفعه صدای خیلی وحشتناکی اومد. من رو مثل توپ فوتبال پرت کرد اون طرف خونه. تکه‌های خونه می‌ریخت و نمی‌فهمیدیم چه خبره. بلند شدم از سالن به بیرون برم که گفتن جنگ شده و دارن می‌زنن.» ادامه می‌دهد: «می‌دیدم دود بلند شده، اما فکر می‌کردم درمانگاه رو زدن. کسایی که توی مسیر می‌دویدند همه می‌گفتن درمانگاه، کارواش و سوله‌های فرهنگیان رو زدن؛ کسی اسم مدرسه رو نیاورد. با خودم می‌گفتم خدا رو شکر، این ساعت بچه‌ها همه خونه رفتن»، اما واقعیت چیز دیگری بود. سه انفجار و ماشینی که به هوا پرید انفجار اول ساعت ۱۱ و ۲۲ دقیقه رخ داد. انفجار دوم ۲۵ ثانیه بعد اتفاق افتاد و انفجار سوم زمانی رخ داد که سمانه روبروی درمانگاه رسیده بود و موج انفجار ماشینش را کاملا به بالا و پایین انداخت و اگزوز ماشینش ترکید. سمانه کمالی می‌گوید: «نفهمیدم چطور مسیر رو تا خونه رفتم. پسرام از ترس می‌لرزیدن و فکر می‌کردن زلزله اومده؛ همه چیز به هم ریخته بود اونقدر شدت موج انفجار زیاد بود که همه لوازم خونه روی زمین افتاده بود. بچه‌ها رو برداشتم، از خونه بیرون رفتیم، همه جاده‌ها بسته بود، مسیر یک راه خاکی داشت، خودمو به پمپ بنزین رسوندم، هنوز نمی‌دونستم مدرسه رو زدن، خبر نداشتم فقط فهمیدم درمانگاه و کارواش رو زدن و می‌گفتن الان جنگ شروع شده و قرار کل میناب رو بزنن.» تماسی که دنیا را روی سرم خراب کرد در صف پمپ بنزین بود که تلفنش زنگ می‌خورد؛ آقایی می‌پرسد: ـ «شما خانم کمالی هستی؟ کجا زیر آوار گیر کردی؟ + آوار چی؟ چی میگی؟ - مگه شما معلم مدرسه شجره نیستی؟ خبر نداری؟ + مگه چی شده؟ - مدرسه رو زدن و خراب شده ...» کمالی آن لحظات را اینگونه توصیف می‌کند: «اون لحظه خیلی حالم بد شد. اصلاً نمی‌فهمیدم روی زمینم. اونقدر داد زدم و توی سر خودم زدم که مردم توی صف بنزین راه رو باز کردن که من ماشین رو بیرون بیارم. آقایی بنزین ماشینش رو به من داد. بچه‌هام و خانوادم دنبالم بودن» کمالی خود را به خانه مدیر مدرسه، خانم طاهری رساند. آن‌جا دیده بود مردم جمع شده و به سر خودشان می‌زنند و گریه می‌کنند. یکی از اولیای دانش‌آموزان، همسایه مدیر مدرسه بود و با دیدن کمالی او را و بغل کرده و داد می‌زده: «خدا رو شکر که زنده‌ای. مریم من کجاس؟ صبح امانت دستت دادم. بگو مدرسه چی شده؟» همین‌طور که گریه می‌کرده یکی از دوستانش نزدیک شده و بغلش کرده و می‌گوید: «- سمانه، تحملش رو داری یه چیزی بگم؟ +بگو چی شده؟ - خانم طاهری رفت؛ همکارات رفتن؛ بچه‌ها رفتن؛ مدرسه کامل رفت.» «اون لحظه دنیا روی سرم می‌چرخید. فقط داد می‌زدم و گریه می‌کردم. خیابون‌های منتهی به مدرسه مسدود بود. راهی نبود خودم رو به مدرسه برسونم؛ چون بچه کوچک داشتم نمی‌تونستم توی ماشین بزارمشون.» کربلا در میناب؛ جستجوی پیکر‌ها بین آوار‌ها خیلی از اقوام و بستگان نمی‌دانستند که کمالی آن روز مدرسه نبوده و فکر می‌کردند با پسر دانش‌آموزش در مدرسه زیر آوار مانده به همین خاطر تا شب دنبال آنها می‌گشتند؛ آن موقع آنتن موبایل‌ها کلاً قطع شده بود. آنتن‌ها تا شب قطع بود و به گفته کمالی شهر تبدیل شده بود به «صحرای کربلا». تلفن‌ها که وصل شد، فقط خانواده‌های دانش‌آموزان با کمالی تماس می‌گرفتند و می‌گفتند: «دختر من کجاست؟ بچه من کجاست؟ از هر جایی که فکر کنید با من تماس می‌گرفتن. من فقط جواب تلفن رو می‌دادم. نمی‌دونستم چه خبره. نمی‌دونستم کی زنده است، کی هست و کی نیست.» ساعت دو و سه نیمه‌شب کمالی متوجه می‌شود خواهرزاده خودش هم جزو شهداست و از پیکرش اثری پیدا نشده. شوهر خواهرش هم که رفته بوده مدرسه دنبال بچه‌اش، لحظه خروج از مدرسه، با راننده آژانس براثر انفجار دوم شهید می‌شوند. معلم مینابی می‌گوید: «همه امید ما این بود که شاید هنوز زیر آوار باشن. یک سری شایعات بود که تعدادی از معلم‌ها در نمازخونه‌ان. صبح که شد، یک نفر با ما تماس گرفت و گفت امیرعلی و پدرش رو یک نفر توی حیاط مدرسه موقع انفجار دیده که هر دو شهید شدن. داداشم به حیاط مدرسه رفت و کفش پدر امیرعلی رو پیدا کرد.» کمالی با چشمانی اشک‌آلود ادامه می‌دهد: «باهام تماس گرفتن که اگر طاقتش رو دارم برم مدرسه؛ پیکر‌های تکه تکه بودن؛ دست؛ پا؛ سر؛ واقعاً کربلا بود..» روایت یک فداکاری؛ معلمی که سپر بچه‌ها شد و دانش‌آموز زنده ماند در میان این فاجعه، کمالی از فداکاری یک معلم می‌گوید: «معلم ورزش مدرسه لحظه انفجار اول، تعدادی از دانش‌آموزا رو پایین فرستاد، اما خودش بین میله‌ها گیر کرد. بدنش رو سپر بچه‌ها کرد. میله به کمرش برخورد کرده بود و بر اثر ضربه مغزی به شهادت رسید، اما دانش‌آموزی که سپرش شده بود، زنده مونده. اینکه می‌گن معلم، مادر دوم، درسته. معلما می‌تونستن خودشون رو اون لحظه نجات بدن؛ انفجار دوم ۲۵ ثانیه بعد به مدرسه اصابت کرد، اما معلم‌ها نجات بچه‌ها رو به خودشون ترجیح دادن.» کلاسی که دیگر هرگز کامل نمی‌شود مدرسه شجره طیبه دو طبقه بود. پسر‌ها طبقه پایین و دختر‌ها طبقه بالا. حیاط‌ها هم مجزا بودند. مجموعه بسیار بزرگی با درمانگاه مجهز، کارواش، تعمیرگاه ماشین، چهار سوله فرهنگیان، مرکز ساخت مبل و لوازم خانگی داشت. کمالی از آمار دانش آموزان می‌گوید: «مدرسه شامل پیش‌دبستانی و مدرسه دخترانه و پسرانه با جمعاً ۴۰۳ دانش‌آموز بود. ۲۸۳ دانش‌آموز زنده هستن و ۱۲۰ دانش‌آموز با ۲۶ نفر از کادر مدرسه شهید شدن. از کادر مدرسه فقط ۱۰ نفر زنده موندن. سایر شهدا، اولیایی بودن که دنبال بچه‌هاشون اومده بودن. ۴۷ دانش‌آموز دختر شهید شدن. بیشترین شهدای کلاسی مربوط به کلاس من بود. ۱۰ دانش‌آموز من شهید شدن. چهار نفر سالمن و یک نفر با سوختگی شدید مجروحه. دانش آموز پسر هم ۷۳ تن شهید شدن.» معلمان میناب "رسمی" نبودند کمالی تأکید می‌کند که مدرسه نیمه‌دولتی و زیر نظر نیروی دریایی بوده: «کلاس‌ها ساعت ۷:۳۰ صبح تا یک بعدازظهر بود؛ هر ۳۶ کادری مدرسه هم قراردادی و هیچ‌کدوم رسمی نبودیم. موسس مدرسه زنده‌اس، اما دو مدیر شهید شدن، اما چراغ آموزش مدرسه رو روشن نگه داشتیم.» حالا کلاس خانم کمالی ۲۲ دانش‌آموز دارد؛ ۱۲ دختر و ۱۰ پسر. بقیه شهید شده‌اند.

IRNA News Agency

8 Apr 2026

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The body of nine-year-old Mohammad Taha Jafari was not identified until 30 days after the day of the attack, and his parents waited until the eighth of Farvardin, hoping for any sign of their child. Hear the account of Masoud Jafari, the father of this martyred student, in this report.

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پیکر «محمدطاها جعفری» ۹ ساله، تا ۳۰ روز پس از روز حمله شناسایی نشد و پدر و مادر او تا هشتم فروردین چشم‌انتظار نشانی از فرزند خود بودند. روایت «مسعود جعفری» پدر این دانش‌آموز شهید را در این گزارش بشنوید.

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Mehrnaz Khosravi

5 Apr 2026

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5 Apr 2026

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مهرناز خسروی

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Minab's Tale (Instagram stories in the form of videos)

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قصه‌ی میناب (استوری های اینستاگرام به صورت ویدیو)

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Mehrnaz Khosravi

9 Apr 2026

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9 Apr 2026

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مهرناز خسروی

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Interview with a school survivor — a female student named “Ana.” Ana suffered a pelvic fracture.

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گفت و گو با یک بازمانده ی مدرسه، دختر دانش آموزی با نام کوچک «آنا» آنا دچار شکستگی لگن شده

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Mehrnaz Khosravi

10 Apr 2026

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10 Apr 2026

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مهرناز خسروی

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[Interview with Mohammad Hossein Shayesteh, brother of Sara Shayesteh. Mohammad Hossein survived the explosion, and his sister was killed.]

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[گفت و گو با محمد حسین شایسته خواهر سارا شایسته. محمد حسین بازمانده ی انفجار است و خواهرش کشته شده است]

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فرارو

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Fararu

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In addition to the more than one hundred children who were martyred and torn to pieces in Minab School, the small and frail bodies of many school children were also severely injured. Mahgol and Mohammad Javad Mollaei, a 7-year-old and 12-year-old brother and sister from Minab, were there on both days of the school bombing, and the marks of physical injuries are still visible on Mohammad Javad’s face. Mohammad Javad recounts his and his friends’ struggles on the day of the bombing of Minab School: He says that in those breathtaking and terrifying moments, they used their small hands to push away the pieces of debris and shrapnel that were thrown towards them as a result of the blast wave in order to avoid getting hurt and save themselves. Mehgol is in the first grade and Mohammad Javad is in the fifth grade of primary school and was saved from that terrible place by their mother just seconds after the first explosion, which hit the building next to the school. Mohammad Javad says: “That day my head and face were injured, but now my wounds have healed and I am better.” Mehgol, Mohammad Javad’s younger sister, speaks very briefly and quickly breaks down in tears as she recounts the bitter memory of that terrible day. She says: “I am in the first grade and I studied at Minab School.” Her voice comes from the phone and she says with bitterness and tears: “That day was very bad and I was very scared; It was very scary; I want the war to end as soon as possible.” We were working in the schoolyard when it was bombed Mohammad Javad continues: “The schoolyard had just been built, and my classmates and I were in the yard on the day of the incident. The school principal, Ms. Gholipour (who is in good spirits), told us to bring the stones and dirt left in the yard with a wheelbarrow, and we were doing so when suddenly a loud and frightening noise came from the building next to the school.” He says: “We all turned towards the sound and saw that a lot of black smoke and fire had risen from the building near the school. At that time, we were not careful not to move and not go to the classroom; we all ran to the classroom.” “There was a corridor with three classrooms in it, and our classroom was two to three meters away from that corridor; our class was for the fifth, sixth, and third graders.” “My friends and I were in front of the hallway when the second missile hit the administration office and the debris fell on us. We were pushing the debris away and running so that it wouldn’t hurt us. We ran towards the walls near the toilets; our teacher was there too. A few seconds later, the third missile hit the school. There were some chairs a few meters ahead of the toilets. Mr. Sanbalai, who was standing near us, told us to go under the chairs and take shelter; the unfortunate gentleman had his son martyred. Several pieces of shrapnel hit me and my friends. Now I have several scars on my face. When the sound of the missiles stopped, we were still there under the chairs. It’s just that because the wave had taken over me, I couldn’t hear or see properly; everywhere was full of dust and smoke. I saw dead children being taken out of the school and taken out; there were a lot of bloody children there. While we were talking to our teacher about what to do and what not to do, I saw some children leaving the main door of the school and I saw my mother and my sister - who had picked her up from the upper floor before me - enter the school with a few other schoolmates. I ran to the car and got in and saw my sister and the children in the car screaming. My mother had not seen me and had gotten out before I got in and when she saw smoke rising from our classroom, she ran after me into the school hallway. My mother says that there were a lot of bricks, dirt and classroom doors in the hallway and that she had fallen several times and her leg was injured there and now her leg is in a splint. When the first missile hit the building next to the school and the second hit our school, we were all running in fear and I saw pieces of iron and debris flying on the ground. I saw the heads of some children being thrown on the ground. Then when my mother arrived, I saw them taking the dead children out of the school; there were a lot of bloody children there. There were 19 of us in a class, and with our teacher, we would be 20. Our class had only one martyr, and that was Saleh Abbasi. Thank God, our teacher, Mrs. Haj Hosseini, also survived. The school principal, Mrs. Gholipour, had told us not to leave the classroom, but that day our teacher took us out of the classroom and said, "Come on, let's get some fresh air." Aunt Saleh, the girls' teacher, was on the second floor and said, "I'm going there to go to the yard with my aunt. They say it looks like she's under the rubble. I didn't know either. A few days later, one of my friends called and said, "Do you know that Saleh is dead and a martyr?" And I was very sad and felt bad for Saleh for a few days. I was in this school from the second grade until now, when I'm in the fifth grade, and I was very sad and sad for the children I knew and was friends with." I called my mother several times, but she didn't hear me. I got out of the car and went to my mother and said to her: Let's go. After a few minutes, we went from school to the city to get to the hospital. My mother's leg was also injured and she couldn't drive well. First, she stopped the car near a parking lot to wash my head and face, which were covered in dirt and blood. When she saw that my face was injured and had a big gash, she took me to the hospital. There, they removed small fragments and broken glass from my ear and said that it needed stitches, but that wasn't possible right now. They said: You are among the minor patients and those who have lost limbs are more necessary. They discharged us. When we were in the hospital, many parents would come and ask us for their children. They would say: Have you seen so-and-so? And those moments were really difficult. They wrote our names among the injured and said: Go and come back tomorrow. We waited for my father to come and pick us up and returned to our city, Kerman. Later, when we went to another hospital, they said that the wound could no longer be stitched because it could get worse. Well, now that it’s been two months, my wound is much better.” People in the photo from the right: Martyr Hananeh Mehdikhah, Martyr Atena Chamlinejad, Benita Moradi, Martyr Fatemeh Yazdanpanah, Martyr Mahna Zarei, Martyr Esra Farahizadeh, Zeinab Fooladi, Mehgol Mollaei, Fatemeh Mohammadi, Ahlam Salehi, Manya Chamli, Martyr Raha Zarei, Mahak Salar Mirabadi, Fatemeh Heydari, Martyr Hananeh Ahmadi, Martyr Salma Zakeri

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علاوه بر بیش از یکصد کودکی که در مدرسه میناب به شهادت رسیدند و تکه‌تکه شدند، تن کوچک و نحیف بسیاری از کودکان مدرسه نیز به‌شدت مجروح شد. مهگل و محمدجواد ملایی، خواهر و برادر ۷ و ۱۲ ساله مینابی هستند که هر دو روز بمباران مدرسه آنجا بوده‌اند و آثار جراحات جسمی هنوز بر صورت محمدجواد دیده می‌شود. محمدجواد تقلای خودش و دوستانش را در روز بمباران مدرسه میناب این‌گونه روایت می‌کند؛ او می‌گوید در آن لحظات نفس‌گیر و وحشتناک، با دست‌های کوچکشان تکه‌های آوار و ترکش‌هایی را که در نتیجه موج انفجار به سمتشان پرت شده بود کنار می‌زدند تا صدمه نبینند و خود را نجات بدهند. مهگل کلاس اول و محمدجواد کلاس پنجم دبستان هستند و تنها چند ثانیه بعد از انفجار اول، که ساختمان مجاور مدرسه مورد اصابت قرار گرفته بود، توسط مادرشان از آن مهلکه نجات پیدا کردند. محمدجواد می‌گوید: «آن روز سر و صورتم زخمی شده بود اما الان زخم‌هایم بهبود پیدا کرده و بهترم.» مهگل، خواهر کوچک محمدجواد، خیلی کوتاه صحبت می‌کند و از بازگویی خاطره تلخ آن روز وحشتناک سریع گریه‌اش می‌گیرد. او می‌گوید: «من کلاس اولی هستم و در مدرسه میناب درس می‌خواندم.» صدای گریه‌اش از پشت تلفن می‌آید و با بغض و گریه می‌گوید: «آن روز خیلی بدی بود و خیلی ترسیدم؛ خیلی وحشتناک بود؛ دوست دارم جنگ هر چه زودتر تمام شود.» در حیاط مدرسه کار می‌کردیم که بمباران شد محمدجواد ادامه می‌دهد: «حیاط مدرسه تازه ساخته شده بود و من و دیگر همکلاسی‌هایم روز حادثه در حیاط بودیم. مدیر مدرسه، خانم قلی‌پور (روحش شاد)، به ما گفت سنگ و خاک‌های اضافه مانده در حیاط را با فرغون بیاورید و داشتیم همین کار را می‌کردیم که یک‌دفعه صدای زیاد و ترسناکی از ساختمان کناری مدرسه آمد.» او می‌گوید: «همه ما به سمت صدا چرخیدیم و دیدیم که دود سیاه زیادی همراه با آتش از ساختمانی که نزدیک مدرسه بود بلند شده بود. ما آن موقع حواسمان نبود که نباید تکان بخوریم و به سمت کلاس نرویم؛ همگی به طرف کلاس دویدیم.» «یک راهرو بود که سه کلاس درس در آن قرار داشت و کلاس ما دو تا سه متر از آن راهرو فاصله داشت؛ کلاس ما پنجمی‌ها، ششمی‌ها و کلاس بچه‌های سوم آنجا بود.» «من و دوستانم جلوی راهرو بودیم که موشک دوم توی دفتر مدیریت خورد و خورده آوارها روی ما ریخت. ما آوار را کنار می‌زدیم و می‌دویدیم که به ما صدمه نزند. به طرف دیوارهای سمت دستشویی‌ها دویدیم؛ معلممان هم بود. چند ثانیه بعد موشک سوم به مدرسه خورد. چند متر جلوتر از دستشویی‌ها چند صندلی بود. آقای سن‌بالایی که نزدیکی ما ایستاده بود به ما گفت بروید زیر صندلی‌ها و پناه بگیرید؛ بدبخت آن آقا پسرش شهید شده بود. چند ترکش به من و دوستانم برخورد کرد. الان چند جای صورت من زخمی است. وقتی صدای موشک‌ها قطع شد، هنوز همان‌جا زیر صندلی بودیم. فقط چون موج من را گرفته بود نه می‌شنیدم و نه درست می‌توانستم ببینم؛ همه‌جا پر خاک و دود بود. دیدم که از مدرسه بچه‌های مرده را درمی‌آوردند و بیرون می‌بردند؛ کلی بچه خونی آنجا بود. در همین حال که با معلم‌مان حرف می‌زدیم که چکار کنیم و چکار نکنیم، دیدم که بعضی از بچه‌ها داشتند از در بزرگ مدرسه خارج می‌شدند و من دیدم که مامانم با خواهرم ـ که قبل از من او را از طبقه بالا برداشته بود ـ با چند نفر دیگر از هم‌مدرسه‌ای‌هایمان وارد مدرسه شدند. من به طرف ماشین دویدم و سوار شدم و دیدم که خواهرم و بچه‌هایی که در ماشین بودند جیغ می‌زدند. مادرم من را ندیده بود و قبل از سوار شدن من پیاده شده بود و وقتی دیده بود که از کلاس ما دود بلند شده به دنبال من به راهروی مدرسه دوید. مادرم می‌گوید در راهرو کلی آجر، خاک و درِ کلاس‌ها افتاده بود و چند بار زمین خورده بود که پایش همان‌جا صدمه دیده بود و الان هم پایش در آتل است. وقتی موشک اول به ساختمان کناری مدرسه و دومی به داخل مدرسه ما خورد، همه از ترس می‌دویدیم و دیدم که تکه‌های آهن و آوار روی زمین پرتاب می‌شد. سر و کله بعضی از بچه‌ها را دیدم که روی زمین پرت می‌شدند. بعدش که مادرم رسید، دیدم از مدرسه بچه‌های مرده را درمی‌آوردند و بیرون می‌بردند؛ کلی بچه خونی آنجا بود. ما ۱۹ نفر در یک کلاس بودیم و با معلممان ۲۰ نفر می‌شدیم. کلاسمان فقط یک شهید داشت و آن‌ هم صالح عباسی بود. خدا را شکر معلم ما، خانم حاج حسینی، هم زنده ماند. مدیر مدرسه، خانم قلی‌پور، به ما گفته بود که از کلاس بیرون نرویم، ولی آن روز معلممان ما را از کلاس بیرون آورد و گفت بیایید که هوایی به سرتان بخورد.» خاله صالح، معلم دخترها در طبقه دوم بود و گفت: من به آنجا می‌روم تا با خاله‌ام به حیاط بیایم. می‌گویند انگار زیر آوار مانده است. من خودم هم نمی‌دانستم. چند روز بعد یکی از دوستانم زنگ زد و گفت: خبر داری صالح مرده و شهید شده؟ و خب خیلی ناراحت شدم و تا چند روز برای صالح حالم بد بود. من از کلاس دوم تا الان که کلاس پنجم هستم در این مدرسه بودم و برای بچه‌هایی که می‌شناختم و با آن‌ها دوست بودم خیلی ناراحت شدم و غصه خوردم.» چند بار مادرم را صدا زدم اما نشنید. از ماشین پیاده شدم و خودم را به مادرم رساندم و به او گفتم: بیا برویم. بعد از چند دقیقه از مدرسه به سمت شهر رفتیم تا به بیمارستان برسیم. پای مادرم هم صدمه دیده بود و نمی‌توانست خوب رانندگی کند. اول نزدیک یک پارک ماشین را نگه داشت تا سر و صورت من که پر از خاک و خون بود را بشوید. وقتی دید صورتم زخمی شده و یک چاک بزرگ خورده، مرا به بیمارستان برد. آنجا از گوشم ترکش‌های ریز و شیشه‌خورده را درآوردند و گفتند که باید بخیه بخورد، اما فعلاً نمی‌شود. گفتند: شما جزو بیماران جزئی هستید و آن‌هایی که دست و پا از دست داده‌اند واجب‌ترند. ما را مرخص کردند. آن موقع که بیمارستان بودیم، خیلی از پدر و مادرها می‌آمدند و از ما سراغ بچه‌هایشان را می‌گرفتند. می‌گفتند: فلانی را دیده‌ای؟‌ و آن لحظات واقعا خیلی سخت بود. اسم ما را جزو مجروحان نوشتند و گفتند: بروید و فردا بیایید. منتظر پدرم شدیم تا به دنبالمان بیاید و به شهر خودمان، کرمان، برگشتیم. بعداً وقتی به یک بیمارستان دیگر رفتیم، گفتند که حالا دیگر نمی‌شود زخم را بخیه کرد چون ممکن است وضعیتش بدتر شود. خب الان که دو ماه گذشته، زخمم خیلی بهتر شده است.» نفرات عکس از سمت راست: شهید حنانه مهدی‌خواه، شهید آتنا چملی‌نژاد، بنیتا مرادی‌،شهید فاطمه یزدان‌پناه، شهید مهنا زارعی‌،شهید اسرا فرحی زاده، زینب فولادی‌،مهگل ملایی‌، فاطمه محمدی‌، احلام صالحی‌،مانیا چملی، شهید رها زارعی،ماهک سالار میرآبادی‌، فاطمه حیدری‌، شهید حنانه احمدی،شهید سلما ذاکری

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Farzaneh Farahani

24 Apr 2026

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فرزانه فراهانی

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Asal Habashi, a 9-year-old student from Minab who was severely injured in the school bombing and was hospitalized for about 1 month and has just returned home. Minab School had two floors, with a boys' classroom on the first floor and a girls' classroom on the second floor. On the day of the incident, Asal had come to the first floor to perform ablution. Minutes later, the first explosion, the same explosion that had targeted one of the buildings next to the school, occurred, and the girl quickly walked out of fear to her classroom on the upper floor. At the same time, the second explosion targeted the school and trapped her on the first floor under the rubble. This Minabhi girl tells Khabar Online: Our teacher was at work that day and the last bell rang and he was not at school; My other friends and I were playing on the second floor after the teacher left and when it was close to the noon prayer, I went to perform ablution. She says: At that moment, I heard a very scary sound and I wanted to quickly go upstairs when they knocked on the school and then I was thrown into the boys' school; the blast wave threw me and I was under the rubble and I didn't understand what happened after that. This 9-year-old Minabhi child says: I used to get on the school bus every day at 6 am and we were at school until 2 pm. Asal continues to tell Khabar Online: There were 15 of us in the class and none of my friends and classmates were injured; Most of them were martyred the day they hit the school. Only five of us survived. He says: I miss my friends like Setayesh, Khadijeh, Motahareh, Mahna and Maryam; all these children were martyred; I was especially close friends with Setayesh and Khadijeh; they were good friends to me. I didn’t know what happened to my friends; when I came home from the hospital, they told me that most of my classmates were martyred. An injured student from Minab School says: Something very bad happened that day; I was very scared; my mother told me that they had come after me with my aunt and uncles but I was under the rubble. I was unconscious and they thought I was dead... He says: After they found me under the rubble, I was unconscious and they took me to the hospital in an ambulance; My uncle says that they said I was dead and they wanted to put me in a bag (a special cover for the bodies of deceased people) like the other children; they said that I was not breathing and had no pulse, then my uncle had argued with them and after a few minutes when I moved one of my legs they realized that I was alive and then they admitted me. This Minabi girl says: The day they attacked the school, my legs, arms, stomach and back were wounded and burned; that first night they took me to the port to take me to another hospital; now I am feeling better and only my back hurts a little; because my back is open. (Due to the severity of the impact and being under the rubble and burns) they had an internal operation on my back. Asal, a little Minabi student, says: I want to study and become a doctor in the future. Mother's story Fatemeh Habashi, Asal's mother, continues: It was a little after 11 o'clock when we started the search, and we couldn't find Asal until 2 o'clock; Along with the Red Crescent rescuers, my brothers and sister searched for my daughter under the rubble, and of course I was in a very bad mood, and most of them searched for any sign of Asal until one of the rescuers finally found her on a shoe that had come out of the rubble after all that searching, and my sister identified her in the very first moments. Asal’s coat and trousers were burned and she had no clothes left on her; she didn’t even have a veil on her head, and only the shoe that was left on my daughter’s foot was what brought us to her. She says: Asal was under the rubble for several hours with a splinter in her foot, and after a few hours in a hospital in Minab, they said that we should transfer her to the burn ward of one of the Bandar hospitals, and they transferred her that night. the martyr Baran Ghasemi, martyr Setayesh Ali-Hosseini, martyr Khadijeh Darvishi, martyr Asra Zakeri, martyr Zahra Sharafi, martyr At'hareh Zarei, martyr Motahereh Ahmadzadeh, martyr Maryam Bazark, followed by Asal Habashi, Salma Jahanshahi, Yasna Sheikhabadi, the martyr Helma Ghasemi, and finally Maryam Barani.

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عسل حبشی، دانش‌آموز ۹ ساله اهل میناب که در بمباران مدرسه به شدت مجروح شد و حدود ۱ ماه در بیمارستان بستری بوده و تازه به خانه برگشته است. مدرسه میناب دو طبقه بوده و در طبقه اول کلاس درس پسرها و در طبقه دوم هم کلاس دخترها قرار داشته است و عسل در روز حادثه به طبقه اول آمده بوده تا وضو بگیرد و پس از دقایقی انفجار اول، یعنی همان انفجاری که یکی از ساختمان‌های همجوار مدرسه را مورد هدف قرار داده بود، رخ می‌دهد و دخترک از ترس به سرعت راه می‌افتد تا به کلاس خودش در طبقه بالا برود و در همین حین انفجار دوم مدرسه را نشانه رفته و او را در طبقه اول زیر آوار گرفتار می‌کند. این دختر مینابی به خبرآنلاین می‌گوید: معلم ما آن روز کار داشت و زنگ آخر رفت و در مدرسه نبود؛ من و دیگر دوستانم بعد از رفتن معلم در همان طبقه دوم در حال بازی بودیم و نزدیک اذان ظهر که شد، رفتم تا وضو بگیرم. او می‌گوید: در همان موقع صدای خیلی ترسناکی شنیدم و می‌خواستم سریع بروم بالا که مدرسه را زدند و پس از آن به داخل مدرسه پسرانه پرت شدم؛ موج انفجار من را پرت کرد و زیر آوار بودم و بعدش را دیگر نفهمیدم که چه شد. این کودک ۹ ساله مینابی می‌گوید: من هر روز ساعت ۶ صبح سوار سرویس مدرسه می‌شدم و تا ساعت ۲ ظهر هم در مدرسه بودیم. عسل در ادامه به خبرآنلاین می‌گوید: ما در کلاس ۱۵ نفر بودیم و از دوستان و همکلاسی‌هایم کسی زخمی نشده؛ بیشترشان آن روزی که مدرسه را زدند شهید شدند. فقط ما ۵ نفر زنده ماندیم. او می‌گوید: دلم برای دوستانم مثل ستایش، خدیجه، مطهره، محنا و مریم تنگ شده است؛ همه این بچه‌ها شهید شدند؛ مخصوصا با ستایش و خدیجه دوست صمیمی بودیم؛ دوستان خوبی برایم بودند. من نمی‌دانستم که چه اتفاقی برای دوستانم افتاده؛ وقتی از بیمارستان به خانه آمدم به من گفتند که بیشتر همکلاسی‌هایم شهید شده‌اند. دانش‌آموز مجروح مدرسه میناب می‌گوید: آن روز اتفاق خیلی بدی افتاد؛ خیلی ترسیدم؛ مامانم به من گفته که به همراه خاله و دایی‌هایم به دنبالم آمده بودند اما من زیر آوار بودم. بیهوش بودم و فکر می‌کردند مرده‌ام... او می‌گوید: بعد از اینکه من را از زیر آوار پیدا کردند، بیهوش بودم و با آمبولانس به بیمارستان بردند؛ دایی‌ام می‌گوید که گفته‌اند من مرده‌ام و می‌خواستند مرا هم مثل بقیه بچه‌ها داخل کیسه (کاور ویژه اجساد افراد جانباخته) بگذارند؛ گفته بودند که من نفس نمی‌کشم و نبض ندارم، بعد دایی‌ من آن‌ها را دعوا کرده بود و بعد از چند دقیق که من یکی از پاهایم را تکان دادم فهمیدند من زنده‌ام و بعد بستری‌ام کردند. این دختر مینابی می‌گوید: روزی که مدرسه را زدند پاها، دستها، شکم و کمرم زخم شد و سوخته بود؛ همان شب اول من را به بندر بردند که به یک بیمارستان دیگر ببرند؛ الان حالم بهتر شده و فقط کمرم کمی درد می‌کند؛ چون کمرم باز شده است.(به دلیل شدت ضربه و زیرآوار بودن و سوختگی) کمرم را عمل داخلی کرده‌اند. عسل دانش‌آموز کوچک مینابی می‌گوید: من دوست دارم درس بخوانم و در آینده دکتر شوم. روایت مادر در ادامه فاطمه حبشی، مادر دختر مجروح مینابی می‌گوید: ساعت کمی از ۱۱ گذشته بود که ما کار جستجو را شروع کردیم و تا ساعت ۲ نتوانسته بودیم عسل را پیدا کنیم؛ در کنار امدادگران هلال‌احمر با برادرها و خواهرم زیر آوارها را به دنبال دخترم می‌گشتیم و البته من خیلی حالم بد بود و بیشتر آن‌ها، دنبال نشانی از عسل گشتند تا بالاخره یکی از امدادگران او را از روی یک لنگه کفشی که بعد از آن همه جستجو از زیر آوار بیرون زده بود پیدا کرد و خواهرم او را در همان لحظات اولیه شناسایی کرد. مانتو و شلوار عسل سوخته بود و لباسی به تنش نمانده بود؛ حتی مقنعه هم در سرش نبود و فقط همان لنگه کفش به پای دخترم مانده بود که ما را به او رساند. او می‌گوید: عسل در حالی چند ساعت را زیر آوار بود که یک ترکش هم در پایش بود و بعد از چند ساعت که در بیمارستانی در میناب بود گفتند باید او را به بخش سوختگی یکی از بیمارستان‌های بندر منتقل کنیم و شب او را انتقال دادند. افراد حاضر در عکس از سمت راست: شهید باران قاسمی، شهید ستایش علی حسینی ، شهید خدیجه درویشی، شهید اسرا ذاکری ، شهید زهرا شرفی ، شهید اطهره زارعی، شهید مطهره احمد زاده، شهید مریم بازرک، عسل حبشی ،سلما جهانشاهی، یسنا شیخ‌آبادی، شهید حلما قاسمی و نفر آخر مریم بارانی.

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Neda Zangineh

3 May 2026

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ندا زنگینه

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Hamed Saadat, director of the documentary "Hoda", said about the subject of his latest work: The subject of this documentary is a female student of the Shajare Tayyiba School in Minab. She was under the rubble until nightfall, and her brother and cousin were also martyred there in the Shajare Tayyiba School in Minab.

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حامد سعادت کارگردان مستند «هدا»، درباره موضوع تازه‌ترین اثر خود گفت: موضوع این مستند، یکی از دانش‌آموزان دختر مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب است. او تا شب زیر آوار بوده و برادر و پسرخاله او هم همان‌جا در مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب، شهید شدند.

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Elnaz Mohammadi

18 Mar 2026

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Ms. Gholipour, the school principal, was found—like Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, a third-grade student, Salma and Asra Zakeri, first- and fourth-grade students, and Alireza Shahrjou, a first-grade student—with their bodies intact but lifeless. Others were pulled from beneath the rubble lifeless and dismembered, like Zahra Asghari-Far, a second-grade student. Mahmoud Zamani, brother of Razieh Zamani, a third-grade boys’ teacher, says that Razieh, born in 1991, had only begun teaching at this school two years earlier. She taught third grade in the boys’ primary school, earning eight million tomans on a one-year contract—a class in which Mikaeil Mirdoraghi was also a student. Now, both of them are dead. Mahmoud says that apparently the boys’ school was not officially registered with the Ministry of Education and was instead known under the name of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school. Yet most of the victims were from the boys’ section. Education officials in Minab told them they had not been aware of the boys’ school and that it was administratively linked to Shiraz. “There was a telecommunications tower on top of the school, and parents had repeatedly asked for it to be removed. That day, two rockets struck the tower within six seconds. The school had two sections; part of it remained intact, and two teachers managed to escape from that section unharmed.” At first, it was local people who carried out rescue efforts, and later the Red Crescent joined them in the search. Family members stood among the crowd and saw that, in the very first hours, a few survivors were pulled from beneath the rubble—including two students from Razieh’s class who survived because the blast wave had thrown them under desks. Shakiba Darikvand, the 31-year-old mother of Mikaeil, did not see his drawing until the next day. It reached her only after she had identified her son in a refrigerated truck compartment and then lost consciousness. Mikaeil was found beside his close friend, Alireza Zare’. “I saw him with a bloodied face and an otherwise intact body, holding his school backpack in his arms—and I fainted.” Alireza Zare’, who was in fourth grade, was never found; no trace of his body remained. The fourth-grade students had been near the prayer hall, which was completely destroyed. All of them were killed. Kamran Mirdoraghi, a local journalist from Andimeshk and a relative of Mikaeil’s family, told Shargh that most people in Minab come from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. “Many of the children had no one to search for them. There was a boy there who came looking for his sisters and said: ‘We don’t have a father or mother.’” Mikaeil was buried three days later in the martyrs’ section of Behesht Zahra Lor cemetery in Andimeshk. He left behind a strange keepsake: a drawing in which he had, with unsettling accuracy, depicted the number of American bombs that would later destroy his school and take the lives of his classmates and teachers, leaving their bodies torn apart. Salma and Asra Zakeri were two students at the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school. Their parents, Mokhtar Zakeri and Razieh Shahsavari, are from Minab. Before the ninth of Esfand, they had two daughters and a son. Their home, in the Zahouki neighborhood, was five minutes from the school. Salma was in first grade, Asra in fourth. Mokhtar Zakeri, 39, a faculty member at Farhangian University, was at home that day teaching his students online. Earlier that morning, as usual, he had taken Salma and Asra to school and returned home. Around 10:30 a.m., the school called and told him to come pick up the children because “war has arrived.” Before Mokhtar and Razieh could even get into their car, the ground beneath them shook; as they set off, they heard a second explosion. Like many families, Mokhtar says the girls had gone to the prayer hall to seek shelter—and the missile struck the prayer hall. He believes that if they had stayed in their classrooms, perhaps half of them might have survived. Standing outside the school, Mokhtar and Razieh learned that Asra’s teacher, Ms. Basarde, had also been killed. “It took three days and nights for the debris to be cleared and the bodies to be identified. I identified one of my children that same night, and the other the next day in the morgue. I identified Asra on the first night at the hospital. Salma, the next day. First, they showed us their photos on a monitor. They had placed the photos side by side, but Salma’s image wasn’t clear, so I couldn’t recognize her. I had to identify her in person.” The girls lay close to each other in the morgue—one labeled number 62, the other 70. On both of their death certificates, the cause of death was written as: “head trauma.” When Mokhtar speaks of their bodies, he says “thank God” they were not dismembered. “But 90 percent of the children’s bodies were destroyed.” Yadollah Shahrjou, a teacher from Minab who worked that year in Bandar Abbas and commuted daily across 100 kilometers, had not yet fully left the school after the evacuation warning when he heard the devastating news: “Minab has been hit. A school has been hit.” He had two loved ones at the school: Alireza Shahrjou, a seven-year-old first-grade student and his nephew, and Zahra Asghari-Far, an eight-year-old second-grade student, his niece. Both died there. Zahra was found earlier. At the time of the explosion, she had been in the yard; the blast wave threw her, rupturing her ears, but her body was not visibly injured—only a small cut above her eyebrow. Those who saw the bodies say that even those whose bodies had not been torn apart had lost their skin due to the heat, while those thrown outward were dismembered, with pieces of their bodies scattered around or stuck to the walls. All of this was accompanied by a strange smell that lingered for days—a mixture of blood and bodies left beneath the rubble. By Sunday afternoon, there was still no trace of Alireza. Eventually, the family made the painful decision to take his mother to the morgue to search among the bodies. Minab has only one hospital, “Hazrat Abolfazl,” with a morgue capacity of at most 30 bodies. For this reason, a local benefactor provided a large cold storage facility—originally intended for fish and shrimp, and not yet operational—for the families. From Alireza’s class, six students were killed and eleven survived—because some had been using virtual classes. One mother told Alireza’s mother that she had gone that day to pick up her child; apparently, she was the last person to see them. She said the children had gathered their bags and water bottles and stood outside the classroom, while the teacher stood at the door, handing them over one by one. Yadollah Shahrjou, like other families, says the school was established in the early 2010s. At that time, he was deputy of the Minab Department of Education and was familiar with the city’s educational developments: “At that time, some schools obtained permits from Bandar Abbas for schools affiliated with the IRGC Navy, along the coast from Jask to Minab. Shajareh Tayyebeh was one of those non-profit schools whose license was issued through the IRGC Navy. Initially, it was for military families, but later it became a public school, and only a small number of students had military parents. For more than a decade, it has no longer been a military site and has been abandoned. I pass by there every day and have never seen any military activity.”

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خانم قلی‌پور، مدیر مدرسه که شبیه «میکائیل میردورقی»، دانش‌آموز کلاس سوم، «سلما و اسرا ذاکری»، دانش‌آموزان کلاس اول و چهارم و «علیرضا شهرجو»، دانش‌آموز کلاس اول با بدنی سالم اما مرده پیدا شد؛ یا همه کسانی که بی‌جان با تنی تکه‌پاره از زیر آوار بیرون آمدند، شبیه «زهرا اصغری‌فر»، دانش‌آموز کلاس دوم. محمود زمانی، برادر راضیه زمانی، معلم کلاس سوم پسرها راضیه زمانی، متولد سال ۱۳۷۰ و دو سال بود که در این مدرسه، تدریس را شروع کرده بود، در کلاس سوم دبستان پسرانه، با هشت میلیون حقوق و قراردادی یک‌ساله؛ کلاسی که «میکائیل میردورقی» هم آنجا درس می‌خواند و حالا هر دو کشته شده‌اند محمود می‌گوید گویا نام مدرسه پسرانه در آموزش و پرورش ثبت نبوده و به اسم همان مدرسه شجره طیبه دخترانه شناخته می‌شود، اما بیشتر کشته‌شدگان از مدرسه پسرانه بوده‌اند. مسئولان آموزش و پرورش میناب به آنها گفته‌اند از ثبت این مدرسه پسرانه خبر نداشته و وابسته به شیراز بوده است. «یک دکل مخابراتی بالای مدرسه بود و اولیا بارها گفته بودند که این دکل را از اینجا بردارید. همان روز هم دو راکت به فاصله شش ثانیه به این دکل اصابت کرد. مدرسه دو قسمت داشته و قسمتی از آن هم سالم مانده و دو معلم توانسته بودند از همان قسمت خارج شوند و سالم ماندند». اول بیشتر نیروهای مردمی بودند و بعد هلال‌احمر برای تجسس به مردم ملحق شدند. اعضای خانواده هم بین مردم ایستاده بودند و دیدند که همان ساعت اول چند نفری که زنده مانده بودند از زیر آوار درآمدند؛ از جمله دو دانش‌آموز کلاس راضیه که به دلیل پرتاب‌شدن به زیر میز بر اثر موج انفجار سالم مانده بودند. شکیبا دریکوند، مادر 31ساله «میکائیل میردورَقی»، نقاشی را اما تا روز بعد ندیده بود؛ نقاشی بعد از آن به دستش رسید که پسرش را در اتاقک ماشین یخچال‌دار شناسایی کرده و بعد از هوش رفته بود. میکائیل را کنار دوست صمیمی‌اش، «علیرضا زارع» پیدا کردند. «او را با صورتی خونی و بدنی سالم، در‌حالی‌که کوله‌پشتی‌‌ مدرسه‌اش را بغل کرده بود، دیدم و از هوش رفتم». ««علیرضا زارع» هم دوست میکائیل بود اما در کلاس چهارم و از بدنش، نشانی پیدا نکردند؛ چون کلاس چهارمی‌ها کنار نمازخانه بودند که به طور کامل تخریب شده بود. همه‌شان مرده بودند. «کامران میردورقی»، خبرنگار محلی اندیمشک و یکی از اقوام خانواده میکائیل به «شرق» می‌گوید بیشتر مردم میناب از قشر ضعیف اقتصادی‌اند. «خیلی از بچه‌ها خانواده‌ای نداشتند که دنبال‌شان بگردد. آنجا پسری بوده که آمده بوده دنبال خواهرهایش و گفته بوده که ما پدر و مادر نداریم». میکائیل را سه روز بعد، در قطعه شهدای «بهشت زهرا لور» در اندیمشک به خاک سپردند و از او یک یادگاری عجیب به جا ماند: یک نقاشی‌ که او حتی تعداد بمب‌های آمریکایی را که مدرسه‌اش را خراب و هم‌کلاسی‌ها و معلمانش را با تن‌هایی تکه و پاره با خود بردند، به‌درستی پیش‌بینی کرده بود سلما و اسرا ذاکری، دو نفر از دانش‌آموزان دختر مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب بودند. مختار ذاکری و راضیه شهسواری، مادر و پدر آنها، اهل میناب‌اند، قبل از نهم اسفند، دو دختر و یک پسر داشتند و خانه‌شان پنج دقیقه با مدرسه فاصله دارد؛ خانه‌ای در محله زهوکی. سلما کلاس اول بود و اسرا کلاس چهارم. مختار ذاکری، ۳۹ساله که عضو هیئت علمی دانشگاه فرهنگیان است، آن روز در خانه مشغول تدریس آنلاین به دانشجویانش بود. او قبل از تدریس و سر صبح، طبق روال هر روز، سلما و اسرا را به مدرسه برده و به خانه برگشته بود. تا اینکه حوالی ساعت ۱۰:۳۰، از مدرسه زنگ زدند و گفتند بیایید دنبال بچه که «جنگ از راه رسیده است.» مختار و راضیه تا بیایند سوار ماشین شوند، زمین زیر پای‌شان لرزید و وقتی راه افتادند، صدای دومین انفجار را شنیدند. مختار ذاکری مثل بقیه خانواده‌ها می‌گوید دانش‌آموزان دختر همه برای پناه‌گرفتن رفته بودند نمازخانه و موشک به نمازخانه خورده بود. او معتقد است شاید اگر آنها در کلاس می‌ماندند، نصف‌شان زنده بودند. مختار و راضیه همان‌جا، روبه‌روی مدرسه فهمیدند معلم اسرا هم کشته شده، خانم «بسارده». «این ماجرا سه شبانه‌روز طول کشید تا آواربرداری انجام و اجساد شناسایی شدند. یکی از بچه‌ها را همان شب شناسایی کردم و یکی را روز بعدش در سردخانه. اسرا را شب اول شناسایی کردم، در بیمارستان. سلما را فردایش. اول عکس‌های‌شان را در مانیتور نشان دادند. عکس‌ها را با هم گذاشته بودند ولی عکس سلما را بد گرفته بودند و نتوانستم تشخیص دهم، بنابراین او را حضوری شناسایی کردم». دخترها به فاصله کمی در سردخانه دراز کشیده بودند. یکی شماره ۶۲ بود و یکی ۷۰. در گواهی فوت هر دو، علت مرگ را نوشتند: ««ضربه به سر». مختار وقتی می‌خواهد از وضعیت بدن دخترهایش بگوید، از کلمه «خدا را شکر» استفاده می‌کند که بدن‌شان متلاشی نشده بود. «ولی بدن ۹۰ درصد بچه‌ها از بین رفته بود». یدالله شهرجو، معلم اهل میناب که امسال را در مدارس بندرعباس درس می‌داد و فاصله صد کیلومتری این شهر و میناب را روزانه طی می‌کرد، هنوز بعد از اخطار تخلیه مدرسه، کامل بیرون نیامده بود که خبر هولناک را شنید: «میناب را زده‌اند. یک مدرسه را زده‌اند». یدالله در معروف‌ترین مدرسه شهر، دو عزیز داشت: «علیرضا شهرجو»، هفت‌ساله و دانش‌آموز کلاس اول که برادرزاده‌اش بود و «زهرا اصغری‌فر»، هشت‌ساله و دانش‌آموز کلاس دوم، دختر خواهرزاده‌اش. زهرا و علیرضا همان‌جا جانشان را از دست داده بودند. آن روز زهرا زودتر پیدا شد. او در زمان انفجار در حیاط بوده و موج انفجار پرتش کرده و گوش‌هایش را ترکانده بود، اما بدنش مجروح نبود و فقط خراشی کوچک بالای ابرو داشت. آنها که جسدها را دیده‌اند اما می‌گویند حتی کسانی که بدنشان از هم نپاشیده بود نیز حرارت، پوست بدنشان را برده بود و آنهایی که از داخل به بیرون پرتاب شده بودند، تکه‌تکه شده و از بدن‌هایشان قطعه‌های کوچکی به اطراف ریخته یا به دیوارها چسبیده بود و همه اینها همراه با بویی عجیب که تا چند روز پس از حادثه به مشام می‌رسید؛ ترکیبی از بوی خون و بدن‌های مانده زیر آوار. تا بعدازظهر یکشنبه اثری از او نبود و در نهایت، خانواده کار سخت را انتخاب کرد؛ اینکه مادرش را ببرند در سردخانه تا بین اجساد دنبال پسرش بگردد. میناب یک بیمارستان به نام «حضرت ابالفضل» دارد با سردخانه‌ای با ظرفیت نهایت ۳۰ نفر. به همین دلیل هم بود که یکی از خَیران شهر، سالن بزرگ سردخانه‌ ماهی و میگویی را که به‌تازگی خریده و هنوز راه‌اندازی نکرده بود، در اختیار خانواده‌ها گذاشت. از کلاس علیرضا شش نفر کشته شدند و ۱۱ نفر زنده ماندند؛ چون از کلاس مجازی استفاده کرده بودند. یکی از مادرها به مادر علیرضا گفته آن روز توانسته برود و بچه‌اش را تحویل بگیرد؛ گویی او آخرین نفری بوده که آنها را دیده و حالا می‌گوید که همه بچه‌ها کیف‌ها و ظرف آبشان را جمع کرده و جلوی کلاسشان جمع شده بودند و معلم دم در کلاس ایستاده بود و یکی‌یکی بچه‌ها را تحویل می‌داد. یدالله شهرجو نیز مثل بقیه خانواده‌ها می‌گوید این مدرسه از اوایل دهه ۹۰ راه افتاد. آن زمان او معاون اداره آموزش و پرورش میناب بود و از نزدیک تحولات آموزشی شهر را می‌شناخت: «آن زمان یک‌سری از مدارس از بندرعباس برای مدارس نیروی دریایی سپاه مجوز می‌گرفتند؛ در ساحلی از جاسک تا میناب. مدرسه شجره طیبه هم یکی از مدارس غیرانتفاعی بود که مجوز آن توسط نیروی دریایی سپاه گرفته شد و اوایل مخصوص خانواده‌های سپاه بود، ولی بعدها مدرسه‌ای عمومی شد و حداقل ممکن‌ دانش‌آموزانی بودند که پدرشان نظامی است. بیشتر از یک دهه است که آنجا مکان نظامی نیست و متروکه شده. من هر روز از آنجا رد می‌شوم و ندیده بودم که نیروها بروند و بیایند‌».

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Siblings who were martyred together in Minab. [names in the photo: Amirali Boostani – Fourth grade Amirmohammad Boostani – Second grade Reyhaneh Zakeri – Fourth grade Mahdi Zakeri – Third grade Salma Zakeri – First grade Asra Zakeri – Fourth grade Hanieh Ahmadi Teyfekani – First grade Sobhan Ahmadi Teyfekani – Fourth grade Mohammadali Keryani-Pak – Second grade Ali-Akbar Keryani-Pak – Third grade Ali Salari – First grade Mahya Salari – Third grade Mahdieh Ahmadzadeh – Sixth grade Amin Ahmadzadeh – First grade Ahmadreza SartakZadeh – Fifth grade Javad SartakZadeh – Second grade Hamed Paritaghi-Nejad – First grade Hani Paritaghi-Nejad – Fourth grade ]

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خواهر و برادرهای شهید مدرسه میناب امیرعلی بوستانی – کلاس چهارم دبستان امیرمحمد بوستانی – کلاس دوم دبستان ریحانه ذاکری – کلاس چهارم دبستان مهدی ذاکری – کلاس سوم دبستان سلما ذاکری – کلاس اول دبستان اسرا ذاکری – کلاس چهارم دبستان حانیه احمدی طیفکانی – کلاس اول دبستان سبحان احمدی طیفکانی – کلاس چهارم دبستان محمدعلی کریانی‌پاک – کلاس دوم دبستان علی‌اکبر کریانی‌پاک – کلاس سوم دبستان علی سالاری – کلاس اول دبستان محیا سالاری – کلاس سوم دبستان مهدیه احمدزاده – کلاس ششم دبستان امین احمدزاده – کلاس اول دبستان احمدرضا سرتک‌زاده – کلاس پنجم دبستان جواد سرتک‌زاده – کلاس دوم دبستان حامد پریتقی‌نژاد – کلاس اول دبستان هانی پریتقی‌نژاد – کلاس چهارم دبستان

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The special governor of Minab, describing the latest situation of the injured in the attack on the Minab school, said: Five of the injured in the Minab school suffered 20 to 40 percent burns. According to the Fars News Agency from Bandar Abbas, Mohammad Radmehr, the governor of Minab, said: After the injured in the American crime in the attack on the Minab school were transferred, one of the injured was martyred due to severe injuries. Radmehr stated: The general condition of the rest of the injured in the American attack is good. The special governor of Minab noted: 120 students, 26 teachers and 9 parents of the students were martyred in the attack by the Zionist American enemy on the Shajare Tayyiba elementary school in Minab.

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فرماندار ویژه میناب در تشریح آخرین وضعیت مجروحان حمله به مدرسه میناب، گفت: ۵ نفر از مجروحان مدرسه میناب دچار سوختگی ۲۰ تا ۴۰درصد شده‌اند. به گزارش خبرگزاری فارس از بندرعباس، محمد رادمهر، فرماندار میناب گفت: بعد از انتقال مجروحان جنایت آمریکا در حمله به مدرسه میناب، یکی از مجروحان به علت جراحات زیاد به شهادت رسید. رادمهر عنوان کرد: وضعیت عمومی بقیه افراد آسیب دیده در حمله آمریکایی خوب است. فرماندار ویژه میناب خاطرنشان کرد: در حمله دشمن آمریکایی صهیونیستی به دبستان شجره طیبه میناب ۱۲۰ دانش آموز، ۲۶معلم و ۹ نفر از اولیای دانش آموزان به شهادت رسیدند.

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Foozieh Zakeri, a preschool teacher at the Shajare Tayyiba Boys' School in Minab, begins her story from the moment the silence of a normal school day was shattered by the sound of a rocket explosion; a day that left her both physically injured and heartbroken over the loss of her students. She says that out of 19 teachers, 14 were martyred and only five survived. It was around 11:16 a.m.... I was standing in the schoolyard with my preschoolers when the first rocket hit the school steps. Zakeri remembers all those seconds with precision; the terrifying impact, being thrown towards the wall, the smoke, the dust, and the sound of children crying. She explains: Less than a minute later, the enemy hit the building with a second missile. Although I was wounded myself, I hugged the children who were in the school yard and took them out of the school as far as I could. The leg and back injuries are still a memory of that day: My right leg was broken and torn in several places and my back was injured... But I only thought about these children surviving. Referring to the martyrdom of eight of his students in this enemy crime, he said: One of them was Makan Nasiri, who was studying in the first grade of elementary school; a student whose body has not yet been found and whose name is on the list of missing persons. Zakeri says: "We were all like sisters with our colleagues, the deputy of the school, martyr Karimi, was like a mother to us." Photo: Zakeri and Makan

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فوزیه ذاکری معلم پیش دبستانی مدرسه پسرانه شجره طیبه میناب روایتش را از همان لحظه‌ای آغاز می‌کند که سکوت یک روز عادی آموزشی با صدای انفجار موشک پاره شد؛ روزی که در آن، هم جراحات جسمی بر او وارد شد و هم داغ شاگردانش بر دلش ماند، او می‌گوید از ۱۹ معلم، ۱۴ معلم شهید شدند و تنها پنج نفر زنده مانده‌اند. ساعت حدود ۱۱ و ۱۶ دقیقه بود... در حیاط مدرسه با بچه‌های پیش دبستانی کلاسم ایستاده بودم که نخستین موشک به پله‌های مدرسه اصابت کرد. ذاکری با دقت تمام آن ثانیه‌ها را به یاد دارد؛ ضربه مهیب، پرتاب شدن به سمت دیوار، دود، خاک و صدای گریه کودکان. وی تعریف می‌کند: دشمن کمتر از یک دقیقه، موشک دومی هم به ساختمان زد، با اینکه خودم زخمی بودم، بچه‌هایی را که در حیاط مدرسه بودند در آغوش گرفتم و تا جایی که توان داشتم از مدرسه بیرون بردم. جراحت پا و کمر، هنوز هم یادگار همان روز است: پای راستم از چند ناحیه شکست و پاره شد و کمرم آسیب دید… اما فقط به این فکر می‌کردم این بچه‌ها زنده بمانند. وی با اشاره به شهادت هشت نفر از دانش |آموزانش در این جنایت دشمن گفت: یکی از آن‌ها ماکان نصیری بود که در کلاس اول دبستان درس می‌خواند؛ دانش‌آموزی که هنوز پیکرش پیدا نشده و نامش در فهرست مفقودان است. «با همکاران همه مثل خواهر بودیم، معاون مدرسه شهیده خانم کریمی، برای ما مثل مادر بود، همیشه مراقب معلمان و بچه‌ها بود» عکس: ذاکری و ماکان

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Nazanin Zahra Heydari was standing in front of the classroom with the other children when missile hit the school. She doesn't remember anything else except that she says: I was near the stairs and was coming down. When I came down, I saw someone's arm was cut off, or someone's leg was cut off, and the building was slowly collapsing. By the time I finally came out, I felt something coming from above my eyelid. I noticed that I was bleeding and I didn't know what had happened to me. I only remember our teacher, Ms. Salagizadeh, standing in front of the classroom door, and for a moment, everything suddenly disappeared.

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نازنین زهرا با بقیه بچه ها جلوی در کلاس ایستاده بودند وقتی موشک به مدرسه میخوره دیگه هیچی یادش نمیاد تا اونجا که میگه: نزدیک راه پله ها بودم و میام به سمت پایین ، زمانی که اومدم پایین دست قطع شده میدیدم ، یا پای یکی قطع شده بود و کم کم داشت ساختمان ریزش میکرد تا زمانی که کلا آمدم بیرون احساس کردم چیزی از بالای پلکم داره میاد متوجه شدم خونی شده و اصلا نمیدونستم چه اتفاقی برام افتاده فقط یادمه معلممون خانم سلگی زاده جلو درب کلاس بود و برای همیشه ، یک دقیقه همه چیز یکدفعه ناپدید شد

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Instagram story from a segment of the documentary Hoda, about a schoolgirl from Minab with severe burn injuries. From director's instagram page.

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استوری اینستاگرامی از بخشی از فیلم مستند هدا درباره دختر دانش آموزی با مجروحیت شدید سوختگی از میناب از صفحه ی شخصی کارگردان

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During part of this meeting, the wife of martyr Ruqayyah Karimi mentioned her martyred daughter Fatima Zahra, who was martyred in her mother's arms, and spoke about the characteristics and moral virtues of those noble ones in their love for the Ahl al-Bayt (a.s.) and in their performance of religious duties.

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در بخشی از این دیدار همسر شهیده رقیه کریمی از فرزند شهیدش فاطمه زهرا که در آغوش مادر به شهادت رسیده بود یاد کرد و به بیان ویژگی‌ها و فضایل اخلاقی آن بزرگواران درعشق به اهل بیت علیهم‌السلام وعمل به فرائض دینی پرداختند.

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Minab Martyrs' Families Appreciate Pope Leo In a letter addressed to Pope Leo XIV, a group of families of the martyred children of Minab School, while appreciating the pacifist positions of the world's Catholic leader, asked him to be the voice of their voiceless children and, with his enlightenment, not to allow any parent anywhere on this planet to be forced to hum a lullaby at night over the cold stone of their child's grave. [a scan of the letter with names and signatures of the families are attached]

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قدردانی خانواده شهدای میناب از پاپ لئو جمعی از خانواده‌های کودکان شهید مدرسه میناب در نامه‌ای خطاب به پاپ لئو چهاردهم، ضمن قدردانی از مواضع صلح‌طلبانه رهبر کاتولیک‌های جهان، از او خواستند صدای فرزندان بی‌صدایشان باشد و با روشنگری‌های خود اجازه ندهد که هیچ پدر و مادری در هیچ جای این کره خاکی مجبور شود لالایی شبانه را بر سنگ سرد مزار کودک خود زمزمه کند.

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In this video, you will see the true narrative of Minab School from the words of Javad Mogoui. “Mohammad Javad Mogoui,” a documentary maker

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در این ویدئو روایت واقعی مدرسه میناب را از زبان جواد موگویی می‌بینید.

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The New York Times

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Visual Investigations Analysis Suggests School Was Hit Amid U.S. Strikes on Iranian Naval Base The Feb. 28 school strike in Minab, which killed dozens, including children, appears to have been part of an attack on an adjacent naval base in southern Iran, where officials said U.S. forces were operating. The Feb. 28 strike that hit an elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab is the deadliest known episode of civilian casualties since the United States and Israel attacked Iran — and no side has yet taken responsibility. But a body of evidence assembled by The New York Times — including newly released satellite imagery, social media posts and verified videos — indicates the school building was severely damaged by a precision strike that occurred at the same time as attacks on an adjacent naval base operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. And official statements that U.S. forces were attacking naval targets near the Strait of Hormuz, where the I.R.G.C. base is located, suggest they were most likely to have carried out the strike. The White House referred The Times to remarks by the press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, at a news conference on Wednesday. When asked if the United States had conducted the airstrike on the school, she responded, “Not that we know of,” adding that “the Department of War is investigating this matter.” Determining precisely what happened has been impeded by the lack of visible weapons fragments and the inability of outside reporters to reach the scene. The total death toll has yet to be independently confirmed, but Iranian health officials and state media said the strike had killed at least 175 people, many of them children, at the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school. May 14, 2024 March 4, 2026 Satellite images show the extent of the damage wrought by a strike on Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, southern Iran, on Feb. 28. Source: Satellite images by Planet Labs. The New York Times In the several days since the attack, U.S. officials have neither confirmed nor denied responsibility. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that an investigation was underway. Nadav Shoshani, an Israeli military spokesman, told reporters on Sunday that “as of now,” he was not aware of any Israeli military operation “in that area” at the time. U.S. officials in public statements have indicated that on the day in question, U.S. planes were conducting operations in the region where the school was located. ImageAn aerial photo shows rows of small graves being dug by yellow excavators and workmen inside the graves at a cemetery. Excavators and workmen dug nearly 100 graves at a cemetery in Minab before the funeral for children and teachers killed in an airstrike on a school on Feb. 28.Credit...Iran's Foreign Media Department, via Associated Press The elementary school is in the small southern town of Minab, more than 600 miles from Tehran but near the critical waterway of the Strait of Hormuz. Since Saturday is the start of the Iranian workweek, children and teachers were in class at the time of the strike, health officials and Iranian state media said. The strikes were first reported on social media shortly after 11:30 a.m. local time. An analysis of those posts — as well as bystander photos and videos captured within an hour of the strikes — helps corroborate that the school was hit at the same time as the naval base. One video, pinpointed by geolocation experts, showed several large plumes of smoke billowing from the area of the base and the school. Video Images showing extensive damage to the school building were shared by an Iranian rights group soon after, and videos posted by Iranian media and independently verified by The Times showed throngs of people searching through rubble for survivors and victims. Video Strikes carried out during U.S.-Israeli attacks on Minab, Iran, on Feb. 28 caused extensive damage to a school, witness videos verified by The New York Times show. Women wailed as rescue workers searched through rubble for survivors and victims.CreditCredit...IRIB TV, via Agence France Presse Another video was filmed by a motorist passing the entrance of the Revolutionary Guards base. The video showed the Revolutionary Guards’ insignia on two entrances to the compound and signs for a naval medical command. Dark plumes of smoke were rising from where military buildings had been hit, the Times analysis found. Video 0:23 CreditCredit...Iran International News To more fully assess the damage inside the base and what might have caused it, The Times ordered new satellite imagery from the provider Planet Labs. An image taken on Wednesday further corroborated the chronology. The imagery shows that multiple precision strikes hit at least six Revolutionary Guards buildings along with the school. Four buildings inside the naval base were completely destroyed and two other buildings showed impact points at the center of their roofs, consistent with such precision hits. Wes J. Bryant, a national security analyst who served in the U.S. Air Force and was a senior adviser on civilian harm at the Pentagon, reviewed the new satellite images and concluded that all of the buildings, including the school, had been hit with “picture perfect” target strikes. Mr. Bryant, who has been critical of the Trump administration, said the most likely explanation was that the school had been a “target misidentification” — that forces had attacked the site without realizing that it might have had large numbers of civilians inside. Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a news conference on Wednesday that U.S. forces were carrying out strikes at the time along southern Iran. A map he presented showed that an area including Minab had been targeted by strikes in the first 100 hours of the operation, although it did not explicitly identify the town. At the same briefing, General Caine said Israeli forces had predominantly been operating farther north in the country. He also identified several U.S. military operations targeting the southern and southeastern areas of Iran, without mentioning any Israeli activity there. Editors’ Picks Grab Some Seeds. Throw Them at the Soil. You’re a Gardener Now. Does the U.K. Need a Sixth Indoor Ski Slope? One Town in Wales Thinks So. This 4-Week Challenge Will Actually Help You Get Off Your Phone Video CreditCredit...Associated Press Specifically, General Caine said: “Along the southern axis, the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln strike group has continued to provide pressure from the sea along the southeastern side of the coast and has been attriting naval capability all along the strait.” The school at one point was part of the Revolutionary Guards’ naval base, according to satellite images from 2013 reviewed by The Times. Roads had led from other areas of the base to the school building that was struck on Saturday. But by September 2016, satellite images show, the same building was partitioned off and was no longer connected to the base. Publicly available historical satellite imagery shows the structure bears the hallmarks of a school, including a sports field and other recreational areas that were added over time. “Given the U.S.’s intelligence capabilities, they should have known that a school was in the vicinity,” said Beth Van Schaack, a former State Department official who teaches at Stanford University’s Center for Human Rights and International Justice. Video CreditCredit... Some theories have circulated online suggesting that a misfired Iranian missile was responsible for the strike on the school, but The Times and other online analysts debunked the claim, in part by determining that a single errant missile wouldn’t have caused such precise and targeted damage to several buildings across the naval base. U.S. officials say the strike is still under investigation. If it’s confirmed to be an American bomb that hit Shajarah Tayyebeh, one question is likely to be whether the school strike was a mistake or whether it was targeted based on outdated information. Janina Dill, an expert on the laws of war at Oxford University, said attackers were obligated to “verify the status” of what they targeted to ensure that civilians were not being harmed. Failure to do so could violate international law, she added.

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Visual Investigations U.S. Tomahawk Hit Naval Base Beside Iranian School, Video Shows The evidence contradicts President Trump’s claim that Iran was responsible for a strike at the school that killed 175 people, most of them children. A newly released video adds to the evidence that an American missile likely hit an Iranian elementary school where 175 people, many of them children, were reported killed. The video, uploaded on Sunday by Iran’s semiofficial Mehr News Agency and verified by The New York Times, shows a Tomahawk cruise missile striking a naval base beside the school in the town of Minab on Feb. 28. The U.S. military is the only force involved in the conflict that uses Tomahawk missiles. A body of evidence assembled by The Times — including satellite imagery, social media posts and other verified videos — indicates that the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was severely damaged by a precision strike that occurred at the same time as attacks on the naval base. The base is operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. Asked by a reporter from The Times on Saturday if the United States had bombed the school, President Trump said: “No. In my opinion and based on what I’ve seen, that was done by Iran.” He said, “They’re very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, who was standing beside Mr. Trump, said the Pentagon was investigating, “but the only side that targets civilians is Iran.” The video of the strike, which was first reported by the research collective Bellingcat, was independently verified by The Times. We compared features visible in the footage to new satellite imagery captured days after the strikes in Minab. The video was filmed from a construction site opposite the base and shows a worn, dirt path across a grassy area and piles of debris also evident in recent satellite imagery, bolstering its credibility. The video also comports with other verified videos taken in the aftermath of the strikes. A Times analysis of the video shows the missile striking a building described as a medical clinic in the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps base. Plumes of smoke and debris shoot out of the building after it is hit as the distant screams of onlookers are heard. As the camera pans to the right, large plumes of dust and smoke are already billowing from the area around the elementary school, suggesting that it had been struck shortly before the strike on the naval base. This is supported by a timeline of the strikes assembled by The Times that shows the school was hit around the same time as the base. Several other buildings inside the naval base were also hit by precision strikes in the attack, an analysis of satellite imagery showed. Determining precisely what happened has been impeded by the lack of visible weapons fragments and the inability of outside reporters to reach the scene. The Times has identified the weapon seen in the new video as a Tomahawk cruise missile, a weapon that neither the Israeli military nor the Iranian military has. Dozens of Tomahawks have been launched by U.S. Navy warships into Iran since Feb. 28, when the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran began. U.S. Central Command said a video it released of several Tomahawks being launched from Navy ships was filmed on Feb. 28, the day the Iranian base and school were hit. The Defense Department describes Tomahawks as “long-range, highly accurate” guided missiles that can fly about 1,000 miles. They are programmed with a specific flight plan before launch, and the missiles steer themselves to their targets. Each Tomahawk is about 20 feet long and has a wingspan of eight and a half feet, according to the Navy. The most commonly used Tomahawks have warheads that contain the explosive power of about 300 pounds of TNT. Trevor Ball, a former U.S. Army explosive ordnance disposal technician who works with Bellingcat, also identified the missile in the video as a Tomahawk, as did another weapons expert, Chris Cobb-Smith, director of Chiron Resources, a security and logistics agency. Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a news conference on Wednesday that U.S. forces were carrying out strikes in southern Iran at the time the naval base and school were hit. A map he presented showed that an area including Minab, which is near the Strait of Hormuz, had been targeted by strikes in the first 100 hours of the operation, although it did not explicitly identify the town. “Along the southern axis, the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln strike group has continued to provide pressure from the sea along the southeastern side of the coast and has been attriting naval capability all along the strait,” the general said. It is not the only time that General Caine has acknowledged the role Tomahawk missiles played in the early hours of the war. “The first shooters at sea were Tomahawks unleashed by the United States Navy,” he said in a briefing to reporters at the Pentagon on March 2, as the Navy “began to conduct strikes across the southern flank in Iran.” In June, a Navy submarine launched more than two dozen Tomahawks at a nuclear facility in Isfahan, Iran, as part of the 12-day war.

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Visual Investigations Fragments of U.S.-Made Missile Seen in Photos Taken by Iran Near Deadly School Strike Iranian state media posted mangled remnants it claims were from the Feb. 28 attack in Minab. An analysis shows they have the markings of a missile made by American manufacturers Listen · 5:14 min Share full article A wide shot showing the ruins of the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school in the background, with a green table in the foreground. On the table, several mangled pieces of metallic and electronic missile debris are displayed, including a SDL antenna and an actuator. The surrounding area is covered in gray concrete rubble and dust under an overcast sky. A government handout photograph showed weapon remnants displayed on a table near the ruins of the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school, where a precision strike reportedly killed 175 people, mostly children, on Feb. 28. The remnants have been identified by The Times as components of a modern, U.S.-made Tomahawk missile.Credit...IRIB, via Telegram Christiaan TriebertMalachy BrowneJohn Ismay By Christiaan TriebertMalachy Browne and John Ismay March 9, 2026 See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Times on Google Mangled missile fragments purporting to be from the deadly strikes that hit a naval base and elementary school in southern Iran on Feb. 28 bear the markings of an American cruise missile, according to an analysis by The New York Times. Photos of the fragments were posted to Telegram by Iran’s state broadcaster and were characterized as showing “the remains of the American missile that landed on the children of Minab school.” The debris is displayed on a table near the shell of the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school, most of which was destroyed in a precision strike, according to an earlier analysis by The Times. At least 175 people, most of them children, were reportedly killed. Image A medium shot of a metal table holding several large pieces of charred and twisted missile wreckage. On the left, a rectangular mechanical steering actuator sits near a brown plastic crate. To the right, a damaged circuit board is seen, its internal microchips and wiring exposed. Among the weapon remnants displayed, The Times identified U.S.-made components, including a steering mechanism and a satellite antenna.Credit...IRIB, via Telegram While it is not clear where or how the fragments were recovered — or whether they pertain specifically to the school strike — they contain serial numbers and other details that are consistent with how the Department of Defense and its suppliers categorize and label munitions. The remnants appear to be from a U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise missile manufactured in 2014 or later. Evidence analyzed by The New York Times has been mounting that the school was hit during a series of U.S. strikes targeting an adjacent naval base. On Sunday, a video was uploaded by Iran’s semiofficial Mehr News Agency, that The Times and other outlets identified as a Tomahawk cruise missile striking a medical building in the naval base. The Pentagon categorizes the Tomahawk as a precision-guided munition. Video The Defense Department released videos of U.S. Navy warships firing Tomahawks at Iran on Feb. 28, the first day of the strikes, and the day the school was hit, and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in two separate appearances last week that Navy-launched Tomahawks were used to attack targets along Iran’s southern coast during the opening hours of the war. On Saturday, Mr. Trump made the assertion that the school was hit by Iran without offering any proof. On Monday, he again posited that scenario. “Iran also has some Tomahawks,” he said in response to questions from a New York Times reporter at a news conference. “As you know, numerous other nations have Tomahawks. They buy them from us.” Video “The Tomahawk, which is one of the most During a news conference on Monday, President Trump suggested without evidence that Iran possessed Tomahawk missiles. In fact, Iran has no Tomahawks. Any country the U.S. has sold Tomahawks to would have to obtain authorization from the State Department before transferring them to a third party, like Iran. Mr. Trump also added that he was made aware that the Minab incident was under investigation and that whatever the results of that show he was “willing to live with it." Besides the United States, only two countries are known to have Tomahawk missiles: Australia and Britain. Two additional countries have agreed to purchase them — Japan in 2024, and the Netherlands in 2025. In October, Mr. Trump openly mused about providing Tomahawks to Ukraine, but never followed through on the idea. Even if Iran were able to somehow obtain a Tomahawk, it lacks the technical equipment and capabilities that are used to program their flight paths and upload that data into the missile’s onboard computer. Iran would also have to be in possession of a launcher capable of firing a Tomahawk without damaging it. Iran has produced two models of cruise missiles for attacking land-based targets. But both of those weapons have design features that visually set them apart from a Tomahawk, even when viewed from a distance. In the photos of the weapons debris, one remnant is marked SDL ANTENNA, or satellite data link antenna, part of a communications system installed in more modern versions of the Tomahawk. A number unique to Department of Defense contracts indicates that the component was supplied to the U.S. military as part of a 2014 order. The name of Ball Aerospace Technologies, a weapons manufacturer based in Boulder, Colo., that was acquired by BAE in 2024, is imprinted on the part. Detail below Manufacturer’s name Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Contract year 2014 Dept. of Defense code Source: Iran’s state-run IRIB news channel, via Telegram. Kenan Davis/The New York Times Another remnant is stamped with “Made in USA” and bears the name of Globe Motors, an Ohio-based manufacturer. According to the official open-data source for American federal government spending, the company has been awarded millions of dollars in Department of Defense contracts for components, including the actuator motors used to move the guidance fins that steer Tomahawk missiles. Image Credit...IRIB, via Telegram Image Credit...IRIB, via Telegram The photos match remnants documented in Tomahawk missile attacks in previous conflicts, including the Globe Motors component, as well as a circuit board, both photographed in Yemen, and archived by the Open Source Munitions Portal, a database of weapon fragments found in conflict zones. A similar Globe Motors component has also been found in Syria. Trevor Ball, a former U.S. Army explosive ordnance disposal technician who works with the research collective Bellingcat, also identified the components as being part of a Tomahawk missile. He has identified similar missile remnants photographed at other attack sites in Iran since the start of the Israeli-U.S. war.

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Visual Investigations Fragments of U.S.-Made Missile Seen in Photos Taken by Iran Near Deadly School Strike Iranian state media posted mangled remnants it claims were from the Feb. 28 attack in Minab. An analysis shows they have the markings of a missile made by American manufacturers Listen · 5:14 min Share full article A wide shot showing the ruins of the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school in the background, with a green table in the foreground. On the table, several mangled pieces of metallic and electronic missile debris are displayed, including a SDL antenna and an actuator. The surrounding area is covered in gray concrete rubble and dust under an overcast sky. A government handout photograph showed weapon remnants displayed on a table near the ruins of the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school, where a precision strike reportedly killed 175 people, mostly children, on Feb. 28. The remnants have been identified by The Times as components of a modern, U.S.-made Tomahawk missile.Credit...IRIB, via Telegram Christiaan TriebertMalachy BrowneJohn Ismay By Christiaan TriebertMalachy Browne and John Ismay March 9, 2026 See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Times on Google Mangled missile fragments purporting to be from the deadly strikes that hit a naval base and elementary school in southern Iran on Feb. 28 bear the markings of an American cruise missile, according to an analysis by The New York Times. Photos of the fragments were posted to Telegram by Iran’s state broadcaster and were characterized as showing “the remains of the American missile that landed on the children of Minab school.” The debris is displayed on a table near the shell of the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school, most of which was destroyed in a precision strike, according to an earlier analysis by The Times. At least 175 people, most of them children, were reportedly killed. Image A medium shot of a metal table holding several large pieces of charred and twisted missile wreckage. On the left, a rectangular mechanical steering actuator sits near a brown plastic crate. To the right, a damaged circuit board is seen, its internal microchips and wiring exposed. Among the weapon remnants displayed, The Times identified U.S.-made components, including a steering mechanism and a satellite antenna.Credit...IRIB, via Telegram While it is not clear where or how the fragments were recovered — or whether they pertain specifically to the school strike — they contain serial numbers and other details that are consistent with how the Department of Defense and its suppliers categorize and label munitions. The remnants appear to be from a U.S.-made Tomahawk cruise missile manufactured in 2014 or later. Evidence analyzed by The New York Times has been mounting that the school was hit during a series of U.S. strikes targeting an adjacent naval base. On Sunday, a video was uploaded by Iran’s semiofficial Mehr News Agency, that The Times and other outlets identified as a Tomahawk cruise missile striking a medical building in the naval base. The Pentagon categorizes the Tomahawk as a precision-guided munition. Video The Defense Department released videos of U.S. Navy warships firing Tomahawks at Iran on Feb. 28, the first day of the strikes, and the day the school was hit, and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in two separate appearances last week that Navy-launched Tomahawks were used to attack targets along Iran’s southern coast during the opening hours of the war. On Saturday, Mr. Trump made the assertion that the school was hit by Iran without offering any proof. On Monday, he again posited that scenario. “Iran also has some Tomahawks,” he said in response to questions from a New York Times reporter at a news conference. “As you know, numerous other nations have Tomahawks. They buy them from us.” Video “The Tomahawk, which is one of the most During a news conference on Monday, President Trump suggested without evidence that Iran possessed Tomahawk missiles. In fact, Iran has no Tomahawks. Any country the U.S. has sold Tomahawks to would have to obtain authorization from the State Department before transferring them to a third party, like Iran. Mr. Trump also added that he was made aware that the Minab incident was under investigation and that whatever the results of that show he was “willing to live with it." Besides the United States, only two countries are known to have Tomahawk missiles: Australia and Britain. Two additional countries have agreed to purchase them — Japan in 2024, and the Netherlands in 2025. In October, Mr. Trump openly mused about providing Tomahawks to Ukraine, but never followed through on the idea. Even if Iran were able to somehow obtain a Tomahawk, it lacks the technical equipment and capabilities that are used to program their flight paths and upload that data into the missile’s onboard computer. Iran would also have to be in possession of a launcher capable of firing a Tomahawk without damaging it. Iran has produced two models of cruise missiles for attacking land-based targets. But both of those weapons have design features that visually set them apart from a Tomahawk, even when viewed from a distance. In the photos of the weapons debris, one remnant is marked SDL ANTENNA, or satellite data link antenna, part of a communications system installed in more modern versions of the Tomahawk. A number unique to Department of Defense contracts indicates that the component was supplied to the U.S. military as part of a 2014 order. The name of Ball Aerospace Technologies, a weapons manufacturer based in Boulder, Colo., that was acquired by BAE in 2024, is imprinted on the part. Detail below Manufacturer’s name Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Contract year 2014 Dept. of Defense code Source: Iran’s state-run IRIB news channel, via Telegram. Kenan Davis/The New York Times Another remnant is stamped with “Made in USA” and bears the name of Globe Motors, an Ohio-based manufacturer. According to the official open-data source for American federal government spending, the company has been awarded millions of dollars in Department of Defense contracts for components, including the actuator motors used to move the guidance fins that steer Tomahawk missiles. Image Credit...IRIB, via Telegram Image Credit...IRIB, via Telegram The photos match remnants documented in Tomahawk missile attacks in previous conflicts, including the Globe Motors component, as well as a circuit board, both photographed in Yemen, and archived by the Open Source Munitions Portal, a database of weapon fragments found in conflict zones. A similar Globe Motors component has also been found in Syria. Trevor Ball, a former U.S. Army explosive ordnance disposal technician who works with the research collective Bellingcat, also identified the components as being part of a Tomahawk missile. He has identified similar missile remnants photographed at other attack sites in Iran since the start of the Israeli-U.S. war.

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An ongoing military investigation has determined that the United States is responsible for a deadly Tomahawk missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the preliminary findings. The Feb. 28 strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school building was the result of a targeting mistake by the U.S. military, which was conducting strikes on an adjacent Iranian base of which the school building was formerly a part, the preliminary investigation found. Officers at U.S. Central Command created the target coordinates for the strike using outdated data provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, people briefed on the investigation said. Officials emphasized that the findings are preliminary and that there are important unanswered questions about why the outdated information had not been double checked. Striking a school full of children is sure to be recorded as one of the most devastating single military errors in recent decades. Iranian officials have said the death toll was at least 175 people, most of them children. While the overall finding was largely expected — the United States is the only country involved in the conflict that uses Tomahawk missiles — it has already cast a shadow on the U.S. military operation in Iran. President Trump’s attempts to sidestep the blame for the strike have also already complicated the inquiry, leaving officials who have reviewed the findings showing U.S. culpability expressing unease. The people interviewed for this story spoke on the condition of anonymity, citing the sensitive nature of the ongoing investigation and Mr. Trump’s assertion at one point that Iran, not the United States, was responsible. “As The New York Times acknowledges in its own reporting, the investigation is still ongoing,” Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said in a statement. Asked about this article as he left the White House on Wednesday for a trip to promote his economic agenda in Ohio and Kentucky, Mr. Trump replied, “I don’t know about that.” People briefed on the investigation said many questions were yet to be answered around why outdated information was used and who failed to verify the data. Still, the error has not surprised current and former officials. The school, in the town of Minab, is on the same block as buildings used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Navy, a top target of the U.S. military strikes. The site of the school was originally part of the base. Officials briefed on the inquiry said the building was not always used as a school, though it is not clear precisely when the school opened on the site. A visual investigation by The Times showed the building housing the school had been fenced off from the military base between 2013 and 2016. Satellite imagery reviewed by The Times showed that watchtowers that once stood near the building had been removed, three public entrances were opened to the school, ground was cleared and play areas including a sports field were painted on asphalt, and walls were painted blue and pink. The “target coding” provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency, the military intelligence agency that helps develop targets, labeled the school building as a military target when it was passed to Central Command, the military headquarters overseeing the war, according to people briefed on the preliminary findings of the investigation. Investigators do not yet fully understand how the outdated data was sent to Central Command or whether the Defense Intelligence Agency had updated information. Military targeting is very complex and involves multiple agencies. Many officers would have been responsible for verifying that the data is correct, and officers at Central Command are responsible for checking the information they receive from the Defense Intelligence Agency or another intelligence agency. But in a fast-moving situation, like the opening days of a war, information is sometimes not verified. In addition to the Defense Intelligence Agency and Central Command, investigators are examining the work of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, known as the N.G.A., which provides and examines satellite imagery of potential targets. U.S. officials and others emphasized that the investigation was ongoing and there was more to learn, according to people briefed on the inquiry. Officials from Central Command declined to comment. Officials from the Defense Intelligence Agency referred questions to the Pentagon, which declined to comment, saying the incident was under investigation. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency have dozens, even hundreds, of analysts at combatant commands who work with military operational planners and intelligence offices to develop targets. When the Defense Intelligence Agency’s targeting data is older, intelligence officers are expected to use imagery or data from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to update and verify the target. While Mr. Trump has made targeting Iran’s navy a top priority of the war to prevent it from interfering with global commerce in the region, historically it has not been a top priority of the Defense Intelligence Agency, which has focused more on Iran’s missiles and other priorities like China and North Korea. Officials conducting the investigation have examined whether any artificial intelligence models, data crunching programs or other technical intelligence gathering means were to blame for the mistaken targeting of the school, according to U.S. officials. While Claude, the large language model created by Anthropic, does not directly create targets, it works with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Maven Smart System and other software to identify points of interest for military intelligence officers. But officials said the error was unlikely to have been the result of new technology. Instead, they said, it likely reflected a common — but sometimes devastating — human error in wartime. The top line finding of the internal military investigation mirrors a growing body of public evidence that clearly suggests U.S. responsibility. Satellite imagery, social media posts and verified videos assembled by The Times visual investigation team indicate that the school was severely damaged by a precision strike that occurred around the same time as attacks on the naval base. A Times analysis showed that base was hit again within around two hours of the first strikes. A video uploaded Sunday by Iran’s semiofficial Mehr News Agency and verified by The Times also shows a Tomahawk cruise missile striking the naval base beside the school in Minab on Feb. 28. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other administration officials have declined to comment on the strike, other than to say it is under investigation. Despite that, the president has tried at times to put the blame on Iran. “In my opinion, based on what I’ve seen, that was done by Iran,” Mr. Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Saturday, as Mr. Hegseth stood beside him, adding: “They’re very inaccurate, as you know, with their munitions. They have no accuracy whatsoever. It was done by Iran.” On Monday, a Times reporter asked Mr. Trump why he was the only official in his administration blaming Iran. “Because I just don’t know enough about it,” Mr. Trump answered, asserting incorrectly that Iran might also have Tomahawk missiles but adding that he would accept the results of the inquiry into what happened. Although most presidents might refrain from commenting or couch their statements while an investigation is underway, Mr. Trump has not hesitated to weigh in, and has not fully backed down even as evidence has mounted of U.S. culpability. On Tuesday, Ms. Leavitt, the White House press secretary, reiterated that Mr. Trump would accept the findings of the investigation. While the investigation into the school is not complete, the use of old data evoked the biggest misstep of the Kosovo war. In 1999, old, outdated maps and poor tradecraft led the C.I.A. to provide erroneous targeting data to the military, resulting in an airstrike on the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade that killed three Chinese citizens. The C.I.A. wrongly assessed that the building was the headquarters of a Yugoslav arms agency. “Database maintenance is one of the basic elements of our intelligence effort, but it is also one that has suffered in recent years as our work force has been spread thin,” George J. Tenet, the C.I.A. director at the time, told a congressional committee in 1999. Military planners assumed the intelligence agency had verified the site and ordered the strike.

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Was the Attack on an Iranian Primary School a War Crime? Published in: Lawfare Akshaya Kumar Director of Crisis Advocacy AkshayaSays AkshayaSays a899741d-e2bc-406f-b37a-7d78fef6b6eeClick to expand Image The aftermath of the attack on a school in Minab, southern Iran, on February 28, 2026. © 2026 Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters On February 28, on the first day of joint US-Israeli strikes, a primary school in southern Iran was attacked, killing at least 175 people—including many children. Despite President Trump’s immediate denial of responsibility for the incident, the US military’s initial assessment has found that its forces are likely behind the attack on the school in Minab. We don’t yet know if a full investigation, which may take months to reach final conclusions, will confirm these reports. But if it does, the attack on the Minab school may well be one of the largest civilian casualty events attributable to the US military in decades. The Pentagon has already begun an Army Regulation 15-6 investigation, a commander-directed fact-finding inquiry to determine what happened and make recommendations for further action. The inquiry is being led by a general outside the chain of command of those involved and will determine “not if this happened, but how this mistake happened and also confirm that it was indeed civilians that were killed in the strike,” an unnamed official told NPR. When asked about the attack on Minab, administration officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and White House Press Secretary Karoline Levitt have said that the US would not “deliberately target” a school or civilians. Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) has similarly characterized the strike as a mistake, telling reporters that “other countries do that sort of thing intentionally, like Russia. We would never do that intentionally. I’m sorry. I’m just so sorry it happened. It was a mistake.” Framing the attack as a mistake or an accident has rhetorical value—but what are the legal implications of such a characterization? To be sure, there is a difference between deliberate attacks on protected objects and attacks that result in incidental civilian casualties. However, a finding that mistakes were made in the target selection for the Minab attack does not excuse responsibility. If US forces failed to take the necessary measures to avoid civilian casualties, including maintaining updated “no strike” lists, they could be considered in violation of international humanitarian law (IHL)—and, if individuals acted sufficiently recklessly, they may be guilty of a war crime. Consequently, the investigation should also consider whether recent moves by Secretary Hegseth to dismantle the military architecture built to reduce civilian harm played a part in enabling the attack. As the US military’s inquiry goes forward, it is essential for the investigators to treat this incident with the seriousness such recklessness warrants under IHL, and to consider whether it meets the mens rea (criminal intent) standard for war crimes. Evaluating the Minab Attack Under the Precautionary Principle The law of war, sometimes referred to as the law of armed conflict (LOAC) or international humanitarian law, prohibits indiscriminate attacks, including attacks not directed at a specific military objective. For members of the US military, the Defense Department’s Law of War Manual provides “authoritative legal guidance for DoD personnel in implementing the law of war and executing military operations.” In its 2023 update, the manual was amended to enhance its treatment of this issue and now describes “the legal duty to presume that persons or objects are protected from being targeted for attack unless the available information indicates that they are military objectives.” Under IHL, the general rule of precautionary measures—which the US accepts as custom—requires combatants to take “constant care” to spare the civilian population, civilians, and civilian objects. While the US has not ratified the instrument, Articles 57(1) and 57(2)(a) of the First Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions are also understood as customary law and are therefore binding on the United States. These impose on combatants an obligation to do “everything feasible” to verify that an objective is a lawful target and to take “all feasible precautions” to avoid or minimize civilian harm. The Law of War Manual confirms that “[A]n object dedicated to civilian purposes (such as a place of worship, a house or other dwelling, or a civilian school) is a civilian object and may not be made the object of attack, unless the available information evaluated in good faith indicates it is a military objective in the circumstances.” The manual refers to precaution as “affirmative duties” (actions one must take), which it distinguishes from essentially negative duties (or actions one should not take). The standard for what precautions must be taken is one of due regard or diligence, but not an absolute requirement to do everything possible. In 2016, an executive order on pre- and post-strike measures to address civilian casualties directed agencies to “[T]ake feasible precautions in conducting attacks to reduce the likelihood of civilian casualties, such as providing warnings to the civilian population (unless the circumstances do not permit), adjusting the timing of attacks, taking steps to ensure military objectives and civilians are clearly distinguished, and taking other measures appropriate to the circumstances.” Articles 57(1) and 57(2) place the additional obligation on commanders to avoid—or at least minimize—civilian harm through activities to verify targets and avoid civilian harm well in advance of deciding, planning, or launching an attack. Some commentators have noted that “[W]hat might be a feasible measure for a very high-level commander to take might be well beyond the authority of a lower-level commander. For that reason, the obligation to obtain information in advance of any attack, when applied correctly, can run up the chain of command to potentially the highest levels.” Many countries, including Australia, Côte d’Ivoire, the Netherlands, and France, have interpreted these obligations to mean that an attack requires accurate intelligence about the operational environment, including the location of protected objects and patterns of life of civilian populations, before mounting an attack. The Law of War Manual, in contrast, simply states that “persons using force must discriminate between legitimate and illegitimate objects of attack in good faith based on the information available to them at the time.” In practice, and in line with the duty to take “constant care,” the US military has often worked in advance of attacks to do pattern-of-life analysis and create lists of protected objects not to strike, which it refers to as “no strike” lists. Applying the precautionary principle to the attack on the Iranian school does not bode well for the United States. A group of UN experts found “the victims were mainly girls aged between 7 and 12, and large parts of the school building were destroyed while classes were underway[,]” concluding that “an attack on a functioning school during class hours raises the most serious concerns under international law and must be urgently, independently, and effectively investigated, with accountability for any violations.” The New York Times reported that the government’s preliminary investigation found that US Central Command officers created the target coordinates for the Minab attack using outdated data provided by the US Defense Intelligence Agency. While the building that housed the school was originally part of a base belonging to a naval brigade in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), multiple open-source investigators have been able to confirm that the property was walled off from the base over a decade ago. High-resolution satellite imagery reviewed by Human Rights Watch showed that, between February and September 2016, a wall was built to separate the school from the rest of the compound. Separately, Reuters found years of publicly available and easily discoverable online activity about the primary school, which calls into question US military vetting procedures and review of strike locations. Photos on the school website also showed girls dressed in uniforms. Available evidence suggests the school was hit by deliberate strikes on most buildings in the compound rather than incidental damage as a part of an attack on another target. Low-resolution satellite imagery from March 2 shows at least seven impact sites within the Revolutionary Guard compound, which shared a wall with the school, including a clear impact on the roof of a medical clinic, another protected object. Some of the impacts visible in satellite imagery reviewed by Human Rights Watch appear circular and centered on the middle of the targeted buildings. The US military’s apparent failure to update their target folders to include the most fundamental aspects of the target’s perimeter and pattern of life around the compound in Minab raises important questions for a war crime investigation. It should be noted that while the failure to take all feasible precautions is a violation of the laws of war, it is not considered a “grave breach” and so is not automatically considered a war crime in and of itself. While all enumerated “grave breaches” are war crimes, it is possible for other “serious violations” to be found to be a war crime too. For the Minab attack to be characterized as a war crime, a court would need to find both that it was committed with intent (either willful or reckless) and that it infringes a rule protecting important values and involves grave consequences for the victim. So the issue for an investigation is whether the failure to take all feasible precautions, resulting in an indiscriminate attack causing harm to civilians and civilian objects, demonstrated recklessness sufficient to establish the mens rea requirement used to evaluate if conduct is a war crime. Recklessness as the Requisite Intent to Commit a War Crime Requiring updating satellite imagery on a regular frequency would be a step any reasonable commander would take as a feasible precaution to prevent forces from having to operate blindly in situations where they do not have the time to collect and analyze information. This raises a number of questions: If the inquiry shows US forces did not take such steps prior to launching the February 28 attack, did they recklessly disregard a substantial and unjustifiable risk that unnecessary harm would result from their decision? Given the amount of public information available about the school, was it placed on a “no strike” list prepared prior to the onset of hostilities? (If no list was prepared for the town of Minab, it may have been reckless to strike, particularly on a Saturday, which is known to be a school day in Iran.) If the school was on a “no strike” list, why was the list not referenced prior to targeting Minab? The answers to these questions must be sought in any investigation to determine if the individuals involved were sufficiently reckless to meet the mens rea standard for war crimes. The laws of war define war crimes as serious violations of the laws of war committed by individuals with criminal intent. The International Committee of the Red Cross, in its Customary International Humanitarian Law Study, spells out that war crimes must be committed willfully—that is, either intentionally or recklessly. There isn’t complete agreement among scholars and legal experts over whether recklessness is sufficient to establish mens rea. But Antonio Cassese, the acclaimed Italian jurist writing in 1999, found “current international law must be taken to allow for recklessness” to be included among the indicators for intent to commit a war crime. He explained, “[F]or example, it is admissible to convict a person who, when shelling a town, takes a high and unjustifiable risk that civilians will be killed — without, however, intending, that they be killed — with the result that the civilians are, in fact, thereby killed.” Additionally, international fact-finding missions and commissions of inquiry have consistently referred to recklessness as an element in their legal analysis of the mental intent needed to find that someone is responsible for war crimes. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has as well. In its 1998 decision on Delalić, the ICTY determined that while “it is clear that some form of intention is required … this intention may be inferred from the circumstances, whether one approaches the issue from the perspective of the foreseeability of death as a consequence of the acts of the accused, or the taking of an excessive risk which demonstrates recklessness.” In 2003, the ICTY Galić trial chamber reinforced the standard in which a “perpetrator who recklessly attacks civilians acts willfully.” Speaking during a 2004 guest lecture to the International Criminal Court, W.J. Fenrick, a Canadian expert on international law and former prosecutor at the ICTY, said, “[T]he ICTY use[s] ‘wilful’ as our mental element as that is the language of the Additional Protocols and ‘wilful’ incorporates both intention and a high degree of recklessness.” However, for the US military, “willfully” generally means that the act was intentional or deliberate; that is, those responsible had to know what they were doing and intended the conduct or result. Under this approach, recklessness alone would be insufficient to establish mens rea. Further, the Law of War Manual notes that “mere poor military judgment (such as mistakes or accidents in conducting attacks that result in civilian casualties) are not by themselves “a violation of the obligation to take precautions.” But the narrower interpretation of willfulness currently prevailing within the US military justice system would not shield individuals potentially responsible for war crimes from international criminal responsibility. Indeed, Yale Law School professor and former Defense Department special counsel Oona Hathaway has argued, alongside Columbia University’s Azmat Khan, that “mistakes” are often the result of identifiable and predictable systemic failures rather than unpredictable one-off events. Khan and Hathaway find evidence that international law would consider these failures “war crimes.” Over 100 US-based international law experts, including Hathaway, Harold Koh, and Michael Schmitt, issued a joint statement on April 2 that determined that “the strike likely violates international humanitarian law, and if evidence is found that those responsible were reckless, it could also be a war crime.” The timing of the attack—a school day—and the failure to check whether the targeting information was up to date raise questions about the efforts taken to avoid civilian harm, and whether the individuals involved acted in a sufficiently reckless fashion to meet the criminal intent requirement of a war crime. As things stand, however, it’s unclear if the investigators at the Department of Defense will even reach this question. As retired judge advocate general Brian Cox explains, ordinarily in the US system, persons subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) are “charged with a specific violation of the UCMJ rather than a violation of the law of war.” The UCMJ does not delineate any specific war crimes, a gap that some scholars have dubbed a “sinister war crimes accountability deficit” and emphasized the need to reform. Former military lawyers and criminal law professors Geoffrey S. Corn and Rachel E. VanLandingham elaborate: “In the US military system, the same generic murder offense used to convict a service member of murdering his or her spouse in downtown Los Angeles is used to prosecute a service member for killing a prisoner of war in US custody in Iraq. This approach fails to capture the full harm of the war crime, thereby degrading the law’s retributive, deterrent, and international signaling effects.” Even Cox, who generally is skeptical that mistaken strikes are unlawful, has acknowledged that “attempting to contort the elements for existing UCMJ offenses, such as murder and involuntary manslaughter, to apply to a targeting context is the prosecutorial equivalent of forcing a square peg through a round hole.” Indeed, past investigations into strikes by the US military have failed to even consider the question of war crimes. A review of the United States’s track record in responding to similar incidents is not encouraging. From Belgrade in 1999 to Baghuz in 2019, administrative inquiries have focused on rules of engagement without investigating incidents as possible war crimes. In addition to making ex gratia payments, which don’t admit wrongdoing or seek to meet international standards for reparation or adequate compensation, the Defense Department has disciplined personnel in only a few cases. While then-President Obama called Doctors without Borders to personally express regret for a 2015 US military strike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, minimal disciplinary measures were imposed on US personnel involved. The US military found that its repeated strikes on that facility were not war crimes, arguing that while the “investigation concluded that certain personnel failed to comply with the rules of engagement in the law of armed conflict,” this did not rise to the level of war crime, since “the label ‘war crimes’ is typically reserved for intentional acts—intentional targeting [of] civilians or intentionally targeting protected objects or locations.” Similarly, although the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria found that the “United States forces failed to take all feasible precautions to avoid or minimize incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, and damage to civilian objects, in violation of international humanitarian law” by striking a mosque in Syria and killing 38 people—including 5 children—the US stopped short of finding fault. In the present case, with its administrative inquiry the US has taken a step toward understanding the circumstances around the attack on Minab. But a government responsible for violating the laws of war is obligated to make full reparation for the loss, including compensation, rehabilitation, and other appropriate redress. Governments also bear state responsibility to appropriately prosecute violations of international law, including war crimes, committed by their own forces. A 15-6 investigation on its own won’t meet these requirements. Systematic Recklessness Beyond the particular facts of the Minab case, there may be a larger, more systemic pattern of recklessness that enabled the attack—and that could enable future ones. Since the start of the Trump administration’s second term, Secretary Hegseth has publicly expressed skepticism about the value of constraints on warfighters and systematically weakened the US domestic protections meant to ensure compliance with the laws of armed conflict. In September 2025, Hegseth stood in the Oval Office and announced a focus on “maximum lethality, not tepid legality.” In a speech addressing general and flag officers at Quantico around the same time, Hegseth announced the end of the “woke” military, dismissing “stupid” and “overbearing rules of engagement,” suggesting that he intended to “untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt and kill the enemies of our country.” In recent days, Hegseth has also publicly threatened that “no quarter” would be given to Iranians, while ordering or declaring that no prisoners be taken (a war crime). This rhetoric has been accompanied by an effort to dismantle the structures and processes that had previously been put in place to help promote greater adherence to the law of armed conflict. This marks a shift away from prior efforts to improve targeting and mitigate civilian harm, which at least one former Pentagon staff member has speculated could have contributed to the authorization of the attack on Minab. The US military under Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin had committed to further improved processes including the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response (CHMR) initiative, which was formalized through a 2022 action plan and a 2023 Defense Department instruction. At the time, Alexus Grynkewich, then a lieutenant general in the Air Force and now the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, described it as a “watershed moment—the world’s superpower has committed to a policy that might limit military options for the sake of humanity.” In 2023, Congress codified the creation and maintenance of a Civilian Protection Center of Excellence. But in July 2025, retired military leaders spoke out to express concerns about planned cuts to these functions. A recent investigation by ProPublica found that 90 percent of the civilian harm mitigation teams established previously have been dismantled under Hegseth’s command. Hegseth has also removed senior military lawyers without publicly citing misconduct, and replaced the Army, Navy, and Air Force judge advocates general, undermining legal oversight of combat operations. Hegseth abolished “civilian environment teams” and other mechanisms intended to limit harm. If the attack on Minab relied on outdated or incomplete information about the site or if other changes in the targeting process resulted in less oversight of strikes, it suggests a breakdown in those safeguards—and further evidence of recklessness. There is growing interest from lawmakers around this question. More than 120 Democratic members of Congress have asked if the Defense Department will investigate the Minab school attack as a possible war crime. Forty-six Democratic senators have written separately to Hegseth asking, “Are you complying with rules to prevent the commission of war crimes?” Although Hegseth’s own role is still an open question in this case, the scale of civilian harm in Minab is undeniable. Even in the context of a government-imposed internet shutdown that makes independent research in Iran challenging, the information emerging about the attack on the school in Minab is heartbreaking. Rows of graves are visible in imagery of the local cemetery. An image of a bespectacled young boy waving goodbye to his mother for the last time has gone viral. Researchers at Human Rights Watch reviewed lists with dozens of names of children and adults reportedly killed in the attack, and were able to immediately match some names with ages and other identifying information on body bags and caskets. Excusing the Minab attack as a mistake without further investigation would be a disservice to the victims and their families. In the meantime, reinstating the civilian harm reduction efforts that Secretary Hegseth has dismantled might help avoid another tragedy.

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Pentagon probe points to U.S. missile hitting Iranian school Updated March 11, 20265:07 PM ET 3-Minute Listen Transcript Download LEILA FADEL, HOST: A preliminary assessment by the Pentagon has determined the U.S. is at fault for a missile strike on a school in Iran on the first day of the war. The attack killed at least 165 civilians, mostly children, according to Iranian officials. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: We have a description of the U.S. investigation findings from a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity because they're not authorized to speak publicly. NPR's Kat Lonsdorf is here. Kat, good morning. KAT LONSDORF, BYLINE: Hey. Good morning. INSKEEP: What is this investigation? LONSDORF: So now the Pentagon has opened what's called a 15-6 investigation to determine not if the U.S. did this, but how the mistake happened, and also confirmed that it was indeed civilians who were killed. That's expected to take months. In a statement, the White House reiterated to NPR that the investigation is ongoing and, quote, "the United States does not target civilians." But if this is all confirmed, Steve, it would make this one of the highest, if not the highest, number of civilians killed by the U.S. in a single incident in 35 years. INSKEEP: Granting that they're still investigating, how could this have happened? LONSDORF: Well, NPR was the first to report that the strike on the school was part of a larger precision strike on a compound of buildings and was likely the result of outdated intelligence. Our colleague Geoff Brumfiel reported that a previous map of targets in Iran showed that the building housing the school was once part of an Iranian Revolutionary Guard naval base in the southern city of Minab. But somewhere between 2013 and 2016, the school was separated and walled off from that base, according to satellite imagery that we've reviewed. INSKEEP: Ah. It just makes you cringe to think about it. LONSDORF: Yeah. INSKEEP: And then there's these videos, which appear to show a Tomahawk missile hitting the compound. What do you learn from that? LONSDORF: Yeah. Iran also published images of parts of the missile it says struck the school. Those appear to have come from a Tomahawk as well. Tomahawks are U.S.-made missiles and only a handful of countries, including the U.S., use them. A few days ago, President Trump suggested the Tomahawks are, quote, "generic" and may have come from Iran. That's not possible. Several munitions experts we talked to have said the U.S. is the only actor in this war using Tomahawk missiles. INSKEEP: Kat, what does it mean that last year sometime, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth made a cut - major cuts to an office that was in charge of what they call civilian harm... LONSDORF: Yeah. INSKEEP: ...Mitigation - trying to avoid civilian casualties? LONSDORF: Yeah. I mean, Steve, as you know, there have unfortunately been many other civilian casualty incidents in previous wars and administrations. And those are hopefully mistakes that the U.S. can learn from. A few years ago, Congress mandated an office in the Pentagon to do just that. But shortly after Hegseth took office, he cut it by about 90%. He also fired a lot of military lawyers. Here's what Oona Hathaway, a professor of international law at Yale Law School, told me. OONA HATHAWAY: At every level, civilian protection has been deprioritized. But a modern army has to fight according to the law, and the law requires that you protect civilians. LONSDORF: That same U.S. official who told us about the preliminary assessment also told NPR that now all of U.S. Central Command has only one staffer assigned to civilian casualty mitigation operations. We reached out to the Pentagon about this, but didn't get a response. And I want to be clear, Steve. We can't say that this strike was a direct result of these cuts. Civilians are, unfortunately, always the worst and most affected in modern war. INSKEEP: Yeah. And in recent wars, U.S. military officials felt that mitigating civilian casualties was an important part of the war because there's an information war - a war for hearts and minds. You don't want to lose people's support. NPR's Kat Lonsdorf, thanks so much. LONSDORF: Thank you.

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Bombed Iranian girls school had vivid website and yearslong online presence The Shajareh Tayyebeh School website posted colorful drawings created by the students and was filled with photos of children. School website/Wayback Machine. Photo collage by John Emerson/REUTERS The Shajareh Tayyebeh School was adjacent to an Iranian military compound and was among at least seven buildings struck February 28. Its online presence included a local business listing and a website that showed girls at work and play. Iranian officials have said students made up most of the 175 people killed that day in Minab. By James Pearson and Ryan McNeill March 12, 20265:59 PM GMT+1Updated March 12, 2026 LONDON - An Iranian girls school that took a direct hit on the first day of the war had a yearslong online presence, including dozens of photos of the children and their activities, before it was bombed along with at least six other buildings in an adjacent military compound, a Reuters investigation found. The school’s online activity calls into question how the American military vets and reviews strike locations. Reuters first reported investigators at the Defense Department believe U.S. forces were likely responsible for the bombing, and new indications emerged that the U.S. may have relied upon outdated targeting data. Separated from the base by a wall painted with bright murals, the Shajareh Tayyebeh School was the northernmost building hit on February 28. The building was destroyed during the barrage, and 150 students were killed, according to Iran's ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, Ali Bahreini. Reuters has not independently confirmed the death toll, which the Iranian Red Crescent said reached 175. Advertisement · Scroll to continue The colored walls visible from satellite imagery as early as 2018 can be seen in a version of the school’s website archived in 2025, whose photos showed girls dressed in identical pink and white in class and at play. The school was also tagged in a local business listing, Reuters found. And multiple satellite images from the months leading up to the strike provide other indications it was a school, including playground markings. The cluster of buildings appeared to have been struck by a series of munitions, including at least one American Tomahawk cruise missile, according to an analysis of satellite imagery data, photos and video of the strikes and their aftermath. Video of the moment of impact by the Tomahawk on the buildings nearby showed a plume of smoke rising in the background. Satellite images from after the attack showed signs of at least seven distinct explosions along a roughly 325-meter axis, including the destroyed school, a rooftop punctured by a gaping hole, and a flattened building. A satellite image, annotated by Reuters, shows the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' school in Minab and other structures damaged after being struck on the war’s first day. A satellite image, annotated by Reuters, shows the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab and other structures damaged after being struck on the war’s first day. 2026 Planet Labs PBC/Handout via REUTERS U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday that Iran might have Tomahawks, although he did not explain how, and no U.S. officials have offered evidence of that claim. The Pentagon said the strike is under investigation but declined to comment on the school’s online presence, the satellite imagery or on the decision to target the Minab compound. Advertisement · Scroll to continue Two sources, both speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters outdated targeting data may have been to blame, which was first reported by the New York Times. Mark Cancian, a retired U.S. Marine officer and defense expert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies think tank, said the U.S. Central Command would have had a longstanding list of potential targets in case of conflict with Iran. “The lesson learned here would be to review the target lists periodically and more closely,” he said. The girls school in Minab, shortly after the strike People search through the debris of the girls school in Minab struck on February 28, the first day of the war. Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS The school and at least six buildings in the adjacent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps compound were the only places struck within 5 kilometers between February 28 and March 2, Reuters found. This suggests they were specifically targeted, rather than struck as part of a broad bombing campaign on the southern city. Located near the Strait of Hormuz and surrounded by farm fields, Minab is home to one of the IRGC's largest missile bases, according to state media. The Reuters analysis included changes detected between those dates by satellites, which even over a large area can measure shifts from upheavals such as destroyed buildings, fire, flooding or landslides. In the days after the strike, another place in Minab showed major disturbance in the analysis: the town cemetery. There, on March 2, the dead children were buried, creating row after row of 20 tidy rectangular holes in the earth. Advertisement · Scroll to continue Graves are being prepared for the victims following a reported strike on a school in Minab Graves were prepared for the victims in Minab on March 2. Iranian Foreign Media Department/WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Handout via REUTERS THE SCHOOL The Shajareh Tayyebeh School in Minab was one of 59 schools within the Persian Gulf Martyrs' Cultural Educational Institute, a network affiliated with the IRGC, the military force that reports to Iran's supreme leader, according to archived copies of the network’s website. The school’s website includes photos of students gathered in the yard, which matched verified videos outside the building after the strike. A photo of an assignment from the school's website shows a maze that leads to the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Marked at the top: A photo of an assignment from the school's website shows a maze that leads to the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Marked at the top: "Ali and Fatemeh want to go see their great leader. If you can, guide the sister and her little brother." School website/Wayback Machine Some of the schools in that network, including the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls school and its equivalent boys school in Minab, listed their addresses as being in or adjacent to IRGC-controlled locations, according to the archived website. In this video filmed from a vehicle driving southwest down Resalat Boulevard uploaded to YouTube in May 2022 and verified by Reuters, the front of the base and its northeastern and southwestern observation towers are visible from the street. Iran Tour/YouTube The address for the Minab girls school is specifically listed as “Resalat Blvd, Alley No. 9, behind Asef Brigade.” The girls school is also included in a local business listing website that shows a photo of the alley with a sign clearly marked “Girls School.” The boys school seems to share the address and be located on the side of the building that did not collapse. A comparison of post-strike images with archived photos of boys studying appears to show debris scattered on desks where students had once studied. A comparison of post-strike images with archived photos of the boys school, which seemed to be on the side of the building that did not collapse, showed debris scattered on desks where students had once studied. A photo from the boys school website and a video from the aftermath of the strike show similar posters on the classroom wall. Boys school website/Telegram According to the London-based news website IranWire, the Asef Brigade is a missile unit based in Minab, under the command of the IRGC navy. Advertisement · Scroll to continue Satellite imagery from mid-2015 shows the building was walled off from the rest of the base and appears to have operated as a school since at least 2018, when the painted murals are first visible on its outer walls. A November 26, 2015 satellite image, annotated by Reuters, shows the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, Hormozgan Province, Iran A November 26, 2015, satellite image, annotated by Reuters, shows the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in Minab, Hormozgan Province, Iran. 2026 Airbus DS/Handout via REUTERS THE STRIKE In the early days of the war, the United States released photos and videos showcasing its use of Tomahawks in Iran, including on the war’s first day, February 28, when the school was struck. In three photos and a video from that day that were taken by the U.S. Navy, a Tomahawk missile launches from the deck of the USS Spruance, a guided-missile destroyer. The missiles are U.S.-made and can be launched from surface ships or submarines. sound Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles fired from the Ashleigh-Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Spruance on February 28, 2026. U.S. Central Command Public Affairs On Sunday, the semi-official Mehr news agency published a video showing the moment one of the buildings within the IRGC compound was hit. According to local media, the attack happened around 10:45 a.m. local time. Before impact, smoke from what appears to be a previous attack on the compound is already visible in the video. Reuters verified the visual as taken on February 28 from videos of the aftermath and satellite imagery of intact buildings taken on the morning of the strike. Reuters shared the video of the attack with five munitions experts. Four of the experts said the missile was likely a Tomahawk; one thought it was a glide bomb. The moment a missile hit the IRGC compound was recorded by a witness and shared online about a week after the attack. Mehr News/REUTERS Joost Oliemans, a Netherlands-based conflict analyst who specializes in military equipment, concluded the compound was hit by a U.S. Tomahawk, saying that while a few countries had similar missiles, neither Israel nor Iran were among them. Joseph Dempsey, a military analyst with London's International Institute for Strategic Studies, also identified it as a type of Tomahawk, although he did not rule out the possibility of a previously unknown missile. In a March 4 press conference at the Pentagon, the U.S. military shared a map of locations it had struck in Iran. The map did not list Minab by name, but one of the strikes was marked with a red diamond where the city is located. Photo of a map shared by the U.S. military in a March 4 press conference at the Pentagon. A photo of a map shared by the U.S. military in a March 4 press conference at the Pentagon. The location of Minab was added by Reuters. REUTERS/Idrees Ali On Monday, the state-controlled Tehran Times newspaper published photos of what it said were the "remnants of an American missile that struck an elementary school in Minab.” At the request of Reuters, Hany Farid, a digital forensics and computer science professor for the University of California at Berkeley, analyzed the images and found no evidence of manipulation or AI generation. Two of those missile parts, laid out on a desk and photographed in front of the remains of the school, match recovered parts of other Tomahawk missiles shared by Houthi militants in 2025 and documented by the Open Source Munitions Portal NGO. Reuters was unable to independently confirm if the missile fragments were found at the site of the school strike or whether the base connected to the school was still being used by the IRGC when the compound came under repeated strikes on February 28. But at the school there was activity as recently as December 2025. Satellite imagery showed what appeared to be people gathered in the schoolyard on a cloudless day. The school motto, as posted on its website: “Today I learn; tomorrow we build.” A satellite image, annotated by Reuters, shows the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' school nearly three months before it was struck A satellite image, annotated by Reuters, shows the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' school December 1, 2025, nearly three months before it was struck. 2026 Vantor/Handout via REUTERS Reporting by James Pearson and Ryan McNeill in London. Additional reporting by Parisa Hafezi, Edward James Carron, Stephanie Burnett and Idrees Ali. Design by John Emerson. Edited by Sarah Cahlan and Lori Hinnant.

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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali March 6, 20263:02 AM GMT+1Updated March 10, 2026 Summary Scores were killed at girls' school in southern Iran Cabinet officials say US would never target civilians School located by Guards Corp facility, website shows March 5 (Reuters) - (This March 5 story has been republished to fix an image caption, with no changes to text) U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation, ‌two U.S. officials told Reuters. The Reuters Iran Briefing newsletter keeps you informed with the latest developments and analysis of the Iran war. Sign up here. Reuters was unable to determine more details about the investigation, including what evidence contributed to the tentative assessment, what type of munition was used, who was responsible or why the U.S. might have struck the school. Advertisement · Scroll to continue U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday acknowledged the U.S. military was investigating the incident. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military matters, did not rule out the possibility that new evidence could emerge that absolves the U.S. of responsibility and points to another responsible party in the incident. Reuters could not determine how much longer the investigation would last or what evidence U.S. investigators are seeking before the assessment can be completed. The girls' school ⁠in Minab, in southern Iran, was hit on Saturday during the first day of U.S. and Israeli attacks on the country. Iran's ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, Ali Bahreini, said the strike killed 150 students. Reuters could not independently confirm the death toll. Advertisement · Scroll to continue According to archived copies of the school's official website, the school is adjacent to a compound operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the military force that reports to Iran's supreme leader. The Pentagon referred questions from Reuters to the U.S. military’s Central Command, whose spokesperson, Captain Timothy Hawkins, said: “It would be inappropriate to comment given the incident is under investigation.” The White House did not directly comment on the investigation, but press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement to Reuters, “While the Department of War is currently investigating this matter, the Iranian regime targets civilians and children, not the United States of America.” Asked about the incident during a news briefing on Wednesday, Hegseth said: “We’re investigating that. We, of course, never target civilian targets. But we’re taking a look and investigating that.” Item 1 of 4 A satellite image, annotated by Reuters, shows the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' school and other structures damaged after being struck, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Minab, Hormozgan Province, Iran March 4, 2026. 2026 Planet Labs PBC/Handout via REUTERS [1/4]A satellite image, annotated by Reuters, shows the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' school and other structures damaged after being struck, amid the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, in Minab, Hormozgan Province, Iran March 4, 2026. 2026 Planet Labs PBC/Handout via REUTERS Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters on Monday that the United States would not deliberately target a ‌school. "The Department ⁠of War would be investigating that if that was our strike, and I would refer your question to them," Rubio said. SATELLITE IMAGES SUGGEST STRIKES FROM AIR Israeli and U.S. forces have until now divided their attacks in Iran both geographically and by target type, a senior Israeli official and a source with direct knowledge of the joint planning said. While Israel was striking missile launch sites in western Iran, the United States was attacking such targets, as well as naval ones, in the south. Reuters shared satellite imagery and visuals of the aftermath of the Minab attack with N.R. Jenzen-Jones, director of Armament Research Services, a munitions ⁠research consultancy. "Taken together, the satellite imagery and available videos suggest the school and adjacent IRGC compound were hit by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes with explosive munitions, most likely air-delivered types," Jenzen-Jones wrote in an email. He cautioned that it is difficult to be definitive about the type of munitions used in the ongoing conflict and said that to determine responsibility investigators would generally attempt to review munition remnants. The U.N. human ⁠rights office, without saying who it believed was responsible for the strike, called on Tuesday for an investigation. "The onus is on the forces that carried out the attack to investigate it," U.N. human rights office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told a press briefing in Geneva. Images of the girls' funeral on Tuesday were shown on Iranian state television. Their small coffins were draped with Iranian flags ⁠and passed from a truck across a large crowd towards the grave site. Deliberately attacking a school or hospital or any other civilian structure would likely be a war crime under international humanitarian law. If a U.S. role were to be confirmed, the strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East.

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The elementary school called with an urgent message about her son. “The war had started,” she was told. Come pick him up. The mother, who asked not to be identified, said she had only just dropped the boy off and couldn’t leave immediately since she had patients to see in her job as a midwife. Then the earth shook. And she ran. It was too late. Three airstrikes had hit Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab in southern Iran, killing 168 people, according to the town’s mayor. Many of them were children. One of them was her son. “By the time we arrived, the entire school had collapsed on top of the children,” the mother told NBC News. “People were pulling out children’s arms and legs. People were pulling out severed heads.” The United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran on February 28, with Israel's public broadcaster reporting that supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been targeted, as the Islamic republic retaliated with barrages of missiles at Gulf states and Israel. The site of a strike on an elementary school in Minab, in Iran's southern Hormozgan province, on Saturday.Ali Najafi / AFP - Getty Images Four days later, grief and outrage grew over the school deaths, which have become a flash point for opposition to the U.S. and Israeli strikes. There are also anger and uncertainty over the fact that no one has admitted responsibility for the most publicized civilian casualties since the start of the war. A large crowd gathered to bury the children Tuesday, video and images published by state media show. There is a mass burial with rows and rows of what appear to be individual graves dug side by side. Recommended The U.S. and Israel have since hit thousands of targets in the country, killing the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, among nearly 800 other people, according to the Iranian Red Crescent Society. Tehran is striking back, hitting Israel and several other countries in the region allied with the U.S., including the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman and Bahrain. Six U.S. service members were among those killed in its counterassault, as well as 11 people in Israel, while dozens have been killed in Israeli strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The United States and Israel launched strikes against Iran on February 28, sparking fears of regional war with explosions reported across the Middle East as the Islamic republic retaliated with barrages of missiles. Smoke rising from an elementary school in Minab after an airstrike.Alex Mita / IRIB TV via AFP - Getty Images Asked about the deaths Monday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters that U.S. forces “would not deliberately target a school,” adding that the Defense Department “would be investigating that if that was our strike.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday: “All that I know is that we’re investigating that. Of course, we never target civilians, but we’re taking a look at investigating that.” Over the weekend, U.S. Central Command said it was looking into reports of civilian deaths. The Israeli military has so far declined to comment. Aftermath of an Israel strike on a school in Minab Civilians and rescue forces in the rubble after a strike on a school in Minab, Iran, on Saturday.Abbas Zakeri / Mehr News / WANA via Reuters Both an official with the education ministry in Minab and the mother who spoke to NBC News said the school facility was built on a Revolutionary Guard base. The base closed around 15 years ago, and all military personnel were moved, although the school stayed open, they said. Satellite imagery from 2011 appears to show the building as part of the same compound, before it was fenced off later. Aftermath of an Israel strike on a school in Minab The aftermath of the strike Saturday.Abbas Zakeri / Mehr News via Reuters Ali Farhadi, spokesperson for Iran’s Education Ministry, said Sunday that three attacks struck the school, which he said had 264 students. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Saturday on X that the school was “bombed in broad daylight, when packed with young pupils.” “These crimes against the Iranian People will not go unanswered,” he warned.

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US may have struck Iranian girls' school after using outdated targeting data, sources say By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart March 11, 20268:18 PM GMT+1Updated March 11, 2026 Item 1 of 3 People and rescue forces work following a reported strike on a school in Minab, Iran, February 28, 2026. Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS [1/3]People and rescue forces work following a reported strike on a school in Minab, Iran, February 28, 2026. Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab Summary Reuters first reported that strike was likely carried out by U.S. military Pentagon has said matter still under investigation Incident among the worst cases of civilian casualties in recent decades involving U.S. WASHINGTON, March 11 (Reuters) - A strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children may be the ‌result of U.S. use of outdated targeting data, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday, providing new details about what would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts. Reuters first reported on Thursday that an ongoing, internal U.S. military investigation showed U.S. forces were likely responsible for the strike on the girls' school in Minab. Video surfaced that experts say appears to show a U.S. Tomahawk missile striking ⁠the area. But exactly how the tragedy unfolded has remained unclear and the Pentagon has declined comment, saying the investigation remains ongoing. The strike, during the first day of U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran, killed 150 students, according to Iran's ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva, Ali Bahreini. According to archived copies of the school's official website, the school is adjacent to a compound operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the military force that reports to Iran's supreme leader. One of the sources, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said officials responsible for creating targeting packages appeared to have used out-of-date intelligence. The second source confirmed that out-of-date intelligence appears to have been used. Advertisement · Scroll to continue In response to a request for ‌comment, ⁠the Pentagon said that "the incident is under investigation." The possible use of outdated targeting data was first reported by the New York Times earlier on Wednesday. It is unclear how old data ended up being used for the strike and what, if any other factors, might be responsible for the error. The investigation is still ongoing and it is not clear when a final conclusion will be ⁠reached. Since Reuters' report on the U.S. likely being responsible for the strike, U.S. President Donald Trump has claimed without evidence that Iran was responsible. But since then, he has said he does not know enough about the strike, that an investigation is ongoing and ⁠that he will accept the results of the inquiry. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other U.S. officials have stressed that the United States would not deliberately target civilians. Deliberately attacking a school or hospital or any other civilian structure would ⁠likely be a war crime under international humanitarian law. Images of the girls' funeral were shown on Iranian state television last week. Their small coffins were draped with Iranian flags and passed from a truck across a large crowd towards the grave site.

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US/Israel: Investigate Iran School Attack as a War Crime Scores of Civilians, Including Children, Reportedly Killed; Full Investigation Needed A February 28, 2026 attack on a primary school in southern Iran was an unlawful attack that reportedly killed scores of civilians, including schoolchildren. The laws of war prohibit attacks if the anticipated harm to civilians and civilian objects is disproportionate compared to the expected military gain from the attack. The United States and Israel should immediately assess their responsibility for this attack and make the findings public. The responsible party should fully account for the civilian harm and hold those responsible accountable, including prosecuting anyone responsible for war crimes. (Beirut) – An unlawful attack on a primary school in southern Iran before midday on February 28, 2026, that reportedly killed scores of civilians, including many children, should be investigated as a war crime, Human Rights Watch said today. The attack was carried out among hundreds of strikes across Iran by Israeli and US forces on the morning of February 28. Neither the United States nor Israel has claimed responsibility for the attack, and an Israeli military spokesperson told Human Rights Watch that it was “not aware of any [Israeli military] strikes in the area.” The Iranian government has blamed the US-Israeli coalition for the attack. The Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in the town of Minab, Hormozgan province, is on the interior border of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Naval Forces compound. However, information Human Rights Watch reviewed shows that the school is walled off and has a separate entrance to the street from the rest of the compound. The pattern of strikes in which distinct structures across the compound, including the school, were directly struck, as well as the entry points of the munitions visible on multiple buildings, indicate that the attack was carried out by highly accurate, guided munitions, rather than errant weapons whose guidance or propulsion systems failed or were otherwise disrupted and randomly struck the area. “A prompt and thorough investigation is needed into this attack, including if those responsible should have known that a school was there and that it would be full of children and their teachers before midday,” said Sophia Jones, open source researcher with the Digital Investigations Lab at Human Rights Watch. “Those responsible for an unlawful attack should be held to account, including prosecutions of anyone responsible for war crimes.” 54c24c4c-bca7-484c-9670-679de6ad67e8Click to expand Image Map of the town of Minab, including the Shajareh Tayyebeh School, the IRGC Naval Forces Compound and the Minab Hermud Cemetery. Graphics © 2026 Human Rights Watch Human Rights Watch verified and analyzed 14 videos and photographs posted on social media that were recorded immediately after the strike or during search-and-rescue operations, as well as 4 from funerals. Researchers also reviewed about 40 publicly available satellite images captured over the past 25 years as well as satellite images obtained commercially that were captured after the attack, showing both the attack site and the nearby cemetery where victims were apparently buried. Researchers also reviewed statements by the Iranian Red Crescent Society and government officials from Iran, Israel, and the United States, and reports by independent media outlets outside Iran. Due to the internet shutdown and communications restrictions imposed by Iran’s authorities, Human Rights Watch was unable to safely speak with witnesses or family members of those killed in the strike, limiting researchers’ ability to verify the precise number and identities of children and other individuals killed and other details related to the attack. However, researchers interviewed two sources who had spoken with witnesses and relatives of victims. Human Rights Watch is also investigating Iranian forces’ strikes on targets in countries in the Middle East. The exact nature of the different sections in the IRGC compound, the extent to which the facilities were in use for military purposes at the time of the attack, and what may have been stored there was not immediately apparent. If any of the facilities within the compound were used for military purposes, Iranian authorities would appear to have been placing civilians at unnecessary risk and therefore also would have been in violation of the laws of war. Satellite imagery analysis shows that at least eight structures across the compound were directly struck by munitions, including at least one that struck and severely damaged the school, which was walled off from the rest of the compound. Two videos filmed next to the school in the immediate aftermath of the attack and verified by researchers show black smoke billowing from the top of the school and part of its roof collapsed. In one video, white lines of a soccer pitch, a volleyball net, and brightly painted school walls are clearly visible, as are two smoke plumes from elsewhere on the compound. In the second video, people are gathered around the school, screaming. A third video verified by researchers shows a different angle of the compound, from the south, and plumes of smoke from at least a third location within that compound. High-resolution satellite imagery reveals that, between February and September 2016, an inner wall was built that separates the school from the rest of the compound. Moreover, a separate entrance without a security post was created during that time frame, allowing street access to the school without having to enter the military compound. Two watchtowers, previously visible on satellite imagery and less than 50 meters from the school building, were also removed in 2016. The front of the school was cleared and marking lines of a soccer pitch were drawn in the courtyard by August 2017. The compound also contains a medical clinic, under the auspices of the IRGC’s Naval Forces. State media reported that it was inaugurated in January 2025 by Major General Hossein Salami, the then-commander-in-chief of the IRGC. Low-resolution satellite imagery from March 2, 2026, shows at least seven other impact sites within the IRGC compound in addition to the school, including a clear impact on the medical clinic’s roof. An analysis of very high-resolution satellite imagery captured on March 4 confirms that explosive weapons detonated in at least eight points, including five sites where damage is consistent with a munition entering the structures from the roof and detonating. 123e25b2-05c7-45d6-a2fd-e021d2acd028Click to expand Image Satellite imagery captured on March 4, 2026, shows the main impact sites and damaged structures within the IRGC Naval Forces Compound, including Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School, following the February 28 attack. At least eight impact sites are visible, including destroyed buildings and structures showing significant damage consistent with the point of detonation of an explosive weapon. Neighboring buildings appear to have sustained damage caused by blast effects or fire consistent with having been directly hit by an explosive weapon. Image: March 4, 2026 © 2026 Planet Labs PBC. Analysis and Graphics © 2026 Human Rights Watch Damage to two other structures, as well as the relative distance between these and others attacked, indicate that both structures were most likely also directly attacked with explosive weapons, bringing the total number of impact sites most likely directly attacked to ten. The number of individual strikes and the apparent accuracy with which they struck individual structures across the base, observed in part through the relatively small circular holes that were points of entry for the munitions, indicate that the attack was carried out across a wide set of individual targets on the base with highly accurate, guided munitions. The school’s location within the IRGC Naval Force’s compound did not, in and of itself, make the school a legitimate target. The school was in use, and children were in attendance on the day of the attack. Human Rights Watch found no evidence that would indicate that the school was being used for military purposes, though researchers were not able to speak to witnesses of the strikes, families of those killed, or other informed sources. Even if the attackers were targeting a legitimate military target in the vicinity of the school, the laws of war prohibit attacks on military objectives if the anticipated harm to civilians and civilian objects is disproportionate compared to the expected military gain from the attack. Both the US and Israeli militaries possess and have used advanced and expansive multi-domain intelligence collection methods in their conduct of many combat operations, which allow for enhanced monitoring, assessment and verification of targets. Human Rights Watch wrote to the US and Israeli militaries on March 2 and to Iranian authorities on March 3. The Israeli military responded on March 3, writing: “After an initial examination[,] [t]he [Israeli military]is not aware of any [Israeli military] strikes in the area,” and that “the incident is being examined.” Neither the US military nor Iranian authorities have responded. On March 4, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth responded to a question in a media briefing about the attack on the school. “All I can say is that we’re investigating that,” he said. “We, of course, never target civilian targets, but we’re taking a look and investigating that.” During that briefing, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Dan Caine, said that US forces from the USS Abraham Lincoln strike group were providing “pressure” along the “southeastern side of the coast and has been attritting naval capability all along the strait,” as he pointed to an area of a map that included Minab, where the map shows there had been US/Israeli strikes. A thorough, independent investigation into the strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School should be conducted, including to determine whether war crimes were committed, Human Rights Watch said. War crimes are serious violations of the laws of war committed with criminal intent, that is deliberately or recklessly. Those responsible for any war crimes or other serious violations of the laws of war, including military and civilian commanders, should be held to account, while victims and their families should be appropriately compensated. Schools and other educational facilities are civilian objects and protected from attack. They lose that protection when used for military purposes, although all parties must still comply with international humanitarian law including respecting the principle of proportionality and taking all feasible measures to minimize harm to civilians. The mere presence of military personnel in civilian infrastructure does not in itself automatically make such facilities as whole a legitimate military target. Human Rights Watch has seen no information to indicate that the Shajareh Tayyebeh school was used for military purposes. Iranian authorities should ensure the protection of schools and other civilian infrastructure. The United States should immediately assess its responsibility for this strike and make the findings public. If the US military carried out the strike, it should conduct a full investigation into the operational and policy failures that led it to strike a school, fully account for the civilian harm caused, hold those responsible accountable including through prosecution, and commit to changes that would ensure such failures will not be repeated in future operations. “Allies of the US and Israel should insist on accountability for the Shajareh Tayyebeh school attack and for an end to attacks on civilian infrastructure in all of their operations across the region, before more civilians, including children, are unlawfully killed,” Jones said. The school and work week in Iran begin on Saturday morning. The first reports of the US and Israeli attacks in Iran surfaced online before 10 a.m. on Saturday, February 28. The Shajareh Tayyebeh school administration called parents to pick up their children, but “the time between the announcement of the school’s closure and the moment of the explosion was extremely short; many families had not yet arrived,” the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations said in a statement on March 1. Satellite imagery from February 28 shows the school intact as of 10:23 a.m. The attack took place sometime before 11:47 a.m., when the first video of the attack surfaced on social media. Local media, citing Iranian officials, said the attack on the school took place around 10:45 a.m. As of March 4, the death toll from this attack had risen to 168, Iranian state media reported. Human Rights Watch has not been able to independently verify that number. Researchers reviewed a list of 57 names announced by the Special Governor’s Office of Minab County and circulated by news outlets on March 2. Of the names on that list, at least 48 appear to have been children, according to their birth dates on the list. Researchers analyzed this list of names, which included girls, boys, women, and men, and in some cases were able to immediately match names with other identifying information, such as photographs, caskets, body bags, or funerary materials with names, ages, names of family members, and whether they were identified as a student or teacher at the school. The list included the apparent principal of the school and several teachers. Researchers identified an additional 25 names by reviewing a list published by Iran’s Gymnastics Federation and names written on body bags, caskets, or funerary materials, as seen in photographs and videos published by state media between March 3 and 6. At least 15 of them appear to be children; researchers were unable to determine the ages of the remaining 10. Human Rights Watch was not able to immediately obtain information regarding the remaining individuals reported to have been killed or about people who may have been killed in strikes elsewhere on the compound. Videos shared on social media on February 28 and analyzed by researchers show an ambulance arriving at the Hazrat Abolfazl hospital roughly two kilometers from the school. Other videos show 12 body bags lying on the ground, and photographs show the bodies of what appears to be 4 girls, their faces covered in dust, dressed in school uniforms lying in body bags. Another video analyzed by Human Rights Watch shows the body of a child with a head wound, who is wearing the same green checkered school uniform as a surviving boy seen in another video analyzed by researchers. Additional verified photographs taken by Mehr News on February 28 and circulated by the Associated Press show men, including some in uniform, digging through the rubble of the school. At least one body buried in the rubble is visible in these photographs. On March 2, a video published by the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) shows graves being dug at the Minab Hermud cemetery in preparation for funerals on March 3. Aerial imagery of the cemetery published on March 2 shows at least 100 new grave locations, 83 of them being dug with the use of heavy machinery. Ground preparation for the burials within the same cemetery plot seen in the photos and videos began in the afternoon of March 1, according to satellite imagery analyzed by Human Rights Watch. annotated satellite image annotated satellite image Satellite imagery captured on March 1 and 4, 2026 shows changes at Minab Hermud Cemetery located roughly 3.5 kilometers from the Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School. Imagery from March 1, captured less than 24 hours after the attack, shows soil preparation for new burials within one plot of the cemetery. By March 4, rows of freshly dug individual graves are visible in the upper half of the same plot. Image left: March 1, 2026, and Image right: March 4, 2026 © 2026 Planet Labs PBC. Analysis and Graphics © 2026 Human Rights Watch Photographs published from the funerals on March 3 show crowds of people at the cemetery standing next to the graves. Fourteen caskets had been placed into the graves, while others were empty in one photograph. Human Rights Watch was unable to verify whether all 100 graves were used for people killed in the attack on the school. According to reports online, at least two people’s funerals took place elsewhere outside of Minab. Further Analysis of Structures in the IRGC Compound and Strike Impacts In addition to the unguarded entrance from the street to the school, which was walled off from the rest of the compound, at least seven other entrances to different parts of the compound can be seen on satellite imagery from February 19. An undated photograph shows a sign at a southern entrance on the main road that reads “Seyyed Al-Shohada Cultural and Educational Complex” alongside an IRGC logo. Sixty meters north, at another entrance on the main road, a photograph uploaded to Google Maps in February shows a sign for the “Shaheed Absalan Specialist Clinic, the Health Commandment of the IRGC’s Naval Force.” Human Rights Watch also geolocated a picture published in 2025 showing the facade of the clinic. At the main entrance of the complex, an undated photograph shows a sign with the IRGC logo and the word for “barracks” or “unit.” Analysis of images taken over the last 25 years shows structural changes within the military compound itself, including the construction of additional inner walls that separate different areas within the compound between 2022 and 2024. As a result, additional separate gates to access the different sections of the compound were constructed between 2022 to 2025. 9995ccc8-1fc4-4940-845a-005490c0d33cClick to expand Image Satellite imagery captured on February 19, 2026, shows the IRGC Naval Forces Compound nine days before the attack. Analysis of previous satellite imageries by Human Rights Watch and overlayed on the map shows how and when the compound was partitioned into several sections. © Image © 2026 Vantor. Source: EUSI. Analysis and Graphics © 2026 Human Rights Watch Low-resolution satellite imagery from March 2, 2026, shows at least seven other impact sites within the IRGC compound, in addition to the school, including a clear impact on the rooftop of the Shaheed Absalan clinic. The buildings all appeared intact on satellite imagery captured at 10:23 a.m. on February 28. A very high-resolution satellite image from March 4 shows at least eight areas that were directly struck. Five buildings, including the school and the medical clinic, show damage consistent with a large munition striking and entering the roof before detonating. Four other buildings are completely destroyed, indicating they were also directly struck by a munition with a large high-explosive yield. Two of the buildings are immediately adjacent to one another, indicating that they were struck by at least one munition. Two other buildings on the compound exhibit fire damage. Due to the relative distance between them and the nearby structures that were also struck, it is likely that the fire damage is the result of these buildings also being individually struck by explosive weapons, bringing the total number of buildings most likely directly attacked to 10. In all, 14 buildings across the site were damaged, nearly all of the structures within the compound. Further Legal Background The laws of war obligate warring parties to take constant care to spare the civilian population. All feasible precautions must be taken to avoid, and in any event to minimize, incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians and damage to civilian objects. Unless circumstances do not permit, warring parties should give “effective advance warning” of attacks that may affect the civilian population. Human Rights Watch is not aware of any warning having been given in advance of the attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh school. The laws of war also obligate warring parties to avoid locating military targets near densely populated areas. Serious violations of the laws of war carried out by individuals with criminal intent—that is, deliberately or recklessly—are war crimes. A combatant or commander may have acted recklessly when they consciously disregard a substantial and unjustifiable risk of causing prohibited harm—such as death or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects—during an armed conflict. Investigations into the attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh school should consider whether those responsible acted recklessly, including if they should have known that they were attacking a school, and that an attack during the middle of the day on a school day would have most likely resulted in a large number of civilian casualties. Individuals may also be held criminally liable for assisting in, facilitating, aiding, or abetting a war crime. Civilian and military commanders may be held criminally liable for war crimes committed by their subordinates that they knew or should have known about and failed to take reasonable measures to prevent the crimes or submit the matter to the competent authorities for investigation and prosecution. All state parties to an armed conflict are obligated to investigate alleged war crimes by members of their armed forces. Further Context on Access to Information in Iran On February 28, 2026, internet traffic dropped significantly in Iran, indicating a nationwide blackout following strikes across the country by the United States and Israel. Cloudflare Radar, a network measurement platform that provides real-time information on internet traffic, said that internet traffic dropped by 98 percent, signaling a near-complete blackout. Iranian authorities have a track record of imposing internet disruptions and shutdowns during times of conflict and crisis, including during protest crackdowns, to restrict access to information, conceal atrocities they commit, and obstruct independent documentation of violations. United Nations member states should urge Iranian authorities to restore internet access, which has been shut down since the start of US and Israeli forces’ attacks on February 28. The near-total internet shutdown across the country severely restricts access to information, including evacuation orders and safety measures, which can be lifesaving. International policymakers and companies should also support the provision of internet services for the civilian population affected by internet shutdowns, including by building out satellite communication services. Further Context on the United States and the US and Israeli Attacks on Iran During a March 2 press briefing on military operations in Iran, Gen. Caine, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the preparations for the overall attacks were extensive. He added that “[o]n the U.S. side, this marked the culmination of months, and in some cases, years of deliberate planning and refinement against this particular target set.” Caine emphasized that this preparation spanned across multiple aspects of the US operations “[f]rom precision strikes against key military infrastructure, to persistent intelligence and targeting integration, to the close coordination of the components across vast distances.” The Israeli military stated on February 28, as strikes were ongoing in Iran, that the attacks were based on “precise intelligence,” and has since continued to assert that the attacks are intelligence-based. Human Rights Watch is concerned that under the second Trump administration, the Defense Department has deliberately and systematically weakened its domestic protections meant to ensure its compliance with the laws of armed conflict. Those include the termination of senior military lawyers, reported loosening of targeting protocols, and the elimination of “civilian environment teams” and “red-teams” within the operational chain of command. US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth commented at a news conference on March 2, 2026, about “stupid rules of engagement,” suggesting that they may interfere with “fight[ing] to win.” The US Congress should hold hearings to understand how and if these rollbacks contributed to any civilian harm verified to be caused by the US military in Iran.

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United States was "likely" responsible for bombing of girls' school in Iran, per early U.S. assessment By Margaret Brennan, Olivia Gazis, Camilla Schick Updated on: March 9, 2026 / 9:51 AM EDT / CBS News The U.S. may be responsible for the bombing of a girls' school in Iran that killed 168 people, many of them children, on Feb. 28, sources told CBS News. The preliminary U.S. assessment suggests that the United States is "likely" responsible for the deadly attack but did not intentionally target the school and may have hit it in error, possibly due to the use of dated intelligence which wrongly identified the area as still part of an Iranian military installation, a person briefed on the preliminary intelligence told CBS News. Israel's military was also not operating in the area, two sources told CBS News. An additional source familiar with the ongoing inquiry told CBS News that investigators believe the U.S. military may have been responsible because it was operating in the area while Israel's military was not, though no final conclusions have been reached. And an Israeli government source told CBS News that Israel was not behind the attack and its military was not operating near the school. White House spokesperson Anna Kelly told CBS News in a statement that the "investigation is ongoing," and "There are no conclusions at this time, and it is both irresponsible and false for anyone to claim otherwise." CBS News has confirmed the school building was located in close proximity to two sites controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Minab, a city in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan. Footage filmed from a parking lot showed black smoke billowing from a damaged building adorned with murals featuring drawings of crayons, children and an apple. The CBS News Confirmed team geolocated the video to a building in Minab. Iranian media identified the building as the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school. Iranian state media said at least 168 people, including schoolgirls ages 7 to 12, were killed in the strike which occurred last Saturday, on the first day of the war. Saturdays are regular school days in Iran. A list published in Iranian state media from authorities in Iran's Minab county claimed to show the names of 57 of those killed. Human Rights Watch has said at least 48 of those names appear to be children, according to their birthdates on the list, along with their school principal and teachers. The primary school struck in Minab, Iran Iranian state media said 168 people were killed in a strike on a school in Minab, southern Iran, on the first day of the war. Damage is seen in this photo from March 5, 2026. Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images Without providing evidence, President Trump said Saturday that the U.S. believes the bombing "was done by Iran" and cited information that he had seen. "We think it was done by Iran, because they're very inaccurate with their munitions, they have no accuracy whatsoever, it was done by Iran," Mr. Trump said aboard Air Force One after attending the dignified transfer of six U.S. soldiers who were killed in an Iranian strike in Kuwait on March 1. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and U.S. Central Command have both said an investigation was ongoing and did not echo the president's assertions. Questioned about the incident in a CBS News "60 Minutes" interview that aired Sunday, Hegseth said "unlike our adversaries, the Iranians, we never target civilians," and "it's being investigated, which is the only answer I'm prepared to give." The New York Times and Reuters were first to report that the U.S. may be behind the fatal bombing.

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Speech UN Human Rights Council 61: UK Statement for the Urgent Debate on the Minab School, Iran Englishالعربيَّة UK Statement on “Protection of Children and Educational Institutions in International Armed Conflicts: The Aerial Attacks on Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls’ School in Minab, Iran, as a Grave Breach of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law”. Delivered by UK Human Rights Ambassador, Eleanor Sanders. From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and Eleanor Sanders Published 27 March 2026 Location: Geneva Delivered on: 27 March 2026 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered) Eleanor Sanders Thank you, Mr President, We are appalled by all reports of civilian deaths – in Minab in Iran, and across the region. Innocent civilians should never be caught in the crossfire. Our thoughts are with the victims and their families. We support all action that will help bring a swift end to this conflict. Mr President, even in times of conflict we cannot ignore Iran’s own human rights record, which remains dire. Just two months ago, this Council met to condemn the brutal killing of thousands of Iranian protestors exercising their right to peaceful protest. Iran’s abhorrent use of the death penalty, and continued internet restrictions, fuel cycles of repression for the people of Iran. The UK will continue to work with international partners, including the UN Fact Finding Mission and the Special Rapporteur, to hold Iran to account for its repression of women and girls, religious and ethnic minorities, and human rights defenders. We know it takes huge bravery to protest and to speak out in the face of this oppression, especially for women and girls who continue to endure severe repression in their daily lives. Mr President, the UK demands that the Iranian authorities fully respect human rights and fundamental freedoms of all people in Iran. Thank you. Published 27 March 2026

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Speech UN Human Rights Council 61: UK Statement for the Urgent Debate on the Minab School, Iran Englishالعربيَّة UK Statement on “Protection of Children and Educational Institutions in International Armed Conflicts: The Aerial Attacks on Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls’ School in Minab, Iran, as a Grave Breach of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law”. Delivered by UK Human Rights Ambassador, Eleanor Sanders. From: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and Eleanor Sanders Published 27 March 2026 Location: Geneva Delivered on: 27 March 2026 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered) Eleanor Sanders Thank you, Mr President, We are appalled by all reports of civilian deaths – in Minab in Iran, and across the region. Innocent civilians should never be caught in the crossfire. Our thoughts are with the victims and their families. We support all action that will help bring a swift end to this conflict. Mr President, even in times of conflict we cannot ignore Iran’s own human rights record, which remains dire. Just two months ago, this Council met to condemn the brutal killing of thousands of Iranian protestors exercising their right to peaceful protest. Iran’s abhorrent use of the death penalty, and continued internet restrictions, fuel cycles of repression for the people of Iran. The UK will continue to work with international partners, including the UN Fact Finding Mission and the Special Rapporteur, to hold Iran to account for its repression of women and girls, religious and ethnic minorities, and human rights defenders. We know it takes huge bravery to protest and to speak out in the face of this oppression, especially for women and girls who continue to endure severe repression in their daily lives. Mr President, the UK demands that the Iranian authorities fully respect human rights and fundamental freedoms of all people in Iran. Thank you. Published 27 March 2026

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Former US officials criticise Pentagon silence on deadly Iran school attack 29 April 2026 Tom Bateman,State Department correspondentandCai Pigliucci 0:14 Verified video shows damage and smoke at Iranian school in Minab Five former US officials, including a former top military lawyer, have criticised the Pentagon for not acknowledging potential American involvement in a deadly strike on an Iranian school earlier this year. Some of those officials said it was highly unusual not to release even basic details of the strike after such a length of time. A missile hit a primary school in Minab during the opening salvos of the US-Israeli war on February 28, killing 168 people including around 110 children according to Iranian officials. In the two months since then the Pentagon has said only that the incident is under investigation. US media reported in early March that US military investigators believed American forces were likely responsible for hitting the school unintentionally but had not reached a final conclusion. Asked a series of questions by the BBC about the strike and the accusations of a lack of transparency, a Pentagon official said "this incident is currently under investigation," adding that more details would be provided when they became available. The BBC has reviewed three historical cases in which civilians were killed during US military operations and in each case significantly more information had been released by the Pentagon within less than a month. The current US position "strikingly departs from the standard response," said Lt Col Rachel E VanLandingham, a retired Judge Advocate General in the US Air Force and former senior legal adviser at US Central Command during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Administrations in the past at least demonstrated fidelity, a commitment to the law of war," said VanLandingham, who argued what was "missing" from the administration's statements was a commitment to accountability and "importantly to ensure this doesn't happen again". 0:35 BBC asks Hegseth about reports of strike on Iranian girls school President Trump said on 7 March that in his "opinion" Iran was to blame for the Minab strike, without providing evidence. Days later, when asked about video showing a US Tomahawk hitting the military base next to the school, he said: "I haven't seen it" and claimed without evidence that Iran had Tomahawk missiles. On 11 March, when asked about reports that an initial military probe had found that the US hit the school, Trump said: "I don't know about it". Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth was asked by the BBC on 4 March about the strike and said: "All I can say is that we're investigating that. We of course never target civilian targets". The US Department of Defense has declined to answer multiple questions about the strike. It has repeatedly declined to answer whether the Iranian military base next to the school was one of its pre-planned targets on 28 February, despite speaking publicly about pre-planned targets or operations in dozens of other instances in the war. Last month, the BBC independently confirmed video showing a US Tomahawk missile striking the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) base next to the school. US media reports quoted unnamed military officials saying a preliminary inquiry had determined a US missile struck the school. The reports said this was due to outdated target coordinates supplied by a US intelligence agency. The Pentagon has not commented on the reports. A timeline of satellite images from 2013, 2016 and 2022 that shows a wall was built separating the school from the IRGC base. Wes Bryant, a former senior adviser on precision warfare and civilian harm mitigation at the Pentagon's Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, told the BBC that the military's preliminary inquiry would routinely take place to establish two things: whether the civilian harm actually took place, and whether the US was operating in the area at the time and could have caused it. "When you meet both of those criteria, that's the only time that an investigation is actually formally initiated," he said. "From a process standpoint… that just points even more to the fact that they know already that the US caused this or else they wouldn't doing this investigation and they just don't want to acknowledge it or speak to it." "To not even be able to have any comment on it whatsoever is just unacceptable," said Bryant, who left the Pentagon last year when staffing at the civilian harm unit was significantly reduced under Hegseth. Another former defence official said it was common for some civilian harm investigations to take a long time depending on the complexity of the situation. "But this is a case where… it's unusually opaque in that I can tell from the situation it's actually not that complicated," the former official, who asked not to be identified due to the sensitivity of the subject matter, told the BBC. "Normally the Pentagon would take immediate [or] relatively fast responsibility and then probably require a longer period of time to provide all the details, so to me it's problematic," the former official added. Democrats demand answers Congressional Democrats have written several times to Hegseth asking a series of questions about the Minab strike, starting with whether the US carried it out. The BBC has seen two of the Pentagon's response letters, sent on behalf of Hegseth, which give no answers to any of the questions. A letter sent on 2 April to Democrats said an investigating officer from outside the CENTCOM chain of command had been appointed and the results of that investigation would be shared once completed. The BBC approached 15 Republican members of Congress asking about the administration's handling of the strike, but all declined to comment. They included top Republicans on committees covering national security in the Senate and House of Representatives. On March 10, Republican Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana condemned the strike, telling the New York Times: "I think we made a mistake. It was a terrible, terrible mistake." Pentagon officials have given several closed-door briefings on military operations to members of Congress since the start of the war on Iran, and have been asked questions about the Minab strike. Adam Smith, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee, told the BBC the officials said they could not comment due to their ongoing investigation, a response he called "pathetic and completely inadequate". He said there had been no admission of US responsibility in the briefings. Aftermath of a drone strike near Kabul airport in Afghanistan in August 2021 The aftermath of a drone strike near Kabul airport in Afghanistan in August 2021 The BBC has reviewed three historical cases involving civilian fatalities to form a comparison with the Trump administration's response to the Minab strike. A drone strike near Kabul airport in Afghanistan in August 2021: The Pentagon initially said it had targeted a vehicle known to be an imminent Islamic State group threat. In fact it had killed a family of 10 including seven children, which became clear within days from media reporting. Less than three weeks after the bombing the Pentagon admitted its responsibility and apologised The bombing of a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, in October 2015: The attack by a US AC-130 helicopter gunship killed at least 42 people including 24 patients and 14 medics from the medical charity MSF. Five days later the commander of US military forces for Afghanistan gave detailed congressional testimony telling lawmakers the attack was a "US decision made within the US chain of command". The same day the White House admitted the mistake and apologised An attack on the al-Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad, Iraq, in February 1991: The US Air Force bombing killed 408 civilians. The administration said the bunker was a military command centre and therefore a legitimate target. The BBC, among other reporters who visited the site shortly after the bombing, found no evidence for this. The US administration acknowledged from the start there were civilian deaths and that it was a US strike Each of the historical cases, under both Democratic and Republican administrations, involved senior US military officials making significantly more detailed public comments than has been the case so far in the Minab strike. Annie Shiel, a former US official who worked on civilian harm reduction at the state department, said previous cases followed a pattern where the US had "come out and said 'it was not us', only for media and [non governmental organisation] reporting to show that in fact it was a US strike, and then the US has to walk that back." The Pentagon's appointment in the Minab case of an investigating officer outside CENTCOM was "at least on paper a good start on independence", said Shiel who is now US Advocacy Director with the Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC). But she told the BBC she would "absolutely" expect further acknowledgement of any US role while the probe is ongoing. Corroborating details about the incident has also been complicated by the fact Iranian authorities have not granted independent access to the site. The UN Fact Finding Mission on Iran said on 17 March it had sought access but not been permitted to visit the site. Charles O Blaha, former director of the State Department's Office of Security and Human Rights, said a lack of transparency in Washington could stem from a "reluctance" within the administration to contradict the president after he blamed Iran for the strike, a claim he described as "really far-fetched and very clearly not true". Blaha spent 32 years in the US foreign service and is now a senior adviser to Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN). He attributed the relative silence in the Minab case to what he saw as a rejection by the administration of "any negative news about the war they branded as unpatriotic". Additional reporting by Catherine Alaimo

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Families of Iranian Children Killed in School Airstrike Pen Letter to Pope Pope Leo said he has seen the letter from the parents of more than 100 children killed in the strike, which a preliminary inquiry found resulted from a mistake by the U.S. military. Listen · 4:41 min Share full article In an outdoor area, a display honoring the victims of a strike on an Iranian elementary school features desks, some with candles and bags near a damaged wall with a chalkboard and "NO WAR on children" posters. A memorial in Tehran for the victims of an airstrike on an elementary school in Minab, Iran, on the first day of U.S. and Israeli bombing of the country.Credit...Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times Ashley Ahn By Ashley Ahn April 25, 2026 See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The New York Times on Google The families of more than a hundred children killed when a missile struck an elementary school in Iran have penned a letter of grief and gratitude to Pope Leo XIV, who has repeatedly criticized the loss of innocent lives in the war with Iran. An investigation by the U.S. military determined that the United States was responsible for the Tomahawk missile that destroyed the Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school in the town of Minab, on Feb. 28, the first day of the war, killing 175 people, according to the preliminary findings of the inquiry. The authors of the letter, which was published by Iranian state media on April 19, called themselves “the fathers and mothers of 168 children who, these days, instead of hugging the warm bodies of our children, are clutching their burned bags and bloody notebooks to our chests.” The letter thanked the pontiff for being the “the voice for our voiceless children,” and then urged him to keep promoting peace and dialogue in the hope that no other parent would have to suffer the loss of a child in the fighting. “Our children will never return home to build a brighter future, but it is the prayer of us grieving parents that your message to lay down the weapons be heard, at a time when the United States and the Israeli regime fuel the flames of these atrocities with their excessive demands,” the authors wrote, according to Iranian state media. On Thursday, during his flight back to Rome after an 11-day trip to Africa, Leo said that he had seen the letter and used it to call attention to the loss of innocent lives in the conflict. At least 1,665 civilians had been killed in Iran, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency. The families “speak about how they have lost their children, who died in that event,” the pope said to reporters, referring to the airstrike on the school. “The issue is not whether there is regime change or not; the issue is how to promote the values we believe in without the death of so many innocent people.” On Saturday, President Trump called off a trip by two of his top negotiators, who had planned to travel to Pakistan for peace talks. Iran and the United States have been locked in a stalemate over the Strait of Hormuz, where both sides are blockading ships, as a truce between Israel and Lebanon has been teetering because of clashes between Israel and Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia. “We do not know where things are heading,” Leo said on Thursday, referring to the on-again-off-again peace talks. “This chaotic, critical situation for the global economy has been created, but there is also an entire population in Iran of innocent people suffering because of this war.” The American-born pontiff has been one of the world’s most powerful and vocal critics of the war, angering President Trump, who has called Leo “weak on crime” and “terrible for foreign policy.” Vice President JD Vance, who is a Catholic, also waded into the theological fight, attempting to justify the U.S. and Israeli military campaign in Iran as a just cause. Mr. Trump has tried to sidestep blame for civilian deaths in Iran and other places touched by the war. At one point, before the preliminary results of the military inquiry became public, the president even briefly blamed Iran for the strike on the elementary school. The American investigation said the strike stemmed from a targeting mistake by the U.S. military, which was conducting attacks on an adjacent base operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, according to the preliminary findings. Officers used outdated data when they were planning strikes on an adjacent Iranian military base, and the school building had once been part of the base, the preliminary investigation found.

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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity By Kevin T Baker Thu 26 Mar 2026 06.00 CET On the first morning of Operation Epic Fury, 28 February 2026, American forces struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, in southern Iran, hitting the building at least two times during the morning session. American forces killed between 175 and 180 people, most of them girls between the ages of seven and 12. Within days, the question that organised the coverage was whether Claude, a chatbot made by Anthropic, had selected the school as a target. Congress wrote to the US secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, about the extent of AI use in the strikes. The New Yorker magazine asked whether Claude could be trusted to obey orders in combat, whether it might resort to blackmail as a self-preservation strategy, and whether the Pentagon’s chief concern should be that the chatbot had a personality. Almost none of this had any relationship to reality. The targeting for Operation Epic Fury ran on a system called Maven. Nobody was arguing about Maven. The Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school after US bombing at the start of Operation Epic Fury. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Eight years ago, Maven was the most contested project in Silicon Valley. In 2018, more than 4,000 Google employees signed a letter opposing the company’s contract to build artificial intelligence for the Pentagon’s targeting systems. Workers organised a walk out. Engineers quit. And Google ultimately abandoned the contract. Palantir Technologies, a data analytics company and defence contractor co-founded by Peter Thiel, took it over and spent the next six years building Maven into a targeting infrastructure that pulls together satellite imagery, signals intelligence and sensor data to identify targets and carry them through every step from first detection to the order to strike. U.S. And Israel Wage War Against IranTEHRAN, IRAN - MARCH 28: A memorial for the victims of the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school bombing is on display on March 28, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. The bombing, in which U.S. forces hit the school with Tomahawk missiles while targeting an adjacent military base, killed between 175 and 180 people, most of them young female students. The United States and Israel have continued their joint attack on Iran that began on February 28. Iran retaliated by firing waves of missiles and drones at Israel and U.S. allies in the region, while also effectively blockading the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping route. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images) The building in Minab had been classified as a military facility in a Defense Intelligence Agency database that, according to CNN, had not been updated to reflect that the building had been separated from the adjacent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps compound and converted into a school, a change that satellite imagery shows had occurred by 2016 at the latest. A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal. By the start of the Iran war, Maven – the system that had enabled that speed – had sunk into the plumbing, it had become part of the military’s infrastructure, and the argument was all about Claude. This obsession with Claude is a kind of AI psychosis, though not of the kind we normally talk about, and it afflicts critics and opponents of the technology as fiercely as it does its boosters. You do not have to use a language model to let it organise your attention or distort your thinking. Graves being prepared for victims of a reported strike in Minab, Iran In 2019, the scholar Morgan Ames published The Charisma Machine, a study of how certain technologies draw attention, resources and attribution toward themselves and away from everything else. The usual framework for understanding this dynamic is “hype”, but hype only describes what boosters do, and it assigns critics a privileged debunking role that still leaves the technology at the centre of every argument. A charismatic technology shapes the whole field around it, the way a magnet organises iron filings. LLMs may be the most powerful instance of this type in history. By the time the war began, “AI safety” and “alignment” and “hallucination” and “stochastic parrots” had become the terms of every argument about artificial intelligence, structuring and limiting what we could even say. Worse, “artificial intelligence” itself had come to be synonymous with LLMs. When the school was bombed, those were the terms people reached for, despite the fact that this critical apparatus offered a poor fit for the older, more mature stack of technologies involved in targeting. The real question, the question almost nobody was asking, is not about Claude or any language model. It is a bureaucratic question about what happened to the kill chain, and the answer is Palantir. As military jargon goes, “kill chain” is a remarkably honest term. In essence, it refers to the bureaucratic framework for organising the steps between detecting something and destroying it. The oldest reference to the term itself I can find is from the 1990s, but the idea is quite old – dating at least to the 1760s, when French artillery reformers began replacing the gunner’s experienced eye with ballistic tables, elevation screws and standardised firing procedures. The steps in the kill chain are subject to constant change, to keep pace with changes in targeting doctrine, but also to incorporate whatever management fads come to afflict the military’s strategic thinkers. The US military has named and renamed the steps for 80 years. In the second world war the sequence was find, fix, fight, finish. By the 1990s the air force had stretched it to find, fix, track, target, engage, assess, or F2T2EA. Every generation of military technology has been sold on the promise of making everything about kill chains shorter, except for the acronyms. Palantir’s Maven Smart System is the latest iteration of this compression, and it grew out of a shift in strategic thinking during Obama’s second term. In 2014, the secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel, and his deputy, Robert Work, announced what they called the “third offset strategy”. An “offset” in this line of thinking is a bet that a technological advantage can compensate for a strategic weakness the country cannot fix directly. The first two offsets addressed the same problem: the United States could not match the Soviet Union in conventional forces. The thinking was that the Red Army could just continue to throw personnel at a problem, as they did at Stalingrad, or, to be anachronistic, as the contemporary Russian army did at Bakhmut and Avdiivka. Nuclear weapons, the first offset, made the personnel advantage irrelevant in the 1950s. When the Soviets reached nuclear parity in the 1970s, precision-guided munitions and stealth offered the promise that a smaller force could defeat a larger one. By 2014, that advantage was eroding. China and Russia had spent two decades acquiring precision-guided munitions and building defence systems designed to keep American forces out of range. Robert Work insisted that the third offset was not about any particular technology but about using technology to reorganise how the military operated, letting the US make decisions faster than China and Russia, overwhelming and disorienting the enemy by maintaining a faster operational tempo than they could match. A woman throws rose petals on the coffins during a funeral of children killed in the air strike on a girls’ primary school in Minab, Iran. View image in fullscreen At the funeral of children killed in the US strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school. Photograph: Amirhossein Khorgooei/AP In April 2017, early in the first Trump administration, Work helped establish the Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team, designated Project Maven. One of the generals overseeing Maven, Lt Gen Jack Shanahan, put the problem plainly: thousands of intelligence analysts were spending 80% of their time on mundane tasks, drowning in footage from surveillance drones that no one had time to watch. A single Predator drone mission could generate hundreds of hours of video, and the analysts tasked with understanding this were faced with an information overload problem. “We’re not going to solve it by throwing more people at the problem,” Shanahan said. “That’s the last thing that we actually want to do.” The core conceit of the project was that the machine could watch so that the analyst could think. The Pentagon needed someone to build it. Google took the contract, and what happened next became the most visible labour action in the history of Silicon Valley. After Google abandoned the Maven contract, Palantir took it over in 2019. The XVIII Airborne Corps began testing the system in an exercise called Scarlet Dragon, which started in 2020 as a tabletop wargaming exercise in a windowless basement at Fort Bragg. Its commander, Lt Gen Michael Erik Kurilla, wanted to build what he called the first “AI-enabled corps” in the army. The goal was to test whether the system could give a small team the targeting capacity that had previously required thousands of people. Over the next five years, Scarlet Dragon grew into a military exercise using live ammunition, spanning multiple states and branches of the armed forces, with “forward-deployed engineers” from Palantir and other contractors embedded alongside soldiers. Each time the exercise was run, it was meant to answer the same question: how fast could the system move from detection to decision? The benchmark was the 2003 invasion of Iraq, where roughly 2,000 people worked the targeting process for the entire war. During Scarlet Dragon, 20 soldiers using Maven handled the same volume of work. By 2024, the stated goal was 1,000 targeting decisions in an hour. That is 3.6 seconds per decision, or from the individual “targeteer’s” perspective, one decision every 72 seconds. The Maven Smart System is the platform that came out of those exercises, and it, not Claude, is what is being used to produce “target packages” in Iran. There are real limits to what a civilian such as myself can know about this system, and what follows is based on publicly available information, assembled from Palantir product demos, conferences, as well as instructional material produced for military users. But we can know quite a bit. The Maven interface looks like a military-skinned version of corporate project management software crossed with a mapping application. What the military analyst building the target list sees is either a map layered with intelligence data or a screen organised into columns, each representing a stage of the targeting process. Individual targets move across the columns from left to right as they progress through each stage, a format borrowed from Kanban, a “lean manufacturing” workflow system developed at Toyota, and now widely used in software development. Before Maven, operators worked across eight or nine separate systems simultaneously, pulling data from one, cross-referencing in another, manually moving detections between platforms to assemble the intelligence and approvals needed for each strike. Maven consolidated all of these behind a single interface. Cameron Stanley, the Pentagon’s chief digital and AI officer, called it an “abstraction layer”, a common term in software engineering, meaning a system that hides the complexity underneath it. Humans run the targeting. Underneath the interface, machine-learning systems analyse satellite imagery and sensor data to detect and classify objects, scoring each identification by how confident the system is that it got it right. Three clicks convert a data point on the map into a formal detection and move it into a targeting pipeline. These targets then move through columns representing different decision-making processes and rules of engagement. The system recommends how to strike each target – which aircraft, drone or missile to use, which weapon to pair with it – what the military calls a “course of action”. The officer selects from the ranked options, and the system, depending on who is using it, either sends the target package to an officer for approval or moves it to execution. The AI underneath the interface is not a language model, or at least the AI that counts is not. The core technologies are the same basic systems that recognise your cat in a photo library or let a self-driving car combine its camera, radar and lidar into a single picture of the road, applied here to drone footage, radar and satellite imagery of military targets. They predate large language models by years. Neither Claude nor any other LLMs detects targets, processes radar, fuses sensor data or pairs weapons to targets. LLMs are late additions to Palantir’s ecosystem. In late 2024, years after the core system was operational, Palantir added an LLM layer – this is where Claude sits – that lets analysts search and summarise intelligence reports in plain English. But the language model was never what mattered about this system. What mattered was what Maven did to the targeting process: it consolidated the systems, compressed the time and reduced the people. That is not a new idea. The US military has been trying to close the gap between seeing something and destroying it for as long as that gap has existed, and every attempt has produced the same failure. Maven may not even be the most extreme case. In the late 1960s, the US faced a version of the same problem in Vietnam. Supplies were moving south along the Ho Chi Minh trail through jungle the military could not see into. The solution was Operation Igloo White, a $1bn-a-year programme that scattered 20,000 acoustic and seismic sensors along the trail. These sensors transmitted data to relay aircraft overhead, which fed the signals to IBM 360 computers at Nakhon Phanom airbase in Thailand. The computers analysed the sensor data and predicted where convoys would be, and strike aircraft were directed to those coordinates. B&W photo showing porters on the Ho Chi Minh trail carrying boxes tied to canes that are carried on their shoulders. View image in fullscreen Lao and Vietnamese porters carrying supplies south along the Hoi Chi Minh trail to resupply the insurgency in the south, c1963. Photograph: Pictures from History/Universal Images Group/Getty Images The system could sense but it could not see. It could detect a vibration but it could not tell a truck from an ox cart. The North Vietnamese figured this out. They played recordings of truck engines, herded animals near the sensors to trigger vibration detection, and hung buckets of urine in trees to set off the chemical detectors. The system could be fooled because nobody in the process could look at what it was sensing. The air force claimed 46,000 trucks were destroyed or damaged over the course of the campaign. The CIA reported that the claims for a single year exceeded the total number of trucks believed to exist in all of North Vietnam. The system’s own output was the only measure of its performance, and nobody outside the system had standing to challenge it. Air force historian Bernard Nalty later called the service’s casualty computations “an exercise in metaphysics rather than mathematics” and his colleague Earl Tilford concluded that “the air force succeeded only in fooling itself”. When daytime reconnaissance flights failed to find the wreckage of all those trucks, air force personnel invented a creature to explain the absence. They called it the “great Laotian truck eater”. The pattern that played out in Vietnam – a targeting system that could only measure its own performance and ended up believing its own output – is actually older than digital computing. Michael Sherry’s 1987 book The Rise of American Air Power traces it to the founding doctrine of precision bombing, whose confidence in its own methods made examining what those methods produced unnecessary. “Belief in success,” Sherry wrote, “encouraged imprecision about how to achieve it.” By 1944, operations analysts on both sides of the Atlantic were measuring bombing in a shared language of industrial optimisation. Civilians bombed out of their homes were recorded as “dehoused”. For every tonne of bombs dropped, analysts calculated how many hours of enemy labour it destroyed. One British evaluation treated the bomber itself as a capital asset: a single sortie against a German city wiped off the cost of building the aircraft, and everything after that was “clear profit”. Sherry called the resulting mindset “technological fanaticism”. Sherry’s point was not that anyone chose destruction. It was that the people refining the technique of bombing stopped asking what the bombing was for. But even by the time the operations researchers had got their hands on targeting, this logic was already taking shape. As the historian of science William Thomas has argued, the operations analysts did not impose this logic on the military; the military was already converting operational experience into systematic procedure, and had been for decades. Nobody stopped making judgments. But the judgments were no longer about whether the bombing served a strategic purpose. They were about how to measure it and how to optimise around those measurements. Carl von Clausewitz, the 19th-century Prussian general whose writings remain the foundation of western military thought, had a word for everything the optimisation leaves out. He called it “friction”, the accumulation of uncertainty, error and contradiction that ensures no operation goes as planned. But friction is also where judgment forms. Clausewitz observed that most intelligence is false, that reports contradict each other. The commander who has worked through this learns to see the way an eye adjusts to darkness, not by getting better light but by staying long enough to use what light there is. This “staying” is what takes time. Compress the time and the friction does not disappear. You just stop noticing it. Clausewitz called this kind of planning a “war on paper”. The plan proceeds without resistance, not because there is none, but because everything connecting the plan to the real world has been stripped out. skip past newsletter promotion Sign up to The Long Read Free weekly newsletter Lose yourself in a great story: from politics to psychology, food to technology, culture to crime Enter your email address Marketing preferences Get updates about our journalism and ways to support and enjoy our work. Sign up Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy. after newsletter promotion Air power is uniquely vulnerable to this. The pilot never sees what the bomb hits. The analyst works from imagery, coordinates and databases. The entire enterprise is mediated by representations of the target, not the target itself, which means the gap between the package and the world can widen without anyone in the process feeling it. The 2003 invasion of Iraq, the operation that Scarlet Dragon would later use as its benchmark, was a case in point. Marc Garlasco, the Pentagon’s chief of high-value targeting during the invasion, ran the fastest targeting cycle the US had operated to that point. He recommended 50 strikes on senior Iraqi leadership. The bombs were precise – they hit exactly where they were aimed – but the intelligence behind them was not. None of the 50 killed its intended target. Two weeks after the invasion, Garlasco left the Pentagon for Human Rights Watch, went to Iraq, and stood in the crater of a strike he had targeted himself. “These aren’t just nameless, faceless targets,” he said later. “This is a place where people are going to feel ramifications for a long time.” The targeting cycle had been fast enough to hit 50 buildings and too fast to discover it was hitting the wrong ones. The air force’s own targeting guide, in effect during the Iraq war, said this was never supposed to happen. Published in 1998, it described the six functions of targeting as “intertwined”, with the targeteer moving “back” to refine objectives and “forward” to assess feasibility. “The best analysis,” the manual stated, “is reasoned thought with facts and conclusions, not a checklist.” But Jon Lindsay, who served as a navy intelligence officer in Kosovo and later studied special operations targeting in Iraq, found something different. Once a target was reified on a PowerPoint slide – the target intelligence package, or TIP – it became a black box. Questioning the assumptions behind it got harder as the hunt gained momentum, as the folder thickened with what Lindsay calls “representational residua”. There was more machinery for building up a target than for inspecting the quality of its construction. Personnel became disinclined to ask whether some targets were potential allies, or not actually bad guys at all, because producing targets meant participating in the hunt. The targeting guide had warned about this too. “If targeteers don’t provide full targeting service,” it read, “then other well meaning but undertrained and ill-experienced groups will step in.” Maven eventually would. Lindsay’s book Information Technology and Military Power is the most careful study I’ve found of how targeting actually works, at least partially because it was written by someone who actually did it. During the Kosovo air war, Gen Wesley Clark demanded 2,000 targets, which made it easy to justify any target’s connection to the Milošević government. The CIA nominated just one target during the entire war: the federal directorate of supply and procurement. Analysts had a street address but not coordinates, so they tried to reverse-engineer a location from three outdated maps. They ended up hitting the Chinese embassy – which had recently relocated – 300 metres from the building they were aiming for. The state department knew that the embassy had moved. The military’s facilities database did not. Target reviews failed to notice, because each validation relied on the last. Lindsay calls this “circular reporting”: an accumulation of supporting documents that “created the illusion of multiple validations” while amplifying a single error. The PowerPoint slide looked as well vetted as the hundreds of others that Nato struck without incident. On the night of the strike, an intelligence analyst phoned headquarters to express doubts. Asked specifically about collateral damage, he could not articulate a concern. The strike proceeded. It killed three Chinese journalists. Lindsay, writing in his journal at the time, called the result “an immense error, perfectly packaged”. The bombed out wreck of a concrete building is being steadily demolished by one mechanical digger on the third floor. View image in fullscreen The bomb-hit former Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 2010. Photograph: Andrej Isaković/AFP/Getty Images In 2005, Lt Col John Fyfe of the US air force published a study of time-sensitive targeting during the 2003 invasion. Fyfe highlighted the different ways UK and US forces approached this challenge. In the Combined Air Operations Center, RAF officers served in key leadership positions alongside their American counterparts. They operated under more restricted rules of engagement. Fyfe noted that their “more reserved, conservative personalities” produced what he called “a very positive dampening effect on the sometimes harried, chaotic pace of offensive operations”. The contrast between shifts was visible: American leaders pressed ahead full bore, while British officers methodically reconsidered risk and cost-benefit trade-offs before approving execution. On UK-led shifts, there were no friendly fire incidents and no significant collateral damage. On numerous occasions, Fyfe notes, the British officer in charge prevented the operation from getting ahead of itself. What the next generation of reformers would measure as latency – the delay between identifying a target and striking it – was the window in which mistakes could be caught. From inside the efficiency frame, every feature Fyfe describes registered as a defect. The UK shifts were slower. The restricted rules of engagement added constraints. The dampening effect added time. Speed saves lives, the argument goes, but the fastest targeting cycle before Maven was Garlasco’s, and it struck 50 buildings without hitting a single intended target. Scarlet Dragon eliminated all of it. The disagreements about targeting stopped. So did the deliberation, the hesitation and the moments when someone had time to object or notice something was off. Organisations that run on formal procedure need someone inside the process to interpret rules, notice exceptions, recognise when the categories no longer fit the case. If the organisation concedes that its outcomes depend on the discretion of the people executing it, then the procedure is not a procedure but a suggestion, and the authority the organisation derives from appearing rule-governed collapses. So the judgment has to happen, and it has to look like something else. It has to look like following the procedure rather than interpreting it. I’ve come to think of this as the “bureaucratic double bind” – the organisation cannot function without the judgment, and it cannot acknowledge the judgment without undermining itself and being seen as “political”. One solution to this problem is to replace the judgment with a number. In his 1995 book Trust in Numbers, the historian of science Theodore Porter argued that organisations adopt quantitative rules not because numbers are more accurate but because they are more defensible. Judgment is politically vulnerable. Rules are not. The procedure exists to make discretion disappear, or seem to. The system’s actual flexibility lives entirely in this unacknowledged interpretive work, which means it can be removed by anyone who mistakes it for inefficiency. In 1984, the historian David Noble showed that when the US military and American manufacturers automated their factory floors, they consistently chose systems that were slower and more expensive but which moved decision-making away from workers and into management. The point was not efficiency – it was frequently extremely wasteful – but control. A worker who understands what they are doing can exercise judgment the institution cannot govern. Move that understanding into the system, and the worker has nothing left to do but follow instructions. Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, describes exactly this achievement in his 2025 book, The Technological Republic. “Software is now at the helm,” he writes, with hardware “serving as the means by which the recommendations of AI are implemented in the world.” His model for what this should look like comes from nature: bee swarms and the murmurations of starlings. “There is no mediation of the information captured by the scouts once they return to the hive,” Karp writes. The starlings need no permission from above, they require “no weekly reports to middle management, no presentations to more senior leaders, no meetings or conference calls to prepare for other meetings”. This sounds liberating, even utopian. But the signal that passes without mediation is also the signal that nobody can question. Karp thinks he is destroying bureaucracy. He is encoding it. The contempt for meetings and weekly reports and presentations to senior leaders; he treats these as the bureaucratic process itself. They are not. They were where people interpreted procedure, the place where someone could notice when categories no longer fit the case. The targeting doctrine is still there. They are columns on a workflow board now, stages a target passes through on its way to being struck. What Karp eliminated was the discretion the institution could never admit it depended on. What remains is a bureaucracy that can execute its rules but with no one left to interpret them. Bureaucracy encoded in software does not bend. It shatters. The target package for the Shajareh Tayyebeh school presented a military facility. Lucy Suchman, whose 1987 book Plans and Situated Actions remains the sharpest account of how formal procedures obscure the work that actually produces their outcomes, would not have been surprised. Plans always look complete afterward. They achieve completeness by filtering out everything that wasn’t legible to their categories. This package looked like every other package in the queue. But outside the package, the school appeared in Iranian business listings. It was visible on Google Maps. A search engine could have found it. Nobody searched. At 1,000 decisions an hour, nobody was going to. A former senior government official asked the obvious question: “The building was on a target list for years. Yet this was missed, and the question is how.” How indeed. Aerial shot of five rows of graves, about 20 in a row, being dug by bucket-loader tractors, with those to be dug marked out in white lines on the grey ground. View image in fullscreen Graves being prepared after the school bombing in Iran. Photograph: Iranian Foreign Media Department/Reuters Congress did not authorise this war. In two weeks, American forces struck 6,000 targets. The school was one of them. American forces killed almost 200 people, and the reporting reached for “AI error”, which domesticated the event into something a better algorithm or better guardrails could have prevented. A US nuclear weapon test in Nevada in 1953. Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous Read more In the days after the strike, the charisma of AI organised the entire political conversation around the technology: whether Claude hallucinated, whether the model was aligned, whether Anthropic bore responsibility for its deployment. The constitutional question of who authorised this war and the legal question of whether this strike constitutes a war crime were displaced by a technical question that is easier to ask and impossible to answer in the terms it set. The Claude debate absorbed the energy. That is what charisma does. It has also occluded something deeper: the human decisions that led to the killing of between 175 and 180 people, most of them girls between the ages of seven and 12. Someone decided to compress the kill chain. Someone decided that deliberation was latency. Someone decided to build a system that produces 1,000 targeting decisions an hour and call them high-quality. Someone decided to start this war. Several hundred people are sitting on Capitol Hill, refusing to stop it. Calling it an “AI problem” gives those decisions, and those people, a place to hide.

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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity By Kevin T Baker Thu 26 Mar 2026 06.00 CET On the first morning of Operation Epic Fury, 28 February 2026, American forces struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, in southern Iran, hitting the building at least two times during the morning session. American forces killed between 175 and 180 people, most of them girls between the ages of seven and 12. Within days, the question that organised the coverage was whether Claude, a chatbot made by Anthropic, had selected the school as a target. Congress wrote to the US secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, about the extent of AI use in the strikes. The New Yorker magazine asked whether Claude could be trusted to obey orders in combat, whether it might resort to blackmail as a self-preservation strategy, and whether the Pentagon’s chief concern should be that the chatbot had a personality. Almost none of this had any relationship to reality. The targeting for Operation Epic Fury ran on a system called Maven. Nobody was arguing about Maven. The Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school after US bombing at the start of Operation Epic Fury. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Eight years ago, Maven was the most contested project in Silicon Valley. In 2018, more than 4,000 Google employees signed a letter opposing the company’s contract to build artificial intelligence for the Pentagon’s targeting systems. Workers organised a walk out. Engineers quit. And Google ultimately abandoned the contract. Palantir Technologies, a data analytics company and defence contractor co-founded by Peter Thiel, took it over and spent the next six years building Maven into a targeting infrastructure that pulls together satellite imagery, signals intelligence and sensor data to identify targets and carry them through every step from first detection to the order to strike. U.S. And Israel Wage War Against IranTEHRAN, IRAN - MARCH 28: A memorial for the victims of the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school bombing is on display on March 28, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. The bombing, in which U.S. forces hit the school with Tomahawk missiles while targeting an adjacent military base, killed between 175 and 180 people, most of them young female students. The United States and Israel have continued their joint attack on Iran that began on February 28. Iran retaliated by firing waves of missiles and drones at Israel and U.S. allies in the region, while also effectively blockading the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping route. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images) The building in Minab had been classified as a military facility in a Defense Intelligence Agency database that, according to CNN, had not been updated to reflect that the building had been separated from the adjacent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps compound and converted into a school, a change that satellite imagery shows had occurred by 2016 at the latest. A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal. By the start of the Iran war, Maven – the system that had enabled that speed – had sunk into the plumbing, it had become part of the military’s infrastructure, and the argument was all about Claude. This obsession with Claude is a kind of AI psychosis, though not of the kind we normally talk about, and it afflicts critics and opponents of the technology as fiercely as it does its boosters. You do not have to use a language model to let it organise your attention or distort your thinking. Graves being prepared for victims of a reported strike in Minab, Iran In 2019, the scholar Morgan Ames published The Charisma Machine, a study of how certain technologies draw attention, resources and attribution toward themselves and away from everything else. The usual framework for understanding this dynamic is “hype”, but hype only describes what boosters do, and it assigns critics a privileged debunking role that still leaves the technology at the centre of every argument. A charismatic technology shapes the whole field around it, the way a magnet organises iron filings. LLMs may be the most powerful instance of this type in history. By the time the war began, “AI safety” and “alignment” and “hallucination” and “stochastic parrots” had become the terms of every argument about artificial intelligence, structuring and limiting what we could even say. Worse, “artificial intelligence” itself had come to be synonymous with LLMs. When the school was bombed, those were the terms people reached for, despite the fact that this critical apparatus offered a poor fit for the older, more mature stack of technologies involved in targeting. The real question, the question almost nobody was asking, is not about Claude or any language model. It is a bureaucratic question about what happened to the kill chain, and the answer is Palantir. As military jargon goes, “kill chain” is a remarkably honest term. In essence, it refers to the bureaucratic framework for organising the steps between detecting something and destroying it. The oldest reference to the term itself I can find is from the 1990s, but the idea is quite old – dating at least to the 1760s, when French artillery reformers began replacing the gunner’s experienced eye with ballistic tables, elevation screws and standardised firing procedures. The steps in the kill chain are subject to constant change, to keep pace with changes in targeting doctrine, but also to incorporate whatever management fads come to afflict the military’s strategic thinkers. The US military has named and renamed the steps for 80 years. In the second world war the sequence was find, fix, fight, finish. By the 1990s the air force had stretched it to find, fix, track, target, engage, assess, or F2T2EA. Every generation of military technology has been sold on the promise of making everything about kill chains shorter, except for the acronyms. Palantir’s Maven Smart System is the latest iteration of this compression, and it grew out of a shift in strategic thinking during Obama’s second term. In 2014, the secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel, and his deputy, Robert Work, announced what they called the “third offset strategy”. An “offset” in this line of thinking is a bet that a technological advantage can compensate for a strategic weakness the country cannot fix directly. The first two offsets addressed the same problem: the United States could not match the Soviet Union in conventional forces. The thinking was that the Red Army could just continue to throw personnel at a problem, as they did at Stalingrad, or, to be anachronistic, as the contemporary Russian army did at Bakhmut and Avdiivka. Nuclear weapons, the first offset, made the personnel advantage irrelevant in the 1950s. When the Soviets reached nuclear parity in the 1970s, precision-guided munitions and stealth offered the promise that a smaller force could defeat a larger one. By 2014, that advantage was eroding. China and Russia had spent two decades acquiring precision-guided munitions and building defence systems designed to keep American forces out of range. Robert Work insisted that the third offset was not about any particular technology but about using technology to reorganise how the military operated, letting the US make decisions faster than China and Russia, overwhelming and disorienting the enemy by maintaining a faster operational tempo than they could match. A woman throws rose petals on the coffins during a funeral of children killed in the air strike on a girls’ primary school in Minab, Iran. View image in fullscreen At the funeral of children killed in the US strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school. Photograph: Amirhossein Khorgooei/AP In April 2017, early in the first Trump administration, Work helped establish the Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team, designated Project Maven. One of the generals overseeing Maven, Lt Gen Jack Shanahan, put the problem plainly: thousands of intelligence analysts were spending 80% of their time on mundane tasks, drowning in footage from surveillance drones that no one had time to watch. A single Predator drone mission could generate hundreds of hours of video, and the analysts tasked with understanding this were faced with an information overload problem. “We’re not going to solve it by throwing more people at the problem,” Shanahan said. “That’s the last thing that we actually want to do.” The core conceit of the project was that the machine could watch so that the analyst could think. The Pentagon needed someone to build it. Google took the contract, and what happened next became the most visible labour action in the history of Silicon Valley. After Google abandoned the Maven contract, Palantir took it over in 2019. The XVIII Airborne Corps began testing the system in an exercise called Scarlet Dragon, which started in 2020 as a tabletop wargaming exercise in a windowless basement at Fort Bragg. Its commander, Lt Gen Michael Erik Kurilla, wanted to build what he called the first “AI-enabled corps” in the army. The goal was to test whether the system could give a small team the targeting capacity that had previously required thousands of people. Over the next five years, Scarlet Dragon grew into a military exercise using live ammunition, spanning multiple states and branches of the armed forces, with “forward-deployed engineers” from Palantir and other contractors embedded alongside soldiers. Each time the exercise was run, it was meant to answer the same question: how fast could the system move from detection to decision? The benchmark was the 2003 invasion of Iraq, where roughly 2,000 people worked the targeting process for the entire war. During Scarlet Dragon, 20 soldiers using Maven handled the same volume of work. By 2024, the stated goal was 1,000 targeting decisions in an hour. That is 3.6 seconds per decision, or from the individual “targeteer’s” perspective, one decision every 72 seconds. The Maven Smart System is the platform that came out of those exercises, and it, not Claude, is what is being used to produce “target packages” in Iran. There are real limits to what a civilian such as myself can know about this system, and what follows is based on publicly available information, assembled from Palantir product demos, conferences, as well as instructional material produced for military users. But we can know quite a bit. The Maven interface looks like a military-skinned version of corporate project management software crossed with a mapping application. What the military analyst building the target list sees is either a map layered with intelligence data or a screen organised into columns, each representing a stage of the targeting process. Individual targets move across the columns from left to right as they progress through each stage, a format borrowed from Kanban, a “lean manufacturing” workflow system developed at Toyota, and now widely used in software development. Before Maven, operators worked across eight or nine separate systems simultaneously, pulling data from one, cross-referencing in another, manually moving detections between platforms to assemble the intelligence and approvals needed for each strike. Maven consolidated all of these behind a single interface. Cameron Stanley, the Pentagon’s chief digital and AI officer, called it an “abstraction layer”, a common term in software engineering, meaning a system that hides the complexity underneath it. Humans run the targeting. Underneath the interface, machine-learning systems analyse satellite imagery and sensor data to detect and classify objects, scoring each identification by how confident the system is that it got it right. Three clicks convert a data point on the map into a formal detection and move it into a targeting pipeline. These targets then move through columns representing different decision-making processes and rules of engagement. The system recommends how to strike each target – which aircraft, drone or missile to use, which weapon to pair with it – what the military calls a “course of action”. The officer selects from the ranked options, and the system, depending on who is using it, either sends the target package to an officer for approval or moves it to execution. The AI underneath the interface is not a language model, or at least the AI that counts is not. The core technologies are the same basic systems that recognise your cat in a photo library or let a self-driving car combine its camera, radar and lidar into a single picture of the road, applied here to drone footage, radar and satellite imagery of military targets. They predate large language models by years. Neither Claude nor any other LLMs detects targets, processes radar, fuses sensor data or pairs weapons to targets. LLMs are late additions to Palantir’s ecosystem. In late 2024, years after the core system was operational, Palantir added an LLM layer – this is where Claude sits – that lets analysts search and summarise intelligence reports in plain English. But the language model was never what mattered about this system. What mattered was what Maven did to the targeting process: it consolidated the systems, compressed the time and reduced the people. That is not a new idea. The US military has been trying to close the gap between seeing something and destroying it for as long as that gap has existed, and every attempt has produced the same failure. Maven may not even be the most extreme case. In the late 1960s, the US faced a version of the same problem in Vietnam. Supplies were moving south along the Ho Chi Minh trail through jungle the military could not see into. The solution was Operation Igloo White, a $1bn-a-year programme that scattered 20,000 acoustic and seismic sensors along the trail. These sensors transmitted data to relay aircraft overhead, which fed the signals to IBM 360 computers at Nakhon Phanom airbase in Thailand. The computers analysed the sensor data and predicted where convoys would be, and strike aircraft were directed to those coordinates. B&W photo showing porters on the Ho Chi Minh trail carrying boxes tied to canes that are carried on their shoulders. View image in fullscreen Lao and Vietnamese porters carrying supplies south along the Hoi Chi Minh trail to resupply the insurgency in the south, c1963. Photograph: Pictures from History/Universal Images Group/Getty Images The system could sense but it could not see. It could detect a vibration but it could not tell a truck from an ox cart. The North Vietnamese figured this out. They played recordings of truck engines, herded animals near the sensors to trigger vibration detection, and hung buckets of urine in trees to set off the chemical detectors. The system could be fooled because nobody in the process could look at what it was sensing. The air force claimed 46,000 trucks were destroyed or damaged over the course of the campaign. The CIA reported that the claims for a single year exceeded the total number of trucks believed to exist in all of North Vietnam. The system’s own output was the only measure of its performance, and nobody outside the system had standing to challenge it. Air force historian Bernard Nalty later called the service’s casualty computations “an exercise in metaphysics rather than mathematics” and his colleague Earl Tilford concluded that “the air force succeeded only in fooling itself”. When daytime reconnaissance flights failed to find the wreckage of all those trucks, air force personnel invented a creature to explain the absence. They called it the “great Laotian truck eater”. The pattern that played out in Vietnam – a targeting system that could only measure its own performance and ended up believing its own output – is actually older than digital computing. Michael Sherry’s 1987 book The Rise of American Air Power traces it to the founding doctrine of precision bombing, whose confidence in its own methods made examining what those methods produced unnecessary. “Belief in success,” Sherry wrote, “encouraged imprecision about how to achieve it.” By 1944, operations analysts on both sides of the Atlantic were measuring bombing in a shared language of industrial optimisation. Civilians bombed out of their homes were recorded as “dehoused”. For every tonne of bombs dropped, analysts calculated how many hours of enemy labour it destroyed. One British evaluation treated the bomber itself as a capital asset: a single sortie against a German city wiped off the cost of building the aircraft, and everything after that was “clear profit”. Sherry called the resulting mindset “technological fanaticism”. Sherry’s point was not that anyone chose destruction. It was that the people refining the technique of bombing stopped asking what the bombing was for. But even by the time the operations researchers had got their hands on targeting, this logic was already taking shape. As the historian of science William Thomas has argued, the operations analysts did not impose this logic on the military; the military was already converting operational experience into systematic procedure, and had been for decades. Nobody stopped making judgments. But the judgments were no longer about whether the bombing served a strategic purpose. They were about how to measure it and how to optimise around those measurements. Carl von Clausewitz, the 19th-century Prussian general whose writings remain the foundation of western military thought, had a word for everything the optimisation leaves out. He called it “friction”, the accumulation of uncertainty, error and contradiction that ensures no operation goes as planned. But friction is also where judgment forms. Clausewitz observed that most intelligence is false, that reports contradict each other. The commander who has worked through this learns to see the way an eye adjusts to darkness, not by getting better light but by staying long enough to use what light there is. This “staying” is what takes time. Compress the time and the friction does not disappear. You just stop noticing it. Clausewitz called this kind of planning a “war on paper”. The plan proceeds without resistance, not because there is none, but because everything connecting the plan to the real world has been stripped out. skip past newsletter promotion Sign up to The Long Read Free weekly newsletter Lose yourself in a great story: from politics to psychology, food to technology, culture to crime Enter your email address Marketing preferences Get updates about our journalism and ways to support and enjoy our work. Sign up Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy. after newsletter promotion Air power is uniquely vulnerable to this. The pilot never sees what the bomb hits. The analyst works from imagery, coordinates and databases. The entire enterprise is mediated by representations of the target, not the target itself, which means the gap between the package and the world can widen without anyone in the process feeling it. The 2003 invasion of Iraq, the operation that Scarlet Dragon would later use as its benchmark, was a case in point. Marc Garlasco, the Pentagon’s chief of high-value targeting during the invasion, ran the fastest targeting cycle the US had operated to that point. He recommended 50 strikes on senior Iraqi leadership. The bombs were precise – they hit exactly where they were aimed – but the intelligence behind them was not. None of the 50 killed its intended target. Two weeks after the invasion, Garlasco left the Pentagon for Human Rights Watch, went to Iraq, and stood in the crater of a strike he had targeted himself. “These aren’t just nameless, faceless targets,” he said later. “This is a place where people are going to feel ramifications for a long time.” The targeting cycle had been fast enough to hit 50 buildings and too fast to discover it was hitting the wrong ones. The air force’s own targeting guide, in effect during the Iraq war, said this was never supposed to happen. Published in 1998, it described the six functions of targeting as “intertwined”, with the targeteer moving “back” to refine objectives and “forward” to assess feasibility. “The best analysis,” the manual stated, “is reasoned thought with facts and conclusions, not a checklist.” But Jon Lindsay, who served as a navy intelligence officer in Kosovo and later studied special operations targeting in Iraq, found something different. Once a target was reified on a PowerPoint slide – the target intelligence package, or TIP – it became a black box. Questioning the assumptions behind it got harder as the hunt gained momentum, as the folder thickened with what Lindsay calls “representational residua”. There was more machinery for building up a target than for inspecting the quality of its construction. Personnel became disinclined to ask whether some targets were potential allies, or not actually bad guys at all, because producing targets meant participating in the hunt. The targeting guide had warned about this too. “If targeteers don’t provide full targeting service,” it read, “then other well meaning but undertrained and ill-experienced groups will step in.” Maven eventually would. Lindsay’s book Information Technology and Military Power is the most careful study I’ve found of how targeting actually works, at least partially because it was written by someone who actually did it. During the Kosovo air war, Gen Wesley Clark demanded 2,000 targets, which made it easy to justify any target’s connection to the Milošević government. The CIA nominated just one target during the entire war: the federal directorate of supply and procurement. Analysts had a street address but not coordinates, so they tried to reverse-engineer a location from three outdated maps. They ended up hitting the Chinese embassy – which had recently relocated – 300 metres from the building they were aiming for. The state department knew that the embassy had moved. The military’s facilities database did not. Target reviews failed to notice, because each validation relied on the last. Lindsay calls this “circular reporting”: an accumulation of supporting documents that “created the illusion of multiple validations” while amplifying a single error. The PowerPoint slide looked as well vetted as the hundreds of others that Nato struck without incident. On the night of the strike, an intelligence analyst phoned headquarters to express doubts. Asked specifically about collateral damage, he could not articulate a concern. The strike proceeded. It killed three Chinese journalists. Lindsay, writing in his journal at the time, called the result “an immense error, perfectly packaged”. The bombed out wreck of a concrete building is being steadily demolished by one mechanical digger on the third floor. View image in fullscreen The bomb-hit former Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 2010. Photograph: Andrej Isaković/AFP/Getty Images In 2005, Lt Col John Fyfe of the US air force published a study of time-sensitive targeting during the 2003 invasion. Fyfe highlighted the different ways UK and US forces approached this challenge. In the Combined Air Operations Center, RAF officers served in key leadership positions alongside their American counterparts. They operated under more restricted rules of engagement. Fyfe noted that their “more reserved, conservative personalities” produced what he called “a very positive dampening effect on the sometimes harried, chaotic pace of offensive operations”. The contrast between shifts was visible: American leaders pressed ahead full bore, while British officers methodically reconsidered risk and cost-benefit trade-offs before approving execution. On UK-led shifts, there were no friendly fire incidents and no significant collateral damage. On numerous occasions, Fyfe notes, the British officer in charge prevented the operation from getting ahead of itself. What the next generation of reformers would measure as latency – the delay between identifying a target and striking it – was the window in which mistakes could be caught. From inside the efficiency frame, every feature Fyfe describes registered as a defect. The UK shifts were slower. The restricted rules of engagement added constraints. The dampening effect added time. Speed saves lives, the argument goes, but the fastest targeting cycle before Maven was Garlasco’s, and it struck 50 buildings without hitting a single intended target. Scarlet Dragon eliminated all of it. The disagreements about targeting stopped. So did the deliberation, the hesitation and the moments when someone had time to object or notice something was off. Organisations that run on formal procedure need someone inside the process to interpret rules, notice exceptions, recognise when the categories no longer fit the case. If the organisation concedes that its outcomes depend on the discretion of the people executing it, then the procedure is not a procedure but a suggestion, and the authority the organisation derives from appearing rule-governed collapses. So the judgment has to happen, and it has to look like something else. It has to look like following the procedure rather than interpreting it. I’ve come to think of this as the “bureaucratic double bind” – the organisation cannot function without the judgment, and it cannot acknowledge the judgment without undermining itself and being seen as “political”. One solution to this problem is to replace the judgment with a number. In his 1995 book Trust in Numbers, the historian of science Theodore Porter argued that organisations adopt quantitative rules not because numbers are more accurate but because they are more defensible. Judgment is politically vulnerable. Rules are not. The procedure exists to make discretion disappear, or seem to. The system’s actual flexibility lives entirely in this unacknowledged interpretive work, which means it can be removed by anyone who mistakes it for inefficiency. In 1984, the historian David Noble showed that when the US military and American manufacturers automated their factory floors, they consistently chose systems that were slower and more expensive but which moved decision-making away from workers and into management. The point was not efficiency – it was frequently extremely wasteful – but control. A worker who understands what they are doing can exercise judgment the institution cannot govern. Move that understanding into the system, and the worker has nothing left to do but follow instructions. Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, describes exactly this achievement in his 2025 book, The Technological Republic. “Software is now at the helm,” he writes, with hardware “serving as the means by which the recommendations of AI are implemented in the world.” His model for what this should look like comes from nature: bee swarms and the murmurations of starlings. “There is no mediation of the information captured by the scouts once they return to the hive,” Karp writes. The starlings need no permission from above, they require “no weekly reports to middle management, no presentations to more senior leaders, no meetings or conference calls to prepare for other meetings”. This sounds liberating, even utopian. But the signal that passes without mediation is also the signal that nobody can question. Karp thinks he is destroying bureaucracy. He is encoding it. The contempt for meetings and weekly reports and presentations to senior leaders; he treats these as the bureaucratic process itself. They are not. They were where people interpreted procedure, the place where someone could notice when categories no longer fit the case. The targeting doctrine is still there. They are columns on a workflow board now, stages a target passes through on its way to being struck. What Karp eliminated was the discretion the institution could never admit it depended on. What remains is a bureaucracy that can execute its rules but with no one left to interpret them. Bureaucracy encoded in software does not bend. It shatters. The target package for the Shajareh Tayyebeh school presented a military facility. Lucy Suchman, whose 1987 book Plans and Situated Actions remains the sharpest account of how formal procedures obscure the work that actually produces their outcomes, would not have been surprised. Plans always look complete afterward. They achieve completeness by filtering out everything that wasn’t legible to their categories. This package looked like every other package in the queue. But outside the package, the school appeared in Iranian business listings. It was visible on Google Maps. A search engine could have found it. Nobody searched. At 1,000 decisions an hour, nobody was going to. A former senior government official asked the obvious question: “The building was on a target list for years. Yet this was missed, and the question is how.” How indeed. Aerial shot of five rows of graves, about 20 in a row, being dug by bucket-loader tractors, with those to be dug marked out in white lines on the grey ground. View image in fullscreen Graves being prepared after the school bombing in Iran. Photograph: Iranian Foreign Media Department/Reuters Congress did not authorise this war. In two weeks, American forces struck 6,000 targets. The school was one of them. American forces killed almost 200 people, and the reporting reached for “AI error”, which domesticated the event into something a better algorithm or better guardrails could have prevented. A US nuclear weapon test in Nevada in 1953. Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous Read more In the days after the strike, the charisma of AI organised the entire political conversation around the technology: whether Claude hallucinated, whether the model was aligned, whether Anthropic bore responsibility for its deployment. The constitutional question of who authorised this war and the legal question of whether this strike constitutes a war crime were displaced by a technical question that is easier to ask and impossible to answer in the terms it set. The Claude debate absorbed the energy. That is what charisma does. It has also occluded something deeper: the human decisions that led to the killing of between 175 and 180 people, most of them girls between the ages of seven and 12. Someone decided to compress the kill chain. Someone decided that deliberation was latency. Someone decided to build a system that produces 1,000 targeting decisions an hour and call them high-quality. Someone decided to start this war. Several hundred people are sitting on Capitol Hill, refusing to stop it. Calling it an “AI problem” gives those decisions, and those people, a place to hide.

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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity By Kevin T Baker Thu 26 Mar 2026 06.00 CET On the first morning of Operation Epic Fury, 28 February 2026, American forces struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, in southern Iran, hitting the building at least two times during the morning session. American forces killed between 175 and 180 people, most of them girls between the ages of seven and 12. Within days, the question that organised the coverage was whether Claude, a chatbot made by Anthropic, had selected the school as a target. Congress wrote to the US secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, about the extent of AI use in the strikes. The New Yorker magazine asked whether Claude could be trusted to obey orders in combat, whether it might resort to blackmail as a self-preservation strategy, and whether the Pentagon’s chief concern should be that the chatbot had a personality. Almost none of this had any relationship to reality. The targeting for Operation Epic Fury ran on a system called Maven. Nobody was arguing about Maven. The Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school after US bombing at the start of Operation Epic Fury. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Eight years ago, Maven was the most contested project in Silicon Valley. In 2018, more than 4,000 Google employees signed a letter opposing the company’s contract to build artificial intelligence for the Pentagon’s targeting systems. Workers organised a walk out. Engineers quit. And Google ultimately abandoned the contract. Palantir Technologies, a data analytics company and defence contractor co-founded by Peter Thiel, took it over and spent the next six years building Maven into a targeting infrastructure that pulls together satellite imagery, signals intelligence and sensor data to identify targets and carry them through every step from first detection to the order to strike. U.S. And Israel Wage War Against IranTEHRAN, IRAN - MARCH 28: A memorial for the victims of the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school bombing is on display on March 28, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. The bombing, in which U.S. forces hit the school with Tomahawk missiles while targeting an adjacent military base, killed between 175 and 180 people, most of them young female students. The United States and Israel have continued their joint attack on Iran that began on February 28. Iran retaliated by firing waves of missiles and drones at Israel and U.S. allies in the region, while also effectively blockading the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping route. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images) The building in Minab had been classified as a military facility in a Defense Intelligence Agency database that, according to CNN, had not been updated to reflect that the building had been separated from the adjacent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps compound and converted into a school, a change that satellite imagery shows had occurred by 2016 at the latest. A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal. By the start of the Iran war, Maven – the system that had enabled that speed – had sunk into the plumbing, it had become part of the military’s infrastructure, and the argument was all about Claude. This obsession with Claude is a kind of AI psychosis, though not of the kind we normally talk about, and it afflicts critics and opponents of the technology as fiercely as it does its boosters. You do not have to use a language model to let it organise your attention or distort your thinking. Graves being prepared for victims of a reported strike in Minab, Iran In 2019, the scholar Morgan Ames published The Charisma Machine, a study of how certain technologies draw attention, resources and attribution toward themselves and away from everything else. The usual framework for understanding this dynamic is “hype”, but hype only describes what boosters do, and it assigns critics a privileged debunking role that still leaves the technology at the centre of every argument. A charismatic technology shapes the whole field around it, the way a magnet organises iron filings. LLMs may be the most powerful instance of this type in history. By the time the war began, “AI safety” and “alignment” and “hallucination” and “stochastic parrots” had become the terms of every argument about artificial intelligence, structuring and limiting what we could even say. Worse, “artificial intelligence” itself had come to be synonymous with LLMs. When the school was bombed, those were the terms people reached for, despite the fact that this critical apparatus offered a poor fit for the older, more mature stack of technologies involved in targeting. The real question, the question almost nobody was asking, is not about Claude or any language model. It is a bureaucratic question about what happened to the kill chain, and the answer is Palantir. As military jargon goes, “kill chain” is a remarkably honest term. In essence, it refers to the bureaucratic framework for organising the steps between detecting something and destroying it. The oldest reference to the term itself I can find is from the 1990s, but the idea is quite old – dating at least to the 1760s, when French artillery reformers began replacing the gunner’s experienced eye with ballistic tables, elevation screws and standardised firing procedures. The steps in the kill chain are subject to constant change, to keep pace with changes in targeting doctrine, but also to incorporate whatever management fads come to afflict the military’s strategic thinkers. The US military has named and renamed the steps for 80 years. In the second world war the sequence was find, fix, fight, finish. By the 1990s the air force had stretched it to find, fix, track, target, engage, assess, or F2T2EA. Every generation of military technology has been sold on the promise of making everything about kill chains shorter, except for the acronyms. Palantir’s Maven Smart System is the latest iteration of this compression, and it grew out of a shift in strategic thinking during Obama’s second term. In 2014, the secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel, and his deputy, Robert Work, announced what they called the “third offset strategy”. An “offset” in this line of thinking is a bet that a technological advantage can compensate for a strategic weakness the country cannot fix directly. The first two offsets addressed the same problem: the United States could not match the Soviet Union in conventional forces. The thinking was that the Red Army could just continue to throw personnel at a problem, as they did at Stalingrad, or, to be anachronistic, as the contemporary Russian army did at Bakhmut and Avdiivka. Nuclear weapons, the first offset, made the personnel advantage irrelevant in the 1950s. When the Soviets reached nuclear parity in the 1970s, precision-guided munitions and stealth offered the promise that a smaller force could defeat a larger one. By 2014, that advantage was eroding. China and Russia had spent two decades acquiring precision-guided munitions and building defence systems designed to keep American forces out of range. Robert Work insisted that the third offset was not about any particular technology but about using technology to reorganise how the military operated, letting the US make decisions faster than China and Russia, overwhelming and disorienting the enemy by maintaining a faster operational tempo than they could match. A woman throws rose petals on the coffins during a funeral of children killed in the air strike on a girls’ primary school in Minab, Iran. View image in fullscreen At the funeral of children killed in the US strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school. Photograph: Amirhossein Khorgooei/AP In April 2017, early in the first Trump administration, Work helped establish the Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team, designated Project Maven. One of the generals overseeing Maven, Lt Gen Jack Shanahan, put the problem plainly: thousands of intelligence analysts were spending 80% of their time on mundane tasks, drowning in footage from surveillance drones that no one had time to watch. A single Predator drone mission could generate hundreds of hours of video, and the analysts tasked with understanding this were faced with an information overload problem. “We’re not going to solve it by throwing more people at the problem,” Shanahan said. “That’s the last thing that we actually want to do.” The core conceit of the project was that the machine could watch so that the analyst could think. The Pentagon needed someone to build it. Google took the contract, and what happened next became the most visible labour action in the history of Silicon Valley. After Google abandoned the Maven contract, Palantir took it over in 2019. The XVIII Airborne Corps began testing the system in an exercise called Scarlet Dragon, which started in 2020 as a tabletop wargaming exercise in a windowless basement at Fort Bragg. Its commander, Lt Gen Michael Erik Kurilla, wanted to build what he called the first “AI-enabled corps” in the army. The goal was to test whether the system could give a small team the targeting capacity that had previously required thousands of people. Over the next five years, Scarlet Dragon grew into a military exercise using live ammunition, spanning multiple states and branches of the armed forces, with “forward-deployed engineers” from Palantir and other contractors embedded alongside soldiers. Each time the exercise was run, it was meant to answer the same question: how fast could the system move from detection to decision? The benchmark was the 2003 invasion of Iraq, where roughly 2,000 people worked the targeting process for the entire war. During Scarlet Dragon, 20 soldiers using Maven handled the same volume of work. By 2024, the stated goal was 1,000 targeting decisions in an hour. That is 3.6 seconds per decision, or from the individual “targeteer’s” perspective, one decision every 72 seconds. The Maven Smart System is the platform that came out of those exercises, and it, not Claude, is what is being used to produce “target packages” in Iran. There are real limits to what a civilian such as myself can know about this system, and what follows is based on publicly available information, assembled from Palantir product demos, conferences, as well as instructional material produced for military users. But we can know quite a bit. The Maven interface looks like a military-skinned version of corporate project management software crossed with a mapping application. What the military analyst building the target list sees is either a map layered with intelligence data or a screen organised into columns, each representing a stage of the targeting process. Individual targets move across the columns from left to right as they progress through each stage, a format borrowed from Kanban, a “lean manufacturing” workflow system developed at Toyota, and now widely used in software development. Before Maven, operators worked across eight or nine separate systems simultaneously, pulling data from one, cross-referencing in another, manually moving detections between platforms to assemble the intelligence and approvals needed for each strike. Maven consolidated all of these behind a single interface. Cameron Stanley, the Pentagon’s chief digital and AI officer, called it an “abstraction layer”, a common term in software engineering, meaning a system that hides the complexity underneath it. Humans run the targeting. Underneath the interface, machine-learning systems analyse satellite imagery and sensor data to detect and classify objects, scoring each identification by how confident the system is that it got it right. Three clicks convert a data point on the map into a formal detection and move it into a targeting pipeline. These targets then move through columns representing different decision-making processes and rules of engagement. The system recommends how to strike each target – which aircraft, drone or missile to use, which weapon to pair with it – what the military calls a “course of action”. The officer selects from the ranked options, and the system, depending on who is using it, either sends the target package to an officer for approval or moves it to execution. The AI underneath the interface is not a language model, or at least the AI that counts is not. The core technologies are the same basic systems that recognise your cat in a photo library or let a self-driving car combine its camera, radar and lidar into a single picture of the road, applied here to drone footage, radar and satellite imagery of military targets. They predate large language models by years. Neither Claude nor any other LLMs detects targets, processes radar, fuses sensor data or pairs weapons to targets. LLMs are late additions to Palantir’s ecosystem. In late 2024, years after the core system was operational, Palantir added an LLM layer – this is where Claude sits – that lets analysts search and summarise intelligence reports in plain English. But the language model was never what mattered about this system. What mattered was what Maven did to the targeting process: it consolidated the systems, compressed the time and reduced the people. That is not a new idea. The US military has been trying to close the gap between seeing something and destroying it for as long as that gap has existed, and every attempt has produced the same failure. Maven may not even be the most extreme case. In the late 1960s, the US faced a version of the same problem in Vietnam. Supplies were moving south along the Ho Chi Minh trail through jungle the military could not see into. The solution was Operation Igloo White, a $1bn-a-year programme that scattered 20,000 acoustic and seismic sensors along the trail. These sensors transmitted data to relay aircraft overhead, which fed the signals to IBM 360 computers at Nakhon Phanom airbase in Thailand. The computers analysed the sensor data and predicted where convoys would be, and strike aircraft were directed to those coordinates. B&W photo showing porters on the Ho Chi Minh trail carrying boxes tied to canes that are carried on their shoulders. View image in fullscreen Lao and Vietnamese porters carrying supplies south along the Hoi Chi Minh trail to resupply the insurgency in the south, c1963. Photograph: Pictures from History/Universal Images Group/Getty Images The system could sense but it could not see. It could detect a vibration but it could not tell a truck from an ox cart. The North Vietnamese figured this out. They played recordings of truck engines, herded animals near the sensors to trigger vibration detection, and hung buckets of urine in trees to set off the chemical detectors. The system could be fooled because nobody in the process could look at what it was sensing. The air force claimed 46,000 trucks were destroyed or damaged over the course of the campaign. The CIA reported that the claims for a single year exceeded the total number of trucks believed to exist in all of North Vietnam. The system’s own output was the only measure of its performance, and nobody outside the system had standing to challenge it. Air force historian Bernard Nalty later called the service’s casualty computations “an exercise in metaphysics rather than mathematics” and his colleague Earl Tilford concluded that “the air force succeeded only in fooling itself”. When daytime reconnaissance flights failed to find the wreckage of all those trucks, air force personnel invented a creature to explain the absence. They called it the “great Laotian truck eater”. The pattern that played out in Vietnam – a targeting system that could only measure its own performance and ended up believing its own output – is actually older than digital computing. Michael Sherry’s 1987 book The Rise of American Air Power traces it to the founding doctrine of precision bombing, whose confidence in its own methods made examining what those methods produced unnecessary. “Belief in success,” Sherry wrote, “encouraged imprecision about how to achieve it.” By 1944, operations analysts on both sides of the Atlantic were measuring bombing in a shared language of industrial optimisation. Civilians bombed out of their homes were recorded as “dehoused”. For every tonne of bombs dropped, analysts calculated how many hours of enemy labour it destroyed. One British evaluation treated the bomber itself as a capital asset: a single sortie against a German city wiped off the cost of building the aircraft, and everything after that was “clear profit”. Sherry called the resulting mindset “technological fanaticism”. Sherry’s point was not that anyone chose destruction. It was that the people refining the technique of bombing stopped asking what the bombing was for. But even by the time the operations researchers had got their hands on targeting, this logic was already taking shape. As the historian of science William Thomas has argued, the operations analysts did not impose this logic on the military; the military was already converting operational experience into systematic procedure, and had been for decades. Nobody stopped making judgments. But the judgments were no longer about whether the bombing served a strategic purpose. They were about how to measure it and how to optimise around those measurements. Carl von Clausewitz, the 19th-century Prussian general whose writings remain the foundation of western military thought, had a word for everything the optimisation leaves out. He called it “friction”, the accumulation of uncertainty, error and contradiction that ensures no operation goes as planned. But friction is also where judgment forms. Clausewitz observed that most intelligence is false, that reports contradict each other. The commander who has worked through this learns to see the way an eye adjusts to darkness, not by getting better light but by staying long enough to use what light there is. This “staying” is what takes time. Compress the time and the friction does not disappear. You just stop noticing it. Clausewitz called this kind of planning a “war on paper”. The plan proceeds without resistance, not because there is none, but because everything connecting the plan to the real world has been stripped out. skip past newsletter promotion Sign up to The Long Read Free weekly newsletter Lose yourself in a great story: from politics to psychology, food to technology, culture to crime Enter your email address Marketing preferences Get updates about our journalism and ways to support and enjoy our work. Sign up Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy. after newsletter promotion Air power is uniquely vulnerable to this. The pilot never sees what the bomb hits. The analyst works from imagery, coordinates and databases. The entire enterprise is mediated by representations of the target, not the target itself, which means the gap between the package and the world can widen without anyone in the process feeling it. The 2003 invasion of Iraq, the operation that Scarlet Dragon would later use as its benchmark, was a case in point. Marc Garlasco, the Pentagon’s chief of high-value targeting during the invasion, ran the fastest targeting cycle the US had operated to that point. He recommended 50 strikes on senior Iraqi leadership. The bombs were precise – they hit exactly where they were aimed – but the intelligence behind them was not. None of the 50 killed its intended target. Two weeks after the invasion, Garlasco left the Pentagon for Human Rights Watch, went to Iraq, and stood in the crater of a strike he had targeted himself. “These aren’t just nameless, faceless targets,” he said later. “This is a place where people are going to feel ramifications for a long time.” The targeting cycle had been fast enough to hit 50 buildings and too fast to discover it was hitting the wrong ones. The air force’s own targeting guide, in effect during the Iraq war, said this was never supposed to happen. Published in 1998, it described the six functions of targeting as “intertwined”, with the targeteer moving “back” to refine objectives and “forward” to assess feasibility. “The best analysis,” the manual stated, “is reasoned thought with facts and conclusions, not a checklist.” But Jon Lindsay, who served as a navy intelligence officer in Kosovo and later studied special operations targeting in Iraq, found something different. Once a target was reified on a PowerPoint slide – the target intelligence package, or TIP – it became a black box. Questioning the assumptions behind it got harder as the hunt gained momentum, as the folder thickened with what Lindsay calls “representational residua”. There was more machinery for building up a target than for inspecting the quality of its construction. Personnel became disinclined to ask whether some targets were potential allies, or not actually bad guys at all, because producing targets meant participating in the hunt. The targeting guide had warned about this too. “If targeteers don’t provide full targeting service,” it read, “then other well meaning but undertrained and ill-experienced groups will step in.” Maven eventually would. Lindsay’s book Information Technology and Military Power is the most careful study I’ve found of how targeting actually works, at least partially because it was written by someone who actually did it. During the Kosovo air war, Gen Wesley Clark demanded 2,000 targets, which made it easy to justify any target’s connection to the Milošević government. The CIA nominated just one target during the entire war: the federal directorate of supply and procurement. Analysts had a street address but not coordinates, so they tried to reverse-engineer a location from three outdated maps. They ended up hitting the Chinese embassy – which had recently relocated – 300 metres from the building they were aiming for. The state department knew that the embassy had moved. The military’s facilities database did not. Target reviews failed to notice, because each validation relied on the last. Lindsay calls this “circular reporting”: an accumulation of supporting documents that “created the illusion of multiple validations” while amplifying a single error. The PowerPoint slide looked as well vetted as the hundreds of others that Nato struck without incident. On the night of the strike, an intelligence analyst phoned headquarters to express doubts. Asked specifically about collateral damage, he could not articulate a concern. The strike proceeded. It killed three Chinese journalists. Lindsay, writing in his journal at the time, called the result “an immense error, perfectly packaged”. The bombed out wreck of a concrete building is being steadily demolished by one mechanical digger on the third floor. View image in fullscreen The bomb-hit former Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 2010. Photograph: Andrej Isaković/AFP/Getty Images In 2005, Lt Col John Fyfe of the US air force published a study of time-sensitive targeting during the 2003 invasion. Fyfe highlighted the different ways UK and US forces approached this challenge. In the Combined Air Operations Center, RAF officers served in key leadership positions alongside their American counterparts. They operated under more restricted rules of engagement. Fyfe noted that their “more reserved, conservative personalities” produced what he called “a very positive dampening effect on the sometimes harried, chaotic pace of offensive operations”. The contrast between shifts was visible: American leaders pressed ahead full bore, while British officers methodically reconsidered risk and cost-benefit trade-offs before approving execution. On UK-led shifts, there were no friendly fire incidents and no significant collateral damage. On numerous occasions, Fyfe notes, the British officer in charge prevented the operation from getting ahead of itself. What the next generation of reformers would measure as latency – the delay between identifying a target and striking it – was the window in which mistakes could be caught. From inside the efficiency frame, every feature Fyfe describes registered as a defect. The UK shifts were slower. The restricted rules of engagement added constraints. The dampening effect added time. Speed saves lives, the argument goes, but the fastest targeting cycle before Maven was Garlasco’s, and it struck 50 buildings without hitting a single intended target. Scarlet Dragon eliminated all of it. The disagreements about targeting stopped. So did the deliberation, the hesitation and the moments when someone had time to object or notice something was off. Organisations that run on formal procedure need someone inside the process to interpret rules, notice exceptions, recognise when the categories no longer fit the case. If the organisation concedes that its outcomes depend on the discretion of the people executing it, then the procedure is not a procedure but a suggestion, and the authority the organisation derives from appearing rule-governed collapses. So the judgment has to happen, and it has to look like something else. It has to look like following the procedure rather than interpreting it. I’ve come to think of this as the “bureaucratic double bind” – the organisation cannot function without the judgment, and it cannot acknowledge the judgment without undermining itself and being seen as “political”. One solution to this problem is to replace the judgment with a number. In his 1995 book Trust in Numbers, the historian of science Theodore Porter argued that organisations adopt quantitative rules not because numbers are more accurate but because they are more defensible. Judgment is politically vulnerable. Rules are not. The procedure exists to make discretion disappear, or seem to. The system’s actual flexibility lives entirely in this unacknowledged interpretive work, which means it can be removed by anyone who mistakes it for inefficiency. In 1984, the historian David Noble showed that when the US military and American manufacturers automated their factory floors, they consistently chose systems that were slower and more expensive but which moved decision-making away from workers and into management. The point was not efficiency – it was frequently extremely wasteful – but control. A worker who understands what they are doing can exercise judgment the institution cannot govern. Move that understanding into the system, and the worker has nothing left to do but follow instructions. Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, describes exactly this achievement in his 2025 book, The Technological Republic. “Software is now at the helm,” he writes, with hardware “serving as the means by which the recommendations of AI are implemented in the world.” His model for what this should look like comes from nature: bee swarms and the murmurations of starlings. “There is no mediation of the information captured by the scouts once they return to the hive,” Karp writes. The starlings need no permission from above, they require “no weekly reports to middle management, no presentations to more senior leaders, no meetings or conference calls to prepare for other meetings”. This sounds liberating, even utopian. But the signal that passes without mediation is also the signal that nobody can question. Karp thinks he is destroying bureaucracy. He is encoding it. The contempt for meetings and weekly reports and presentations to senior leaders; he treats these as the bureaucratic process itself. They are not. They were where people interpreted procedure, the place where someone could notice when categories no longer fit the case. The targeting doctrine is still there. They are columns on a workflow board now, stages a target passes through on its way to being struck. What Karp eliminated was the discretion the institution could never admit it depended on. What remains is a bureaucracy that can execute its rules but with no one left to interpret them. Bureaucracy encoded in software does not bend. It shatters. The target package for the Shajareh Tayyebeh school presented a military facility. Lucy Suchman, whose 1987 book Plans and Situated Actions remains the sharpest account of how formal procedures obscure the work that actually produces their outcomes, would not have been surprised. Plans always look complete afterward. They achieve completeness by filtering out everything that wasn’t legible to their categories. This package looked like every other package in the queue. But outside the package, the school appeared in Iranian business listings. It was visible on Google Maps. A search engine could have found it. Nobody searched. At 1,000 decisions an hour, nobody was going to. A former senior government official asked the obvious question: “The building was on a target list for years. Yet this was missed, and the question is how.” How indeed. Aerial shot of five rows of graves, about 20 in a row, being dug by bucket-loader tractors, with those to be dug marked out in white lines on the grey ground. View image in fullscreen Graves being prepared after the school bombing in Iran. Photograph: Iranian Foreign Media Department/Reuters Congress did not authorise this war. In two weeks, American forces struck 6,000 targets. The school was one of them. American forces killed almost 200 people, and the reporting reached for “AI error”, which domesticated the event into something a better algorithm or better guardrails could have prevented. A US nuclear weapon test in Nevada in 1953. Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous Read more In the days after the strike, the charisma of AI organised the entire political conversation around the technology: whether Claude hallucinated, whether the model was aligned, whether Anthropic bore responsibility for its deployment. The constitutional question of who authorised this war and the legal question of whether this strike constitutes a war crime were displaced by a technical question that is easier to ask and impossible to answer in the terms it set. The Claude debate absorbed the energy. That is what charisma does. It has also occluded something deeper: the human decisions that led to the killing of between 175 and 180 people, most of them girls between the ages of seven and 12. Someone decided to compress the kill chain. Someone decided that deliberation was latency. Someone decided to build a system that produces 1,000 targeting decisions an hour and call them high-quality. Someone decided to start this war. Several hundred people are sitting on Capitol Hill, refusing to stop it. Calling it an “AI problem” gives those decisions, and those people, a place to hide.

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AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity By Kevin T Baker Thu 26 Mar 2026 06.00 CET On the first morning of Operation Epic Fury, 28 February 2026, American forces struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, in southern Iran, hitting the building at least two times during the morning session. American forces killed between 175 and 180 people, most of them girls between the ages of seven and 12. Within days, the question that organised the coverage was whether Claude, a chatbot made by Anthropic, had selected the school as a target. Congress wrote to the US secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, about the extent of AI use in the strikes. The New Yorker magazine asked whether Claude could be trusted to obey orders in combat, whether it might resort to blackmail as a self-preservation strategy, and whether the Pentagon’s chief concern should be that the chatbot had a personality. Almost none of this had any relationship to reality. The targeting for Operation Epic Fury ran on a system called Maven. Nobody was arguing about Maven. The Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school after US bombing at the start of Operation Epic Fury. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images Eight years ago, Maven was the most contested project in Silicon Valley. In 2018, more than 4,000 Google employees signed a letter opposing the company’s contract to build artificial intelligence for the Pentagon’s targeting systems. Workers organised a walk out. Engineers quit. And Google ultimately abandoned the contract. Palantir Technologies, a data analytics company and defence contractor co-founded by Peter Thiel, took it over and spent the next six years building Maven into a targeting infrastructure that pulls together satellite imagery, signals intelligence and sensor data to identify targets and carry them through every step from first detection to the order to strike. U.S. And Israel Wage War Against IranTEHRAN, IRAN - MARCH 28: A memorial for the victims of the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school bombing is on display on March 28, 2026 in Tehran, Iran. The bombing, in which U.S. forces hit the school with Tomahawk missiles while targeting an adjacent military base, killed between 175 and 180 people, most of them young female students. The United States and Israel have continued their joint attack on Iran that began on February 28. Iran retaliated by firing waves of missiles and drones at Israel and U.S. allies in the region, while also effectively blockading the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping route. (Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images) The building in Minab had been classified as a military facility in a Defense Intelligence Agency database that, according to CNN, had not been updated to reflect that the building had been separated from the adjacent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps compound and converted into a school, a change that satellite imagery shows had occurred by 2016 at the latest. A chatbot did not kill those children. People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal. By the start of the Iran war, Maven – the system that had enabled that speed – had sunk into the plumbing, it had become part of the military’s infrastructure, and the argument was all about Claude. This obsession with Claude is a kind of AI psychosis, though not of the kind we normally talk about, and it afflicts critics and opponents of the technology as fiercely as it does its boosters. You do not have to use a language model to let it organise your attention or distort your thinking. Graves being prepared for victims of a reported strike in Minab, Iran In 2019, the scholar Morgan Ames published The Charisma Machine, a study of how certain technologies draw attention, resources and attribution toward themselves and away from everything else. The usual framework for understanding this dynamic is “hype”, but hype only describes what boosters do, and it assigns critics a privileged debunking role that still leaves the technology at the centre of every argument. A charismatic technology shapes the whole field around it, the way a magnet organises iron filings. LLMs may be the most powerful instance of this type in history. By the time the war began, “AI safety” and “alignment” and “hallucination” and “stochastic parrots” had become the terms of every argument about artificial intelligence, structuring and limiting what we could even say. Worse, “artificial intelligence” itself had come to be synonymous with LLMs. When the school was bombed, those were the terms people reached for, despite the fact that this critical apparatus offered a poor fit for the older, more mature stack of technologies involved in targeting. The real question, the question almost nobody was asking, is not about Claude or any language model. It is a bureaucratic question about what happened to the kill chain, and the answer is Palantir. As military jargon goes, “kill chain” is a remarkably honest term. In essence, it refers to the bureaucratic framework for organising the steps between detecting something and destroying it. The oldest reference to the term itself I can find is from the 1990s, but the idea is quite old – dating at least to the 1760s, when French artillery reformers began replacing the gunner’s experienced eye with ballistic tables, elevation screws and standardised firing procedures. The steps in the kill chain are subject to constant change, to keep pace with changes in targeting doctrine, but also to incorporate whatever management fads come to afflict the military’s strategic thinkers. The US military has named and renamed the steps for 80 years. In the second world war the sequence was find, fix, fight, finish. By the 1990s the air force had stretched it to find, fix, track, target, engage, assess, or F2T2EA. Every generation of military technology has been sold on the promise of making everything about kill chains shorter, except for the acronyms. Palantir’s Maven Smart System is the latest iteration of this compression, and it grew out of a shift in strategic thinking during Obama’s second term. In 2014, the secretary of defense, Chuck Hagel, and his deputy, Robert Work, announced what they called the “third offset strategy”. An “offset” in this line of thinking is a bet that a technological advantage can compensate for a strategic weakness the country cannot fix directly. The first two offsets addressed the same problem: the United States could not match the Soviet Union in conventional forces. The thinking was that the Red Army could just continue to throw personnel at a problem, as they did at Stalingrad, or, to be anachronistic, as the contemporary Russian army did at Bakhmut and Avdiivka. Nuclear weapons, the first offset, made the personnel advantage irrelevant in the 1950s. When the Soviets reached nuclear parity in the 1970s, precision-guided munitions and stealth offered the promise that a smaller force could defeat a larger one. By 2014, that advantage was eroding. China and Russia had spent two decades acquiring precision-guided munitions and building defence systems designed to keep American forces out of range. Robert Work insisted that the third offset was not about any particular technology but about using technology to reorganise how the military operated, letting the US make decisions faster than China and Russia, overwhelming and disorienting the enemy by maintaining a faster operational tempo than they could match. A woman throws rose petals on the coffins during a funeral of children killed in the air strike on a girls’ primary school in Minab, Iran. View image in fullscreen At the funeral of children killed in the US strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school. Photograph: Amirhossein Khorgooei/AP In April 2017, early in the first Trump administration, Work helped establish the Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team, designated Project Maven. One of the generals overseeing Maven, Lt Gen Jack Shanahan, put the problem plainly: thousands of intelligence analysts were spending 80% of their time on mundane tasks, drowning in footage from surveillance drones that no one had time to watch. A single Predator drone mission could generate hundreds of hours of video, and the analysts tasked with understanding this were faced with an information overload problem. “We’re not going to solve it by throwing more people at the problem,” Shanahan said. “That’s the last thing that we actually want to do.” The core conceit of the project was that the machine could watch so that the analyst could think. The Pentagon needed someone to build it. Google took the contract, and what happened next became the most visible labour action in the history of Silicon Valley. After Google abandoned the Maven contract, Palantir took it over in 2019. The XVIII Airborne Corps began testing the system in an exercise called Scarlet Dragon, which started in 2020 as a tabletop wargaming exercise in a windowless basement at Fort Bragg. Its commander, Lt Gen Michael Erik Kurilla, wanted to build what he called the first “AI-enabled corps” in the army. The goal was to test whether the system could give a small team the targeting capacity that had previously required thousands of people. Over the next five years, Scarlet Dragon grew into a military exercise using live ammunition, spanning multiple states and branches of the armed forces, with “forward-deployed engineers” from Palantir and other contractors embedded alongside soldiers. Each time the exercise was run, it was meant to answer the same question: how fast could the system move from detection to decision? The benchmark was the 2003 invasion of Iraq, where roughly 2,000 people worked the targeting process for the entire war. During Scarlet Dragon, 20 soldiers using Maven handled the same volume of work. By 2024, the stated goal was 1,000 targeting decisions in an hour. That is 3.6 seconds per decision, or from the individual “targeteer’s” perspective, one decision every 72 seconds. The Maven Smart System is the platform that came out of those exercises, and it, not Claude, is what is being used to produce “target packages” in Iran. There are real limits to what a civilian such as myself can know about this system, and what follows is based on publicly available information, assembled from Palantir product demos, conferences, as well as instructional material produced for military users. But we can know quite a bit. The Maven interface looks like a military-skinned version of corporate project management software crossed with a mapping application. What the military analyst building the target list sees is either a map layered with intelligence data or a screen organised into columns, each representing a stage of the targeting process. Individual targets move across the columns from left to right as they progress through each stage, a format borrowed from Kanban, a “lean manufacturing” workflow system developed at Toyota, and now widely used in software development. Before Maven, operators worked across eight or nine separate systems simultaneously, pulling data from one, cross-referencing in another, manually moving detections between platforms to assemble the intelligence and approvals needed for each strike. Maven consolidated all of these behind a single interface. Cameron Stanley, the Pentagon’s chief digital and AI officer, called it an “abstraction layer”, a common term in software engineering, meaning a system that hides the complexity underneath it. Humans run the targeting. Underneath the interface, machine-learning systems analyse satellite imagery and sensor data to detect and classify objects, scoring each identification by how confident the system is that it got it right. Three clicks convert a data point on the map into a formal detection and move it into a targeting pipeline. These targets then move through columns representing different decision-making processes and rules of engagement. The system recommends how to strike each target – which aircraft, drone or missile to use, which weapon to pair with it – what the military calls a “course of action”. The officer selects from the ranked options, and the system, depending on who is using it, either sends the target package to an officer for approval or moves it to execution. The AI underneath the interface is not a language model, or at least the AI that counts is not. The core technologies are the same basic systems that recognise your cat in a photo library or let a self-driving car combine its camera, radar and lidar into a single picture of the road, applied here to drone footage, radar and satellite imagery of military targets. They predate large language models by years. Neither Claude nor any other LLMs detects targets, processes radar, fuses sensor data or pairs weapons to targets. LLMs are late additions to Palantir’s ecosystem. In late 2024, years after the core system was operational, Palantir added an LLM layer – this is where Claude sits – that lets analysts search and summarise intelligence reports in plain English. But the language model was never what mattered about this system. What mattered was what Maven did to the targeting process: it consolidated the systems, compressed the time and reduced the people. That is not a new idea. The US military has been trying to close the gap between seeing something and destroying it for as long as that gap has existed, and every attempt has produced the same failure. Maven may not even be the most extreme case. In the late 1960s, the US faced a version of the same problem in Vietnam. Supplies were moving south along the Ho Chi Minh trail through jungle the military could not see into. The solution was Operation Igloo White, a $1bn-a-year programme that scattered 20,000 acoustic and seismic sensors along the trail. These sensors transmitted data to relay aircraft overhead, which fed the signals to IBM 360 computers at Nakhon Phanom airbase in Thailand. The computers analysed the sensor data and predicted where convoys would be, and strike aircraft were directed to those coordinates. B&W photo showing porters on the Ho Chi Minh trail carrying boxes tied to canes that are carried on their shoulders. View image in fullscreen Lao and Vietnamese porters carrying supplies south along the Hoi Chi Minh trail to resupply the insurgency in the south, c1963. Photograph: Pictures from History/Universal Images Group/Getty Images The system could sense but it could not see. It could detect a vibration but it could not tell a truck from an ox cart. The North Vietnamese figured this out. They played recordings of truck engines, herded animals near the sensors to trigger vibration detection, and hung buckets of urine in trees to set off the chemical detectors. The system could be fooled because nobody in the process could look at what it was sensing. The air force claimed 46,000 trucks were destroyed or damaged over the course of the campaign. The CIA reported that the claims for a single year exceeded the total number of trucks believed to exist in all of North Vietnam. The system’s own output was the only measure of its performance, and nobody outside the system had standing to challenge it. Air force historian Bernard Nalty later called the service’s casualty computations “an exercise in metaphysics rather than mathematics” and his colleague Earl Tilford concluded that “the air force succeeded only in fooling itself”. When daytime reconnaissance flights failed to find the wreckage of all those trucks, air force personnel invented a creature to explain the absence. They called it the “great Laotian truck eater”. The pattern that played out in Vietnam – a targeting system that could only measure its own performance and ended up believing its own output – is actually older than digital computing. Michael Sherry’s 1987 book The Rise of American Air Power traces it to the founding doctrine of precision bombing, whose confidence in its own methods made examining what those methods produced unnecessary. “Belief in success,” Sherry wrote, “encouraged imprecision about how to achieve it.” By 1944, operations analysts on both sides of the Atlantic were measuring bombing in a shared language of industrial optimisation. Civilians bombed out of their homes were recorded as “dehoused”. For every tonne of bombs dropped, analysts calculated how many hours of enemy labour it destroyed. One British evaluation treated the bomber itself as a capital asset: a single sortie against a German city wiped off the cost of building the aircraft, and everything after that was “clear profit”. Sherry called the resulting mindset “technological fanaticism”. Sherry’s point was not that anyone chose destruction. It was that the people refining the technique of bombing stopped asking what the bombing was for. But even by the time the operations researchers had got their hands on targeting, this logic was already taking shape. As the historian of science William Thomas has argued, the operations analysts did not impose this logic on the military; the military was already converting operational experience into systematic procedure, and had been for decades. Nobody stopped making judgments. But the judgments were no longer about whether the bombing served a strategic purpose. They were about how to measure it and how to optimise around those measurements. Carl von Clausewitz, the 19th-century Prussian general whose writings remain the foundation of western military thought, had a word for everything the optimisation leaves out. He called it “friction”, the accumulation of uncertainty, error and contradiction that ensures no operation goes as planned. But friction is also where judgment forms. Clausewitz observed that most intelligence is false, that reports contradict each other. The commander who has worked through this learns to see the way an eye adjusts to darkness, not by getting better light but by staying long enough to use what light there is. This “staying” is what takes time. Compress the time and the friction does not disappear. You just stop noticing it. Clausewitz called this kind of planning a “war on paper”. The plan proceeds without resistance, not because there is none, but because everything connecting the plan to the real world has been stripped out. skip past newsletter promotion Sign up to The Long Read Free weekly newsletter Lose yourself in a great story: from politics to psychology, food to technology, culture to crime Enter your email address Marketing preferences Get updates about our journalism and ways to support and enjoy our work. Sign up Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain information about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. If you do not have an account, we will create a guest account for you on theguardian.com to send you this newsletter. You can complete full registration at any time. For more information about how we use your data see our Privacy Policy. after newsletter promotion Air power is uniquely vulnerable to this. The pilot never sees what the bomb hits. The analyst works from imagery, coordinates and databases. The entire enterprise is mediated by representations of the target, not the target itself, which means the gap between the package and the world can widen without anyone in the process feeling it. The 2003 invasion of Iraq, the operation that Scarlet Dragon would later use as its benchmark, was a case in point. Marc Garlasco, the Pentagon’s chief of high-value targeting during the invasion, ran the fastest targeting cycle the US had operated to that point. He recommended 50 strikes on senior Iraqi leadership. The bombs were precise – they hit exactly where they were aimed – but the intelligence behind them was not. None of the 50 killed its intended target. Two weeks after the invasion, Garlasco left the Pentagon for Human Rights Watch, went to Iraq, and stood in the crater of a strike he had targeted himself. “These aren’t just nameless, faceless targets,” he said later. “This is a place where people are going to feel ramifications for a long time.” The targeting cycle had been fast enough to hit 50 buildings and too fast to discover it was hitting the wrong ones. The air force’s own targeting guide, in effect during the Iraq war, said this was never supposed to happen. Published in 1998, it described the six functions of targeting as “intertwined”, with the targeteer moving “back” to refine objectives and “forward” to assess feasibility. “The best analysis,” the manual stated, “is reasoned thought with facts and conclusions, not a checklist.” But Jon Lindsay, who served as a navy intelligence officer in Kosovo and later studied special operations targeting in Iraq, found something different. Once a target was reified on a PowerPoint slide – the target intelligence package, or TIP – it became a black box. Questioning the assumptions behind it got harder as the hunt gained momentum, as the folder thickened with what Lindsay calls “representational residua”. There was more machinery for building up a target than for inspecting the quality of its construction. Personnel became disinclined to ask whether some targets were potential allies, or not actually bad guys at all, because producing targets meant participating in the hunt. The targeting guide had warned about this too. “If targeteers don’t provide full targeting service,” it read, “then other well meaning but undertrained and ill-experienced groups will step in.” Maven eventually would. Lindsay’s book Information Technology and Military Power is the most careful study I’ve found of how targeting actually works, at least partially because it was written by someone who actually did it. During the Kosovo air war, Gen Wesley Clark demanded 2,000 targets, which made it easy to justify any target’s connection to the Milošević government. The CIA nominated just one target during the entire war: the federal directorate of supply and procurement. Analysts had a street address but not coordinates, so they tried to reverse-engineer a location from three outdated maps. They ended up hitting the Chinese embassy – which had recently relocated – 300 metres from the building they were aiming for. The state department knew that the embassy had moved. The military’s facilities database did not. Target reviews failed to notice, because each validation relied on the last. Lindsay calls this “circular reporting”: an accumulation of supporting documents that “created the illusion of multiple validations” while amplifying a single error. The PowerPoint slide looked as well vetted as the hundreds of others that Nato struck without incident. On the night of the strike, an intelligence analyst phoned headquarters to express doubts. Asked specifically about collateral damage, he could not articulate a concern. The strike proceeded. It killed three Chinese journalists. Lindsay, writing in his journal at the time, called the result “an immense error, perfectly packaged”. The bombed out wreck of a concrete building is being steadily demolished by one mechanical digger on the third floor. View image in fullscreen The bomb-hit former Chinese embassy in Belgrade in 2010. Photograph: Andrej Isaković/AFP/Getty Images In 2005, Lt Col John Fyfe of the US air force published a study of time-sensitive targeting during the 2003 invasion. Fyfe highlighted the different ways UK and US forces approached this challenge. In the Combined Air Operations Center, RAF officers served in key leadership positions alongside their American counterparts. They operated under more restricted rules of engagement. Fyfe noted that their “more reserved, conservative personalities” produced what he called “a very positive dampening effect on the sometimes harried, chaotic pace of offensive operations”. The contrast between shifts was visible: American leaders pressed ahead full bore, while British officers methodically reconsidered risk and cost-benefit trade-offs before approving execution. On UK-led shifts, there were no friendly fire incidents and no significant collateral damage. On numerous occasions, Fyfe notes, the British officer in charge prevented the operation from getting ahead of itself. What the next generation of reformers would measure as latency – the delay between identifying a target and striking it – was the window in which mistakes could be caught. From inside the efficiency frame, every feature Fyfe describes registered as a defect. The UK shifts were slower. The restricted rules of engagement added constraints. The dampening effect added time. Speed saves lives, the argument goes, but the fastest targeting cycle before Maven was Garlasco’s, and it struck 50 buildings without hitting a single intended target. Scarlet Dragon eliminated all of it. The disagreements about targeting stopped. So did the deliberation, the hesitation and the moments when someone had time to object or notice something was off. Organisations that run on formal procedure need someone inside the process to interpret rules, notice exceptions, recognise when the categories no longer fit the case. If the organisation concedes that its outcomes depend on the discretion of the people executing it, then the procedure is not a procedure but a suggestion, and the authority the organisation derives from appearing rule-governed collapses. So the judgment has to happen, and it has to look like something else. It has to look like following the procedure rather than interpreting it. I’ve come to think of this as the “bureaucratic double bind” – the organisation cannot function without the judgment, and it cannot acknowledge the judgment without undermining itself and being seen as “political”. One solution to this problem is to replace the judgment with a number. In his 1995 book Trust in Numbers, the historian of science Theodore Porter argued that organisations adopt quantitative rules not because numbers are more accurate but because they are more defensible. Judgment is politically vulnerable. Rules are not. The procedure exists to make discretion disappear, or seem to. The system’s actual flexibility lives entirely in this unacknowledged interpretive work, which means it can be removed by anyone who mistakes it for inefficiency. In 1984, the historian David Noble showed that when the US military and American manufacturers automated their factory floors, they consistently chose systems that were slower and more expensive but which moved decision-making away from workers and into management. The point was not efficiency – it was frequently extremely wasteful – but control. A worker who understands what they are doing can exercise judgment the institution cannot govern. Move that understanding into the system, and the worker has nothing left to do but follow instructions. Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, describes exactly this achievement in his 2025 book, The Technological Republic. “Software is now at the helm,” he writes, with hardware “serving as the means by which the recommendations of AI are implemented in the world.” His model for what this should look like comes from nature: bee swarms and the murmurations of starlings. “There is no mediation of the information captured by the scouts once they return to the hive,” Karp writes. The starlings need no permission from above, they require “no weekly reports to middle management, no presentations to more senior leaders, no meetings or conference calls to prepare for other meetings”. This sounds liberating, even utopian. But the signal that passes without mediation is also the signal that nobody can question. Karp thinks he is destroying bureaucracy. He is encoding it. The contempt for meetings and weekly reports and presentations to senior leaders; he treats these as the bureaucratic process itself. They are not. They were where people interpreted procedure, the place where someone could notice when categories no longer fit the case. The targeting doctrine is still there. They are columns on a workflow board now, stages a target passes through on its way to being struck. What Karp eliminated was the discretion the institution could never admit it depended on. What remains is a bureaucracy that can execute its rules but with no one left to interpret them. Bureaucracy encoded in software does not bend. It shatters. The target package for the Shajareh Tayyebeh school presented a military facility. Lucy Suchman, whose 1987 book Plans and Situated Actions remains the sharpest account of how formal procedures obscure the work that actually produces their outcomes, would not have been surprised. Plans always look complete afterward. They achieve completeness by filtering out everything that wasn’t legible to their categories. This package looked like every other package in the queue. But outside the package, the school appeared in Iranian business listings. It was visible on Google Maps. A search engine could have found it. Nobody searched. At 1,000 decisions an hour, nobody was going to. A former senior government official asked the obvious question: “The building was on a target list for years. Yet this was missed, and the question is how.” How indeed. Aerial shot of five rows of graves, about 20 in a row, being dug by bucket-loader tractors, with those to be dug marked out in white lines on the grey ground. View image in fullscreen Graves being prepared after the school bombing in Iran. Photograph: Iranian Foreign Media Department/Reuters Congress did not authorise this war. In two weeks, American forces struck 6,000 targets. The school was one of them. American forces killed almost 200 people, and the reporting reached for “AI error”, which domesticated the event into something a better algorithm or better guardrails could have prevented. A US nuclear weapon test in Nevada in 1953. Forgetting the apocalypse: why our nuclear fears faded – and why that’s dangerous Read more In the days after the strike, the charisma of AI organised the entire political conversation around the technology: whether Claude hallucinated, whether the model was aligned, whether Anthropic bore responsibility for its deployment. The constitutional question of who authorised this war and the legal question of whether this strike constitutes a war crime were displaced by a technical question that is easier to ask and impossible to answer in the terms it set. The Claude debate absorbed the energy. That is what charisma does. It has also occluded something deeper: the human decisions that led to the killing of between 175 and 180 people, most of them girls between the ages of seven and 12. Someone decided to compress the kill chain. Someone decided that deliberation was latency. Someone decided to build a system that produces 1,000 targeting decisions an hour and call them high-quality. Someone decided to start this war. Several hundred people are sitting on Capitol Hill, refusing to stop it. Calling it an “AI problem” gives those decisions, and those people, a place to hide.

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Analysis suggests US was responsible for deadly strike on Iranian elementary school By Christian Edwards , Thomas Bordeaux , 5/23/18 CNN London Gianluca Mezzofiore Gianluca Mezzofiore , Quinta Thomson , Isobel Yeung Updated Mar 6, 2026 Mourners dig graves on Tuesday for those killed in a February 28 strike on the Shajare Tayyiba elementary school in Minab, Iran. Mourners dig graves on Tuesday for those killed in a February 28 strike on the Shajare Tayyiba elementary school in Minab, Iran. Iranian Press Center/AFP/Getty Images The United States military was likely responsible for the strike on an elementary school in southern Iran that killed scores of children, the deadliest incident of civilian casualties in the US and Israel’s almost week-long war with Iran, according to CNN and expert analysis of evidence. Satellite imagery, geolocated videos, public statements from US officials and the assessment of munitions experts suggest that the Shajare Tayyiba elementary school in Minab was hit on February 28 at around the same time as an attack that American forces likely carried out on a neighboring Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) naval base. The White House has not ruled out that US military personnel carried out the strike that, according to Iranian state media, killed at least 168 children and 14 teachers. An Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman said at a briefing Friday that he was “not aware of any IDF activity in the area.” Both countries stressed that they do not target civilians. When assessing which military is responsible for a particular strike – in any conflict – CNN typically obtains images of the remnants of the weapons used in the attack and provides these to munitions experts so that their provenance can be assessed. With Iran’s internet blackout, images and footage from the ground are limited. CNN has not been able to examine such evidence in this case, so any assessment cannot be conclusive. People and rescue forces work following a reported strike on a school in Minab, Iran, February 28, 2026. Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS PICTURE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. REFILE – REMOVING ATTRIBUTION TO STRIKE New imagery suggests U.S. responsible for Iran school strike 1:35 However, other evidence points toward US responsibility for the strike, which occurred Saturday morning – the first day of the working and school week in Iran. Videos geolocated by CNN show that the school was struck at or around the same time as the naval base, with one showing smoke billowing both from the IRGC facility and the school building. Satellite imagery from 2013 showed that the school and the IRGC base were once part of the same compound. But images from 2016 revealed that a fence had been erected to separate the school from the rest of the base, and that a separate entrance to the school had been built. In December 2025, imagery showed dozens of people in the school’s courtyard, apparently playing in what appears to be a court for ballgames. N.R. Jenzen-Jones, a munitions expert and the director of Armament Research Services (ARES), told CNN that the satellite imagery and videos “paint a picture of multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes” hitting both the IRGC compound and the school. Initially, speculation swirled online that the blast at the school could have been caused by misfiring Iranian air defenses, as the IRGC tried to repel incoming air strikes. But Jenzen-Jones said that explanation was unlikely, since recent imagery of the naval base showed the buildings had sustained significant damage, suggesting they had been struck with air-delivered precision-guided munitions, rather than “air defense missiles that have gone awry.” “We’re seeing targeted strikes that look like they’re intended to disable those buildings. That’s the most likely outcome,” he added. Jenzen-Jones also said that military bases such as the one at Minab would often be among the “pre-planned targets” to be struck in the opening exchanges of a conflict. US officials have confirmed that the US has struck military targets in southern Iran. In a briefing Wednesday, Gen. Dan Caine, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, presented a map that plotted American and Israeli strikes on Iran over the first 100 hours of the war. He said Israel had mostly struck northern Iran while the US had targeted the south. Caine said that along Iran’s “southern axis,” the US has “continued to provide pressure from the sea, along the southeastern side of the coast, and has been attriting naval capability all along the Strait and up into the Arabian Gulf at a size and scale sufficiently to address the targets required.” The most likely explanation for the school strike, Jenzen-Jones said, is that the US inadvertently struck the facility while it was carrying out the attack on the naval base, not realizing that the school was no longer part of the IRGC compound, or having failed to update its targeting officers. “It’s probably a targeting failure,” he said. “Somewhere in the target cycle, an intelligence failure meant that the target set wasn’t updated, or a decision was made later in the cycle that resulted in the wrong target being hit.” Related article 20260407-mideast-strikes-map-HP2.png CNN Visualizing the US-Israeli war with Iran and retaliation in maps and charts 3 min read US officials have neither confirmed nor denied responsibility. Asked for comment on the incident, the US Defense Department referred CNN to Central Command. CENTCOM told CNN that “it would be inappropriate to comment given the incident is under investigation.” CENTCOM had previously said that it was “aware of reports concerning civilian harm resulting from ongoing military operations” and was “looking into them.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that an investigation had been launched. Although the probe is ongoing and a conclusion has not yet been reached, Reuters reported Friday that US military investigators believe it is likely that US forces were responsible for the strike on the school. Volker Türk, the United Nations human rights chief, said Friday that the UN has “significant concerns” about whether the strikes complied with international humanitarian law. Ravina Shamdasani, a UN spokeswoman, told CNN the strike “must not become just another horrific incident that leaves the headlines and is no longer a priority. 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You are hearing the voice of the student martyr Mohammad Pirzadeh. Oh, dear Iran.

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شما صدای دانش آموز شهید محمد پیرزاده را می شنوید آه ایران عزیز

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Zohra Marzooqi addressed the mothers of the martyrs of "Shajre Tayyiba" and said: "As a mother, I feel this endless grief from the depths of my soul." In this spiritual act, Marzooqi conveyed warm greetings and messages of condolence from Ahmad Donyamali, Minister of Sports and Youth, and Fariba Mohammadian, Deputy Minister of Women's Sports Development, in a communication full of sympathy with the mothers of the martyrs of Niayesh Salehi, Mehdi Zakeri, and Benyamin Jangou, and Alireza Zarei, while celebrating the noble status of these young angels, and addressed them: "As a mother, I feel this heavy sorrow and separation from my child from the depths of my soul. I know very well that in the calendar of a mother's heart, this mourning has no end and no words can fill the void in these corners. Today, all mothers of Iran sympathize and mourn with you in this great pain and helpless grief of the angels of Minab; Because the scar of a child is a wound that remains fresh forever. The head of the Coordination and Supervision Office of the Ministry of Sports and Youth continued by condemning the crimes of the United States and the child-killing Zionist regime, emphasizing the young generation's steadfastness in the pure blood of these martyrs and stated: The heavenly ascension of the students of the "Shajra Tayyiba" girls' and boys' primary schools is evidence of the cruelty of the enemies who fear the awareness and faith of our children. Our duty in the Ministry of Sports and Youth is to protect the legacy of these emerging stars. He also contacted the fathers of the martyrs Mohammad Pirzadeh and Amir Hossein Rasouli Soleimani, while honoring their dignity and steadfastness in this painful incident, and noted: Your steadfastness and lofty vision in preserving the memory of these students is a support for our national honor and pride. We are committed to keeping the names of your heroic children alive as symbols of oppression and courage for the future generation, and we will always stand by you. Marzooqi concluded by stating: "The pure blood of these innocent children will not only not be forgotten, but will also be a beacon for all the youth and athletes of Islamic Iran on the path of resistance against arrogance." End of message/

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زهره مرزوقی، خطاب به مادران شهدای «شجره طیبه» گفت: به عنوان یک مادر، از عمق وجودم این سوگ بی‌پایان را حس می‌کنم در این اقدام معنوی، مرزوقی ضمن ابلاغ سلام گرم و پیام تسلیت احمد دنیامالی وزیر ورزش و جوانان و فریبا محمدیان معاون توسعه ورزش بانوان، در ارتباطی سرشار از هم‌دردی با مادران شهیدان نیایش صالحی، مهدی ذاکری و بنیامین جنگجو و علیرضا زارعی، ضمن تجلیل از مقام شامخ این فرشتگان خردسال، خطاب به آنان گفت: خود به عنوان یک مادر، از عمق وجودم این غم سنگین و فراق فرزند را حس می‌کنم. نیک می‌دانم که در تقویم دل یک مادر، این سوگواری را پایانی نیست و هیچ کلامی نمی‌تواند جای خالی این جگرگوشه‌ها را پر کند. امروز تمام مادران ایران، در این درد بزرگ و سوگ بی‌پناهیِ فرشتگان میناب با شما هم‌درد و سوگوارند؛ چرا که داغ فرزند، زخمی است که تا همیشه تازه می‌ماند. سرپرست دفتر هماهنگی و نظارت وزارت ورزش و جوانان در ادامه با محکومیت جنایات آمریکا و رژیم کودک‌کش صهیونیستی، بر ایستادگی نسل جوان پای خون پاک این شهدا تأکید کرد و اظهار داشت: عروج ملکوتی دانش‌آموزان دبستان‌های دخترانه و پسرانه «شجره طیبه»، سندی بر قساوت دشمنانی است که از آگاهی و ایمان کودکان ما واهمه دارند. وظیفه ما در وزارت ورزش و جوانان، صیانت از میراث این ستارگان نوظهور است. وی همچنین در تماس با پدران شهیدان محمد پیرزاده و امیرحسین رسولی سلیمانی، ضمن تکریم کرامت و استواری آنان در این حادثه دردناک خاطرنشان کرد: ایستادگی و بلندنظری شما در حفظ یاد و خاطره این دانش‌آموزان، پشتوانه‌ای برای عزت و غرور ملی ماست. ما متعهدیم تا نام فرزندان قهرمان شما را به عنوان نماد‌های مظلومیت و شجاعت برای نسل آینده زنده نگه داریم و همواره در کنار شما ایستاده‌ایم. مرزوقی در پایان تصریح کرد: خون پاک این کودکان معصوم، نه تنها فراموش نخواهد شد، بلکه چراغ راهی برای تمامی جوانان و ورزشکاران ایران اسلامی در مسیر ایستادگی در برابر استکبار خواهد بود.

Pooyesh Derakht Sogand

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After several days of effort by our friends, thankfully we managed to correct the errors in the previous list and fill in the missing information. Compressed file containing high-quality individual posters for all the student martyrs of Minab: Download link: [https://my.uupload.ir/dl/EOw12rMB](https://my.uupload.ir/dl/EOw12rMB) List of the martyrs, corresponding to our numbered files: 1. Alireza Zarei 2. Fatemeh Salari 3. Niayesh Salehi 4. Zahra Soleimani Tambanouei 5. Hami Sadeghi 6. Zahra Bahrami 7. Senar Salari 8. Hamed Paritaghi-Nejad 9. Benyamin Jangjou 10. Samira Mallahi Kolahi 11. Mohammadreza Shahsavari 12. Amirmohammad Bagheri 13. Fadia Shahmiri 14. Saleh Abbasi 15. Hannaneh Mahdikhah 16. Athareh Zarei 17. Mohammad Abadizadeh 18. Reyhaneh Karami 19. Esra Zakeri 20. Mohammadtaha Mallahi 21. Reyhaneh Zakeri 22. Setayesh Ali-Hosseini 23. Amir Mohammadi 24. Mohammad Raoufi-Nia 25. Ali Salari 26. Mohammad Jamali-Nejad 27. Mohammad Shahdoustipour 28. Hannaneh Zakeri-Khahan 29. Mahna Zarei 30. Zahra Jalali 31. Hossein Rahsepar 32. Baran Ghasemi 33. Amirmohammad Boustani 34. Mahna Bahrami Ravangi 35. Alireza Shahrjou 36. Hanieh Ahmadi Tafikani 37. Arina Arab-Kish 38. Sobhan Ahmadi Tafikani 39. Soheil Chamli-Pour Sarkami 40. Mohammad Kian Bahrami 41. Reza Barani 42. Ali Zarei 43. Sina Zakeri Gourzangi 44. Mohammadsadegh Gholami 45. Sourena Hosseinpour 46. Arash Gol-Azin 47. Mehdi Delavari 48. Mohammadtaha Jafari 49. Amirali Boustani 50. Ali Arab-Kish — duplicate entry; removed 51. Araz Ahmadizadeh Zahraei 52. Danial Faghirdoust 53. Helma Ghasemi 54. Heydar Salehi Kohanshoueiyeh 55. Reza Habshian 56. Amirali Kamali 57. Fatemeh Rahdar 58. Mohammad Hesam Reisi 59. Mohammad Loghmani Abdan 60. Makan Nasiri Khouzani 61. Mohammadsadra Zareipour 62. Moein Zeinali 63. Amin Ahmadzadeh 64. Arsha Mirani 65. Maryam Bazark 66. Zahra Ansarifar 67. Amirali Jodavi 68. Javad Sartakzadeh 69. Zahra Sharafi 70. Masoumeh Nazari 71. Khadijeh Darvishi 72. Sepehr Karimi 73. Mohammadmehdi Jangiji 74. Ehsan Salemi-Nia 75. Zoha Pasand 76. Amirhossein Jafari Ravangi 77. Amir Ghasemzaei 78. Reza Barani — duplicate entry; removed 79. Reza Ranjbar 80. Masiha Salari 81. Aliakbar Karyani-Pak 82. Mehdi Salari 83. Zeinab Makkizadeh 84. Reyhaneh Mahdikhah 85. Parham Ranjbari 86. Arya Bahadori 87. Amirmohammad Ghasemi 88. Fatemi Derazehi 89. Mohammadali Karyani-Pak 90. Hani Paritaghi-Nejad 91. Aliasghar Zaeri 92. Raha Zarei-Bonak 93. Saman Karamzadeh 94. Sobhan Shahdadi 95. Parsa Mokhtari-Nasab 96. Atena Ahmadzadeh Halvaei 97. Homayoun Zeinali 98. Liana Mohammadi 99. Zahra Behrouzi 100. Aliasghar Forouzanfar 101. Esra Farahizadeh 102. Amirhossein Rasouli 103. Atena Chamli-Nejad 104. Adrina Pegah 105. Reza Barani 106. Mahdieh Ahmadzadeh Sister of Amin Ahmadzadeh, whose photograph is numbered 63. 107. Amirali Hassanzadeh 108. Asna Reisi 109. Selma Zakeri Sister of Esra Zakeri, whose photograph is numbered 19. Additional names, numbered while retaining the two deleted duplicate entries in the sequence: 110. Farimah Mofakhari — sixth grade 111. Nazanin Zahra Behrouzi — third grade 112. Fatemeh Zahra Karimi — second grade 113. Motahhareh Ahmadzadeh — fourth grade 114. Mikaeil Mirdoroghi — third grade 115. Ahmad Soltani — third grade 116. Mohammad Pirzadeh — third grade 117. Homayoun Ranjbari — first grade 118. Fatemeh Yazdanpanah — first grade 119. Ahmadreza Sartakzadeh — fifth grade 120. Mahya Salari — third grade 121. Mehdi Zakeri — third grade 122. Hana Dehghani — third grade 123. Ali Hafizi — fifth grade 124. Zeinab Bahrami — sixth grade 125. Sara Shayesteh — first grade 126. Mahdis Nazari — first grade

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خب، الحمدلله با زحمت چندروزه دوستان موفق شدیم اشکالات فهرست قبلی را رفع و نقصان‌ها را تکمیل کنیم. فایل فشرده پوسترهای باکیفیت همه شهدای دانش‌آموز میناب، به‌صورت تکی: لینک دانلود: https://my.uupload.ir/dl/EOw12rMB فهرست شهدا به‌ترتیب فایل‌های شماره‌گذاری‌شده ما: ۱. علیرضا زارعی ۲. فاطمه سالاری ۳. نیایش صالحی ۴. زهرا سلیمانی تمبانوئی ۵. حامی صادقی ۶. زهرا بهرامی ۷. سنار سالاری ۸. حامد پریتقی‌نژاد ۹. بنیامین جنگجو ۱۰. سمیرا ملاحی کلاهی ۱۱. محمدرضا شهسواری ۱۲. امیرمحمد باقری ۱۳. فادیا شه‌میری ۱۴. صالح عباسی ۱۵. حنانه مهدی‌خواه ۱۶. اطهره زارعی ۱۷. محمد آبادی‌زاده ۱۸. ریحانه کرمی ۱۹. اسرا ذاکری ۲۰. محمدطاها ملاحی ۲۱. ریحانه ذاکری ۲۲. ستایش علی‌حسینی ۲۳. امیر محمدی ۲۴. محمد رئوفی‌نیا ۲۵. علی سالاری ۲۶. محمد جمالی‌نژاد ۲۷. محمد شهدوستی‌پور ۲۸. حنانه ذاکری‌خواهان ۲۹. مهنا زارعی ۳۰. زهرا جلالی ۳۱. حسین رهسپار ۳۲. باران قاسمی ۳۳. امیرمحمد بوستانی ۳۴. محنا بهرامی راونگی ۳۵. علیرضا شهرجو ۳۶. حانیه احمدی طفیکانی ۳۷. آرینا عرب‌کیش ۳۸. سبحان احمدی طفیکانی ۳۹. سهیل چملی‌پور سرکمی ۴۰. محمد کیان بهرامی ۴۱. رضا بارانی ۴۲. علی زارعی ۴۳. سینا ذاکری گورزانگی ۴۴. محمدصادق غلامی ۴۵. سورنا حسین‌پور ۴۶. آرش گل‌آذین ۴۷. مهدی دلاوری ۴۸. محمدطاها جعفری ۴۹. امیرعلی بوستانی ۵۰. علی عرب‌کیش — تکراری بود و حذف شد. ۵۱. آراز احمدی‌زاده زهرائی ۵۲. دانیال فقیردوست ۵۳. حلما قاسمی ۵۴. حیدر صالحی کهنشوئیه ۵۵. رضا حبشیان ۵۶. امیرعلی کمالی ۵۷. فاطمه رهدار ۵۸. محمد حسام رئیسی ۵۹. محمد لقمانی آبدان ۶۰. ماکان نصیری خوزانی ۶۱. محمدصدرا زارعی‌پور ۶۲. معین زینعلی ۶۳. امین احمدزاده ۶۴. آرشا میرانی ۶۵. مریم بازرک ۶۶. زهرا انصاری‌فر ۶۷. امیرعلی جداوی ۶۸. جواد سرتک‌زاده ۶۹. زهرا شرفی ۷۰. معصومه نظری ۷۱. خدیجه درویشی ۷۲. سپهر کریمی ۷۳. محمدمهدی جنگیجی ۷۴. احسان سالمی‌نیا ۷۵. ضحا پسند ۷۶. امیرحسین جعفری راونگی ۷۷. امیر قاسم‌زائی ۷۸. رضا بارانی — تکراری بود و حذف شد. ۷۹. رضا رنجبر ۸۰. مسیحا سالاری ۸۱. علی‌اکبر کریانی‌پاک ۸۲. مهدی سالاری ۸۳. زینب مکی‌زاده ۸۴. ریحانه مهدی‌خواه ۸۵. پرهام رنجبری ۸۶. آریا بهادری ۸۷. امیرمحمد قاسمی ۸۸. فاطمی درازهی ۸۹. محمدعلی کریانی‌پاک ۹۰. هانی پریتقی‌نژاد ۹۱. علی‌اصغر زائری ۹۲. رها زارعی بنک ۹۳. سامان کرم‌زاده ۹۴. سبحان شهدادی ۹۵. پارسا مختاری‌نسب ۹۶. آتنا احمدزاده حلوایی ۹۷. همایون زینعلی ۹۸. لیانا محمدی ۹۹. زهرا بهروزی ۱۰۰. علی‌اصغر فروزان‌فر ۱۰۱. اسرا فرحی‌زاده ۱۰۲. امیرحسین رسولی ۱۰۳. آتنا چملی‌نژاد ۱۰۴. آدرینا پگاه ۱۰۵. رضا بارانی ۱۰۶. مهدیه احمدزاده خواهر امین احمدزاده، عکس شماره ۶۳. ۱۰۷. امیرعلی حسن‌زاده ۱۰۸. آسنا رئیسی ۱۰۹. سلما ذاکری خواهر اسرا ذاکری، عکس شماره ۱۹. اسامی اضافه‌شده، با احتساب دو مورد حذف‌شده در شماره‌گذاری: ۱۱۰. فریماه مفاخری — کلاس ششم ۱۱۱. نازنین زهرا بهروزی — کلاس سوم ۱۱۲. فاطمه زهرا کریمی — کلاس دوم ۱۱۳. مطهره احمدزاده — کلاس چهارم ۱۱۴. میکائیل میردورقی — کلاس سوم ۱۱۵. احمد سلطانی — کلاس سوم ۱۱۶. محمد پیرزاده — کلاس سوم ۱۱۷. همایون رنجبری — کلاس اول ۱۱۸. فاطمه یزدان‌پناه — کلاس اول ۱۱۹. احمدرضا سرتک‌زاده — کلاس پنجم ۱۲۰. محیا سالاری — کلاس سوم ۱۲۱. مهدی ذاکری — کلاس سوم ۱۲۲. هنا دهقانی — کلاس سوم ۱۲۳. علی حفیظی — کلاس پنجم ۱۲۴. زینب بهرامی — کلاس ششم ۱۲۵. سارا شایسته — کلاس اول ۱۲۶. مهدیس نظری — کلاس اول

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Ali Hafizi's dream of becoming a pilot and serving Iran, but on Feb 28, in the attack on the Shajare Tayyiba School in Minab, he reached the skies earlier than he had dreamed.

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علی حفیظی آرزو داشت خلبان شود و به ایران خدمت کند اما؛ ۹ اسفند، در حمله به مدرسه شجره طیبه میناب، او زودتر از رؤیایش به آسمان‌ها رسید

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Martyrdom of pharmacy technician at Shahid Absalan Clinic in attack on Minabadris Gharibzadeh, a pharmacy staff member at Shahid Absalan Clinic in Minab, passed away following the recent attack on Minab city on Saturday, Feb 28.

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شهادت تکنسین داروخانه درمانگاه شهید آبسالان در حمله به مینابادریس غریب زاده، از پرسنل داروخانه درمانگاه شهید آبسالان میناب، در پی حمله اخیر به شهرستان میناب در تاریخ شنبه ۹ اسفند به سعادت رسید.:

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