Families Grieve in the Ruins of an Iranian School Where a US Strike Killed Dozens of Children
AP found teachers called parents to collect students before schools closed, but a missile hit the school about an hour later, killing 168 people, state media said.
- On Monday, Sept. 7, Iranian officials released a video memorializing victims of the Feb. 28 American airstrike on Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, which Iranian state media said killed 168 people, including 120 students and 26 teachers.
- Around 9 a.m. on Feb. 28, news of airstrikes on Tehran's compound prompted teachers at the school to call parents for early pickup; the first missile struck about an hour later, with accounts indicating three missiles hit the building.
- Sadeghi's 11-year-old grandson Hami and 9-year-old granddaughter Nila, along with their mother and teacher Neda Salehizadeh, were killed; second-grade teacher Nasim Neyestani died protecting eight children in the schoolyard, according to her mother Fatemeh Barani.
- The damaged school will be preserved as a war museum, with government-sponsored mourning ceremonies held every evening where families share stories about those killed, each grave marked with a photo of the dead.
- An Associated Press investigation found at least one U.S. missile struck the school, yet the Trump administration has not released Pentagon findings or publicly accepted responsibility; three children remain unaccounted for, their bodies never recovered.
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Months on, Minab families mourn children killed in Iran school airstrike
Months after an American airstrike hit Minab's Shajareh Tayyebeh school, families still gather to mourn the children and teachers killed. Their grief has deepened demands for a full account of the strike and turned the site into a memorial.
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A banner placed around the rubble shows the faces of the students and teachers who died here from an American air strike
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Families grieve in the ruins of an Iranian school where a US strike killed dozens of children
The Shajareh Tayyebeh school in the southern Iranian city of Minab has become a place to wrestle with grief and preserve the memories of some 120 children killed here by an American airstrike on the first day of the war on Iran.
Bombed Iranian school becomes memorial for the children killed
A damaged school building in Minab, southern Iran, is being turned into a museum and memorial to the children killed in the attack in the earliest moments of the conflict that the United States and Israel began across Iran on Feb. 28. Iranian officials
Families gathered amid the shattered ruins of the Shajara Tayyiba school in Minab to mourn and commemorate the approximately 120 children who were killed in a US airstrike on the first day of the war. Photo: Vahid Salmi
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