The Iranian school struck in the war’s earliest attacks is now a memorial for children — SkimNews
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- Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab was struck on Feb. 28 in the opening of the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, and Iranian officials said more than 100 students were killed.
- The Trump administration has not directly accepted responsibility for the strike or released the Pentagon's findings, even though an AP investigation found evidence at least one U.S. missile hit the school.
- The school's bright blue gate still bears children's symbols — Iran's map, oversized pencils, portraits of literary figures — but the walkway now guides visitors past photographs of the dead and black mourning banners.
- Hormozgan Gov. Mohammad Ashouri Taziani said the two-story building, whose classrooms remain frozen mid-lesson with collapsed ceilings and half-buried desks, will be turned into a war museum and memorial.
- Minab's cemetery has a section dedicated to those killed, and residents said three bodies remain unrecovered.
- New U.S. strikes along Iran's southern coast in the past week hit a wedding and other areas, sending the injured back to Minab's hospital and pulling the school story back into the news.
Why it matters: With 100+ schoolchildren dead and an AP investigation pointing to a U.S. missile, the families have zero public acknowledgment from Washington — and the same community was drawn back into the war this week when fresh U.S. strikes on a wedding nearby sent more wounded into Minab's hospital, hardening the case to preserve the ruins as a permanent record.
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