School in Iran’s Minab planned to become a memorial to children killed
In the city of Minab in southern Iran, the Shajareye Tayebeh school, damaged in a strike on February 28, is becoming a memorial to children who were killed during the attack. Iranian officials said that more than 100 students were killed at the time.
Photographs and destroyed classrooms
Blue gates featuring images of pencils and portraits of figures from science and literature remain at the entrance to the two-story school. Beyond the gates, visitors pass photographs of children, including from birthday celebrations, as well as mourning banners bearing their portraits.
As PBS NewsHour reports, citing the Associated Press, classrooms in the damaged building look as though lessons were interrupted in the middle of class: desks are partially covered with debris, and ceilings have collapsed. There have been calls to preserve the ruins as historical evidence.
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Plans for a museum
Hormozgan Province Governor Mohammad Ashouri Taziani said the building is planned to be converted into a war museum and memorial. A separate section of Minab cemetery has been dedicated to the dead. Local residents also said that the bodies of three people have still not been found.
According to AP, the strike on the school occurred at the beginning of the war that the United States and Israel started with strikes on Iran on February 28. Several months after the attack, the administration of President Donald Trump did not accept direct responsibility for the strike and did not release the Pentagon’s findings. At the same time, an AP investigation found evidence that at least one U.S. missile hit the school.
Over the past week, attention to Minab has intensified again following a new series of U.S. strikes along Iran’s southern coast. According to a source, the strikes hit a wedding and other areas, and some of the wounded were taken to a hospital in Minab.
