Published date: 28 February 2026 11:21 GMT|Last update: 15 hours 17 mins ago
At least 153 people, almost all of them young girls, have been killed in an air strike on a primary school in southern Iran, according to the city’s governor.
The attack on Saturday morning hit Shajareh Tayyebeh school in the city of Minab, in Hormozgan province, as the United States and Israel began launching strikes on targets across Iran.
The victims were between seven and 12 years old, according to Iran’s Tasnim and Fars news agencies.
A staff member at the Minab school, who asked not to be named, told Middle East Eye she remains in shock at the intensity of the attack.
Through tears, she said she used to watch the young girls playing at school every day. After today’s strikes, however, she saw their bodies lying on classroom benches and in different corners of the school.
I’ll admit it. I’m really pissed off late on a Sunday night to the point that I will set aside my measured, reasonable tone and ventilate my rage for a minute. So put this one in the commentary bucket, not straight reporting. It’s not the bombing itself. That’s tragic, gut-wrenching, and proof (as if we needed it) that even precision missiles can cause collateral damage. What fries me is Trump and Hegseth blatantly lying about it when they full well know the US did it. Let’s take a deeper look.
New Footage Shows a US Tomahawk Hitting Minab Near the School on Feb 28
First, new footage shows a Tomahawk missile landing in the vicinity of the girls school in Minderba on Feb 28. This has been geolocated and confrmied by the NY Times, Bellingkat, and others, including here at Deeper Look.
Here is the footage showing the Tomahawk.
Now, I’ll go back to being measured for a moment and point out that, contrary to what many online are saying — this is NOT the actual strike on the school. It’s a strike NEAR the school. The school itself is in the direction of theupper right part of the frame, and there is smoke there, so it seems likely another Tomahawk hit the school prior to this one hitting the base.
So to be clear, the video confirms this much:
On February 28, the United States was firing Tomahawk cruise missiles at the Minab naval base on the very day the girls’ school was hit. A newly surfaced video, geolocated and analyzed by Bellingcat and independently verified by major outlets, shows a Tomahawk striking the base area. Smoke is already rising from the school area in the same sequence. And that matters because, in this war, the United States is the only participant known to have Tomahawk weapons.
Beyond that, we know several other things.
We know the United States was carrying out strikes in southern Iran, including around Minab, while Israel’s operations were concentrated elsewhere. Reuters and other reporting on the opening phase of the war placed U.S. strikes in that southern sector, and CBS reported that investigators found Israel was not operating in the Minab area at the time.
We also know the U.S. and Israel were not both firing into the same area at the same time. And we know Iran had not yet launched the retaliatory missile barrage Trump is now trying to use as a convenient explanation. Even if Iranian missiles can miss, the odds that Iran somehow hit that school in Minab at the precise moment the United States was firing Tomahawks at the adjacent base are not just low. They are microscopic.
At this point, the circumstantial evidence is not merely suggestive. It is overwhelming.
A new investigation by ABC News Australia using satellite imagery reveals that the U.S. used outdated information in a deadly strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed more than 160, mostly young girls.
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