• Iran’s Foreign Ministry says US and Israel deliberately targeted more than 600 schools, killing over 160 children in Minab alone.
• US President Donald Trump appears to have no remorse for the atrocity, first blaming Iran for the attack.
• Tehran argues the term “war crime” fails to capture the scale of the atrocity, calling the attacks genocide.
• The Pentagon opened a probe after conflicting denials, citing “outdated targeting data” that led a US tomahawk missile to accidentally target schoolchildren.
• After years of terrorizing its own people, the Islamic Republic of Iran is now taking the genocide narrative to the global stage.
• Hypocritically, instances of Iranian hostility toward the US span 47 years, including hostage crises, barracks bombings, and proxy wars.
• UN bodies failed to adopt formal condemnation of the US and Israel, despite Russian and European calls for accountability.
• Iran's righteous indignation falls on deaf ears at the UN because they have terrorized their own people for years and waged terror campaigns against the US and Israel.

A massacre in Minab and a pattern of denial

The images emerging from Minab tell a story no official US government statement can sanitize. There are pictures of Iranian schoolboys saluting before portraits of their dead classmates. Mothers now press photographs of 7-year-olds against chests streaked with dust. On Feb. 28, the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in southern Iran’s Hormozgan province absorbed a direct strike that killed at least 175 people, more than 160 of them children.

Here's the bigger story. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei posted on X on Wednesday that the attack was not an isolated event. “This is not an isolated act of cruelty – it is part of a systematic and brutal pattern of illegal warfare against Iran,” he wrote. Over the past 33 days, he said, aggressors deliberately targeted more than 600 schools and educational centers across Iran, including the Lamerd sports hall where at least 21 died the same day.

The Pentagon has opened a probe into these claims. Reports suggest investigators confirmed the U.S. carried out the Minab strike using “outdated targeting data” that misclassified the elementary school as part of a nearby military compound. President Donald Trump initially suggested the attack was “done by Iran,” a claim that quickly collapsed. A New York Times investigation, citing footage analysis and weapons experts, identified a previously untested U.S. Army Precision Strike Missile (PrSM) in the Lamerd attack, a weapon that detonates above targets and disperses small tungsten pellets.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei is speaking out: “The term ‘war crime’ falls far short of adequately describing these atrocities. Given the explicit rhetoric of hostility toward Iranians (as a nation) expressed by U.S./Israeli officials, these crimes amount to genocide.”

Silence from the Security Council and Tehran’s long memory

While Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova accused the U.S. and Israel of “cruelty, cynicism, and dehumanization,” and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni alongside Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez declared solidarity with victims of the “massacre,” the UN Human Rights Council and UN Security Council both failed to adopt formal resolutions condemning the atrocity. The U.S. and Israel have maintained an air offensive on Iran since Feb. 28, killing more than 1,340 people, according to official Iranian data, including then-Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Iran has retaliated with drone and missile strikes targeting Israel and U.S. bases in the Middle East. The UN understands that the Islamic Republic of Iran has long waged acts of terror on innocents.

Anyone questioning the official Iranian narrative must also weigh four decades of documented Iranian hostility against the United States and Israel. Tehran’s case for victim-hood exists alongside a well-documented record as a state sponsor of terrorism, a designation the U.S. Department of State has maintained since 1984.

Some of the significant Iranian offenses against U.S. interests include, but are not limited to:

• The 1979–1981 Tehran embassy hostage crisis, where militants held 52 Americans for 444 days
• The 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, where Iran-backed Hezbollah killed 241 U.S. personnel.
• The 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing in Beirut, killing 17 Americans.
• The 1987–1988 Tanker War attacks on international oil tankers.
• The 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia, killing 19 U.S. airmen.
• The 2003–2011 Iraq War period, where Iran provided, trained, and funded Iraqi militants who killed 603 U.S. service members, or 17% of all U.S. deaths in Iraq.
• Ongoing proxy attacks from 2015 to present via Hezbollah, Hamas, and Iraqi militias; the 2019–2020 attacks on Gulf of Oman oil tankers, shooting down a U.S. drone, and missile attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq.
• The 2023–2025 Houthi attacks on U.S. naval vessels and commercial shipping; and a 2026 missile strike on Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, a U.S. Central Command hub. (A more comprehensive list is included at WhiteHouse.gov.)

Do these instances justify the atrocity committed by the US against hundreds of innocent Iranian school children? No, but the Iranian government is in no position to claim righteous indignation, because their regime has shown a pattern of hostility against their own people, and a pattern of terror and brutality against the people of Israel and the United States. Russia's current condemnation of the US doesn't mean much either, as their brutality continues in Ukraine and their hypocrisy is exposed.

Currently, US President Donald Trump is claiming that the war is “nearing completion” but threatened to intensify airstrikes over the next two to three weeks unless Iran’s leadership capitulates. Baqaei said Tehran had received messages via intermediaries signaling U.S. willingness to negotiate, but called the proposals “unrealistic, illogical and excessive.” Iranian officials insisted Tehran would end the conflict on its own terms and accused the U.S. of sabotaging earlier negotiations.

The dead children of Minab, their portraits now lining Vanak Square in Tehran, have become both a rallying cry for Iranians, but also a mirror reflecting decades of mutual terror and bloodshed.

Sources include:

RT.com

WhiteHouse.gov

State.gov