Iranian inventor dedicates intl. award to Minab martyred schoolgirls

TEHRAN - Leila Keshavarzi, an Iranian inventor and national taekwondo athlete, just won a gold medal at the Asian Youth Innovation Awards, which was held from April 9-11in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Minab installation commemorates martyred students

TEHRAN- To honor the memories of the young students martyred in the recent tragedy and mark the 40th day of their martyrdom, a conceptual art installation featuring 2,000 red butterflies and symbolic crimson pages has been unveiled at the ruins of Minab’s Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School.

"In Memory of the Butterflies of Minab": Tehran hosts massive mourning ceremony for martyred student

TEHRAN- A grand commemorative ceremony titled "In Memory of the Butterflies of Minab" was held in Tehran on Tuesday to mark the 40th day since the martyrdom of schoolchildren in Minab.

Artists, officials gather to honor child martyrs of Minab school

TEHRAN- A memorial ceremony for the child martyrs of Shajareh Tayyebeh, an elementary school in the city of Minab in the southern province of Hormozgan, turned into a powerful call for peace, unity and remembrance as artists and cultural figures gathered at the Artistic Creation Center of the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA).

By Faramarz Kouhpayeh

The Minab school massacre and the death of international law

TEHRAN - The opening U.S. military strikes on Iran on February 28 are known for two things. The first is the assassination of Iran’s Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, which ultimately backfired on the two regimes by strengthening Iranian national unity and resolving a potential succession crisis that many had feared would follow Ayatollah Khamenei’s passing. The second is the brutal and tragic massacre of schoolgirls in southern Iran.

US-Israeli attack on Minab school was a ‘calculated’ massacre, Araghchi tells UNHRC

In an urgent address before the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council on Friday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi said the United States and Israel had committed “atrocity crimes” and “genocide” during their bombing campaign against the country in the past 27 days. He specifically cited the attack on a girls’ elementary school in Minab as a deliberate war crime.

Two schools to be built in Minab in memory of martyred children

TEHRAN – The education ministry has launched a campaign, titled Minab Angels, to build two schools in the memory of the students martyred on February 28 in a U.S. missile attack to Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in the southern city of Minab.

Flying Turtle Award jury condemns Zionist-U.S. missile strike

TEHRAN- The jury committee of the Flying Turtle Award, Iran's distinguished children's literature prize, has issued a statement condemning the Zionist-U.S. military strikes against Iran that devastated a school in Minab, Hormozgan province, and a sports facility in Lamerd, Fars province, while urging international organizations to intervene and prevent such tragedies from recurring.

Benevolent people to help rebuild Minab school as national heritage

TEHRAN – Shajareh Tayyebeh, an elementary school in the city of Minab in the southern province of Hormozgan, which was destroyed by a U.S. missile strike on February 28, will be reconstructed by benevolent people and will be registered as a national heritage.

Farabi Cinema Foundation calls on intl. film companies, festivals to denounce attacks on Iran

TEHRAN – Farabi Cinema Foundation, as the national body of Iran cinema, has sent a letter of protest to international film production and distribution entities, global film festivals, and a group of foreign filmmakers, calling on them not to remain silent in the face of injustice and the criminal attacks by the U.S. and the Zionist regime on Iran.

“Bloody Angels” documentary screened at UN building in Tehran to expose Minab school tragedy

TEHRAN- In a powerful move to bring international attention to the recent tragedy in southern Iran, the documentary "Bloody Angels” was premiered on Friday evening in front of the United Nations building in Tehran.

Bombed Iranian girls school had yearslong online presence, raising questions over U.S. targeting

TEHRAN - An Iranian girls school that was hit by a missile attack on the first day of the war had maintained a yearslong online presence showing students and school activities, raising questions about how the United States vets strike locations, a Reuters investigation found.

"To Which Sin?" art collection honors martyred Iranian children

TEHRAN – In response to the recent aggression against Iranian soil and the martyrdom of several children and teenagers, a multilingual art collection titled “To Which Sin?" (Be Kodamin Gonah?) has been released in Persian, Arabic, and English.

Prominent Iranian vocalist Alireza Ghorbani condemns martyrdom of Minab students

TEHRAN- Alireza Ghorbani, a celebrated figure in Iranian traditional music, has added his voice to the chorus of grief and outrage following the tragic martyrdom of schoolchildren in the southern city of Minab, expressing sorrow over the innocent lives lost during the recent war.

By Afshin Majlesi

Death of morality: appalling lie of Trump on Minab tragedy

TEHRAN -- A missile strike that martyred at least 175 people at a girls’ elementary school in the southern city of Minab has become one of the most controversial episodes of the United States’ ongoing war with Tehran, prompting accusations that President Donald Trump misled the public about responsibility for the attack.