Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave

Post author By wibailoutpeople
Post date October 1, 2026

The bombing of an Iranian school, killing 120 children, is one of the worst U.S. war crimes since Vietnam. Drop Site spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, and witnesses. This is their story.

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Left: Fatemeh Yazdanpanah, a 6 year old student at the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab. Right: Fatemeh with her father, Yaghoub. Photos courtesy of the Yazdanpanah family.

Hossniyeh Salem, right, a teacher at Minab’s Shajareh Tayyebeh Girls School, with her niece. Image courtesy of Helyeh Doutaghi / Khana House/ Still, Minab.

The building of the destroyed Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school is pictured surrounded by rubble in Minab in Iran’s Hormozgan province on August 10, 2026. Photo by Atta Kenare / AFP via Getty Images.

A view from inside a classroom at the destroyed Shajareh Tayebeh primary school in Minab. Photo by Atta Kenare / AFP via Getty Images.

A drawing done by Mohammad Sharafi, a survivor of the Minab school bombing. His hands were burned in the attack and his sister and aunt were killed.

A drawing by a Fatemeh Zahra Bahrami, a survivor of the Minab bombing, depicting children in the school yard as a tomahawk missile hits their school.

Mourners hold a portrait of Fatemeh Yazdanpanah and her cousin Asra during a funeral ceremony for children killed in the U.S. strike on Minab, on March 03, 2026. Thousands of people, including families and officials, attended the ceremony. Photo by Stringer / Anadolu via Getty Images.

Women hold up schoolbooks and a backpack of children killed in the U.S. strike in Minab, on March 3, 2026. Photo by Morteza Akhondi.

The Shajareh Tayyebeh School after the U.S. strike. Photo by Hassan Ghaedi /Anadolu via Getty Images.

Mourners gather at a funeral for those who died in the U.S. strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab. March 3, 2026. Photo by Morteza Akhondi.

A bombed out classroom at the Shajareh Tayyebeh School. Photo by Hamid Vakili / Anadolu via Getty Images.

Yaghoub Yazdanpanah and Masoumeh Farahi Zadeh, parents of Fatemeh, who was killed by the U.S. missile strike on her school, at their home in Gurzang, Iran. Photo by Zohreh Saberi.