51 Iranian children killed, 60 students wounded after joint US-Israel strikes hit girls’ school in Iran
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51 Iranian children killed, 60 students wounded after joint US-Israel strikes hit girls’ school in Iran
President Donald Trump announced “major combat operations” against Iran on Saturday, with strikes in the joint U.S.-Israel attack targeting military and government sites, officials said.
The massive operation sparked threats of retaliation by Iran and reports of incoming missiles and drones around the region.
“Our objective is to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime, a vicious group of very hard, terrible people,” Trump said in a video statement.
U.S. officials said the operation could potentially last days, and Trump acknowledged that there may be American casualties.
The toll from a strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab, Iran, has risen to 57 students dead and 60 others injured, according to Iran’s semiofficial Tasnim News Agency, which cited the local governor.
Iran claims the school was struck during the U.S.-Israeli military operation on Saturday.
It was unclear whether any teachers had been killed or injured, the Tasnim News Agency reported, citing the Minab governor.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted a photo on X purportedly showing the aftermath of a strike on a girls’ elementary school in the south of Iran on Saturday.
Araghchi said the school was “bombed in broad daylight, when packed with young pupils.””Dozens of innocent children have been murdered at this site alone,” he added.
“These crimes against the Iranian People will not go unanswered.”
