On February 28, missiles struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in the Iranian city of Minab during the opening day of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, leaving at least 121 schoolchildren and 26 teachers dead in a civilian zone near the Strait of Hormuz. According to an investigation by Forensic Architecture and Sky News, the neighborhood endured a second wave of bombardment while rescue workers and families were actively searching the wreckage on the ground.
Investigation Findings and Weapon Identification
Samaneh Moafi, assistant director of research at Forensic Architecture, stated that footage captured during the incident confirms the sequence of events. “There were images and videos available from the time of the strikes,” Moafi said, noting that the secondary bombardment exposed specific munitions signatures. “A second wave of strikes hit, and it’s in these ones that we do see the profile of a Tomahawk. And the only party within the war that has this missile is the U.S.”
Official Response and Disputed Evidence
The Trump administration has repeatedly refused to take responsibility for the deadly strike on the Minab primary school. President Donald Trump publicly suggested that visual evidence and photographs documenting the school’s destruction were generated using artificial intelligence.
Geographic and Strategic Context
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