Today's US-Israel War on Iran (28/3/2026)
‘Her head was broken’: parents at Iranian school bombed by US describe their worst day
As he dug, he thought of the other girls, small bodies curled beneath the weight of the wreckage. “Even though my daughter had been found, many others remained trapped,” he says, remembering. “It didn’t matter whose child I rescued. They were all like my own daughters.”
He did not stop digging, even as light softened and began to fade. He pulled at the debris, the fistfuls of dust, as dusk began to fall and the shadows from the trees lengthened over the empty football pitch. He stayed there until late in the evening.
One month on from the Minab bombing, no one has been held accountable for the strike that killed at least 160 children and teachers.
Zahra’s father hopes the world knows that the school was just that: a place of learning, not a military site. He asks the UN, the international courts, to come to Minab and see. “They must see the rubble and the surrounding area. They must recognise the crimes committed by the United States,” he says. “We demand justice.”