Iranian media publishes photos of girls killed in airstrike on the Minab school: ‘Trump, Look Them in the Eyes’

Nine days after the bombing of a girls’ school in the southern Iranian city of Minab killed at least 175 people, most of them children, neither the United States nor Israel has claimed responsibility. Shortly before the attack, the two countries had launched a large-scale offensive against the Iranian regime. This Sunday, the Iranian newspaper Tehran Times published on its front page photographs of dozens of the children who lost their lives in the offensive under the headline “Trump, Look Them in the Eyes.”

So far, the Republican president has denied that the U.S. was involved in the destruction of the elementary school. The Tehran Times cites investigations published by eight other foreign media outlets, which independently document the possible U.S. involvement in the bombing.

The Iranian media outlet reports that on Sunday, the eighth day of the U.S.-Israeli offensive in the Middle East, the Republican president stated that the accusations made by these newspapers, which he accuses of spreading “fake news” about him, are unfounded. When asked repeatedly about the bombing of the elementary school, the Tehran Times claims that Trump avoided answering.

Trump has repeatedly blamed the Iranian regime for the attack, echoing the words of U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth: “The only side that targets civilians is Iran,” he stated. The Iranian media outlet denounced the president’s behavior as “a blatant example of deliberate falsehood.”

Among the oulets that have investigated the massacre are CNN, which has blamed the U.S. after verifying the existence of “significant damage” consistent with “air-delivered precision-guided munitions,” and The New York Times, which has indicated that the U.S. military attacked the school. The Wall Street Journal has named CENTCOM, the country’s central military command, as responsible.

Non-U.S. media outlets have also pointed to Washington as the perpetrator of the attack. Al Jazeera referred to the bombing as “evidence of potential war crimes being committed by Israel and the U.S.,” while Middle East Eye reported that the school was attacked twice, killing both survivors of the first bombing and their rescuers.

Tehran Times claims that the accumulation of “solid evidence” against the United States proves that Washington was at least complicit in the deadly offensive on the Minab educational center.

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