Another girls’ school targeted in US-Israeli attacks on Ira

The US and Israel have targeted another girls’ school in Iran, a day after the funeral of dozens of schoolgirls who were killed at the start of the unprovoked aggression against Iran.

The Director General of Education of West Azerbaijan Province announced that Esmat girls' high school in District 1 of Urmia was seriously damaged by Israeli and American missiles and has become “unusable.”
“Fortunately, this criminal Zionist attack didn’t cause any casualties,” he added.

This comes a day after a funeral procession was held for the 170 victims of a deadly US-Israeli strike that targeted a girl’s elementary school in the southern Iranian province of Hormozgan.

Mourners filled the streets on Tuesday, carrying small coffins and photographs of the young victims, who lost their lives in the US-Israeli attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh School in Minab.

170 students, teachers martyred in ‘deliberate’ strikes on Iranian schools: Minister

Iran’s Minister of Education Alireza Kazemi announced on Tuesday that 170 students and teachers have been martyred in US-Israeli attacks, which damaged nearly 20 schools and educational centers across the country.

Attack on Minab girls’ school ‘deliberate’: Foreign Ministry

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said in a statement on Wednesday that the attack on Minab school “was deliberate” and an attempt to distract the Iranian armed forces.

“Innocent Iranian children, little angels, were brutally massacred in a deliberate attack on their school, just to keep the Iranian armed forces busy with desperate search and rescue efforts. This allowed the aggressors to attack military targets with greater ease and impunity.”

He noted that labelling the attack just as a “war crime” does not reflect “the sheer evil and depravity of such a crime.”

President Masoud Pezeshkian has offered condolences over the "heart breaking tragedy following the treacherous attack that has grieved the hearts of all Iranians and free people."

He added that “this inhuman, brutal act is another dark page in the endless record of the aggressors’ crimes against this land, which will never be erased from the historical memory of our nation."

According to Iran's Red Crescent Society, at least 1,045 people have been killed so far in the ongoing US-Israeli aggression against the Islamic Republic that began on Saturday.

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