For more than two months, I have been working on a truly horrific story about one of the gravest war crimes committed by the United States since Vietnam: The bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, Iran. It was one of the first targets struck in the opening hours of the war on February 28, 2026.
At least 156 people were killed in the U.S. cruise missile strikes—120 of them were children and 26 were teachers. We spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, doctors, teachers, psychologists, and other witnesses. Some of them had never before shared their experiences of that day.
It would be impossible to do justice to what happened in Minab that day with words alone. In more than 25 years in journalism and reporting on war, I do not believe I have reported on a more heinous single crime.
Massacre at Minab: The School That Became a Grave
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@AnianLiebrand@schweizerzeit Spannend, wie die SVP laut dir nichts mit der Jungen Tat oder rechtsextremen Schwurblern wie Martin Sellner zu tun hat... Manipulationen kommen primär von euch, die den Diskurs und Sprachgebrauch ständig nach rechts verschiebt, wie die Populisten, die ihr so liebt