TEHRAN -- A missile strike that martyred at least 175 people at a girls’ elementary school in the southern city of Minab has become one of the most controversial episodes of the United States’ ongoing war with Tehran, prompting accusations that President Donald Trump misled the public about responsibility for the attack.
Tehran — Agnès Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International and former UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, delivered one of the strongest public assessments to date regarding the February 28 strike on a girls’ school in Minab in southern Iran in the wake of the joint U.S.-Israeli military aggression.
In the modern battlefield of information, silence can be as powerful as speech. What is reported, what is amplified, and—more importantly—what is ignored reveals the architecture of contemporary propaganda. Nowhere is this more evident than in the stark contrast between the global media frenzy surrounding certain carefully selected tragedies and the near-total silence surrounding others.
MINAB (Hormozgan province) - On February 28th, the sun shone on the small town of Minab, filling its streets with the usual bustle of schoolchildren, dressed in modest uniforms, carrying backpacks towards school.
The Feb. 28 strike that hit an elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab is the deadliest known episode of civilian casualties since the United States and Israel attacked Iran — and no side has yet taken responsibility, the New York Times reported.
MADRID - Over the past five days, the United States and Israel have carried out air and missile strikes across Iran whose consequences extend far beyond military objectives. The attacks have struck schools, hospitals, residential neighborhoods, and civic infrastructure. What is emerging is a pattern in which civilian life itself has been made the object of military operations. The destruction is deliberate and legally indefensible.
