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babylonsister

(172,699 posts)
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 08:39 AM 23 hrs ago

Death toll from Iran school bombing reportedly rises to almost 150


Death toll from Iran school bombing reportedly rises to almost 150
Strike on girls’ elementary school in south of Iran has killed 148 people and injured 95 others, according to Iran state media
Tess McClure
Sun 1 Mar 2026 07.09 EST


The death toll from a missile strike on a girls’ school in southern Iran has risen to almost 150, according to Iranian state media.

Mizan news agency, the official news outlet of Iran’s judiciary, reported that the number killed in Saturday’s strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab in southern Iran had risen to 148 killed, with 95 others wounded. The news agency cited Ebrahim Taheri, a prosecutor in Minab.

The school, which was struck on Saturday morning, appears to be the worst mass casualty event of the US-Israeli-led bombing campaign on Iran so far.

Video and photographs from the aftermath of the strike, which have been verified as authentic and geolocated to the site, show hundreds of people gathered around the partially collapsed, smoking building, with rubble strewn across the street and men digging through it for victims. Screams can be heard in the background. In some of the images, schoolbags and textbooks are being pulled from the debris.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/01/iran-school-bombing-death-toll-us-israel-strikes
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Death toll from Iran school bombing reportedly rises to almost 150 (Original Post) babylonsister 23 hrs ago OP
The magnitude of Trump's evil... GiqueCee 23 hrs ago #1
...and every red-hatted scumbag that voted for him. Mister Ed 22 hrs ago #3
Likewise... GiqueCee 22 hrs ago #8
I was hoping this would just be propaganda, because I didn't want 140+ kids to be dead. Girard442 22 hrs ago #2
Israel Hit Hospitals OC375 22 hrs ago #4
WHAT Whip-poor-will 22 hrs ago #5
Worth asking OC375 22 hrs ago #6
Every bomb dropped, every missile launched LuvLoogie 20 hrs ago #17
that is an important question. pandr32 20 hrs ago #18
The reports are from Mizan news agency "the official news outlet of Iran's judiciary" lapucelle 22 hrs ago #7
How in the world did this happen when Baitball Blogger 22 hrs ago #9
Was it the US? OC375 21 hrs ago #11
How do we know it wasn't a missle that failed to launch properly Mosby 21 hrs ago #13
Good point OC375 21 hrs ago #15
What would the connection be Greg_In_SF 21 hrs ago #12
I was being factious because it seemed so far-fetched, until I realized that everything I Baitball Blogger 21 hrs ago #14
I was thinking this morning of the Parents, Grandmothers/Grandfathers are non-stop crying. chouchou 22 hrs ago #10
Me, too. hamsterjill 20 hrs ago #16
Part of Trump's charm offensive no doubt newdeal2 20 hrs ago #19

GiqueCee

(3,823 posts)
1. The magnitude of Trump's evil...
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 08:44 AM
23 hrs ago

... can only be measured in astronomical terms. He is a monster, as is his entire cabinet, and every red-hatted scumbag that voted for him.

Mister Ed

(6,899 posts)
3. ...and every red-hatted scumbag that voted for him.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 08:50 AM
22 hrs ago

Aye, every one of them. And even your mild-mannered, seemingly apolitical neighbor or relative or co-worker who gave him their support.

There's no excuse. They all knew. After January 6, they could all see what they were supporting. They knew.

I will shun them all to the end of my days.

GiqueCee

(3,823 posts)
8. Likewise...
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 09:07 AM
22 hrs ago

... I've even had to excise some family members, not to mention numerous acquaintances, and people I will no longer do business with.
It saddens me deeply.

Girard442

(6,860 posts)
2. I was hoping this would just be propaganda, because I didn't want 140+ kids to be dead.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 08:50 AM
22 hrs ago

Looks pretty real

OC375

(650 posts)
4. Israel Hit Hospitals
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 08:50 AM
22 hrs ago

Used to hide Hamas. I wonder if Iran, Hamas’ BFF, was hiding things with civilians as well? In other words, was this deliberate or a miss?

LuvLoogie

(8,736 posts)
17. Every bomb dropped, every missile launched
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 11:43 AM
20 hrs ago

is intentional.



Fuck Netanyahu. Fuck trump.

pandr32

(14,127 posts)
18. that is an important question.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 11:46 AM
20 hrs ago

Either they deliberately targeted this girls' elementary school because they thought Hamas might be hiding there and it was a calculated strike with the girls considered a necessary loss, or it was a mistake. Either way--it's evil.
These girls had a future before the orange monster globbed on to power. Americans might have thought their future was harsh and under oppression, but right here in America girls are raped, tortured, stolen, and controlled.

lapucelle

(21,007 posts)
7. The reports are from Mizan news agency "the official news outlet of Iran's judiciary"
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 08:59 AM
22 hrs ago

and the Iran Health Ministry (sound familiar?).

According to your link,

The school building appears to be adjacent to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps barracks.


and

Restrictions on international reporting in Iran mean the Guardian and other independent media outlets have not been able to access the site in Minab or independently verify the death toll.


A better headline would read

Iran Alleges that Death toll from Iran school bombing reportedly rises to almost 150


Sorry, but before anyone takes the word of the leaders of a extremist right-wing, theocratic, authoritarian regime that routinely kills its citizens for slight infractions of religious "law", the report needs to be verified.

Baitball Blogger

(52,071 posts)
9. How in the world did this happen when
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 09:13 AM
22 hrs ago

Trump’s military had weeks and weeks to prepare for this strike. Dear God that man and these times are so demented I would not be surprised to discover if that school had something to do with Epstein Island.

OC375

(650 posts)
11. Was it the US?
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:13 AM
21 hrs ago

Do we have confirmation on it being a US strike, as opposed to Israel? I have only read generic “missile” from Iranian state reports.

Mosby

(19,480 posts)
13. How do we know it wasn't a missle that failed to launch properly
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:19 AM
21 hrs ago

From the military base next to the girls school?

Greg_In_SF

(1,169 posts)
12. What would the connection be
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:16 AM
21 hrs ago

between a small school in the middle of nowhere Iran and Epstein Island? ...assuming you were serious.

Baitball Blogger

(52,071 posts)
14. I was being factious because it seemed so far-fetched, until I realized that everything I
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 10:19 AM
21 hrs ago

once believed was beyond the realm of believability is on the front page of the papers these days.

chouchou

(3,047 posts)
10. I was thinking this morning of the Parents, Grandmothers/Grandfathers are non-stop crying.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 09:22 AM
22 hrs ago

...knowing that their children were screaming in pain before death closed in.....

hamsterjill

(17,386 posts)
16. Me, too.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 11:04 AM
20 hrs ago

I have expressed the fact that I'm a red-letter Christian many times on DU. I've spent the morning reminding people that MY Jesus loved those little babies, too. Because I've seen some Christians applauding the bombings with great glee.

You don't have to agree or disagree with my belief. That's not my purpose. Each person believes as they feel is best. The grief over these babies certainly is NOT limited to any one faith. But we all need to at least have the empathy for understanding what you describe as far as family reaction to war. Those babies mattered.

I'm just trying to convey that some of us will never applaud war that kills little children - ANY children.

newdeal2

(5,206 posts)
19. Part of Trump's charm offensive no doubt
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 11:46 AM
20 hrs ago

I don’t want to hear more BS about the peace prize ever again.

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