A U.S. missile strike on February 28, 2026, killed over 100 children at the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab, Iran, marking the deadliest reported incident in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. Despite the Pentagon's silence and President Trump's denial of U.S. culpability, the Associated Press reconstructed the attack, revealing a U.S.
missile struck the school, which was located within a Revolutionary Guard base compound. Teachers had called parents for early pickup after bombs fell on Tehran, but multiple munitions subsequently hit the compound around 10:25 a.m., collapsing the school and mutilating bodies. Initial hospital estimates reported 108 dead, later rising to 168 by state media. The lack of official U.S. accountability and Iran's politicization of the tragedy, including using "Minab 168" in negotiations and depicting children as "martyrs," have left victims' families without resolution. Internal U.S. military archives contained clues about strikes in the vicinity, and one analyst had identified the building as a school years prior.
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