Graves are prepared for the victims following a strike on a school in Minab, Iran, on March 2, 2026. (Photo: Iranian Foreign Media Department/West Asia News Agency via AFP)GENEVA - Iran’s foreign minister on Friday branded a deadly strike on an Iranian school on the first day of the Middle East war as a “calculated” US assault. Abbas Araghchi said “more than 175 students and teachers were slaughtered in cold blood” in a “calculated, phased assault” in the February 28 strike on an Iranian elementary school in Minab. No draft resolution was discussed during Friday’s debate, but countries lined up to condemn the school strike and the Middle East war more broadly. Cuban ambassador Rodolfo Benitez Verson called for “an independent and impartial investigation” into the school strike, which he labelled a “war crime”.

Source: Bangkok Post March 27, 2026 14:13 UTC