Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency has reported that at least 40 people were killed after an Israeli strike hit a girls’ elementary school in Minab in the southern Hormozgan province.
This is a developing story. I’ve provided some micro-updates in the comments, focusing on the verification of the story.
I recommend this Middle East Eye, and this Guardian article for more on this story.
TIL in Iran there is school on Saturdays, for girls.
I already know that war is horrible. Iranian regime, Israeli and US government have failed (to resolve their differences peacefully). Civilians will suffer and die because of it.
I don’t know how credible the source of the information is. I don’t say it didn’t happen, I just don’t trust the source.
The weekend in Iran is Thursday and Friday. Saturday is the first day of the week, and yes, there are schools for girls… I’m not sure what you’re implying by that bit…
Thanks.
I didn’t know that. Why is that? Something about religious beliefs?
Found this: https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/irans-debate-about-weekends-highlights-tehrans-ideological-constraints
It is the information in the article, which I don’t doubt (including workweek). That bit is not part of the message to provoke an emotional reaction during wartime.
E: I looked for Women’s education and workforce in Iran, because I didn’t know anything about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women’s_rights_in_Iran
I wouldn’t have thought that the situation is so positive, education-wise. In that regard I was quite uneducated, you are right.
After months of protests, I truly doubt a bunch of girls were at school on a Saturday.
Just like the US said Iraq was removing premature infants from respirators in Kuwait. Bullshit.
Just like Israel said Hamas was beheading babies. Absolute nonsense.
It’s meant to generate rage first and foremost, to dehumanize the enemy.
War is dehumanizing enough.
I do not trust Iran one bit. Iranians, maybe. They’re the ones suffering here. But the regimes at play here can all get fucked.
You’re comparing Israeli and US lies to justify bombing civilians with a country being surprise attacked in the middle of peace negotiations saying one of the 500 targets Israel is gloating about was a school… Because you think it’s the weekend?
Not so fun fact, the weekend in Iran is Thursday and Friday. Yes, there is school on Saturday.
Fair point, I was ignorant of their weekends. But I was also considering that their society has been in disarray during protests for months.
Even that doesn’t mean there wouldn’t be school.
I still distrust news that comes from any of the regimes at play here.
And any deaths of civilians would be tragic. Of course if a school was indeed hit that would be a horrific thing.