Velayati condemns killing of children in conflicts, calls for global protection of schools

TEHRAN – A senior advisor to Iran’s Leader has strongly condemned the killing of children in armed conflicts, describing children as a universal red line for humanity and asserting that the loss of any child anywhere in the world is tantamount to a loss for all mankind.

Mashhad mayor urges global urban forum to condemn attacks on civilian infrastructure

TEHRAN - The mayor of the Iranian city of Mashhad has issued an open letter to participants at the 13th session of the World Urban Forum in Baku, calling for international action against attacks on civilian infrastructure in West Asia and warning against what he described as the normalization of violence against noncombatants.

Iran envoy condemns UNSC silence over US threats and war crimes

TEHRAN- Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations has sharply criticized the UN Security Council for its silence regarding US threats against Iran and violations of international humanitarian law during the recent conflict involving the United States and Israel.

Attacks on heritage sites show US, Israel ‘civilizational hostility’, minister says

TEHRAN - Iran’s Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts, Seyyed Reza Salehi-Amiri, said on Monday that attacks on Iranian historical monuments by the United States and Israel reflected what he described as “civilizational hostility” toward Iran, adding that damage to 149 historical sites would remain “a stain” on their faces.

Iranian inventor dedicates intl. award to Minab martyred schoolgirls

TEHRAN - Leila Keshavarzi, an Iranian inventor and national taekwondo athlete, just won a gold medal at the Asian Youth Innovation Awards, which was held from April 9-11in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Minab installation commemorates martyred students

TEHRAN- To honor the memories of the young students martyred in the recent tragedy and mark the 40th day of their martyrdom, a conceptual art installation featuring 2,000 red butterflies and symbolic crimson pages has been unveiled at the ruins of Minab’s Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School.

"In Memory of the Butterflies of Minab": Tehran hosts massive mourning ceremony for martyred student

TEHRAN- A grand commemorative ceremony titled "In Memory of the Butterflies of Minab" was held in Tehran on Tuesday to mark the 40th day since the martyrdom of schoolchildren in Minab.

Artists, officials gather to honor child martyrs of Minab school

TEHRAN- A memorial ceremony for the child martyrs of Shajareh Tayyebeh, an elementary school in the city of Minab in the southern province of Hormozgan, turned into a powerful call for peace, unity and remembrance as artists and cultural figures gathered at the Artistic Creation Center of the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (IIDCYA).

By Faramarz Kouhpayeh

The Minab school massacre and the death of international law

TEHRAN - The opening U.S. military strikes on Iran on February 28 are known for two things. The first is the assassination of Iran’s Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, which ultimately backfired on the two regimes by strengthening Iranian national unity and resolving a potential succession crisis that many had feared would follow Ayatollah Khamenei’s passing. The second is the brutal and tragic massacre of schoolgirls in southern Iran.

US-Israeli attack on Minab school was a ‘calculated’ massacre, Araghchi tells UNHRC

In an urgent address before the 61st session of the UN Human Rights Council on Friday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyyed Abbas Araghchi said the United States and Israel had committed “atrocity crimes” and “genocide” during their bombing campaign against the country in the past 27 days. He specifically cited the attack on a girls’ elementary school in Minab as a deliberate war crime.

Two schools to be built in Minab in memory of martyred children

TEHRAN – The education ministry has launched a campaign, titled Minab Angels, to build two schools in the memory of the students martyred on February 28 in a U.S. missile attack to Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in the southern city of Minab.

Flying Turtle Award jury condemns Zionist-U.S. missile strike

TEHRAN- The jury committee of the Flying Turtle Award, Iran's distinguished children's literature prize, has issued a statement condemning the Zionist-U.S. military strikes against Iran that devastated a school in Minab, Hormozgan province, and a sports facility in Lamerd, Fars province, while urging international organizations to intervene and prevent such tragedies from recurring.

Benevolent people to help rebuild Minab school as national heritage

TEHRAN – Shajareh Tayyebeh, an elementary school in the city of Minab in the southern province of Hormozgan, which was destroyed by a U.S. missile strike on February 28, will be reconstructed by benevolent people and will be registered as a national heritage.

Farabi Cinema Foundation calls on intl. film companies, festivals to denounce attacks on Iran

TEHRAN – Farabi Cinema Foundation, as the national body of Iran cinema, has sent a letter of protest to international film production and distribution entities, global film festivals, and a group of foreign filmmakers, calling on them not to remain silent in the face of injustice and the criminal attacks by the U.S. and the Zionist regime on Iran.