War Crime in Minab: The Lives Behind the Massacre at Shajareh Tayyebeh School
On the morning of Saturday, 28 February, a missile struck Shajareh Tayyebeh School in Minab, in southern Iran. The children were in their first lessons of the week. Dozens of them, and the teachers who stayed with them, were killed.
Today, remember
Every person this site remembers.
Hananeh Zakeri Khahan
Mohammad Sadra Zareipour
Mohammad Sharifi
Makan Nasiri
Arina Arabkish Chelouei
Ali Arabkish Chelouei
Mahdiyeh Ahmadzadeh
Amin Ahmadzadeh
Reza Barani
Sobhan Ahmadi
Hanan Ahmadi
Arash and Atena Golazin
Adrina Pegah and Farideh Jahangiri
Ahmadreza and Javad Sartakzadeh
Athareh Zarei
Amir Mohammad Ghasemi
Helma Ghasemi
Salma and Asra Zakeri
Parham Ranjbari
Hamed and Hani Paritaghinejad
Ehsan Saleminia
Mohammad Loghmani Abdan
Amirali Hasanzadeh
Zahra Behroozi
Aria Bahaderi
Amirali and Amirmohammad Boostani
Alireza Shahrjoo
Sonar and Hamid Salari
Danial Faghirdoust
Soheil Chamalipour
Hananeh and Reyhaneh Mahdikhah
Reyhaneh Zakeri
Mahdi Zakeri
Zeinab Makizadeh
Zahra Sharafi
Setayesh Alihoseini
Atena Chemelinejad
Mohammadmahdi Jangchi
Reza Habashian
Farimah Mafakheri
Zahra and Zeinab Bahrami
Maryam Bazark
Arsha Mirani
Masiha Salari
Sina Zakeri Gourzangi
Motahareh Ahmadzadeh
Benyamin Jangjoo
Zahra Ansarifar
Saleh Abbasi
Mohammad Abadizadeh
Masoumeh Nazari
Parsa Mokhtarinasab
Ali Asghar and Parastesh Zaeri
Mohammad Jamalinejad
Ali Asghar Forouzanfar
Ahmad Soltani
Hami Sadeghi
Ali Hafizi
Mahdis Nazari
Mohammadreza Shahsavari
Esra Farahizadeh
Hossein Rahsepar
Mohana Zarei
Mohammad Sadegh Gholami
Mikaeil Mirdoraghi
Amirhossein Jafari Ravangi
Sara Shayesteh
Ali Salari
Mahya Salari
Mohammad Taha Jafari
Amirali Jodavi
Saman Karamzadeh
Fadia Shahmiri
Mohammadtaha Mallahi
Homayoun Zeinali
Heydar Salehi Kahneshooeiye
Sobhan Shahdadi
Fatemeh Derazehi
Mohammad Ali and Ali Akbar Karyani Pak
Amirali Kamali
Khadijeh Darvishi
Fatemeh Rahdar
Roghayeh Salari
Zahra Jalali
Atena Ahmadzadeh Halvaei
Fatemeh Zahra Karimi
Amir Ghasemzaei
Fatemeh Yazdanpanah
Amirmohammad Bagheri
Samira Mallahi Kolahi
Mohanna Bahrami Ravangi
Araz Ahmadizadeh Zahraei
Reza Ranjbar
Liana Mohammadi
Amir Mohammadi
Reyhaneh Karami
Sorena Hosseinpour
Baran Ghasemi
Asena Raeisi
Mohammad Hesam Raeisi
Zoha Pasand
Mohammad Pirzadeh
Moein Zeinali
Mahdi Delavari
Mahdi Salari
Raha Zarei Bonak
Mohammad Raoufinia
Zahra Soleymani
Alireza Zarei
Mohammad Shahdoostipour
Ali Zarei
Niyayesh Salehi
Amirhossein Rasouli
Homayoun Ranjbari
Hana Dehghani
Sepehr Karimi
Mohammad Kian Bahrami
Fatemeh Shahdadi
Mandana Salari
Fatemeh Taheri-Fard
Mahdiyeh Rasouli
Zohreh Shahriari
Fatemeh Asgari Minabi
Pouran Gholipour
Elham Karimi
Ensieh Karimi
Fatemeh Fadavi
Maliheh Naeimi
Neda Solhizadeh
Raheleh Ranjbar
Marzieh Firoozi
Nasim Neistani
Samira Basardeh
Fouzieh Zakeri
This site exists to keep their names, faces and stories in one place that anyone can find. It was built from family interviews, photographs and news reports, and it is not finished — for some of the children we still have only a name and a photograph.
There are more than a hundred and forty people documented here. You can read the whole account as a book, or you can start with one of them.
- 1From the 1953 Coup to the 2026 War: Seventy Years of U.S. Pressure on IranThe years of diplomacy, sanction and rhetoric that preceded the morning of 28 February.
- 2Same Crime, Same Excuse: Other U.S. War Crimes Like MinabThe language used after civilians are killed, and who it is built to protect.
- 3Inside the Tomahawk Missile: Guidance Systems That Leave No Room for MistakeWhat the missile used against the school is, and what its accuracy implies about intent.
- 4The Minab School Attack: A Timeline of February 28, 2026The hour-by-hour account of the attack.Start here
- 5The Children of Minab: Faces, Families, and the Lives They Were LivingThe children, told through their families' own accounts.83 people
- 6The Children Whose Stories Were TakenThe children whose accounts have not yet reached us. Their names and faces are here.34 people
- 7Not Just Teachers, Mothers: They Stayed and Gave Their Lives for Their StudentsThe staff who were in the building with the children.17 people
- 8What Their Hands Left Behind: Drawings by the Children of MinabDrawings made by the children of Shajareh Tayyebeh School, shared as we received them.