Death toll from Iran school bombing reportedly rises to almost 150

[babylonsister]

Death toll from Iran school bombing reportedly rises to almost 150
Strike on girls’ elementary school in south of Iran has killed 148 people and injured 95 others, according to Iran state media
Tess McClure
Sun 1 Mar 2026 07.09 EST


The death toll from a missile strike on a girls’ school in southern Iran has risen to almost 150, according to Iranian state media.

Mizan news agency, the official news outlet of Iran’s judiciary, reported that the number killed in Saturday’s strike on a girls’ elementary school in Minab in southern Iran had risen to 148 killed, with 95 others wounded. The news agency cited Ebrahim Taheri, a prosecutor in Minab.

The school, which was struck on Saturday morning, appears to be the worst mass casualty event of the US-Israeli-led bombing campaign on Iran so far.

Video and photographs from the aftermath of the strike, which have been verified as authentic and geolocated to the site, show hundreds of people gathered around the partially collapsed, smoking building, with rubble strewn across the street and men digging through it for victims. Screams can be heard in the background. In some of the images, schoolbags and textbooks are being pulled from the debris.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/01/iran-school-bombing-death-toll-us-israel-strikes

[GiqueCee]

1. The magnitude of Trump's evil...

... can only be measured in astronomical terms. He is a monster, as is his entire cabinet, and every red-hatted scumbag that voted for him.

[Mister Ed]

3. ...and every red-hatted scumbag that voted for him.

Aye, every one of them. And even your mild-mannered, seemingly apolitical neighbor or relative or co-worker who gave him their support.

There's no excuse. They all knew. After January 6, they could all see what they were supporting. They knew.

I will shun them all to the end of my days.

[GiqueCee]

8. Likewise...

... I've even had to excise some family members, not to mention numerous acquaintances, and people I will no longer do business with.
It saddens me deeply.

[Girard442]

2. I was hoping this would just be propaganda, because I didn't want 140+ kids to be dead.

Looks pretty real

[OC375]

4. Israel Hit Hospitals

Used to hide Hamas. I wonder if Iran, Hamas’ BFF, was hiding things with civilians as well? In other words, was this deliberate or a miss?

[Whip-poor-will]

5. WHAT

That's just sick thinking

[OC375]

6. Worth asking

Was the strike intentional? It matters.

[LuvLoogie]

17. Every bomb dropped, every missile launched

is intentional.



Fuck Netanyahu. Fuck trump.

[pandr32]

18. that is an important question.

Either they deliberately targeted this girls' elementary school because they thought Hamas might be hiding there and it was a calculated strike with the girls considered a necessary loss, or it was a mistake. Either way--it's evil.
These girls had a future before the orange monster globbed on to power. Americans might have thought their future was harsh and under oppression, but right here in America girls are raped, tortured, stolen, and controlled.

[lapucelle]

7. The reports are from Mizan news agency "the official news outlet of Iran's judiciary"

and the Iran Health Ministry (sound familiar?).

According to your link,

The school building appears to be adjacent to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps barracks.

and

Restrictions on international reporting in Iran mean the Guardian and other independent media outlets have not been able to access the site in Minab or independently verify the death toll.

A better headline would read

Iran Alleges that Death toll from Iran school bombing reportedly rises to almost 150

Sorry, but before anyone takes the word of the leaders of a extremist right-wing, theocratic, authoritarian regime that routinely kills its citizens for slight infractions of religious "law", the report needs to be verified.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. How in the world did this happen when

Trump’s military had weeks and weeks to prepare for this strike. Dear God that man and these times are so demented I would not be surprised to discover if that school had something to do with Epstein Island.

[OC375]

11. Was it the US?

Do we have confirmation on it being a US strike, as opposed to Israel? I have only read generic “missile” from Iranian state reports.

[Mosby]

13. How do we know it wasn't a missle that failed to launch properly

From the military base next to the girls school?

[OC375]

15. Good point

[Greg_In_SF]

12. What would the connection be

between a small school in the middle of nowhere Iran and Epstein Island? ...assuming you were serious.

[Baitball Blogger]

14. I was being factious because it seemed so far-fetched, until I realized that everything I

once believed was beyond the realm of believability is on the front page of the papers these days.

[chouchou]

10. I was thinking this morning of the Parents, Grandmothers/Grandfathers are non-stop crying.

...knowing that their children were screaming in pain before death closed in.....

[hamsterjill]

16. Me, too.

I have expressed the fact that I'm a red-letter Christian many times on DU. I've spent the morning reminding people that MY Jesus loved those little babies, too. Because I've seen some Christians applauding the bombings with great glee.

You don't have to agree or disagree with my belief. That's not my purpose. Each person believes as they feel is best. The grief over these babies certainly is NOT limited to any one faith. But we all need to at least have the empathy for understanding what you describe as far as family reaction to war. Those babies mattered.

I'm just trying to convey that some of us will never applaud war that kills little children - ANY children.

[newdeal2]

19. Part of Trump's charm offensive no doubt

I don’t want to hear more BS about the peace prize ever again.