Elementary school in Tehran hit, Iran’s foreign ministry says

Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said an elementary school in Tehran's Niloufar Square has been struck in US-Israeli attacks.

“An elementary school in the Iranian capital Tehran’s Niloufar Square has been struck in US-Israeli attacks, according to Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei”

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Baghaei on Friday shared a video on X, purportedly showing Shahid Hamedani School with students before and after the attack, without elaborating on the circumstances or the number of casualties.

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If confirmed, this would be the fourth school hit in Iran since the war erupted.

The Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' school in Minab was the first to be hit on the first day of US and Israeli attacks.

The attack killed 160 children and five staff, according to UN experts.

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Some websites and social media accounts linked to Israel claimed the site was 'part of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base'.

An analysis by Al Jazeera's digital investigations unit of satellite imagery compiled over more than a decade, recent video clips, published news reports and statements from official Iranian sources found the school had been clearly separate from an adjacent military site for at least 10 years.

Al Jazeera said the strike pattern raises fundamental questions about the accuracy of the intelligence information.

Al Jazeera said the strike may raise questions about whether it was a deliberate targeting of the school.

The US acknowledged its military was investigating the Minab strike.

“An elementary school in the Iranian capital Tehran’s Niloufar Square has been struck in US-Israeli attacks, according to Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei”

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Reuters, quoting two US officials, reported US military investigators believed it was likely that US forces were responsible for the apparent strike but had not yet reached a final conclusion.

UN rights chief Volker Turk urged Washington to move 'very quickly' with a 'prompt, transparent and impartial' investigation and said there must be accountability as well as redress for the victims.

On Thursday, missiles fired by the US and Israel hit two other schools in the town of Parand, state media reported.

UNICEF said that of the more than 1,300 people killed in the strikes on Iran so far, at least 181 were children.

The article states that deliberately attacking a school would be a war crime.

It says that if a US role were to be confirmed, the strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of US wars in the Middle East.