US and Israel Attack Girls' Elementary School in Minab, Iran; Iranian Death Tolls Reported 85–165

An airstrike struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school in Minab, Hormozgan province.

“Smoke has been seen rising from a five-star hotel complex in Bahrain as several nations work to repel or neutralise hundreds of retaliatory Iranian drone and missile strikes”

9News.au

The strike killed large numbers of pupils.

9News.au

Iranian sources reported sharply varying death tolls, with local state media and the local prosecutor telling IRNA that 165 people were killed and 96 injured.

Other Iranian outlets and local reporting put the figure at 85 dead.

These divergent counts reflect immediate, competing tallies from Iranian authorities and state-linked outlets in the hours after the strike.

The strike on the Minab school came amid a coordinated, large-scale US-Israeli military offensive.

Iranian and international outlets say the offensive hit scores of targets across the country.

Al Jazeera

Reports describe hundreds of military and strategic sites struck across multiple provinces.

Some accounts say the joint operation targeted key government buildings in Tehran, including the secure compound of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Iranian emergency authorities reported heavy national casualties and damage beyond Minab.

“The death toll from an Israeli strike that hit an elementary girls’ school in Minab, a city in the Hormozgan province of southern Iran, has risen to 165 people, Iranian state media reported”

Al Jazeera

Iran’s Red Crescent publicly gave a nationwide toll of at least 201 dead and 747 wounded.

It said 24 of the country’s 31 provinces were affected, placing the Minab school strike among a broader wave of civilian and military impacts reported across multiple provinces.

Iranian officials condemned the Minab attack and raised the alarm internationally.

Iran's foreign ministry urged the UN Security Council to act.

Eastern Daily Press

Senior Iranian leaders called the school bombing a massacre.

President Masoud Pezeshkian labeled the strike "barbaric," and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called the killing of "dozens of innocent children" unacceptable.

Iranian forces reportedly launched counter-strikes, including operations aimed at US assets in the Gulf.

Significant contradictions and verification gaps remain in reporting.

“Dozens of school children were among at least 201 people killed in U”

Daily Sabah

Iranian state outlets and officials gave varying casualty counts for the Minab strike, with figures reported from initial small numbers to 85 and as high as 165.

Financial Times

Some international outlets reported Israeli officials saying they were unaware of strikes in that area.

Multiple accounts cautioned that many reports were unverified amid fast-moving, contradictory claims.