Iranians grieving over school missile strike express rage at U.S., Trump

But Qasemi said he felt a boost from seeing the father of a girl who was still buried under the rubble reassuring others.

Despite the proximity of the town of Minab, and the province of Hormozgan, to the Strait of Hormuz, where 20% of the world’s oil flowed through on daily before the war, the region is one of the most impoverished in Iran.

A Minab education official, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak on the record, described the attack as part of what he saw as the broader injustices carried out by the U.S.

“The attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab recalls the crimes committed by the United States over the past 250 years,” he said. “From the killing of indigenous peoples in the American continent to the crimes committed in Vietnam. Wars leave nothing behind except the destruction of human lives,

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