Iran's football team presses forward with 2026 World Cup preparations, naming the convoy "Minab 168" to honor children killed in the US-Israeli bombing in Minab

In a letter addressed to Pope Leo XIV, families of Minab’s schoolchildren urged him to advocate for their lost children on the world stage and push for lasting peace."

Iran’s ministry of education says 310 students and teachers have been killed and over 750 schools sustained damage so far in the US-Israeli war on Iran.

Iran says the US could have saved two more Tomahawks if it had not conducted a missile attack on an Iranian elementary school in the city of Minab.

The UN rights chief has strongly condemned a strike on an Iranian elementary school in the Iranian city of Minab that took placed on the first day of the US-Israeli war of aggression on Iran.

The Iranian foreign minister says the US-Israeli massacre of schoolchildren in Minab is just the "tip of a far larger iceberg" of the invading coalition's war crimes. 

The United Nations Security Council is set to hold a private meeting on Friday to discuss recent United States and Israeli military strikes on civilian infrastructure in Iran, including a deadly terrorist attack on a primary school.