Top updates: At UN, Iran minister calls Minab school strike ‘calculated’ attack by US, Israel

Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, on Friday described the February 28 strike on an elementary school in Tehran’s Minab as a “deliberate, intentional” and “calculated” attack by the United States and Israel, AFP reported.

Speaking at an urgent debate at the United Nations Human Rights Council, he added that 175 students and teachers had been “slaughtered in cold blood”.

Attending via video conferencing, Araghchi said that the incident was a war crime and a crime against humanity, demanding “unequivocal condemnation” and “unambiguous accountability” for those responsible.

Here are more top updates from the conflict in West Asia:

• The Iranian leader added that the atrocity could not be justified or ignored. “The United States’ contradictory remarks aimed at justifying their crime could not, in any manner, elude their responsibility,” he said.

#WATCH | Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi says, "This war of aggression is blatantly unjustified. They, the US and Israel, initiated this aggression on 28th February...Targeting Shajarah Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab was a war crime, one that demands… pic.twitter.com/6AbHriA3QF— ANI (@ANI) March 27, 2026

• Volker Turk, chief of the UN Human Rights Council, said that the bombing evoked “visceral horror” and insisted on the need for justice, reported AFP.
• Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Friday that the Strait of Hormuz had...

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