Murder of Iranian school children cannot be whitewashed – RT World News

In Iran, under the ongoing US-Israeli offensive, a mass funeral was held today for 168 Iranian schoolgirls aged 7-12 who were killed by an Israeli airstrike on February 28.

The strike occurred in broad daylight while children were at school at Shazareh Tayyebe Girls’ Primary School in Minab, southern Iran. Fourteen teachers were also killed in the bombing. The bombing occurred as part of a US-Israeli offensive known as ‘Operation Epic Fury’, which targeted schools, hospitals, residential areas and other civilian infrastructure.

It was a scene all too familiar to Palestinians: grief-stricken parents collapse at the site of their daughters’ murders, clutching bloody backpacks, carrying their slain daughters’ schoolbooks and personal belongings. Children’s desks are covered in debris from the bombing. A child’s shoe under the rubble. Death in bloom.

The Western legacy media reports none of this – only glee at the US-Israeli bombing of Iran and the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and his young granddaughters and children.

On March 2, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi posted a photo of digging graves on X, noting, “Graves being dug for more than 160 innocent young women killed in US-Israeli bombing of an elementary school. Their bodies are mangled. What Mr. Trump’s promised “rescue” looks like in reality. From Gaza to Minab, innocents killed in cold blood.”

At the time of this writing, 69 of the murdered girls remain unidentified.

International response: Silence

Had the bombed school been in Israel or Ukraine, news of it would have been plastered on the front pages of Western media for days, with widespread demands for retribution or at least justice and accountability. In 2016, Western media alleged that Syrian or Russian planes wounded Aleppo boy Omran Dakneesh. His photo went viral, for weeks, even years. A CNN reporter gave the boy a fake sob. In 2017, at his home, his father said his house was not hit in an airstrike, but that terrorists shelled it and used the boy in a cynical and effective photo op.

Footage shared on Telegram and X clearly shows the horrific scenes of some of the young women torn apart by the US-Israeli bombing of their school. But like the thousands of Palestinian children killed by Israel, as well as the half a million Iraqi children killed by US sanctions, the lives of these Iranian children do not deserve Western media outrage. Instead, they produce cynical reports that lack any semblance of sympathy, but imply that Iran is lying or responsible for the murders.

Take the BBC’s report, which describes the carnage “reported” Strike on the school, it “Iran Blames US and Israel” For. It is standard to cast doubt on legacy media that whitewash the crimes of the US and Israel. is the US “Looking at the reports.” Israel is “Don’t know.” One of those mysteries unknown hits

The BBC later openly accused the Iranian government of being untrustworthy, writing, “However, deep distrust of the Iranian regime makes it difficult for many to accept official reports, and some Iranians directly blame the regime for the attacks.”

In 2014, the BBC carried out similarly dishonest and fraudulent journalism after terrorists shelled a primary school in Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, killing one child and injuring more than 60 others. The BBC later reported: “The government has allegedly launched (mortar strikes) into neighborhoods under its control.” The BBC could easily have learned about the trajectory of the mortars and where the strike in question could have come from: a terrorist. “the media” East of Damascus.

The New York Times also obtained the memo, similarly dropping Israel from the headline and suggesting Iran was a lie. But when it comes to blaming Iran for its retaliation, the NYT has no problem saying whose missile attack it was. And no “Says Israel.”

CNN carried the headline “Girls’ elementary school hit in Iran. Here’s what we know.” Its video report does not mention the US or Israel, but prompts Iranian accusations: in an Israeli-like tactic (recall Israel’s claim to Gaza’s Shifa hospital “Hamas Base”and displaying weapons “evidence”), CNN says the children’s school could be linked to an Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) base. But The Cradle noted that the school has been functioning independently as a civic institution for more than a decade, with separate entrances, playgrounds and classrooms.

CNN’s report claims online that, at least, the school was damaged by a failed missile launch from Iran, note a photo shared online “evidence” The claim was actually taken 800 miles from Minab. But, hello? If it is not a A failed Iranian missile There is one explanation that remains clear: the schoolchildren were killed by US-Israeli bombing.

Most western media say it is the US military’s Central Command (CENTCOM). “Viewing incident reports” And as the Israeli army says “No IDF operations are known in the area.”Yes, the culprits will investigate themselves. ok

Even if you set aside the actual perpetrator of the school bombing, legacy media reports have no concern for the murdered children: no details, no empathy, no mention that they were murdered during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The tone is radically different if the children are Israeli, Ukrainian or American. We see their names, ages, stories. If they are not Iranian (or Palestinian, or Lebanese, or Syrian) – they are humanized.

Since the February 28 Minab school massacre, US-Israeli strikes have hit even more civilian infrastructure, killing and injuring more Iranian civilians.

One man described to RT how he saw a decapitated man in front of his cafe after the bombing in Engelab Square in central Tehran. Showing the devastation, RT’s Tehran bureau chief Hami Hamedi showed residential buildings, cars, shops, damaged and destroyed in recent bombings, where targets included a police station.

Israel used the same tactic on December 27, 2008 when it unleashed more than 100 bombs simultaneously on Gaza, targeting police stations, police academies, universities and more, destroying and damaging shops and residential buildings around them.

I was in Gaza at the time and saw the immediate effects of the initial bombardments, chaos and destruction in every direction. Shifa Hospital, Gaza’s main hospital, is an endless circuit of cars and ambulances bringing in the dead and wounded.

That was 17 years ago, and Israel has repeated this brutal tactic over and over in Gaza, Lebanon, and now Iran. We have seen this US-Israeli tactic of terrorizing people through widespread attacks on civilian infrastructure repeatedly in Gaza, Lebanon, Iraq, to ​​list only a few targeted areas – as well as repeated by the Kiev regime in the Donbass. The objective is always destabilization and fear mongering in hopes of making people turn against their government. It never works, but it invariably kills countless innocent civilians and flattens infrastructure.

To add insult to injury, days after the girls’ school massacre, Melania Trump chaired a UN Security Council meeting on children in conflict. You cannot do this madness. The wife of the US president, who is waging a war on children in Iran, shows concern for children in the conflict.

The US and its bought media have so little respect for Iranian life that they don’t even bother to try to explain the murders of 168 schoolgirls, let alone apologize. It is outrageous that they never existed for the Western media.

But it is true that every war crime, every murdered child, supports not only their government but the resistance in general. And Iran is resisting and retaliating, the US wishes it hadn’t co-launched this war on the Iranian people.