At Iranian school devastated by airstrike, grieving families say they will never forget
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | The U.S. and Israel's air war with Iran has killed thousands since it started nearly three months ago. |
| 0:05.8 | But few attacks have left a deeper mark than the strike on a school in southern Iran on the war's opening day. |
| 0:12.5 | More than 150 people were killed when airstrikes hit the school in Minab, most of them children. |
| 0:18.1 | And there is little dispute that the missiles were American made. |
| 0:21.3 | Special correspondent Reza Seya is the first American television journalist to report from the site, |
| 0:27.0 | and he sent us this report. |
| 0:29.9 | Every night for more than 12 weeks, Asma Morayrini says she sits, prays and grieves |
| 0:37.2 | in front of what's left of Shajaraybe Elementary |
| 0:40.3 | School. |
| 0:41.3 | The sounds of children are still here for me. I can still hear them in my mind. |
| 0:47.3 | Ever since this happened, my heart has been broken. |
| 0:51.3 | For asthma and the people of Minar, the grief and pain of what happened here still feels |
| 0:59.7 | fresh. |
| 1:00.7 | The elementary school believed to be hit by a U.S. Tomahawk missile strike on February |
| 1:06.0 | 28th, the day U.S. and Israeli forces attacked and started war with Iran. |
| 1:13.6 | Fazil Ali Najat says he was working just a mile away when he heard the booming sounds |
| 1:19.6 | of missiles hitting Minha. |
| 1:21.6 | There was the first explosion, the second, third, fourth explosion. |
| 1:26.6 | My nephew and I took out our phones |
| 1:28.4 | and started filming. |
| 1:30.3 | This is what he shot. Fasel says he didn't know what was hit. He just raced towards |
| 1:37.3 | the smoke until he arrived at the school. |
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