Iran’s foreign minister branded a deadly strike on an Iranian school on the first day of the Middle East war as a “calculated” US assault. Abbas Araghchi said on Friday that “more than 175 students and teachers were slaughtered in cold blood” in a “calculated, phased assault” in the February 28 strike on an Iranian elementary school in Minab. “This atrocity cannot be justified, cannot be concealed, and must not be met with silence and indifference,” the minister said. “The United States’ contradictory remarks aimed at justifying their crime could not, in any manner, elude their responsibility.”
