Elementary school in Tehran hit, Iran’s foreign ministry says
Al Jazeera
Footage shared by Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman purportedly shows destruction in Shahid Hamedani School in Tehran.
An elementary school in the Iranian capital Tehran’s Niloufar Square has been struck in US-Israeli attacks, according to Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei.
Baghaei on Friday shared a video on X, purportedly showing Shahid Hamedani School with students before and after the attack, without elaborating on the circumstances or the number of casualties.
If confirmed, this would be the fourth school hit in Iran since the war erupted.
The Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school in southern city of Minab, was the first to be hit on Saturday, the first day of US and Israeli attacks against the country. The attack killed 160 children and five staff, according to UN experts.
Some websites and social media accounts linked to Israel claimed the site was “part of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base”.
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