On the night of Ashura 2026, a devastating report reached the people of Iran: no trace of little Makan Nasiri had been found.

Not a body.
Not a bone.
Not even a strand of hair.

After more than one hundred DNA tests, nothing of him remained to be returned to his mother — only a torn schoolbag and a single shoe.

To imagine this is almost unbearable: a child leaving home for school, and a mother left with no grave to hold, no body to bury, no final touch, no farewell.

In the tradition of Zainab — who stood after Karbala and refused to let power bury the truth — this website was created so that Makan, the children of Minab, and the wound left in the heart of humanity will not be forgotten.

Remember Minab is not a call for revenge.

It is a call for truth.
It is a call for accountability.
It is a call for the protection of every child, in every school, in every war.

A world that forgets its children loses its soul.

We remember Makan.
We remember Minab.
And we ask the world to remember with us.

On February 28, 2026, the war reached a school.

Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab was struck during the late morning. Children were inside. Teachers were trying to protect them. Parents were running toward the school, hoping to take their children home.

For many families, home never came again.

Reports later described a scene no parent should ever have to imagine: classrooms shattered, children gone, families searching for names, bodies, traces, and answers. Local authorities reported 156 people killed, including 120 students and 26 teachers. Earlier reports cited higher figures.

The exact numbers matter. The evidence matters. The timeline matters. But the truth begins here: a school was hit, children died, and the world must not look away.

In the spirit of Zainab’s witness after Karbala, Remember Minab was created so that grief becomes memory, memory becomes truth, and truth becomes a demand for accountability.

Before the world counted the dead, their families called their names.

Makan. Zahra. Hanieh. Sobhan. Arya.

Makan Nasiri, seven. Zahra Behroozi, eight. Hanieh Ahmadi Tifakani, seven. Sobhan Ahmadi Tifakani, ten. Arya Bahadori, nine.

They were children of a school, not symbols of a war. They were learning, growing, playing, memorizing lessons, carrying bags too large for their shoulders, and living lives that should have continued far beyond one February morning.

Some of their names are publicly known. Others are still being verified with care, because remembrance must be truthful. We will not reduce them to statistics. We will not allow their lives to disappear beneath the language of war.

This is a page of names, stories, ages, photographs when appropriate, and sources — a witness archive for children the world must not forget.

Memory must be protected by evidence.

Remember Minab is built on publicly available reports, human-rights investigations, official statements, media coverage, photographs, names, timelines, and documents that help the world understand what happened — and what still remains unanswered.

We separate confirmed facts from publicly reported claims and information still under verification. This is not a place for rumors, hatred, or revenge. It is a witness archive: careful, sourced, transparent, and accountable.

Because when children are killed in a school, the world must not be asked only to feel. It must be shown the evidence, read the sources, face the questions, and demand the truth.

In the spirit of Zainab’s witness after Karbala, we gather the record so that power cannot erase the story, distort the facts, or bury the names beneath silence.

Read the full evidence archive, source list, and verification notes.

Remember Minab is not a call for revenge. It is a call for justice.

Justice begins with truth: a full, transparent account of what happened, who made the decisions, what precautions were taken or ignored, and why a school full of children was not protected.

Justice requires accountability for every level of responsibility — not only for the strike itself, but for any silence, denial, delay, or distortion that followed.

Justice also means repair: formal recognition of the victims, support for the families, medical and psychological care for survivors, educational protection for affected children, and guarantees that no school will ever again be treated as an acceptable risk of war.

These are not political demands. They are human demands.

In the spirit of Zainab’s witness after Karbala, we ask the world not only to mourn, but to insist: truth must be known, responsibility must be named, and children must be protected.

Read the full demands and see how you can help carry them forward.

Remembering is not enough.

If a school can be struck, if children can be killed, if families can be left searching for names, bodies, answers, and truth — then silence becomes part of the wound.

Remember Minab asks people around the world to do more than mourn. Read the evidence. Share the children’s stories. Write to human-rights organizations, journalists, educators, nurses, doctors, and public officials. Help demand an independent investigation, accountability, reparations, and stronger protection for children in every conflict.

This is not a call for hatred. It is a call for moral responsibility.

In the spirit of Zainab’s witness after Karbala, we believe that truth survives when ordinary people refuse to look away. Every share, every letter, every signature, every voice can help keep Minab from being buried beneath silence.

See how you can help carry this memory forward.

More than thirteen centuries ago, after the massacre of Karbala, Zainab stood before power and refused to let the truth be buried.

Her brother, Husayn, had been killed. His companions had been killed. The children and women of his family were taken captive. The rulers tried to turn a moral crime into a political victory. They wanted the world to remember the powerful as victorious — and the victims as defeated.

Zainab changed the story.

She spoke. She named the injustice. She protected the memory of the dead. She made sure that Karbala would not be remembered through the language of the oppressor, but through the dignity of the victims.

Remember Minab is inspired by that duty to witness.

This is not to say that every tragedy is the same as Karbala. But the moral pattern is painfully familiar: children are killed, families are broken, power speaks in the language of war, and the world is asked to move on.

We refuse to move on.

In Minab, a school was struck. Children died. Families were left with grief, unanswered questions, and names that must not disappear. Like Zainab’s witness after Karbala, this project exists so that power does not get the final word.

To witness is to remember.
To remember is to resist erasure.
To resist erasure is to demand truth.

Read the full story of Zainab’s witness — and why Minab must not be forgotten.

Remember Minab is a living witness archive.

If you have a verified source, a correction, a testimony, a media inquiry, or a way to help this work reach more people, we invite you to contact us.

We welcome journalists, researchers, educators, human-rights advocates, translators, nurses, doctors, students, and anyone who believes that the death of children in a school must never be forgotten.

This project is not built on hatred. It is built on memory, evidence, and the moral duty to bear witness.

In the spirit of Zainab’s witness after Karbala, we believe that truth survives when people refuse to remain silent. Your message may help preserve a name, correct the record, translate the story, share the evidence, or carry Minab’s memory to someone who has never heard it before.

Visit the Contact page to submit information, offer support, request media access, or help keep this witness alive.

Remember Minab is a witness archive created to preserve the memory of the children, teachers, families, and lives shattered by the strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab.

This platform exists so that the tragedy is not reduced to a headline, a number, or a forgotten report. It gathers stories, names, evidence, public sources, timelines, and calls for accountability — with care, dignity, and respect for the victims and their families.

Remember Minab is not a call for revenge. It is not a platform for hatred against any people or nationality. It is a call for truth, memory, justice, and the protection of children in every school, in every country, in every war.

Inspired by Zainab’s witness after Karbala, this project believes that when power tries to control the story, memory becomes a moral duty.

We remember Minab so the world cannot say it did not know.

Read more about the purpose, principles, and mission of Remember Minab on the full About page.