Last updated: June 25, 2026
Project: Remember Minab
Purpose: Truth, accountability, reparations, institutional reform, and protection of children in war

Remember Minab Is Not a Call for Revenge

Remember Minab is not a call for revenge.

It is a call for justice.

It is not a call for hatred against any people, nationality, religion, or community.

It is a call for truth, accountability, repair, and the protection of children in every school, in every country, in every war.

On February 28, 2026, Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran, was struck during the school day. Children and teachers were killed. Families were left searching for bodies, names, traces, and answers. Later reports cited 156 people killed, including 120 students and 26 teachers, while earlier reports cited higher figures.

A school was hit.

Children died.

The world must not be allowed to move on without truth.

Why Demands Are Necessary

Grief without truth can be buried.

Truth without accountability can be ignored.

Accountability without repair can remain symbolic.

Repair without reform can allow the same crime to happen again.

That is why Remember Minab makes these demands.

These are not political demands.

They are human demands.

They are the minimum moral response to the killing of children in a school.

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, families must be supported, and children must be protected.

Zainab stood before power so that the dead would not be erased.

Remember Minab carries that witness forward.

Core Demand 1: Release the Full Investigation

The United States government must release the full findings of the investigation into the strike on Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School.

A private investigation is not justice.

A classified conclusion is not justice.

A vague statement that “mistakes were made” is not justice.

Families have the right to know what happened. Citizens have the right to know what was done in their name. The world has the right to know how a school full of children became a target.

The investigation must answer:

Who authorized the strike?

Which military unit or command executed it?

What target was intended?

What intelligence was used?

Was the school identified before the strike?

Were outdated targeting data or outdated intelligence used?

Who was responsible for reviewing or updating the target data?

Were children and teachers expected to be present at that hour?

Were all feasible precautions taken to protect civilians?

Was any warning given?

Who knew after the strike that a school had been hit?

Why were findings delayed or withheld from the public?

What corrective measures were taken?

Truth cannot depend on what is politically convenient.

Truth must be released.

Core Demand 2: Establish an Independent Public Inquiry

The investigation into the Minab school strike must not remain entirely under the control of the same institutions whose actions are under scrutiny.

Remember Minab demands an independent, public, and internationally credible inquiry into the strike.

This inquiry should include:

International humanitarian law experts

Civilian harm specialists

Child-rights experts

Forensic and geolocation investigators

Independent military-law analysts

Representatives of affected families, if they consent

Human-rights organizations

Medical and psychological trauma experts

Education protection experts

The inquiry must have access to:

Targeting records

Strike authorization documents

Legal reviews

Intelligence assessments

No-strike list records

Civilian harm assessments

After-action reports

Satellite and aerial imagery

Communications before and after the strike

Records related to outdated targeting data

Without independent scrutiny, accountability can be delayed, narrowed, classified, or buried.

Core Demand 3: Name the Chain of Responsibility

Justice requires more than identifying the weapon.

Justice requires identifying the chain of responsibility.

The world must know who was responsible at every level:

Who selected the target?

Who reviewed the intelligence?

Who approved the target?

Who conducted the legal review?

Who authorized the strike?

Who executed the strike?

Who assessed civilian harm afterward?

Who delayed or withheld the findings?

Who minimized, denied, or distorted the truth?

If outdated targeting data was used, the public must know who failed to update it, who failed to detect the error, and why the system allowed that failure to reach the point of killing children.

Accountability cannot end with passive language.

Not “an error occurred.”

Not “the system failed.”

Not “mistakes were made.”

Children were killed because decisions were made, warnings were missed, duties were neglected, or precautions were insufficient.

Responsibility must be named.

Core Demand 4: Investigate Possible Violations of International Humanitarian Law

The strike must be investigated under international humanitarian law.

A school is a civilian object unless it is being used for military purposes. Even when a military objective is nearby, parties to a conflict are required to distinguish between civilians and combatants, verify targets, avoid indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks, and take all feasible precautions to protect civilians.

Remember Minab demands a legal assessment of whether the strike violated:

The principle of distinction

The principle of proportionality

The obligation to take feasible precautions

The duty to verify targets

The protection of children

The protection of schools and civilian infrastructure

The duty to investigate civilian harm

The obligation to provide reparations where unlawful harm occurred

Human Rights Watch called for the attack to be investigated as a war crime. Amnesty International concluded that those responsible for the deadly and unlawful strike must be held accountable.

These legal questions must not remain abstract.

They must be answered.

Core Demand 5: Hold Public Hearings

The U.S. Congress must hold public hearings on the Minab school strike.

A mass-casualty strike on a school cannot be treated as a closed military file.

Public hearings should examine:

The legal authority for the wider military operation

The target-selection process

The use of outdated intelligence or targeting data

The role of automated systems, databases, or artificial intelligence, if any

Civilian harm prevention failures

The status of the investigation

Why findings have not been fully released

Whether civilian harm oversight mechanisms were weakened before or after the strike

What reforms are required to prevent future attacks on schools

Witnesses should include:

Department of Defense officials

U.S. Central Command officials

Civilian harm mitigation officials

Military legal advisers

Intelligence officials

Independent human-rights experts

International humanitarian law experts

Victim-family representatives, if they consent

Civilian protection specialists

Hearings are not enough by themselves.

But without public hearings, truth can remain hidden behind bureaucracy, classification, and political calculation.

Core Demand 6: Provide Reparations to Families

Families must receive reparations.

Reparations are not charity.

Reparations are recognition of harm.

For the families of Minab, reparations should include:

Formal acknowledgment of harm

Official apology, where responsibility is established

Financial compensation

Long-term medical care for survivors

Psychological and trauma care for survivors and families

Educational support for surviving siblings and affected children

Support for families who lost breadwinners

Support for children who lost parents, teachers, classmates, or siblings

Legal support for families seeking accountability

Memorial support chosen by the families

Protection of graves, names, photographs, and family testimony

A mother who lost her child should not also be forced to fight alone for recognition.

A father searching for a child’s remains should not also have to search for the truth.

Repair must be material, public, dignified, and long-term.

Core Demand 7: Preserve the Names and Stories of the Victims

The children of Minab must not be reduced to numbers.

Every verified name should be preserved with care.

Every age should be documented accurately.

Every photograph should be used only with dignity and, where possible, consent.

Every spelling should be checked.

Every uncertainty should be acknowledged.

Every child should be remembered as a person, not as an abstract casualty.

Remember Minab demands the creation and protection of a public victim archive that includes:

Verified names

Ages

Relationship to the school

Family-approved details, where available

Photographs, only when appropriate and ethically permissible

Sources for each name

Correction history

Memorial testimony

Educational and historical documentation

The first act of erasure is anonymity.

The first act of witness is naming.

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

The world must learn to call them too.

Core Demand 8: Protect Schools as Sacred Civilian Spaces

A school must never be treated as an acceptable risk of war.

Remember Minab demands stronger national and international protection for schools in armed conflict.

Governments must strengthen:

No-strike lists

Target verification procedures

Civilian presence assessment

School and hospital identification protocols

Satellite and open-source intelligence review

Requirements to update old target data

Human review of automated or AI-assisted targeting systems

Civilian harm forecasting

Advance warning procedures where possible

Post-strike civilian casualty assessments

Public reporting of civilian harm

Legal review before strikes near civilian infrastructure

The Minab school strike must become a global warning.

If a school’s public identity, photographs, online presence, and civilian use can be missed, ignored, or buried inside a targeting system, then the system itself must be reformed.

Core Demand 9: Review the Use of Outdated Data and Automated Targeting Systems

Reuters reported that the strike may have resulted from the use of outdated targeting data. The Guardian also reported concerns about artificial intelligence being blamed while deeper institutional failures remained unresolved.

Remember Minab demands a full review of how target data was created, stored, validated, updated, and approved.

The public must know:

Was the target database outdated?

When was the site last reviewed?

Was the building’s later use as a school known?

Did any analyst flag the site as a school before the strike?

Were open-source materials checked?

Was satellite imagery updated?

Did any automated system assist in target selection?

If AI or automated tools were used, what human review occurred?

Who had the authority to remove or correct the target?

Why did the system fail before children died?

No government should be allowed to hide civilian deaths behind technical complexity.

If data kills children, then data systems must be accountable.

If algorithms shape targeting, then human beings must remain legally and morally responsible.

Core Demand 10: Prevent Suppression, Delay, and Distortion

Justice requires accountability not only for the strike itself, but also for what happens after the strike.

Remember Minab demands accountability for any silence, denial, delay, distortion, minimization, or suppression that followed.

The public must know:

When did officials learn that a school had been hit?

What was said internally?

What was said publicly?

Were false explanations offered?

Were findings delayed for political reasons?

Were civilian harm officials excluded from the investigation?

Were records withheld from Congress, journalists, or the public?

Were families given accurate information?

The killing of children is not only a military event.

It is also a truth event.

What a government does after children are killed reveals whether it seeks justice or concealment.

Core Demand 11: Guarantee Non-Repetition

Justice must look backward and forward.

It must tell the truth about what happened.

It must also prevent it from happening again.

Remember Minab demands concrete guarantees of non-repetition, including:

Mandatory review of all targets near schools, hospitals, clinics, shelters, and civilian neighborhoods

Independent civilian harm review before and after strikes

Mandatory public reporting for mass-casualty civilian incidents

Reform of outdated target databases

Protection of civilian harm oversight offices

Training on international humanitarian law

Restrictions on strikes where civilian presence is uncertain

Independent review of AI-assisted targeting tools

Protection for whistleblowers who report civilian harm risks

Sanctions or disciplinary action for officials who conceal civilian harm

A guarantee of non-repetition must be more than a sentence in a report.

It must change systems.

Core Demand 12: International Recognition and Memorialization

The Minab school strike must be recognized internationally as a civilian tragedy requiring truth and accountability.

Remember Minab demands:

A public international day or memorial event for the children and teachers killed

Recognition by child-rights organizations

Statements from education organizations

Statements from medical and nursing associations

Statements from universities and schools

Inclusion of the case in civilian harm and international humanitarian law education

Preservation of the site as a memorial if families and local community support it

Archiving of names, photographs, reports, and testimony

The world has memorialized other schools, hospitals, shelters, and civilian sites destroyed in war.

Minab must not be excluded from memory because the victims were Iranian.

A child’s right to be remembered must not depend on nationality.

Core Demand 13: Moral Accountability From Citizens in Democratic Countries

Citizens in democratic countries must understand that war is not something done far away by faceless institutions alone.

War is funded through budgets.

War is justified through speeches.

War is authorized through votes.

War is normalized through silence.

If citizens voted for leaders who enabled, ordered, defended, or concealed this war, then they carry a moral responsibility to demand accountability now.

This does not mean ordinary voters intended children to die.

It means democracy does not end at the ballot box.

A vote gives power.

When that power causes harm, citizens must hold it accountable.

Remember Minab asks citizens in the United States and allied countries to say:

Not in our name.

Release the investigation.

Hold public hearings.

Name responsibility.

Repair the harm.

Protect schools.

Do not bury the children of Minab under silence.

What Justice Requires From the United States

Remember Minab demands that the United States government:

Release the full investigation into the Minab school strike

Acknowledge civilian harm publicly

Identify the chain of responsibility

Hold those responsible accountable through lawful procedures

Provide reparations to families

Cooperate with independent international inquiries

Protect whistleblowers and investigators

Disclose whether outdated targeting data was used

Disclose whether automated or AI-assisted systems played any role

Strengthen civilian harm prevention systems

Commit publicly that schools will never be treated as acceptable risk

What Justice Requires From U.S. Congress

Remember Minab demands that the U.S. Congress:

Hold public hearings

Demand the full investigation

Subpoena documents if necessary

Question Defense Department and intelligence officials

Review the legal authority for the war

Review civilian harm mitigation failures

Require public reporting on civilian casualties

Condition military funding on civilian harm transparency

Protect and strengthen civilian harm oversight offices

Support reparations for victims’ families

Congress must not allow a school strike that killed children to disappear into classified silence.

What Justice Requires From Allied Governments

Governments allied with the United States must not hide behind distance.

Remember Minab demands that allied governments:

Call publicly for the release of the investigation

Demand independent review

Review whether they provided intelligence, logistical, military, diplomatic, or political support

Suspend support for operations where civilian protection is inadequate

Support international accountability mechanisms

Support reparations

Raise the case in parliament, international forums, and human-rights bodies

Allies who remain silent help create impunity.

What Justice Requires From International Organizations

Remember Minab calls on international organizations to:

Investigate the strike

Document the victims

Support families

Monitor accountability processes

Preserve evidence

Issue public findings

Pressure states to release investigations

Support legal pathways for accountability

Strengthen protections for schools in war

Ensure that Iranian children are treated with the same dignity as children anywhere else

Human rights must not be selective.

Children’s lives must not be ranked by geopolitics.

What Justice Requires From Media Organizations

Media organizations must not allow the story to fade.

Remember Minab demands that journalists and editors:

Follow up on the unreleased investigation

Ask officials direct questions

Track contradictions in public statements

Investigate the targeting process

Investigate the role of outdated data

Investigate whether civilian harm offices were sidelined

Interview families with consent and dignity

Publish verified names and stories carefully

Avoid reducing children to numbers

Return to the story until answers are given

The first news cycle is not accountability.

Sustained attention is accountability.

What Justice Requires From Schools and Universities

Schools and universities around the world should respond to Minab as an attack on education itself.

Remember Minab asks educators to:

Teach the protection of schools in war

Hold discussions on children’s rights and civilian harm

Invite experts on international humanitarian law

Organize memorial events

Write letters to elected officials

Preserve the names of the children

Connect students to verified evidence

Reject the normalization of school attacks

When a school is struck, every school should feel the moral obligation to answer.

What Justice Requires From Healthcare Professionals

Healthcare workers know what war does to bodies, families, and futures.

Remember Minab asks nurses, doctors, psychologists, social workers, and health organizations to:

Recognize the long-term trauma of the Minab families

Speak against attacks on children and schools

Support trauma-informed care for survivors

Call for psychological support for families

Document civilian harm as a public-health issue

Pressure professional associations to issue statements

Treat child protection in war as a health ethics obligation

The harm did not end when the strike ended.

For families, the wound continues.

How These Demands Should Be Carried

Carry these demands with discipline.

Do not spread rumors.

Do not invent facts.

Do not publish private family materials without consent.

Do not threaten anyone.

Do not target ordinary people based on nationality.

Do not turn grief into hatred.

Do not allow anger to weaken evidence.

Carry the demands like Zainab carried the truth after Karbala:

With courage.

With dignity.

With clarity.

With moral force.

With refusal to be silent.

The Minimum Demands in One Statement

Remember Minab demands:

Truth: release the full investigation.

Accountability: name and investigate the chain of responsibility.

Justice: examine possible violations of international humanitarian law.

Repair: provide reparations and long-term support to families.

Memory: preserve the names and stories of the victims.

Reform: fix the systems that allowed a school to be struck.

Protection: guarantee that no school will ever again be treated as an acceptable risk of war.

These are not political demands.

They are human demands.

Closing Statement

Remember Minab is not a call for revenge.

It is a call for justice.

Justice begins with truth.

Truth requires evidence.

Evidence requires public release.

Public release requires pressure.

Pressure requires people who refuse silence.

In Karbala, power tried to kill the truth after killing the bodies.

Zainab refused.

In Minab, children were killed in a school. Families were left with grief, unanswered questions, and names that must not disappear.

We refuse to let the truth be buried.

We demand that the investigation be released.

We demand that responsibility be named.

We demand that families be repaired.

We demand that schools be protected.

We demand that the children of Minab be remembered not as numbers, but as lives.

Truth must be known.
Responsibility must be named.
Families must be supported.
Children must be protected.
Minab must not be forgotten.

References and Source Links

1. Amnesty International. “USA/Iran: Those responsible for deadly and unlawful U.S. strike on school that killed over 100 children must be held accountable.” Published March 16, 2026.
Use for: Legal accountability, civilian harm analysis, and Amnesty’s conclusion that those responsible for the deadly and unlawful strike must be held accountable.
Link: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2026/03/usa-iran-those-responsible-for-deadly-and-unlawful-us-strike-on-school-that-killed-over-100-children-must-be-held-accountable/

2. Human Rights Watch. “US/Israel: Investigate Iran School Attack as a War Crime.” Published March 7, 2026.
Use for: War-crime investigation framing, civilian protection standards, and the call for accountability.
Link: https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/07/us/israel-investigate-iran-school-attack-as-a-war-crime

3. Human Rights Watch. “Iran: U.S. School Attack Findings Show Need for Reform, Accountability.” Published March 12, 2026.
Use for: The need for reform, accountability, and feasible precautions in civilian harm prevention.
Link: https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/03/12/iran-us-school-attack-findings-show-need-reform-accountability

4. Human Rights Watch. “Was the Attack on an Iranian Primary School a War Crime?” Published April 20, 2026.
Use for: Legal analysis of whether the attack may constitute a war crime.
Link: https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/04/20/was-the-attack-on-an-iranian-primary-school-a-war-crime

5. Reuters. “U.S. investigation points to likely U.S. responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say.” Published March 6, 2026; updated March 10, 2026.
Use for: Reporting that U.S. military investigators believed it was likely U.S. forces were responsible, while noting that the investigation had not reached a final public conclusion at the time.
Link: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-investigation-points-likely-us-responsibility-iran-school-strike-sources-say-2026-03-06/

6. Reuters. “U.S. may have struck Iranian girls’ school after using outdated targeting data.” Published March 11, 2026.
Use for: Reporting on outdated targeting data as a possible cause of the strike.
Link: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-may-have-struck-iranian-girls-school-after-using-outdated-targeting-data-2026-03-11/

7. Reuters. “Bombed Iranian girls school had vivid website and yearslong online presence.” Published March 12, 2026.
Use for: Evidence that the school had visible public signs of being a school before the strike.
Link: https://www.reuters.com/investigations/bombed-iranian-girls-school-had-vivid-website-yearslong-online-presence-2026-03-12/

8. Reuters. “Pentagon elevates investigation into Iran school strike.” Published March 13, 2026.
Use for: Investigation timeline and Pentagon review status.
Link: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/pentagon-elevates-investigation-into-iran-school-strike-2026-03-13/

9. Reuters. “UN body investigating fatal strike on Iranian girls’ school.” Published March 17, 2026.
Use for: United Nations-related inquiry and international institutional response.
Link: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-body-investigating-fatal-strike-iranian-girls-school-2026-03-17/

10. Reuters. “UN rights chief urges U.S. to conclude probe into deadly Iran school strike.” Published March 27, 2026.
Use for: U.N. demand that Washington conclude the investigation and publish the findings.
Link: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/un-rights-chief-urges-us-conclude-probe-into-deadly-iran-school-strike-2026-03-27/

11. Reuters. “Trump says it may never be known who was at fault for strike on girls’ school in Iran.” Published June 24, 2026.
Use for: Ongoing uncertainty, public dispute, and the danger that accountability may be delayed or denied.
Link: https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-it-may-never-be-known-who-was-fault-strike-girls-school-iran-2026-06-24/

12. The Guardian. “Four months after the horrific Iran school bombing, fears grow that Trump and Hegseth will bury the truth.” Published June 21, 2026.
Use for: Concerns about delayed investigation findings and the risk that truth may be suppressed or buried.
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/21/iran-school-bombing-minab-fears-trump-hegseth-bury-truth-investigation-findings

13. The Guardian. “AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying.” Published March 26, 2026.
Use for: Analysis of AI claims, automated systems, outdated data, and deeper institutional responsibility.
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

14. Sky News. “‘All I have left is a burnt bag’: The students and teachers killed in U.S. strike on Iranian school identified.” Published June 15, 2026.
Use for: Victim identification and verification of students and teachers killed.
Link: https://news.sky.com/video/the-victims-of-the-minab-school-bombing-in-iran-13554059

15. The Guardian. “‘Her head was broken’: parents at Iranian school bombed by U.S. describe their worst day.” Published March 28, 2026.
Use for: Family testimony, names, ages, and human consequences of the strike.
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/28/parents-victims-iran-minab-shajareh-tayyebeh-school-bombing-describe-day