Death toll in a strike on girls' school in southern Iran rises to 40, state media say

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By JON GAMBRELL, KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and JOSH BOAK
Updated 5:39 AM CST, February 28, 2026
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The death toll in an Israeli-U.S. strike on a girls’ school in southern Iran rises to at least 40, the state-run IRNA news agency reported.

At least 45 others were wounded in the attack in Minab in Iran’s Hormozgan province.

Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has a base in the city.

Neither the U.S. nor Israel has offered any details on the campaign so far.



Read more: https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-explosion-tehran-c2f11247d8a66e36929266f2c557a54c

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[ariadne0614]

1. A girls' school. Of course. n/t

[FredGarvin]

38. I heard it was a baby milk factory

[ariadne0614]

55. Shortly after 1pm ET, Rachel reported that it was a girls' school.

And there’s this:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221057119

[Lonestarblue]

2. Perhaps not surprising for the Hegseth military to miss targets.

In Texas, they couldn't tell the difference between a party balloon and drone. Then they shot down a US drone used to spot drug trafficking along the border.

I'm sure Netanyahu is thrilled. He has now dragged the US into his war against Iran. If there were an international prize for starting wars and the illegal murders of people in small boats, Trump would win it easily.

[Marthe48]

3. If you can't rape them, kill them?

Seems the response for the regime.

So sorry for the victims and their loved ones.

[Botany]

4. Congrats to Trump and Bibi for making @ least a thousand more suicide bombers for Iran.

This is madness

[LiberalArkie]

5. Iran not Iraq

[Botany]

8. Thanx!

Botany =

Btw before bush & Cheney invaded Iraq, they had never had a car bombing.

[LiberalArkie]

21. Yea, I know. Hard to keep up with who our wonderful godlike American emperors are attacking this week.

[Botany]

31. Trump's Institute of Peace.

Attack Iran, attack Venezuela, bomb Syria, attack some African country on made up
Christians vs Muslims shit … sorry too many places ….. ICE kills 3 people in cold blood
2 in Minneapolis and 1 in Texas, drop off a blind man in Buffalo in the winter, get America
into Iran’s leadership issues, steal Venezuela’s oil @ gun point, sell that oil, and put that
money into some Middle Eastern bank under Don’s control, kill over 130 people from the
Caribbean or South America by blowing up their small boats, spread measles…. see Helen
Keller who went blind and deaf because of a now preventable childhood disease, stop a
treaty that stopped Iran from ever building a nuclear weapon and then attack Iran for not
following the treaty, be part of an international child sex trafficking ring, beat and arrest
American people for protesting against evil, dirty elections, drop USAID, Stephen Miller …..

[LiberalArkie]

48. I expected that a long time ago with the GOP's nature of projecting their intentions on others.

Biden and Harris invading numerous countries - means, well everyone now knows his projection. We just have to believe him when they say it.

I do not believe that the invasion of Venezuela was about drugs or oil (except to stop the oil going to Cuba). Since Venzuela was a very large silver ore exporter that was usually refined in China, I think there was a vault raid planned for Venezuela like what happened in Baghdad at the start of that war. But the rumors are is that Maduro shipped their inventory to Switzerland and Shanghai way before the invasion.

[70sEraVet]

6. Congress has the power to put a stop to this!

[snot]

46. Indeed.

[Dave Id]

7. If his inspiration Vladimir Putin can do it,

why shouldn't Donald do the same to show Putie he's as big of a murdering asshole as he is?

[PatSeg]

17. Fits into all Trump's pathetic daddy issues

Men with daddy issues can be very dangerous. They always have so much to prove and nothing will ever satisfy them.

[perdita9]

9. Only Congress has the power to declare war

Missile strikes in Iran, an embargo in Cuba, the kidnapping of the Venezuelan president and first lady.

Republicans in Congress refuse to step up and honor the oath they swore to our Constitution. The proper term for these people is traitor trash.

[enigmania]

10. Traitor Trash!

[stollen]

13. Our Congress has a meager majority of fascists

So don’t anticipate any sane behavior from our torn up WH until perhaps Dec.

[MiHale]

19. This Congress has no power...

[chowder66]

40. The Republicans refuse to use their power against "it".

[dedl67]

11. This is terribly sad, and this war will likely unite Iranians against the US

[lostincalifornia]

27. Including opponents of the current Iranian regime. I suspect it won't be any different then what happened on 9/11,

where the American publican united after the attack.

[stollen]

12. Hi Ivanka

What do you think of your husband now?

[AllyCat]

14. War is always taking out those who least deserve

Death and destruction.

[provocateur7]

15. A war to end an election

While murdering school girls and innocent civilians on behalf of Israel, Dear Leader will declare that every terrorist sleeper cell in the US and every Middle East terrorist state will awaken and wage war in the US. Terrorists will rig the vote and bomb polling places. An election cannot be held in such an unstable environment.
Or some such hogwash.
Iran is a nuclear threat in his small mind because of his own stupidity in withdrawing from the multinational treaty and failure to “obliterate” its facilities.

[mahina]

24. Also on behalf of the $audis

Yes

[GiqueCee]

16. An attack on a girls' school...

... Hegseth isn't about to be outdone by Nosferatu, Noem, and Homan, by cracky! He'll show 'em how malicious, evil depravity is done!

What fucking monsters.

[markie]

18. Sorry, not sorry for language

Fucking asshole trump and republicans. All of this is so wrong and terrible and sad

[Prairie Gates]

20. Lots of videos of aftermath on socials and on non-US media

[mn9driver]

22. This puts the validity of the FIFA Peace Prize in doubt.

Seriously though, fuck these criminally insane assholes.

[mahina]

23. Noooooooo

💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧

The Epstein Administration would of course murder girl children

[Prairie Gates]

25. Murdered 40 girls in a school shooting

[CousinIT]

26. Don't effing get mad at me for calling them..

...The American Taliban, when bombing a girl's school, is the first thing they do.

[Figarosmom]

28. Angry and sad.

But I know trump snd crew don't care. After all it's a GIRLS school.

[Clouds Passing]

29. The girls

x 40

[Grim Chieftain]

30. Had enough, America?

Seriously, have you had enough of this evil cabal?

[Marcuse]

32. Approved by the Board of Peace.

[Bengus81]

47. Bored of Peace is the correct DU pronunciation. Really true now

[Gore1FL]

33. In a first, didn't take them before he killed them. Nt

[rhiannon55]

34. Evil men will do evil things

Anything to stop the elections and to distract everyone once again from the fact that he’s a child rapist and child killer. And of course he bombs a girls school.

I’m old, but I hope I live to see him die in fucking jail.

[58Sunliner]

35. JFC, Monstrous, horrific, sadistic psychopaths.

[Klarkashton]

36. Schools and hospitals sounds familiar.

[Jilly_in_VA]

41. That had better be sarcasm

if you don't want to get alerted and/or banned. This is nothing to joke about.

[Skittles]

49. LOL

WE are not the ones to be waking up. ANYONE SUPPORTING OR EXCUSING THAT DEMENTED ORANGE FASCIST FUCK NEEDS TO WAKE UP. And I mean EVERYONE.

[William Seger]

39. WAR CRIME!!!

IMPEACH!!!

[Jarqui]

44. Might give Trump ED for a couple of minutes ... nt

[rhiannon55]

45. Those poor little girls and their families!

Why do repukes keep electing MONSTERS?

[electric_blue68]

50. Had an uncomfortable evening, woke up feeling pretty ok. THEN, I remembered Iran. %@##&@!%$@#!!!

Damn you; drumphf, Netanyahu !!!!

[Evolve Dammit]

51. War criming within the first 12 hours?????? WTF. The world will consider us the pariah we deserve to be. Dammit.

[The Grand Illuminist]

52. Bring the war home.

nt

[flvegan]

53. What, did one of the girls tell Dopey Donnie "no" or something?

[purr-rat beauty]

54. Is a General strike possible?

Mass boycott?

How is this handled?

[Mosby]

56. There is a IRGC military base next to the girls school.

Seyyed al-Shohada corps. I believe they have surface to surface missle batteries at that base.