TEHRAN – National theater event “To Which Sin?” is being performed in several Iranian provinces to commemorate the Minab schoolchildren who lost their lives in joint attacks by the Zionist regime and the United States.
The initiative aims to bring together children and youth theater artists from across the country, Mair reported Monday.
The event, part of the Iran Together cultural campaign, commemorates the 40th day since the students’ martyrdom and is currently being held in 21 states. It begins Friday and is scheduled to continue until mid-April.
Under this initiative, children’s and youth theater groups from all over the country are performing the same play in honor of the students of Shajare Tayebeh School in Minab.
The event will feature approximately 220 performances by 21 selected theater companies in various cities over 10 days. Performances are held in different provinces and night gatherings, artistically depicting the sadness and innocence of Minab children, as well as reflecting the solidarity and empathy of the people and their families.
Organizers say the event has received a great response from the public, with many performances taking place especially at the evening community gathering, creating an atmosphere of widespread empathy and support among the audience.
The theatrical event is part of the same broader artistic project organized by the Soore-e-Omid Institute, which previously presented a multilingual collection with the same title in Persian, Arabic and English. Together, these initiatives aim to honor the memory of the Minab schoolchildren and other children who were victims of the recent invasion of Iranian territory, and to express their innocence and suffering through various art forms.
While the first phase of the project used graphic posters and video works to amplify the voices of children killed in attacks by the Zionist regime and the United States, a new theatrical campaign expands that message into live performances in 21 states, turning the memorial into a national cultural movement.
On February 28, Shajare Tayebeh Girls’ Primary School in Minab, Hormozgan province, became the scene of a devastating massacre as the United States and Israel launched an offensive against Iran.
Dozens of girls and boys aged 7 to 12 were starting classes when the school was targeted by a missile attack, which collapsed the building and trapped the children and teachers under rubble. Iranian authorities said the final death toll was 168 people and at least 95 injured, making it one of the deadliest days of the conflict.
As images of the tragedy circulate on social media, U.S. and Israeli authorities try to distance themselves from the massacre, but detailed forensic and digital investigations paint a very different picture.
Analysis by Al Jazeera’s Digital Investigative Unit, using more than a decade of satellite imagery and recent video clips, reveals that the school is a distinctly different civilian facility, isolated from the adjacent military facility for at least a decade. Additionally, eyewitness testimony and satellite-based analysis confirmed that the school had been triple-tapped by three separate deliberate attacks, leaving no doubt as to the nature of the attacks.
The international community is faced with mounting evidence of responsibility for this atrocity, with investigations by major global news outlets such as The New York Times, BBC Verify, CBC, and NPR all concluding that the United States was responsible for the attack.
These findings raise fundamental questions about the intelligence used to justify the bombings, as the pattern of attacks suggests they directly targeted civilian educational institutions. The Minab School tragedy is now solemn evidence of the invasion’s enormous human cost and is the focus of those calling for international accountability.
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