Forensic Architecture report reconstructs Minab school strike

[00:00:00]I saw that a child that I had raised for 10 years with so much effort was now reduced to a size of a newborn baby wrapped in a shroud. They gave him to me and said, "Here, this is your child."

[00:00:16]I didn't see my child's face again.

[00:00:24]After 1 month, Mohammad Taha was laid to rest next to his classmates. [music] >> [music] >> I spent that whole night at the cemetery. I was scared. Mohammad Taha was afraid of the dark, too.

[00:00:50]They tore my son to pieces. What should I do now?

[00:00:55]Who am I supposed to hold responsible for this? Who do I have any power over?

[00:01:00]>> I want to talk about where Minab is.

[00:01:03]Minab is in the south of Iran, along the Strait of Hormuz.

[00:01:07]The war in 2026 started from the very sites where the Iran-Iraq War was brought to an end in 1988.

[00:01:16]The United States had escalated its military operations against the um oil infrastructure and naval bases in Iran.

[00:01:25]And amongst those strikes, it also shot down an Iranian passenger flight by the Strait of Hormuz and attributes it to a misidentification.

[00:01:36]All 290 passengers on that flight were killed. This is why for many Iranians, the attack on Shajareh Tayebeh Primary School echoed the downing of that passenger flight 38 years earlier. It was a nation's trauma being relived. Some of the um preliminary reports had said that the attack on the school, like the passenger flights, was the result of a misidentification, a a targeting mistake.

[00:02:10]In our investigation, we used satellite imagery to show that at the time of the attack, the building was a school and had served that purpose for over a decade. By October 2015, all architectural indicators of military presence, a watchtower, or anything, were destroyed, and new entrances were built, new perimeter walls were built around the school. By 2017, we see a football pitch and assembly lines being painted on the playgrounds. By 2018, we see the walls being painted in blue and pink to identify the girls' school and the boys' school. We see children playing in the playgrounds of these in these satellite imagery.