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Nearly 150 children, according to international media reports, have died so far in the US-Israel-led missile strike on an elementary school in southern Iran on February 28, 2026. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has also been killed in the war triggered by the U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a blatant act of thuggery. When the leaders described this reckless, all-out imperial attack as “major combat operations” and “preemptive” strikes, their claims rang hollow.
