{"id":36199,"date":"2026-05-09T07:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/36199\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T07:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:35:11","slug":"eu-lawmaker-labels-attack-on-iranian-girls-school-a-planned-war-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/36199\/","title":{"rendered":"EU Lawmaker Labels Attack on Iranian Girls&#8217; School a Planned War Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WANA (May 09) \u2013 Milan Uhr\u00edk, a Slovak Member of the European Parliament, joined a memorial gathering outside the Iranian Embassy in Brussels to strongly condemn the attack on a girls\u2019 primary school in Minab, describing the incident as a clear instance of a premeditated war crime.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The gathering included approximately 50 civil activists and protesters carrying placards with messages such as \u201cThe Angels of Minab \u2014 Children Who Never Returned Home from School\u201d and \u201cEurope Mourns with Iran,\u201d while calling for an end to the killing of children.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Suspicions of Intentional Targeting<\/p>\n<p>While attending the ceremony held in memory of the victims of the Shajareh Tayyebeh school, the MEP expressed a strong suspicion that the strike had been intentional.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He suggested that observed military actions against civilians, including women and the elderly in Gaza, Lebanon, and Beirut, indicate a capacity to target non-combatants to instill fear and panic for strategic gains.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker emphasized that an operation of such scale appeared to be pre-planned and called for an immediate, impartial investigation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wanaen.com\/eu-lawmaker-labels-attack-on-iranian-girls-school-a-planned-war-crime\/wana-shajareh-tayyebeh-school-in-minab\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-59892 nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59892\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59892\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WANA-Shajareh-Tayyebeh-school-in-Minab.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59892\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59892\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WANA-Shajareh-Tayyebeh-school-in-Minab.jpg\" alt=\"Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-59892\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab. Social media\/ WANA News Agency<\/p>\n<p>Criticism of European Double Standards<\/p>\n<p>The European representative also voiced sharp criticism regarding the perceived passivity of European institutions toward the tragedy. He stated that the European Union and its member states must avoid any complicity in such actions.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He further noted that while he had formally written to the European Commission, the leadership appeared to be operating under double standards. He suggested that European leaders have failed to investigate these crimes due to an inability to challenge the aggressive policies of the United States and Israel.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Context of the Tragedy<\/p>\n<p>These statements follow the February 28 airstrike on a girls\u2019 primary <a href=\"https:\/\/wanaen.com\/minab-the-largest-massacre-of-schoolgirls-in-recorded-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">school in Minab<\/a>, which resulted in 175 fatalities\u2014including 168 schoolgirls\u2014and left 95 others wounded.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The report noted that while U.S. President Donald Trump had blamed the Iranian military without providing evidence, subsequent field assessments identified missile debris at the scene bearing American munitions markings.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/wanaen.com\/7-western-media-attack-on-minab-school-carried-out-by-the-u-s\/\" class=\"image\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Funeral Ceremony for the Students killed in Minab\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WANA-Funeral-Ceremony-for-the-Students-killed-in-Minab-1.jpg\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WANA-Funeral-Ceremony-for-the-Students-killed-in-Minab-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Funeral Ceremony for the Students killed in Minab\"  \/><\/a>7 Western Media: Attack on Minab School Carried Out by the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>WANA (Mar 08) \u2013 Several Western media outlets have reported that the deadly attack on a school in Minab was carried out by the United States. \u00a0 CNN (First Report): The network reported that responsibility for the deadly strike on the Minab school lies with the United States. \u00a0 CNN (Second Report): According to another [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WANA (May 09) \u2013 Milan Uhr\u00edk, a Slovak Member of the European Parliament, joined a memorial gathering outside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[258,303,23760,23770],"class_list":["post-36199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-european-parliament","tag-european-parliament","tag-iran","tag-minab","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}