In Tehran Dominic Waghorn speaks to parents whose young children were murdered by the United States when they bombed a school in Minab.
"We had met Razia and Ali Zarraei in Minab whose 10-year-old daughter Atare was killed in the strike and found them again here. How does it feel to be here? I'm here for my daughter and say goodbye to our leader. My heart is beating very, very fast. It's hard for us to see this picture without our daughter. I wish that she was with us here. You wish she could be with you? Yeah. I miss her very, very much. The families of 20 of the dead children have made the long journey to Tehran. To mourn, they told us, but also to demand justice. Masoumeh and Mustafa's daughter Satayesh also died that day. My message is that the children were innocent. They didn't have any sins. Their only weapons were pencils and erasers. What was the crime they were killed for? The Iranian government has made national heroes of the dead children and used their tragedy in their information campaigns in this conflict. The horrific nature of their deaths, though, has provoked genuine nationwide sympathy and outrage. Abdul Rashid's 9-year-old daughter Zarraei was killed. His younger son Mohammed is still recovering, badly burned in the American missile attack. Coming here revives memories of that day because our kids were martyred together with the Supreme Leader. And we are not here only for the funeral and bidding farewell. We're here seeking blood revenge. Four months after the Minhab atrocity, we've been told that the US military report into what went wrong there is now complete, but the Trump administration has still not published its findings."
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In Tehran Dominic Waghorn speaks to parents whose young children were murdered by the United States when they bombed a school in Minab.
