New Delhi: In a stark reminder of the heartbreaking tragedy on the first day of the Iran war, drawings and paintings recovered from the rubble of a bombed school in Minab, in southern Iran, have been put on display inside the Iranian Embassy campus in India’s Capital city.
The exhibition, titled ‘Angels of Minab’, features artwork created by children who lost their lives after the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school was struck during joint US-Israel strikes on February 28.
At least 120 children and more than 40 staff lost their lives in the missile attack, by far the single deadliest strike in terms of civilian casualties in the 44-day war.
“Paintings Exhibition of the Angels of #Minab.. These are drawings that have been brought out from beneath the rubble of a school in Minab. A school that was destroyed following a military attack by the US and the Zionist regime. Pages that were recovered through the efforts of Red Crescent rescue teams, and have been restored only to the extent that they can be seen,” the Iranian Embassy in New Delhi posted on X along with a described the exhibition as a collection of pages “brought out from beneath the rubble of a school in Minab”.
Paintings Exhibition of the
Angels of #MinabThese are drawings that have been brought out from beneath the rubble of a school in Minab.
A school that was destroyed following a military attack by the US and the Zionist regime. Pages that were recovered through the efforts of Red… pic.twitter.com/NR1YDfesGS
— Iran in India (@Iran_in_India) April 12, 2026
Iran has been trying to the world’s draw attention to civilian suffering through the Minab school bombing.
Three days ago, Iranian Parliamentary Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, who led the delegation to Pakistan for the failed peace talks with the US, shared an image from inside the aircraft en route to Islamabad, where seats were lined with photographs of children killed in the Minab strike, alongside backpacks and roses.
“My companions on this flight, Minab 168,” he wrote, signifying the number of victims in the attack.
Multiple investigations concluded that the United States was responsible for the strike.
US officials have maintained the attack was unintended, calling it a case of misidentification rather than a deliberate strike on a civilian target.