The Spencer Street End

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The Deaths of the Schoolgirls of Minab

What modern war does to language, and to accountability.

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Daniel James
Mar 02, 2026
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Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ primary school

We may never know what really happened, who was responsible. We may never see anyone held to account, accountability itself feels like a relic. What we do know is this: one hundred and sixty-five, mainly young schoolgirls, were obliterated in the southern Iranian port city of Minab, near the narrow throat of the St…

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