{"id":327355,"date":"2026-05-26T06:20:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327355"},"modified":"2026-05-27T07:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T07:38:18","slug":"us-war-criminals-massacred-24-iranian-civilians-in-lamerd-sports-hall-on-february-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=327355","title":{"rendered":"US war criminals massacred 24 Iranian civilians in Lamerd sports hall on February 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 May 25, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>The United States proved its utter disregard for human life and international law by carrying out a deliberate and barbaric missile strike on a civilian sports hall in the city of Lamerd in Fars Province during the 40-day war against Iran, martyring 24 innocent Iranians and injuring over 130 others.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei revealed the harrowing details of this American war crime after holding a meeting with Dr. Mousa Mousavi, the Member of Parliament for Mehr and Lamerd.<\/p>\n<p>The assault took place on the afternoon of Saturday, February 28, the very same day US Tomahawk missiles massacred 168 schoolchildren at the Shajareh Tayyibeh School in Minab.<\/p>\n<p>According to the briefing, American forces fired Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM) at a residential neighborhood in Lamerd, directly hitting a sports hall filled with civilians, including teenage volleyball players, women, men, and a helpless two-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cairburst\u201d warheads exploded in mid-air, raining down a lethal storm of 180,000 high-velocity tungsten pellets that tore through everything in their path with ruthless efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>There is no longer any doubt that this was not an accident, not \u201ccollateral damage,\u201d but a premeditated decision by the US regime to test its new weapon system on Iranian civilians in a residential area.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">During a meeting with Dr. Mousa Mousavi, the member of Parliament for Mehr &amp; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Lamerd?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Lamerd<\/a>, I was briefed on the harrowing details of a devastating American missile strike on a sports hall in the city of Lamerd, Fars Province.<\/p>\n<p>On the afternoon of Saturday, 9 Esfand 1404 (28 February\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tHr7g6gPIv\">https:\/\/t.co\/tHr7g6gPIv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Esmaeil Baqaei (@IRIMFA_SPOX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IRIMFA_SPOX\/status\/2059001917523853668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Such a cold-blooded act constitutes a clear and despicable war crime, Baghaei stated firmly.<\/p>\n<p>He added that those who ordered and executed this massacre must be brought before competent courts of law and held fully accountable for their crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian nation grieves its martyred pure-hearted children, promising young athletes, and ordinary citizens whose only sin was living proudly under the flag of the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Iranian nation will never forget its martyred sons and daughters. We will neither forget nor forgive this crime,\u201d Baghaei stated.<\/p>\n<p>The criminal US-Israeli aggression against Iran began on February\u202f28 with airstrikes that assassinated senior Iranian officials and commanders, including the Leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. The US also killed 168 children and teachers in airstrikes on the Minab School in southern Iran on the first day of the war.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian Armed Forces responded by launching daily missile and drone operations targeting locations in the Israeli-occupied territories as well as US military bases and assets across the region.<\/p>\n<p>Iran also shut down the Strait of Hormuz to its enemies and their allies following the unprovoked aggression.<\/p>\n<p>On April 8, forty days into the war, a Pakistan-brokered temporary ceasefire between Iran and the US took effect and was later extended unilaterally by Washington.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2026\/05\/25\/769287\/US-war-criminals-massacred-24-Iranian-civilians-in-Lamerd-sports-hall\">Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Feb. 28, 2026, while the U.S. and Iran were still in negotiations, U.S. forces launched Precision Strike Missiles (PrSM) at a sports hall in Lamerd, Iran. This was not a \u2018mistake\u2019. Like the missile strike the same day that killed nearly 170 schoolchildren in Minab, it was calculated to strike fear and terror among Iranians    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":327357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327355"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327365,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327355\/revisions\/327365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/327357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}