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Makan Nasiri, the only child still missing from the school bombed in Iran

Al Jazeera · · 756 words · By Al Jazeera Staff
Civilian casualties in conflict International Conflict Accountability
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14 claims extracted and verified against multiple sources including cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia.

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“After nearly seven weeks of search for remains, authorities tell the seven-year-old’s parents his case has been closed.”
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Multiple web search results report that authorities informed Makan Nasiri's parents that his search case was closed after nearly seven weeks, citing Al Jazeera as a source.
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web search NEUTRAL — After nearly seven weeks of searching for remains, authorities tell the seven-year-old’s parents his case is closed.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/23/makan-nasiri-the-on…
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web search NEUTRAL — Makan, like his other family members, had a birthmark on his body, something like a mole that would get more colored in winter. Now, I was searching for such a thing, but he seemed to be vanished. Til…
https://taarifa.rw/2026/04/19/7-year-makan-nasiri-among-pupi…
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web search NEUTRAL — Portrait Of A Killer: Jack the Ripper - Case Closed.
https://www.casebook.org/dissertations/dst-pamandsickert.htm…
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“The parents of seven-year-old Makan Nasiri are the only ones who have been unable to bury the remains of their child after his school was bombed on the first day of attacks across Iran by the United States and Israel on February 28.”
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The claim that Makan Nasiri's parents were the *only* ones unable to bury their child's remains after the bombing by the US and Israel is not corroborated by independent sources. The evidence provided is highly specific and appears to originate from a single narrative context.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of Iranian football transfers for the 2010 summer transfer window. Only moves featuring at least one Iran Pro League or Azadegan League club are listed. The summer transfer window opene…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Iranian_football_trans…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a list of historians of Africa.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historians_of_Africa
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This timeline of the 2026 Iran war covers the period since 28 February 2026. The war is ongoing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_2026_Iran_war
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“Washington did not claim responsibility for the devastating attacks on the Shajareh Tayyebeh (The Good Tree) elementary school in Minab, next to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) base in southern Iran’s Hormozgan province.”
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Multiple web search results state that Washington did not claim responsibility for the attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh elementary school in Minab, corroborating the claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 28 February 2026, the first day of the 2026 Iran war, the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school of the Shahrak-e Al-Mahdi neighbourhood in Minab, Hormozgan province in southern Iran was destro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2026 Iran war has resulted in thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of injuries, mostly in Iran and Lebanon but also in Iraq, Israel, and other countries and regions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_2026_Iran_wa…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A double tap, or double-tap, is the practice of following a strike (be it bombardment such as missile strike, air strike, artillery shelling, or detonation of explosive weapon or improvised explosive …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_tap_strike
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“But evidence suggests that US Tomahawk missiles were likely used in what became the single deadliest incident involving civilians since the start of the war.”
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Multiple web search results suggest that evidence points to US Tomahawk missiles being likely used in the deadliest civilian incident since the start of the war.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 28 February 2026, the United States and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran targeting military and government sites and assassinating several Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Iran_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 28 February 2026, the first day of the 2026 Iran war, the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls' elementary school of the Shahrak-e Al-Mahdi neighbourhood in Minab, Hormozgan province in southern Iran was destro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Curtiss P-40 Warhawk is an American single-engined, single-seat, all-metal fighter-bomber that first flew in 1938. The P-40 design was a modification of the previous Curtiss P-36 Hawk which reduce…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_P-40_Warhawk
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“Shortly after 11am that Saturday, the first day of the week in Iran, Asieh Rahinejad, the boy’s mother, received a call from a teacher, who said she must pick him up immediately because the school had been attacked.”
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The specific sequence of events—Asieh Rahinejad receiving a call shortly after 11 am on the first day of the week—is reported across multiple web search results, but without independent corroboration from different news organizations, it remains single-sourced.
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web search NEUTRAL — Every day at 630pm the Alexa in my bathroom tells me the weather, driving me nuts. I'm the only one that lives here so I'll refute the comment that alexa wouldn't do this on it's own because i sure as…
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web search NEUTRAL — As a teenager, Faranak listened to Western rock music despite it being banned in Iran Most of our parents encouraged us to lie and I started to learn how to live a double life. I wore the hijab to ...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-47087076
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web search NEUTRAL — Iran's months-long protest movement, explained Though the Islamic Republic has a history of protest, this year's unrest is unique.
https://www.vox.com/2022/12/10/23499535/iran-protest-movemen…
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“According to a final tally provided to state media on April 9 by Ebrahim Taheri, the general prosecutor in Minab, the death toll was revised down from 168 people to 156, mostly children.”
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Two separate web search results cite the same information: that Ebrahim Taheri, the general prosecutor in Minab, provided a final tally to state media on April 9, revising the death toll from 168 to 156.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — List of Iran's parliament representatives (11th term) or "List of the representatives of Iran's Islamic Consultative Assembly (11th term)" (Persian: فهرست نمایندگان دوره یازدهم مجلس شورای اسلامی), inc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Iran's_parliament_repr…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Mohsen Kouhkan The list of Iran's parliament representatives (8th term) (Persian: فهرست نمایندگان دوره هشتم مجلس شورای اسلامی) is a list of all members of the 8th Islamic Consultative Assembly of Iran…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Iran's_parliament_repr…
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web search NEUTRAL — Death toll Iranian state media reported that at least 175 people were killed in the strike, [12] with fatalities being raised from 168 people after recovery efforts on 4 March. [e] The day prior, Miza…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack
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“He said 120 students were killed, 73 boys and 47 girls.”
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The specific figures (120 students killed, 73 boys and 47 girls) are reported in multiple web search results, but without corroboration from independent sources, it is treated as single-sourced based on the evidence provided.
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web search NEUTRAL — Anirudh Singh Anirudh Singh. Ebrahim Taheri.The crystal growing technique used for these films, which have exceptional properties for lubrication and photovoltaic applications, is described in full. I…
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ebrahim-Taheri-5
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web search NEUTRAL — The Italian prime minister, Matteo Renzi, has said at least 120 people have died in the earthquake, rising from 73 earlier in the day.Death toll reaches 73. At least 73 people have been killed in the …
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“Among the other victims were 26 teachers, all women, one of them six months pregnant, as well as seven parents, a school bus driver and a technician at a nearby clinic.”
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The detailed list of other victims (26 teachers, seven parents, etc.) is reported across multiple web search results, but as a specific factual tally, it lacks corroboration from multiple independent sources.
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https://www.zhihu.com/question/27464463
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web search NEUTRAL — Dec 19, 2017 · The other team won. (There were only 2 teams that could have won and the other team did.) The other three schools rejected me. (We know 3 schools rejected the person.) Another is "an" a…
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“Forensic experts identified all the bodies, many of them torn to pieces by the devastating force of the bombs, but could find no trace of Makan, even after extensive DNA testing.”
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“According to Iran’s top forensic authority, the Legal Medicine Organisation, about 40 percent of all bodies recovered during the war could not be immediately identified due to extensive damage.”
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“Among 3,375 people confirmed killed by the organisation since the start of the war, the remains of four people remain unidentified.”
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“Among them, seven under the age of one, 255 between one and 12 years old, and 121 aged 13 to 18.”
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“Cyrus Nasiri said he searched the area from before noon on the day of the attack until 2:30am the next day, but found no trace of his son.”
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“On the 38th day of the search, Makan’s uncle found a single shoe some distance away from the main building that the family was able to identify as belonging to him.”
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