Aerial footage showing the preparation of mass graves for martyred schoolchildren in Minab has sparked a bitter online proxy war between Iranian regime loyalists and anti-government critics.
Viral aerial imagery showing the excavation of graves for a group of martyred schoolchildren in southern Iran has ignited fierce political infighting online. The footage, first circulated by the state-aligned breaking news channel خبرفوری ࡆ اخبارفوری مذاکره ࡆ جنگ فوری, captured the preparation of graves for the Minabi students, drawing tens of thousands of views across the Telegram ecosystem.
In the affiliated public chat, گروه خبر فوری, the tragedy immediately fractured the audience along stark ideological lines. Anti-regime users placed the blame squarely on the Islamic Republic's military apparatus, with one user declaring, "May God curse the IRGC." Critics openly mocked the Supreme Leader's rhetoric about foreign adversaries and expressed outrage that the leadership had allegedly ignored the children's deaths. One commenter noted that "alongside offering condolences for those 3 killed soldiers, he should have also offered condolences to the families of these little kids." Another user directly threatened regime loyalists—referred to in the discourse as Arzeshis—telling them to "Drink your last Sandis tonight with appetite. It's the last ones."
Conversely, regime supporters and nationalist commenters framed the deaths as an American atrocity and attacked diaspora Iranians for exploiting the tragedy. Framing the incident as a US strike, one user asked, "Uncle Trump, why the kids?" while another questioned whether America would show mercy given its history of being looters generation after generation. Pro-regime voices also directed their anger at exiled opposition leader Reza Pahlavi for failing to issue condolences, while blasting expats as homeland sellers who have joined the US and Israeli team. "An Iranian is someone who stays in their homeland, not someone who goes to the US, Canada, Europe," one loyalist argued, exposing the deep communal rifts in the wake of the mass casualty event.
The source material captures extreme polarization following a mass casualty event involving schoolchildren in Minab, Iran. The discussion heavily utilizes Farsi political slang (Sandis, Arzeshi, homeland sellers) which have been translated directly without softening to maintain the highly charged, vitriolic posture of the original chat logs. The exact cause of the students' deaths is not explicitly stated in the provided text, though public commentary implies a military strike, with users divided on attributing blame to the US or domestic military forces like the IRGC.