“The destroyed building is a primary school for girls in the south of Iran. It was bombed in broad daylight, when packed with young pupils,” he wrote on the social media platform X on Saturday evening, posting a photo of the bombed-out school in Iran’s Hormozgan province.

“Dozens of innocent children have been murdered at this site alone.”

Araqchi pointed out that these crimes will not go unpunished.

Local officials said at least 82 schoolgirls lost their lives and 92 others were injured in the joint US-Israeli aggression against the Shajareye Tayyebeh School in Minab.

Minab's governor, Mohammad Radmehr, said rescue and aid operations were underway at the school and that the security situation in the city was under control.

The attack on the school was part of the joint US-Israeli aggression against Iran, which began early on Saturday.