In the shadow of Minab: Inside the US testing of 'new missiles' on Iran’s Lamerd
In Lamerd, in Iran’s southern Fars province, the threat of war gave way to reality when previously untested missiles struck a school, sports grounds and nearby neighbourhoods.
The attack came just six hours after the double-tap strikes on the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab on 28 February, over 400km away in Hormozgan province, where 120 children, 24 staff, seven parents, a school bus driver and a pharmacist were killed.
Four missiles from a new weapon system, the Lockheed Martin Precision Strike Missile (PrSM), which had never before been seen or deployed, would be field-tested on the town of 30,000 people.
At 5.11pm (1.41pm GMT), the missiles struck a residential area where a row of homes adjoined a few neighbourhood shops.
: In the shadow of Minab: Inside the US testing of 'new missiles' on Iran’s Lamerd
The mother of 12-year-old Ilya Khatami (far left) sits with other mourning mothers of victims killed in a US attack on Lamerd, Iran (Julia Kassem/MEE)
