From my perspective, one of the most disturbing aspects of the February 28, 2026 bombing of the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ elementary school in Minab, southern Iran, has been the limited attention it received in Canadian and much of the American media. If the attack is not understood as part of a formal act of war, it is difficult to see it as anything other than the mass killing of civilians — in this case, children. This raises a troubling question: why has media coverage been so restrained?

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