The US–Israel joint strikes on Iran, which started on February 28, have reportedly taken a heavy civilian toll, together with a devastating assault on the Shajareh Tayyebeh college in Minab in southern Iran. Iranian state media reported that at the very least 168 individuals — most of them schoolchildren — had been killed within the bombing, whereas practically 100 others had been injured.
A report by The Guardian painted an image of the destruction: “Images and verified movies from the positioning…present youngsters’s our bodies mendacity partly buried below the particles. In a single video, a really small little one’s severed arm is pulled from the rubble.” The UNESCO condemned the bombing, calling it a “grave violation” of worldwide humanitarian regulation.
On this context, a number of customers, together with Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate, posted an aerial photograph displaying proceedings of a mass burial, with graves being dug by bulldozers.
Shrinate wrote that graves had been being dug to bury schoolgirls killed in US-Israel bombing.
Devastating
165 graves being dug for the women killed by US-Israel bombing on their college
This was achieved by US-Israel within the title of empowering ladies
📷 Iran Overseas Minister pic.twitter.com/Y8SfXjndIk
— Supriya Shrinate (@SupriyaShrinate) March 3, 2026
Professional-BJP influencer and Supreme Courtroom lawyer Shashank Shekhar Jha (@shashank_ssj) was fast to name out this put up, claiming that the photograph of the mass grave utilized by Supriya Shrinate was an previous {photograph} displaying COVID-stricken Indonesia. (Archive)
This image is of Indonesia throughout Covid 🤷🏽♂️ https://t.co/ekIc5FxK6m
— Shashank Shekhar Jha (@shashank_ssj) March 3, 2026
On the time of this text being written, Shashank Jha’s put up which sought to debunk the claims of the photograph being shot in Iran, has been considered greater than 6 lakh occasions, and has been re-shared greater than 3,000 occasions.
On March 4, Jha once more ‘fact-checked’ one other photograph depicting the identical burial web site, this time replying to an X put up by journalist Rajdeep Sardesai. (Archive)
This image is of Indonesia throughout Covid 🤷🏽♂️ https://t.co/nTKnKEesug
— Shashank Shekhar Jha (@shashank_ssj) March 4, 2026
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On working a reverse picture search on the {photograph} shared by Shrinate, we traced it to an X put up uploaded on March 3 by Iran’s overseas minister, Abbas Araghchi. Within the put up, he claimed the graves had been being dug for “greater than 160 harmless younger ladies who had been killed within the US-Israeli bombing” of a major college in Minab.
These are graves being dug for greater than 160 harmless younger ladies who had been killed within the US-Israeli bombing of a major college. Their our bodies had been torn to shreds.
That is how “rescue” promised by Mr. Trump seems to be in actuality.
From Gaza to Minab, innocents murdered in chilly blood. pic.twitter.com/cRdJ3BELOn
— Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) March 2, 2026
The photograph was additionally utilized in reviews printed by NDTV, Hindustan Occasions, India At the moment, Deccan Herald and others.
We additionally discovered that Reuters had shared the photograph on its official web site on March 2, 2026, giving credit score to the Iranian Overseas Media Division/West Asian Information Company. The caption mentioned, “Graves are being ready for the victims following a reported strike on a faculty in Minab, Iran, March 2, 2026.”
Probing additional, we discovered that the official X deal with of the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in India had shared 4 photographs of the burial web site in Minab.
Photographs of the burial ceremony of martyred college students in #Minab, Iran, following the assaults carried out by the felony regimes of America and Israel. pic.twitter.com/fggmyLoPqp
— Iran in India (@Iran_in_India) March 3, 2026
We may geolocate the place and independently set up that it confirmed the Minab Cemetery in Iran. Beneath is a comparability between a picture of the burial web site from Google Maps and one from an X put up by the official deal with of the Iranian embassy.
Word that the photograph that Rajdeep Sardesai shared was among the many 4 posted by the embassy.
To sum up, the photographs shared by Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinate and journalist Rajdeep Sardesai as displaying the mass burial of college youngsters in Iran are genuine. The ‘fact-checks’ by pro-BJP deal with Shashank Shekhar Jha are baseless and false.
Alt Information has fact-checked false and deceptive claims by Shashank Shekhar Jha a number of occasions previously. Readers can entry these tales right here.
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