Mourners recreate classroom in Tehran in memory of girls' elementary school victims

Iran's Ministry of Tourism organized a memorial in the capital Tehran on Monday to grieve for the victims of a girls' elementary school in the southern Iranian city of Minab, where mourners laid flowers on classroom desks placed at the site.

Up to 165 people were killed in the deadly Israeli-U.S. airstrikes on Shajareh Tayyebeh School on February 28, according to Iranian authorities.

The students were sitting behind their desks when the missiles hit their school and they were killed in a few seconds, authorities said.

Mourners, including mothers, fathers and children, recreated a classroom from the school outdoors in a powerful symbolic remembrance of the innocent young ones who lost their lives.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has condemned the airstrikes in a statement after the attack, calling them "inhumane" and a barbaric act that "adds another dark page to the chronicle of countless crimes committed by aggressors" against Iran.

Mourners recreate classroom in Tehran in memory of girls' elementary school victims

Mourners recreate classroom in Tehran in memory of girls' elementary school victims

Mourners recreate classroom in Tehran in memory of girls' elementary school victims

A delegation of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) party, led by its chairwoman Cheng Li-wun, arrived in Shanghai at noon on Tuesday for a mainland visit that will run through Sunday.

The delegation is scheduled to visit Jiangsu Province, Shanghai and Beijing, marking the first time in a decade that a KMT chairperson has led a delegation to the Chinese mainland.

The visit is regarded as an important part of the exchanges and dialogue between the KMT and the Communist Party of China under the new circumstances.

Strengthening exchanges and dialogue between the two parties, according to a spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, will have a significant and positive impact on maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait and promoting the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations.

Cheng arrives in Shanghai, kicking off KMT delegation's mainland visit