'Massacre Of Girls': Italian PM Meloni Condemns Deadly Iran School Strike

Last Updated:March 11, 2026, 16:42 IST

The strike, which Iranian media reports killed at least 165 people, occurred on the first day of the ongoing West Asia war.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned a deadly missile strike on a school in southern Iran, calling the attack a “massacre of girls" and demanding those responsible be swiftly identified.

“I express my firm condemnation of the massacre of girls at the school in Minab, southern Iran," Meloni told the Italian Senate, offering solidarity with the families of what she described as “very young victims."

She said she wanted “responsibility for this tragedy be swiftly ascertained."

The strike, which Iranian media reports killed at least 165 people, occurred on the first day of the ongoing West Asia war. Iran has accused the United States and Israel of carrying out the attack.

US President Donald Trump has pointed blame at Tehran while saying Washington is still investigating. Israel has denied any involvement.

Italy Not At War And Not Willing To Be

Meloni, leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy party and head of a NATO and EU member state, was firm that Italy has no intention of entering the conflict.

“Italy is not at war and we don’t want to enter the war," she told senators. However, the prime minister stopped short of challenging the broader rationale behind the conflict.

Trump has said he launched the war as the “last, best chance" to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb- a justification Meloni did not outright reject. While acknowledging Italy was not directly involved in nuclear negotiations and therefore could not “definitively corroborate or refute, US assessments regarding Iran’s unwillingness to reach a definitive agreement," she warned of the stakes of inaction.

“We cannot afford an ayatollah regime in possession of nuclear weapons, combined, moreover, with a missile capability that could soon be capable of directly striking Italy and Europe," she said.

Though the war was “tragic," she added, “we know that these consequences are not even comparable to the risks we would run if we turned a blind eye."

Meloni said she has been in close coordination with fellow European leaders over the conflict, but called a return to diplomacy “impossible" while Iran continues retaliatory strikes across the region.

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