Children in Iran have returned to class after months of closures over the Middle East war, where major attacks include a strike on a school that killed 150 people, AFP reports.
Parents walk hand-in-hand with their daughters, in mandatory headscarves and uniforms, as they arrive at a girls’ primary school in western Tehran for the first day of the new academic year.
In Minab, Iran’s vice president for science and technology, Hossein Afshin, has rung a bell at one primary school to signal the start of the new term. The bell-ringing, normally carried out by Iran’s president, is part of the traditional celebrations to welcome Iran’s 16.5 million children back to school.
A ceremony featuring Masoud Pezeshkian was held two days early this year, before he left for the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Classes were cancelled after the beginning of the war on February 28, when a school in the southern city of Minab was hit, leaving 120 children among the dead.
