In the shadow of Minab: Inside the US testing of 'new missiles' on Iran’s Lamerd

In the shadow of Minab: Inside the US testing of 'new missiles' on Iran’s Lamerd Submitted by MEE correspondent on Fri, 06/26/2026 - 12:04 Residents of the southern city recount the day missiles struck a sports hall, killing children during practice The mother of 12-year-old Ilya Khatami (far left) sits with other mourning mothers of victims killed in a US attack on Lamerd, Iran (Julia Kassem/MEE) Off In Lamerd, in Iran ’s southern Fars province, the threat of war gave way to reality when previously untested missiles struck a school, sports grounds and nearby neighbourhoods. The attack came just six hours after the double-tap strikes on the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab on 28 February, over 400km away in Hormozgan province, where 120 children, 24 staff, seven parents, a school bus driver and a pharmacist were killed. Four missiles from a new weapon system, the Lockheed Martin Precision Strike Missile (PrSM), which had never before been seen or deployed, would be field-tested on the town of 30,000 people.