Melania Trump chairs UN children's meeting as Iran buries kids killed in US-Israeli attack

US First Lady Melania Trump has chaired a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on children in conflict on the very same day dozens of 165 schoolchildren killed in an US-Israeli bombing on their school in southern Iran are being laid to rest.

Melania Trump chaired a UNSC meeting on children and education in conflict on Monday, just two days after the United States and Israel began an unprovoked and coordinated aerial aggression against Iran.

The meeting was held on the very same day that dozens of schoolchildren are being buried in Minab, a southern town in Iran, two days after a joint US-Israeli bombing pounded the Shajareh Tayyebeh all girls’ elementary school.

Nearly 100 other schoolchildren from the same school were injured in the barbaric aggression on Saturday. 

It is the first time the spouse of any serving world leader has chaired a meeting of the UNSC, a world body that is supposedly in charge of maintaining international peace and security.  

The designation of Melania Trump to chair the meeting came after the US took over the monthly rotating presidency of the UNSC, in another clear sign of how the incumbent American president has personalized US foreign policy by involving friends and family in major issues.

In a statement, Melania Trump's office claimed that her aim was to emphasize education as a way to advance tolerance and world peace in the meeting, titled “Children, Technology, and Education in Conflict.”

In her statement to the council, she also claimed that “The US stands with all of the children throughout the world. I hope soon peace will be yours.”

Reacting to the meeting, Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Amir Saeed Iravani said that it was “deeply shameful and hypocritical” that the US should convene a meeting on protecting children in armed conflict “while at the same time launching missile strikes against Iranian cities and bombing schools and killing children.”

Murder of innocence: Israeli-US aggression on southern Iran school killed 165 children

In the latest Israeli-American terrorist aggression against Iran, an attack on an elementary school in Minab, Hormozgan province, claimed the lives of 165 children.

On Saturday and in the wake of the US-Israeli barbaric aggression against the Iranian elementary school, the UN children's agency, UNICEF, issued a statement, saying the military escalation in West Asia “marks a dangerous moment for millions of children in the region” and echoed a call by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres for an immediate cessation of hostilities.

It, however, fell short of explicitly condemning the US attack on the Iranian school.  
This is while US Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed on Monday that “the United States will not deliberately target a school.”

Separately on Monday, the Chinese ambassador to the UN, Fu Cong, said at the UNSC meeting that attacks on schools were one of the grave violations against children identified by the world body and noted that the international community should respond to such incidents with robust investigations and accountability efforts.

Iran began to swiftly retaliate against the joint US-Israeli strikes by launching barrages of missile and drone attacks on the Israeli-occupied territories as well as on US military bases and assets in regional countries.

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