Melania Trump chairs UN Security Council on children in conflict, silent on Minab

First Lady Melania Trump became the first sitting U.S. first lady to chair a UN Security Council session on March 2, 2026, presiding over a pre-scheduled meeting on "Children, Technology, and Education in Conflict." She delivered a speech titled "Peace Through Education" calling on member states to protect children in war zones, but made no mention of the Minab school strike two days earlier in which at least 156 people — most of them schoolgirls — were killed by a U.S. missile. Iran's ambassador called the session "deeply shameful and hypocritical."