India, Feb. 28 -- At least 40 students were killed after an Israeli airstrike targeted a girls' school in Iran as part of a join operation with the US, Iranian local reports said on Saturday.

The school, Shajareye Tayabeh, was directly hit and several students were killed in the strike in Minab in Iran's Hormozgan Province, Minab governor Mohammad Radmehr told IRNA news agency.

The attacks were part of the US and Israel joint strike against Iran earlier in the day in a bid to topple the Iranian regime, with US President Donald Trump calling on the Iranian public to "seize control of your destiny" and rise up against the Islamic leadership.

The governor said that the rescue and air operations were underway at the Shajareye Tayabeh schoo...