Friday 18 September 2026 - 13:09
UN mission finds ''grounds to believe''U.S. committed war crimes in strikes on Iranian school, sports centre

A United Nations fact-finding mission on Iran said Thursday it had reasonable grounds to believe the United States was behind two military strikes on a school ‌and sports facility in Iran in February, and that these constituted war crimes.

Hawzah News Agency- The UN experts said they found reasonable grounds to believe U.S. forces were responsible for an attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh ⁠Primary School in Minab, where more than 150 people were killed, including around 120 schoolchildren, according ‌to Iranian officials.

The attack constituted an indiscriminate attack causing civilian deaths and damage to civilian infrastructure, amounting to a war crime under international law, the mission concluded.

Reuters first reported that an initial internal U.S. military investigation showed U.S. forces were likely responsible for the fatal strike in Minab.

UN experts said the school was a clearly identifiable civilian object and found no evidence that it was being used for military purposes.

The experts reached a similar conclusion over a strike on a sports centre in Lamerd, Iran. The report said the attack damaged nearby residential buildings and ⁠a school, and killed and injured 22 civilians. It concluded that the strike was indiscriminate and therefore constituted a war crime.

Source: CBC

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