UN mission says US strikes in Iran were war crimes
A UN fact-finding mission reported reasonable grounds to believe US forces carried out two February strikes in Iran — on Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in Minab and a sports centre in Lamerd — that the mission concluded were indiscriminate attacks amounting to war crimes. Iranian officials say the Minab strike killed more than 150 people, including about 120 schoolchildren; the Lamerd strike reportedly killed or injured 22 civilians. The report also found Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity in a late-December protest crackdown involving unlawful killings, torture and mass detentions, and will be submitted to the UN Human Rights Council, raising prospects for international scrutiny.
UN finds reasonable grounds that US strikes in Iran were war crimes
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A war between Iran and the United States began in February. Nationwide protests in Iran started in late December. The UN report could lead to action at the Human Rights Council and further investigations.
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