UN mission finds grounds to believe US committed war crimes in Iran, and Tehran crimes against humanity
- On Thursday, September 17, 2026, the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran submitted a report to the U.N. Human Rights Council finding reasonable grounds that the U.S. committed war crimes and Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity.
- Two U.S. strikes in February constituted war crimes: Tomahawk missiles struck the Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in Minab, killing more than 150 people, and precision missiles hit a Lamerd sports center, killing 22 civilians.
- According to U.N.-backed investigators, Iranian authorities carried out a systematic crackdown on anti-government protests beginning in late December 2025, involving unlawful killings, torture, and arbitrary detentions across all 31 provinces.
- Despite the findings, U.S. officials have not accepted responsibility. President Donald Trump claimed in June that "nobody" purposefully attacked the school, while U.S. Central Command denied launching strikes into Lamerd.
- The report, submitted to the Council in Geneva, urges both nations to cease violations and provide full reparations to victims. Its findings serve as an investigative assessment rather than a binding criminal conviction.
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An independent United Nations fact-finding mission has found that there are reasonable grounds to conclude that the United States carried out an attack on an elementary school in Iran in February that killed 156 civilians, including 120 children. The investigators found that the school was hit by a US Tomahawk missile and that US forces failed to properly verify intelligence that a senior Iranian military commander was there before the attack. T…
There are "reasonable grounds" to believe that the U.S. committed war crimes against civilians in Iran, whose population also faces "serious human rights violations" from its own government, United Nations investigators said Thursday.
United Nations (UN) investigators said on Thursday they had reasonable grounds to believe the United States committed war crimes against civilians in Iran.
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