The World · Friday, 18 September 2026
UN mission finds US likely committed war crimes in Iran school strike
The Human Rights Council's fact-finding mission said it found reasonable grounds that a Tomahawk strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, which killed over 150 people including about 120 children, and a strike on a Lamerd sports complex, were indiscriminate war crimes. The same report found Iran's own crackdown on protesters, with at least 221 children killed and 29 men executed, amounts to crimes against humanity.
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