A UN fact-finding mission has determined there are reasonable grounds to believe the US was behind military strikes on a school and a sports facility in Iran in February that killed 120 children, and that these constituted as war crimes.
The school strike, which killed 156 civilians including 120 children, involved a US Tomahawk missile that collapsed the roof of the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school, which the UN said was “clearly identifiable”, in Minab, Hormozgan province, on 28 February.
The Pentagon’s own secretive investigation into the incident is understood to have concluded several months ago amid reports that senior US commanders had been warned targeting data used during the war – including for the Minab strike – was dangerously outdated.
The UN fact-finding team said in a statement: “Following the United States and Israeli attacks on 28 February, the mission found reasonable grounds to believe the United States committed the war crime of launching indiscriminate attacks resulting in the loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects.”
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